Re: Flagship

From: skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)

Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 12:12:03 +0000

cmy@cs.keele.ac.uk (C.M. Yearsley) writes:
> Quickly reading through it, I didn't like the Olympia article at all.
> Perhaps the author wasn't one of the playtesters?

He was the in alpha-test with you, don't you remember?  :-)  He didn't
submit orders very often, and I don't think he sent email to any other
players.

I knew that it wasn't likely that Flagship's assigned reviewer was going
to write a very nice article, since he was barely playing the game, and
from the look of his orders it didn't seem like he'd read the rules too
closely.  I expressed my concern to Joey, who offered to show me the
review before publication, and let me write a rebuttal if I wanted.
But the review, as you say, "had just cut bits out of the rulebook",
so there wasn't really much to rebut.  :-(

It's hard for a GM in this position to complain without it looking like
sour grapes.

I'm more optimistic about upcoming coverage in Flagship.  Bob McLain
will be writing the Olympia diary, and he's currently quite active in
the game.  They're also planning to combine the diary with coverage of
a PC mapping tool, so the article will have nice maps of the provinces
Bob has visited.

If you have something to say about the review, or Olympia in general,
you should write to Nicky for inclusion in the Letters or Rumors
columns.  Nicky's email address is 76276.2147@compuserve.com.

--
Rich Skrenta <skrenta@pbm.com>

References

Re: Flagship
cmy@cs.keele.ac.uk (C.M. Yearsley)
Tue, 20 Sep 1994 10:25:38 +0000

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Re: Flagship
cmy@cs.keele.ac.uk (C.M. Yearsley)
Tue, 20 Sep 1994 10:25:38 +0000