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Originally posted by J.C.D.:
BTW, some users said they liked my posts, and di not feel my banning was justified.
More's the pity then if you get booted here too for no reason beyond your own inability to start fresh here. Lose/lose is no good at all.
 
For what it is worth, Andrew and I have had a few minor words together in the past. The NICE thing about it is that we spoke privately via email and resolved the issues in question. If you desire my private advice on the matter, feel free to email me ;) If not, no matter. I don't intend to be the "third man in" kinda guy.
 
Originally posted by J.C.D.:
@ rainofsteel. Hey, why not make a big fuss over my sig and get me banned or get someone to change it, at which point I will not post here anymore?
You're mistaken if you believe I have any special influence with the admins on this board.

I had something to say, so I stated it.
 
Originally posted by J.C.D.:
@ rainofsteel. [...] I don't want peopel telling me to use the SJG forums and am making it clear that I don't and why. otherwise people would always be like "well, why not use the SJG forums?"
Could you please list the links to the posts where this actually happened to you here on CotI?

Or did you just assume it would happen?
 
Just for clarity, I think daryen is referring to the SJG forums (deleted posts and bannned). RoS was asking where he'd been told to go post to SJG by someone here on CotI. Or I may be mistaken on a count or two


In any case he is not yet banned here, and is stubbornly trying his darndest to accomplish that despite repeated polite attempts to change his attitude. I see banning from here in his near future too. Not that it's likely to stop him. Unless I miss my guess based on the limited interaction so far he's the kind that will just sign up again with another handle and be an annoyance. Prove me wrong J.C.D.
 
Originally posted by daryen:
The threads were apparently deleted, as I can't find them.

He is indeed banned, though.
Hunter has already banned him?

That's stunning.

Also, I can't remember any topic ever having been deleted on CotI by Hunter.* Locked, yes; deleted, no.




* Ok, I haven't been around much in the last few months, so I could be wrong.
 
Originally posted by far-trader:
Just for clarity, I think daryen is referring to the SJG forums (deleted posts and bannned). RoS was asking where he'd been told to go post to SJG by someone here on CotI. Or I may be mistaken on a count or two
far-trader,

You are entirely correct. I wanted to know where, here on CotI, someone had been so rude as to say, "Forget it, go off to the SJG message board."
 
Originally posted by RainOfSteel:
Also, I can't remember any topic ever having been deleted on CotI by Hunter.* Locked, yes; deleted, no.




* Ok, I haven't been around much in the last few months, so I could be wrong.
I think there was one way back in the early days. A guy came along plugging (blatantly) his website/company and Hunter didn't like the general method of it. I may be misremembering but I think the post(s) vanished along with the poster courtesy Hunter.
 
CotI shares a number of GT experts with the SJG and JTAS boards, so there should be no trouble getting reasonably authoritative answers here.

It also includes me (who is a Traveller guru, not a GURPS guru), but I don't post very often.

LKW
 
Originally posted by LKW:
CotI shares a number of GT experts with the SJG and JTAS boards, so there should be no trouble getting reasonably authoritative answers here.

It also includes me (who is a Traveller guru, not a GURPS guru), but I don't post very often.

LKW
It's alright, we appreciate you for being a traveller guru and a 25+ year veteran of the game business.
 
While I am not sure that J.C.D.'s bringing it up here makes much sense, I have to say that he is essentially correct. Not only was I also banned by Andrew Hackard (he claimed that I was flaming, in fact I was verbally defending an unpopular point of view, and I was careful not to attack anyone), but the people who were personally attacking and insulting me were not punished. It seems that he has his favorites. I have also seen him ban other users who were guilty of nothing but disagreeing with him.

Having said all of that I think if we're going to continue this discussion perhaps it should be moved to a different thread.
 
Originally posted by Seanr451:
While I am not sure that J.C.D.'s bringing it up here makes much sense, I have to say that he is essentially correct. Not only was I also banned by Andrew Hackard (he claimed that I was flaming, in fact I was verbally defending an unpopular point of view, and I was careful not to attack anyone), but the people who were personally attacking and insulting me were not punished. It seems that he has his favorites. I have also seen him ban other users who were guilty of nothing but disagreeing with him.
Well I found a thread where you insisted that the next book that SJG published should be Ultratech, and when pretty much everyone at SJG pointed out how and why that wasn't possible you still insisted that they should, for 13 pages. I don't know if that's why you were banned, but if that's anything like your general attitude there then it wouldn't surprise me that you were booted off.


Having said all of that I think if we're going to continue this discussion perhaps it should be moved to a different thread.
I'd rather you didn't discuss it here at all. If you've got a problem on another board, leave it there. CotI is not the place to whine about how you were treated elsewhere.
 
Originally posted by Malenfant:
I'd rather you didn't discuss it here at all. If you've got a problem on another board, leave it there. CotI is not the place to whine about how you were treated elsewhere.
I agree. Which is why I am not discussing it here.
 
BTW, Andrew didn't ban you. That was someone else, apparently. So don't blame him.
 
Originally posted by Malenfant:
BTW, Andrew didn't ban you. That was someone else, apparently. So don't blame him.
I'm sure that Senior Hackard is your god and all but as I said I am not going to discuss it. This is another forum, the thread topic is Gurps-Traveller. So get over it already and lets stick to the topic, if you're mature enough to do so. In your own words:
Originally posted by Malenfant:
Stick to GURPS Traveller...
Or is it "Do as I say, not as I do" with you?
 
Originally posted by Seanr451:
I'm sure that Senior Hackard is your god
He's not at all, I've had run-ins with him myself and am not hugely keen on the guy.

That said, I defend him because both you and JCD have made him out to be an ogre and made it out that your bannings are his fault when they're actually yours. And just because he's not around to defend himself, that doesn't give you carte blanche to continue to slag him off here.

I only added that he didn't ban you because well... he didn't.

I'm done now.
 
Back to the topic.
Originally posted by kafka47:
[QB] It seems like Interstellar Wars has now been pushed toward an October release.
Now it's been pushed back to November.
http://www.sjgames.com/newproducts/newrel.html?m=10&y=5
According to the GURPS website: "It includes a detailed timeline, along with rules for starship design, interstellar trade, exploration, ship-to-ship combat, and tailoring characters to the last days of the First Imperium."
So it appears that it will include 4E character templates but what it doesn't say is that it will be including detailed small arms tables. I can only believe that it will, but after I perused a copy of Infinite Worlds and saw the tiny weapons chart there I'm not so sure. The weapons chart there was literally a small table like four lines long.
 
Just so everyone knows. GURPS Traveller Intersteller wars has been pushed back to January and GURPS Space has been pushed back to MARCH and there is still no word on GURPS ultratech or GURPS biotech.
 
If it boils down to it - those hardcore GURPS gamers might end up resisting changing to 4E on the basis that the publishing pace is glacial and the publishing pace will replace books already owned. Kinda sad from this GURPS lover's point of view :(

But what the heck, I'm a reactionary old fart who thinks that GURPS 3.5 is better than GURPS 4e (3.5 takes the best of 4 and merges it with 3)
 
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