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EARTHDATE: April 22, 2007

Official News - page 2


WHEN TO SUBMIT YOUR PLANET FILES

by Hazed

If you have finished designing your planet, please don't send us your planet files until you are a Financier. They won't even join the queue to be linked into the game until you promote to that rank.

Financier is an odd rank. Either people sit at that rank for months, or even years, hoarding their share portfolio, and show no sign of wanting to become a planet owner – or they rush through the rank in just a couple of days, seeing it as a placeholder while they get their planet linked into the game.

Unlike the preceding ranks, there is no requirement to spend any time at all as a Financier. The only promotion requirement for those at this rank is that you have a planet linked into the game. In fact, if you were very organized, and very lucky, it would be possible to spend just one day at the rank... promoting at one reset, and then having your planet linked in at the next.

At least, that's the theory. In practice, it doesn't work. The reason is that you never know how long Alan is going to take to link the files in – it could be the day after we receive them, it could be several days. Since you can't predict that, it's not worth trying to "game the system" and ensure you'll only be a Financier for a day.

To recap: don't send your files to feedback before you are a Financier!


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