There will be a new Europa round starting this Friday. The last few Europa rounds have been 1 hour ticks. However, this one is being changed to 30 minute ticks. Here is a brief summary of the round:

Signup starts: Friday 19th June, 21:00 (SF Time)
Ticks start: Saturday 20th June, 21:00 (SF Time)
Newbie mode: 48 ticks (24 hours)
Alliance setup: Random sectors
Private spots: None
Ship limit: 14

There are a few changes for this round too. To stop people from deleting and recreating, there is now a 24 hour delay between someone deleting and that empire disappearing.

To combat empires being so fat late on in the round, respawns and late signups can now only receive 300 asteroids and 400 land as a maximum amount. To help late signups and respawning empires later on in game, if the average networth is above 600,000 then empires receive two eagles rather than one.

Some other bugs regarding attacking have also been fixed, as well as a few modifications to race specific ships. When asking a question, players will receive an in game notice when that question has been answered.

Sol will also be starting shortly, so stay tuned!

Just letting everyone know that a new Sol round will be starting on Thursday 28th May. There will not be any major changes for the round, but some bugs have been fixed and alterations have been made.

The round will be setup as follows:

Tick speed: 5 minute
Signup opens: Thursday 28th May - 21:00
Signup mode: 24 hours
Newbie mode: 48 ticks
Ship limit: 14
Alliance setup: Empire
Alliance member limit: 15

If you have any questions, bugs to report or suggestions then post them on the forums or message an admin on IRC.

Enjoy!

PS: Happy now cinyras?

This Friday and Saturday we will be running a quick 24 hour~ development round to test out a couple of new features that we have added/altered. We know that lots of people enjoy the fast tick rounds so here is your chance to have some fun. We do stress that it IS a development round though. Here are the details for the round:

Tick speed: 1 minute
Signup mode starts: 16:00 GMT Friday 17th April
Ticks start: 22:00 GMT Friday 17th April
Newbie mode: 48 ticks
Ship limit: 14
Alliance setup: Random sectors (no private spots)
Alliance sector limit: Three sectors per alliance (12 sectors in total)

The round will be running from http://slipstream.star-fury.org

If you find any bugs please report them either on irc, forums or via the questions section.


Europa will also be starting next week, Wednesday 22nd April to be exact. Here are the round details:

Tick speed: 1 hour
Signup mode starts: 21:00 Wednesday 22nd April
Ticks start: 21:00 Thursday 23rd April
Newbie mode: 48 ticks
Ship limit: 14
Alliance setup: Sector alliances with 2 private spots per sector
Alliance sector limit: Three sectors per alliance (12 sectors in total)


We are also posting/discussing new ideas on the SF forums, so check the suggestion thread on a regular basis if you want to have a say in what goes on.

Looking forward to seeing you there for the rounds. Enjoy!

I also propose an addition to chuckTV's save chuck campaign, our own campaign called "Chuck-A-Duck" the next time you happen to be driving past NBC's offices feel free to chuck-a-duck at them!**


**Note we do not condone criminal damage and would only recommend using a rubber or foam duck

Hi All, Me again.

After my infinitely loved (See: hated) Anigel April fool news post, Space Kitty, and so on I'm yet again going to add something to this here front page, Only this time it's actually useful (I know, I know, It's hard to believe)

This is just a reminder that when using a yahoo email address, due to their (mis?)configuration of their mail system these messages can take a long time to come through (several hours in some cases)

We suggest that you use another email account, preferably non-yahoo, if at all possible, Else please wait at least 4 hours before contacting a SF Admin claiming you haven't received your activation email, and always ensure you check you spam folder. Failing this you will more then likely be mocked and belittled in #chat (Us admins are always friendly and curtious obviously, but with people like Nixxon and Instantly around mocking and belittlement is always a threat in public channels)