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<p>[QUOTE="Suarez, post: 4024964, member: 99239"]Was being facetious Spargrodan, I am the author.</p><p><br /></p><p>And wow, I can't believe I wrote that seven years ago. I'm surprised I've been on this forum for that long. I thought I'd only joined a few months ago!</p><p><br /></p><p>Truth is, in the span of those years work has gone very slowly. Although I expect the pace to pick up the fact is that it's an enormous amount of work. Where in ERIC II it might have taken me a week or two to get through the coinage of a well-known emperor it now takes months. There is no non-shortcut way to speed things up except maybe to outsource the research. Now that I'm in a lot better shape financially it's a possibility (anyone looking for some part time work?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I made a few fateful initial choices when I began on the 3rd edition. One was the scope which I've mentioned. The other is that working on emperors at random, which was done to force myself to be as consistent as possible throughout, has as a negative consequence that I can't print any of the sections until the whole thing is complete. As I see things now, ERIC III will most likely be broken up into six different books and they're all going to have to go to the printer as a set (which can then be broken up to be resold separately).</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone's interested in the project please email me or post a new thread. I'm very engaged in seeing feedback, especially from current users. Also, there is a barebones page at <a href="http://dirtyoldbooks.com/eric3/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dirtyoldbooks.com/eric3/" rel="nofollow">http://dirtyoldbooks.com/eric3/</a> which I regularly update to show my progress.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Suarez, post: 4024964, member: 99239"]Was being facetious Spargrodan, I am the author. And wow, I can't believe I wrote that seven years ago. I'm surprised I've been on this forum for that long. I thought I'd only joined a few months ago! Truth is, in the span of those years work has gone very slowly. Although I expect the pace to pick up the fact is that it's an enormous amount of work. Where in ERIC II it might have taken me a week or two to get through the coinage of a well-known emperor it now takes months. There is no non-shortcut way to speed things up except maybe to outsource the research. Now that I'm in a lot better shape financially it's a possibility (anyone looking for some part time work?) I made a few fateful initial choices when I began on the 3rd edition. One was the scope which I've mentioned. The other is that working on emperors at random, which was done to force myself to be as consistent as possible throughout, has as a negative consequence that I can't print any of the sections until the whole thing is complete. As I see things now, ERIC III will most likely be broken up into six different books and they're all going to have to go to the printer as a set (which can then be broken up to be resold separately). If anyone's interested in the project please email me or post a new thread. I'm very engaged in seeing feedback, especially from current users. Also, there is a barebones page at [URL]http://dirtyoldbooks.com/eric3/[/URL] which I regularly update to show my progress. Rasiel[/QUOTE]
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