Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
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Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
I think it,s times to Updated Aliens Unlimited,s books,with all New art and New Info.
One will be On Aliens races and ther Planets.
One will be On Techs and Space Ships.
One will be On the powers like FAR and the others.
What do you think?
One will be On Aliens races and ther Planets.
One will be On Techs and Space Ships.
One will be On the powers like FAR and the others.
What do you think?
Re: Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
Before we get a 3rd Edition of Aliens Unlimited... wouldn't we need to get a 3rd Edition of Heroes Unlimited first?
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Re: Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
I would like to see more HU books, about 10 or 20, before talking about another update for AU.
The only thing I can see that needs updating is the equipment list, and the skill programs (as in more and varying). That can be done with an equipment book…say a HUGMG2.
Then for galaxy games maybe a AUGMG, for it's updated equipment, 'space' skills, price lists in credits, exotic trade goods, updated/expanded space/starship const. tables from AUGG, etc…
Humm, I did 1..2..3…three of those in my Galaxy unlimited rifter submission.
The only thing I can see that needs updating is the equipment list, and the skill programs (as in more and varying). That can be done with an equipment book…say a HUGMG2.
Then for galaxy games maybe a AUGMG, for it's updated equipment, 'space' skills, price lists in credits, exotic trade goods, updated/expanded space/starship const. tables from AUGG, etc…
Humm, I did 1..2..3…three of those in my Galaxy unlimited rifter submission.
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Re: Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
I don't agree we need a third edition of Aliens Unlimited. It's already been updated to HU2 edition standards. If any current HU book needs a new edition, it's Villains Unlimited. Those enemies need to be officially updated to 2nd Edition. The fan project stickied in this forum did a good job, but it never should have been their job in the first place. Rather than update Aliens Unlimited, I'd rather see the Hardware Unlimited book get released.
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Re: Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
I think they need to come out with more books for Aliens Unlimited, not update the rules which are fine as is.
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Re: Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
After Hardware Unlimited I would like to see the Antorian Galaxy book.
Then we could see something like AU2...with even more stuff.
The problem with just rehashing the same material is that... well its the same old material.
Then we could see something like AU2...with even more stuff.
The problem with just rehashing the same material is that... well its the same old material.
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Re: Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
My preference would be Hardware Unlimited, especially if it includes updated equipment, bionics, and robotics. Then either Magic Unlimited, Psionics Unlimited, or Organizations Unlimited (the last to include updated Special Training Heroes). Aliens Unlimited 3 is way down on my list.
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Glistam wrote:I don't agree we need a third edition of Aliens Unlimited. It's already been updated to HU2 edition standards. If any current HU book needs a new edition, it's Villains Unlimited. Those enemies need to be officially updated to 2nd Edition. The fan project stickied in this forum did a good job, but it never should have been their job in the first place. Rather than update Aliens Unlimited, I'd rather see the Hardware Unlimited book get released.
It was my understanding that the 'HU:AU revised' is a HU2 edition.
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Re: Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
Glistam wrote:If any current HU book needs a new edition, it's Villains Unlimited. Those enemies need to be officially updated to 2nd Edition.
I was under the impression that Villains Unlimited has already been revised to HU2. True, the villains more or less stayed the same (there really wasn't much updating that really needed to be done for most of the villains), though some of the Natural Psychic villains (like Damon Lazaris from the Fabricators Inc. section) seem to have been missed (he only has 9 psionic powers when he should have 26; 7 super, 19 from the three lesser categories).
That said, the NPCs in the Jury section contain hero categories from PU2... suggesting that this book was an attempt at bringing Villains Unlimited up to HU2 standards. The villains really don't need more powers than they already have as many are quite powerful already... and adding Psychic powers to the few Natural Psychics in the book (and even latent Psychics) isn't too difficult.
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eliakon wrote:After Hardware Unlimited I would like to see the Antorian Galaxy book.
I'm with Eliakon here, I'd much rather see an Atornian book come out instead of a new edition of Aliens Unlimited.
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Razorwing wrote:Before we get a 3rd Edition of Aliens Unlimited... wouldn't we need to get a 3rd Edition of Heroes Unlimited first?
This.
Heroes Unlimited's rules are from the early 80s guys. The tech is from the late 70s. ANY and ALL Tech classes are severly limited due to this. More over ... well comics have come a long way since 1982.
We need an entire overhaul of the HU Game, first.
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Re: Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
The game could use a major overhaul, yes, and it would be nice for clarification on what some of the numbers are supposed to mean. What usually happens, however, is stuff gets cut and pasted from other games rather than rewriting of the rules.Pepsi Jedi wrote:Razorwing wrote:Before we get a 3rd Edition of Aliens Unlimited... wouldn't we need to get a 3rd Edition of Heroes Unlimited first?
This.
Heroes Unlimited's rules are from the early 80s guys. The tech is from the late 70s. ANY and ALL Tech classes are severly limited due to this. More over ... well comics have come a long way since 1982.
We need an entire overhaul of the HU Game, first.
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Re: Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
Stone Gargoyle wrote:The game could use a major overhaul, yes, and it would be nice for clarification on what some of the numbers are supposed to mean. What usually happens, however, is stuff gets cut and pasted from other games rather than rewriting of the rules.Pepsi Jedi wrote:Razorwing wrote:Before we get a 3rd Edition of Aliens Unlimited... wouldn't we need to get a 3rd Edition of Heroes Unlimited first?
This.
Heroes Unlimited's rules are from the early 80s guys. The tech is from the late 70s. ANY and ALL Tech classes are severly limited due to this. More over ... well comics have come a long way since 1982.
We need an entire overhaul of the HU Game, first.
This is an unfortunate trend with many of Palladium's game lines. Just getting an updated equipment list would be an accomplishment. Hopefully the Hardware Unlimited sourcebook tackles that issue. To be honest, many of the prices for the top of the line items when the list was made is not too far off from prices of top of the line items in the same area now... just that our modern items are a lot more advanced (relatively speaking at least).
I remember my uncles spending a few hundred dollars on a Commador 64 (sp) back in the very early 80 that you would have to program every time you turned it on... yet today you can get a fairly decent home computer for not that much more (and a top of the line for a little beyond that). The computer I am using now is way better than my first one back in the 90s, but overall cost a similar amount as that one did. So while the items in these lists are quite dated, the overall costs for equivalent items (cars, equipment, computers) hasn't really changed a lot... we just get way more for the amount spent. A decent car in 2010 will cost about the same as a decent car did back in the 1980s... you just get more features like anti-lock breaks, power steering, air bags, powerful engine and even a killer sound system.
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Re: Who wants 3E of Aliens Unlimited?
Razorwing wrote:Stone Gargoyle wrote:The game could use a major overhaul, yes, and it would be nice for clarification on what some of the numbers are supposed to mean. What usually happens, however, is stuff gets cut and pasted from other games rather than rewriting of the rules.Pepsi Jedi wrote:Razorwing wrote:Before we get a 3rd Edition of Aliens Unlimited... wouldn't we need to get a 3rd Edition of Heroes Unlimited first?
This.
Heroes Unlimited's rules are from the early 80s guys. The tech is from the late 70s. ANY and ALL Tech classes are severly limited due to this. More over ... well comics have come a long way since 1982.
We need an entire overhaul of the HU Game, first.
This is an unfortunate trend with many of Palladium's game lines. Just getting an updated equipment list would be an accomplishment. Hopefully the Hardware Unlimited sourcebook tackles that issue. To be honest, many of the prices for the top of the line items when the list was made is not too far off from prices of top of the line items in the same area now... just that our modern items are a lot more advanced (relatively speaking at least).
I remember my uncles spending a few hundred dollars on a Commador 64 (sp) back in the very early 80 that you would have to program every time you turned it on... yet today you can get a fairly decent home computer for not that much more (and a top of the line for a little beyond that). The computer I am using now is way better than my first one back in the 90s, but overall cost a similar amount as that one did. So while the items in these lists are quite dated, the overall costs for equivalent items (cars, equipment, computers) hasn't really changed a lot... we just get way more for the amount spent. A decent car in 2010 will cost about the same as a decent car did back in the 1980s... you just get more features like anti-lock breaks, power steering, air bags, powerful engine and even a killer sound system.
well 2 things.
1) There's no actual Hardware unlimited book. it's been proposed, no fewer than three different fan written ones. Some of which claim were going to be published but never were. We've no indication that -any- of them are even a glimmer in kevin's eye. (or anything else HU related) There's no mention of any specific HU book on the upcoming list and hasn't been for literal years. Palladium put out two books this year and they've got at least 6 in the pipeline. Even if they cranked it back up to 4 a year, we still wouldn't have even a SLOT for a HU book for another 21 months, and even then, we'd very likely have heard about it by now.
2) The prices really are bad. At some point in one of these threads I showed how using the hardware category to build just a simple modern day $200 baby monitor, via HU rules would cost like $80,000
So.. yeah... tech has advanced in the last three and a half decades to be unrecognizable. Some of the stuff in there is still talking about tubes and transistors and toasters and stuff.
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