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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Good ideas from strange directions

As we were finishing Captain's Log #34, Marketing Director Vanessa Clark noted that it only had 11 pages of material for the new Federation Commander game. She set a goal of 20 pages for Captain's Log #35 and 30 pages for the issue after that. This became part of a discussion, and some SFB players stubbornly refused to part with any of "their" page count to give space to the new game.

Somebody suggested we try to do a "hybrid" ship diagram, where the right half would be a standard FC ship card and the left half would have whatever SFB players needed to use the same ship in that game. We were intrigued and when we picked the E7D to be one of the ships in CL#35 we decided to try to build a hybrid SSD. (You can find it on the legacy site, www.StarFleetGames.com/discus, look under Captain's Log and then under CL#35.) It's taken two or three tries to get it right. The whole idea was to do this just in Captain's Log as a means of double-counting pages for both SFB and FC.

However, a few of those who saw it said we should at least think about doing all future Star Fleet Battles products in this format, which would allow Federation Commander players to use the new ships in those products (even if they had to use page protectors to do it since SFB products aren't laminated).

It's an intriguing thought. The next SFB product will be in July 07 and this idea just might happen.