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Message no. 1
From: David Buehrer dbuehrer@******.carl.org
Subject: [OT] Playtest list
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:23:47 -0700 (MST)
For the mere cost of a Thaum, Lady Jestyr wrote:
/
/ >Just FYI. The Playtesters for SR3 had a mailing list (so I have been
/ >informed, before my time) setup so they could communicate to varying extents.
/ >Interestingly enough, no such list was set up during the duration of MitS's
/ >playtesting term. Sure, people stayed in touch if/when they could, but
/ >nothing on a "total group" scale.
/
/ That is, as far as I know, because the SR3 playtesters spent huge amounts
/ of time on the mailing list and Mike felt that it was unproductive. That's
/ basically the gist of what he told me when I asked about it, anyway.

It was actually fairly productive, however I think it overwhelmed Mike ;)

-David B.
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Message no. 2
From: Dvixen dvixen@****.com
Subject: [OT] Playtest list
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:30:06 -0800
>/ That is, as far as I know, because the SR3 playtesters spent huge amounts
>/ of time on the mailing list and Mike felt that it was unproductive. That's
>/ basically the gist of what he told me when I asked about it, anyway.
>
>It was actually fairly productive, however I think it overwhelmed Mike ;)

Not to mention others... :>

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Message no. 3
From: MC23 mc23@**********.com
Subject: [OT] Playtest list
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 99 19:40:42 -0500
Once upon a time, David Buehrer wrote;

>It was actually fairly productive, however I think it overwhelmed Mike ;)

Almost 500 posts in about 2 and half months. Not what I would call
heavy but then I'm a net junkie.

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Message no. 4
From: Adam J adamj@*********.html.com
Subject: [OT] Playtest list
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:14:45 -0700
At 12:23 2/16/99 -0700, David Buehrer wrote:

>/ That is, as far as I know, because the SR3 playtesters spent huge amounts
>/ of time on the mailing list and Mike felt that it was unproductive. That's
>/ basically the gist of what he told me when I asked about it, anyway.
>
>It was actually fairly productive, however I think it overwhelmed Mike ;)

I agree. I think there should have been a playtest list, but Mike should
just have bowed out of it. There was plenty of productive discussion on it,
and I think it was beneficial. If we could have discussed things on the
list, then sent our final playtest stuff to Mike (Which I did, btw), I
think that our overall comments would have been more useful. <shrug>

Maybe there was a reason I wasn't asked to playtest MitS ;-)

-Adam
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Message no. 5
From: Airwasp@***.com Airwasp@***.com
Subject: [OT] Playtest list
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:22:50 EST
In a message dated 2/16/1999 2:24:05 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
dbuehrer@******.carl.org writes:

> / That is, as far as I know, because the SR3 playtesters spent huge amounts
> / of time on the mailing list and Mike felt that it was unproductive.
That's
> / basically the gist of what he told me when I asked about it, anyway.
>
> It was actually fairly productive, however I think it overwhelmed Mike ;)

My understanding of the situation with the mailing list is something different
... the playtesting went beyond what was just stated in the book to begin with
and had people arguing about how something should be improved instead of
pointing out the possibilities and the goofs ... which is what -I- consider
playtesting to be.

-Herc
Message no. 6
From: Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject: [OT] Playtest list
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:03:01 EST
In a message dated 2/17/1999 7:25:25 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
Airwasp@***.com writes:

> which is what -I- consider
> playtesting to be.
>
> -Herc
>
SMACK!!!!

-K (and just wait until tomorrow ....)

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