From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 15:44:41 -0500
Subject: [OFFICIAL-PLEASE READ] Re: FT3 help!
> At 06:57 PM 2/14/97 +0200, you wrote: Your > only hope is to shop around for a copy. Can anybody here on the list To settle any rumours or well-intentioned misinformation, here is the actual situation as of this moment: MT is out of print; both GeoHex and myself are sold out on them, but there may well be some copies still on the shelves at distributors and/or stores in both the US and UK. There will ALMOST CERTAINLY be a reprint run done very soon, we're just sorting out when and how many. FT (aka FTII) is still in stock at both GZG and GeoHex, so distributors and stores should have NO problems getting them - I'm sure GeoHex would like to be told of any problems you encounter with stores telling you otherwise. We MAY decide to print a few more FT at the same time as the MT reprint, to make sure we don't run out. FTIII (of which much has been talked) WILL happen, but we don't yet know when - it certainly won't be in the next few months, so FTII will be the only version on sale for a while yet. FTIII won't change the gameplay in any major ways - the main changes will be in peripheral areas like ship design (ie: fixing the problems!), and MT will still be useful for it in a large part - so please don't let the prospect of FTIII put you off getting FTII & MT in the short term! We are making a start on the Fleet Book - as usual, no promises yet of a release date, because everything always takes longer than originally thought! Our intention is to make the FB compatible with FTII, but incorporating some of the planned changes for FTIII (particularly on the design system), so that the FB ship designs are still valid when FTIII finally comes out. More news as it happens!