Just asking if folks can chime in if they still read this. I have never followed a blog, and not even sure it is still a valid medium for folks.
I created a patreon which is set to $1/month, but I disable billing every month so it should be free:
https://www.patreon.com/BattletechEngineer
Anyway, just a quick update as I'm not sure if anybody even reads this. I have been working on a Strategic Battleforce PC game, and made some pretty good progress, but the rules are simply broken. I had lots of questions, some fan asked if he could post them on the forums to which I said "sure!", but his post quickly got locked, then deleted. I also had one of the people that had been *trying* to answer my questions that was affiliated with CGL/Forums/etc back out as apparently they REALLY fucking hate me there. Extremely unprofessional if you ask me, especially since I am a HUGE contributor, HUGE supporter, and my alleged violations are either not true, or really insignificant. Oh well, there are still 2 folks talking to me that still help me out, and they laugh at the drama and show me some really "funny" posts from some of my haters out there. I try to empathize, but at this point its just getting to Trump levels of stupid.
A pic:
I am not debating on if I can even finish this as the rules are simply VERY broken, unplayable broken, and I'll bet somebody 500 clan invasion kickstarter miniatures that they did NOT fix them in the new Battleforce reprint book due out soon. If I decide to just say "forget their broke ass rules", I'll create something that I think is more in line with their goal, and make it more streamlined at other scales, and then finish it by filling in my own rules that fall back on CBT rules when possible as a computer can handle the details for you!
If I finish it, I'll also release the source code, but right now its really ugly and has a lot of "TODO" comments in it I want to clean up first.
Anyway, let me know if you read this, or whatever. I am not sure of the best way to communicate with those who actually want to see new battletech products get created.
Oh, my engineer site sucks and is broken. I haven't touched it in years, and never really finished it. It started as something similar to the masterunitlist.info site, but with CBT stats, and if I got it closer to done I was going to give to to CGL and let them charge $1 or something every month for it, which basically replaces the need to print TROs and Record sheets, and just lets people print them on demand based on what they want in it. Residual income is a GREAT thing for companies, and for some reason CGL has never figured that out. They are not very good with technology and seem to shit on those that are who offer to help (not just me, there have been others).
Have some happy holidays!
