Steve,
As an inhabitant of the SFU since 1980, Play tester and player of ACTASF; I want to thank you, Jean, Leanna & Steven P.; for all the time and work that you are putting in to getting Book 2 finally released.

Tom

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 11:50 am: Edit

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break to walk 250 steps, see "FitBit".

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 04:16 pm: Edit

Break for lunch
Break to buy new shoes
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3:16 page 45 done, book is 1/4 done.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 05:08 pm: Edit

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4:08 page 52 done, scenario chapter 7 finished

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 05:13 pm: Edit

Cover

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 05:31 pm: Edit

CHAPTER ELEVEN LOOKS SUPER EASY!

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(Chapter 11, seven pages, finished)

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 06:12 pm: Edit

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Chapter 10 done, 13 pages total

total done 72

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 07:04 pm: Edit

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Chapter 9 done, 13 pages

Total pages done 85 out of 180.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 08:33 pm: Edit

7:00 dinner over
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Federation Ships Done
Chapters 9-10-11: 33 more pages done
Total 95 pages

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 09:16 pm: Edit

I'd like to note this about the cover. It reminded me of ACTASF players who set up their ships in deployment zones or set-up areas before the ships engage. This looks to me like those ships have just been set up by the players and they are ready to start moving in to fight.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 09:23 pm: Edit

8:22 Klingons done, 12 pages. 63-74
Total 107 pages done.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 09:53 pm: Edit

8:52 Romulans done, 10 pages 75-84.
Total 117 pages done.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 04:58 am: Edit

At 8:53 I ordered the crew home for the night.

The Kzintis are on my desk to fix next. I already made Petrick's Gorn fixes and Jean said she lacked three Gorn ships.

There are still 63 pages for me to fix but I was clipping along at three minutes a page so about three or four hours of work yet to go.

Jean is much slower at six minutes per page but she only lacks 50 pages so five hours.

Then there is the "check changes and fix what I missed" step which might be an hour.

Building the PDF could take on hour or three but that will overlap Jean's stuff so total of six or seven hours of work, plus doing the actual uploading. We should get that done by Tuesday night but if Leanna leaves before we get there she might upload it to W23 Wednesday. It might not reach the street until sometime Wednesday or Thursday.

But it will get there, this week.

ACTA players waited long enough.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 10:45 am: Edit

9:30am it begins
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9:39 page 90
9:40 page 91
9:42 page 92
Kzintis done, 8 pages
total 125 pages done

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 11:06 am: Edit

10:00 all footers reset to read REVISION 1.

10:07 Four paragraphs added to page 174 that Jean will never know were added so she won't be able to proofread them.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 12:06 pm: Edit

Searched every chapter for battlestation and changed it to battle station because Jean said to.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 12:49 pm: Edit

Perhaps she feels she is not busy enough and you could change random Battle Stations to BattLe StAtIoNs.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 12:52 pm: Edit

Is it "starbase" or "star base"??


Garth L. Getgen

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 01:20 pm: Edit

12:14 Lunch over
Gorns done (8 pages)

Total 133 pages (1-100, 148-180) out of 180, 47 to go.
40 of those have been read by Petrick, 0 by Jean.

By Tony L. Thomas (Scoutdad) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 01:24 pm: Edit

Steve...
And Jean, Leanna, and other Steve!

Thanks for pushing this through. I know I've been a royal PITA, and dealing with my cursed MS type files have been even worse, but your efforts are greatly appreciated.

I shall be at your beck and call for the next three months fixing anything I messed up - and working on Book 3!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 02:14 pm: Edit

1:13 WYN done, 2 pages

Total 135 pages done
Remaining 45 pages read by Petrick
Jean is reading them now.

I am doing 21 starlist requests that got buried in over 2000 spam messages while I am waiting for the next thing to fix.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 03:00 pm: Edit

2pm update

Monsters read (2 pages)
137 pages finished,
43 to be ready by Jean (Thol, Orion, Selt, Civs)

PDF status: 4 pages done, 176 to go

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 03:48 pm: Edit

3pm update

Seltorians done (10 pages)

Total 147 pages done
33 to be read by Jean
Turns out Petrick still lacks 7, my mistake.

PDF status: 4 pages done, 176 to go.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 05:17 pm: Edit

4:25 update

Orions done (11 pages)

Total 158 pages done
22 to be read by Jean (15 Tholian, 7 Civvies)
0 to be read by Petrick

PDF status: 18 pages done, 162 to go.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 05:35 pm: Edit

We aren't going to get this uploaded tonight but we will tomorrow. Current math metrics predict completion around 8pm and Leanna has to be home before 6pm.

I had promised Leanna that neither of us would work tomorrow but she has agreed to swing by the office just long enough to do the upload.