Scaling Revisited.

I have to apologize for my Starflight: Scaling on the Fly article. It seems that I forgot to include the updates. The following link has the corrected article. I hope this makes more sense now.

Starflight: Spectrum of Motion - Scaling on the Fly‎

Starflight: The Third Dimension of Flight

Here is an update to the second half of the Shades of Motion in 3-D article from Star Frontiersman #6. It contains some updates. Enjoy.

Starflight: Spectrum of Motion - The Third Dimension of Flight

Starflight: Hexes Have No Sides

I did the following article over a year ago to help with vectoring and just better, slighter movement, to free me up from the hexes more.

Starflight: Spectrum of Motion - Hexes Have No Sides

Starflight: Scaling On the Fly

Here's another article that's been sitting on my computer. It's a much-needed update to an older article that appeared in Star Frontiersman #6. Though I only recently updated the movement scales. I think they should make a lot more sense now. Just ignore the stated length of turns. The unrounded decimal numbers can be distracting and they're really unimportant to the function of the rules.

This update also includes a scaling map that makes scaling easy and helps players understand how the scales relate to each other.

Starflight: Spectrum of Motion - Scaling on the Fly

Occupations: Bounty Hunters

Following is another article that I wrote a year ago and has been sitting dormant on my computer. I formatted it like the Pirates article.

Thrill of the Hunt - Bounty Hunters in Star Frontiers

Be sure to catch the Pirates article.

FAIL!

Literally the story of my life. But who is a bigger loser than a loser who has failed at everything? The loser that stalks him, of course. (Online, no less. Brave man, huh?) Yes, I have a stalker. An idiot that has made it his mission to make my life more miserable than it already is. But true to form as one might expect of a loser that stalks a loser, the stalker’s efforts have failed. Contrary to his intent, his harassing has done nothing but provide endless entertainment for me and my friends. I have even dug up old emails from him to share a laugh with them. Everything he does is a joke. He’s a proverb with us.

Yes, he’s a stalker. He even took on a new name taken from two different posts I made. He got kicked from one of the Star Frontiers sites for hounding one of my friends. Why was he hounding him? Because my friend rejected a piece the stalker wrote that featured my log name as a central character that made me look bad in some way. My friend even respected the stalker enough (or maybe just didn’t want me to get riled, which I would probably have laughed more likely) not to show me the story. So who was once again at the center of his picking on this other person? Me.

This guy, after half a year away after he was kicked (He didn't even know that his ban lasted only a month), as soon as he came back, what does he do? He starts putting crap in his profile and in his signature about me. I know, right? I can just see someone reading this saying "Whoah. That dude is whacked out of his skull." The guy's a stalker. Of course he's whacked out of his skull and off his medication.

He has even left messages on this blog that I chose to erase to spare him just another piece of humiliation and to keep from cluttering my blog with negativity. He was talking about how bad my writing is, when the fact is that his own writing is so atrocious that you can’t even get through a single paragraph without one of the sentences making you have to read it 5 times before you get what it’s saying. He doesn't even write that much. Not that he has bad ideas, he’s just not a good writer and here he is crowding my writing for no other reason than to affect me, a loser.

In one of the messages he left, he attacked my Star Law article, claiming I plagiarized the original articles. But did I? Legally, yes. Morally, no. Legally in that I did not get permission to reprint or edit the material. But this is also true of at least a dozen other articles submitted by several others along with the main Remastered Star Frontiers materials themselves. (Why haven't we heard my stalker squaking about such things before now? Because I'm the one he gets to accuse. Yeah, what a hypocrite, huh?) But morally, I made it abundantly clear that the information was not my own and that I used the material from the original source. First, the article was bylined with: Compiled and Expanded by C. J. Williams. This tells you all you need to know. Did I write all the information? No, because it’s “compiled”, like a compilation album. Next, within the article, I very clearly stated that I used the information directly from the original articles AND I very clearly identified which articles and their authors right up front. The stalker also complained that I changed things, which I also very clearly addressed in the fairly long footer note to the article. — Roll eyes and move on.

He also attacked my game design, but here he produced a spaceship (in itself was an excellent idea in principle, but executed terribly) that can beat any ship in Star Frontiers. It was loaded to bear with so many weapons and defenses as well as high maneuverability that it completely broke the Star Frontiers design system as if he created his own set of rules. Then when I added up all the systems on the ship, he didn’t even have enough crew on the ship to man all the systems, let alone take shifts or clean the ship. I guess he expects all the unmaintained (1 robcomkit)maintanence and engineering robots (x24) he listed to take care of such things and the combat robots to take care of operating the weapons. (Let's ignore the fact that all those robots together cost as much as the ship itself.) It even included specially designed cannons with ammunition measured in single digit millimeters!

He doesn't even have the balls to submit any of his own mechanics to the community; instead, he attacks someone else's work (jealous much?) and only the work of the person he already stalks, not anyone else. He had to actually refer to someone else's design work to try and make me feel bad about mine, using the words "Jus' sayin'". I didn't even like the works he referenced, though it was done by someone whose work I generally admire, which shows how subjective game mechanics are in the first place. But, shhh, don't try to convince him of that.

I mean how bad does a person’s life have to be that they have to cheat in a roleplaying game, or to stalk a loser for that matter? The fact is, if a person is stalking at all, their priorities are extremely out of whack. But now you take someone stalking a loser, and you have to wonder if they even comprehend what a priority is at all. I can just see someone asking this guy what he did today, then he says: "Well, I stalked this guy today, as I often do. He really irks me just for existing, so I prefer to spend my days and nights obsessing over him. It just gives me a feeling of fulfillment."

Me? Some object of obsession? (Why couldn't it be a woman???) Someone to be jealous of? What for? Is there any benefit in it? Not that can take the place of a job or a wife. Is it that he needs so desperately to be recognized that he chooses the one he admires most to hound? (Not trying to flatter myself. I already know I'm better than him.) Or does he need to hound someone he perceives to be a threat to feel superior? Or does he hound someone he perceives to be better than him in order to make himself feel like he's somehow moving up in the world? Though I haven't paid him much mind at all except when he picked on my friend. Maybe it's because he wants my attention, like a lost dog? (Maybe this post will be enough to satisfy him for a little while?) Well, likely it's the age old and pathetic bully complex, where their own life is so miserable that they have to pick on someone they think is weaker than their self, though in this case, I think it's a matter of someone who can't fight back physically (partly because I'm safely in another city where my wittle stawkew can't be huwt). I mean, he did start stalking me about the time I was having trouble in the community. Because of my heading up popular projects, I was getting the hecklers who couldn't comprehend what it means for someone not their parent or a paid manager to take the lead. So he saw me as the underdog (the weak one) and made me his target. (Come to think of it, it's usually events like that in which I acquired my other stalkers. See below.) Ah, let's face it, this guy is so much of a loser that it's probably all of the above. Though, he'd probably say he just doesn't like the things I say. But it can't be so mundane as that, because I'm certain others say things he doesn't like and he brushes it off, otherwise he would be obsessing over everyone. No, this is clearly a deeper psychosis.

Most people just ignore someone that irritates them on some lame principle. I just roll my eyes and move on. (I do it a lot with my stalker. Though this time I just felt like talking about it. Just kicking the dog.) But not the stalker of a loser. The loser speaks and the stalker gets it so stuck in his craw that he turns the loser into his whole world. But is this stalker even original for stalking me? No, he’s not my first stalker. He’s not even in the top 3. He’s my fifth (or is it sixth?). I conquered all the others. (Only one of those was another Star Frontiers fan boy.) They’re all out of my life. So he’s not the first, and he probably won’t be the last and he’s nowhere near the brightest of them. In fact, there’s only one other that I can say is dumber on every level, so at least my latest stalker has that much going for him. But two of my past stalkers stalked me for 4 or 5 years (both of them were my most intelligent stalkers, highly intelligent in fact, but not taking their medication). To think, all he has to do is stop stalking me and he can stop looking like such a pathetic loser. So far this stalker has only been stalking me for 2 years. Well I don’t remember the date of his first attack, so I’ll just say happy anniversary, dumbass!

Regarding the stalker of a loser:

EP!C
FA!L

You want to be a stalker? Then stalk someone famous or a girl you like, instead of a nobody. Jus' sayin',

Pirates of the Frontier - The Way of the Pirate

I've decided to start posting articles that I have backlogged on my computer, waiting to be published. No offense meant to the Star Frontiersman staff, I just have too much to be published in the SFman's publishing schedule. So here's my first independent article:

Pirates of the Frontier - Way of the Pirate