The main game has been reset using the latest beta code. For those of you who were playing before the reset there are many new changes. I am not going to list all of them but I will mention a few of them.

1. Sector Nova has been removed and replaced with a Ship to Ship Sector Missile.

2. Sector Defense Fighters use 10 times the energy so you cannot place as many fighters on sector defense.

3. There are 4 different types of planets with different level graphics to represent the different amounts of ore and organics they can produce. Click on the Galaxy command in the game to see all of the planets.

And now for the BIGGEST addition...

IRC Style Global and Team Chat

Everyone will notice a new selection called Global Chat on their menu. If you click on the link a separate window will be opened with a re-sizable IRC style chat window. It will use your in-game player name. Since this is the Global Chat room it will use the name of the game for the name of the room. Everyone that is currently online can chat with any other player in real time as long as they have opened their Global Chat screen.

The new Global Chat replaces the Shoutbox. The last 10 lines typed into the Global Chat will be displayed in reverse order in the old Shoutbox on the main game page. You can see what is going on in the Global Chat while playing the game.

If you join or create a team you will see Team Chat appear in your menu. When you click the link a Team Chat window will open. Only players on your team will be able to enter and see the chat in that room. The room is named after your team name. There isn't any way anyone can get into your private Team Chat room without being on your team.

You can have BOTH the Global Chat and Team Chat open at the same time and be chatting in both rooms.

Be sure to explore all of the new changes in the game and enjoy.

PJ, Tarnus, the new chat sounds great.
And thanks PJ for the insite on the A&R code.

It is now the weekend down here, wet and cold so the reset timing is choice for me.

Cheers

You might want to check out the A&R block later (probably a couple of hours from now). I forgot a couple of things.

Yeah I'll be adding that and the chat to my changelog blog. May need to put an ingame link to it or convert it to a text file.

The only reason we added that was because of the Sector Nova. Some people were getting multiple bounties because the Sector Nova was damaging planets that would give a player a bounty.

When we removed the Sector Nova from the game we removed the bounty notice over planets in the scan.

I noticed in the beta game that the roulette part of the casino wasnt operating I received a error and I didnt think to copy and paste it. Any chance the beta server will reopen soon. ON the sector missiles do they only work when a ship is in the sector and can you use a sector missle to take out sector defences or can you only A&R the sector defences. Other than that a Big pat on the back to you fellas for a outstanding new version . It is more challenging and once you get all the bugs worked out it will be outstanding. Kudos fellas

Thants for the kudos and the update on roulette

A&R will be your only way to take down SD bigger than you. This creates much more risk than the sector nova... maybe someday when R&D come into play we may bring it back, but right now there really isnt any countermeasure to protect your self from a sectoe nova.

Sector missile isnt quite done yet... I keep buggin PJ as I've got targets just begging to be shot... new beta should be back up soon. PJ is refining the new SD numbers etc,....so beta shouldnt be too much longer. Balnce is hard to level ou thats for sure.

Cool beans. Well light a fire under PJ my planets are in need of some maintenance. The new A&R is a little confusing but with all new changes it will take some time to get it all figured out.

I am trying to get all of the things we posted about working for the new beta. All of the SD changes and a few other things. This way the beta will be really different from the main game in a number of things.

alriight PJ what is the grand scheme I understand the game is done in yours and Tarnus's spare time but I am suffering from withdrawls not having beta up and running do you have a expected time frame that it will be up and running?