Dear The_Man
Below are answers to you questions.
1) Release Cerulean Mists. I know it's somewhere "in the art and layout phase", so that shouldn't be much of a problem to get it printed and shipped to put under all Chronopia fans Christmas tree. And of course, it would prove that it is a bit realer than Duke Nukem Forever ;o)
CM- As you stated it is in the art/layout/page design phase......There will be a 4 page preview in the upcoming Fictional Reality. Exlcusive to them. As for getting the book out for Christmas..... Would you rather the book be done properly or rushed and thrown together. I would think you would want a nice book with outstanding rules and fun game play.
2) Transform all the green to which there where allusions this year into real lead minis, and put them on sale on the website. And make them ship before Christmas. That's the way the money comes in! There are new greens that will be released as metal with in the week. Cavielars, Heavy Cavaliers, Survailer, Machinatior HMG, as well as at least 4-5 minis for chronopia.
3) Give at least a valuable newspiece a day until Christmas, to compensate for the lack of regular communication all along the year. For example, photos of upcoming minis, actual mini release, shots of the pre-production CM prints (just to prove it does exist), updates on Mars: World at War, and so on. Given matters which I will not bring up on the forum but will state that there were both personal matters for myself as well as personal matters for thom that took some time away from getting news on the site as regular as we had it back in Aug-Oct. Things should be catching up again. As for your comment on the lack of communication all year long... Well I havent been there a year so what ever occured before I was there I can not answer for. But We have a new site, New store, New minis, New well just about everthing has been reworked to bring things together and make EE as good as we can.
4) Release the novels you hinted about. Yes, there's at least one person in the world remembering this ;o) See Answer to Question 3
5) Talk about Sea of Swords and Argosy. Give concrete info about them, for example if they are really being worked on or just "another great idea thrown about". [color=Red]Due to other matters that have come up (store hack in july, store rebuild in aug, getting regular new releases, CM ect. We have decided for the moment to place these on the back burner. This does not mean that they are dead and gone it just means that for the titme we are working on other things for our lines
6) Think of the players who do not live in the Philly area. Or in the US for that matter. Those who are not able to stop at the shop, find an EE retailer in their area or phone affordably to EE's office. Which takes you back to point 3. Very good point. We are working on getting more news out for retailers as well as players, we have a new catalog in the works as we speak, This is projected to be ready in january. It will be available to both retailers as printed as well as to customers as a pdf download.
7) Release a company info page on the website. You promised to be more transparent about EE's internal functionning; today we have a Anubis31 posting on the forum without hint of what his task is, and we think Thom might still be alive, and the office are in the factory, so that's a 1.5 person company working in a disaffected industrial area of Philadelphia. Company info page on the site is being designed and will include EEs office and manufaturing staff as well as our extensive crusader staff. This will help in painting a face on all the names that have been thrown around. As for what I do. Well this has been posted on this forum many times as well as on the EE website and other forums. I do graphic design, manufacturing, and a lot of other things for EE. Thom is alive and well. His health has been up and down but I will not get into that matter but do be considerate when making assumptions about current matters. You tread in areas that you do not know much about. ( like your post on the Mutant Chronicles movie matter and Paradox)
8 ) This is a lesser point, and could be postponed to January 2006: give us an update on the Mutant Chronicles brand state. We now know about the film, are you involved into it? If not, did at least Paradox told you about it before inking the deal? Do you know of any other plan from Paradox about it? You konw as much about the movie as we do. We sent a good amount of matterials to them for review and referance.
