And the trouble is that whatever came out of that process wouldn't "feel like" Traveller anymore. The paradoxes are baked into the background. Fix the paradoxes, and it's a very different background. (Possibly an equally fun, interesting, engaging one -- but quite different.)

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

Kelly,

Traveller was simply ahead of its time, because constructing complex systems requires large teams using complex tools.

Ideally what Traveller needs is a process of integration and rationalisation in some public digital space where paradoxes and 'white holes' can be dealt with collaborativelly.

This would mean that all extant commercial versions become null and void.

I doubt very much this would ever  happen.

Cheers

Greg

On 30/03/2016 8:38 AM, "Kelly St. Clair" <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:
On 3/29/2016 12:34 PM, Craig Berry wrote:

There just aren't any bottlenecks in canon that would prevent a
flourishing post-scarcity economy. That has to be imposed by fiat (and
without plausible explanation) if you want the Traveller feel for your TU.

And this sort of thing, I regret to say, is why I don't really play, or even talk much about, Traveller any more (except in posts like this one).  It's too frustrating and discouraging when any discussion of significant length ends with "because that would break the game/the setting."

There comes a point when you're spending more time and effort propping up, trying to handwave away, or flat out ignoring all the broken bits than actually having fun.  Yes, I know that sort of thing /is/ fun to some.  I'm not one, at least not at this stage of my life, being sadly aware of (1) how often attempted fixes lead to their own unintended/unforseen consequences, and (2) how much of this is simply the result of (multiple) authors over the decades(!) either not knowing better, or starting with a certain result (feel) in mind and bending/contriving "reality", often against plausibility, to fit - I can't suspend disbelief in what I see on stage, especially knowing what I do about what happens behind the curtain.

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