I have decided to overhaul shadowrunner.forumsplace.com and was giving some thought to what purpose the site could serve in an ever shrinking DX population. Icho did a lot of work screenshotting maps and posting them on the site and this work will continue, hopefully with the help of map lovers...

Besides this I have decided to map Traveller Deckplans using Deus Ex and use my site to provide not only a Deus Ex resource, but a Traveller site. Why?

Traveller is a classic game first launched in 1977. It has seen relaunches under the name of d20 Traveller and MegaTraveller, however in 2007 the classic version will be relaunched as Traveller 5. Traveller is a game, essentially where you adventure in space, using characters, dice and books, an RPG game. However due to augs/skills and other aspects of DX, DX can be used to provide a 3D online MP experience in the Traveller world.

Traveller is essentially Star Wars, Dune and Asimov rolled into one. Star Trek fans will be happy at Tech Level 15 though, teleporting and stun phasers are possible at higher tech levels.

I will build a series of deckplans using DX SDK, on which RPG or combat may be carried out, online or LAN or offline.

I believe this is a good way to bring many new players to DX.

My site will feature 2D and 3D deckplans of ships from 100 - 1000 tons. Please note these will be Traveller maps not DX maps, although some will be large enough to play a normal DX game.

This also offers scope to DXAG to create a Traveller set of classes, Pilot, Marine, Engineer, Medic, Navigator, Gunner etc...

It's a long way off, but these are my intentions in developing the forum.

1. Add to map screenshot library
2. Provide better links and information on the important DX sites.
3. Provide specialist DX resource, i.e. not duplicate another DX site info.
4. Provide specialist Traveller resource
5. Provide everything required to play Traveller and DX Traveller.

Deckplans
Starports
Planetoids
Stations

Character generation
Ready made adventures in 2D and 3D MP.

The Classic Traveller Book 2 Starships will be mapped first.

The best Traveller 2D Deckplans seem to be those of Ryan Wolfe's Future Armada series...
http://home.insightbb.com/~ryan.wolfe/Future_Armada.htm