Ben Zwycky

All ISS members that failed to respond to the roll call have been removed from the fleet database (two-thirds of our listed members ) but they will be welcome to reapply should they become active again. As you were,

Thadius (the newest member of Wraith Fleet) has a dedicated server he would like to provide for the fleets, but can't afford a second copy of AWA right now. Would your offer of a server copy of AWA still stand for him, SC?

Well, we're hoping to change that fairly soon when Rip's server is up again

nice server you have there, not a single packet lost in my half hour session on it (it'd be interesting to try it out with some others and see how it performs)

We had some technical issues with our fleet server (which has UC and UCAWA installed), but those are being worked on at the moment, hopefully we should have that back up fairly soon, so after joining a fleet (mine is currently accepting applications, btw ) you could meet up on that once it's ready

Good to hear from you again

no, you can't capture planetary bases.

For those of you who didn't receive the email from the fleet database (if you didn't, update your profile!) a new roll call was issued at the start of the year. THose who don't respond by the end of the month will be removed from the fleet database. Report in!

that he does, check your PM inbox Rip's server appears to have been down for a while, I'm contacting him about it.

Excellent, thanks, SC, time to do a survey of what game versions people have. I can't remember it's exact specs offhand, I'll be able to tell you on Sunday or Monday, but I do remember we tried running two game versions at once in console mode, but it was less stable than one, so we just stuck to one at a time, switching when required and restarting immediately before a match for maximum stability.

For UC or UCAWA, there shouldn't be any need for someone to sacrifice themselves to host, we have Rip's server to use for that, a solid machine with a relatively high (3Mbit) upload bandwidth. As soon as I get home on Sunday night (am writing from my parents house), I'll give admin details for it to Quazar and Sho so they can manage it as well. If there is sufficient demand, someone can buy UCSE or CE (or UCG) for it as well to enable us to support those versions equally comfortably.

with Peter Jackson involved

Just my thoughts, if you're wanting to start a new series then starting with a game with a massively improved graphics engine would be better for the image of the new line IMO, echo squad seems like a transitional title rather than a full series starter, so keeping it just at Gametap might be a good move to introduce the concept to a wider audience and then blow them away with the quality of the 'real' series, hence my no vote.

I know, but on behalf of everyone It'll also be the first free release of a BC/UC game with multiplayer, so might help resolve the problems we have co-ordinating mp between people with different versions.

Thanks, SC

The trailer for Prince Caspian is out, and looks awesome

common sense has prevailed again

nice interview, and the interviewer seemed really excited about it afterwards, good job

doing well, fleet matters have gone a bit quiet since our MP opposition lost its leadership (I guess we scared everyone away ), maybe things will pick up again with the latest version of the game, hard to say, everyone having different versions is our eternal problem

Stumbled across another nice set of beer ads I thought you guys would appreciate:

OK, as a result of a PM discussion I had with BC_Vet, we're going to do a little RP activity based on the recent events in the Fleet action MP season, a little more expansive than our standard after action reports thread. Anyone can join in, pick yourself a character (or few), and play along, your character can be expendable. Standard RP rules apply; no new tech or races, no killing another player without their consent (I.e. when you defeat another player, leave room for a possible out for them), be consistent with the events of the match(es) and moves (see below) The story we're going to flesh out first is the recent fall of the Mars region to the Gammulan empire, which proceeded as follows: The Gammulan fleet outmanoeuvred the Galcom fleet sent out to intercept it by going through fluxfield 2 directly into Mars, in doing so losing 25% of its fleet strength to the black hole connected to that fluxfield. The defensive patrol forces in Mars knew that the Gammulans were approaching Galcom space, but were taken by surprise by this move. The defensive patrol forces were heavily outgunned by the Gammulan forces, who had many more capital craft at their disposal, the patrol forces having only fighters and a few cruisers. The station fell to the Gammulans, but they lost their flagship in the process. The planetary engagement was one-sided and Mars fell relatively quickly, the gammulans incurring minimal losses by using heavy aerial bombardment, though Galcom snipers were very effective at holding their ground troops back for a while. Have fun!

if you happen to be pointing in exactly the opposite direction, that happens in all versions of the game, it's quite cool in the later versions

interesting perspective, I assume you have a long-term plan of sorts in mind?