Christopher: >> > C) The Eco set is being planned to lay the ground work for >> a 3House + 3 sets package/boxed game. >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by 3House + 3. Regardless, I >> can't believe that the Looneys are planning that far in >> advance for specific game YET. Zendo had a tremendous >> following before it was made into a boxed set. Likewise, >> IceTowers was fairly well known before its appearance. I >> can't think of any current games that could be descibed as >> 3House+3. The most likely candidates for boxing would be >> just plain old 3House games (Homeworlds, Black Ice, etc.), >> but even with those game it was determined that publishing >> the rules separate from the bits made more sense. > I think what he means is a boxed game that has three Treehouse sets and the > 3House booklet, packaged as "Three Games in One!" (Black ICE, Martian Chess, > and Binary Homeworlds). Ah, I get it now. I could see that: the 3House book plus three Eco tubes of 'mids. I would guess this ISN'T going to happen given the poorer-than-expected sales of the Zendo and IceTowers boxed sets. But it's not out of the realm of possibility. Ryan