Federation Commander

[Steve Cole]

As for ships in communqiue, we were planning to reformat the newsletter long before this came up, and when we're ready to do that, we will. Plus, the free ones on the website are low-res; the ones on e23 are high res.
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The Guy Who Designed Fed Commander

[pinecone]

I'd be fine with that. I think the main list is:

1. Frax
2. Omega
3. Boosters 93+
4. Early Years

These would all be "sure buys" for me. Already Laminated cards with one bonus ship would be "probably not's" for me.

And do please include counters in these. Please

[pinecone]

Of Course, there probably is a "Why not?" factor here too. Since ADB doesn't need to pay production costs for the Pdfs, If just 1 person buys them, ADB just made a small profit. But the above list needs to be done first, in my opinion.

[KJ]

[storeylf]

Mmm , I thought I had already posted this, but maybe it didn't submit properly.


Ignoring price the ships I woud like are:

B2 ships - I already have these, but I'd like color and in a format that is easier to print from than dead tree format.

CC only ships - I already have these, but an easier double side printable format woud be nicer, as would higher res, as would them all being in the same file.

CL only ships - I do not have these, as I do not get CL.




Ships I have no interest in:

Ships in existing products that I have 3 of already.

Ships that are not from the existing empires. I have only ever been interested in the empires that were in SFB when I played it as a teen. ISC and Andro are now out rounding that set of empires off. I have no interest in frax or other quadrants or other galaxies.



As to price, well you did ask what sort of product people wanted.

I have been thinking a bit about price though. Given I still have to print and laminate them myself I do feel the price is a bit high. I'm an all or nothing type of buyer, and although I'd like the B2 ships, I'm not sure I would pay $60 for pdf versions, that is something like 3 times more than I paid for B2 itself. If I'm not going buy the lot I wouldn't get any, if I got any I'd get the lot.

[Jean]

storeylf, a question. Yes, you have to print them off yourself. However, you are also getting unlimited prints and if a card is destroyed (my evil cat has a thing about paper and will bite corners if corners are available to puncture), there is no issue in that you can just print a new one with no shipping or waiting for you to have enough purchases to justify the shipping. Also, with e23, if your computer dies or you want to have the file on your computer at home and your traveling laptop, you can with no nasty DRM.

Is the convenience (and safety net for ownership) being factored into your perceived worth of the purchase?

(I'm not being critical, just curious.)
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[dreamingbadger]

[storeylf]

[DirkSJ]

[pinecone]

Oh yeah, I'd buy a jinardian rules/ships Pdf too. And BoM could be expanded this way also.

[Kang]

I would not want the pdf packs to contain 'main-era' ships that will never appear as laminateds. I feel that one of the best selling points of FC is that the game is ready to pick up and play with the laminateds ready to go. Printing out pdfs is ok for some circumstances but I would not want the pre-existence of the pdfs to preclude a card beng published as a laminated card.

As for the Briefing #2 ('early years') cards, I agree that these would look nicer as colour pdfs; this would be far better than the monochrome cards in B#2. I think it's an unwritten consensus that Briefing #2 was a bad idea (in fact I may even have seen it written somewhere) but hey, we live and learn. So the pdfs would be better than the monochromes. But I'd still feel well sore to have to buy the cards again, despite having bought B#2 already, even as pdf files. In fact, personally, I wouldn't buy them; a player would have to spend about $60 or so to get all the B#2 cards, something I'd not be prepared to do since I already have the product.

Scenario pdf: I'd perhaps buy this as an interim but would also hope that it would end up in print at some point. I much prefer to have a printed booklet. But if the scenarios have already been published as pdfs, would people buy the printed product, so would it ever be printed?

The final thing with pdfs is that I'd have to get out my laptop every time I wanted to print one out. This would eat into my playing time, and would be a major deterrent to starting a FC game, at least with that pdf or pdfs. Remember that one of the main things about FC for me is the pick-up-and-play functionality. I'd never want to get away from that.
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[JimDauphinais]

[djdood]

I commented on Facebook, but I'll add something here.

No interest at all in Frax, Omega, Mellangenics, etc.

Only the most minimal interest in Middle Years (enough to buy paper Briefing #2 as a reader, but probably not enough to ever play that setting. Almost certainly not enough to buy pdfs of all the ships).

Pretty much no interest in Early Years.

I have some interest in pdfs of existing ships, particularly ships like the "bonus" cards in the Boosters. I could see myself buying digital versions of the Boosters, to have duplicates of the "chase" cards and/or to make mass printings for conventions/teaching/etc.

I have high interest in pdfs of the Captains Logs ships (there's some great ships in CapLog, but b&w is a no-go for my group, once you've gone color and laminated there's no going back for us).

If new Communiques at some point no longer includes ship cards, I won't feel wronged. There's already an immense amount of free ship content in Commander's Circle. Charging for the ships is entirely appropriate, especially given the economy.

If ships that would have gone to Communique now (like the recent Gorn DBC) went to a paid pdf pack instead, it wouldn't bother me. Money well-spent.
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[terryoc]

I like the Frax so much I'd buy them as laminated cards. I would certainly buy them as .pdf. Same for Borders of Madness. I will probably pick up the B#2 pack containing the generics to have colour versions of the armed freighters. Omega I'm curious about, and since I don't think they'd sell well enough to justify spending thousands of dollars printing dead tree cards, I'll take a pdf version of those when it's ready and be happy with that.
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[Carthaginian]