Lord Irish Hath Decreed:
We're curious to ask, given the fact that there are a lot more threads on the CODA boards as opposed to the ICON boards: didn't the total number of ICON books grossly outnumber the CODA books? And over a shorter period of time?
The reason We're asking is becauase, as luck would have it, We tend to fall in love with games and systems that don't live all that long. In most cases, We're able to find an online community of similarly passionate fans of the dead system/system who keep it alive through non-cannon works (which, in Our opinion, is what roleplaying games are really about anyhow).
Nevertheless, it seems to Us that all it takes is for a single license transfer (a business as opposed to gaming decision) and 9 times out of 10, the bulk of a game's followers immediately jump-shipping, shelling out big bucks for new books and bitching the entire time about it.
As CODA appears headed for that great interstellar nebula where LUGTrek and FASATrek went before it, We're wondering if this board is going to see a totally new topic centered around a new game mechanic (that will probably be dead in 2-3 years unless it is d20), or will TrekRPGNet Forums become a last bastion of hope for those of us who love ICON and/or CODA (like AlternityRPG.net is for the Alternity game system and Star-Drive/Dark Matter/Gamma World/StarCraft settings)?
Just curious.