Anyway, my point was even as much as every single person on those forums may hate me personally, a link to an application I made is hardly a violation of any rule, and #12 is *really* stretching it. Hopefully the user just got a warning, and not an outright permanent ban (totally possible based on their stasi style forum rules, created I assume from overwhelming amounts of those in power... kinda like our own US Government). It was nice to see a reference to something I did, but sad to see some user punished for it.
What really sucks is even if I took my whole encyclopedia site down, and started over with only utilities, I'm positive they would still be asses towards me. Perhaps that is justified, but as somebody who gives them a lot of money it doesn't seem right (though obviously I am biased in that opinion). I dunno. Maybe I'll go to GenCon next year and see if I can get a straight answer to my face, since people can be much larger asses online than they could ever be in person.
My buddy that got banned a while back that I think I mentioned just said "he doesn't care". I think only 1-2 of the 10 guys I game with ever go to the official forums, which is sad. If 80% of the players of battletech don't visit the forums, many of which due to the prevailing attitudes there, well, its sad. I don't want to see Battletech die, but it sure feels some people are making it so.
There are a few things that irk me to now end. One is hypocrisy, another is secrecy/censorship. Those 2 things are 2 of 3 of the biggest evils I see in the world (#3 is a lack of empathy).
Anyway, since I'm sure ya'll don't care about my opinions, and maybe just come here as I'm the only relatively frequently updated Battletech blog I know of, I'll talk about battletech!
/END RANT
Played a game today, saw 2 of my WLF-2X wolfhounds (out of 4) go down in a single turn to a Banshee and Atlas. Wowza, light mechs just can't survive these days. Still tho, at least my turns are fast with just 1 gun :)
We play games every other weekend, sometimes more. If folks want me to take pictures and do AAR's let me know and I can do that.
I had another thought. I don't really have a "website" per se. I have this blog, my master unit list clone which does have a landing page, but I don't have a website where you can easily just browse what apps I have and their status. The forum kinda works, and lets people give feedback, but I know many of you simply don't want to log onto it. Soooo, I'm going to put it in my queue to make a simple little battletech website to host all my apps and stuff. Nothing dynamic or fancy, just an easy place to go browse without having to go back through 100 posts of me bitching about something to find some download link.
I drew out on paper today the little icons I'll use for the next generation of Alpha Strike cards. These will be little things you can cross off if critical hits occur. I will start trying to work on the new version very soon, even though the poll is now tied with an update, and doing my own thing. Most of the features aren't too hard, so once I start working on it I should have a huge chunk done in a couple days. One feature I wanted to implement was dynamically getting the AS card data from my site, and I have to write an API for that. Not *that* hard, but will take me quite a few consecutive hours.
Other stuff:
I went to BGG Con. It was poorly organized, and as I'm not a big board gamer it was a waste of time. $110 for 1 hour, and I bought a subscription to the 3 Strategy & Tactics magazines. Never again.
Kickstarter not only sucks up a lot of my time, but a lot of funds as well. Some Kickstarters I spent too much money on:
Robotech RPG Tactics (like $5K)
Aliens vs Predator ($500 or so)
CastVR ($1k)
Reaper Bones I and Bones II ($1100 I think)
Zombicide Season 2 ($450)
Heroes of Normandie ($400)
Battletech WOB LAMs ($250)
Sedition Wars ($360)
Ogre ($350) + $50 for the launch party in Austin
Battle Systems ($200+, not done yet)
I spend far too much on KS, and am on there far too often (comments sections). If you want to see what I'm currently backing (I do sometimes pull out), check it out here. Hopefully I can find some folks to play some of those games with. I'll be doing a huge push with Robotech and AVP when they come out here In Dallas.
More to come soon.
thanks for you good work wish i know that my strategic operations was the same dam thing as alpha strike good thing i just bought the pdf and not the hard back and now i have a system to use with the book i swear cgl don't care about there fans that been around awhile (rant sorry) now seeing this not buying any there books anymore wouldn't mind seeing some there pdf ill email you my email as well so tired of getting ripped off by people with things i all ready have
ReplyDeleteHuh. Well, I doubt you would get much more in person than you get online. Bill and I sat in the same room with Coleman, Bills and their families for four hours and they ignored both of us. Me, I understand, but Bill had constructed and delivered three of their best GenCon tables ever.
ReplyDeleteThese guys are a lot like Gene Roddenberry was - they are wonderful folks, friendly and will tell you anything you want to hear. But it's a different story when they leave the room. What they say to your face is mostly hogwash (unless you are floating in cash and thus a potential equal or superior). I have heard their real dirty work is done by email, private forums and phone conversations. But that could be mere rumor. So much of what goes on with the folks behind CGL is politics and innuendo, it's scary. They're beholden to no one but the Elders, and what those guys don't know won't hurt them.
As for your kickstarter stuff... brother, you have a lot of spare cash laying around, you know that? I just Ebayed two unusual tape players from the mid-1980s to make the grocery bill here. Momma is STILL out of work. I am running out of stuff to sell. So yeah, those kickstarter fundings begin to look big to me.
Never mind. I am the one who dumped $6000 into a fan book instead of getting a replacement car. No one's fault but my own. Bleh. I am glad you can afford that stuff.