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"I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck."

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Welcome to my forty-third public report as a Science Officer, part 2 of 2 (and will only elaborate on site changes and such). Onwards to the news:

Science Office News:

  1. The last report had all the recent patch releases, but it did not elaborate on what it meant: We now have 362 patches on the patch archive, meaning that we not only have passed "SCO3C" (in the line of IWATS3K and TAC3K) - but also that I personally have released over 300 patches since I became SCO (averaging on at least a patch per 2 days). Sadly for you, we already celebrated these milestones privately in the lab ;)
  2. It also means that we now have ALL craft from X-Wing Alliance available for TIE95, XvT and BoP, another milestone. This however means that for now the stream of patches will partially dry up as we focus more on Imperial Alliance. (More on that in my next report.)
  3. Mostly site related news this week, with a lot of made and planned changes to the SCO site:
    • With the new TC site (yay ast!) all links there will be updated, which means we'll have a new version of the Order of Battle for one, and other such updates.
    • However: All SCO reports, also the latest, have been uploaded to the new site already and the SCO site can now also be found under http://sco.ehtiecorps.org
    • I have been upgrading the Fleet Manual with the help of Zeth, Shinobi and Archnagel. They have been making a lot of missing pictures of the craft which made it possible for me to add a lot of new ones.
    • The Fleet Manual also has been reorganized in layout and directories - And now comes with links to craft patches, if available or needed. Similarly, the Patch Archive now has links to Fleet Manual entries, when available.
    • Another new fancy Fleet Manual feature is that of being able to view the 3D DXF model of the craft, interactively. A beta of this is available for the CD's Enforcer Picket Ship: http://www.minos.net/~sco/fleet-manual/dxf/dxfeps.html This will also offer the opportunity to download these 3D models, making the Fleet Manual not only an advanced patch archive, but also a "Star Wars Modelling Alliance".:)
    • These and other updates should gradually progress throughout the site, since its all HTML this may take a while though. *slappers the IO for keeping him on the line for a database for 2 years...* ;P
  4. I'm working on a new model for the Dominator-class Corvette (D-CRV), the personal ship of our Recon Officer. Should be released to the FM and as patch for TIE, XvT, BoP and XWA as soon as I've textured it. You can see a preview at : http://www.minos.net/~sco/fleet-manual/dxf/dxfdcrv.html
  5. *waves hand* Vote for the SCO site in the Holonet awards... its the biggest, baddest and has none of that sissy database stuff ;)

Science Office Status:

CA:SCO: Admiral Darkhill has been working on a newer version of our IA .exe's and testing it.

SCOA: CPT Tim has been working on new models for all craft in IA and helping in testing the new features of the .exe's.

Site: The Science Office site can be found at http://sco.minos.net or via the redirect http://scienceoffice.isCool.net. The mirror can be found at http://www.gimmie.tudelft.nl/homes/blok10b/ender/sco. Fleet Manual has been added to.

Science Office Projects:

Imperial Alliance: With the release of the freely available source code of FS2, we have started on making a Star Wars game out of it. We can freely distribute a finished game as long as we have all our own data files (graphics, sounds, models etc). About all craft from X-Wing have been added and most of the interface has been replaced. We're currently making adjustments to the craft models and integrating Multi Player.

XvT/BoP/TIE95 Ship patches: This project's goal was to add all the original and Order of Battle craft that are still "missing" from these games, like the SSD in TIE and XvT, the Medium Transport in all etc. Currently all "missing" craft have been added to these games by use of the EHSPs and all XWA craft have also been released as loose patches for TIE, XvT and BoP. Almost done.

Finishing up:

I think that's it - If I've forgotten anything or if you have comments, suggestions or corrections, let me know via email or look us up at #science_office. Don't forget that all the projects are described in more detail on the SCO site.

(use only mindb_ender@hotmail.com for official SCO mails.) or ICQ (9706474). Preferably do not mail large files to me, but DCC them via IRC I’m practically always online at #science_office, #emperor’s_hammer and #tiecorps using the nick MindB_ndr (or variations.)
 
All my SCO reports are available online as well: you can reach them on the SCO site but they are on the TIE Corps site, CS reports, as well.

Until next time, good luck and have fun!

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