My name is Lisa P [redacted] I am, and have been for many years, business manager of R.Talsorian GamesIt was my responsibility to oversee communications to you, the backers, and I failed at this The Mekton Zero project goes on and we are reinstating a concrete plan for putting out information on our progress, but first, I should explain a few things from behind the scenesWhy we have had delays.We have had, and still have, continuing layout problemsThe book is in Quark Our books have been created in Quark for many yearsUnfortunately, about the time we moved to Seattle, there was a change made in Quark in the Mac environment such that we could no longer make pdf.s It was decided at that time to change over to PCQuark is unstable in the PC environmentModules and small files can be managed, but the book, even broken down in sections, crashes and corruptsThere was the possibility of putting the book into InDesign but we thought at that time that the learning curve for the team here would be too longIn looking over the files this morning, the first one we attempted, the character section, corrupted and would not openWe didn’t lose anything because we now have back-ups on our backups, but it is difficult to make progressThis book is not the Mekton Zero we envisioned when we startedImporting the pages to show you turned out to be more complex than expectedDue to a desire to incorporate feedback we received when we did release pages to the backers, the book became about pages longer and the layout about three times as complexWe have simplified the Core book to a layout we believe is more viableThe book is entirely finished except for the History and World sections which were actually written years ago, we still cannot get them to stay stable in layoutMichael wanted to have the book done in pdfin AugustSome time was lost in our work with CDPR concerning Cyberpunk Besides the problems above, he has been recovering from abdominal surgery for four weeks.WHY I MADE THE INCORRECT CALLBecause the acrimonious nature of the Kickstarter feedback from some parties had driven two people to quit oversight already and I felt that only concrete dates I did not have would make it any better, I made the decision to go dark in the hopes that we would soon be wrapped upI let down all of you, but mostly I let down the many production people here who have been working their as off, under the most frustrating of conditions, to get this project done for youIt was the desire to release the whole pack in My name is Lisa P [redacted] I am, and have been for many years, business manager of R.Talsorian GamesIt was my responsibility to oversee communications to you, the backers, and I failed at this The Mekton Zero project goes on and we are reinstating a concrete plan for putting out information on our progress, but first, I should explain a few things from behind the scenesWhy we have had delays.We have had, and still have, continuing layout problemsThe book is in Quark Our books have been created in Quark for many yearsUnfortunately, about the time we moved to Seattle, there was a change made in Quark in the Mac environment such that we could no longer make pdf.s It was decided at that time to change over to PCQuark is unstable in the PC environmentModules and small files can be managed, but the book, even broken down in sections, crashes and corruptsThere was the possibility of putting the book into InDesign but we thought at that time that the learning curve for the team here would be too longIn looking over the files this morning, the first one we attempted, the character section, corrupted and would not openWe didn’t lose anything because we now have back-ups on our backups, but it is difficult to make progressThis book is not the Mekton Zero we envisioned when we startedImporting the pages to show you turned out to be more complex than expectedDue to a desire to incorporate feedback we received when we did release pages to the backers, the book became about pages longer and the layout about three times as complexWe have simplified the Core book to a layout we believe is more viableThe book is entirely finished except for the History and World sections which were actually written years ago, we still cannot get them to stay stable in layoutMichael wanted to have the book done in pdfin AugustSome time was lost in our work with CDPR concerning Cyberpunk Besides the problems above, he has been recovering from abdominal surgery for four weeks.WHY I MADE THE INCORRECT CALLBecause the acrimonious nature of the Kickstarter feedback from some parties had driven two people to quit oversight already and I felt that only concrete dates I did not have would make it any better, I made the decision to go dark in the hopes that we would soon be wrapped upI let down all of you, but mostly I let down the many production people here who have been working their as off, under the most frustrating of conditions, to get this project done for youIt was the desire to release the whole pack in pdfat the same time, but they are now looking at which pieces we can release now to show that they have indeed been working on it all alongThe plan as it stands: There will be an email update every second Friday, noon P.S.Tstarting this Friday October 16th If we haven’t got anything to say we’ll tell you we have no newsIf we’ve lost ground or made ground, we’ll tell youMany of you have trusted RTalsorian for many yearsWe will rebuild that trust.RTalsorian Games apologizes for the delaysI apologize for not giving you the respect you deserve See you on Friday.Lisa P [redacted] This is the statement issued this weekI will be answering the backlog of Kickstarter email, but it will take a whileWe have committed to biweekly updates at this time so we can be sure to have a report to give and if we have to tell the backers that a portion of the book crashed or any of the numbers of frustrations, we will tell themProduction is looking at the status of the various items, particularly the books as promised, and that will be part of the update for this week, Friday October at noon PSTMany Kickstarters never come to fruitionThis one is moving if slowlyThe problem here is one of communicationI felt that updates should be about the product rather than the processThis was wrongWe will keep people updated on the process and we will finish with some beautiful products Lisa P [redacted] , Business Manager, RTG
My name is Lisa P [redacted] I am, and have been for many years, business manager of R.Talsorian GamesIt was my responsibility to oversee communications to you, the backers, and I failed at this The Mekton Zero project goes on and we are reinstating a concrete plan for putting out information on our progress, but first, I should explain a few things from behind the scenesWhy we have had delays.We have had, and still have, continuing layout problemsThe book is in Quark Our books have been created in Quark for many yearsUnfortunately, about the time we moved to Seattle, there was a change made in Quark in the Mac environment such that we could no longer make pdf.s It was decided at that time to change over to PCQuark is unstable in the PC environmentModules and small files can be managed, but the book, even broken down in sections, crashes and corruptsThere was the possibility of putting the book into InDesign but we thought at that time that the learning curve for the team here would be too longIn looking over the files this morning, the first one we attempted, the character section, corrupted and would not openWe didn’t lose anything because we now have back-ups on our backups, but it is difficult to make progressThis book is not the Mekton Zero we envisioned when we startedImporting the pages to show you turned out to be more complex than expectedDue to a desire to incorporate feedback we received when we did release pages to the backers, the book became about pages longer and the layout about three times as complexWe have simplified the Core book to a layout we believe is more viableThe book is entirely finished except for the History and World sections which were actually written years ago, we still cannot get them to stay stable in layoutMichael wanted to have the book done in pdfin AugustSome time was lost in our work with CDPR concerning Cyberpunk Besides the problems above, he has been recovering from abdominal surgery for four weeks.WHY I MADE THE INCORRECT CALLBecause the acrimonious nature of the Kickstarter feedback from some parties had driven two people to quit oversight already and I felt that only concrete dates I did not have would make it any better, I made the decision to go dark in the hopes that we would soon be wrapped upI let down all of you, but mostly I let down the many production people here who have been working their a
s off, under the most frustrating of conditions, to get this project done for youIt was the desire to release the whole pack in My name is Lisa P [redacted] I am, and have been for many years, business manager of R.Talsorian GamesIt was my responsibility to oversee communications to you, the backers, and I failed at this The Mekton Zero project goes on and we are reinstating a concrete plan for putting out information on our progress, but first, I should explain a few things from behind the scenesWhy we have had delays.We have had, and still have, continuing layout problemsThe book is in Quark Our books have been created in Quark for many yearsUnfortunately, about the time we moved to Seattle, there was a change made in Quark in the Mac environment such that we could no longer make pdf.s It was decided at that time to change over to PCQuark is unstable in the PC environmentModules and small files can be managed, but the book, even broken down in sections, crashes and corruptsThere was the possibility of putting the book into InDesign but we thought at that time that the learning curve for the team here would be too longIn looking over the files this morning, the first one we attempted, the character section, corrupted and would not openWe didn’t lose anything because we now have back-ups on our backups, but it is difficult to make progressThis book is not the Mekton Zero we envisioned when we startedImporting the pages to show you turned out to be more complex than expectedDue to a desire to incorporate feedback we received when we did release pages to the backers, the book became about pages longer and the layout about three times as complexWe have simplified the Core book to a layout we believe is more viableThe book is entirely finished except for the History and World sections which were actually written years ago, we still cannot get them to stay stable in layoutMichael wanted to have the book done in pdfin AugustSome time was lost in our work with CDPR concerning Cyberpunk Besides the problems above, he has been recovering from abdominal surgery for four weeks.WHY I MADE THE INCORRECT CALLBecause the acrimonious nature of the Kickstarter feedback from some parties had driven two people to quit oversight already and I felt that only concrete dates I did not have would make it any better, I made the decision to go dark in the hopes that we would soon be wrapped upI let down all of you, but mostly I let down the many production people here who have been working their a
s off, under the most frustrating of conditions, to get this project done for youIt was the desire to release the whole pack in pdfat the same time, but they are now looking at which pieces we can release now to show that they have indeed been working on it all alongThe plan as it stands: There will be an email update every second Friday, noon P.S.Tstarting this Friday October 16th If we haven’t got anything to say we’ll tell you we have no newsIf we’ve lost ground or made ground, we’ll tell youMany of you have trusted RTalsorian for many yearsWe will rebuild that trust.RTalsorian Games apologizes for the delaysI apologize for not giving you the respect you deserve See you on Friday.Lisa P [redacted] This is the statement issued this weekI will be answering the backlog of Kickstarter email, but it will take a whileWe have committed to biweekly updates at this time so we can be sure to have a report to give and if we have to tell the backers that a portion of the book crashed or any of the numbers of frustrations, we will tell themProduction is looking at the status of the various items, particularly the books as promised, and that will be part of the update for this week, Friday October at noon PSTMany Kickstarters never come to fruitionThis one is moving if slowlyThe problem here is one of communicationI felt that updates should be about the product rather than the processThis was wrongWe will keep people updated on the process and we will finish with some beautiful products Lisa P [redacted] , Business Manager, RTG