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Exciting! I'll definitely have to look over the new material, but I liked what I skimmed over.

-Bren

Good to hear!

-Bren

I'm really enjoying this thread. I can't wai tto see more of the example!

-Bren

This is looking good... I'm really enjoying the new ship design rules. Something that was really lacking in the 1E rule system. Once the 2E system is all figured out, it would be cool to have a tactical game to fall back on for ship combats if the players would like to do. I think having the KEB ssy...

I really like the idea of the player determining the 'taxation level' for their empire and getting penalties based on that. 50 - 150% sounds great and another great way of spending intel!

-Bren

In one of my games, I actually did something simular. I wanted to make ground combat a little more 'exciting'. I remember the rules from the board game Imperium (not a bad game overall). Perhaps I could dig out those rules for you. I think I used a 7 hex hex for each CC of a planet. So a size 4 plan...

We had actually stopped by earlier, but it was right after we had gotten our badges and you had just started your event, so we decided to just stop back in later and drop off the swag. It was good to meet up with you, and next year we will definitely have to have a meet-up event at Origins. I am al...

Now, going back to your actual question, the Mass Costs associated with unit abilities will decrease as an empire gains more technical skill in those areas (i.e., increases Tech Levels). Assuming all Tech Levels are the same, a TL 0 empire's unit that weighs in at 1000 Mass would decrease to 500 Ma...

Crap! I wish that I would have seen this prior to the convention. It was awesome that you stopped by to say hello, but I was so disappointed that I didn't get to hang out with you guys longer (thanks for the freebies!

Perhaps at Gencon?
-Bren

I saw the Star Trek remake over the weekend and I must say that it was imaginative, fun and actually had a 'plausable' plot! It was great and I hope that this will spark new life for movies and series...

-Bren

d6 generation is a great podcast. Definitely going to have to check it out!

-Bren

With all the nations you seem to find when you play these games and all the different ships you have, I'd love to see how you keep all the information. It must be a nightmare!

-Bren

I was looking over the CSCR and I was wondering if there was any chance that we could get a couple of ship designs with the new 2E stats so we might have some concrete ships to fight some battles with the new system.

-Bren

Sounds good to me. I really can't think of any difference to the system currently.

I do think the 1d3-1 for major success, 0 for minor successs, -1 for minor failure and -1d3 for major failure would be an interesting aspect for the morale checks.

-Bren

The trick might be to decrease the base detection chances to 0/10/20/30 and then increase the Census multiplier to 15 from 10. That would ensure that a colony of any real size would be detected right away, and that it would be extremely difficult (if not almost impossible) to hide a homeworld like ...