Greetings, Richard Garriot will be the keynote speaker at Hamvention 2009 in Dayton, OH. He will be speaking on May 15th, 2009... he will also do a meet & greet with fans at the event. This event has nothing to do with Tabula Rasa, Garriot is a amateur radio enthusiast and during his space flight he radio contacted many "hams", just like his father has done decades earlier. He will be speaking on that experience and amateur radio in general. Anyways, I'm considering taking my Collector's Edition of TR and havng him sign it... and maybe ask him if he has any intentions of running TR again since he's developing a new MMO. It would be great to have TR server stuck on one of those "new mmmo" servers.
Good idea and please give him this web address. I mean that would make what I have to do much easier, trying to sell this game to someone else who knows nothing about it. It's not easy when I haven't the facts and figures in my head and available as an insider, Richard does. And though sure it'd be nice if it was on one of those server it'd be nice if it could be it's own game once more. I hope you get to ask him in a more private setting bcause maybe you'll get better answers as to what actually happened, why he left and why they didn't advertise it, etc. We need that too as those can easily be objections another company can bring to a propsal. Knowing what they are in advance I can write in or around the issue to mitigate its effect.
Will whip out my Design skills and make up a buisiness card for Changewind. that way we will look like were absoluto serious. will post to the site soon.
Just a bit of advice. In my experience when you have a cross genre star they don't always like having sci-fi fans show up at a HAM event. If you have some HAM knowledge it tends to soften things up a bit (IE at least sounding like your there for the con, in addition to the speaker). I've also found that treating them like a normal person that your meeting at the con instead of a big star they also warm up easier. I have found that they are much more likely to remember you and if your lucky enough to run into them later at the con they also are more willing to hang out.
Just tips from my experiences at GenCon back in the day. Feel free to take them or leave them.
Pheonix Tigerborn
PS I think the business cards are an excellent idea.
