Fully Operational - Engineer Source book Announced

By Dr Lucky, in Star Wars: Age of Rebellion RPG

41 minutes ago, copperbell said:

Any further details on whether this book will include ship construction rules?

last I knew that was one of the big selling points of the books unless FFG redacted that statement.

4 hours ago, ASCI Blue said:

last I knew that was one of the big selling points of the books unless FFG redacted that statement.

Well it was in development for like 9 or 10 months... or something like that... it feels like it's been a year but hey... who's counting... So who knows how many iterations it's gone through by now.

It's still on the page that ship design is in. 9 - 10 months really isn't that much time when something of that scale is in a book.

On 12/2/2017 at 8:39 AM, Felswrath said:

What region books would people like to see? For me it's

1) Corporate Sector (EotE)

2) Imperial Remnant (AoR or General) If general it could also serve as a post RotJ book.

A Corporate Sector book, a Tapani Sector book, a Mandalorian Sector book and a pair of books each covering regions controlled or at least strongly influenced by Black Sun and the Zann Consortium along with books covering Imperial fortress worlds, Imperial vassal states, and neutral worlds and regions.

Clone Wars era book?

On the boat merry Christmas all

14 hours ago, jayc007 said:

On the boat merry Christmas all

WOOOO!

WE'RE ON THE BOAT~! WE'RE ON THE BOAT~!

Never thought it'd be on a boat, on a big blue watery road...

i am glad 4 books are on the boat including fully operational, too bad we still have 2 to 3 months before we actually get it :(

I wish they would stop clustering the books like this though.

I have an entire campaign on hold waiting for Fully Operational.

I can't believe that it is finally on the boat!!!

7 hours ago, RogueCorona said:

I wish they would stop clustering the books like this though.

Yes FFG. Buying a book every couple months gets by my Financial Overseer (aka "The Wife") pretty easily. Add Genesys and Star Wars release clustering and I may end up having to keep a new necklace in my pocket ready to distract her the next time she sits down to go over the bills.

12 hours ago, RogueCorona said:

I wish they would stop clustering the books like this though.

Actually I like it *this* time, and hope that all 4 are released on the SAME day at the end of February rather than artificially delayed/ spaced one a week because my birthday is the first week of March and having 4 new star wars books on/for my birthday would be very appreciated.

2 hours ago, EliasWindrider said:

Actually I like it *this* time, and hope that all 4 are released on the SAME day at the end of February rather than artificially delayed/ spaced one a week because my birthday is the first week of March and having 4 new star wars books on/for my birthday would be very appreciated.

With four books and the Legion core set all potentially hitting the same day? Count me in favor of artificial delays. Roughly $220 all at once would be quite a hit.

Unless they want to wait until Free Comic Book Day in May, and I can take advantage of the annual “buy 2/get 1 free” sale at the local store.

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33 minutes ago, Nytwyng said:

With four books and the Legion core set all potentially hitting the same day? Count me in favor of artificial delays. Roughly $220 all at once would be quite a hit.

Unless they want to wait until Free Comic Book Day in May, and I can take advantage of the annual “buy 2/get 1 free” sale at the local store.

I know the financial crunch pretty well myself when delivery charges are equal or greater than the cost of each book... but can we not pre-order 3 of the 4? I know I’ve preordered Ciphers and Dawn. (But I don’t know if they charge now or later, which might make this a moot point.)

Either way, I would be a fan of FFG working on its Canadian delivery methods, there is no way that one book should be 50$ in shipping when I can literally see Detroit from my house.

16 hours ago, RogueCorona said:

I wish they would stop clustering the books like this though.

I am certain that they'd like to not cluster them like this, either. Pretty sure their plan would've had Fully Operational out in May or so, Cyphers & Masks in September, and Dawn of Rebellion in December or January. Then Ghosts of Dathomir happened.

8 hours ago, coyote6 said:

I am certain that they'd like to not cluster them like this, either. Pretty sure their plan would've had Fully Operational out in May or so, Cyphers & Masks in September, and Dawn of Rebellion in December or January. Then Ghosts of Dathomir happened.

you think they are going to stagger the books over the full year of 2018? I would hate to have to wait for Dawn of the Rebellion in December of next year :(

No, I don't think so. I think they'll stagger them with a book release every one to two weeks. They lose money the longer the books are unreleased, so they want to get them out as fast as they can.

On 12/23/2017 at 2:58 PM, Khazadune said:

I know the financial crunch pretty well myself when delivery charges are equal or greater than the cost of each book... but can we not pre-order 3 of the 4? I know I’ve preordered Ciphers and Dawn. (But I don’t know if they charge now or later, which might make this a moot point.)

Either way, I would be a fan of FFG working on its Canadian delivery methods, there is no way that one book should be 50$ in shipping when I can literally see Detroit from my house.

Then order it shipped to Detroit and pick it up... way cheaper by the sounds of it.

5 hours ago, jayc007 said:

Then order it shipped to Detroit and pick it up... way cheaper by the sounds of it.

While a theoretically good idea, it requires him knowing someone who lives in Detroit well enough that he trusts them enough to have his books shipped to them. This is not guaranteed. It also means the hassle of crossing the border to pick up a book and possibly (unlikely) paying tariffs when he crosses back with the book.

3 hours ago, EliasWindrider said:

While a theoretically good idea, it requires him knowing someone who lives in Detroit well enough that he trusts them enough to have his books shipped to them. This is not guaranteed. It also means the hassle of crossing the border to pick up a book and possibly (unlikely) paying tariffs when he crosses back with the book.

There are professional services offering US shipping addresses and sending the stuff internationally. A lot companies based in the USA have this problem, so there is literally a field in logistic industry which acts as middle man to decrease prices for the international consumers while making their cut as well.

I'm from detroit but alas they require a passport now into Canada

14 minutes ago, TheShard said:

I'm from detroit but alas they require a passport now into Canada

I would assume that canadians usually have passports, especially when living so close to the border.
Though I might be wrong, my assumption is that only us-americans don't have passports. :)

Edited by SEApocalypse

It's probably more likely...

I do have a passport and indeed there is a company something like Detroit PO Box Inc or something or other, but I have not tried it yet, although I have considered it. It’s a shame to have to do this just for FFG when I routinely buy things in the US without nearly as high a tack on for delivery and shipping. I don’t get the difference between Paizo and FFG for example in this.

Ideally, FFG would find a third party retailer in Canada to sell their works, like many other companies in the same business.