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Admiral Plif was kind enough to organise two competitions around my first battle release!

You should fly XvT-TC 146: Securing the Line for a high score and then file a review. If you do that, you'll have entered the two comps. How easy was that?

No one took up my vague call to action for Project Archimedes last time, which I guess shows how carried away I was by delusions of grandeur. Perhaps no one reads these.

Here's how it works for the technically inclined - I've sliced some code that performs static analysis on TIE series missions. In this way I leverage my skills and knowledge into a tool that can help us track down bugs and improve the compendium at colossal scale.

For the non-technically inclined... it's magic space pixies.

Not all issues are serious, and not everything that Archimedes finds will definitely be an issue. For example:

- IFF mismatch with mothership: Rebel X-Wings launching from an Imperial mothership will usually be a bug. A traitorous Imperial shuttle leaving a Rebel cruiser is not.

- Any ship with orders to destroy all Rebel IFF can cause issues if something needs to be captured. (Be careful with IFF orders, they lack subtlety)

- Most of the time a message that is triggered by 100% arrival of a flight group with multiple waves is a mistake - if you've ever been told 'Look out for those X-Wings' having already killed the first wave, you've seen this. But sometimes it might be deliberate.

(Were you confused by any of this lingo? Go take some mission creation IWATS !)

Also: we're making some headway on the Battle Submission Queue thanks to the TAC Staff and that XWA patch installer is not forgotten - just waiting on a dude for a thing.

More code! Lots of code! I added something pretty cool to the TAC site this week, but you'll only see it if you help us out with some testing. The positions are open to anyone who's never died streaming TIE on Twitch.

I was awarded two Letters of Achievement for submissions to COMMODORE V: Plif Strikes Back

I aged over the weekend like a dusty bottle of Aurora Red.

TAC/AD Pickled Yoda/CS-6/VSDII Sinister

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IMPR | Veteran 4th | Ranger 3rd

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