- Submission confirmation - you now get an email confirming your competition submission
- Competition ID tracking - your submitted competitions are tracked via the use of cookies, so that the site "remembers" them. Note this doesn't work if you have cookies turned off.
- My Competitions - This is a new section on the competitions page (http://www.imperialacademy.org/comps.asp) lists, strangely enough, the competitions you've submitted. From here you can view their details. In addition to this, you can edit the competitions if they have not already been approved. This is good for when the competition has been denied and members need to edit the details to get it approved. Of course, it emails the contact parties (and myself) when updates are made.
This code will eventually be rolled out into the DB side of competitions and lastly to a competitions centre I'm coding, which will be a central site for all competitions - EH-wide, TC, DB, ladders and whoever else wants to add their stuff.
On the topic of EH-wide competitions, I'd like to thank the *two* SGCOMs who actually bothered to email me details of their competition awards for the exchange system I'm setting up. A third SGCOM said he would get back to me and the GM and I privately discussed the matter before I mailed everyone else. That means....5 SGCOMs didn't even bother to reply. Outstanding job, guys. :P Makes you wonder if they really want to be part of the EH at all.
The Design a Bad Guy is still running and details are available at http://www.imperialacademy.org/comps/badguy/ Examples of bad guys are at http://www.imperialacademy.org/comps/characters.asp Here's some tips when designing these bad guys:
- No fluffy killer bunnies from Centrix IV.
- The EH can only have so many officers defecting before it gets silly.
- Secret brothers/sisters/pet dogs of the Emperor just don't work. :P
- The enemies don't have to hate the *entire* EH. ie. the Furvus Manus just hate the DB
- Make sure they have a damn good reason for hate us or wanting to fight us (ie. Kusanagi was committing fraud, the Furvus Manus have their reasons, etc)
So far there's about 30 entries. The competition ends 1st January.
The current TO poll continues on. Out of the 73 votes, Why Don't You Get A Job - The Offspring is way out in front with 33 votes. Well, sorry to break it to everyone, but I have a job. :P Next on 10 votes is the opening theme to the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Equal third are Bestrafe Mich by Rammstein and Master of Puppets by Metallica. In last with 4 votes is Everything I do, I do it for you by Bryan Adams.
ID Line Blast from the Past
CA:OPS/VA Thedek (IWATS Core, 4th Dec 1998)
Guardian Armus (Sith) /Galthain of Satal Keto (IWATS Core, 15th Dec 1998)
FM/COL Hades/Tau-3-2/SSD Avenger (mIRC/1, 15th Dec 1998)
FM/LCM Adrenaline/Falcon 3-3/WingXI/Immortal (mIRC/2, 9th Dec 1998)
Current Staff
HA Astatine - Training Officer/IWATS Dean
COL Ford - Professor, TIE Fighter Tactics
CPT Predator - Professor, Rebellion Tactics
CPT Daisuke Airyu - Professor, Graphics
LC E. Tarkin - Professor, XvT Fighter Tactics
RA Marcin - Professor, XvT Missions
AD Ari - Professor, VBS
LC Aylius Khan - Professor, Computer Basics
COL Scoser - Professor, TIE Missions
COL Ricardo - Professor, Squadron Management 2
FA Striker - Professor, XWA Missions
CPT Darknyte - Professor, AIM
TO-DEAN/HA Astatine/CS-6/SSSD Sovereign
MoH/ICx2/OoR/GOE/GSx2/SS/BSx3/PC/ISM/MoI-DC/IS-1BR/LoC/CoS/CoE/CoLx2/LoA/OV-3E
DJP Astatine (Krath)/DGM, SC-SoI/BZ-BQ/DC-KC/(LSB)
"Command Attache free since January 2000"
"I just can't seem to score with chicks. They just bounce off the edge
of the hockey goal and lie there chirping in pain."