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[Taricus]

What's left to do on it?

[SeriousConcentrate]

As a younger brother, I can safely say that while my bro and I used to piss each other off in the past we're now basically best friends and I wouldn't ever hurt him if I could help it. Kirion on the other hand is a complete douche. Anyway, I would go the opposite and say work on it a bit more.

[Draignean]

Well, he is your brother. Even if he was the most assholish asshole that was ever an asshole, he is still VERY CLOSE to you.

...This is coming from a sibling-less person, though, so correct me if I'm wrong.

Anyways, the new RTD has reached a important point here: It's incomplete, but good enough to start. And at the same time I could continue working on it, but I'm getting to the boring parts.

So, start it now or wait for a more complete version (will likely take a decent amount of time)?

When you're happy with it start. Don't make the mistakes I made with Imperfect and it'll be fine. A few mistakes can be ironed out as things progress, but as long as you've got the basics running all should be well.

Meh, do what you're comfortable with.

"Sharpen for too long and you won't have enough knife left to cut with."- Country Proverb

[Tarran]

What's left to do on it?

Spoiler: Extremely unneeded colored list of complete things (click to show/hide)

Vital things have a V before it.

Story and setting=Pretty much complete.
V Rules=Pretty much complete.
V Combat system=Pretty much complete, doubtful on effectiveness.
V Non-combat rolling system=Kinda seems good enough, not sure though.
V Attribute system=Pretty much complete, doubtful on if they're balanced or not against both themselves and skills.
V Skill system=Pretty much complete, though a little unsure of it.
V List of shooty guns and armor and shields=Partially complete. You can live without weapons (since you won't start with any). But the selection of armor I've got out (which you start with) is much smaller than I'd prefer, and the shield selection is also small.
List of vehicles=Barely worked on.
Special Actions (taking cover, suppressing fire...)=Very little work done.
The Terra=Pretty much done, though there's a lot of placeholders.
Alpha backgrounds (what part of the military you are from)=Pretty much complete, unsure about balancing.
V Character sheets=Pretty much complete.

Overall: Good enough to start, but it could be better. Starting likely wouldn't be all that bad.

When you're happy with it start. Don't make the mistakes I made with Imperfect and it'll be fine. A few mistakes can be ironed out as things progress, but as long as you've got the basics running all should be well.

Meh, do what you're comfortable with.

"Sharpen for too long and you won't have enough knife left to cut with."- Country Proverb

Thing is, I won't feel good until I finish listing a TON of potentially useless crap. And it's pretty darn boring to make that crap, too.

[SeriousConcentrate]

If you're not sure about the non-combat rolling, why not use Draignean's experiment thread to run a few tests?

[Taricus]

Yeah, I'd say keep working on it.

[Tarran]

If you're not sure about the non-combat rolling, why not use Draignean's experiment thread to run a few tests?

...Lazy. And I kinda ain't in the mood to do it on that thread. No idea why.

...Really, that's all I can say of it. If I really had to test it, I'd test it here because I know that since this is my thread I can do whatever I want with it.

But I believe it's balanced*.

_{*He says knowing full well that he only did one test. And a fairly old one at that.}
*

_{*He realizes he misread.}

But really, if it doesn't work out, no biggie, it would likely be easy to fix.

[TolyK]

About siblings: my 7-year-old brother is So. Very. ANNOYING.
_{I keep having to give him stuff so he would stop bugging me...}

About endings: Woohoo!

About next RTD: I would say wait a bit and get some of the not "V" stuff working first. I started Falling Fire without too good of a combat/inventory management system and that kinda failed... 

[Tarran]

Well, the not V stuff really isn't important. Really. I'm serious.

Story: Likely crap but it's entirely done.
Vehicles:... wohoo. Yeah, it's not like you'll be carrying them in your pocket. This is almost completely unneeded at the start.
Special actions: I can put basically anything on here at any time and it won't effect the game. This is absolutely not needed at the start.
The Terra (AKA your ship, if you guys are scratching your heads): It has a buttload of supplies, so you won't face a situation where you loose all of a certain type of gun/vehicle before using them anyway, so I really don't need to set up it's storage right now. The guns... I don't see The Terra facing any combat any time soon.
Alpha backgrounds: It'd be a pain in the ass to try and balance everything. If you want I can just dump the skill types and what the backgrounds give and let you guys try to balance it yourself.

Really, it's pretty ready to go besides balancing. And I can work that in in-game.

Why am I not starting it when I sound so confident? I am very indecisive. Very. Starting a game is sort of like going "HOLD THE FRICKING BURNING PIECE OF WOOD YOU WON'T GET HURT I ASSURE YOU THE GLOVE YOU PICKED IS FIREPROOF" when I have no idea if I picked a fireproof glove or not. I sort of need a crowd going "IT'S FIREPROOF GET ON WITH IT" to start a game.

[Draignean]

Post my good man, post it hard.

Why am I not starting it when I sound so confident? I am very indecisive. Very. Starting a game is sort of like going "HOLD THE FRICKING BURNING PIECE OF WOOD YOU WON'T GET HURT I ASSURE YOU THE GLOVE YOU PICKED IS FIREPROOF" when I have no idea if I picked a fireproof glove or not.

Take the glove off and be quick, then it doesn't matter whether the glove is fire proof or not.* Honestly, I knocked out my first RTD in one sitting at 1 AM. You can do this.**

<sub>*Yes those are burn scars on my hands, why do you ask?

**And if you can't then pretend you can and no one will know the difference.</sub>