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ISD Challenge Report #1
RA Daniel Bonini 10/16/2006
ISD Challenge Weekly Report #1 – 16th of October 2006
Introduction
Hello,
And here we go for my first report as Commodore of the ISD Challenge. This report shouldn’t be very different from the ones you’ve seen while I was Wing Commander, even because last week I was WC and acting-COM and now I am COM and acting-WC...heheh...but expect some changes in the future, especially when a new Wing Commander is appointed. I’d also like to change my report to html, but I have no clue how to do that, so if any of you kind people would like to help me on that, I’d really appreciate it...
Looking a little to the past, I’m still astonished on how I ended up in the Challenge Commodore’s Office. If you know me from my early days as FM or FL in Tempest Squadron, you probably have heard me say at least once that I would never get a CMDR position, because I preferred just to have flying responsibilities. But then I became Tempest CMDR for a year and then Wing X Commander for seven months. But when I got WC I thought to myself: “this is it! This is as high as I go”....yeah, well....I just hope I can do as good a job in this office as some former COMs have in the past, like Locke Setzer and others. Let’s see how it goes from here :)
And we finally have a new Flight Officer!!! High Admiral Frodo March, former Tactical Officer. Congrats to him, and good luck in his new job!!!
As one of the first actions as FO, HA Frodo has set a new time schedule for reports, but I have spoken to the Flight Officer myself, and he has granted permission for us to remain our schedule here in the Challenge. This are very good news for us :)
And another great news for the TIE Corps this week: Freeworlds is back!!! We have our own Freeworlds server, which should be a lot of fun for anyone who owns Freelancer. I do own Freelancer but I could never install Freeworlds properly...I’ll give it another shot this week. Anyways, here is the Freeworlds server: http://freeworlds.emperorshammer.net/
My little fiction competition has come to an end. I have received only one submission, from CM John T. Clark, who has earned an Iron Star – Silver Ribbon for his “The Generals Birthday Madness” story, which I enjoyed very much. Thanks, Clark, and congrats! Too bad nobody fought for the IS-BR...
There is still one award pending for the MWE...I’ll check with Talons the status on that.
Summer Patrol results are still pending...and I don’t know how it will be, since Admiral Stele has stepped down as Sovereign Commodore. By the way, applications to SovCOM are being accepted by HA Frodo, for people who had WC plus experience...
News
* COL Daniel Bonini was promoted to ISD Challenge Commodore, and grated the rank of Rear Admiral....yey me!!! :)
* Coranel was sent to the reserves, but should be back in a while, hopefully :)
* Still waiting for the results of Summer Patrol...
* Clark won the Wing fiction competition...congrats!!
* Freeworlds is back...check http://freeworlds.emperorshammer.net/
Medal Awards
MAJ Diaboli was awarded: IS-BR
Congrats!!!!
Sorties Flown
1st – MAJ Diaboli: 21 missions flown
2nd – COL Mosh: 19 missions flown
3rd – RA Daniel Bonini: 12 missions flown
4th – CPT Fallien Skull: 6 missions flown
Keep it up!!
Academics
IWATS passed:
None...take a few minutes to complete an IWATS test...
Fleet News
http://www.ehtiecorps.org/news.asp
http://www.emperorshammer.org/news.htm
Competitions
* Name the Flagship Competition
Find a name for the new TCCOM competition that will determine the Flagship of the TIE Corps! Win an IS-SR for simple thinking! The competition that needs to be named is going to be in the form of a supremacy competition, and similar to the ASF SC and TCBG ECR competitions of old! Deadline is October 30th.
* TCBG Escort Squadron Competition
The scoring rules are simple or complicated depending on how you want to view it. Each squadron chooses a battle that a majority of his squadron can fly and is betting that his squadron will defeat all the other squadrons in the battle group. If the squadron has an even split of platforms, chose the one that the commander can also fly. That is the first phase of the competition (choosing the battle). Once all the battles are chosen, they are released to the battle group and you have 1 month to complete your squadron's battle and as many of the other battles as you can. Only your squadron's battle is mandatory for the competition. Wing Commanders and Commodores are encouraged to fly these but are not required. When submitting the score, send it to your CMDR who will BSF your pilot file and have in the notes area written "For the Escort Squadron Competition" as well as any other notes required for processing by the Flight Office. I will be looking for this note to record the Battle Score. Once the scores are collected, I will add up the entire Squadron's Score for that battle and divide it by the number of people in the squadron that can fly the given battle. This average battle score will be added to all the others for a final top squadron score. Each battle will be listed separately as well as having the over all scores. Squadrons that host will add 100 points for every squadron they defeat in their battle chosen. For example: Squadron "A" chose TIE-TC001 as their battle. They have 5 of the 8 members of the squadron that can fly TIE. I received 4 submissions. Their total score for the battle is 144,357. I divide this by 5 to get 28,871.400. I then check to see how many other squadrons have played this battle and their standings. For every squadron that squadron "A" has a higher score for the host battle in, I add 100 points. No points are added for those that have defeated this squadron. This is then added to the other battles flown and calculated in the same manner. The scores are compared and the winning squadron is the one with the most points at the end of October. Each week, I will release the current standings for each squadron. Individual standing is not being tracked. This is a squadron level competition and the more in the squadron that participates, the better your chances are that you will win.
Place Medal Notes
1st IS-GW Named BGCOM's Escort Squadron 2006/11/01 to 2007/10/31
2nd IS-SW
3rd IS-BW
The ship with the highest percentage of participants will be named the 2007 Flagship of the Battle Group. ^_^!!!
Battle Listings:
Cyclone: XvT-TC70
Typhoon: XWA-TC39
Thunder: TIE-TC104
Omicron: TIE-TC10
Tornado: TIE-TC19
Inferno: TIE-TC223
* RA Pellaeon’s new uniform
After RA Pellaeon’s appointment to Commodore of the Redemption he needs a new uniform for his profile. But he doesn't want a simple made with TTT. It can be used for help, but it must be edited with a gfx program to be something special. Including the TC Medalcase in it would be nice too. The whole Battle Group is allowed to participate in the competition. Send your entrys to Delta-1@gmx.de and don’t forget to cc your superiors, so that they can count it as activity for you. There will be an IS-GR for the first place, an IS-SR for the second place and an IS-BR for the third. Deadline is October 15th. Get to it!!
* Master's Monthly Map Mayhem
Start Date: 10/1/2006
Parties Involved: EH-wide
Medals: IS-GR, IS-SR, IS-BR (or subgroup equivalent) each month.
According to the System Manual (http://sysman.emperorshammer.net/) the EH is in control of ten systems.
Each month Master is going to pick a planet from one of the EH Controlled Systems* from the manual. Those interested will then have the remainder of the month to create a Empire at War or SW Galactic Battlegrounds or Jedi Academy map based on that planet.
*Master may throw in the odd other planet from SW from time to time with more bonuses.
Designers are free to do as they like with the map provided basics stay true to the System Manual information.
Maps will be judged on: Technical realization (use wat u got), general plotline & general enjoyment.
All maps should be submitted ala standard TACcy Rules and via the Custom BSF (http://tac.emperorshammer.net/tacdb/batsubmit.asp)
All maps will be judged by TAC.
* Halloween Banner Prank Competition 2006
Starts: 10/1/2006
Ends: 10/31/2006
Shiny Bobbles: IS-GR, IS-SR, IS-BR (or subgroup equivalent)
Much like a cool looking phoenix rising from ashes of old so is this ripper of a competition that prob most of you weren't even here for the first two times round and was subsequently lost to the ages. Created by the infamous HA Keiran Idanian waaaaay back in the day this comp was created basically to make fun of your rivals (and friends) and have a laugh doing so. Not only that but it’s so easy, even an idiot with paint (like me) can win a medal. Take either the splash banner or standard banner from your rival squadron, wing, ships, battlegroup, clan, house, company etc etc & put a prank on it! This could go from simply changing some text to 'better suit the picture' or changing a graphic to 'better suit the text' You can submit as many submissions as you like (but u can only win one medal). Any overly insulting submissions will be deleted. All submission must be emailed to TAC no later than the 31st of October.
* Ace of the Tie Corps
Starting this month, we now have a new monthly competition series - Ace of the TIE Corps. The concept is simple - the pilot with the most flown missions at the end of each month will recieve an Iron Star with Gold Wings and the title "Ace of the Month". You will be able to see the progress of pilots over time by checking the Pilot Kill Board. At the end of the year, the pilot with the most missions flown will recieve an Iron Star with Platinum Wings and the title of "Ace of the TIE Corps".
The competition is open to all members of the TIE Corps and the counts are based on missions. Thus a battle will earn you more points than a free mission. The June 2006 division of the competition will end on 30th June, so get flying. Good luck!
* Imperial Alliance Propoganda Festival
Submit content to help promote Imperial Alliance. This can include banners, slogans, etc. The best entry each week will get an IS-GR. The best entry overall will be selected when Imperial Alliance is released and will be awarded an IS-PR. Email entries to propoganda@ehtiecorps.org. Competition will run through January 30th, 2007.
* Quote of the Week competition
Got some funny IRC quotes? Send them in! Top 3 submissions per week earn an IS-BR; top 3 submissions per month earn an IS-SR; IS-PR to the yearly winner, IS-GR to second best yearly submission, and a IS-SR to the third best yearly submissions. Email the quotes to FA Joe (Noon001@aol.com). Only rules are they must have been said within the last 2 weeks (no old, archived quotes) and you can't send in quotes of things that you have said. Must be amusing things others have said. Competition will run through January 21st, 2007.
* Wing X Pilot of the Week/Month 2
Each week the Wing X Commander will choose a pilot he believes has performed better then any other pilot on the ship that week. At the end of the month, Challenge Commodore will look at the overall performance of every Pilot of the Week for that month, and will choose one of them to become the Pilot of the Month. Each Pilot of the Week will be awarded an IS-BR and each Pilot of the Month will be awarded an IS-SR. The Wing X Pilot of the week will always be chosen in the “Dark Lord of the Week” Section of this report.
Dark Lord of the Week
The highly prestigious title of Dark Lord of the Week is only given to the person who has most advanced the success of the Wing, amused the Wing Commander, or slipped me the most $5 notes in a brown paper bag. The Dark Lord of the Week is also the ISD Challenge’s Pilot of the Week, and so gets an IS-BR. This week's winner is:
CM John T. Clark, for being the only one to participate in the Fiction Competition!!!
Ewok of the Week
Yub Yub!
Every story has a hero, every journey has a first step, every Fleet has a pilot who's about as much use as an ashtray on a speeder bike. This weeks's Prize Ewok is none other than:
Everyone besides Clark, for not participating in the fiction comp >:P
Quote of the Week
Impulse: “I wish i could go to bed as student and wake up as president :)”
Clark: “Bah, who want's to be president! Now going to bed alone and waking up to soem nice girls, that would be much better. (Especially if they brought beer)”
Mosh: “yeah people get kinda annoyed it you do that when you're the president. (am I just getting confused here?)”
Oskar: “I just had a beer and what I read was a bit weird,"I like to go to bed as a student and wake up with the president", really weird image :P”
Morpheus: “sounds like you had more than one beer...”
Statistics
Commodore: RA Daniel Bonini
FCHG Points: 1183 (Tesserarius)
Wing Commander: TBA
FCHG points: 0 (None)
Thunder Squadron
Pilots: 8
FCHG points combined: 2273
Average: 284,125 (Knight)
Typhoon Squadron
Pilots: 6
FCHG points combined: 3531
Average: 588,500 (Aquilifer)
Inferno Squadron
Pilots: 11
FCHG points combined: 5828
Average: 529,818 (Aquilifer)
Cyclone Squadron
Pilots: 9
FCHG points combined: 11989
Average: 1332,111 (Tesserarius)
Tornado Squadron
Pilots: 8
FCHG points combined: 2726
Average: 340,750 (Paladin)
Omicron Squadron
Pilots: 7
FCHG points combined: 4526
Average: 646,571 (Aquilifer)
Wing X Overall (Commodore not included)
Wing Commander: 1
Pilots: 49
Total FCHG points: 30873
Ship Average: 630,061 (Aquilifer)
Reports received
Thunder Squadron: received
Typhoon Squadron: not received
Inferno Squadron: delayed
Cyclone Squadron: received
Tornado Squadron: received
Omicron Squadron: received and received last week’s on time
Last week the mailing list was a little messed up, but it’s all back to normality now...
Conclusion
Well....not too many changes in this report from when I was Wing Commander, right? But I’ll try to come up with something more COM like in the next few days...but I’d really like to have something in HTML, especially because of the TC database uploads...My WC reports uploaded look terrible...
And well, I have just moved my office, but the door will still be always open to any of you, especially for the ones who bring along a bottle :) For my new post, I have to thank Talons for the confidence in me, and thank you all for making my TC experience a lot of fun. I’ll do my best as COM, of that you can be certain. Thank you, and let’s hope we can find a great WC!!
Have a great week :)
Links
TC Site: http://www.ehtiecorps.org/news.asp
ISD Challenge: http://isdchallenge.tcbg.net/
MB's: http://mb.emperorshammer.net/
mIRC: http://www.mirc.com/
ChalRadio: www.chalradio.com
If you get mIRC, join an undernet server and join #wing_x.
Respectfully submitted
COM/RA Daniel Bonini/ISD Challenge
GS/SS/BSx3/PCx16/ISMx19/MoI/IS-9BW-6BR-9SW-5SR-4GW-1GR-1PR/LoC-Rx3/MoC-2BoC/CoLx3/CoB/LoAx2/OV-7E [TSRS] {IWATS-BFM-CBX-HIST-IBX-ICQ-LIN-MP/1-SM/3-TM/1-TT-WM-WPN-XTT-XWAC-XWAI}
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