Обсуждение новости о планах каталистов

[Rabid Coyote]

обсуждаем ЭТУ новость. джв

Siberian-troll

В ТРО 1943 будет описание "тигров", "пантер" и "юнкерсов"?

[Siberian-troll]

Ну, или они поменяют хронологию.

15 43 factions
Rise of the Concordat
5th S.W. 3170-85
6th S.W. 3196-3210
7th S.W. 3250

А какие там наброски новых карт Сферы...

[Rabid Coyote]

А какие там наброски новых карт Сферы...

мне уже страшно.

[Kuntar]

ЖУТЬ!!!

Отдельно понравилось: "Чужие - НЕТ!!!". И даже оторван уголок с этой ересью.

[IronHawk-711]

У кого нибудь есть планы на убиение самих Каталистов?

[Siberian-troll]

Давно предлагали.

Более того, я помню, как лет шесть назад, на Лордах вроде бы, собирали элитный сквад ниндзей, чтобы пробраться к Рэндаллу домой и выкрасть все черновики.

В итоге - все разработчики завели себе лэнсы дурно-выдрессированных бойцовых котов и кошек, умеющих зацарапывать ниндзей насмерть.

Коулман - 3 кошки
Рэндалл - 5 котов
Херб - 4/5 (число варьируется)

[KolbunD]

Когда состоится следующее интервью с Коулманом, Рэндаллом или Хербом нужно не двусмысленно спросить - их в детстве били? И если били, то в каком возрасте последний раз?

[deathtor]

А вот это безусловно радует, если правда:

Слово Блейка = Ильклан, но без нытиков.
Вторжение гадюк 3250-3260

[Diamond]

Не гадюк, а ужей.
Adder invasion
И не 3250-3260, а то ли 3240, то ли 3260.

И это я ещё не стал перепроверять остальное.

[acefalcon]

И вообще все это может оказаться мелким троллингом фанов

[deathtor]

/ offtop on /
Угу, что то напоминает:
1-я Галактическая Империя под управлением Light of Mankind c сохранившимся до этих времен Мастером и Люк Хазен из Золотой Орды, родственник Мальвины
/ offtop off /

[J.S.]

Очередное вторжение...
Чтоб их.....

[Маленький Скорпион]

J.S., очередной тизер-троллинг ))

[DeJaVu]

Summit of the Giant Stompy Robots



This past weekend the BattleTech Line Developer made a visit to my area. While in part a long-overdue vacation, he also came to visit with the idea we would talk about the next several years of game development. So on Friday we roped in our second assistant, Paul, and got down to business.

While obviously I can’t really divulge what exactly we discussed, we did decide to share a little of the experience with the game’s fans. The “trolling” was done in good fun, posting photos of our efforts and discussions. But most of the time, we hunkered down and got several hours’ worth of work completed, including a product list through 2015 and timeline projections through 2018. Main plot points were solidified, along with cause-and-effect events. New and old factions decided, technology across several ranges debated, and some character “types” framed out.



By and large, the building of a timeline and event profile is mostly done through discussion. We start by looking at what we want the universe to look like at a certain time stop. Then it’s a discussion of how to get there, using broad story arc strokes. From that, we can flesh out some of the subplots and causal events. What we end up with is a firm story “skeleton” that we can then use to hang various future products on.

What products we decide on are driven in a large part by the market and higher company goals. These goals can range from number of products (print, electronic, etc) to types of game material (RPG, rules, TROs, plot books). Suffice to say, we hit all those points in developing a product timeline through 2015 and sketching additional material for the following 3 years.

Now, readers may be salivating thinking I’m going to share tidbits or clues for the future. Sorry, but no dice. With full control of the timeline and an “uncharted” direction ahead, we’re going to be pretty cagey from here on out about what’s coming. Nothing personal, mind. Just business.

The following day, we met up with my gaming group, the Turkish Prison Crew. We had a special game event lined up, using a blend of TacOps, ATOW, and house rules. The event was a standard grinder format using all of the units found in the XTRO e-pub series. Even the satellite and patrol boat.

Typically, nukes were unleashed on the battlefield, ending one of the best gaming grinds in recent memory.

During the game, we wanted our group to provide suggestions for what they’d like to see in the coming years for the timeline. While much of what they suggested are clearly jokes…you never know…






(Oh, and for the record: we didn’t actually playtest anything over the weekend. In case people wondered.)

[Leonid]

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