Announcing MOCR Monday!The Mercury Control Center (MCC) and the Apollo Mission Operation Control Room (MOCR) multiplayer modules are currently in alpha testing and will gain focus as Reentry passes the 1.0 milestone, and the journey towards 2.0 begins. Before this I want to get as much network-programming experience and testing of the multiplayer implementation, while at the same time I have noticed many of you are looking for scheduled Mission Control sessions to join.
I'm therefore happy to announce that we are planning on
running official MOCR/MCC sessions on Mondays (as a start) at 19:30 UTC+1 / CET. We will take the learnings from these organized sessions to schedule more at different time zones and days. Maybe you want to help? See bottom for details.
What we wish to do is to create low key sessions for all who wants to get started learning about being a Mission Controller in Reentry for both the Mercury Control Center (MCC) and Apollo Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR), or those of you who have experience from previous sessions, wants a challenge, or wants to teach others to become a mission controller.
We will use the #mocr-monday channel on Discord for this, so check this channel for details (http://discord.gg/reentrygame). The flight plan, session planning and discussions for hosted session will take place there, as well as deciding if we run MCC or MOCR, or even both, based on interest.
The mission and goal will be designed by the MOCR Monday team. The intent is that we will set up a mission, and will need a crew to execute it. The level of difficulty and numbers of issues, if any, will be designed based on the level of experience of the players who have joined. Each session will be designed to last for about 1 - 2 hours.
We plan to execute this in an agile way. We do not need a full room to execute a session, but it would be great if we could decide in the channel on what role you want to have ahead of time. However, if someone wants to just drop in last minute or grab a role that is available when we start, feel free to. If we have enough to fill a room, great, if we are more than the capacity, we will set up multiple sessions or do them in queue.
The MOCR roles are:
- BOOSTER
- RETRO
- FDO
- GUIDANCE
- CAPCOM
- EECOM
- GNC
- TELMU
- CONTROL
- ASSISTANT FLIGHT
- FLIGHT
The MCC roles are:
- MISSILE TELEMETRY
- ENVIRONMENT
- SYSTEMS
- FDO
- RETRO
- CAPCOM
- FLIGHT
By joining multiplayer these sessions you will learn a lot on how to be a mission controller, follow a flight plan, lead a group, how to monitor data and react to anomality's. The astronaut will experience how it is to have a team behind the mission, and get help and guidance throughout the mission.
Want to help?We are looking for volunteers who want to join the community who will help organize these sessions. Each week we will create a new mission or re-run a previous mission, all based on the availability of the volunteers. Also, based on availability on various time zones or days, we might even be able to set up sessions on other days and time zones. Please reach out on http://discord.gg/reentrygame if you want to help! :)
So, how can I prepare?We want the sessions to be as easy as possible for anyone to join, and we are looking for first-timers to join this as well, so don't be afraid to join. You do not need much experience, but you should be familiar with the mechanics of Reentry - An Orbital Simulator, and have some experience with the spacecraft.
Other optional suggestions and sources of information are:
1) Watch the "A brief tour around the Apollo Mission Control Center aka. MOCR" video I created to get familiar with the multiplayer mechanics, and MOCR itself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYWSDPcai4w
2) Check the Mercury Control Center and Apollo MOCR Reentry manuals:
https://reentrygame.com/manuals
3) Join the discussions over at Discord!