AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*eye twitches*

I think thats all I'm going to say for the moment about this...*grumbles*

Oh...I should point out for those that haven't noticed, they put up the rest of Touring the Stars: Periphery, and also put up one for ComStar....

I have a feeling you'll be seeing more of my white cloaked friends in the very near future… ;)

That's too bad, INN was the main reason I even went to the site. Loss of the map would be a sting, but ... I think it's a bit soon to be shouting curses at them, or weeping like you've lost a war buddy, this may be temporary. Wait a while, then we raise a mighty battle cry, and pettition like dweebs. (Do online pettitions ever work?)

I hope it was a matter of fluff, infact I think it'd be interesting to have a different planet as a news source, Towne was sort of in the middle of the action when the game first came out, now there's fighting all over y'know?

But if it was a matter of cost it's as simple as that. If y'all want to *donate* I'm sure WizKids would be happy to put it back up.
It couldn't have cost so much to have people write articles for them, I know there's a couple guys on this site who'd have done it for free. Dont ask me for names, I dont remember! They know who they are!

Draddog said that the map will still be updated... but no more articles for us.

cavingjan,

check the archives... they're all there.

they completed the periphery and comstar too. i'm backing them up into personal copies before they belly-up to nothingness.

My thoughts exactly. I noticed that it is all fluff oriented, with on official explanation.

Word comes down from on high.

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Hey, maybe you could just copy/paste the info from that link, since I'm too lazy to register an account for the board.

Because, you know, that would be the coolest thing to do.

INN was shutdown because it became to expensive to keep up and traffic was dropping off.

That is whats in that link.

Draddog said the same thing in the Q and A thread. He also said he would keep up the map.

I see that Topps is cutting costs.......i will miss the little fluff from INN oh well........Its not like they are moving the $ from INN to new sculpts....... <_<

I'm pretty sure It's for purely fluff reasons. They can find easier ways to cut costs, such as offering sponsorship spaces on their website rather than shutting down sections of it.

Well if INN is closeing down, then I hope someone is hard at work on BattleTech novels, because I will go clinically insane if I do not find out what happened in the Possession Wars.

Except that dragdog has said it IS finacial and not fluff reasons.

runab0ut: unfortunately the link goes to the Indyclix booster pack advertisement.

Edit: anybody planning on doing a combined archive that could be downloaded? I'm been saving the Touring the Stars but I'm not sure how to easily combine the files and make things work without rewritting everything.