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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: January 22, 2012

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A PURGE IS COMING

by Hazed

Every so often we have a spring clean, and clear out unwanted debris. I'm taking about the periodic purges of the Fed2 persona file, where characters that haven't logged into the game for ages get zapped.

Well, what with Alan fiddling with the game files and the code in order to move everything to the cloud, this is a good time to have one of those purges.

So this is your warning. Sometime in the next few months, any characters who have not logged into the game for at least a year, will be removed. This will mean loads of planets will just vanish.

What this means for regular players is that if you have any warehouses, depots or factories on these planets, you will lose them. So it's going to be worth reviewing your property. Check who owns the planets you have built on, then do a SpyNet Review to find out how long it's been since they showed up. It will say something like "Gorx was last heard of on Mars, but hasn't been seen for 16 months."

Then you can sell off the property before it just vanishes.

If you have alts you stopped using, but you don't want them to get zapped in the purge, just log them into the game once and that'll ensure they are safe.

I will give you another warning once we have fixed the date for the purge.

The purge will considerably reduce the number of planets in the Galaxy - we should dispose of most of the absentee landlords (and landladies and landthings) with unmanaged planets where the economy is just left to run riot.

Not all of them, though - Pugwash will still be here!


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