Future Release Notes

Regarding Empire Related Plug-ins

I've recently had some emails from fans wondering if I will be releasing any future plug-ins for either EVC or NOVA. At this time I have done all I can with the EVC engine and hope to soon move on to NOVA, though any future releases are going to depend on available time as I am currently in England preparing for an eventual higher degree (I am a zoologist by profession).

At this time:

All of my past seven plugs are being converted to NOVA format though I do not know of any determined or tentative release dates at the moment.

I have two NOVA plugs planned, though due to ship/outfit availability changes have been made which are as follows. I intend to put out a third and final chapter of my Pirate Trilogy, tentatively titled DARK STAR RISING, which takes place not long after certain actions in BOTK. I intend to make it the most challenging and downright hardcore of the three in terms of play difficulty and storyline. There would be several factions to play for including TAG, the Telesian Bastards, drug syndicates, the remnants of the Darkside Faction and the surprise return of a figure previously thought lost.

My second planned release would be a direct follow up to HEART OF DARKNESS which takes place twenty years after the destruction wrought by the Grach'ta Dominion, a galaxy where there are numerous new governments competing for limited resources and influence in the power vacuum created by the virtual annihalation of both the Empire and Weave Alliance. In this story you will play a character living on the fringes of society, largely exiled due to your family's connections to the once mighty Terran Star Empire. This will be similar to E2 in that there will be many different factions to get sidelined by in addition to a main storyline in which the fate of the galaxy is decided once and for all. After that there will be no more additions to the Empire storyline.

Anyhow, thanks to everyone for keeping all seven of my plugs in the Top Ten lists and as long as people keep playing my scenarios I will likely keep releasing them, though I cannot give any definite timetables at this point.

Regards and Season's Greetings,

Tim

www.evula.org/empire_trilogy

Keep 'em coming.

I just have one eency weency complaint.

I'm playing Empire of Crime right now, for Triad, and the 20% probability for receiving missions is killing me. (I am too lazy to fix with ResEdit, and shouldn't have to).

Still, I love your plugs. Keep up the excellent work. The Blockade Runner = WAAAGH!!!!!

please, PLEASE, return the state of combat to what it was in Empires 1-3. I didn't play EoC for the reason that the combat wasn't a third as good as Empire 1's combat. Bring back slow large ships that can give out a beating and take one as well! ^_^