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TAC Report # 158 (2004-11-07)

This report was submitted by FA Marcin Szydlowski

Emperor's Hammer
Tactical Office Report #158
Introducion  IWATS Courses  PotW  Roster  Links 

Introduction:
     157th Tactical Office Report. Well, there was not report last week and apologize. I've been trying to review current situation in EH concerning battle and missions and it is not looking good. It's hard to find anyone new, except veteran mission designers, like Frodo, Ender or Yoda, making battles and submitting them. Competition don't help, no matter how good awards/advertisment is given. Maybe we should all accept the fact that XW, TIE, XvT, BoP and XWA died and we will hardly get anything new for them. It looks like that even hard work of our Science Office is for nothing.
     Also. Noone is interested in being tactical staff member. Maybe we should look into other forms of activity. With LA releasing no good flight sims, we are dead in the water. I just hope Imperial Alliance will be released soon, so the situation will change. Otherwise it's just polishing the old battles, and slowly releasing new ones.

Tactical Office Objectives:
Task: How to do it?: % done:
Revise/update/fix the Tactical Manual No progress this week 25%
More support work relating to new platforms (Jedi Outcast/Academy, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds) No progress this week 75% done
Coordinate with Training Office in setting up training resources for new platforms There is discussion already about setting up training sources for Imperial Alliance. 10%
Restart Project Phoenix and clear out any bug reports currently existing Some corrections by TIE staff ~60%
Reform the Tactical staff from mission testers into a corps of mission designers It seems noone is intrested in being TMD, neither do current staff members want to convert. I will try once again and if that fails I will have to postpone this project or maybe even cancel it. 50%

Tactical Database:
     A lot of work has been done to the webpage. I have finished making database structure, so I can now start working on the exact code. I have login and logout pages ready, also made fully operational script for news posting. In the meantime I have finished making database and management pages for my iwats courses, but it can be adapted to all courses in like 10 secs.
     Also, I will be started my own hosting soon and I will be offering free ASP/PHP/SQL accounts to EH users and off course commercial ones, if someone will require more advanced access. Server is in place, I just need to buy some software and components. I will let ya all know, when it's ready.

Minos down:
     It seems Turtle took minos down. I advice you all to backup all of your files, cause you can still access them via FTP.

Awards for Tactical Staff:
     Congrats to Tactical Staff members for their hard work. Frodo, Hammer and Ender get SSs, Master and Apophis get BSs. And my CA will get a cookie. Congrats to all.

Mission Creation Courses:
     Here are stats and urls for all mission creation and tactical office related courses:

Tactical Office Person of the Week:
         This week we have nomination from TCC:XWA
         Abel Malik gets POTW cause he's the man. Thats it for the moment.

         TAC's comment: Malik seems to be our best guy! Take example of him!

     Current standings:

  • Apophis Kuma - 2
  • Ender mBind - 2
  • Justin - 2
  • Abel Malik - 2

Tactical Office Status:

Final word:
     I have more time now, but still use mail. I am on IRC from time to time and I try to join EH/TC meetings, but sometimes I am unable to do this. Mail me, or my Command Attaché with any questions or simply join #tac and ask your question there. I am sure someone will be able to answer it.

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