Federation Commander

ApocalypseMeow · Ensign Joined: 16 Mar 2015 Posts: 19

Dear developers,

are there any news on new releases for Prime Directive? Can you tell us, if and what books are worked on? I'm most interested in Feline Empires and Tholians, though I want them all! Very Happy

Best wishes

Steve Cole · Site Admin Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 3828

We got too many irons in the fire a year ago and decided to finish them before starting anything else new. We've made a ton of progress on that (despite real world issues) and have finished and shipped Fighter Ops 2016, uploaded Minor Empires for PDF sales, put For the Glory of the Empire on kindle, and done several issues of communique with new ships. I am almost finished with ACTASF-DX and in another month will have CL51 out, then see how much work I have to do to finish FedAdmiral. Which sounds like "not working on RPGs" but I'm the board game guy not the RPG Gal and Jean will be working on RPGs as she moves beyond her current projects.

We want to be working on Mongoose Traveller, but we had to wait for the new rules to come out, and then wait more for them to stabilize. This is part of the current PDF system. (In the old days we tested until it was done and still found problems, so we added a new "public review of the pdf" phase. When Mongoose finishes this phase for Traveller we will jump on it.)

I want to do Tholians, Orion Pirates, Gorns and other lizards, and Feline Empires, but Jean wants to convert the existing books into other systems (FATE/Fudge, D6, and MonTrav). So we'lll do it all, but not in one day.
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ApocalypseMeow · Ensign Joined: 16 Mar 2015 Posts: 19

Dear Steve,

first of all thank you very much for your quick and detailed reply! I really rejoiced at this. Such an immediate and friendly contact with game developers is not to be taken for granted.

Steve Cole · Site Admin Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 3828

We have four books in development. (These are anthologies, not novels.)

One will be the Romulan invasion DAY OF THE EAGLE.

One will be the Klingon invasion DAY ONE

One will be random stories from the file.

One will be Federation stuff.

Lyrans? Hmm... not sure we have done enough Lyran stuff to make an anthology.
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ApocalypseMeow · Ensign Joined: 16 Mar 2015 Posts: 19

Itharus · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 8:52 am Post subject:

The obvious answer is to do more Lyran stuff Smile

ApocalypseMeow · Ensign Joined: 16 Mar 2015 Posts: 19

Dear developers,

may I politely ask if there are any sourcebooks planned for release this year or maybe next year? I am especially looking forward for further faction sourcebooks like Feline Empires, Orion Pirates, Tholians or ISC.

Additionally, do you know when War and Peace for Starmada may be published?

Thank you in advance and best wishes for you and your loved ones!

Steve Cole · Site Admin Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 3828

I don't think there will be time this year for a new faction book. I have more than TEN books in my que (3xF&E, Marines, 3xFed Commander, CL55, helping Steve P with SFBX2, helping Daniel with Starmada RoW, Helping Tony with 3xACTA), Al has four (traveller), and Steve has six (all SFB stuff). I really want to do the Gorn one and will try to put it on my list after the above, but that only gets you the background; system designers will have to do traveller, d20, and GURPs.
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ApocalypseMeow · Ensign Joined: 16 Mar 2015 Posts: 19

Thank you for your quick answer, Steve!

I will wait as long as it takes.

Voidhawk · Ensign Joined: 12 Dec 2017 Posts: 4

Hey peeps, it's been a while since we heard news about PD Traveller. Last word was you were looking to get it out during '22 if I recall correctly. Any news on this front? Any information would be appreciated ('cause ruinning some PD Traveller is on my short-list of campaigns to do, so just scouting out a possible timeline).

Steve Cole · Site Admin Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 3828

Al is working on it. I see progress reports monthly.
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CommodoreMendez · Ensign Joined: 08 Feb 2024 Posts: 2

Any news on PD Traveller? Will we see it this year? I know it's been in playtest, or has the project been cancelled?

Steve Cole · Site Admin Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 3828

I cannot write PD Traveller by myself. I can only assign it to someone who is supposed to write it. I cannot hold a gun to his head. I will encourage him to get it done, but that is all I can do. I don't think that the term "playtesting" applies as he is still writing it. Being an existing game system I am not sure how much testing it needed, but everyone tells me I am "not an RPG guy" and need to stay out of it. They all got mad about the small rules I wrote for GPD and PD20 and told me to stop being creative.
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CommodoreMendez · Ensign Joined: 08 Feb 2024 Posts: 2

Thanks for your reply I guess it takes as long as it takes. Sorry I had saw elsewhere a request for playtesters and assumed it was in playtest since the announcement was made back in 2021.