For those of you not following our Twitter account you may not know that we have been working on Trade Routes. So far we have Port to Port, Port to Planet and Planet to Port fixed. You can now use these to transfer any commodity. We are currently working on the Planet to Planet trade routes. They should be fixed shortly. One of the big problems with trade routes was in the creation or editing an exiting route. If the commodity had more than one word in the name it failed to save properly. This has been fixed and cured a number of other problems.
We have also made changes to the Port Pricing scheduler. Commodity prices of items being SOLD at ports will only increase at less than half the rate of the prices for commodities being bought by a port.
Now to the
Other Important Things.
Some players didn't like the changes made mid game to Trade Routes and we feel your pain but it was something that had to be done. We honestly didn't think it would break so many things and it would have been hard to revert back without causing even more problems.
We have decided that this is it for the Main Game. The only changes you will see are bug fixes and closing exploits, like the DeMart bounty incident.
Once we finish the Planet to Planet trade route fix tonight we will be shifting to the Beta Game for all new additions. So, if you want to experience anything new that will be the place to go. We have some exciting new things in the pipe. Some old and talked about a lot and some new and never spoken of to anyone else.
Let's just say people won't be hiding in their SG's much but will be roaming more.
Also, you won't see any new Probes, Commodities, etc in the Main Game anymore. If you want anything new you will have to head to the Beta.
Once we have the Trade Route fixes finalized we might even host a Tournament Game.
And a final big...
THANK YOU ... to everyone who has donated to help offset costs of the new server. We definitely appreciate it.