Ordering T5

[dean]

I pre-ordered a T5 CD ROM and have seen that other pre-orderers have received their extras (map, poster, etc), but I have yet to receive anything at all.

Does anyone know where to send an inquiry, or should I just be more patient?

Happy Travelling!

 

[Renaissance Man]

I haven't got my goodies either. Of course, I'm in Canada so I assumed things might take awhile longer.

 

[BigBadRon]

Canada?

I'm in Sweden. My wife ordered the CD-ROM for me on the day that it was announced as being on sale, and I got my pack last week.

I did get the impression that things are quite busy at FFE at the moment, so that could be the reason for any delay.

 

[hunter]

Marc's in the process of sending the extras out as he has the time, but he's putting most of his effort into getting T5 itself finished. If you haven't gotten yours in say another week or so, drop Marc an email.

 

[dean]

If it takes a while, I'm happy to be patient.

Didn't realize it was a one man show up there at FFE

I posted here because I did not see an email address or other method of inquiry on the FFE site where I ordered.

Thanks for your assistance Hunter.

 

[hunter]

If it takes a while, I'm happy to be patient.

Didn't realize it was a one man show up there at FFE

I posted here because I did not see an email address or other method of inquiry on the FFE site where I ordered.

Thanks for your assistance Hunter.

No problem at all. If you need to email Marc, try farfuture (the at sign) farfuture.net.

 

[Trouble]

I haven't seen anything yet either. If nothing shows by the second week of Feburary I will email then. Because of my work I won't be able to much with it till the middle of March anyway.

 

[robject]

I haven't seen anything yet either. If nothing shows by the second week of Feburary I will email then.

That's reasonable. There's lots of us watching the days.

 

[Trouble]

Bonus Items

Taking a clue from these forums I emailed Mr. Miller to advise I had not recieved my bonus stuff. It was sent the next day. I admit I am looking froward to March 1st from what I have read it sounds like T5 will be worth the wait.

 

[robject]

Taking a clue from these forums I emailed Mr. Miller to advise I had not recieved my bonus stuff. It was sent the next day. I admit I am looking froward to March 1st from what I have read it sounds like T5 will be worth the wait.

I was worried about the complexity of sophont generation ("is the whole thing going to be this complicated?"), but then chargen looked good, robotics and genetics is robust but readable, and I'm mightily encouraged by starship and firearms design.

My thoughts on sophont gen sort of changed when I started porting 2300AD aliens into it.

 

[Foxroe]

I was worried about the complexity of sophont generation ("is the whole thing going to be this complicated?"), but then chargen looked good, robotics and genetics is robust but readable, and I'm mightily encouraged by starship and firearms design.

My thoughts on sophont gen sort of changed when I started porting 2300AD aliens into it.

It wasn't the sophonts that had me worried, it was the mechanics.

I must admit, when I first glanced over the T5 material from Traveller5.com, I wasn't sure that I liked it. My biggest turn-off was the retention of the T4 "roll xD6 under" mechanic. I'm a CT/MT fan through-and-through, so the 2D6 mechanic is thoroughly ingrained in me, and it is my preferred system. The fist-full-o'dice mechanic of T4 (and the bad reviews ) kept me away from that edition. To me it just didn't feel like what Ye Olde Traveller was supposed be.

But then I started thinking, is it really two D6 that makes it Traveller, or is it the D6 itself that makes it Traveller? So the more I read through the early rules samples and the T5 preview, the more I liked what I saw (atrocious need for editing aside ). The xD6 method had been simplified from its T4 origins, so it didn't appear to be nearly as horrendous any more (despite the fact that it's still not 2D6 ).

And then I began to see it: the feel of Traveller. T5 will still use D6. There will still be random character generation. Comms will still move at the slow speed of jump. The technologies will still be the same. The races seem to be the same. There will still be uncomplicated adventure-class starships. There will still be randomly determined worlds, animals, and encounters to interact with. Off-line play appears to be sufficiently "crunchy" for the gearheads, but actually game-play appears to be streamlined enough for us CT-types. There will still be the elements there that make the game fun to play for all types of Traveller players.

So to me, T5 still feels like Traveller, and I think that this is very critical to its success. Sure there are changes, but I think that the original black-book Traveller is still alive and kicking around in there... and that's a good thing!

-Fox

 

[pendragonman]

(I hope this is the right forum for this)

OH WO IS ME!!!!!

I just ordered my copy this morning, used paypal, and didn't notice until the transaction was complete that the shipping address is an old mailing address!

I sent an email to the address listed on the site, but I am hoping that someone here could double check to see if Mr. Miller rec'd my proper mailing address.

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

C. Patric Mitchell

 

[robject]

(I hope this is the right forum for this)

OH WO IS ME!!!!!

I just ordered my copy this morning, used paypal, and didn't notice until the transaction was complete that the shipping address is an old mailing address!

I sent an email to the address listed on the site, but I am hoping that someone here could double check to see if Mr. Miller rec'd my proper mailing address.

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

C. Patric Mitchell

I pinged him. If he answers I'll post back here.

 

[hunter]

Scooped!

He's got your email pendragonman

 

[pendragonman]

Thank you very much! I am much relieved!.

 

[Sstefan]

I just ordered my copy this morning, used paypal, and didn't notice until the transaction was complete that the shipping address is an old mailing address!

you know, tha same thing happended to me; and I just sent Marc an email (from the ordering confirmation notice) and received a reply in short order....
small world isn't it...two people so wrapped up in getting their youth back (by way of Traveller) that are so forgetful that they don't even know where they live....:rofl: