ACTASF: Do you want to see your name in print?

[Jean]

Do you want to see your name in print? If so, there is a simple way to do so.

ADB, Inc. has a long history of publishing short tactical articles from players. For ACTASF, these will be Call Out Notes. Submit your best tactics, cool ideas, and ways to blow up your fellow players' ships (or to avoid that fate!) and you have a chance of seeing it published. These papers are graded for how useful they are and legality, so you should see some good ideas. You do have to use your real name (so you can get credited properly). They will be edited prior to publication so that any little bobbles you made should be smoothed out.

Submit them either on our Forum: http://www.starfleetgames.com/federation/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4223

Or the BBS: http://www.starfleetgames.com/discus/messages/27411/29306.html?1323408140

I hope to see your name in print!

Jean

 

[scoutdad]

We just got our first Call-out Note submission from a regular poster on this forum!

thanks,

 

[Jean]

And I hope to see many, many more. The knowledge base of ACTA players will help new players from the SFB side of the captain's chair.

Jean

 

[Ben2]

Will you be taking scenarios as well?

 

[Jean]

Ben2, my understanding is yes. However, these have to be consistent with the history of the SFU as that is how the history is created. We cannot have Captain Kexton on the Eastern Front fighting in the Klingon Emperor on Day One and Day Three have her on the Western Front commanding the Warrior Spirit. (Obviously the names are made up in the example. ) Many of our new writers are successful with a generic situation. Me, I do the social history and work on The Olivette Roche Files.

Suggestions:

1. Have a catchy title: The latest one I did was "Free the Space Boars" and was inspired by an offhand mention of a situation in one of Petrick's space critter articles.

2.: Think of a twist: Free Willy meets Charlotte's Web -- only the truth is the Feds need to protect the space boar from poachers. Make sure that what you are suggesting could have happened. Kzintis fighting Gorns may not have happened except by crazed cadets running a simulation.

3. Set it up, run with it, submit it.

Does that help?

Jean

 

[Sgt_G]

Jean, why does "Pigs In Space" pop into my head?

Ben2, as Jean said, and confirmed from my experience as a long-time player, ADB has always been open to player submission. Scenarios are a dime a dozen. Good scenarios are gold. Great scenarios with a good fiction story to go with it are precious gems. The real trick is getting the story past Jean's Purple Pen Of Doom, and then get it by Steve Petrick's tactical mind, before it gets to Steve Cole for final review.

 

[Jean]

Sgt_G, it never gets to me and the Purple Pen of Perdition if the Steves haven't already selected it. I have the least amount of time to work on projects of anyone in the company, so they carefully use it on approved projects.

Jean

 

[Rick]

Of course you could have a situation where the Federation has been running simulations based on possible (if highly unlikely or bizarre) situations - I'm thinking of the kind of hypothetical studies that a lot of armed forces have gone in for over the years - like the various 'colour' plans the US had prior to WW2, or plans like the British 'Operation Unthinkable' in 1946. Then you could have some odd match-ups!! :shock:

 

[Jean]

Rick, that is a work-around, but you do have to have a compelling story to see it published. Basically anyone can throw together two fleets and have a duel. What sells the scenario is the story behind it or a special situation (duel and have X happen).

Jean

 

[Captain Jonah]

Or to put it another way, if the attackers in the great "Space Boar" rustle are one of the plasma races you get ready cooked space pork :lol: