What the title says. I'm VERY disappointed that official support for Starfinder is only going to be via HLO. I do not need the extra bells and whistles that will eventually be part of HLO Starfinder. I just need what HLC can provide: Character creation. adjustments and conditions applied on the fly, tracking of exp & wealth gains.
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- The Lone Wolf Development Team
Is anyone working on Starfinder dataset for HLC?
- Thread starter vardeman
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And that might be problematic in a legal sense. There isn't any issue in people coding these items for themselves, but publishing them can open a whole can of worms with Paizo and Lone Wolf.
Lone Wolf really wants people to move out of Classic and into HLO.
Lj Stephens
Ex-Staff
Yes, we're excited about HLO. Just want to let you know that Classic isn't going anywhere! There are no plans to stop support for it, at all. Thanks!
Does that mean there may be an HLC Starfinder release?It's OK to say that you can't give an answer on that, of course. I remember past incidents where a Lone Wolf employee saying something would be supported when it turned out the resources didn't support it. There were tears.
Not providing newer game systems within HL Classic sounds like stopping support for it.
cybersavant
Member
My issue with HLO is that where we game, there is no internet. And my home service is not suited to streaming - i get lots of dropped signals and interruptions. Even downloading large updates like Pf can be challenging. I was looking forward to getting Sf, but now even if it goes to HLC i probably won't get it because i'm using a lot of 3PP sources to expand race, class and equipment choices.
They aren't interested in you as a customer. They are interested in me either, for the same reasons.
I would be interested in a community pack for PF2E for the same reason... I already have HLC, and I really don't want to pay a monthly subscription for something that I might use twice and then not again for years...
I'd also be interested in contributing to such an endeavor, if someone else where to start one... =D
The WoTC 5E community pack is excellent.
I'd also be interested in contributing to such an endeavor, if someone else where to start one... =D
The WoTC 5E community pack is excellent.
$10 for 6 months is not much of s subscription fee. You can also cancel the subscription so you don't have to pay for it for years if your not going to use it.
I would also rather have it in HLC, and I won't support online at all. The store I usually run games at will not provide internet to us, as the ISPs want to charge him as a corporation to install the wifi. Unfortunately its in an isolated area with no other wifi signals we can use up there.
You can code it for yourself "for personal use" only, i.e. not distributing it, but it would be a real bear to wrestle.
One of the key things that made Classic work for me was the work of people like ShadowChemosh and RavenX and Toby who created all of that user created content that extended the usability of Herolab.
There doesn't seem to be the facility for doing that in a web-based application.
I asked Rob about that in one of his Q&A sessions, and apparently one of the concerns is that, because most of the processing is happening on the server side, allowing outside content runs the risk of someone submitting code that, intentionally or not, bombs the server. I know I've written some inefficient scripts in the Editor before...
If only they had the concept of a sandbox for running scripts on their servers...