[image:4108 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]In addition to the new releases and new additions, Project Magma has announced two upcoming projects. Both are still early in production and have no release date as yet.

WWIIi is to be a port of the WWII: Recon plugin by Santa's Head to Myth 3. It should be available "in a few months".

[image:4108 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Three new projects for Myth II: Soulblighter have now been completed by Project Magma.

[image:4043 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Zandervix at MBO has written up a state of the community address for Myth. After, of course, appointing himself President. (Hey, how come we never thought of that?)

For the most part, this seems to have been prompted by Clem's recent statement at the Mill, that those critical of the Mill and the MythDev team should remove their creations from the archive:

Clem, just the other day, posted a rather wordy point about the use of The Mill. I won't re-cap it all here, but I will say that I agree with it for the most part. It basically states that if you want to post to The Mill, you should be free of problems and issues with it's management and members. Also meaning philisophical differences with these same individuals. I won't pretend to know exactly what that means, but I get the point.

I don't know. To me, this sounds as if I dislike President Bush I shouldn't expect my garbage to be collected. On the other hand, you pay taxes to the government, and the Mill is free-- which I think is more or less the point. Somebody gives you something for free, be nice to them.

The administrator of the Myth archive site called The Mill, is calling for users who have been seriously critical of both the Mill's management and the MythDev team, to remove their creations from the Archive. MythDev is the group responsible for the PlayMyth server and the recent patches that temporarily broke compatibility with rival Marius.net's metaserver. Clem says, in part:

If we feel that there are members of this site who have been taking advantage of our free services that obviously have philosophical differences with this site we will take it upon ourselves to remove said person's work from The Mill's archive. We will do this for them to save them from the undue embarrassment that is sure to come from allowing their work to be freely downloadable from a site associated with individuals that they feel so strongly against. We have the full right to do this where this is a private system. We hold the right to remove any and all work from any individual who we feel is not an appreciative member of this archive.

Clem notes that this situation affects those who have contributed to the archive, rather than those who only download from it.

Some Loser has written over at MythWolfAge that after a server crash last week, they are now back up and running, promising to have films from MWC 2003 soon.

Gholsbane at MBO has announced that the results of the 2003 Myth World Cup are now known: BIAUIHYAC defeated Northern Paladins.

A complete writeup of MWC2K3 is available from PlayMyth.

Zandervix at MBO has passed on word from MythDev that they're looking for help with their next phase of Myth development; they're looking for programmers, illustrators, modelers and beta testers. Anyone interested can contact them.

Dave "Chia" Pindrys, of Myrgard Times fame (the site recently disappeared), was injured in an auto accident in December of 2001. PlayMyth has now reported that they had a chance to play a few games of Myth with him, that he is better and will be attending school this coming fall. Congrats, Chia!

Zandervix over at MBO has posted that danny over at darooster.net is starting a project called Myth Alice to create a chatbot that can have conversations about Myth. Makes me wonder if the Cortanabot is still kicking around my HD someplace... and also why it isn't called Myth Eliza, but that's beside the point, I guess.

Right now the site has forums up to discuss the project, and Anna, which looks like a web-based Myth chatbot written in PHP.