Auto Mission System (AMS)
Brainstorm

• Spawn points, instead of missions.
• Where a viable brigade spawn point or link point is available
• Players spawn in and create missions if they want, or join a mission
• Players can click other players to get them to join a mission (ability to only join friend/squad missions)
• Missions have objectives that the mission leader defines, if those objects are met points awarded
• Can have general play where no points are viable
• Players have tags that mission leaders can take advantage of that mark players looking for a certain type of mission (Armour (Def/Atk), Armour Assist, CP Capture, CP Defence, AB Capture, AB Defence, ATG Assist, Logistics, FB Bust)
• Targets changeable at any time, rolling missions, ability to retarget a mission, multi FB bust session
• Players can search for specific missions while out of game, or in game, filter by specific missions
• Mission builders assign points that they acquire from good missions, more points means more award meaning more people
• Quick generated missions, click specific buildings on map, or that is visible to create a mission
• Players on mission will show up a different colour to those on a mission, auto decline any requests
• Cost to reassign a mission, incomplete missions get a % failure point
• PVP Ladders, including top mission creators, top point accumulator etc

Had a bit of fun, but mostly I did work around the house

Watched the first half of the Chelsea/Everton game, we played pretty well but where easily caught, P.Neville is not a midfielder and T.Hibbert isn’t much use as a right back.   Game ended 1-1 which is a pretty good result for us away at Stamford Bridge these days, so I’m happy with that.

On a sad note, I lost a ship in Eve, lost Anastasia my first cargo carrier.  How sad, silly really I followed a guy into 0.4 space, when I should have gone else where for 30 minutes or something.

Working from home tomorrow as I’m having some loft boards delivered, still got a design document to write so that’ll keep me busy.

This weekend has been pretty good fun, went to watch a nervy game of Everton v’s Birmingham City, we won eventually 3-1, which was only decided in the 4th minute of extra time, 3 really well taken goals.

Had a few too many beers on Saturday night celebrating and played a bit of Eve + BE.

I’m pretty disappointed with BE atm, it seems to be lacking the umpfh that it had a few campaigns ago, the Axis seem to be struggling to come to the concept of playing since their overstock skills disappeared.

Hopefully they will get organised soon, their morale seems to be made of glass these days, too many nay-sayers and not enough cheerleaders over there these days, by all accounts their chat is just about how crap the HC are and how poor their equipment is.

Been there, seen it done it … /sigh.

AdeUK makes me CO of SAS Brigade, timing or what.

So now I’m tasked with getting SAS up and running after trb604 advanced up.  I’m really looking forward to the challenge, with my new .allied tools I’m hoping I will become a good ambassador for the Allies.

Everton won again last night in the Carling Cup, pretty pleased with that, they struggled against the first division side, however Cahill popped up again from a Tommy Gravesen corner to put it away in extra time.

Played a little eve as well last night, while wwiiol is in intermission, fired off a mission cost me a frigate, but I needed one anyway, so I probably made a loss on that mission, need to start working on missions again, last night I was tired and went to bed before 11pm (unheard of!)

Over the last few weeks the Hussars have been going on about Eve and I finally broke down on Saturday morning and resubscribed to the game for a month.

I’ve now reapplied for the old corporation that I helped set-up, hopefully they’ll let me back in.

Last night I slipped out of work early to head over to Goodison Park to watch Everton v’s Larissa in the first group stage of the UEFA Cup.

It was a good match, Everton where being dominated during the first 10 minutes and the crowd where pretty quiet, however we soon took control and from a short corner Osman crossed and Cahill just back from injury directed the ball into the net, probably one of the easiest goals he’ll ever score.

In the second half Everton went 2 up from a sublime piece of football, Cahill again started it by putting Baines clear down the left and he crossed the ball on the floor early for Pienaar to back heel into Osman’s path who hit it low and hard with the outside of his right boot and it swerved delicately in the air and just inside the post with the goalkeeper rooted to the middle of the goal.

The game then turned a little and Larissa came forward and managed to score after a mix up between Howard and Lescott, stupid goal really, however Everton never do things easily (back to chewing the nails).

With less than 10 minutes to play, Everton cleared and the ball rebounded onto Gravesen’s head and he headed it forwards into Anichibes path, he took it in his stride and after shirking off a shoulder barge from Dabiaz (ex-barcode) he managed to tuck the ball into the back of the net with covering defender and keeper wrong footed.

Overall it was a really good game, we played some good football in a 4-5-1 formation which really suits Everton. Man of the Match had to be Cahill, his energy and goal settled Everton into a good stride, he only just pipped Osman to that for me as he again had another good game in the middle of the park.

Highlights

As the Battleground Europe advances, I’m expecting many changes to come along, the next version has already been earmarked for Airgrid (previously Radar)

With this change in place, I then expect probably a great update for the Axis, possibly even coinciding with the Airgrid (1.28) and that would be their factories moving back away from the ground war.

At CRS at the moment is the ‘Air Grid’ technology, which in easy to understand terms is basically an overlay that highlights roughly where the planes currently are and it should cover the entire map.

It got me thinking about how awful the EWS is for the ground war, the first thing you know about an attack is that EWS goes off and you’ve got a truck with an ATG bearing down on you.

It then peaked my interest as to whether Air Grid could be implemented at the ground level, where instead of having EWS icons on towns you get the overlay that you can flick on and off the theatre map that shows the build up of players in an area, of course deciding on the actual size would be the difficult one. Would it take away the possible ’surprise attack’ element?

EWS currently says ‘Hey here we come’, where as having the overlay on say the theatre screen could say, ‘Hey here’s a big group cluster of players’.

Currently I’m running between 2 towns for shits and giggles and while I do that I thought I’d make a post.

Saturday just gone was a fun day, after collecting my Super League Cup Final tickets on Friday evening, myself, Wife & a number of mates from the Village made our way to Old Trafford to endure?  No enjoy a great game of Rugby League.

While the rest of the country was waiting for the Rugby Union to start, there where many of us already enjoying a thrilling match between Leeds Rhino’s & St. Helens.

Leed’s won (yay) and took the cup convincingly from Saints 33-6.

In other news I spent part of today writing an application in php that generates allied signatures, far more entertaining than my real work and it works a treat.  I still need to add most of the ribbons to the database and I’m going to break it down so you can choose each portion easily then move them around so you can get them in the order that you want.

To the UEFA Cup, Everton are now pitted in a fairly difficult group made up of;

• Az Alkmaar (Holland)
• FC Zenit (Russia, St.Petersburg)
• FC Nurnberg (Germany)
• Larissa FC (Greece)

I’m hopeful of beating at least 2 opponents in this group which should be enough to push us through to the knockout stage. Larissa are the team that beat Blackburn, the minnows from Greece played really well, so hopefully Moyse will have his football head on and not his shopping cart packing head on.