Objective Raids

[Kit deSummersville]

Plus we all know Storks bring fuel.

[E. Icaza]

Hello.  I'm Jeffrey Layton, and I wrote the original Objective Raids.

Given the current feeling toward my book and the errors in it, I really had to work up my courage before stepping up to post.  I would, however, like to mention the reality of the conditions under which it was written.

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--Jeff

Dude, you've got nothing to be worried about.  There are three CBT books that I own that are scuffed and dog-eared to death from being read, re-read, re-re-read, bent in unusual ways from being propped open to specific pages that I needed to cross-reference, etc.  Those are the original TRO:3025 (now retired in favor of the TRO: 3039), House Kurita and Objective Raids.  Each of those three ranks in the top five (along with the Tukayyid Scenario book and the Jade Falcon Sourcebook) of my favorite CBT books of all time, warts and all!

You sir, and your book, rock!   [rockon]

[Knightmare]

Plus we all know Storks bring fuel.

...and disease.

Well, in China at least.

[pensiveswetness]

It's been a while... I'm only casting Necro thread X on this subject merely because of the newest capability of Microsoft Edge's Read it! Functionality of reading webpages and PDFs... Listening to Male Siri say 'Cay-Pa-Lean Confederation' is moar funny than Tom Tom saying 'To-lea-Dah' for Toledo :D

It does make me giggle at the idea of that maybe we have been pronouncing common (and beloved) words from Battletech wrong?

[ColBosch]

Oh hey, I'd forgotten that this is where I coined the phrase "FASA wasn't big on errata." And since this thread, we did get MadCap's updated Objective Raids in official form!

[JadeHellbringer]

...yeah, six years to make a joke about a PDF reader is quite the necro, for sure.

[guardiandashi]

heh listening to google maps read out directions is sometimes hilarious
like head towards caw mos (spelled camas and locally pronounced cam ass)
or take the glisten road exit it pronounces it glisten like shiny, when I have always heard locals pronounce it as glee san road.  etc.

[worktroll]

Oh hey, I'd forgotten that this is where I coined the phrase "FASA wasn't big on errata."

You can say that again ... ;)

[SCC]

I'd like to know if TPTB have changed, or are looking at changing, the book production process so that work for future OR (If that ever happens) is easier? The idea here is that when a design is created all information needed for inclusion into an OR is also entered into a database.

The way my idea would work is that in addition to deciding where a 'Mech is assembled and the brands of it's components the locations manufacture is also decided, all this information is entered into the database. Now the DB is set up so that you can also use it to find out what is made where and so on.

I'd also like information in future TRO's that say if a new line was put together for a new design, or if it shares a line with an older one or an older one was ceased to make way for the new one.

[Frabby]

No, TPTB now deliberately avoid giving out hard facts about production. Fuzzy numbers are way easier to work with than an ever-increasing mountain of hard number, and it also gives the writers way more leeway to handwave any facts they may deem important for a given story.

The BT universe isn't an economy simulation, even when discounting the FASAnomics rabbit hole. It works on the principles of author fiat and rule of plot demand instead.

[SCC]

When did I give any production numbers? I'm talking about location and when production stops, not numbers.

[truetanker]

* Pokes Brent and Ray *

Wonder if the CGL bigwigs could swing a meet and greet with Mr. Layton as author of the year at Con of his choice. For a rather mediocre book turned sensational attraction. I got two copies, one barely holding together and another still glued.

I think I'm not the only one to want to shake his hand.

TT

[Paul]

I'd like to know if TPTB have changed, or are looking at changing, the book production process so that work for future OR (If that ever happens) is easier?

The OR PDF series was a failure. You'll never see it again.

[Kit deSummersville]

The OR PDF series was a failure. You'll never see it again.

Unless, like Paul, you see it in your sleep.

[JadeHellbringer]

Unless, like Paul, you see it in your sleep.

That's his own fault. If you're going to sleep in a coffin full of dirt from your homeland, you're gonna have weird dreams. Same reason you shouldn't eat pizza before bedtime.