P.C. Shannon

I’ve been looking for a way to play BattleTech with Jeff for some time. For various reasons, I’ve limited my search to play-by-e-mail (PBEM) solutions. There aren’t really any specific for BattleTech, but there’s Cyberboard, which is a good “electronic cardboard” tool. We would still have to keep track of everything manually, plus check each other’s calculations by hand. And with the way the turn sequence works in BT, it’s just way more work than it’s worth. So I’ve decided to write one on my own. Wesley’s friend Andrew has generously offered to help on the server side. I’ve been doing a lot of background work lately, laying out a strategy and whatnot. I will have to learn some new languages (Javascript, PHP, and a little MySQL basically), but I already understand the programming concepts involved. I wrote a decent little n-tier app when I was still doing IT stuff, and this isn’t too different. It’s just that implementing all the game rules will be a little tricky. I’m looking forward to it, and most of all, to finally whooping Jeff’s ass good.