Any release schedule provided by Palladium is guaranteed to be a minimum 6 months to 3 years off. :)) RIFTs Underseas 2 (Lemuria) was finally delivered SIXTEEN YEARS after it was initially scheduled! So yes, you may still see Robotech Wave 2, but how long the wait will be is anyones' guess!
thank you for pointing this out.. i have a hard time delivering it calmly, after the extreme and unfounded negativity over RTT spilled over to my Friend's Rifts boardgame kickstarter, and the constant hounding caused him to try and commit suicide. thankfully his wife found him before he bled out, and was able to get him to the hospital in time.
but palladium is a small company.. it is literally about half a dozen people with an office in a warehouse. they aren't like TSR, Wizards of the Coast, or the other massive gaming giants. everyone there has at least half a dozen hats, if not more. they rely on freelancers to write their books nowadays, which tends to be slow, and when you have a dozen projects to juggle plus all the day to day paperwork of running a company to handle, editing and getting it out to print is slow too. especially when several of those book projects require everything be sent past Harmony's Gold's lawyers and review team first, and might end up needing to be massively rewitten.
as far as RTT goes, it has al lthat, and the fact that Palladium is
not a miniatures company. their only forays into minis in the past were some rifts ones from the early days of rifts.. and those were basically a mini's company coming to them and saying "we want to make minis off your books, is that Ok?"
RTT is being handled by PB itself, and they have done an amazing job with it content wise so far, considering they didn't really know what they were doing when they started. Wave 2 is on hold because their previous partner who had doen the Computer modelling and all the work on turning those 3D models into Sprue designs (Ninja Division) not only failed to communicate well during the wave 1 work (resulting in poorly designed sprues with way too many fiddly parts) but also literally bailed on them before much of any work was done for wave 2. they have replaced them since with a new modeller, but their contracts with the chinese company making the parts was just as problematic (it was the same company that caused so much mess for CGL's
Leviathans game, to give you and idea), as was the shipping issues from china (schedule issues getting it on the boat, and then they got hit by a dock workers strike), so they are now trying to find a more local producer to handled wave 2. and as anyone who has worked in business will tell you, locating potential partners, researching them, approaching them, arranging meeting,s and hashing out offers is
not a fast process.. especially if you want to avoid getting stuck in a bad deal or even being scammed. add in the fact that PB does not have a dedicated legal team for this, and has to slot this stuff into their already fairly full schedules, and you can imagine it is going to take awhile. and since such discussions are always
confidential and backed by NDA's, PB can't go around telling people the identities of the companies they are talking to or any details of the discussions.
i have no doubt that they will deliver on wave 2. i've seen the 3D models for the figures in it (as have all the other people who still get their updates.. many just ignore that), and from what i've heard from my friends that work there, most of the design work for the Sprues and such are done. all that is left is getting that manufacturer and getting the molds made. so it might take a bit, but once it is done we should see rapid progress.
