#Whats new in battletech flashpoint android

#Whats new in battletech flashpoint android

I stumbled into the nearly forgotten map database and after the Android app’s success I decided to port it into the app. In 2014 I reviewed all the site’s features: what can I transfer to the mobile platform and what will remain online-only. The Mech Factory is big, and there are always missing designs. The team also disassembled after the creation and we looked for other tasks. Trouble for us, programmers, trouble for the users. But it was Flash, and Flash means trouble. It had a route planner, descriptions, search and almost all the features we have today. The second version was a moderate success, lots of people loved it. Although ENCGAL is not a canon source, it is quite good. We reviewed and cleaned it, and integrated that database with ours. Somewhere at the end of development we found a table named Encyclopedia Galactica that had descriptions (mostly from the 3025 era) about most of the Inner Sphere’s planets. Cartographers that time used Photoshop and Excel to pinpoint locations it was tedious work. I created the second version’s Flash-based interface (with some expert help from Endrosz, who was also Commando that time), and during this time Shadowhawk and Killer took the map database, corrected it, mapped missing planets using 3063 official map files, and created affiliation information. We named it the Inner Sphere Cartography Project (ISCP), and started work. Shortly after the first map, I assembled a team of Mech Factory contributors to create a more sophisticated second version. I took the data and began building the first mapping system on php/javascript basis.Īlthough in some aspects the first version was a failure (technology at that time was unable to handle such a big map in a browser, making it very slow), it proved the concept to be viable. I thought that a better, usable internet-based map would be a great tool for BattleTech players – especially for those people, who –like my team- are playing BattleTech RPG (MechWarrior was the name at that time). That time we had only a deprecated 16 bit program and a text file with coordinates for 3025-era planets. Phoenix Wolf: An early idea to create an interactive stellar map of all known BattleTech worlds appeared around 2001. This was announced on their main page which includes an overview of its changes.įor more we asked MechFactory’s owner, Pheonix Wolf about the changes:īobTheZombie: How and when did this project get started? In September, MechFactory released a new and improved iteration of their ISCP, or Inner Sphere Cartography Project.