A good bug is a dead bug.
1. TAC2.1K
The Compendium stands at 2,122 missions online! Many XvT free missions and battles have been released this week, thanks to the hard work of the XvT staff and of my Command Attaché. Keep up the good work ! I guess we passed the 500-mission-released mark under my tenure (both), but that's only my ego speaking, hehe.
2. Some high-scores wiped
You may want to check high scores for XvT, BoP and XWA battles, as some have been wiped out due to some cheating case. You may have some pilot file eligible for high-scores. If so, just resubmit it to your CMDR.
3. Tactical Office and Subgroup Battles
The Tactical Office is the only authorized to release new battles and missions. However, subgroups may want to have their words on the plotlines of their battles; thus, I encourage anyone working on a subgroup battle to contact either the SGCOm or anyone responsible of custom missions before submitting it to the Tactical Office. Right now, unless the subgroup has expressed me its desire to look at those plotline first, it is not compulsory to do so, but highly recommended (and think of the reward you could get within the subgroup ;)). DB Battles need to be checked first by SHW Yacko (kuruptred@yahoo.co.uk), for IW battles you may contact IWTAC Astix (asterixchris@yahoo.com) before as well. As soon as the Dark Brotherhood domain will support MoTs, MoTs for DB Battles will be awarded on the DB profiles rather than the TC one.
4. Any big project from the TAC Office ?
Humm... plenty of battles released, a comp organized a month ago, all bug reports dealt with... huh, time for some holidays ;)
5. Secrets and Lies XWA Campaign
I will focus in the next months on the creation of the part II and III of the trilogy ! These should join the XWA-CAB category, be prepared... I will be in need of somebody with good writing skills to write some good briefing/debriefing texts and to support me for the plotline, more details soon. You would need to know a bit from XWA battles and especially XWA-TC #17, the part one of the trilogy... no mission creation skills required. Also, I plan to use this time custom waves, I may need in the future some voice actors for the campaign as well. This may not be the greatest plotline I thougt of, but I hope it will be the most achieved XWA battle from me. Join my fan club >:-D
6. Tactical Manual
Please please read it. I guess I shall ask the future TO to include some things about it in the IWATS Core course :)
7. Laserless scoring
There's a debate right now about the laserless scoring method right now on the TC message board. Though I don't plan to change it unless really necessary, you can try to argue :P Actually, it gave me a nasty idea I need to check in the next days... more details soon.
8. Tactical staff Database
I plan to get a small database where you could see what are the status of the battles you submitted to the TAC Office, with sme other admin stuff needed for TCHC and TCCs. It might be coded within tc.org once the domain is moved and once the new owners are used to it, but i guess i'd rather rely on some alternative solutions before. RA Absolut Vodka has a quite working one for TIE battles at http://www.isdcolossus.com/TCC , FA StarLion was/is working on another as well. I guess a Gold Star will be handled to anybody able to provide me a reliable and working database.
That's it, folks.
TAC-PROF/FA Striker/CS-3/SSSD Sovereign