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 JohnHwangDD wrote:
A bit of advice on the buildings:

Put the ground-level faces all directly next to each other (front-side-back-side). That way, you cut out 1 long rectangle, make 3 folds and only glue one edge before adding the roof.

The way you have it right now, you need to cut 4+1 rectangles, and glue all 4 vertical edges to make a building -- that is a LOT more work if you're making a lot of buildings.

Thanks for the advice John. When I was doing this on PS I thought about it, but after assembling 1 of these buildings I'm not gonna do it that way...
Why? Because as you said, gluing so many faces is quite a lot of work, specially if I'm planning to build 80+ buildings.

I decided to order some laser cut interiors in *IDK how to name that type of cardboard in english*of the buildings like boxes and then glue the faces directly, without folding anything (excepting the border on the top of the building). That way they are gonna be sturdier and I'll be gluing just flat surfaces, without the mess of foldings and gluing them. I prefer to cut more rectangles than dealing with the folds and gluing them (that sucks, really) xD

 warboss wrote:
Out of curiosity, is anyone else interested in seeing how long the robotech tactics subforum can stay empty with Morgan Vening's last post from May remaining the current one? I rarely ever post on the palladium forums in the past two years but I'll be staying away from that subforum specifically for that reason.

Woo! I'm relevant!

In the most irrelevant manner possible. But I still count that as a win.

Just as an FYI, the dropzone building kits are quite affordable at least in the US. I initially tried printing out my own but the heaviest cardstock my home office printer could handle was very inferior to the ones from DZC. If you have it professionally printed though that's another story.

Oh yeah, you can buy posterboard and use that to back the buildings, if you want them to be more sturdy.

Another trick is to glue the roof on one long side. You can push the roof up from the inside, unfold and flatten two opposite edges, and the building lies flat when you're not using it. Then, when you want to play, pop them back out.

Finally, you can do city blocks by making really wide buildings with as (wiiide front-wiiide top-wiide back). Or warehouses. Just recolor / stretch / pinch the various buildings.

 warboss wrote:
Just as an FYI, the dropzone building kits are quite affordable at least in the US. I initially tried printing out my own but the heaviest cardstock my home office printer could handle was very inferior to the ones from DZC. If you have it professionally printed though that's another story.

Yeah. Each DPC building would cost me around 0,75 usd pro printed in HQ
I know the set is quite affordable, but the buildings are way too big. A friend has it. That's why I'm scaling them to fit the RRT scale properly.

And this is the material I think I'll use for the inside:

we call it carton piedra. No idea how its called in english

Guys mike had found a rescaled set of the free dzc buildings. They should be over on the rrt wiki.

jaymz wrote:
Guys mike had found a rescaled set of the free dzc buildings. They should be over on the rrt wiki.

Yeah right, thanks! Here's the link: http://worldofjaymz.ca/rrt/terrain/combined_all_dropzone_in_6mm_scale.pdf

But quality is not so good, also, lots of blank space. That's why I'm arranging the file in A3 size sheets, for cheaper print money

 Nesbet wrote:

jaymz wrote:
Guys mike had found a rescaled set of the free dzc buildings. They should be over on the rrt wiki.

Yeah right, thanks! Here's the link: http://worldofjaymz.ca/rrt/terrain/combined_all_dropzone_in_6mm_scale.pdf

But quality is not so good, also, lots of blank space. That's why I'm arranging the file in A3 size sheets, for cheaper print money

you got files on those cards you did?

 Forar wrote:
Given that they have subforums and stickied threads that haven't been utilized or relevant in years, I doubt it'll bother the PB folks any, but more to your point, I can't imagine it'll speak well to the product line when other people come looking for info/other fans.

Granted, finding the largest/most active thread on the forum to be one whining about the product line isn't good, but somehow I have to think "hasn't seen activity in 2 months" as worse.

At least whining shows passion and interest, even if expressed in less constructive ways.

2 months or more of silence indicates apathy, which is (imo) even more discouraging.

I agree. I'm just curious if the peanut gallery of supposed "haters" stops talking abou the game, if any of the white knights that defend every delay, every period of silence, and every flat out lie will suddenly show their supposed interest in doing something other than just playing the internet tough guy.

Asterios wrote:
you got files on those cards you did?

I don't understand the question, sorry. Could you explain what you meant please?

 Nesbet wrote:

Asterios wrote:
you got files on those cards you did?

I don't understand the question, sorry. Could you explain what you meant please?

the picture you showed of your game cards on a nice spread sheet, is there a file for those?


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 Nesbet wrote:

On a more positive side... I finished my cards!

Spoiler:

Almost A3 size for 1.5 usd each...


Printed:


Original:


Comparison in the ultrapro sleeves:




The upper card is original, the other a little bit thicker is printed.


All the squadron cards:


All the mecha reference cards:


The squad support cards ready to cut.


All the support cards in ultrapro sleeves

these cards

From the weekly "update"

UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™
Things are building on this front. More information and support coming after we finalize the groundwork for the relaunch of Robotech® RPG Tactics™ and the releases of RRT Wave Two, and beyond. Digital materials should be appearing in the weeks ahead, along with more solid news and information.

Called it. Old timey platitude. Just a few more weeks guys!

 warboss wrote:
From the weekly "update"

UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™
Things are building on this front. More information and support coming after we finalize the groundwork for the relaunch of Robotech® RPG Tactics™ and the releases of RRT Wave Two, and beyond. Digital materials should be appearing in the weeks ahead, along with more solid news and information.

Called it. Old timey platitude. Just a few more weeks guys!

how many months have they been saying this now?

It's around 24, isn't it?

Asterios wrote:

 warboss wrote:
From the weekly "update"

UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™
Things are building on this front. More information and support coming after we finalize the groundwork for the relaunch of Robotech® RPG Tactics™ and the releases of RRT Wave Two, and beyond. Digital materials should be appearing in the weeks ahead, along with more solid news and information.

Called it. Old timey platitude. Just a few more weeks guys!

how many months have they been saying this now?

ITYM years...

Also notice how further info now hinges on the relaunch.

I imagine Kevin and Wayne as a Vaudeville act in red white and blue pin stripe suits waggling their hats as they shuffle off stage.

Wayne: Can you actually polish a ....

Kev: I don't know. We've had so much success rolling them in glitter, why change what works?

B'doom Tish!

"Laugh it up, folks, we're here all decade!"

Dada da da daa-aaa-aaa Boom.

Well they already did the relaunch last year, so this would make it the re-relaunch. Next year we'll have relaunch3...

In case anyone is still interested, the latest update.

UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™

Things are building on this front. More information and support coming after we finalize the groundwork for the relaunch of Robotech® RPG Tactics™ and the releases of RRT Wave Two, and beyond. Digital materials should be appearing in the weeks ahead, along with more solid news and information.

Look, it's so rehashed any remarks I make is going to be a rehash.

The 1/200 Monster is probably too big for purists to use in RTT, but I think it looks alright. It looks like it would work in many scales for anyone not married to canon, including 28mm.

Did you post that from Australia?

My PC is it of commission, so I use my iPad. It hates me.

Geeze, a guy takes a bit longer to edit a thread because he's got a newborn to take care of and you act like the Gestapo came over and slapped your mommas

My, my. Yesterday someone posted in the tactics section of the PB forums saying how all the posts since may 27th had vanished again. Now that post is gone and all the others have reappeared. Magic.

Maybe if someone says there how come that no real update about wave 2 has appeared, then PB publishes one?
Maybe magic happens again? xD

goddamnit

Jefffar wrote:
Geeze, a guy takes a bit longer to edit a thread because he's got a newborn to take care of and you act like the Gestapo came over and slapped your mommas

The forum software allows locking threads in place, does it not?

Rather than vanishing it, why not simply lock it after a "uh, someone's getting a time out shortly" post and trim from there?

Making it invisible/moving it to the Super Secret Mod Subforum/etc without a word looks an awful lot like arbitrary deletion without any feedback.

Not that there are many people reading/posting in there in the first place.

Won't someone please think of Alpha11? He's such a trooper.

Plus, c'mon, even you have to admit that removing it (or whatever) causing the last post to appear to be from May was funny. Kind of this whole project in a nutshell; if it weren't for the peanut gallery, the theater would be all but empty.

Jefffar wrote:
Geeze, a guy takes a bit longer to edit a thread because he's got a newborn to take care of and you act like the Gestapo came over and slapped your mommas

As Forar said, you had at least one obvious different option. And I note there's no "mod edit" marks, so either it wasn't significant enough to warrant editing (and hence the reason for the hiding was irrelevant), or the thread was edited, without notification or context, which would be worse.

And if this were the first instance of something relatively benign being deleted without question, you might have a point. But this thread making a reappearance is the exception, not the rule. There have been multiple instances of threads and posts vanishing in the past.

Not sure if the PB Facebook has the same moderation crew, but that place is even worse in that regard. No, it's not EXACTLY the same situation, but it does show a similar general attitude.

So it should not come as a shock, and you shouldn't be surprised, that people's first response was "Here we go again". Sorry, but in this case, as in PB's "Trust us" and "soon" statements, Palladium have lost all benefit of the doubt. Don't like it? Blame precedent.

well noticed the CSI sale is still going on and funny thing is I think $10 for a box of pods is still too much, and if I bought anything it would be more pods.

$10 Glaugs look good to me. Of course, HLJ has a better looking kit for cheaper...on back order.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
$10 Glaugs look good to me. Of course, HLJ has a better looking kit for cheaper...on back order.

got more Glaugs then I can use already, but would like hundreds of pods some day, to make a truly pew pew pew scene from the show.

If deleted posts were somehow all just plain insulting or attacking PB then the appearances would be much different but way too often the posts have only a slight negative twist, if that and are simply removed or someone says something against PB's trusted few and they whine and it is instantly banned. It all springs to mind the whole "Be a Better Man" Thread where I was told to not attack someone who went out of their way to attack me for not being 100% trusting and glossy eyed with PB and was told to be the better man and to let it be.

Before that I tried to give PB a fair shake, being newly returned to their forums after a long absence, but was quickly shown that truth of things through PB's own behavior. Even at that point I moved away from the forums but still supported RRT. Then only through kicking and yelling and cajoling would any positive feedback be taken into account. When, after lots of work and the collaboration of a group of individuals we came up with some changes and they were sent to PB and they just simply arbitrarily changed rules to fit their ideals without even the consideration of consulting my group as to the why and how we came up with the changes we did......that is what broke the last straw. So I moved to Nodal Wars and stopped supporting RRT with my free time and effort. All the appreciation was just shown to be simple pleasantries. Where you are told to be honest and then when you are, ignored, you tend to walk the other way.