Not sure just how focused MMP is on Geoboards to the detriment of HASL boards. I have no idea how many TPP products there are, but I have 16 Official non-Geo boards (HASL or mini-HASL) in the products I own, with 2 more on the way (hopefully within a year). Since I don't have a lot of TPP I can't really compare. I only own 3 to date (all of which I consider quality products). I would say that 21 boards is hardly an "unplumbed gold mine". Its the product that counts, not just another board.Solution...MMP granting TPPs the right to do added pages numbered for insertion in the rulesbook. We see a lot more HASL from third party publisher's. And we will surely see a lot more. MMP's focus on Geoboards has made HASL a unplumbed gold mine for TTP's.
This already exists from most TPPs in hard copy form already and fairly reasonable assumption that if MMP were to produce an eASLRB, some, if not most, TPPs would attempt to follow suit in their efforts to produce a compatible addendum for their products as well. JMHOI wasn't recommend making them official...just granting TPPs permission to produce pages that individual owners can enter into your notebooks.
I doubt that MMP has that freedom. Hasbro owns Advanced Squad Leader, not MMP. MMP has an exclusive license to produce and sell it for Hasbro, paying royalties to Hasbro for that privilege. Hasbro is not going to sign another license with any TPP to produce additional pages for inserting into the rulebook, thereby violating their agreement with MMP and in effect abandoning their copyright ownership of ASL. If a designer creates a HASL and wants it integrated into official ASL material then he has to sell it through MMP. There are several TPPs that design, conduct rigorous playtests, make revisions, and repeat that corrective loop several times to produce a good ASL product. There is also one TPP, with scores and scores of titles, that does not follow that pattern and publishes low quality material, woefully inadequately play tested, seeking only a constant influx of cash, so much so, previous editions are retitled and sold or marginally re-edited and sold as updated titles, only to need another re-edit a year later.Solution...MMP granting TPPs the right to do added pages numbered for insertion in the rulesbook. We see a lot more HASL from third party publisher's. And we will surely see a lot more. MMP's focus on Geoboards has made HASL a unplumbed gold mine for TTP's.
I agree in the main, but with nearly 40 years of official scenarios, even MMP is committed to reprinting and reselling previously published material, slightly upgraded. NOTHING wrong with that...they are preserving the game's heritage.I doubt that MMP has that freedom. Hasbro owns Advanced Squad Leader, not MMP. MMP has an exclusive license to produce and sell it for Hasbro, paying royalties to Hasbro for that privilege. Hasbro is not going to sign another license with any TPP to produce additional pages for inserting into the rulebook, thereby violating their agreement with MMP and in effect abandoning their copyright ownership of ASL. If a designer creates a HASL and wants it integrated into official ASL material then he has to sell it through MMP. There are several TPPs that design, conduct rigorous playtests, make revisions, and repeat that corrective loop several times to produce a good ASL product. There is also one TPP, with scores and scores of titles, that does not follow that pattern and publishes low quality material, woefully inadequately play tested, seeking only a constant influx of cash, so much so, previous editions are retitled and sold or marginally re-edited and sold as updated titles, only to need another re-edit a year later.
MMP upgrades are done in the same titles as to leave NO doubts that theres an older productI agree in the main, but with nearly 40 years of official scenarios, even MMP is committed to reprinting and reselling previously published material, slightly upgraded. NOTHING wrong with that...they are preserving the game's heritage.
Of course bootleg copies will be distributed. Just as there are bootleg copies of the paper rulebook. Just as there are people making copies of scenarios and not buying them.With an official electronic version of the ASL rules, it will be shared with friends to save them money (depriving MMP monies for payments). Bootleg copies with be distributed.
True. And many here already own more than one copy (3 in my case: 1st ed, 2nd ed, pocket), and will likely buy one more when a new one is available.If you want to play Advanced Squad Leader, you should buy the paper rulebook and support MMP.
I've already built this...it would also close off another add-on that I'm excited about - user-created content such as more examples, links to Q&A, etc.
I suppose one could still propose such an add-on to MMP and hope to sell them in the idea to the point where they'd be open to adopting such a thing, but it'd be hard to develop a prototype without an actual functional environment to work in.
Me too. -- jimI've already built this
I think quite a few people have. It's depressing the amount of wasted effort we've all gone to because we got sick of waiting for an official eASLRB...Me too.
maybe one day ASL will be dragged clicking and screening into the 21st century. Until then it’s flap-flap-flap-flap.I think quite a few people have. It's depressing the amount of wasted effort we've all gone to because we got sick of waiting for an official eASLRB...
but therein lies the problem, MMP has been working on an eASLRB for a few years now and when finished you will get Ch's. A - EI think quite a few people have. It's depressing the amount of wasted effort we've all gone to because we got sick of waiting for an official eASLRB...