v4 Rules & Mechanics Discussion

Originally Posted by sellanraa

This sort of relates to more character creation concerns. I suppose it's a calculation they made that they have enough of a Swedish base of interest to shift that focus, but agree that it ignores the narrative and fan community that may exist elsewhere. More fundamentally to your point too - it wouldn't have been that hard to add a few pages about this.

Hopefully they will in some sort of supplement that will follow.

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FL is a business, not a charity and not a state-owned enterprise. They aren't going to release everything at once. They likely want what all businesses want - a continuing profitable revenue stream.

Yes, they could go pick over everything in v1.0 and v2.2 and pack that all in one book, but we'd likely be grousing about the cost of such a book* and how long it would take to be ready for publication.

A few of you have really have high expectations for what would be released in the FL boxed set for what is equivalent to $23.50 USD in 1984 (alternately 14.00 USD for the Digital Only edition, which wasn't an option back then).

The computation here is 498 SEK = 59.41 USD. Grab a handy U.S. inflation calculator available here https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ and enter 1984, 23.50 USD and you get 59.91 cent. Close enough for our purposes.

I'm curious - does anyone know what the price of the boxed set in 1984 was? The one where you got to play in one campaign location (Poland) with only 19 careers (all military).

Adding the RDF campaign location back in 198X cost money. Helicopter stats in FCK cost money. Yes, there's a lot of stuff from prior editions to grab from, but you didn't get it all for $25 on a CDROM in the 80's and 90's.

Leaving aside the mechanics and backstory that reasonable people can disagree on, I think, what you are getting for $60 USD is a bit more than you got back in 1984 for a similar product.

*or maybe you expect all that extra work and intellectual property to be free? Простите товарищ, коммунизм никогда не работал.