TAC Report # 14 (2021-08-22)

This report was submitted by TAC/FA Pickled Yoda/CS-6/VSDII Sinister


TAC Report #14
REPORTING OFFICER: Fleet Admiral Pickled Yoda, Tactical Officer
DATE SUBMITTED: 22 Aug 2021
A report?

I don't think anyone's day is made or broken by the presence of my reports, but I still want to state here that they would ideally occur in a more frequent and regular fashion. There's room for improvement.

Having said that, I'd like to assure you that there's plenty of stuff that has been going on... just without any officially logged communications.

TFTC

One of the most interesting things to happen in TAC-related areas is the release of the TIE Fighter Total Conversion for XWA. In addition to the shiny things that are possible through XWA Upgrade, this adds classic and remastered versions of the TIE Fighter campaign.

I've been asked a few times about what this means for our organisation. In the short term, just go and play it. Have fun! The COO is working on the policy for using it as a multi-player platform.

As a single player platform we expect to support it for new missions as well as eventually having a way for it to be used for existing missions. Details are still being worked out.

If you have played it, I'd love it if you sent me your thoughts about it as a platform - especially the classic mode which is trying to be more like TIE Fighter.

New releases

Here's the main reason for the report coming out now: we're releasing 3 new free missions! They have been ready to go for a little while and that is almost entirely all my fault. Sorry.

TIEF299 is a free mission from Major Robert Hogan about capturing a convoy.

XWAF160 is a free mission from General Anahorn Dempsey about hackers in space.

XWAF161 is a free mission from Vice Admiral Silwar Naiilo about a deep strike mission for Tempest Squadron.

Each will receive a Medal of Tactics - Green Hammer.

The new high scores are all currently held by me, but with a very gentle effort on medium that shouldn't stand for very long at all.

TAC Staff

If you are interested in testing new missions, fixing bugs in old missions or helping with TAC-related tools in PHP and JavaScript, email me!

I would like to shout out Colonel Phalk Sturm as someone who has been a recent(ish) but tremendously successful addition to the Tactical Office.

Bugs

Reminder: feel free to poke me directly via email or discord about mission critical bugs that should be fixed. The database has a long queue, but you can jump it.

TAC-tivity

Since the last report, I got promoted!

I spent a lot of my EH-related time in my capacity as part of the Internet Office. Recently I completed the BSF and TAC admin part of the new website. I am really keen for you all to try it out soon.

I've been making very slow progress through the TAC submission queue.

Marking IU courses - why not take MCBS and then join the TAC staff?

Transmission Ends

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

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Imperator | Elite 3rd | Ranger 1st

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