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The first Havok Pack is looking pretty good, it isn't huge, but we have learned to leave out the lower quality ansi's from past experience :) New Members: Well since it's the first pack we are all new members, and the only member who joined and wasn't previously in either group is the Replicant, and he's doing a great job. Members resigning: Polaris has resigned from our artwork division, something about group wars :-) but he was too busy to produce much anyways. Tron also resigned from our artwork division, and he joined another group based in 7O8 called Visual Insanity, so good luck to him there. Spock also resigned from our Lit department towards the end of March, so he still has quite a bit of work in the pack. News Well since we are a new group we obviously need some more artists/coders/members in general. I am not sure at this point whether there will be an application generator in the pack or not. Personally i don't see the need for one since all they do is take up space and you need to upload samples of your work anyway, so if you want to apply then upload some of your work (coding or art or whatever) to the Thieves' Guild 7O8-261-1849 or The Acropolis 7O8-557- 2826. Coding Well in coding news we have had an interesting time, Bleys who was supposed to write the viewer came down with a 1O2 fever right before he left on vacation, so he couldn't finish it, but Lightning (independent) coder jumped in and helped us out by coding a viewer in Q-Basic, and it was pretty good considering time constraints, but fortunately Techie happened to be at my house, and i said "Think ya could code us a decent viewer in 2 days?", and he came up with the best viewer i have ever seen. It's a DOS command line viewer with 25 line mode with scrollback up to 3800 lines or so, 640x480 mode, and 320x200 mode with scroll back. The viewer is also a HUGE 3k or was it 2k big. In other words, this thing kicks ass, it's WAY faster then ACiDView and it's also 1/60 the size, and has scroll back on 320x200 mode. So unless you're a windows-need-a-menu type guy, this will be the viewer of choice for you. Artwork: Well in the RiP department the Hitman is still our sole rip artist. He's changed his style to make his work a little more shaded, but he's still one of the best in the biz in my opinion. Our VGA department is getting better with new acquisitions of DayTripper and Zaphod (who is doing everything from VGA to lit to ansi). Perkman is still turning out some work as well, but overall i'd say we've added some depth in VGA this month. The ANSi artists have done a lot of outstanding work recently. I'd especially like to point out nightbreeds work which was awesome this month. The Replicant has come in and become a real impact player in our ansi department as well. And I will always have an infinite ammount of gratitude to Sword Weaver for working his ass off in the ansi department, and for having a refreshing style away from all the blood and gore. I have personally watched Sword Weaver develop into an awesome artist and i'd like to thank him for his consistency and loyalty to this group (and the groups that merged to form it) He's the only artist who has stuck with us since day 1 and helped bring us through some tough times.. The Lit department is very solid this month with Dead Puppy, and Zaphod contributing large quantities of work, and also Spock's large quantities of work before he left at the end of the month. Closing: Well this has been the update for this month. Any questions about Havok can be answered by myself on CiPNet, ThunderNet or Valiant Net. Anyone interested in becoming a site for havok can apply through CiPNet the official support net of the group. Greets: I'd like to greet ACiD, iCE and the other big guys, but hell I don't know them, they don't know me, so what the fuck is the point. Visual Insanity - TP You are awesome, you and Tuborg made the pack. EMPiRE Studios - You guys are looking very good. Sorry the Prophecy thing didn't work with you guys. :) The Stalker - We are right back where we started aren't we :-) The Replicant - Damn am i glad i recruited you :-) Techie - Dude Kradview was awesome, now where is kraddraw, kradterm, and kradbbs? ;) -Sneaky Car Thief