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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: November 8, 2015

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STARTING WITH A BANG

by Hazed

This is your chance to help decide what Alan does next. He is looking at the possibility of adding ship fighting into Fed2 again, but he is only willing to do it if he is sure players really want it – and will use it. So we’re launching a Fed Fighting Fund.

This all started a couple of weeks ago when a player announced on the comms that he had made a donation of $100, and he challenged other players to do the same, with the aim of persuading us to reinstate ship fighting.

The player emailed feedback to tell us what he’d done, and Alan was receptive to the idea. Since then, Alan’s been working on a plan for how ship fighting would work in Fed2 – it will be similar to how it used to work, but with a few extra bells and whistles. I’ll give you some details when he has come to some firm conclusions.

However, Alan doesn’t want to start on the coding without making sure players will use it. The history of Fed DataSpace is littered with features that players asked for, but then never used once they were added to the game – who remembers smuggling, back in classic Fed? Or Lucky Louie, still in the game but never used.

So, we are going to use the donation of money as a gauge of players’ enthusiasm for ship fighting. We’ve set a goal of $500, of which we already have the $100 paid by the player who started the ball rolling. If you’d like to contribute to this Fed Fighting Fund, you just have to donate money by purchasing slithies in the usual way and then email feedback@ibgames.com (don’t forget to put Fed2 in the subject line) to tell me that the donation is for the fighting fund. To buy slithies go to the extras page.

The deadline for the Fed Fighting Fund is two weeks before Christmas (that means Alan will be able to complete the work both within two weeks, and before Christmas). That’s December 11.

Assuming we reach the goal, Alan will start work on the coding, and you will get your name on a plaque in Jarrow Shipyard on Earth.

The small print: your Fed Fighting Fund donation must be a purchase of slithies, not part of a subscription. You will still receive the slithies. Should the goal not be reached, you won’t get the money back – there are no refunds (after all, you did get the slithies).

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