Re: Fire on the Suns

From: "Chris Williams" <williac6@rjrt.com>

Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Chris Williams <williac6@rjrt.com> wrote in message
news:6zBm5.631$2l4.18487@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> Hey everyone,
>
> I ordered a FOTS CDs from the FOTS website about 4-5 months ago, it
finally
> showed up a couple days ago. I had totally forgotten about even ordering
it.
>
> Has anyone ever actually played Fire on the Suns?
>
> I have to admit, I'm not terribly impressed with the production quality of
> the CD. It's a bit of a mess, from the offcenter CD label, to the
haphazard
> way they dumped the files onto it.
>
> I hope the game itself is better than the mess they sent me.  It looks
> fairly interesting, although apparently it's a lot less computer moderated
> than I thought. More like "somewhat computer assisted" with a bunch of
Excel
> spreadsheets.
>

Well, my initial impression was a bit negative, and I will say that it has
improved a little. I'm still not thrilled, but at least it looks to have
some promise.

The storyline that is woven into the manual isn't to bad, and there seems to
be some pretty playable stuff in there.

Apparently if your players have ever played it before then you (the GM) have
a lot of customization work to do before the game starts, since everyone
starts out the same way each time.

There also isn't much in the way of moderation tools, unless you count
spreadsheets. Was really hoping for some software. Granted I own a copy of
Excel, but still...

Chris

References

Fire on the Suns
"Chris Williams" <williac6@rjrt.com>
Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000