Sunday ND Briefing - and more

We had an Officers night at the ND Division last night.
All the guys are really working hard to make this the best Division in TAW,
so it always feels good when an opportunity to bling them out presents itself.

For long and reliable Service

Dapeople and DirtyDozen have been in TAW for 2 years!
Time flies when you are having fun, and it seem like only yesterday that Dirty and me were trying insane tactics with
artillery propelled infantry air-strikes.
True story!

Congratulations dudes, it's always fun with you guys around, and I hope to give a few more of these out.

New CO for EU Battalion

Metamorphyse is moving on to the CO position, and while so doing receives a bump up to Captain.
Congrats, man!

We wouldn't like him to leave the XO-Office empty handed though, not after all the things he have done to the place.
He is therefore the recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal.
Both me and Dirty are really impressed with the way the XO-Office have been run, so well deserved Meta!

Its dangerous out there,
take one of these...

New XO

Taking over the well warmed up seat in the XO-Office is Recyclic.
Recyclic receives a bump up to Second Lieutenant as well as the following advice:
Cat-herding is an art-form, dude!

Other promotions

Icewhynd receives a promotion as well and his new rank is First Lieutenant.
He have done an awesome job in keeping the ND-Division populated (despite the XO's best efforts ),
keeping the bootcamp manual updated and still having time for training new DI's.
Well deserved, Ice!

There is another promotion batch coming as well.
Rumour has it that it will be in connection with the restart of DEFCON 2

Servers

The new server is in need of some tweaking as for ports to all the ND instances.
We (meaning the Server Administrator, Weirdlooking) is working on it, and it should be resolved shortly.
The problem is that we are trying to run 8 instances at the same time, which is causing a conflict in the port assignments.
For now, we have to make due without the dedicated Training servers, but the Match servers are still available if any member needs them.

Also coming up on the new machine is a second Pub play server.
Pub #2 will have custom maps and Friendly Fire on.
As we know from our internal matches, Friendly Fire isn't - so lets hope that this will promote some aiming on the Pub

NA practices - still awesome

If you have some time over in the middle of the night, or just happens to live nearby, I would recommend you to take a visit to the ND NA practices.
Dapeope have made weird and awesome game modes into an art-form, and it's always a treat to play a few rounds
with the NA folks. I suggest you try it out!
NA plays Wednesdays at 21:00 EST (03:00 CET, Thursday in EU).
Dapeoples flight attendance approach alone makes it worth the visit

ND Keys still available

In case you missed it, I still have a bunch of keys to give out to active players.
If you know someone that might be interested in the game, or a friend that you think should join our merry band,
then let me know and I send you a key. Details in this post:
http://taw.net/forums/p/3591/16437.aspx

Scrim coming

Just after the Sunday Mandatory, I got contacted by the nice folks from Chaos.
They would fancy a scrim with us, and I think we should oblige.
If you are interested, the primary time for this is this Sunday around dinner EU / noon-ish NA.
More details will be given as they are ironed out, but in the meantime you can send a mail to
Metamorphyse at his @taw.net address. First come, first served.

ND Survey

Finally, I would urge you all to take this Nuclear Dawn Survey:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDhRQWprdU1HR0Rub19GbDFNcF9ONkE6MQ
This will help the developers to know where to focus their limited resources.
It's not every game that have developers that are as dedicated to their games as InterWave, so please take the time
to let them know what you think.

That is all for now, shoot you guys in the face later!