... There's been bits and pieces going up every day since launch. I can't spend too much time PER DAY on it, but I try to get something going on when I can ...
I used to work RL POLK, we did city directories in the 80's when "house husbands" were actually becoming common they refused to allow that term even if the guy...
... Construction Manual" seem to go for anywhere near original retail (!), And the only reason that the "Ship Construction Manual" goes for anything is that...
Yeah, I've totally abandoned my update project due to the charts, even the updated ones*. I went "chartless" several months back and have posted an Excel...
... husbands" were actually becoming common they refused to allow that term even if the guy wanted he was posted unemployed but women were housewives, lol Ran...
... PDFConverter from ScanSoft is pretty good about taking images and making documents out of them. You need to have as clean as possible a document though...
It is? Yipes! Well, maybe yay? Rather than rehash what sounds like an old discussion, is there a thread or an overview of the 'right way' to do the points...
The right way to calculate all the formula-derived values are in the Ship Construction Manual, and those that aren't implicitly stated are easy to figure out...
... The only real problem with that is that wargames are, by their nature, somewhat DESIGNED for min-maxing. The issue then becomes if you're playing STSTCS...
... possession of one person cannot be legally forwarded to another, lol That's not right. If I'm the owner of a copyright, I can sell/trade my rights to that...
what was meant, if I had a legal copy of material,( a pdf for instance)Â I cannot then copy that material and give it to another, even if it is free or not for...
... cannot then copy that material and give it to another, even if it is free or not for profit Correct, you could only give away the PDF and delete it from...
Here's are some sites that I know of that have LUG material that was unpublished. Some is done by the actual people hired by LUG to create them, and some are...
... character creation and ship creation, how would that be??? would it be legal? Actually, been thinking about it, and it sadly won't be. This is largely ...
there is a wonderful remake of star frontiers maybe with tweeking something like that could be done to/with fasa <sigh> well we always have star wreck, lol ......
For those that know more than me on copyright. What if I have typed the table into an Excel for my own use (Say the weapons tables). Could I then distribute...
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but typing someone else's work into a different medium does not make it an original work. If this was the case, people...
I share similar feelings on the ship construction, and to an extent the STCS. When the manuals first came out, my buddies and I would sit around and sketch...
I think I always appreciated the Construction Manual because it gave me a starting point, as sloppy as it was (FASA always managed to have more design holes in...
... Once upon a time I used the Construction Manual to stat up the refit Constitution class to fit the design drawings better. Ended up heavier than the...
we did the same thing with travller, when we did tr to do it with trek stuff, we found problems and thenpromptly ignored them lol so how many good ship...
... Actually, CODA's starship construction rules are fairly good, particularly for building things in the Trek universe. Sadly, it's starship combat is pretty...
... Constitution class to fit the design drawings better. Ended up heavier than the Connie (as it should be!) and was armed to the teeth (as per the official...
... formulae, if you take the time to reverse engineer them. The problem is more that the number of 'formulae' that show up comes when adding the equipment...
I agree 100% with this assessment. I learned it the hard way, both with the combat simulator game and FASA's RPG. I had to come to the conclusion that the...
... the combat simulator game and FASA's RPG. Well, while the FASA RPG probably had the best overall fleshed out TOS universe, I have to admit that ICON handle...
Lets not forget that Lee(fasafan) has updated all the ships in the manuals to jive with the ship construction book, which is a huge accomplishment in itself,...
Uncovers lurking cloak....Ive always loved the FASA RPG system, sure the skill system needed a bit of work, but the combat and medical system was nearly...
