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1. Project Segway
Ever dreamed of an Imperial conversion of XWA ? This dream may come true, with Project Segway, under the direction of Major RogueWing. This project will involve staff from the TAC and SCO offices, and anyone willing to give a hand. Contact Major RogueWing at roguewing25@yahoo.com for more details... as excerpt from his last TACA report:
Segway
verb.-to smoothly convert from one mode of transportation to another mode of transportation
Project Segway is now ready to open!
I have a website up at http://www30.brinkster.com/roguewing/
Some people I have consulted seem to think this is a huge project, but I believe it can been done fairly simply. I am going to go through our plans and explain them for the benefit of the CS.
New Opts: There will be several new opts including fighters, at least one capital ship, a new platform, a new Imperial style hangar, and a planetary surface opt. This sounds like a lot, but LCM Ender is already working on them and should have them done is plenty of time.
New Missions: Ender and I disagree on this part. He thinks we should make new missions to replace the ones that came with XWA. I personally think we should just make a Imperial style CAB around 30 missions long and do as we do with all our battles, make them come after the standard XWA missions. I have several mission designers ready to work on this. Hopefully, if we can get enough guys to make 5-6 missions a piece, we can get them done within a few months. I hope to have a plotline for this written shortly, but I was planning on doing one based on how the EH came into existence. Any suggestions?
New Background Pictures: The background pictures for the main concourse, the pilot's quarter's, the tech room, and the simulator rooms are simple .bmps that can be installed with the next version of Datech. CM Mycroft has agreed to begin work on these, and he does GOOD work. He has also said he can probably do some cutscenes...
Em-Kay Droid: This is the hard one. The M-K on the concouse is a .cmb. I will need to find someone who can make a new .cmb of an Imperial style droid to replace him. Mycroft said he may be interested, but I am going to start looking for someone to be safe. The only problem with this, is that so far, no one has been able to figure out how to replace the sounds M-K makes...that will be my personal project.
So, this is not that involved of a project, but I hope it will have some good results. I would like to suggest that you can announce this to the fleet on the TC news page. If anyone wants to volunteer to help, they can email me with their skills and I can find them something to do. Also, since I suck at simple graphics, if someone would like to make a nicer banner for the website, I would be happy to upload it.
2. New Mission Creation Contest: Hammer's Pride Competition
The next FCHG Battle Creation Competition being planned for July, I come today with a new little contest. The goal is to design a single free mission, in order to advertise the Emperor's Hammer. This mission should be designed for non-EHers, and should introduce the EH, the TIE Corps, subgroups etc. The winning submissions would be spred through the mission creation community in order to advertise the Emperor's Hammer. The plotline of the missions is up to you, as long as it introduces the EH.. remember the missions will be flown by non-EHers. Thre will be three categories, TIE, XvT/BoP, XWA, top3 submissions for each will be rewarded (up to IS-GR I guess), deadline is May 15th. All submissions should follow the EH standards of the Tactical Manual, avoid the use of patches due to the advertising nature of the missions.
3. Eagles of Freedom - XWA Combined Arms Battle
The battle is still under playtesting, already 3 beta reports out of 6... I expect to release it next week once I get all reports, once the little correction are made ;) - Teaser at http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac/sal2
4. 2,207 missions online
Several new free missions have been released this week, for XvT and XWA. We have reached the 2,200 missions mark !
5. XWA Mission Creation Course updated
http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac/xam: No new graduate this week, but the course notes have been upgraded, more FAQs have been added thanks to Major RogueWing ! Feel free to submit your FAQs there, as long as they are not copy and paste from the course test...>:)
6. Rate the battles you fly !
Don't forget you can put reviews for the battles you fly in the Battle Center !! Rate 5 the best battles you fly, 0 for the worst, give your opinion, tell what you liked or what you hated !
That's it for today!
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