Combat Master Report

2008/08/28, 10:00 PM, Combat Master - Society Leaders

Report time.

The site went down and up. It's back, so yay, right? Sort of. Apparently, there have been some issues, and people have not been able to post in their battles, or make challenges. I'm not sure what's up, but I did pass on the emails I've received to Jac and given him the heads up on it. If and when he figures out what it is and gives me the 411 on it, I'll be sure to pass it on.

Taldryan completed their Swift Justice competition, and the Clans of Arcona, Plagueis and Scholae Palatinae completed their Three-Way Feud, as well. Good job all around. I hope it was fun for everyone (minus the site downtime for the Three-Way Feud).

Stuff slowed down dramatically for everything, the ACC included during the downtime. I'm sorry about that, but it happens. My suggestion to you for the future would be this: expect the unexpected. Sites go down, whether through scheduled maintenance or otherwise. The good coding people try to limit how much our site is down, and we appreciate them for that. But for the future, to prevent losses from happening (to info) like this again, try and save your fight/fight posts in a document on your own computer so you don't have to start from scratch.

With things being up and running again, we're going to be getting back on track to where we need to go. Changes are in the works for the ACC, and I'm going to make a quick rundown of a couple of things that will be affecting people the most.

1) Custom Weapons are being wiped clean. Yep, everything approved thus far is being unapproved and done away with, but not forever. In the past, Custom Races were almost freely allowed, and then smart people decided that, since there is such variety in Star Wars, there had to be good reason for new, Custom Races, and good reasons why we had not heard of them before. Stuff like that. This is basically what's going to happen with Custom Weapons. Look over what info is needed for Custom Races, and you'll have an idea of what will be required of you to send in for your weapons. I will also point out that, much like Custom Races, Custom Weapons will not be limited to specific people/one person, but will probably be added to the Weapons list as a whole.

2) The ACC Armory is being wiped clean. No more magic gauntlets, or "Champion's" weapons and stuff. The weapons list is even being redone, and what it will be is a representation of the ACC's own armory (i.e. the weapons you can check out/use while at the ACC facility that you don't own). It won't list everything. I can't imagine the DB is going to hunt down relic weapons "just cuz." We're going to offer to train people in weapons that art state of the art, and actually provide a benefit to our warriors. Why would we arm people with swords and train them to fight Jedi, when Jedi fight with lightsabers and blasters, and other state of the art stuff? There's more to it, but that's as basic as I can make it for now.

3) Clan Weapons. I liked the idea of Taldryan's Ateliuc Blade in the ACC Armory, and I figured, since the weapon is designed to really mesh with their Clan Powers and enhance that aspect, why wouldn't every Clan have something similar? So yeah, I want to see each Clan have a unique weapon that is held by one person at a time, the method of gaining it determined by the Clan, etc. So I'll see what I can do to work with the Clan Summits on possibly making a competition to create it and stuff. We'll see what they want to do.

4) I recently got a new computer. I can game again. I like a lot of what Dante has planned, and since he has been active in the ACC and really trying to work a bond between gaming and the ACC from his end, since I can game again now, I'd like to try and help out from the opposite end. How does this affect you? Who knows, but you may see me getting sniped by Kraval again once in a while, depending on whether he's gaming lazy still. That's right, I'm throwing down the gauntlet, punk.