Fed2 Star - the newsletter for the space trading game Federation 2

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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: February 3, 2013

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TEST FED IS (FINALLY) GO!

by Hazed

I should have known better than to tell you in last week’s Fed2 Star that the test version of the game would go live that weekend. Because “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley”, as the poem says. And when you throw computers into the mix things are even more likely to go awry!

In fact, Test Fed was up and running last Sunday. The problem was that the server’s firewall wouldn’t let anybody log onto it. Alan discovered that in order to poke a hole in the firewall, he would have to close down the server and reboot it. Since he didn’t discover this until after the reset, he decided that rather than shutting everything down and inconveniencing you all, he’d wait and do it this weekend.

So now it’s all set up and you can access it.

To log onto Test Fed, use your front-end as normal, with the same system name - fed2.ibgames.net - but change the port number to 30007.

You will know that you’ve ended up in the right place because when you log on you will see a large notice informing you that you’ve made it to Test Fed!

Remember that although you can log on with your regular character, what we need is for lots of people to set up new characters and see if you can make the game crash.

Have fun!

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