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Steven Cole is, frankly, a control freak with definite views on how things should be done. For many years his response to requests for a campaign system amounted to "Federation & Empire exists, it is all anyone could possibly need so please stop bothering me about this". My personal be...

Wanting more communication is good - I happen to be with you on that. The issue is that you chose to make your 'requests' in an extremely negative tone.

It it truly amazing how often you pop in to post another of these "You all suck" topics.

The June 2 deadline regrettably got left in the dust because of my day job, but I am now in a position to get the remainder of the changes made to the rules. The Fourth of July weekend should give me enough time to finish things off. It's a month later than I wanted, but we are very close. Oh well....

Short response : YAY!!!!!
Somewhat longer response: YAY! But I have to wait for 3 books for what I "need". As long as they really do come as quickly as indicated, much happiness will ensue.

Currently listed as "Summer 2014". Not holding my breath though.

nimrodd wrote: That should be, "This empire will receive a +42 research capacity bonus next turn." ([TL]11 - [TL]3) x 6 = 8 x 6 = 42

8 x 6 = 48, not 42

It has been pushed back to "Some time in 2012"

I like your solution, though I might give the two empires the option to cancel their colonization order and cede the system.

I don't believe there are any specific values for them, and even if there were just making something up always works.

I would have thought a given carrier could field more Light Fighters than Heavy Fighters... Given that the number of Fighters in a Flight is entirely arbitrary, you could look at it as a Light flight consisting of 12 fighters and a Heavy flight being 8 larger units. Or any other numbers you want. A...

I can't speak to the base game lists, but the Menagerie lists aren't rooted in any math at all. The people who created them just picked values that looked suitable to them at the time.

The separate die was really there for the "round to 5%, and use a d20" types, as in their case simply reading the final digit will in most cases give radically skewed chances - the only time when both Major Success and Major Failure would be available when converting to "9 or 10 is Ma...

While this isn't an optimal solution, how about changing Major/Minor to :

Roll an extra d10. On a 9 or 10, major success/failure. Anything else is Minor. Special abilities can potentially modify the range.

All of that is dependent on the type of campaign you are running. If you are representing your settings equivalent of WWII, the traits should be pretty well known. On the other hand, in an exploration campaign some different traits may or may not be readily apparent. Diminutive/Gigantic races should...