Just a heads up, my modem at home got fried over the weekend so my posting may be sporadic for a bit.

As for the endo steel on vehicles, I have never seen a good reason for it. All I ever see is "It's for game balance." which doesn't make much sense. Other than making mechs the prominent combat vehicle.

Endo Steel isn't used on vehicles mostly for story reasons, but because of those reasons there isn't a manufacturing process for the vehicle components in endo steel.

The only mechanical reason not to would be cost, but after a sized up XL engine and fancy electronics that cost starts to seem quite minor.

So.    No hard and fast rule, just...fluff saying you can't. Okie tha nks.

I was playing around in MW5 and decided to paint my Commando like Colin would in the Raiders.

In reply to Eileen Sutherby (msg # 386):

Sarna says you can do it.

https://www.sarna.net/forums/s...r/184376/Main/184376

I did read through this during research, but i wasn't sure if these were house rules or 'official' canon rules.

Regardless, it does state the year for them as around 3150, though it should also presume a certain amount of lead time experimentation leading up to it.  It also presumes we dont end up in clan space with scads of the tech lying around to be used.

ie.  If the Clans use the stuff in their conventional units, it would seriously accelerate the access to the use for us.

*shrugs*

Really it'll be subject to what the game master allows, and at least on an experimental basis for small units, he's been pretty amendable.

In reply to Eileen Sutherby (msg # 386):

Well, the Tech Manual specifically stating that Combat Vees can't change their Structure Type. But ultimately it is an arbitrary decision for the sake of game balance. Hence the referencing of the optional Quirk which overrides that specific rule, albeit with some notable downsides.

Though not terribly familiar with the Dark Age/IlClan era. But yeah, only a century away it would seem.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:52, Tue 04 Apr 2023.

I think I too am going to have to throw in the towel.

I love the background universe, love the storyline and plot, love the idea of being a test subject for a new ruleset, but I expected with that a degree more activity and communication.

Thanks for having me Stavros, thanks to everyone for playing with me, but I think I'm going to call it here. Go ahead and remove me from the game.

two weeks since the game master logged in, never a good sign.

Hopefully nothing serious.

These days hard to say.

I woke up today and bounced my face off the corner of my bed cause i got dizzy.

Was on my back for half a hour.

Certainly, sounds uncomfortable, hopefully you didn't deal any serious harm to yourself?

Dunno.  i literally thought i might have been dying for a few minutes there.

Regardless i eventually got up.. finished my taxes and mailed them out.

Death and Taxes encountered in the same day, that sounds like the start of a plot or something.

Well, glad you got through it, serious or not.

Indeed

I know it's a few days after the fact but still, watch out for delayed concussion, sometimes it can come on 3 or even 4+ days after the fact depending if drinking and eating properly.
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I'll keep it in mind... at the moment itchy dry eyes seems to be my issue, which i'm attributing to hopefully just allergies... though it's possible a tear duct might have burst when i fell so i'm seeing the vision docs soon.

Dealing with an 'issue' at home.  Hopefully not a bad one.  We'll see.  May be offline dealing with it a bit.

Well... I guess it's over then.

Removing the campaign from my watch list, give me a poke if there's a serious effort to restart things.

In reply to Eileen Sutherby (msg # 402):

I'm holding out hope but will message if nobody else does.
Hope issues at home go better.

Yeah, prospects do seem a bit grim, rarely good when the GM disappears for a month.

In reply to Zhang Zi Rui (msg # 404):

I'm missing my 'fix' so playing the PC game for now.

OK well as the GM has not logged in since march.... i'm putting this game in the injured reserve.  If it re-starts drop me a PM or something.

In reply to Candice Rohdes (msg # 406):

Will do. If you find another game worthy of playing, likewise please. My fix of RPoL has been reduced of late.

Hope everyone is ok