Admiral Frodo March Reporting for the Emperor's Hammer Tactical Office on 04/15/05, report #181.
Tactical Officer's Opening Statement
This week we lost a bit of momentum, something I'm not to happy with. Master should be striking back at full strenght at the XWA bugs again, and soon TIE shall feel my wrath.
Overall, bug report status: 17 XvT Bugs remain with Bug reports, 16 for XWA, 42 for TIE and 2 for XW. A total of 77. Ant Eater has eliminated at least half of all bugs, and XWA and XvT should be finished soon...
I few changes for TAC staff regarding betapoints. As of now extra beta points can be awarded at the discretion of Master and I. IF the TCS for example completes a battle within 24 hours, extra points will be awarded, if the Beta report is extremely detailed and is determined to be very helpful, extra points will be awarded. I will keep very close track about this. The reason this is used is to increase chances to get good awards, more often.
As for statistics for this week, 4 releases and 4 corrections...All XvT. I promise to get our butts in gear for the other platforms.
CPT Daar Skeloria defeated CM Brukhar in last week's IMC match. Tomorow's Match will be between LCM Impulse and LC Ric Taldrya at 1300hrs EST in #tac. Don't miss the action! In addition I'll award an IS-BW or SW to the high score holder of XvT Free 183 this sunday.
As of this moment I will be accepting applications for TAC Staff, view TC news for more details.
Tactical Announcements
-XvT TC 110, XvT TC 111, XvT Free 182 and XvT Free 183 were released this week!
-Operation Ant Eater continues! Only 4 bugs corrected this week!
-There are Some TAC Staff openings.
-The IRON MISSION CREATOR Competition is under way! saturday's Match is between LCM Impulse and LC Ric Taldrya!
Tactical Projects
-Operation Ant Eater: Hopefully this won't take more then 2 more months...Bugs keep arising, keep posting the bug reports.
-Frodo's Quest for More Missions: This is my own personal quest to get mission creators to create more, I used quite a few means, mainly by competition and by posting news items that could help people start creating missions. We have alot of custom made battles and missions on the TACDB and they're swarming in. BUILD MORE!
Tactical Tasks
-More missions and faster turnaround in relation to testing: Testings is going according to plan, we have over 30 assignements strong, so naturally we can't expect top speed, but we're doing the best we can. Hopefully, new TAC staff will bring in some new energy.
-More support relating to new platforms (Jedi outcast academy, SWGB): SWGB now has 2 active Tacticians and many, many testers, we are ready to deal with SWGB bugs and the number of battles on the compendium has increased drastically. If anybody would like to be JA staff, please contact me as soon as possible.
-Coordinating with training office to set up new training resources for new platforms: The SWGB course is there. Gimme some time on this JA stuff.
-Restart Project Pheonix and fix any bugs in the mission compendium: Operation "anteater" is...well under way!
Competitions
-Iron Mission Creator: Every week end there will be matches between mission creators to see which can build the best free mission for a designated plotline within 2 hours! More details here.
-Pilot of the Week Competition: Pilot of the week this week will have to be CM Brukhar...Yeah, he's been consistant with activity this week yet again. So the standings are: Bruk-1, everyone else-0.
Tactical Roster
Tactical Officer: AD Frodo March
Command Attaché: VA Master
Tactical Assistant: COL Marcin Szydlowski
Tactician: LC Apophis Kuma
Tactician: FA Ender mBind
Tactician: VA Gidda
Tactician: CM Brukhar
Tactician: COL Marcin Szydlowski
Tactician: RA Locke Setzer
Tactical Surveyor: COL Abel Malik
Tactical Surveyor: LC Apophis Kuma
Tactical Surveyor: LC Archangel
Tactical Surveyor: FA Ender mBind
Tactical Surveyor: VA Gidda
Tactical Surveyor: COL Malidir
Tactical Surveyor: COL Marcin Szydlowski
Tactical Surveyor: VA Stuart
Tactical Surveyor: MAJ Aft Skylek
Tactical Surveyor: COL Brucmack
Tactical Surveyor: CM Ayudanter de la Clars
Tactical Surveyor: CPT Tolbr
Tactical Surveyor: CM Brukhar
Tactical Surveyor: LCM Fahrer
Tactical Surveyor: LC Ric Taldrya
Tactical Progress
TIE: In Queue=1, Under testing=3, Under correction=1, Total=5
XvT: In queue=4, Under testing=5, Under correction=1, Total=9
BoP: Under testing=2, total=2
XWA: In queue=6, Under Testing=4, Under Correction=1, Total=11
SWGB: In Queue=1, Under testing=3, Total=4
XW: In queue=6, Total=6
JA: Empty.
Grand Total= 37 This week we hold steady at 37, I love this. Mission creators, build as much as you can. Not to mention that IMC missions are completely seperate from the TAC DB...Nice.
Important Links
TAC database 1.0
TAC Manual 3.0: Online Version
TAC Network: http://tac.minos.net/ or http://www.isdcolossus.com/tacdb/beta/
Mission Creation Forum: http://mb.emperorshammer.net/viewforum.php?f=19
Custom Battle Submittion Form:http://www.isdcolossus.com/tacdb/beta/batsubmit.asp
Tech forum
BSF tutorial
X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter Mission Editor (XvTED)
TIE Fighter Workshop
X-wing Alliance mission editor (AlliED Shareware Version)
Frothy's Corner
This week wasn't slow, oh by lord no. It was more relaxed in the matter of results but still, not qualifiable by slow. New TAC staff is wanted, I want some faster progress and some replacements will have to take place >:)
Many thanks to GA Astatine for awarding me the Gold Star of the Empire, it was very apreciated :)
More battles please!
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