The weekly newsletter for Fed2 by ibgames

EARTHDATE: Christmas 2006

Dot Matrix's Xmas Bulletin No 3

Hello Fedders. This special bulletin is brought to you as usual by me, Dot Matrix, the junior assistant trainee newsdroid that Hazed left in charge of the Fed2 Star offices while all the others head off to the various corners of the Galaxy for the festive season.

While everyone has been away, I have decided to redecorate the offices - I am quite handy with a paintbrush, which is unusual for newsdroids who normally don't go in for manual tasks. I am sure Hazed will be delighted to see the sparkling new paintwork in her office when she gets back, and maybe she'll be so pleased she will forgive me for the little mistake I made in the last bulletin...


PROBLEMS LAST NIGHT

Hazed asked me to pass on this message:

We're sorry if you had problems connecting to Fed2 last night. The DNS server stopped working - that's the program that translates the "fed2.ibgames.net" that front-ends try to connect to into the numeric IP address. This meant that nobody could connect to the game unless they used the numbers to log on, although anybody already in the game wouldn't have known there was a problem.

In order to fix the problem we had to close down Fed2 and reboot the whole server. It's working again now. At this stage we don't know what caused the problem in the first place, so we're going to be monitoring it closely over the next few days.

Apologies for the inconvenience.


SANTA'S GROTTO OPEN

Santa's Grotto is now open so you can go and sit on the old man's lap, get a candy cane if you've been nice (and coal if you haven't) and help yourself to a toy from the lucky dip tub. You can also take a magical ride on his sleigh. Santa is also one of those chatty mobiles who will talk to you - start by typing 'SANTA HELLO' then see where the conversation takes you.

If you use FedTerm as your front-end, you can download Santa's picture from the picture gallery at http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/fedterm/gallery/index.html - and while you are there you'll find a new picture for Miral, as well.

Santa isn't the only one offering Christmas spirit this year. Diesel has redecorated the bar and the roof garden of Chez Diesel on Mars, and is offering free food and drink to her customers. You'll also find various other locations around Sol have put up some decorations for the festive season.

To find out about the special Fed2 Christmas events, go to http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/events/xmas.html - there's a Scavenger Hunt tomorrow with a slithy tove on offer to the winner, a party, a snowball fight and a tree decoration contest for planet owners.


NEW VERSION OF FEDTERM FOR WINDOWS

We discovered a minor bug in FedTerm for Windows and have issued a new version to fix the problem. The bug is that if you clicked on the panel at the top of the screen that contained the SpyNet Report or Examine information, you could type in that window.

Version 1.62 can be downloaded from http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/fedterm/winupgrade.html, although it's such a minor problem that this is not a compulsory upgrade.


That's all the news I have to go in this special bulletin - it's been quite a quiet week so far. I can't see why Robbie had so much trouble last year. What a wimp!

I'll go back to my decorating now. I think Hazed's office should be magnolia with chartreuse accents...


Fed2 Star index Fed 2 home page