In the next release there will be a place called "Smugglers Den Bar" inside the Casino Port.

The Smugglers Den is where everyone in the game can post messages just like a regular forum. These are totally public and anyone can read them.

Each Casino port has it's own distinct Smugglers Den Bar. So messages posted in one Smugglers Den Bar will not be seen in any of the others.

In future releases this will also be where messages from missions may be posted by the game.

You won't win the game. There are also casino limits so you can only bet so much and believe me you can lose as much as you win as I have done the double bet thing like you can't believe. Odds are always in the houses favor. There isn't anyone thats at the top in the beta that got there by gamblin their way there.

I just did. He is all planets. He captured several indies that have undamaged levels up to 25s but he hasn't repaired them all or his score would be higher. Also note his experiece shows he has been attacking.

Had he just been gambling the experience score would be WAY LOW. You can't get that score by gambling easy. He may get lucky one time, but most people are greedy and will keep betting thier winning and then that score would come tumbling down.

He's attacking indy planets and that is where his score is coming from as his cash isn't there to support that high of a score.

The problem came from the planets not having much in the way of fighters, torps and energy. Many of those high planets had very little. Remember a level 25 planet with 3,000 fighters, energy and torps is very easy to take.

This will be different in the next reset. It will be very, very hard to take them.

This is what Beta games are about. There are usually any resets and many changes in the code. This is because the programmers are testing many things out and trying to get a finished product bug free and balanced. This happens in ANY open game beta, even from commercial games.

So when you play a beta game you have to expect resets.

And the Indy planets SHOULD be hard to take. The game is supposed to simulate a galaxy that has been there for awhile. The indy planets are well established planets. The players are new conquerors coming into the galaxy. So that means you have to build up your empire with trading and building/capturing unowned planets for a long time before you should be able to start taking established independant planets.

These are the default settings we are working on for the game but anyone running the game can change the settings to anything they want. Even a setting where there are no indy planets and they are all unowned.

The whole point of the beta is for testing. That game will probably be reset often as the site building progresses. Once a .20 is stable it will be moved to the main servers. I'd expect this very soon, but if your going to continue to play the beta server and not expect resets to occur often your playing on the wrong server.