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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JEL" data-source="post: 1697961" data-attributes="member: 11960">Too generic would have been fine.  Basically I feel that the book was too specific.  Instead of giving rules for making mecha, spaceships, etc. we're given lists of these things with a large number of setting assumptions built in.  To make an anology, instead of being given the tools and materials to build my own campaign, I was given a pre-fab kit.  Take the cybernetics rules.  If I want Six Million Dollar Man, they work great.  If I want Robo Cop, Gunnm, Appleseed, or a hundred or more other styles of setting using cybernetics, they're useless.  The limited space (which I understand is not something the writers had any control over) exasperates the problem because the lists of pre-defined options are rather short.As for solutions, well they'd require re-writing the book from ground up starting with a different design goal.  I'll stick with D20 Mecha and other third party products for what I want.  Not that there aren't some things in Future that I liked and may use as well, such as the feats and advanced classes (I'm still not sure if I like the starship combat system or not).  Oh and the space ship illos.  I really do love those.Does that make more sense?</blockquote>