The timers are currently down and we are working on it. Please do not open any new support tickets regarding this issue. We will post an update when we have one. Thank you for the patience.  

It has come to our attention that people are encountering a bug that is not resetting the number of NPCs that are hireable each month as it should.  While trying to come up with a work around to help players until this is fixed, I had an idea: We can spawn players NPCs manually, allowing them to get the workers/builders they need while the system doesn't work. 

We will be happy to do this for you, but you need to follow some procedure to keep things organized.  First, to make the request for NPCs, open a support ticket with the number of NPCs you desire, the type and where you would like them (ship or station ID).  The ticket will be responded to with an order to send credits.  You will send the credits to whichever ASIM is assisting you.  We will not give a discount of the normal hire rate.  After receiving the credits, we will spawn your new workers and close your ticket.  Do not request more NPCs to be spawned then are normally available to spawn at a certain location.  Abuse will not be tolerated.  We are doing this as a favor while the bug is being repaired. 

To prevent a build up on tickets, please limit yourself and your faction to one order per month. Try to make it worth our effort. I do not want to be spawning a squad of NPCs at a time. We will not take any race/gender requests. This whole thing will create a large burden on our time, so please have patience.

Supes Edit: Submit to support.  

The server which hosts all of the staff @swcombine.com emails has gone down temporarily.

For the moment, anything being sent to those emails needs to be DMed to a member of the administration, or placed into a support ticket.

Cheers!  

A few people noticed and mentioned to me that there appeared to be a skill out of place for the Herglics.  Previously a Perception 1 existed, when in reality it was a Management 1.  The strings are bothersome and difficult to work with.  It's Gav's fault.

If anyone has any real issues over the 1 skill, feel free to toss up a ticket.

Gav: In my defence, I blame Jesfa. And those bothersome strings which are pretty much 0;0;0;0;0;0, and difficult to work with..  

As the title says the extra day is gone. Blame Khan and thank Sel and Gav  

Hello! Timers are now geborked. Creating additional support tickets or bug reports is unnecessary. We thank you for your patience.

If you go to the -help channel, please read the topic. Those who do not make Jevon feel disappointment.

Edit 4? Long story short, still broken, I take back the lovely news I posted about 3 minutes ago. They are still broken --Gav/  

Ladies and Gentlemen: Those of you who have noticed the extra DAY on your timers should ignore it, the displayed timer is funky but the action ticker is working properly. A bug report is filed, please do not make Kendall bang his head against a wall.

Thanks and enjoy the New Years Partie(s)!

Edit: Stupid HTML code not matching the forums...

Edit2: Moridin has pointed out that the action completes upon refresh, the timer on your screen will keep going until such time.

Edit3: There have been a number of issues with the timers themselves not completing, it is an issue being addressed and will be resolved shortly.  We thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter!  

Another handle change:

This handle broke the rules, that is all.  

Jackson Griggs will from now on known as Jaqen Taral.  The previous name violated the rules and has been changed per his request.  

When a ship is full of passenger and someone wishes to enter that ship, the option to kick a passenger is given to them.  The Game will randomly select the person to kick and it can sometimes kick a Player instead of a NPC.  This is perfectly legal and is a FEATURE!

Some Players have used this to their advantage and will have a PC board a players ship and use the Kick feature repeatedly until the Player is Kicked.  This is not a feature and should not be done.   Kicking a Passenger to board a ship is completely fine.  Having your NPCs board a ship in order to kick a Player is not.  Thank You.

Zerexium Dijhad, Zerexium Direth, and Zarheth Bevhallla have been banned 21 days for being the same person.  The Original account will be unbanned after 3 weeks.  They can create a support ticket at that time to request access.

Oh... and...

Supes Edit: 

After new, and indisputable, evidence surfaced, I have once again banned Davik Kaisho, Bree Kaisho, and Nicolas Linnear. The earliest-made account may be unbanned. Any funds or assets earned by the newer accounts and transferred to the older, will be deleted. Any protests made will be disregarded.

As of this moment, their registration in the Muli-Account Database is null and void. While they may have once been played by multiple people, they are no longer.

The term of this ban will be 3 months.

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On that note, Derek Shado and Jade Shado have also been banned for failing to keep their accounts separate. The older account may submit to support to be unbanned after 7 weeks.

Their Database registration is also to be considered null and void.  

Avicii has been banned for having an illegal multi that he pretended was legal for a really long time.  This ban has been set at a 3-month minimum, with extra time being tacked on for any of the following: Trying to evade this ban, evading his akill on the IRC server, if we find out that the third multi on the registry is him.

As of this moment, his registration in the Muli-Account Database is null and void. If he continues to be a disturbance, punitive measures will increase exponentially rather than linearly.  

Jakane Lickry came forward to me to let me know he was playing two accounts. He was apologetic and asked to be allowed to play with his 'new' account--positing to simply kill off the original.  Unfortunately, there was more to it: He was laundering assets between accounts and was not as new as would allow an assumption of innocence. Normally, had I stumbled onto this myself, I would have given him a larger ban. Due to his voluntary surrender, he gets a reduced sentence of two weeks. His other account, Khalis Vedd, is permanently banned. I will be removing the laundered assets from Khalis' account; he may return to the ORIGINAL account at the end of his ban, by creating a support ticket at that time.

I appreciate it when you come forward, but do not expect me to look past your sending assets from the account you plan to drop to the account you wish to play with.

Supes Edit: Gentlemen.  

Upon further viewing of the situation we had at hand, the Asim formerly known as Gav, has been unbanned.  However, due to his inability to seperate himself from the playerbase, he has been relieved of his priveleges and admin powers.  He has hereby been renamed to his previous account of Gavin von Ismay, and unbanned.

There was some speculation in the Sim News forum regarding Black Sun, and as far as the evidence has been pointed out, there was little to no interaction/leaking of information, just an inability to seperate oneself.  If any players have any information saying otherwise, or have a problem with this decision they may feel free to PM myself or an admin or create a ticket if that seems more suitable to them.     

The ASim Gav has been banned indefinitely from SWC for repeatedly involving himself IC and leaking staff information and discussions to Black Sun, despite explicit prior warnings since his decision to drop his character and join the administration team.

As part of their duties involve investigations into player accounts and IC events, ASims are required to cut IC ties and may not continue to participate in IC gameplay. While we do greatly appreciate all of Gav's legitimate work over the past few years, abuse of privileges is not tolerated, and ASims are expected to behave as role models for abiding by game rules.

Despite Arete's recent retirement and Gav's removal, the team is not seeking replacement ASims. The current ASim team, composed of Arjuna, Erek, and Ghost, continues to operate smoothly and is actively staying on top of support tickets and player issues.  

This guy just ripped off a major government and wants to hide, so I helped him out.  

For the exploitation of the inventory export feature, Tatyana Haines has been banned for One Month and her IC situation was reverted. She may request a drop before her ban ends if she so wishes.

This is still against the rules, and from this point forward ignorance will not be cause for leniency.  

Today, one of my compatriots left our ranks t return to a simpler life; an enviable choice. I missed his farewell party whilst fighting off two particularly obvious fiends.

So long Arete, we'll keep the multies "fires" burning.

These two have been banned for being the same person, they may contact support on Day 73 to be unbanned.  

After some quick spotting, I have changed a player's handle from Lumi Hapykieli to Lumi Ockaba for violating the rules.  That is All.    

I have two Sets of Sacrificed for the Galaxy today.

The first ban involves Nathan Chadsey and Corran Harris.  Both accounts have been banned for violating the Rules.  The original account was killed and the second account was made to bypass the death timer.  I have no patience for this.  The Primary account can contact me in 3 weeks and ask to be unbanned.  The other account has been permanently sacrificed.

The Second, and much more devious, involves running multiple accounts at once.  Balkdork Majal, Caiet Shadacyr and Yaji Bin have been banned for 3 weeks due to being run by one player.  As above, the original account can contact me personally in 3 weeks and (after failing to convince me they are more then one person) attempt to get their account unbanned.  

Due to Keir, I will be retiring as ASim.

Just kidding.  But on a serious note, after however long it's been on the ASim staff I would like to announce that I will be stepping down from the position and returning to in-character status.

It's been a wonderful time and i've thuroughly enjoyed my time working with the Administration here in SWC and doing would I could to support the players in the development of this game.  I will not be gone entirely, as I will be joining the Universe Team and devote my development efforts to the in-character and roleplay development of the Combine.

Thank you all for your support and for keeping me in-line when it was necessary and I will look forward to working with the players in Universe development and playing alongside the community once again.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Love,

Arete

On behalve of the SWC Administration, please let me wish you a Merry Christmas.

And of course, Christmas would not be Christmas without an adeqate Christmas Tree. Let me present you mine for the occasion.

--
Veynom  

Well, the Deathmatch advances. Do you choose the ever present winner Asa, or bow to our god of coding, Zhao? We also have a selection of new grudge matches for you to vote on.

Edit:
This holiday the ASIMs should...
I'd love to see what you think we should do, I personally think throwing Loki into Asgardian prison is good enough, but how about you --Gav (Yes, I'm alive)  

As you should all be aware, we mandate that all players in this game limit themselves to a single account. However, we are aware of the fact that things sometimes happen, such as people losing access to their account, or not being totally familiar with the rules.. As such, we are offering any holder of a multi-account to come forward now, and be provided with amnesty. Any player who currently has a multi-account (whether created accidently, or purposely), will be given the next two weeks to create a support ticket, outlining their illegal multis, and which account they wish to keep. The other accounts will then be banned and their assets seized.

Please Note: This amnesty assumes that your assets are now frozen on your illegal accounts. Anyone caught trying to move assets off of these accounts before or after coming forward will lose all the assets moved, and will be fined a sum to be determined on a case by case basis.

I would also advise that any player currently sharing a connection with another player, register their status through the support base, to avoid unwanted attention.  

The White Scenario team is looking for new moderators and trainers!

To those of you who would like to see more roleplaying in the Combine and less godmoding in the Meeting Hall, now's your chance! If you have a lot of RP experience, enjoy reading other people's creative writing, and/or know how to earn over 100 XP for a post that isn't your first in a scenario, then we could probably use your help. At this time, we need both WS Moderators and Trainers:

- WS Moderators score the posts in scenarios; awarding XP for players and CPs for GMs.

- WS Trainers take new roleplayers through a ten part training curriculum to prepare them for Meeting Hall and White Scenario roleplay. We have recently moved our training forum to the RPG Centre, with hopes of eventually running scenarios there, but we desperately need more staff to meet the demand.

These positions are awarded a generous salary of CPs every month for time spent reading and evaluating the posts of other Combine players. Prior participation in at least one White Scenario (WS) is strongly recommended, but not required to apply.

Please visit the Moderator / Trainer Sign-Up thread for a full list of requirements and application details.



(Not sure what a White Scenario even is? Check out Legend, the most recent scenario to reach completion.)

~On behalf of the WS team.

Arete's P.S.: This is also the place to go for those of you I have/will banned from the IC forums and directed towards the WS pre-scenario training.  

Edit: Year 14 Day 325

Thank you for all those who applied, my email has been pleasently beeping at me all hours of the day and night. We'll be reviewing candidates and be getting back to applicants over the next few days.

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With the need for more members of the administrative team, we're once again looking to the players to find new Assistants to help with the day to day work of keeping the combine "functional" ( >_> ).


Job description: Assisting and resolving players problems requiring manual help, using admin tools. Must be knowledgeable about the Combine and how it works. Willing to set aside previous IC relations, and be willing to take strong player criticisms.  Specifically would be working with; Ticketing system, join applications, multi-accounts, #swc-help, and player assistance.  This position will require you to drop your character, and remove yourself from the IC universe.

If interested, please email to Arjuna@swcombine.com and include the answers to the following questions:

Combine Questions

1. How long have you been with the Combine?
2. What is your Combine handle?
3. What have you done IC so far? What are you doing at the moment? What is your position in your faction?
4. Did you complete any tasks for your faction that could qualify you for the programmer team? like doing a website, setting up a member's DB or anything like this?
5. Could you name two people that have been in the Combine for at least two years who worked with you and may be willing to give a testimonial for you?
6. Why do you want to help us?
7. What do you think you can bring to the team?
8. Are you involved in any other online games, or RPGs of a similar nature? If so, please specify your position in them.

Real Life

1. Where do you live?
2. How old are you?
3. What do you do IRL?
4. How much time can you spend on the Combine in general and helping in particular?
5. Were you involved in any projects that would qualify you for the position?

Feel free to email/DM any questions.   

So, another round of the Deathmatch, another round fo voting. We also have some new grudge matches as well for you to discuss. We do need new suggestions for grudge matches, as always, so go submit them.  

Hi.

I'm not going to be active much over the next couple months (except for spurts and spouts) due to college work piling up, and actual work taking the rest of my time away from me. I thought it would be curteous to give some sort of notice rather than ignoring your DMs for a couple weeks and then only getting back to you.

Chuck anything Arjuna or Jesfa's way until Arete returns (hopefully in the next week or two), and then I return! Apologies for late replies and such on my behalf so far, and I aim to get back to you!

Cheers..  

The SWCombine PR Team will be staffing a fan table at the Dallas Sci.Fi Expo Convention in the Dallas, Texas,
USA metroplex this coming weekend, Sat., Oct. 5 - Sun., October 6, 2013.

We will be signing up new players at our table. If you are going to be in the area or if you plan on attending, stop
by at the table, meet some of our players, and talk about SWCombine.

Convention guests include Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), 501st Legion, Ron Perlman
(Hellboy, Sons of Anarchy), Katie Sakhoff (Starbuck) and Jamie Bamber (Apollo) from SyFy's Battlestar Galactica,
John Barrowman (Torchwood), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgement Day and X-Files), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy
of Harry Potter), and many more.


More convention information here:

http://www.scifiexpo.com/dcc/fandays.html

We should be set up on both days at 1pm on the 3th floor near the 501st Legion suite in the Fan Club area
as indicated on floor plan here:

http://www.scifiexpo.com/dcc/fd-floorplan.html

Please contact Kohl Straffer via DM in game for more information.

We hope to see you there.  

A new round of Deathmatch goes on, round and round it goes, who will win? Nobody knows! Also, a new selection of grudge matches, one courtesy of Syn (hint, it's the chilli one). Interestingly, from the last batch of grudges, people would like to see a research type faction most of all.  

Dragon Con is just two days away! The bad news is that we will not have a table, we just didn't have enough volunteers this year. So if you want to meet other Combiners you will have to come to either the meeting on Thursday evening or to the panel on Friday.

- Meeting on Thursday evening: Meeting point is in the lobby of the Marriott, ground level, near the front entrance, at 7 pm. We intend to have dinner together later.

- Panel will be held in the MMO track on Friday, 7 pm as well, with possibly another group meeting right after the panel.

Edit: You can still catch us later on Friday at the brewery (Max Lager) at 8.30.

Edit II: Meeting point for Saturday is in the food court, at the CVS/Pharmacy at 5 pm. I think most of us have Vee's "Star Wars Combine" ribbons for the con badge by now, it may help to spot us.

Edit IIIa: Meeting on Sunday, NOT same time, BUT same place as Saturday. New time: 11.30 am, NOT 5 pm. My mistake.  

So, in the last Deathmatch it appears that Tara Tylger won the last tournament. Some new faces in the next one, plus a few old ones (Hi Asa!). However, if you don't vote for Zhao, we may find some features taking even longer to be coded than usual...

Also, we have a variety of new grudge matches for you to vote on. Interestingly more people wanted to Seele used as Syn's pet than be killed or released. They will be annoyed.