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Banaticus
So, this is sort of off topic, but where do I find more information on Uruguay?
Minchandre
QUOTE (Banaticus @ May 8 2010, 12:41 AM) *
So, this is sort of off topic, but where do I find more information on Uruguay?


I'm fairly sure that no significant information exists on Uruguay. There might be a couple random references here and there, "[Corp X] was rumored to be developing [Product Y] in a top secret lab in Uruguay", but I don't think any significant body is there.
hermit
Supposedly, a LoLA draft for Uruguay exists. You just have to hope it is posted here eventually.
knasser
QUOTE (Adarael @ Jan 16 2010, 12:31 AM) *
Why the heck does my connection keep double posting? Time to reboot, heck.


Presumably your PC wanted to tell us the second rule about Holostreets Club
hermit
Holostreets and /b/ have something in common, you know ...
Synner
No country writeup/SoLA draft exists for Uruguay since it was decided in development that Uruguay was no longer a sovereign nation in 2064. I have no idea whether that's been changed in the Almanac. It did get a very brief profile in the Amazonia chapter since it is the focus of one of Amazonia's several separatist movements (financed by Aztlan and Argentina). Sheesh, I really need to get my Argentina draft up to put that last bit in context...
hermit
Please. Really, Argentina is one of the two nations I was very much looking for (the other being Amazonia). HAs Argentina swallowed Chile, as it did in CP2020, or does Chile still exist?
Synner
Here's Argentina.

For those of you who are familiar with contemporary South American history the idea was to play off the traditional charismatic dictatorship (in the Peron vein) but replace the ubiquituous external influence peddling of a superpower with the meddling of the megacorps and Aztlan. I've also played around with the perceptions people in South America have of Amazonia - is the Awakened threat real or an illusion perpetuated by the regime and its friends? I also had fun playing with and subverting some of the stereotypes and staples of Latin American and Argentinian media and culture. As with some of the other chapters, some of the passing references to other subplots (ie. the Legio, the South Am corps, etc) actually tie into other chapters that have not been posted and you only get the full picture by reading the book.
Rotbart van Dainig
Thanks, but that seems to be the link to your account version of the file, not the public one. smile.gif
Synner
Fixed.
hermit
Awesome. Thanks!
Ophis
Thanks Synner!

Also thanks to all of you who've posted here and to JMHardy for admitting that the book was dead so you all could post this stuff with out legal issues.
Ancient History
QUOTE (Ophis @ May 9 2010, 10:00 PM) *
... and to JMHardy for admitting that the book was dead so you all could post this stuff with out legal issues.

Yeah that's...not quite how it happened.
Synner
Ancient is correct. For the life of me I have no idea why Jason and Catalyst made the call. All the time I was with the company I pushed for the release of this project as an ebook given that Holostreets remained in limbo. I specifically asked some of the authors to put off releasing their drafts at one point or another in the hope that we'd get to SoLA once Catalyst had the ebook thing down pat... Since the drafts were all edited and ready for layout and work left on it was minimal, the project had earned quite a reputation as the missing SR3 book, and all in all it seemed like easy money to me. Still does, so Jason's decision seemed odd, but he's the line developer these days not me so maybe he knows something I don't.
hermit
I think his preesent attitude is to never look back. Understandably, given the amount of flak he received for things he had no influence on, like any decision Randall and Loren make. Not very wise, perhaps, but maybe he also didn't want to distract from the Almanac he feels very strongly about?

What I cannot understand is why SoLA wasn't put together long before. It seems all pieces have been around for a longer time? Was there still hope for the-subscription-service-one-must-not-speak-about?
Ophis
QUOTE (Ancient History @ May 9 2010, 11:10 PM) *


Guess I'm thanking him for not causing a fuss, and just letting this all get posted.
Synner
The initial hurdle to releasing SoLA during my involvement with Catalyst was that Holostreets was very much a possibility for a long time (it took most of a year to hammer out the minutae of the license since this coincided with Wizkids being closed). Meanwhile Adam Jury and I pushed for the pdf exclusive releases as a test bed for e-only products. By the time that was underway and we had someone to helm that side of things we were busy with other stuff and the layout work needed to put out SoLA was low on our priority list - the remaining ebooks were all much smaller and easier to layout. So things kept slipping. When I left Catalyst I handed over all the SoLA files with a note that should the project be greenlit it only required layout and a piece of art or two. A year flew by and recently Jason voiced his position that SoLA was dead.
Ancient History
Yeah, he didn't "let" anything.
hermit
He did in explicitly saying (in one of the speculation threads, so I am not going to link) SoLA would never see print with him in control. That may have persuaded some authors to let go. I think that is what people who think he 'let' habe in mind.
Synner
What Ancient means is that for Jason to "let" anything he would have had to have control over it. Once FanPro tanked the SoLA contracts ceased to be valid. The writing is/was the various authors' to do as they saw fit (as long as it doesn't try to make money off the IP, such material is considered unofficial/fanfic). Any and all of them could have released the material for free at that point (though by doing so they'd pretty much exclude that draft from any type of future official publication).

Authors voluntarily withheld their drafts because either (a) I asked them to do so in good faith because I wished to release the book and/or (b) they hoped that SoLA would eventually be released in some form and its contents be made official thereby making their own small contribution to SR canon. The payment issue while important had ceased to be a motivator a very long time ago.

"Letting" suggests allowing something to happen that would otherwise not be allowed. Contractually SoLA was never a Catalyst project. Had the ebook been greenlit then new contracts would have been required. What Jason did was say he's not interested in persuing this particular project and consequently the authors have given up the ghost. If Jong, Jay, Bobby or any other of the writers had wanted to release their material 2 years ago as free fanfic they could have and there was precious little I, or now Jason, could have done to stop them.
FlakJacket
QUOTE (Synner @ May 8 2010, 05:01 PM) *
No country writeup/SoLA draft exists for Uruguay since it was decided in development that Uruguay was no longer a sovereign nation in 2064.

You got rid of Uruguay? Bah! I bet JongWK must of loved that. smile.gif


QUOTE (hermit @ May 8 2010, 06:05 PM) *
Please. Really, Argentina is one of the two nations I was very much looking for (the other being Amazonia). HAs Argentina swallowed Chile, as it did in CP2020, or does Chile still exist?

As of Third Edition a number of sourcebooks have Chile still around as an independent nation, can't say whether that's changed since the jump to Fourth Edition and I haven't noticed it though.
Synner
QUOTE (FlakJacket @ May 10 2010, 10:44 AM) *
You got rid of Uruguay? Bah! I bet JongWK must of loved that. smile.gif

Jong was in on the decision and though I'm sure he'd have liked things differently, Uruguay as a source of separatist tension inside the Green Goliath Amazonia was also interesting - particularly when the separatists are supported by Aztechnology, Argentina and Legio...

QUOTE
As of Third Edition a number of sourcebooks have Chile still around as an independent nation, can't say whether that's changed since the jump to Fourth Edition and I haven't noticed it though.

Chile got a full writeup in SoLA as a sovereign nation. As of the Almanac I don't know if Catalyst maintained that.
SirBedevere
Many thanks Synner!
MJBurrage
Compiled Shadows of Latin America links
(all relevant links from this thread, in the Community Projects section)

Many, many, many thanks to all of the authors smile.gif

Updated: 20 December 2010
Synner
That was not the "planned cover" though. It's placeholder art from the SRTCG cards. I might actually have a rough preliminary sketch by an artist on file somewhere.
Ryu
Fanboy self is very happy. Much obliged.
JongWK
I've talked with the Peruvian authoris, and they are OK with releasing Peru's chapter into the wild. I also have the Crime section, and not enough time this week for both, so... which one do you want first?
Megu
QUOTE (JongWK @ May 18 2010, 11:27 PM) *
I've talked with the Peruvian authoris, and they are OK with releasing Peru's chapter into the wild. I also have the Crime section, and not enough time this week for both, so... which one do you want first?


I'd say Peru. The Cartels' section in Vice should cover crime pretty well in the meantime.
pbangarth
Peru, please!
hermit
Peru! Though the general sections are pretty nice, too.
SirBedevere
Peru please. Though I too am looking forward to the other sections. Thanks very much to the author(s) for allowing the releases.

It has been difficult to set runs in South America with not much info about the place. Though one memorable run in Argentina involved three spirits of Man each claiming to be Eva Peron!
Snow_Fox
the area around Montivideo harbor and the River Platte is what I'm interested in. among other things it's a part of the ocean that is supposed to be fresh water.
Platinum
wow .... I should have hopped into this topic a while ago. I own a commercial licence for adobe indesign, are there people looking to make this pretty? I would like to chip in with the project and do some layout. If we can get some artwork maybe we can wrap this up with a pretty bow. No money to be made but at least it will get the presentation it diserves.
Synner
We are indeed still looking for layout artist volunteers. Please drop me a PM with your email contacts and I'll be in touch.
fexes
QUOTE (Synner @ May 21 2010, 10:59 AM) *
We are indeed still looking for layout artist volunteers. Please drop me a PM with your email contacts and I'll be in touch.


Hey Synner, I don't know why I'm not able to write you a PM.

QUOTE
You are not allowed to use the messenger feature on this board


You can take a look at my raw layout for SoLA http://www.fexes.de/downloads/SoLA_raw-layout_v1-01.pdf

For the moment I work on the maps. Afterwards I'll continue the layout. You can reach me under tobias.grunow@fexes.de
Platinum
QUOTE (fexes @ May 21 2010, 06:06 PM) *
You can take a look at my raw layout for SoLA http://www.fexes.de/downloads/SoLA_raw-layout_v1-01.pdf

For the moment I work on the maps. Afterwards I'll continue the layout. You can reach me under tobias.grunow@fexes.de


I love the shadowrun 2 style of your layout.
fexes
QUOTE (Platinum @ May 22 2010, 12:39 AM) *
I love the shadowrun 2 style of your layout.



It's SR 3rd Edition Style. Just the header is missing (I won't use copyrighted artworks...).
Angelone
You need a certain amount of posts (10 or 25) to be able to send PMs and such. Nice looking work.
Demonseed Elite
QUOTE (fexes @ May 21 2010, 06:45 PM) *
It's SR 3rd Edition Style. Just the header is missing (I won't use copyrighted artworks...).


I like it!
MJBurrage
It looks great. I also appreciate the 3rd Edition fonts and footers. I did notice a few Widow/orphan issues (especially with decker comments).

I assume the layout will change so I did not take more detailed notes.

For the page headers, what about a simpler rectangle (rounded corners on the bottom, that has the general feal of the offical books without being so derivative as to violate copyright?
fexes
Thanx for the feedback. It's still a really raw phase. I just copied the texts and did the type area and the style sheet. I'm working for an header artwork, but first i want to finish the maps. At last i'll do the fine tuning.

I'm german and my english is not very well. Thus I need assistance for the editorial stuff.
hermit
Looks really nice so far. The maps are a bit raw at the moment, but I really like where this is going, design wise.

Very curious for your header artwork. Keep it up!
JongWK
Looks great, Fexes! cool.gif
Synner
Looks very nice Fexes. I'll be in touch with you and Platinum later today. The layout looks very cool so far. If you are interested in coming aboard please hold on layout of further writeups. You had no way of knowing but some of the smaller "chapters" are actually part of a single chapter with odds and ends rather than standalone sections, a complete chapter drafts exists that I stitched together in editing way back when this was my first official development project. As for the maps they look pretty good too. I'll get the authors to send further comments your way if/when we get all of them onboard (we're currently missing greenlights from only a couple of the original authors).
Senjin24
this is some interesting stuff. thank you for sharing it with everyone.
HappyDaze
This is beautiful work. I can only hope that the missing pieces can be found so that this can be completed.
Synner
As lead developer on SoLA before it was pulled by FanPro I have all the final drafts in my possession. I even have edited drafts. However, I will not be releasing any drafts without the approval of the original authors (and in the case of edited drafts, the editor involved). We're almost there though, so expect more soon.
Tyro
QUOTE (Synner @ May 23 2010, 10:31 AM) *
As lead developer on SoLA before it was pulled by FanPro I have all the final drafts in my possession. I even have edited drafts. However, I will not be releasing any drafts without the approval of the original authors (and in the case of edited drafts, the editor involved). We're almost there though, so expect more soon.


Three cheers for Synner! Hip hip...
Tymeaus Jalynsfein
QUOTE (Tyro @ May 23 2010, 11:37 AM) *
Three cheers for Synner! Hip hip...


Ooooorah !!!!!!!!

Keep the Faith
Tyro
Hip hip...
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