MT Only: Best to purchase???

[ken at sunrise]

Okay,

This may sound like a dumb question but... If I wanted to pick up MegaTraveller wouldn't FFE be best? For $35.00 you get quite a bit on CD (PDF). If I go to DTRPG then everything is purchased individually for a lot more.

Are the MT items on FFE all updated?

Thanks for your help,

 

[Vladika]

Okay,

This may sound like a dumb question but... If I wanted to pick up MegaTraveller wouldn't FFE be best? For $35.00 you get quite a bit on CD (PDF). If I go to DTRPG then everything is purchase individually for a lot more.

Is the MT items on FFE all updated?

Thanks for your help,

Not a dumb question at all and I look forward to the responses. I would particularity like to know if either or is pdf searchable?

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Own it. It is PDF's with a front end to go clicky-click to the PDF's. The OCR scans are not the best in my opinion, however. Astrogator's Guide to the Disapora Sector was particularly bad. Don't know if my copy was an early release or what. Still, better than buying separately if the scans on Driverthru are the same ones...

 

[savage]

FFE looks best to me Ken.

 

[SpaceBadger]

I actually have the MT CD from FFE by accident, as I had ordered the 2300AD CD (don't worry, Marc eventually got me fixed up w correct CD as ordered!)

Checking just now, I randomly picked the Imperial Encyclopedia on that CD and ran a search for the word "Strephon" and it immediately popped to first occurrence, with following occurrences highlighted. So, at least that one book PDF appears searchable.

 

[ken at sunrise]

Well I decided to get them directly from FFE. At least it's a complete set.

 

[ken at sunrise]

Does anyone know if they were errata fixed?

 

[savage]

Does anyone know if they were errata fixed?

Updating original products with errata changes? That does not occur. The errata is freely downloadable.

 

[sfchbryan]

Updating original products with errata changes? That does not occur. The errata is freely downloadable.

However, if you have a copy of Word and my collection of MT templates (over in the file library), you can Cntl-C, Cntrl-V your way to a complete set of corrected MT manuals, just like I have. Pick up the Challenge Magazine CD & you can add the MT content to your corrected manuals.

 

[Swiftbrook]

However, if you have a copy of Word and my collection of MT templates (over in the file library), you can Cntl-C, Cntrl-V your way to a complete set of corrected MT manuals, just like I have. Pick up the Challenge Magazine CD & you can add the MT content to your corrected manuals.

I can't seem to find them. Can you point me the way?

 

[savage]

However, if you have a copy of Word and my collection of MT templates (over in the file library), you can Cntl-C, Cntrl-V your way to a complete set of corrected MT manuals, just like I have. Pick up the Challenge Magazine CD & you can add the MT content to your corrected manuals.

Good point. I have all of it. How long did that take?

 

[ken at sunrise]

Why are the Classic Traveller CDs look like a PDF print, very clear and easy to read and the MegaTraveller CDs are a scan, much harder and the OCR index searching isn't always correct?

 

[whulorigan]

Why are the Classic Traveller CDs look like a PDF print, very clear and easy to read and the MegaTraveller CDs are a scan, much harder and the OCR index searching isn't always correct?

At a guess, I would say it is because the MT CD was the very first FFE Rules-CD ever released (quite some time ago), and has never had a disc update. The CT CD was released later, and has since had a 2nd Edition CD-update to replace the original release as well.

Probably the MT Disc ought to have a 2nd release update as well, with higher quality PDFs, etc.

 

[savage]

At a guess, I would say it is because the MT CD was the very first FFE Rules-CD ever released (quite some time ago), and has never had a disc update. The CT CD was released later, and has since had a 2nd Edition CD-update to replace the original release as well.

Probably the MT Disc ought to have a 2nd release update as well, with higher quality PDFs, etc.

I may be off base with this, but the CD materials had the re-release of the books to base materials off.

 

[whulorigan]

I may be off base with this, but the CD materials had the re-release of the books to base materials off.

Yes, but some of the pages in a few of the PDFs were missing (at least on my CD, anyway - I have one of the initial releases). You can get the missing pages from the FFE Website, IIRC (I believe that is where I got them from).

But you are correct. For the most part, the MT CDs have the most egregious errata already fixed (though not all of DonM's errata are reflected).

 

[aramis]

Yes, but some of the pages in a few of the PDFs were missing (at least on my CD, anyway - I have one of the initial releases). You can get the missing pages from the FFE Website, IIRC (I believe that is where I got them from).

But you are correct. For the most part, the MT CDs have the most egregious errata already fixed (though not all of DonM's errata are reflected).

MT had 3-4 printings - 3rd printing of the RM was much cleaner on errata than first.

I rebought the whole ruleset to get the errata applied versions.

 

[Supplement Four]

I rebought the whole ruleset to get the errata applied versions.

And, were they completely errata free?

 

[aramis]

And, were they completely errata free?

At the time, yes, but more errata promptly arose.

 

[sfchbryan]

Good point. I have all of it. How long did that take?

A long time, but not for reasons that you would think. After a few chapters, everything starts to blur together and you start missing little things.

Rough cut - 1 book per weekend. Then go over chapter by chapter - 1 per night. Things like the craft design took quite a bit longer - They were really messed up. Once I have finished a book, I set it aside for a month - when I review it, I find all of the mistakes that I missed while working on it - The iPad is great for reviewing things - spacing errors leap off the display.

I am not moving very fast, but I have far, far fewer errors & typos than the sewing circle managed with the T5 monolith.

I tend to rework things as needed - my group is about to start an exploratory mission in the Vargr Extents (My character is a 57th Century version of the conspiracy theorists you see on Ancient Aliens - and yes, he does have the bad hair.) So I have been re-typesetting and making corrections & updates to Mike Mikesh's Grand Explorations. 2 months ago it was working all of the DGP's Medical Digest articles into a coherent supplement for our party's doctor - don't have Advanced character generation done yet, but it is on my master list.

I have also done multiple versions.

Version 1 - 4th Edition MT - Errata Minus Rebellion Timeline information (Moved to the Rebellion Sourcebook) I needed the space to fit the corrections. I also haven't put the artwork back in, but I could do that over the course of a week.

Version 2 - Expanded - Errata + everything else I have found useful (Early Tech Supplement + 1 Small Step added to the Referee's Manual - Additional character classes & weapons added to the Players Manual - Imp Enc has all Library data replaced with the CT Library Data - many many articles added to the Referee's Companion). I have started on new artwork - luvs me some Poser 2014 & Vue.

When I start to update COACC this weekend, I'll also start on Nautical Force Command (The Wet Navy articles + the unpublished Sailor character generation system.) I built it once before a couple of years ago, but it definitely needs a new rewrite.

My goal is to have the entire thing done by Travellercon - I am running another adventure in the Verge sector & I need everything completed by then.

 

[savage]

A long time, but not for reasons that you would think. After a few chapters, everything starts to blur together and you start missing little things.

You should consider turning over cleaned versions to Marc. Are you adding home rules or only errata fixes? Home rules would change the ruleset.

This is a great service to the community, if Marc adds it to a CDRom.

If you consider it printable. Just a thought.