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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Triton: [QB] Well Timo if you have 300 pages of fanfiction ships, sans pictures, from the sources you describe, please distribute. :D I am interested in taking a look at them because like most fan boys I am writing this type of material for my one fan fic ships and I would like to compare. Plus, your fan fiction ships have more history and seem more "realistic" if you can cite examples of previous ships of the type, or the names and registeries of ships that beared the name. But back to the Decipher book. ;) I thumbed through this book this week end at a local book store and was very unimpressed with its interior design and use of color. The schematics of the starships are for the most part undetailed and rendered in ugly colors, like the silvery blue [i]Sovereign[/i]class illustration if I am remembering correctly. It seems to me that no care was taken in choosing who to hire to draw schematics of the starships and little or no care was taken in choosing which starship publicity photos to print in this book. You think that they could have hired one of us to help out with this book. :D Reverend, for example, could have done an exponentially better job at illustrating this book than the artist they hired. Also, there are hardly any starships in this book. Last Unicorn Games gave us a lot more starships in its [i]Starship Recognition Guide[/i], and made an attempt to document all the models we had seen. In the Decipher [i]Starships[/i] book, where is the description and stats for the [i]Springfield[/i], [i]Challenger[/i], [i]Niagara[/i], [i]Freedom[/i], [i]Curry[/i], [i]New Orleans[/i], [i]Cheyenne[/i], Intrepid-Constitution variant, [i]Centaur[/i], [i]Raging Queen[/i] (whatever class she was), three-nacelled Excelsior variant ([i]Medusa[/i]?), and the Constitution variant ( [i]Polaris[/i]?) classes. Alas for all those cool FASA designs we lost when FASA lost its role-playing license. So a new licensee not only has to re-invent the wheel, but they give us less material than what we had before in the old role-playing game license? :mad: So if you are considering a purchase of this book, see if you can locate a copy of it before making the purchase decision. Personally I think that most fans will be disappointed with the low quality of this book and give it a pass, especially at a $34.95 cover price. But on the plus side, I did find out that quantum torpedoes can be fired only by a Mk 75 or better torpedo launcher, [i]Defiant[/i]-class or later, a question that I asked in another thread in this forum. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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