Well clearly it's becoming apparent to even the meanest of understandings that CGL doesn't care about putting out quality products.
I got excited, I bought the SR5 corebook when it first came out, and ended I up getting burned. I was utterly disappointed, and it really was the final straw for absolutely destroying their reputation in my eyes. Clearly I'm not the only one, and I suspect the actual number of dissatisfied customers is rather proportionally high. But our complaints aren't merely being actively ignored, they're being flat out denied and dismissed.
I say it's high time we wrote off CGL as what they are - an unscrupulous bunch of uncaring profiteers. If they can't be arsed to give the community what it wants, I say it's high time the community tells them to shove off and stops paying for their drek. I feel bad for the writers and the freelancers and the well-intentioned contributors who actually care about the game system and who try to work within the limits of the CGL system to put out half-decent material for the community at large, but it's clear they're being hamstringed as content creators just as much as we are as players.
With any luck CGL will go under and someone competant will buy the rights. (Dare I hope for Harebrained Studios?) I'm sick of this settling for less, shelling out for inferior products because nothing else is available. If they won't provide a quality product, then by god I want their competitors to have the chance to do so.
~Umi
I got excited, I bought the SR5 corebook when it first came out, and ended I up getting burned. I was utterly disappointed, and it really was the final straw for absolutely destroying their reputation in my eyes. Clearly I'm not the only one, and I suspect the actual number of dissatisfied customers is rather proportionally high. But our complaints aren't merely being actively ignored, they're being flat out denied and dismissed.
I say it's high time we wrote off CGL as what they are - an unscrupulous bunch of uncaring profiteers. If they can't be arsed to give the community what it wants, I say it's high time the community tells them to shove off and stops paying for their drek. I feel bad for the writers and the freelancers and the well-intentioned contributors who actually care about the game system and who try to work within the limits of the CGL system to put out half-decent material for the community at large, but it's clear they're being hamstringed as content creators just as much as we are as players.
With any luck CGL will go under and someone competant will buy the rights. (Dare I hope for Harebrained Studios?) I'm sick of this settling for less, shelling out for inferior products because nothing else is available. If they won't provide a quality product, then by god I want their competitors to have the chance to do so.
~Umi
I wouldn't go that far, but the binding they used was terrible (have later reprints been better?). I read through it once and almost half the pages fell out--dam annoying. After reading the rules though, I kind of have the same apathy for 5th that I do for third (Loved 2nd and 4th, 1st was well the first). I also don't like the limit mechanics on everything--especially in combat.
Back OT: Militaries probably run their comms via laser and directed microwave rather over radio as much as possible. The benefit is that unlike radio waves, those are much harder to jam, or intercept. Would they need all the wifi enhanced stuff? Maybe on the tactical level at very short range. So then it becomes a resource issue for deckers and riggers since the cost of the gear went up dramatically. Also, only the corps span globally, there is no superpower (only the corporate court and the toothless UN), so even strategic communications could be handled in this manner.
The problem with using jammers is that the jamming site/device becomes instant target by the OPFOR. By its very nature it can't hide its location, so the enemy knows its there and sends a drone/missle/EMP pulse to the jammed area to neutralize it.
For full on conventional battle this would most likely be SOP. For SpecOPs, they will most likely run silent (no radio emissions, all wireless off) or keep their comms to such a low signal range that they cant be detected until they are right on top of their targets. Naval warfare probably relies on the ECM/ECCM technologies of the participants, but given they have orbital weapon platforms I'd expect a naval action to be extremely short and bloody and the TO to be size of the gulf of mexico at a minimum.