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Excellent news that the game is coming out. Although the rules for NPEs and low-tech powers will appear in 'A Distant Star', will they still be fully compatible with multi-player play for those who want to use them for that?

I realise this is obviously not the correct page on the forum to ask this question, but I ask it here as it is the page showing any sign of activity. Is there any possibility of any update on the progress of 2E, even if only a statement to the effect that work on the project is actually continuing, ...

With regard to the ability to transport strategic resources between systems, the 1E rules weren't that complicated. Granted the representation of internal trade fleets that they used has now gone, but perhaps allowing transport within a system's supply radius wouldn't complicate things too much. At ...

I have had a quick pass through the documents you've posted. Certainly at the level of clarity and consistency they look fine, with no amiguities/contradictions that I could spot. There are elements of the rules as posted so far where the overall drive towards simplification and streamling of the sy...

What is boils down to is that offering chance replaces Xenophobia, breaking chance replaces Integrity, and declaring chance replaces Aggressiveness. The range of values for each also effectively changes from the 1-100 range under AIX to 1-10. This gives less variance overall, but it makes each perc...

I liked the AIX system, but see where you're coming from when you say that players felt to restricted by it. The good thing about it was, obviously, the way it simulated cultural differences between different races, and the impact that these had on diplomacy. How does the new system you've now imple...

I also am a bit puzzled by the lack of modifiers to the Surprise roll. If things like Scout bonuses and (I'm guessing) bonuses for crew/officer quality once these are introduced count at the 'tactical level' (by which I mean the individual scenarios generated within an encounter), why don't they cou...

Can I just say that I also am worried that what appears to be an admirable desire to keep the game as streamlined and simple as possible is perhaps in some places being pushed a bit too far, and runs the risk of making some areas of the game simplistic, or maybe turn them into abstract book keeping ...