To those folks who have read through the rules, or - better yet - play-tested them to some degree:

Due to the nature of my work - I'm an infantry soldier in the British Army - I have very limited chance to arrange face-to-face game time, which means that the vast majority of my RP hours are conducted via the online play-by-post format. This has worked perfectly well for me before, particularly since I enjoy writing, but it does make me wonder: how well would EotE work on that format? Would rules need to be tweaked? Or would it work perfectly well?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

I play a lot of PbP also and our GM just ordered the Beta ruleset. I foresee our group running the included adventures pretty soon after he gets the book, so I'll let you know once we get play a game or two. Other players within my group (including myself) are waiting until the final book comes out before buying it.

Thanks James! I have a lot of time to prepare, of course: my current campaign is being run using WEG, and stretches the whole 19 year period between Episodes III and IV; the new campaign - run with these new rules - will take place around the time of Episode IV.

I foresee the biggest problem is rolling the unusual dice. In a Pbem or PbP, that probably will not matter… you have plenty of time to roll a normal die and use the book's chart to figure out the dice. In a real-time VTT this would be kind of horrible.

There is a new VTT that just had a successful Kickstart called Roll20. It is completely free and in beta. I posted on their "dice system" forum and someone who plays the Warhammer game agreed with me.

I will keep you all posted on how this pans out.

We're getting ready to run a PbP beta test game. We currently have a tech/slicer and a hired gun/bodyguard (PCs) and a colonist/politco/doctor (NPC). If anyone wants in, just let me know and I can ask our GM. We'll probably be start very soon (this week).

 I'm currently running a PbP, and the only issue so far is that it requires a ton of back & forth during combat, due to the GM handling how PCs spend their Threat and vice versa.

 Shakespearian_Soldier, I don't know if freeform games are for you, but I saw you mention that you enjoy writing, and thought that our game, Star Wars: Tapestry, might be for you. There's no 'system' per se, but plenty of in-depth roleplaying!