I never really understood the "old boys" hatred for TNE. Maybe it was because instead of advancing the storyline one day at a time it took one giant leap for gaming kind and made their Earl of Sandwich and his 700,000 battle tender and associated fleet null and void.
I never quite understood it, to be honest most of my early memories of CT were not positive. I felt like I was in the Sith Empire and not the 3rd Imperium as most of the early groups I joined were more interested in killing off the new guys and using the Kinninur as an oversized pirate ship. I also felt that characters actions in the Imperium amounted to nothing, the imperium was so vast nothing you did ever amounted to anything anywhere. Sure you could help LSP make its 3rd quarter profit targets by sabotaging the other guys factory.
TNE on the other hand your actions mattered, RCES was on such a shoe string that if you succeeded or failed it made a huge impact on the future of the RC. I liked that, made you feel like you were accomplishing something.
While I'm with you on what you say, which is why we did what we did (and
MT tried it as well, that was theoretically the point behind the
Rebellion), I think it has a lot to do with my previous post about how
things that happen to you at a certain point of your life get lodged in
your heart and will never be removed. Hemingway wrote this about fighter
planes, but I think it also works for your first edition of Traveller:
"You love a lot of things if you live around them. But here isn't any
woman and there isn't any horse, not any before nor any after, that is a
lovely as a great airplane. And men who love them are faithful to them
even though they leave them for others. Man has one virginity to lose to
fighters, and if it is a lovely airplane he loses it to, there is where
his heart will forever be."
> I never really understood the "old boys" hatred for TNE. Maybe it was
> because instead of advancing the storyline one day at a time it took one
> giant leap for gaming kind and made their Earl of Sandwich and his 700,000
> battle tender and associated fleet null and void.
>
> I never quite understood it, to be honest most of my early memories of CT
> were not positive. I felt like I was in the Sith Empire and not the 3rd
> Imperium as most of the early groups I joined were more interested in
> killing off the new guys and using the Kinninur as an oversized pirate
> ship. I also felt that characters actions in the Imperium amounted to
> nothing, the imperium was so vast nothing you did ever amounted to
> anything anywhere. Sure you could help LSP make its 3rd quarter profit
> targets by sabotaging the other guys factory.
>
> TNE on the other hand your actions mattered, RCES was on such a shoe
> string that if you succeeded or failed it made a huge impact on the future
> of the RC. I liked that, made you feel like you were accomplishing
> something.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPhone...