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In a nutshell:

1) Harly is finally adjusting its prices, and they are
going up.

2) Simultaneously, Harly is finally working on a way
to avoid wasting office time and is using it for YOUR
SAVINGS.

Harly charges nearly the same rate I paid with GSI
nine years ago. They haven't adjusted their prices
yearly, and now are catching up. It might be fair, it
might be unfair, but it has nothing to do with
Automagic.

At the same time, they have finally come around with a
system that saves them hours of tedious typing, and
they're passing on the savings to us. The retyping of
orders is a colossal waste of time, and they are
asking us not to pay for it.

They're also working on getting a stand-alone program
everyone can use, without Excel.

Personally, I think $6 a turn is fair -- gives me many
more hours of fun at less cost than a movie. Agree or
not, but don't blame the retirement of the typewriter.

Dan

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D Newman wrote:

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They're also working on getting a stand-alone program
everyone can use, without Excel.

Admittedly I'm no computer expert, but I would think it should be easy enough to develop a program to parse plain text directly into orders, without the GM's needing to retype anything. It might require players to type in their orders in a specific format, and wouldn't do error correction for you, but you wouldn't need any Micro$oft programs to mangle, er, convert your orders. Rolling Thunder used to have a program that worked very well to both correct format & errors, and convert to a plain text order file which could be easily sent.

For that matter, is there a plain text format which could be simply cut & pasted without retyping? That would be almost as fast...

-ED \1/

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