[Scotty]

We've alreadly mostly decided on when the campaign takes place.

[Dilmah G]

let's remember to include the battle of neptune in it then...

There's a battle of Neptune mission lying around (the same one that was in the video).

[starlord]

has there been any follow ups regarding that idea recently? it would be nice to see a bit more of neptune in WIH...

[Dilmah G]

Snail and I had some dev discussions, we had a few other guys join (can't remember all of you at the moment, sorry) and I don't know what's happened nao. Snail's had some RL issues and well, my responsibility with RL stuff has multiplied massively since then, having an inverse effect on my freespace time.

[Scotty]

I'm still alive, but college is making time a little more difficult to find to work on campaigns.

[Snail]

If there still is to be a Tev campaign I'm thinking it would probably come in the form of a few vaguely connected mission sets rather than a single linear campaign.

[Dilmah G]

Yeah, that was a topic of our conversations on the dev channel at some stage. Although we did have a fairly character-driven story at one stage, there were several factors that would've made its implementation hard, not the least being that none of us did any fulltime writing. That's not to say we couldn't write and had no experience with writing, but our lack of extensive experience would've made the process tedious.

Anyway, if anyone with time and effort comes along, I'm not sure many members of the team would object to the release of our dev pieces to you.

[-Sara-]

Would probably work great in a flashback narrative style, not unlike Vasago's Dirge but with a twist. The player starts as a GTVA pilot* who gets to face defeat in the Delenda Est mission where the pilot their life literally flashes before their eyes, portraying missions which likely took place before and later some during the WiH storyline. After this flashback containing several missions, with and some without briefing, the closure mission picks off where the first mission stalled and the player is saved by the Imperious (sp?). Optional would be a few extended minutes during that closure where the few wargod pilots who purposedly stayed behind are defeaten by the player, or perhaps are talked entirely into surrendering by a merciful Lopez once their capital ship is destroyed.

*Gender and name chosen to fit the story, perhaps a unisex name to leave the gender undisclosed.

[Jellyfish]

*Gender and name chosen to fit the story, perhaps a unisex name to leave the gender undisclosed.

Why not Alpha 1?

[SomeGuyWithAName]

"We're not sure if it's a boy or a girl Mr. and Mrs. One, how about you call it Alpha?"

So far BP didn't really go for the Alpha 1 way of a silent protagonist, but fleshed them out and gave them names and personality. Of course the Tev campaign could go an entirely different route, but I don't think it would fit much. -Sara-'s idea actually sounds like it could fit right into BP canon in matters of style.

[Snail]

Actually we were going with the idea that the squadron would use callsigns rather than full names.

[Scotty]

I'd say callsigns on missions and as terms of endearment perhaps, and surnames when rank is pulled/used.

We actually, at one point, had an entire squadron fleshed out with pilots who had full names, callsigns, specific quirks and attitudes.

Then RL got in the way for all involved.

[SomeGuyWithAName]

Well, fair enough. As long as the overall mission design is on par, I don't care if the missions aren't full of character development and a fleshed out protagonist. The main hurdle I guess is making a war that is mostly defined by being a stalemate and war of attrition all that engaging. But that's not too difficult, especially if you jump around the timeline a bit, concentrating on interesting operations.

If this is really being done, I'm eagerly awaiting it's release.

[Scotty]

Hey gais (meaning Snail and Dilmah, really), I'mma try and get this off the ground again.  Unless either of you still has the time to lead, I'm going to just go ahead with it.

[Dilmah G]

Well whilst I don't have the time to contribute greatly now, I can drop by to bounce ideas off, etc. Although I can return as a full timer in about two weeks if that's cool with you?

[Scotty]

Yeah, that's fine.  I'm going to try and keep progress at at least some level above zero until then.

[Dilmah G]

Roger.

[Snail]

Cool. I'll see if I can get a missions or two done at some point...

[Dilmah G]

Yeah, the three of us should get together soonish and chat about where we are at the moment.

[Scotty]

My FREDing repetoire just increased considerably.