[WIP] Letters From Home Mod

[GoldenRivet]

("Your brother, Kurt, was recently injured in the retreat from Benghazi last month." etc)

LFH MOD translates this as "Your Brother, Kurt, Has not been heard from for almost two months now." or similar message. Occasionally, the sensors will in fact heavily edit a message from home

How will the 'letter' appear onscreen? As a popup? I would suppose that Scones will be the guru for that since they will be part of his commander program.

this has not been finalized and will ultimately be up to JScones... however, my thinking is that there will be an addition to the menu where you can select "update your personnel file, manage your crew, review your patrol logs, CHECK MAIL." or some similar function.

Is the group listed at the beginning the entire group writing, or are you accepting volunteers with some writing experience and a reasonable command of the language?

so far, yes. more volunteers are needed, ideally as much as 15 total would be good but probably not more than that.

I should think that the writing group will be rather small and, thus, able to communicate via personal email. Perhaps a free email account used by all - such as Lycos, Qmail, hotmail, Juno or some equivalent - would suffice. In that case writers can move product around the horn with ease and rapidity and keep the suspense behind the tapestry, as it were. I would not broadcast too much to the sim world or the randomness and mystery will be at least diluted if not destroyed.

Im looking into options for alternative means of communication, however with the Easter Holiday holidays we are on a bit of a slow weekend to start with. Im open to suggestions at this point and we should have something resolved by the end of the week.

Might be helpful to see if one can involve a female writer. Hairy males are at a disadvantage when it comes to simulating "Anna" or "Schwester Liese" or a mother.

This i have considered but i can only work with those who volunteer. I guess as players of SH3 and as males - we sort of know what sort of things we want to hear from our "Annas and Elizabeths" at least one of our members has military experience and is used to reading these letters - we all know what sort of things moms say when they write to us or call

[GoldenRivet]

Great News -

Brag - our esteemed colleague and author of "Kingmaker" and the Balz saga has just agreed to help us out with the mod.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

Great News -

Brag - our esteemed colleague and author of "Kingmaker" and the Balz saga has just agreed to help us out with the mod.

indeed! His stuff should be epic!


Wait, no.... on second thought, kick him out. He'll make me look bad

[JScones]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

("Your brother, Kurt, was recently injured in the retreat from Benghazi last month." etc)

LFH MOD translates this as "Your Brother, Kurt, Has not been heard from for almost two months now." or similar message. Occasionally, the sensors will in fact heavily edit a message from home

I assume letters will also include information tainted by propaganda + fog of war? For example, mention of the pending great victory at Stalingrad, or the great fightback against the Americans in North Africa (for example)?

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

How will the 'letter' appear onscreen? As a popup? I would suppose that Scones will be the guru for that since they will be part of his commander program.

this has not been finalized and will ultimately be up to JScones... however, my thinking is that there will be an addition to the menu where you can select "update your personnel file, manage your crew, review your patrol logs, CHECK MAIL." or some similar function.

Correct, it will be a new action titled "Read mail" (because all the letters you've received so far will be there to view).