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TAC Report # 47 (2002-05-26)

This report was submitted by FA Striker

Yoda rocks ! :P

1. Golden Tug Awards

The Golden Tug Awards are new annual rewards for the best of the best of battles released over the past year. The first edition of 2002 will reward the best battles made over the year 2001, in multiple categories:

  • TIE Golden Tug: best TIE battle of 2001
  • XvT Golden Tug: best XvT battle of 2001
  • XWA Golden Tug: best XWA battle of 2001
The Golden Tug rewards the best overall battle for each platform released over the past year.
  • Best TIE mission creator of 2001
  • Best XvT mission creator of 2001
  • Best XWA mission creator of 2001
These awards are aimed to recognize the best mission creator for a particular year through his/her battles released.
  • Best TIE Technical Realization of 2001
  • Best XvT Technical Realization of 2001
  • Best XWA Technical Realization of 2001
These awards are given for the best technical realization for each platform; it includes the good use of ingame features, of special effects within a battle etc.
  • Best TIE briefings of 2001
  • Best XvT briefings of 2001
  • Best XWA briefings of 2001
The battles with the most detailed and most coherent briefings will be rewarded with this prize.
  • Best original plotline of 2001
  • Best realistic plotline of 2001
  • Best humoristic plotline of 2001
  • Best character in a battle of 2001
These four categories are not specific to the game platform, and focus on the plotlines of battles.
  • TIE Golden Spoon: Best TIE Free Mission of 2001
  • XvT Golden Spoon: Best XvT Free Mission of 2001
  • XWA Golden Spoon: Best XWA Free Mission of 2001
Like short movies, free missions compete as well for the Golden Spoon, which rewards the best free mission released last year.
  • TIE Pinky Lollipop Award: Worst TIE Battle of 2001
  • XvT Pinky Lollipop Award: Worst XvT Battle of 2001
  • XWA Pinky Lollipop Award: Worst XWA Battle of 2001
Worst battles released will be able to win something as well !

The first step of the competition will be the select the nominees for the final vote. Send your nominations to the Tactical Officer Fleet Admiral Striker with the subject "Golden Tug Awards Nominations". Don't forget to include the categori(es) in which you want to nominate a battle, a creator or a free mission. You can only nominate work RELEASED during year 2001, ie from:

  • TIE-TC 166-192
  • TIE-FCHG 2-3
  • TIE-DB 14
  • XvT-TC 11-21
  • XvT-IW 27
  • XvT-DB 2-6
  • XvT-FCHG 1
  • BoP-TC 4-7
  • BoP-IW 28
  • BoP-FCHG 1
  • XWA-TC 13-27
  • XWA-IW 27
  • XWA-FCHG 1-2
  • TIE-FREE 141-190
  • XvT-FREE 36-56
  • BoP-FREE 7-20
  • XWA-FREE 25-46
Current nominations are available at http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac/gta.txt. The second step of the competition will be the vote! ANY pilot will be able to vote in each categories, choosing from the nominees. The TIE Corps Polling System of emperorshammer.net will be used to collect the votes, so people can only vote once. There may several rounds for some categories if there are more than two nominees, final decision by the Tactical Officer.

The winning battles and free missions will have the awards added to their profiles. I am currently looking for people with graphic skills to design the several awards. If you are interested, contact the Tactical Officer Fleet Admiral Striker. There will be of course a reward...

2. Hammer's Pride Competition concluded

The results should be released soon. I'm pretty disappointed by the lack of participation, looks like people are scared to compete against people like Drake, RogueWing or myself... too bad, there were easy medals to get there.

3. BSFs

A reminder to Squadron Commanders. You are responsible of the pilot files you submit and must check those files ! When someone submit a BSF for a XWa battle instead of a XvT battle, I wonder if the pilot file has ever been looked at. If the pilot has skipped a mission the BSF will be either denied or removed later from the pilot file profile if it is automatically accepted by the database. It is just a waste of time for you and myself, so check those files. In addition, when a BSF is audited, you have a week to answer the email with the zipped pilot file (you just have to *read* what's written in the audit emails). Failure to do so will result in the BSF being denied. Just another waste of time.

4. FCHG Battle Creation Contest #3

The third edition should begin around June 15th, and should last until August 5th. As usual, best submissions will become FCHG Battles. Generic plotlines for the competition will be decided soon.

5. XWA and ship patches

It is not compulsory to remove official XWA custom ship patches after you played a custom battle. These patches install custom ships in a specific slot and do not interfere with regular crafts, so are not a problem with other custom battles which don't require them. In addition, XWAUP upgrades are tolerated, but it may slow down your computer or even crash XWA if there are too much extended graphical details. And don't even think of MP games with XWAUP.

See you next week !

TAC-PROF/FA Striker/CS-3/SSSD Sovereign
"Errare Humanum Est, Perseverare Diabolicum !"

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