SVC,

That idea, communique style newsletter for SFB with color SSDs and scenarios, would fit with SFB Revolutionary Edition.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 12:06 pm: Edit

It would, but nobody around here was excited about another monthly deadline that had no profit attached.

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 12:16 pm: Edit

I can understand that. Seems it would take away from new products more than it would contribute.

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 12:29 pm: Edit

How about quarterly? Something is better than nothing.

By Joseph R Carlson (Jrc) on Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 12:47 pm: Edit

SVC,

The no profit aspect can be fixed. Instead put the material into an SFB counterpart to the FC Briefings. While there would still be deadlines these would not be monthly. SFB Revolutionary Edition could cover the original seven empires in Captain's Basic Set.

The SFB Briefings would cover additional empires (probably need a new name since Briefings are associated with FC).

Color SSDs: I think You have explained that SFB will use the block 5 SSD and until the cost for ADB to do color SFB SSDs is reduced this idea is not viable.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 07:42 pm: Edit

I would suggest you guys keep the "SFB newsletter" idea and the "revolutionary edition" idea separate.

By Phil Abramowitz (Philabramowitz) on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 11:38 am: Edit

After reading about the fun you had with "TerrorWorks" at Origins, it reminds me I would love to see a small-scale squad/boarding party skirmish miniatures game. The minis would also work well with Prime Directive and provide a great alternative to all the "Not Star Trek" miniatures out there...

By Sean O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 08:59 am: Edit

Majestic 12 games (same people who are doing Klingon Armada) publishes a skirmish-scale science fiction miniatures game called Defiance: Vital Ground. It's sort of like Warhammer 40,000 and similar games, although IMO has a better game engine. If things go well with Klingon Armada, perhaps Defiance could be used as an engine for the proposed Klingon Rapid Assault Group.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 09:53 am: Edit

Probably not, since KRAG is an "internal" combat system (inside the ship).

However, there is no reason that game engine could not be used for another product. I wouldn't do it, however, until I have a line of people miniatures (one of my own that I manufacture, not one "borrowed" from another source like the ICE deal), and I have too many projects in the fire now to add that one.

By Phil Shanton (Mxslade) on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 07:13 pm: Edit

Is "KRAG" the new name for Star Fleet:BattleStations ? or is it new game?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 10:28 pm: Edit

No, the two are not even remotely related.

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Friday, October 02, 2009 - 01:03 pm: Edit

SVC said "Assuming a high-end retail price of $1 per die, you'd have to find a cost of about 12 cents per die (including all shipping and tooling) in production runs of no more than 2,000. Say, for a set of six? That would mean an investment of $1440 which I could sell to Leanna. Let me know when you find someone who can do that." Would that be 2000 of each kind or 2000 dice total. Last time there were 12 different kinds of dice so 24,000 at .12 each or 12 different dice and 2000 total at .12 a piece?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, October 02, 2009 - 01:19 pm: Edit

I was assuming six dice, 2,000 each, delivered price 0.12 per die, $1440 total. See how close you can get.

By Michael C. Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Friday, October 02, 2009 - 03:36 pm: Edit

KRAG:

An even more refined version of the Module M system?

I pray we can send in our input for your consideration soon. Perhaps it could have its own topic?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, October 02, 2009 - 04:01 pm: Edit

Leanna is concerned over how many directions I am going in at once, so let's let KRAG sit for a few weeks/months while I get some other stuff off my desk.

The new system with blocks of time allocated to subjects that either never get done or take too much time away from other things has barely begun, and we need to let it whittle down the list of stuff to be done before we think about anything else.

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Friday, October 02, 2009 - 05:29 pm: Edit

SVC I am guessing the six from old dice set number one? Fed Ship and Symbol, Romulan ship and symbol, Klingon ship and symbol. Correct?

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Friday, October 02, 2009 - 07:55 pm: Edit

Also, the origional dice were, 16mm yes?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, October 03, 2009 - 12:13 pm: Edit

I don't remember the size, but that sounds right. I do not know what we would do, but that sounds like one plan.

By Xander Fulton (Dderidex) on Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 12:29 am: Edit

Any chance of getting the ability to buy much-higher-resolution/larger size versions of some of the product covers?

The last three Captain's Logs, especially (Magnificent Panzers, Doomward and the Vortex, and Burden of Duty/Debt of Revent) are rather stunning.

I know you guys are not fans of digital distribution, but I'm really not sure how else to get those out. I'd REALLY LOVE to get a 2560x1600 (widescreen, granted) version of those images to use as a desktop background. For a $0.99 download (micro-transactions?) that would be MOST worth it.

I guess I can see some interest in using a higher resolution version of these for posters, too. They are just very nice looking!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 10:43 am: Edit

Dunno. Send me an email and it will float around in the customer request file until I have mulled it over.

By Michael Bennett (Mike) on Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 07:54 pm: Edit

I have a background image changer on my computer and sometimes show my collection of SFU pictures. They change every minute. A *lot* of people have commented very positively on them. That has led to several questions and conversations about the SFU.

Larger, higher resolution images would definitely be a huge plus.

This was discussed and asked about before (several months to a year ago) with about the same response.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 10:16 am: Edit

And if you had sent me an email instead of posting something snippy, you might well have had a response by now. The problem you cannot grasp is that I work more hours than you do and have more things left over on my to do list at the end of the day than you started your day with. I use my Email as a "to do" list. After I do the admin stuff, the scheduled stuff, and the reacting to problems stuff, I work on the discretionary stuff, which this is. If you're not on that list, you're never going to get anything, and that list is my email file of customer requests. Yesterday, on Customer Request Wednesday, I accomplished one thing from that list and spent more than two hours getting nowhere on another thing. I saw no email in that folder about this particular request, so nothing happened regarding it. If it's not on the list, it doesn't exist.

By Xander Fulton (Dderidex) on Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 09:24 pm: Edit

???

Who posted 'something snippy'? I will most definitely send you an email with this suggestion - I simply haven't done it, yet (it has only been a single day).

EDIT: Sent.

EDIT #2: Ahhhh...I see. I think you were referring to Bennett's comment that this had been suggested before? My bad!

By Thomas Mathews (Turtle) on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 08:26 pm: Edit

SVC, I don't know if this idea is posted, but how about the F&E equivalent of the Tactics Manual for SFB? Just the Legal Tac Notes over the years. Maybe Illegal ones if they can be made legal with a couple of lines of notes as to what would make them legal. And definately the good articles written by players over the years.

And it's something that I can wait for until after F&E2010 and ISC War are published. I would rather have those two products first.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 10:35 am: Edit

It's a possibility (one mentioned many times in the past) BUT (and it's a big but) you have to wait for the warbook, and THEN the staff has to review every published paper to see if it is still legal.