Travel Planner:

- There is a new method for automating ship/vehicle travel: Travel Planner.
- Travel planner is available from the Travel dropdown in the cockpit.

Travel restrictions:
- Entities that are over weight/volume capacity now cannot start travel.
- Entities that are "disabled" cannot start travel. A timer for the disabled status shows in the cockpit view in left panel.

Line of Sight Changes:
- The calculations for line of sight have changed.
- This fixes some edge cases and in general will mean more squares are seen by sensors when there is something blocking.
- In particular, some bugs relating to facilities with sensors have been fixed, some bugs relating to stacking sensors have been fixed.

Changes:
- Added the ability to select force training length
- Adding view container button to equipment screen under fitout when a container is selected
- Allow loading into cargo-containers on equipment screen by clicking-to-load the same way you would load other loadable items

Bugs:
- Fix crash when renaming infantry squads.
- Fix issue where could not party with ships when in docking bay (vice versa hangar bay vehicles)
- Fix issues with squad page not showing when Kick From Squad button is pressed
- Fix ordering of squadded entities on some pages (e.g. boarding page)
- Fix issue with auto room movement and locked doors
- Fix issue with auto room movement when initiated from boarding screen
- Fix tooltip not hiding after auto room movement
- Fix missing ID on datacard view (#5290)
- Fix map overlapping with info panel on galaxy map rules pages when on mobiles (#5291)
- Fix crash when descend travel form coordinates are left empty
- Fix issue when descending when not above planet
- Incorrect display of volume cap on equipment info box
- When repackaging items that includes a cargo-container, use the first cargo container provided instead of always creating a new cargo container (previously would delete all provided items and create a new cargo container)
- Can no longer sell NPC Market-owned items to the NPC Shop
- Dissolving factions now handle creatures properly (previously creatures would be left with a corrupt owner)
- Remote material access for facilities within same city
- Remove holomail link from menus (RIP)
- Update name of Question Centre link in menu
- Allow credit bulk sending from budgets, budget name will now appear on faction send events
- Fix issue when on splash screen pressing join button with inputs filled causing login error (instead of redirect to join page)
- Cockpit scanner list now loads "more entities" inline rather than reloading the page.
- You can now see fire delay status on cockpit scanners.
- Cockpit Weapons screen now ordered by range
- Fix issue where bacta tank could be used to heal creatures (this was not intended)
- Bacta tanks now show a timer when in use on the equipment screen.

Rules:
- Update rules page to clarify there are only 9 possible skill points available from NPC levelling

LISP:
- Fix issue in get-contained-items: byTypes paramter was ignored, setting recursive to true by default
- take-contained-item setting recursive to true by default

Hyperspace Travel Time Bug:

- There was a bug introduced that increased the length of hyperspace travel for some ships that were in hyperspace. If this increased your travel time greatly (> 1 day) please create a support ticket on support.swcombine.com with your handle, and your shipID, and your ship event showing the hyperspace jump (cockpit -> ship events).

Bugs:
- When on a page that has a "text filter" (equipment, party, other pages), you can now do an exclude a word by putting a minus sign infront of it, e.g. "bacta patch -cargo" would show things matching "bacta" and "patch" and exclude "cargo" containers.
- Allow taking from cargo containers and emptying cargo containers while they are inside another item.
- Clicking on a square on the map now highlights the selected square with a red outline.
- Add link to inventory rename events generate by inline edit
- Fix invalid HTML generated on view datacards screen
- Fix issue where droid repair could not occur on droids in squads (To repair someone elses droid, requires owner IFF friend, same as medical healing)
- Fix issue with squadded party members not showing HP bars on party screen
- Fix issues with some functions not correctly finding "squadded party members at your location", this affects things like force testing/healing and other screens.
- Fix an issue with inventory pages not showing the menu when there are entities listed with invalid locations.
- Fix timer text overflowing image on production queue screen
- Fix cockpit retooling panel not showing
- Fix Baugrem's team bar on the forums.
- Recycling cockpit pages URL has moved.
- Fix crash on ground combat preview page
- When an entity recycling is initated, crewlist access is set to closed.
- Fix short hull shield ionic status bars not showing in squadron pane in cockpit
- Fix missing confirmation dialog when upgrading skills
- Fix missing location coords on cockpit scanner screen
- Fix droid crates showing up in wrong sections on equipment view (crates of non-items now will show under "Storage")
- Fix using security panel causing crash
- Fix taking droid from crate causing crash
- Missing board command on squad page
- Fix issue on NPC Controls Equipment page when interacting with items contained within other items.
- Fix issue where cannot use NPC Controls on squadded NPCs at your location.
- Add link to skillsets from NPC Controls page.
- Separate display of NPCs on NPC Control page into sections based on which party/squad they are in.

LISP:
- Add for LISP get and get-types for ships, vehicles, stations, creatures.
- Admin function take-contained-item

Rules:
- Updating combat tactics rules to be more clear

It is that time again I am proud to bring about the latest additions to the bunny craziness we call Y20. First ranging from stabby stabby land is the droid you all want and crave.

FN-DO Assassin Droid

That is right it is a melee generic data card droid, based off the bn-do model it stabs, it kills and it can be yours now.

The next up on the list is the ever lovable...

KX-Security Droid

This droid can not be produced but it can be found in bandit squads, so capture away my good droid lovers. Several jawas died upon seeing this announcement so please enjoy with caution.

Tomas edit: adding droid links to names.

Bugs:
- The links to the RSS feeds (sim news, gns, gns flashnews) have changed. If you use the RSS feeds, please update the feed URLs using the icons on the page.
- Fix multi page inventory select bar bug introduced with last sync
- Missing check for Control Room privs when loading materials when not assigned pilot/commander
- Fix XSS in map city tooltip
- Fix issue with pending GNS posts crashing after faction rename
- Fix equipment screen page crash with items with large W/V.
- Medical item UI now only shows things that have taken damage.
- Droid repair UI now only shows droids that have sustained damage.
- Emptying large cargo containers will now only remove the first 100 items from them at a time.
- Fix issue where no error generated when trying to kick from full ship while you are aboard a full ship (#5277)
- The talk/interact button now only shows if you can actually talk
- Spawned bandit squads and hostile creatures are no longer grouped in squads (they are still grouped in "parties", will show up nicer on scanners)
- Vision summary now shows class names for vehicles and ships, and will show wrecked status. Shows Yellow Tutorial NPCs correctly.
- Station image lookup code fixed (depot station icons)
- Battle Reports Cleanup: does not repeat showing combatants, shows damage done on status bars. 
- Mining, droid repair, NPC skill upgrade events linkified
- Maps now have faint gridlines, this can be disabled in the look and feel settings page.
- Show icon for patrolling on vision scan box.


Party Screen changes:
- Your own party is now shown as a horizontal section rather than a box offside
- Your remote infantry squads are shown on a new Squads page, rather than on the party page. Only squads at your location will be shown on the party page.
- Show fire delays on party screen


Equipment screen changes:
- "NPC Control" Equipment screen is removed and replaced with regular character equipment screen
- "Unclaim" and "Undeploy" options on items are now hidden behind "Info" button on equipment screen
- "Take from Crate", "Claim", "Unclaim", actions now work without reloading the page
- Crates of items will now show under their contained items category instead of under "Storage"
- Minor look and feel changes, added select all for equipped items and hide button for equipped items


Rules:
- Bandit droids and bandit ships are shown on the respective rules pages.
- Clarified rules regarding what positions recreates can be given in a faction.


Lisp:
- Fix issue with force quest talk options
- Fix issue with bandit ship capture not cancelling patrolling.


Actions:
- Actions should now finish quicker after their timer has elapsed.

Yep I did it again. Made off with Baugrems "horn" which aside from the quick transformation as a short bird that tastes delicious it had the side effect of making me an admin again as well. So I've resumed my duties on the administration team and said adios to my character and my last name. Now I'm craving porg so need to track down Baugrems again.

Tweaks:
- Added protocol droid scripts editable by players
- Added generic entity scripts to creatures
- Droids now only capturable if owned by 'Hostile Owner' (("Hostile Owner" is a technical term in this context, meaning bandits))
- Added in automatic room movement for command room, hangar, docking, and entrance
- Applying images to items now require that the applier is carrying the item or that the item is on an entity that they can apply customs to. Assignment and ownership of the item are only taken into account when the above conditions cannot be satisfied.

Bugs:
- Fixed inability to cross terrain into ocean while wearing necessary protective items
- Forum post vote buttons not updating on click
- Removed reference in rules to non-existent GNS flash news for factions issuing stock (#5069)

edit: scripts waiting on a small tweak post-sync to work properly so hold tight. Station inventory has a fix written that will be done soon!

Edit2: Done!

Edit3: Added in a missing tweak.

With the meteoric rise of esports over the past few years, we are excited to announce that the Star Wars Combine will be formally entering the competitive gaming scene beginning this summer. We feel that this has the potential to significantly enhance the browser gaming experience and will give casual gamers and spectators alike the opportunity to support some of their favorite professional SWC players.

We are in the process of finalizing the recruitment requirements in order to add fresh talent to our rosters. Our goal is to support up to twelve separate teams for our upcoming Combine League International Tournament, which is expected to launch this August and will feature an exciting prize pool that includes Star Wars Combine-themed apparel* and dinner at Selatos' favorite restaurant*.

Still confused and not really sure what all this newfangled talk of electronic sports even means? Check out this exciting clip of genuine training footage to get a feel for what you can expect from the fast-paced, high-pressure world of SWC Esports. Think you've got what it takes to join the professionals and earn yourself some sweet sweet prizes? Warm up those left click fingers and keep an eye out for more details!

*Winners will be responsible for all associated costs.

Howdy, folks! I come bearing good news for all!

As of last night, we've had a bit of an overhaul to the custom system. We've introduced quite a few new features, fixed up some old ones, and gutted entire swathes of code to make the system more maintainable and reliable.

Before we get to the good stuff, I want to give a bit of a warning: due to how much was rewritten, you may encounter some new bugs. If you do, don't panic! Just scurry on over to the bug report system, check to see if the bug has already been reported, and, if not, make a report for it so we can take a look and get it sorted out!

Here's a list of the major changes:

• Custom items are now placed into the standard custom queue. Due to this change, they're no longer spawned upon request.
• Custom items may be spawned for 100cp from the CP > Custom List page.
• Custom images and items may be shared with other players and factions from the CP > Custom List page.
• Customs shared with players may be provided a number of uses (or -1 for unlimited). Currently, quantities do not apply to customs shared with factions.
• Customs may be "hidden" from the CP > Custom List page. Hiding customs there will also prevent the customs from appearing when you're applying customs.
• Planet customs can now be submitted through the custom system by the leader or 2IC of the controlling faction. Currently, system customs must still be submitted through the Public Art forum.
• Ships and vehicles can now have cockpit and hangar/docking bay custom images submitted and applied to them.

We're also introducing some changes to the way we handle public customs. Starting today, all public customs will be given a 2 year lifetime. After 2 years, the public custom will need to be resubmitted for review from the CP > Custom List page. If the public custom is denied during this review, it will be converted into a private custom.

All public customs submitted prior to today are being given a 3 month grace period to be resubmitted for review. After the 3 months are up, public customs that appear as "expired" on the CP > Custom List page will no longer be accessible in the public custom system until they've been resubmitted and reapproved.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to shoot me a DM!

Bunny Edit: Please make sure to also review the rules here

Edit 2: Looks like we've caught ourselves some bugs!

Known bugs:

• Public customs can't be applied
• Planet customs fail ownership validation
• Custom items spawned in cities are placed "inside of" the planet
• Shared custom items aren't associating both images together

Tweaks:
- Tweak Item and Droid Deployment to use Properties to allow easier ability to allow entities to deploy.
- Add message in inventory is asset is docked inside a deleted entity.
- Minor optimization for boarding NPCs via party screen
- Undock redirect to main cockpit screen rather than travel screen
- Allow submitting build permissions for any city (not just the city you are in) when on a planet

Rules:
- Faction Asset Protection Rules Added to Factions Rules Page
- Computer Control Centre Section added to Cities Rules Page
- Add which faction type and what facility / station used to produce entities to rules page
- Correct Stocks Percentage required for ownership on Faction Creation
- Update wording on Bacta Creation Rules Page
- Combine Points Rules Page Added
- Custom Image Rules Page Added
- Custom NPC Rules Page Added
- Entitty Deployment Rules Page Added
- Update GNS Rules Page to include corvettes as viable places to post from.
- Update Medicine Rules Page to include Kolto Patch

Bug:
- Fix issue where cannot unassign asset when faction assigned as commander
- Fix issue with Faction creation where sending wrong parameters to transfer credits
- Fix InventoryList API
- Minor Boarding Position View bugs
- Materials split interface number inputs and maximum limits on number of piles.
- Fix undefined variable on vehicle load screen
- Fix issue with xml scanners error when in ship and npc in scan results
- Fix issue when atmospheric damage would not generate an event

Edit: Vertical Lockers are now Deployable in Rooms.

Edit: Custom Images have also been improved with some new features. Ulrike will likely do a post to better explain that in greater detail in the next day or two.

Year 20 Festivities Continue this time with stuff to make your lives a little easier and more interesting new entities.

Stations

• Depot Station I
• Depot Station II
• Depot Station III
• Depot Station IV

Ships

• KRS-1 Ore Hauler

Tweaks:
- Recycling UI queueing entities is now faster
- Add unclaim option to item inventory
- Add skill component to hyperspace abort cooldown timer
- Player custom image list groups small and large images together
- Update death asset succession rules, these may be tweaked in the future

Look and feel:
- Add absolute ETA shown on sidemenu timers tooltip
- Add facility, station, city construction link to position view screen where applicable

Rules:
- Update Marketplace Rules Page to make the language a little clearer.
- Update Facility Income Rules Page to make the warning message more visible.
- Update Life & Death asset rules page
- The bugs page now lists supported browsers.
- System designer, based heavily on city designer

Bugs:
- Fix issue where facility construction was recorded as "Other" in transaction log
- Improve ordering of entities on some screens: where possible squads should be grouped in order with the squad leader first e.g. on scanners
- Two fixes to make paying off large amounts of facility income debt via inventory better: selecting all above max limit will allow you to select first set of entities, paying off debt generates a single event instead of one event per facility
- Blank page after squadron force leave (#5202)
- Fix more scanner link when controlling garrison squad (#5203)
- Fix export scanner from garrison squad (#5199)
- Update CCC Shield Gen linking rules, now CCC only needs to be assigned to the person doing the linking (#5183)
- City show stats screen not showing aborting facilities correctly (#5192)
- Fix behaviour of attack button from passenger manifest (#5194)
- Install Lock page can get into a redirect loop (#5196)
- Position screen XSS (#5193)
- Make unassign inventory events when using select all tag feature crash less (#4830)
- Fix issue using station construction using materials from diagonal location (#5188)
- Add loading spinners to scan and hail buttons in cockpit, finish-action links
- Update Creature Inventory to show Experience Level similar to how NPC Inventory does.
- Fix an issue where IFF list would crash if bad entry present
- Fix issue with corrupt facility type on build permissions able to be submitted
- Add another situation where build permissions can be automatically accepted: when you have permission to construct facilities from your faction and the facilities are going to be faction owned (issuing build permissions by plan allows faster construction by preloading details)
- Construction crash when accepted build permission contains restricted facility, error earlier if facility is out of bounds
- Fix issue with mine being full charging NPC costs for 0 yield
- Fix issue when toggling asteroid overlay when using inverse fog sensors
- Fix wrecked HQs being treated as a valid HQ
- Added an inventory filter for entities without tags assigned
- Fix up spam messages from cockpit tractor beam page, improve tractor beam load page speed for certain situations
- Add link to production in side menu when in an entity that can perform production (previously link only shown in cockpit and not under the side menu "production" heading)
- Unable to access market from NPC Owned market facilities
- Consolidate some material usage events into a single event (including production material usage events)
- Using items inside hangar/docking bay will show all passengers as targets for the action rather than those in the current room (#5205)
- Asteroid (entity) scanner icon missing on map (#5135)
- Hitting NPCs with ionic weapons give XP, hitting disabled droids with ionic weapons gives XP (#5191)

WS:
- Add NPC skills to Inventory/Entity response
- Add slot size and armour to Types/Ship response (#5164)
- Inventory/Entity crashes on deleted/nonexistent entities
- Added admin event upon new WS client registrations
- WS Admin crashes on dev

Known issues:

- There are some minor issues that currently cause the FI tools to not work and todays FI to be delayed.

Character Dillon Mckinnon is now known as Jake Forager.

Update your holiday card list.

1	Year 20 Day 169, 18:34	Noctis banned player Twilight Shafagh providing the following reason: Multi Ban - Accounts coming under control of a single player.
2	Year 20 Day 169, 18:34	Noctis banned player Phoenix Hamid providing the following reason: Multi Ban - Accounts coming under control of a single player.

Oldest account can request an unban after 3 weeks.

1	Year 20 Day 166, 4:57	Baugrems banned player Desric Dak`win providing the following reason: Multi Ban
2	Year 20 Day 166, 4:57	Baugrems banned player Strogarn Felhammer providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Banned for 3 weeks. One person with two accounts. Older account can request to be unbanned in 3 weeks via support tickets.

1	Year 20 Day 153, 18:49	Baugrems banned player Uther Von Kaldreon providing the following reason: Recreate/Golden Rule and Harassment(minor)
2	Year 20 Day 153, 18:49	Baugrems banned player Arthur Von Kaldreon providing the following reason: Recreate/Golden Rule and Harassment(minor)

Arthur is banned for 6 months for the following reasons:

•  
• Wealth and/or assets beyond what a new character should receive.
• Minor case of harassment of other player(s).
• Rank and power of previous character returned immediately upon recreate (2iC)

Uther is banned for 2 weeks as a warning for enabling the above.

The reason these bans are not the other way around is because Arthur was clearly the one pushing for the position/powers.

Edit because I want to see if people read updated sim news.

1	Year 20 Day 156, 17:07	Noctis banned player Cherry Milkyway providing the following reason: Multi Ban
2	Year 20 Day 156, 17:07	Noctis banned player Kalerious Karthag providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Illegal multi's.  Oldest account can request an unban in 6 weeks. 

1	Year 20 Day 133, 13:15	Baugrems banned player Yeva Dmitrievna providing the following reason: Multi Ban
2	Year 20 Day 133, 13:15	Baugrems banned player Maia Yen providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Yet again proving that we can't have nice things. As a second (third? idk) offense, this is a permanent ban. (See I know where the ban button is still)

Player can submit a help ticket in 3 weeks to request an unban.

1	Year 20 Day 93, 17:38	Noctis banned player Zephyrine Russa providing the following reason: Multi Ban - Failing to register, funneling assets.
2	Year 20 Day 93, 17:38	Noctis banned player Zandar Russa providing the following reason: Multi Ban - Failing to register, funneling assets.

Oldest account can request unban after 3 weeks and forfeiture of assets.

Reminder, if you share a connection, register.  

1

Year 20 Day 90, 17:10

Noctis banned player Karai Darkstar providing the following reason: Harassment - DM Spam, and acknowledging they shouldnt.

Player can request an unban in 3 weeks for abusing the DM system.

PS: We don't delete accounts.

1	Year 20 Day 84, 19:31	Noctis banned player Bobby Boudreaux providing the following reason: Multi Ban - Accounts coming under control of a single player.
2	Year 20 Day 84, 19:31	Noctis banned player Breton Boudreaux providing the following reason: Multi Ban - Accounts coming under control of a single player.

 Registering as multis doesn't mean you won't get caught.  Oldest account can request an unban in 6 weeks.

1	Year 20 Day 83, 12:33	Noctis banned player Mykil Gahrl providing the following reason: Multi Ban - failing to register as multis, attempting to create new characters despite multiple warnings.
2	Year 20 Day 83, 12:33	Noctis banned player Kyp Ryll providing the following reason: Multi Ban - failing to register as multis, attempting to create new characters despite multiple warnings.

I don't know what to tell people anymore, stahp.  6 weeks request an unban of the oldest account.

Attempting to get around the death timer by registering a new account.  Submit a help ticket in 6 weeks 3 months for attempting to make another.

Baugrems Edit: Awww I'm my own motivation too!

1	Year 20 Day 53, 11:41	Baugrems banned player Freddy Barkhuizen providing the following reason: Multi Ban
2	Year 20 Day 53, 11:41	Baugrems banned player Jaqueline Barkhuizen providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Freddy being the older of the accounts can request an unban in 3 weeks. Both accounts were being controlled by one person.

1

Year 20 Day 50, 21:08

Baugrems banned player Natalya Volkov providing the following reason: Multi Ban - Jasper Merlyn

Read the thing above. Permanent Ban. Returning banned player.

Phase 3 is here!

In this news post from before, you saw that we would be doing a bit of space combat for phase 3 of the Zoo Feud. The day has arrived so get ready to rumble! A few pieces of important news and some rules should be read ahead of time though!

Teams

Dissolved teams may join one of the other two teams for phase 3

Sport hunters unfortunately did not find enough support to gain any victories. They have been dissolved.

Tech Lovers did their best to come out over the other teams, but fell short of reaching the final round. They have been dissolved.

DNA Bashers held a solid second place despite being outnumbers by Tech Lovers. They are in the final round.

Zookeeper Alliance dominated the field, so far. Can they be defeated by DNA in this final round?

Rules

• Commander Bob at the entrance of Zoo Stations is your only contact for phase 3.
• Spawning your ships adds 10 points.
• All ships for both teams will be Hostile owned, pay attention to the name of the ship.
• Shoot down ships with the OTHER team's name.
• Destroying an enemy ship adds 1 point
• Destroying your own ships will give 1 point each to the enemy team.
• No datapads or admins will give score updates. The score will remain unknown.
• The phase will end on Y20 Day 201.
• Renaming your ship to try to fool others into arrest is against the rules for this event.
• The administration can add to these rules or punish for the golden rule as well. Don't try to cheat the system.

Dangers

In Space Combat it is possible to disable/become disabled. A disabled ship can be boarded. While this is usually not an issue for your own ship, the hostile ships can be captured. This means if you board one and someone else captures it, you might be captured/killed. Be aware that capturing is NOT required or recommended for Phase 3, but is allowed.

Sometimes, a hostile ship will spawn on a sun. Do not fly into the sun to chase it. Shoot it from afar. You will die if you fly into a sun.

edit: Slicing became an issue so it was temporarily disabled. It’ll be back at the end of the event. 

edit2: Bandit capture is back! But it now earns 2 points. Capturing your own ships gives 2 points to the enemy.

edit3: Player spawned ships are now turned off, but a new enemy has appeared! These powerful ships at 0,0 in each of the event systems are worth 200 points to whatever team gets the final blow. Plus the individual who kills it gets a generic (not modded) version.

Another tournament is over! They let the Wookiee win.

Go vote! Or else!

Death Match

GRUDGE MATCHES!

In the interest of helping people prepare for the next phases, I am releasing the action plan with a few redactions. Here you go!

Phase One:

Tags Returned:	DNA Bashers	Sport Hunters	Tech Lovers	Zoo Keepers
1
5
10
50
100

Individual tag turn-ins beyond 100 may yield additional rewards but will not be announced ahead of time.

2000 tags will need to be collected to end phase one. If it ends up taking too long it will become a running total rather than a team total. We will see where we are in 2 weeks time.

Phase Two:

Terminal Hack Mini-Game

Participation in phase two will result in a Firespray (Gunboat) being spawned for your use in phase 3 if needed. Keep it nearby.

• 100 xp per point scored
• 1000 xp per match won
• 15 max points, 3 max wins per character

Winning team for phase two will get an additional reward that is not being announced ahead of time.

At the end of phase 2, the two losing* teams will be eliminated. Members will be prompted to choose one of the two remaining teams instead.

* Losing teams meaning lowest placement within phase one and lowest within phase two. If the same team places last both times, the next lowest score will be eliminated.

Phase Three:

Space Combat

In this phase you will be fighting hostile ships owned by the other teams. Shoot them down to stop them from claiming victory!

Individual rewards will not be rewarded this phase. Winning team wins the Feud and will get a team reward at the end. Losing team will get a consolation prize.

The winning team will have the entity-type of their choice added to a community design competition.:

• DNA: Medium Creature with good attack
• Sport Hunters: Large Creature with High HP
• Tech Lovers: New Projectile Weapon
• Zoo Keeper: New Military/Security Droid

Edit: Phase 3 will be at the Zoo Stations mentioned for phase 2. See GNS about the event for locations. Also, phase 1 is ending soon so turn in your tags ASAP. Top turn-in for each team gets the first iterations of a new creature.

Edit 2: A one week break will be given between phase 1 and the start of phase 2. Phase 1 is coming to a close either at 2000 tags or a week from today at the latest. (Day 174 at 20:00 Combine Time)

Edit 3: Phase 2 has begun! It will last 2 week! Get to a zoo station to get started. Pelgrin, Derra, Nimban, Serroco, and Gravlex Med have one.

It is time once more for ASIM applications! One to Three potential slots are open.

Here are the rules:

• Newly hired asims are not required to irrevocably drop their character. Instead, their characters are suspended for the duration of being an asim.
• Asims have no IC activity related to their character while working for the administration.
• Asims will have a defined period of service of six months after which a new group of asims will be hired. There is no limit on the number of terms if reselected.
• Applications will be in January and July, with asims working from February through the end of July and then August through January of next year.
• Applications open Until May 14th. Then asims will work from June 1st until the new year.
• Compensation in the form of Combine Points will be provided for asims who remain active and effective throughout their service period.
• Asims are required to use IRC and must be active in staff channels as that is how the majority of decisions are made.
• Asims duties center around helping players affected by bugs, handling support tickets, and dealing with rules violations. There will be opportunities for asims to assist in designing RP opportunities for SWC at large, along with participating in discussion on game features before they are announced or implemented.

Remember that current asims are allowed to re-apply and may be re-selected.

Applications should be submitted via Darkness Message to Arjuna, Kyle, and Baugrems. Please answer the following questions in your application.
SWC-specific questions:

• What is your Combine handle?
• How long have you played SWC?
• What have you done IC so far (including previous characters)? What are you working on currently, and what is your position with your faction?
• Why do you want to become an asim?
• Are you involved in any other online games or RPGs of a similar nature? If so please describe your position and responsibilities
• Please provide three references of SWC members who are not on the administration team that have been in the game for at least two years.

Real-life questions:

• Where do you live?
• How old are you?
• What is your occupation?
• How much time would you like to volunteer per week on improving SWC?
• Have you performed administrative duties in the past or organized groups/events?
• What is your favorite D&D class?

Applications will be open until May 14th with new asims starting their term on June 1st.

Edit: 3 days left to get your applications in!

edit2: Congrats to Evan Bluvius for becoming the newest asim! He will begin in a couple weeks. For those who did not get in this time, thanks for applying and don’t be discouraged from applying in the future :)

The next stage of the feud will begin soon! Zoos, Ranches, and Wildlife Preserves will all have connections for you to get started on FRIDAY of this week. If you go now, it might look a bit empty.

Don't fret if you can't make it by Friday, there will be plenty of time to participate.

More details and storyline will be released soon. For now, this is your official warning to get ready. Below is a map of Darkness/Quest owned locations to get started.

edit: Join discord here if you like: https://discord.gg/WjcrVkg

edit2: Team selection added. You will be able to begin hunting creatures and bandits for quest items in 4 hours.

edit3: Medium creatures added to hunt. Anything medium or larger will potentially drop tags. Bandits are unchanged.

edit4: 12 of the bandit fitouts have been modified to include tags. This should make them drop tags more frequent

These were broken for a while, then I forgot they existed. So... next round!

Death Match! We're almost to the end of this one. Vote or... else?

GRUDGE MATCHES!

Submit more for next week! I'll try to remember next week and make this more consistent...

A recent sync report, if you noticed, mentioned that Creatures can now be scripted! This means our pets can be interactive but we need help filling them out. Have a script idea for a certain creature? Give us a shout and you might be rewarded!

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE THREAD

You've waited patiently and now it is time for the quest to begin!

Step one will allow people to get ready and recover from the swap meet. You may notice a new guest in your ship's cockpit.

A small puzzle should keep you busy during hyperspace travel or waiting times.

The rest of the quest will begin after 200 people capture their Purrgil. Just to give everyone time to prepare.

Top Clickers:

1. Thrall Lothbrok with 1,928 clicks through the Purrgil system. (Biggest April Fool)

2.  Graham Buccheri with 606 clicks. (Wow Thrall)

3. Magnhild Valthjofdottir with 535 clicks. (lol Thrall clicked a lot)

TOTAL CLICKS: 39,151! (Thrall did 1,928 of them)

(That's 4.9%)

One of the biggest announcements the team has for the upcoming years is finally here. Many players old and new complain that SWCombine can often take too long. Flying across the galaxy in a cap ship can take ages. Say goodbye to this old system as we look to the future.

SWC+ will enter us into the world of CCGs. Collect cards, build decks, and battle other players for dominance. Factions and assets will remain the same.

Click here for a preview of the cards.

Many of you have asked about the part two of our previous quest with GenSci and the Twilight Foundation. We announced it would launch early March and well... here we are! A few things are being completed but be prepared for it to come very soon. It might end up officially launching closer to April now, but don't fear it is on the way.

Some FAQ for you guys:

Q: If we did not participate in part one, can we join part two?
A: Yes, of course.

Q: Where do we need to go?
A: It will be galaxy-wide.

Q: What do we need?
A: Fighters for space combat. NPCs/Gear for Ground combat. If you do not have much you can still participate just fine.

Q: Am I stuck on the same team?
A: No. You are free to join whatever team you like at the start of phase 2.

Q: Can I help with quest management?
A: Not for this one. Future events/quests/NPC work can always use more people though!

Edit: This will start AFTER the swap meet. Because I am nice and won't ruin your fun. This time. For now.

The Descriptions Team is looking for capable writers to produce new content and provide editing services to submissions from players. The typical test to apply for the team is to write three descriptions for entities that currently lack a quality one - you can either find some of these entities on your own or we can select them for you.

If you feel that you possess a basic comprehension of the English language and aren't afraid of a serial comma, feel free to apply for the team by messaging Tomas O`Cuinn in Darkness or catching me on Discord. We pay out a monthly salary of CPs as long as you can fool me into believing that you've been active, so what have you got to lose!?

As of today, I've taken over as Art Team Director. I'd like to give a big thank you to Jevon for his years of service. All current and future questions about the art rules, custom submissions, default image submissions, etc. should be directed to me from now on.

Thanks again for all of your hard work, Jevon!