I've got the color-printed version, and it looks great.  Seriously, I've played a lot of games over a lot of years, and more and more I appreciate simplicity and clean presentation.  My over 40 eyes appreciate the nice big font and lots of pictures, etc.  Only things I think are a bit messy are the extended arc labels (which I'll never remember), the sideslips (not sure I'll need them, however), and maybe the way to squeak in a turn while going over your thrust level.  But I digress.

I don't want to throw everything in to my first games, but there are some options I'd like to put into my fleet as I design it.  My friend has the free PDF.  If I use these options, I'll have to tell him what they are and how to use them.

What do you think about sharing within a group?

I would not put all the info from the non-free part into a cheatsheet and give it to him.

I'd like to be able to tell him the options I'd like to use (weapon traits, maybe some optional rules, a scenario, etc).  I assume I could explain these.

I also assume that if he likes the game, he'll buy the rules in some form.

How do you (Dan) feel about it?  The extra rules don't do me any good if he doesn't have the rules, but it shouldn't be that only I need to buy the rules.

Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not so sure.  We've played several games where one person had the rules and taught the other to play, maybe loaned a book for a bit.  If we play a boardgame, we don't expect both people to buy copies to have the whole rules.  I think I was fogged up some by the free PDF.  So I think he should be able to use pretty much anything.  I just wouldn't send him a copy of the full PDF, or photocopy my book, etc.)

Just checking--Dan, what do you think?

Is the Appendix A on the site?  It says it should be.

andy