Freelancer:Black Dawn Mod for Freelancer Green versus Gold news

Yes, I know these aren't regular any more. I'm doing my best to bring stuff when it happens!! *scowl*

As a few of you may have noticed, our Lead-Dev-Who-Had-A-Few-Problems-Recently-And-Just-Got-Admin-Status-Back Dark Angel posted about the server having been taken offline until further notice. Well, I felt it important we give our memberbase the REASON as to why it has been taken down.

For the last little while, a lot of the Devs have been messing around with finals and the close of school, which made it difficult for us to make any significant progress towards a new release for you all to play. Well, except for one Dev; Avenger was always on the ball with everything he ever did. So much so that he'd be done before WE thought we were done even discussing the topic! (That's good, by the way; Avenger rocks) Well, with the close of Finals for a few of us, we're finally read to start making that significant progress we so longed for towards a goal we've had in mind and longed for just as long: GREEN vs. GOLD! The server will be down for the next little while as we finish up with the necessary coding, and begin the testing of both server- and client-side programs. The Devs will be those testers for now, and then we'll let you know as soon as GREEN vs. GOLD is ready to go!!

With the above posted in mind, it's become increasingly important for everyone to be on a team that wishes to participate in the GREEN vs. GOLD Alpha Test. If you're not on a team, sign-up in the Recruitment thread now! If you HAVE and haven't been assigned yet, please let us know by posting in a soon-to-be-made "FIX ME NAO!" Thread I'll make in the General Board.

Also of note is that Dark Angel is stepping down from the position of GOLD Team Leader! We can't have a GOLD Team without a leader, can we? So, we're going to start a "Make Me GOLD Lead!" Thread soon that will have an application to fill out if you think you have what it takes to be a leader! After the application cut-off date, the Developers will collaborate and vote on who we think will best fill the role, and then GOLD Team will once again have a brave and valiant leader.

GREEN vs. GOLD is very rapidly nearing its completion, and you've gotta sign up for a team if you want to participate! So hop to it!

That's right! Someone came to me personally the other day and said "Hey, Desc? I wanna help." After doing a quick series of tests on the subject, including a rigorous obstacle course, intense psychic strain, and kicking my butt repeatedly on Halo, we found him to be an acceptable candidate, and he has joined our group!

Everyone say hi to Silkut X, our new Concept Artist! I've... well, had a little trouble getting him to hold still long enough for me to interview him, but we'll be certain to post his work as soon as we get some shiny new ideas for him to try. He'll also be filling a role of custom texturer (as in making custom textures to set aside a few of the storyline-important ships we'll need) as soon as we have... textures for him to customize.

What with GREEN vs. GOLD finally nearing it's "playable" status, I'm working hard on making this into a good, solid, and interesting storyline. Voice-acting will hopefully be returning for briefings, a new AI will be arriving (We'll let you know when it's for real, so you don't suspect foul play or anything), and storyline will be moving forward! "Woot" doesn't begin to cover how excited I am.

So, again, SIGN UP! And get ready for awesome.

~Dark_Angel, Lead Coder