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Combat Showdowns are returning!
We have added the ability for selected players to organize and run their own showdowns (a role/permission called "Showdown Coordinator").
We're looking for some active players willing to organize and run these matches, either public matches (e.g. organized on discord) or privately matches within your own factions.
If you are interested, respond to this forum thread. Initially we are looking for people interested in public matches, and will consider private faction matches later on.
What is a showdown?
It's a simulated combat environment (currently only space combat) where two teams fight using generated ships.
The combat arena runs in accelerated time (10x normal speed).
You can't get hurt or killed, and you don't lose any assets.
Player run showdowns do not earn you any XP.
Information for participants
In order to join a showdown, you must opt in via a toggle on the account settings page.
This setting must be set every 3 days to remain eligible to join showdowns.
You must also be alive, conscious, not arrested, have an empty party, not be carrying items and be within a room (meeting these requirements is shown to you on the account settings page).
You will be teleported into the showdown arena and have assets automatically assigned to you.
You can exit a showdown at any time via a button on the character sheet page.
Information for showdown coordinators
There are some general rules for coordinators starting matches:
- You must gain permission of all showdown participants before creating a showdown.
- You must not abuse any features of showdown creation for IC purposes, such as theft, scams or teleporting characters or assets.
- You must only run showdowns in your allocated showdown arena.
- The golden rule applies, any exploiting of showdown tools will result in an immediate strike and removal of the role.
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Polar here
Hello everyone! New round of the Deathmatch is up! Go vote for someone!
In the latest grudge matches, people decided that the Best Mandolorian Sigil is Mudhorn and Sand Panther. No love for puffer pig. Favourite Tie is the Tie Interceptor and the least favourite one is the Tie Bomber. Not all Tie's made it to the grudge match though, so there is still a chance that there are more popular Tie's (an idea for a grudge match!).
When it comes to GMAAS voting, the Approach the astromech and try to activate it option got the most votes and this is what may happen next! But this week there are no new episodes, the story is being put on hold. It may continue one day if people enjoyed reading it. Do you think it was an interesting story? Did deciding what will happen next (through the grudge matches) made it more engaging and fun? If you have any comments or would like to share your opinion on this project and if it should be continued, DM Polar or Falcon. Thank you!
New grudge matches are up! You can vote here. Submitters will be awarded soon. If you have a good idea for a grudge match, you are welcome to submit one and if it will be published, you will receive CP's!
This is all for today! Have a good weekend everyone.
Polar out
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Polar here
We have a new Deathmatch winner! Hexagon shaped avatar wins!(no one should be surprised) It's Dex Sehrin! Congratulations. New round has been started, you can check if you or your friends are there and vote against them here.
Results of grudge matches from last week: Which Is Your Favorite RM Hauling Heavy Freighter? The one and only: Bulk Freighter! Is there anyone who never piloted one? if there is, you should go and do it right now, you will not regret it!
Best place to live! - South. I think it's the right answer. North was not far away from south when it comes to votes, only 30 votes away! That's less than Chisses and people who are still stuck on Winter Comet, who voted for Island Life.
Our Grudge Match Actually Affects Something serie will go through an interesting plot twist. The winning option: Stay with Sel aboard the Russet Eagle, and go down fighting alongside her friend. will have terrible consequences for our main characters. What kind of consequences? You can read about them here.
New Grudge matches are out!
That's it for today! Have a good weekend everyone! And if you happen to have a bad one... bad days are often a source of good, interesting stories! Stay strong like a... like a... strong Gamorrean!
Polar out
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Happy Star Wars Day!
May the 4th Be With You
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- You can now select which weapons to fire in space combat. This setting only applies if there is a Corvette-class ship or larger present on either side. See rules page.
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Todays sync brings the ability to use explosives to break through locked doors, and ability to repair damaged/destroyed doors. This is similar to how lock breakers work, but with more explosions.
The full rules about explosive door breaching can be found here: Demolitions
The full rules about door repair are here: Lock Repair
At the moment, door breaching can occur: in combat systems or aboard bandit bandit ships.
Bandit corvettes will spawn doors around “sensitive” rooms that will need to be hacked/destroyed to get to the enemy squad and to take control of the ship.
Repairing damaged doors can be done from the locks screen.
Explosive stats and bandits spawning with doors will be set within a few hours of this post.
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Polar here
Time for the Grand Final in our Deathmatch! Vote for the face you want to see next in the Deatchmatches hall of fame here!
Few new grudge matches are up too (submitters will get CP's soon), including another one about the Russet Eagle crew. In the previous voting, Head to Tatooine option won. You can read the result here.
From the other news, recruitment for Art Queue Team and Art Team is closed now. Thank you everyone who applied and good luck to those who were/will be chosen as the new members!
This is all for today, have a good almost the weekend everyone. And the weekend itself too.
Polar out
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Hello! Recruitment post here.
If you are hoping to get involved in the game behind the scenes, now is your chance! Every one of these positions also pays in CP so you can spawn new ships, vehicles, droids, items, creatures, and apply images to them. Any affiliation can apply for any position, these are fully OOC jobs. Details on how to apply will be specific to each one so read carefully and send to the right person. Apply for whatever you think fits for you!
Quest Team
As a member of quest team, your job will be to write scripts for NPC/Droid/Creature/item dialogues. This can be for generic "All Riflemen say this" or specific to a quest. You will have the ability to more directly suggest quests as well. To apply, send Galia Winters two example scripts you've written using the LISP NPC Scripting functions. Please be sure to do more than just (say) and similar functions.
Art Team
The Art Team is looking for 3d modelers, both beginner to advanced. Beginners will be allowed in on an intro level and given help to train to intermediate level within three months. For those at the intermediate to advanced level, the Art Team is accepting applications for full time team membership. In recognition that the major projects that the Art Team is about to undertake, we will need some 2d Artist support as well for a large scale NPC project. To apply please message Galia Winters on discord (Galia Winters#0576) or via game DM with samples of your work and/or intent.
Art Queue Team
The art queue needs 2-3 people who can be objective about artwork while maintaining the rules. Optimally those applying would have some artistic experience, however this is not necessary. Tasks included are evaluating quality in accordance to posted rules and regulations, maintaining the spirit of the rules, evaluating art for denial and approvals, and above all work well in a team environment. Taking guidance from the Art Queue Leaders as well as Art Director and being on Discord is a must. If you are interested, contact Galia Winters.
Descriptions Team Director
Director of Descriptions Team provides oversight of the descriptions team, approves description submissions, and submits descriptions to the team for review/discussion. They are also responsible for serving as the liaison between the descriptions team and SWC administration and resolving conflicts with descriptions amongst players and faction entities. As Director, they identify and lead any projects for the team. Writing experience, especially descriptions is a big plus. To apply, contact Erek/Superman and tell him why do you think you are fit for this position.
In the future we may have openings in other teams, once it happens we will post about it. There is no deadline for applying, but as soon as the spots will fill up, we will stop accepting applications. I will keep this post up to date with available positions.
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Polar here
Only four people are left in the current edition of the Deathmatch! Who will get to the grand final? Decide here!
There are also a few new grudge matches (submitters will be rewarded shortly) that include a voting that will decide where the next adventure of The Russet Eagle crew will happen. Last weeks most popular answer for the question "What does the ships crew find within the containers?" was - An ancient disassembled droid of Zakuulan origin. Let's see how it worked out for them, the next chapter is here.
From the last weeks grudge matches, we could clearly see that when it comes to buying anything from the vendors, weapons and raw materials are the most popular choice. Also that peoples cockpits are either nice and clean or full of people and droids (no wonder there are so many accidents). Almost no one admits that their cockpit is full of keycards anymore. They belong in a museum!
Later this week/next week we will be posting a sim news about recruitment to a few swc teams. If you have some free time and were thinking about helping the swc team, now you will have a chance to do it! Keep your eye/eyes open for the blue blinking icon.
This is all for today, have a good weekend everyone
Polar out
edit: I forgot to add, you can still submit Grudge Matches and receive CP's for them if they get published. The deadline to do it has been extended.
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Bugs
- Fixed issue where new characters could not reset skills after setting a permanent handle.
- Fixed issue where assigning ships could generate an error within respawn timer.
Web Services
- The WS SWC Authorization page has been simplified.
- The WS library has had some minor updates.
NPC LISP Scripting:
- For Custom NPC scripting: Errors/crashes that occur during LISP conversations are now stored. Any errors from a lisp script can be viewed via the "Error list" button on the script edit screen.
- For admin scripting: NPC Team members can view all LISP errors via a new ctool.
- Some LISP traces now include line numbers.
- Added new function `natural-join`.
- Fixed issue with `append-element!` not working on empty lists.
- Fixed issue with `join` not working on empty lists.
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Polar here
New round of the Deathmatch is out! You can vote here. New grudge matches are out too (submitters will be rewarded soon), including a poll about what should happen in the next episode of the story about Russet Eagle's crew.
From the last week's grudge matches:
1. Best meme: What's a meme!
2. Favorite illicit product: Just say no.
Very nice.
The GMASS story continues! For the question about what should happen next, majority of voters answered: Jump to hyperspace and investigate the cargo shipment that was brought aboard.
So this is what they did! Second part is already posted here.
This is all for today. Have a good the rest of the week everyone.
Polar out
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Polar here
In the final duel of the Deathmatch, the fight was very close, the participants ended up 1 vote apart! It was also the most voted on duel, from the whole Deathmatch. Congratulations to the winner - Kimberly Tylger!
New matches are out! You can vote here!
Moving on to the last weeks grudge matches. Majority of voters for a question "Are you or your faction actively involved in the galactic war?" voted that they are not involved. Galactic war, what is it good for? The next one - "Favorite Feature Planned for the April 1st update?" - revealed that R&D is in very high demand. Good that it didn't state which april 1st. New grudge matches are out! You can vote here. People who submitted them should get their cp rewards soon.
Today we would like to try something new. On our forum, in General Talk, you will find a thread called "GMAAS - Grudge Match actually affects something". It's a short, entertaining story written by one of our players, happening in our galaxy. The story will have a few parts, and what will happen in them depends from our community! There is a special Grudge Match called GMASS with 4 choices that you can vote on. The answer with the most votes will happen in the next episode. Go vote here, I hope you will enjoy it!
I think this is all for today. Have a good week everyone!
Polar out
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Combat Showdowns are returning!
We have added the ability for selected players to organize and run their own showdowns (a role/permission called "Showdown Coordinator").
We're looking for some active players willing to organize and run these matches, either public matches (e.g. organized on discord) or privately matches within your own factions.
If you are interested, respond to this forum thread. Initially we are looking for people interested in public matches, and will consider private faction matches later on.
What is a showdown?
It's a simulated combat environment (currently only space combat) where two teams fight using generated ships.
The combat arena runs in accelerated time (10x normal speed).
You can't get hurt or killed, and you don't lose any assets.
Player run showdowns do not earn you any XP.
Information for participants
In order to join a showdown, you must opt in via a toggle on the account settings page.
This setting must be set every 3 days to remain eligible to join showdowns.
You must also be alive, conscious, not arrested, have an empty party, not be carrying items and be within a room (meeting these requirements is shown to you on the account settings page).
You will be teleported into the showdown arena and have assets automatically assigned to you.
You can exit a showdown at any time via a button on the character sheet page.
Information for showdown coordinators
There are some general rules for coordinators starting matches:
- You must gain permission of all showdown participants before creating a showdown.
- You must not abuse any features of showdown creation for IC purposes, such as theft, scams or teleporting characters or assets.
- You must only run showdowns in your allocated showdown arena.
- The golden rule applies, any exploiting of showdown tools will result in an immediate strike and removal of the role.
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- You can now select which weapons to fire in space combat. This setting only applies if there is a Corvette-class ship or larger present on either side. See rules page.
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Todays sync brings the ability to use explosives to break through locked doors, and ability to repair damaged/destroyed doors. This is similar to how lock breakers work, but with more explosions.
The full rules about explosive door breaching can be found here: Demolitions
The full rules about door repair are here: Lock Repair
At the moment, door breaching can occur: in combat systems or aboard bandit bandit ships.
Bandit corvettes will spawn doors around “sensitive” rooms that will need to be hacked/destroyed to get to the enemy squad and to take control of the ship.
Repairing damaged doors can be done from the locks screen.
Explosive stats and bandits spawning with doors will be set within a few hours of this post.
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Bugs
- Fixed issue where new characters could not reset skills after setting a permanent handle.
- Fixed issue where assigning ships could generate an error within respawn timer.
Web Services
- The WS SWC Authorization page has been simplified.
- The WS library has had some minor updates.
NPC LISP Scripting:
- For Custom NPC scripting: Errors/crashes that occur during LISP conversations are now stored. Any errors from a lisp script can be viewed via the "Error list" button on the script edit screen.
- For admin scripting: NPC Team members can view all LISP errors via a new ctool.
- Some LISP traces now include line numbers.
- Added new function `natural-join`.
- Fixed issue with `append-element!` not working on empty lists.
- Fixed issue with `join` not working on empty lists.
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There are two changes with this sync involving new player signup and respawning after death/dropping.
Changes to new player signup: Name Approval Step Removed
New players are now assigned a random temporary name when signing up, so they can immediately start doing the tutorial without having to go through a name approval wait.
In order to finish (or skip) the tutorial, new players are required to have set an approved character name.
There are other changes to how name approval works, you can now submit multiple handles for approval.
Characters with temporary name will show up with a "(Temporary Name)" suffix in some places in the UI, and factions are notified with a faction event when a member applies a permanent name to their character.
This change is aimed at reducing idle waiting after signing up.
Changes to respawning characters: Immediate respawn with restrictions
Characters that drop or die can immediately create a new character without having to wait for the respawn period to elapse.
The respawn period of 21 days still exists, during this time a respawned character cannot:
- Leave the tutorial system.
- Join a faction, send or receive credits to other players, receive or be assigned assets.
These respawn character game restrictions are covered in the life and death rules.
Thank you all and we apologize for any confusion.
Please note: the tutorial system is meant for new and returning players, any changes you make to your character in order to play there will not be undone if its implementation changes.
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Due to an unfortunate scheduling error earlier today, a sync report was published sooner than expected.
Please bear with us while the issues are worked out.
Features may not exist as intended.
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How the time has flown
It has been a full 6 months since Polar joined the team as Event Asim and we've reached the end of his term. We would like to thank him for all the hard work through these months on quests, events, grudges, and unkown signals. He will be stepping down from this role, and we wish him the best in his future endeavours.
In other news we would like to announce the newest member of the Asim team. Polar will be joining us in the assitant role, focusing on rules enforcement, handling support tickets, and helping players affected by bugs. Feel free to send him a DM welcoming him to the team
At this time, the Events Asim role will be absorbed into the duties of the rest of the team, although we may break it out again at a later date.
As always, for support needs please file a ticket at http://support.swcombine.com/
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Salutations,
As you may have noticed this week, Mikel is no longer working on the development of the Combine.
We appreciate his contributions over the years, and wish him well in his latest endeavors.
Any development questions you may have taken to Mikel can be answered by our help staff, another member of our dev team, or the closest ASIM.
Thank you all,
The Administrative Team
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Mostly backend changes today, but a notable change to crafting Force Robes:
- Force Robes are now crafted using the LISP interface on a crafting kit. Having a normal robe (available from any Shop) equipped will allow Force-aware players to craft the Force Robe using a few Force points with a 2 day cooldown before another can be made. Future crafting updates will also likely follow this system.
- Faction leaders as well as owners can now rename factions (fixes issues with factions with an advisory board unable to rename)
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Database maintenance during the sync today encountered some corruption issues and some data generated between Y23D69 to Y23D70 was lost in the following areas:
- HP logs
- XP logs
- CP logs
- FXP logs
Any actions affecting these stats still occurred and you still received the XP/CPs/FXP, but the transactions will not show up on the associated transactions sheets pages. If the actions generated events, the events were unaffected. Transactions were restored from our last backup (roughly Y23D69).
Credit transaction logs were not affected.
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- WS Credit Send Endpoints (Character/Faction) and scope added. A reminder that web services clients are covered under the spying rules and that any usage of these endpoints must be clearly disclosed. Zero toleration for any unauthorized usages.
- Some WS Error messages have changed due to typos and bad error return codes, your app might check for these error messages, please update:
- "Not Found" errors always return 404 status code (previously some returned non 404 status codes)
- "Insufficient priveledges" fixed typo to "Insufficient privileges"
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Hello Galaxy,
Happy Sim News spam day! Now that Winterfest is officially over, some development news for you. The Dev server is currently hosting the code updates that allow Light Freighters and Heavy Freighters to participate in combat. There is still a substantial amount of balancing work to be accomplished by the administration and the rules team, but in case the past several months worth of Sim News were not enough of a warning:
FREIGHTER COMBAT IS AROUND THE CORNER, AND THERE WILL BE STAT CHANGES!
Without going into any specifics, in general freighters will NOT be good combat vessels. In almost every case, their offensive and defensive stats will be inferior to fighters, gunboats, and corvettes.
This is your official notice to move your freighters to safety from the Petabys region (Space PVP) and deep space asteroid fields (Bandit PVE), or provide them with escorts. There will be a final one-week warning before release after balancing is finished, but depending on your circumstances, that may be too late if you choose not to act now. Freighters damaged or destroyed due to your inaction will receive no compensation from the administration.
The Development Projects page is frequently updated if you are ever curious about the status of upcoming releases. Fly safe!
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Year 23 Day 144, 16:16
Polar banned player Fred Berry Lopez providing the following reason: Spamming Discord server, harassing people, avoiding discord ban by creating new accounts.
Fred can request an unban in 28 days by submitting a help ticket at support.swcombine.com, unless he creates another discord account, then the ban gets extended by 1 week per new account.
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For repeated breaches of the community guidelines regarding age-appropriate play, and abuse of the custom art queue, Scott Hall has been banned for 2 weeks.
At the end of his ban, he can submit to support and return to the Combine.
For those keeping score, this will count as a first strike offense. From this point, each consecutive breach of the community guidelines will result in worsening consequences.
Please heed the art team if they tell you an image is inappropriate, they're usually doing you a favor and keeping it in-house as a learning opportunity.
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Year 23 Day 128, 20:35 Noctis banned player Floun Kowel providing the following reason: Multi Ban
Year 23 Day 128, 20:35 Noctis banned player Jay Sandvann providing the following reason: Multi Ban
Each player is only permitted to have one character. You may also not create a new account to bypass the death timer.
Oldest account can request an unban in 28 days by submitting a help ticket at support.swcombine.com.
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Gage McDaniel is now known as Price Galahan.
That's it. A sim news just for this. Enjoy!
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Year 23 Day 79, 14:11 Noctis banned player Fulgence Tune providing the following reason: Multi Ban - Two accounts under control of a single person.
Year 23 Day 79, 14:11 Noctis banned player Joy Knight providing the following reason: Multi Ban - Two accounts under control of a single person.
Joy Knight can request an unban in 3 weeks by submitting a help ticket at support.swcombine.com.
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Year 23 Day 21, 23:31 Falcon banned player Neckris Blaze providing the following reason: Multi Ban
Year 23 Day 21, 23:31 Falcon banned player Vaan Nost providing the following reason: Multi Ban
Year 23 Day 21, 23:31 Falcon banned player Oldin Drexel providing the following reason: Multi Ban
Year 23 Day 21, 23:31 Falcon banned player Eve Sinclair providing the following reason: Multi Ban
Year 23 Day 73, 13:12 Noctis banned player Rose Izallia providing the following reason: Multi Ban;
Forgive me Combine, for I have used the ban hammer again... The above players have found to be multis, and as such have been banned for 21 days. After that time has expired, Neckris Blaze may request an unban by opening a support ticket.
Noctis: The ban time has also been increased by a month. Account Neckris Blaze may request an unban at that time.
May you all enjoy your time at the Winter Festival, and have a Happy Holiday Season!
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Year 23 Day 72, 18:15 Noctis banned player Joran Ibiel providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Failing to register as multis, accounts under control of a single person.
Year 23 Day 72, 18:15 Noctis banned player Bessarrion Pantelis providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Failing to register as multis, accounts under control of a single person.
Each player is only allowed to have one character. Oldest account may request an unban after 21 days.
Year 23 Day 72, 18:10 Noctis banned player Alvdio Jestbul providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Multiple accounts coming under control of a single player.
Year 23 Day 72, 18:10 Noctis banned player Siro Di Battista providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Multiple accounts coming under control of a single player.
Both accounts being accessed by a single person. Oldest account can request an unban after 21 days.
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Wombat will be stepping back from his Assistant Duties and taking an extended Leave of Absence. For all your help and support needs check in with one of the other members of the team, or better yet file a support ticket at support.swcombine.com/ to reach the next avaliable representative
Wombats are short-legged, muscular quadrupedal marsupials that are native to Australia. They are about 1 m (40 in) in length with small, stubby tails and weigh between 20 and 35 kg (44 and 77 lb). All three of the extant species are members of the family Vombatidae. They are adaptable and habitat tolerant, and are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of southern and eastern Australia, including Tasmania, as well as an isolated patch of about 300 ha (740 acres) in Epping Forest National Park in central Queensland.
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Year 23 Day 71, 9:34 Noctis banned player Rico Daxter providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Wen Chou/Draken Fordosa remake. Perm ban is still perm ban.
No help ticket needed.
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Year 23 Day 26, 17:40 Falcon banned player Arthur Von Kaldreon providing the following reason: Harassment
This is his second strike and is a 1-month ban. He may request to be unbanned in one month by submitting a support ticket.
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Baugrems banned player Arthur Von Kaldreon providing the following reason: Strike 1 Dec 4, 2021 (Y23 D 9)
Strike 1 results in a 1 week ban. The strike expires in one year, or one year from when your last strike occurs if more are given in the future.
Reason for this strike: A single instance of Sexual Harassment or Hate Speech is often enough by itself to count as harassment. A single act should be reported on top of blocking them.
While forgetting pronouns and making mistakes is in no way against the rules, blatant hostility over misgendering is unacceptable in our community.
See communication rules here.
Please do not be afraid to report things. We do not punish or "out you" if you are concerned or unsure. These new rules are serious and we want to make SWC a better place. If you have a concern, please make a ticket at this link: http://support.swcombine.com/
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Hawk banned player Taevan Zaldeen providing the following reason: Multi Ban-Yr22 D356 -One account per player. You had been notified. Player can file a support ticket in 21 days to have the original/oldest account reinstated.
5 Year 22 Day 356, 18:11
Hawk banned player Brian Salazar providing the following reason: Multi Ban-Yr22 D356 -One account per player. You had been notified. Player can file a support ticket in 21 days to have the original/oldest account reinstated.
And due to a third attemp: I have banned Makro Talten and the ban has increased to 2 months. Contact via support ticket when the timer is up. Not before.
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Polar here
Hello everyone! New round of the Deathmatch is up! Go vote for someone!
In the latest grudge matches, people decided that the Best Mandolorian Sigil is Mudhorn and Sand Panther. No love for puffer pig. Favourite Tie is the Tie Interceptor and the least favourite one is the Tie Bomber. Not all Tie's made it to the grudge match though, so there is still a chance that there are more popular Tie's (an idea for a grudge match!).
When it comes to GMAAS voting, the Approach the astromech and try to activate it option got the most votes and this is what may happen next! But this week there are no new episodes, the story is being put on hold. It may continue one day if people enjoyed reading it. Do you think it was an interesting story? Did deciding what will happen next (through the grudge matches) made it more engaging and fun? If you have any comments or would like to share your opinion on this project and if it should be continued, DM Polar or Falcon. Thank you!
New grudge matches are up! You can vote here. Submitters will be awarded soon. If you have a good idea for a grudge match, you are welcome to submit one and if it will be published, you will receive CP's!
This is all for today! Have a good weekend everyone.
Polar out
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Polar here
We have a new Deathmatch winner! Hexagon shaped avatar wins!(no one should be surprised) It's Dex Sehrin! Congratulations. New round has been started, you can check if you or your friends are there and vote against them here.
Results of grudge matches from last week: Which Is Your Favorite RM Hauling Heavy Freighter? The one and only: Bulk Freighter! Is there anyone who never piloted one? if there is, you should go and do it right now, you will not regret it!
Best place to live! - South. I think it's the right answer. North was not far away from south when it comes to votes, only 30 votes away! That's less than Chisses and people who are still stuck on Winter Comet, who voted for Island Life.
Our Grudge Match Actually Affects Something serie will go through an interesting plot twist. The winning option: Stay with Sel aboard the Russet Eagle, and go down fighting alongside her friend. will have terrible consequences for our main characters. What kind of consequences? You can read about them here.
New Grudge matches are out!
That's it for today! Have a good weekend everyone! And if you happen to have a bad one... bad days are often a source of good, interesting stories! Stay strong like a... like a... strong Gamorrean!
Polar out
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Happy Star Wars Day!
May the 4th Be With You
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Polar here
Time for the Grand Final in our Deathmatch! Vote for the face you want to see next in the Deatchmatches hall of fame here!
Few new grudge matches are up too (submitters will get CP's soon), including another one about the Russet Eagle crew. In the previous voting, Head to Tatooine option won. You can read the result here.
From the other news, recruitment for Art Queue Team and Art Team is closed now. Thank you everyone who applied and good luck to those who were/will be chosen as the new members!
This is all for today, have a good almost the weekend everyone. And the weekend itself too.
Polar out
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Hello! Recruitment post here.
If you are hoping to get involved in the game behind the scenes, now is your chance! Every one of these positions also pays in CP so you can spawn new ships, vehicles, droids, items, creatures, and apply images to them. Any affiliation can apply for any position, these are fully OOC jobs. Details on how to apply will be specific to each one so read carefully and send to the right person. Apply for whatever you think fits for you!
Quest Team
As a member of quest team, your job will be to write scripts for NPC/Droid/Creature/item dialogues. This can be for generic "All Riflemen say this" or specific to a quest. You will have the ability to more directly suggest quests as well. To apply, send Galia Winters two example scripts you've written using the LISP NPC Scripting functions. Please be sure to do more than just (say) and similar functions.
Art Team
The Art Team is looking for 3d modelers, both beginner to advanced. Beginners will be allowed in on an intro level and given help to train to intermediate level within three months. For those at the intermediate to advanced level, the Art Team is accepting applications for full time team membership. In recognition that the major projects that the Art Team is about to undertake, we will need some 2d Artist support as well for a large scale NPC project. To apply please message Galia Winters on discord (Galia Winters#0576) or via game DM with samples of your work and/or intent.
Art Queue Team
The art queue needs 2-3 people who can be objective about artwork while maintaining the rules. Optimally those applying would have some artistic experience, however this is not necessary. Tasks included are evaluating quality in accordance to posted rules and regulations, maintaining the spirit of the rules, evaluating art for denial and approvals, and above all work well in a team environment. Taking guidance from the Art Queue Leaders as well as Art Director and being on Discord is a must. If you are interested, contact Galia Winters.
Descriptions Team Director
Director of Descriptions Team provides oversight of the descriptions team, approves description submissions, and submits descriptions to the team for review/discussion. They are also responsible for serving as the liaison between the descriptions team and SWC administration and resolving conflicts with descriptions amongst players and faction entities. As Director, they identify and lead any projects for the team. Writing experience, especially descriptions is a big plus. To apply, contact Erek/Superman and tell him why do you think you are fit for this position.
In the future we may have openings in other teams, once it happens we will post about it. There is no deadline for applying, but as soon as the spots will fill up, we will stop accepting applications. I will keep this post up to date with available positions.
tips his hat, drops a smoke bomb, hides behind the nearest tree
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Polar here
Only four people are left in the current edition of the Deathmatch! Who will get to the grand final? Decide here!
There are also a few new grudge matches (submitters will be rewarded shortly) that include a voting that will decide where the next adventure of The Russet Eagle crew will happen. Last weeks most popular answer for the question "What does the ships crew find within the containers?" was - An ancient disassembled droid of Zakuulan origin. Let's see how it worked out for them, the next chapter is here.
From the last weeks grudge matches, we could clearly see that when it comes to buying anything from the vendors, weapons and raw materials are the most popular choice. Also that peoples cockpits are either nice and clean or full of people and droids (no wonder there are so many accidents). Almost no one admits that their cockpit is full of keycards anymore. They belong in a museum!
Later this week/next week we will be posting a sim news about recruitment to a few swc teams. If you have some free time and were thinking about helping the swc team, now you will have a chance to do it! Keep your eye/eyes open for the blue blinking icon.
This is all for today, have a good weekend everyone
Polar out
edit: I forgot to add, you can still submit Grudge Matches and receive CP's for them if they get published. The deadline to do it has been extended.
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Polar here
New round of the Deathmatch is out! You can vote here. New grudge matches are out too (submitters will be rewarded soon), including a poll about what should happen in the next episode of the story about Russet Eagle's crew.
From the last week's grudge matches:
1. Best meme: What's a meme!
2. Favorite illicit product: Just say no.
Very nice.
The GMASS story continues! For the question about what should happen next, majority of voters answered: Jump to hyperspace and investigate the cargo shipment that was brought aboard.
So this is what they did! Second part is already posted here.
This is all for today. Have a good the rest of the week everyone.
Polar out
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Polar here
In the final duel of the Deathmatch, the fight was very close, the participants ended up 1 vote apart! It was also the most voted on duel, from the whole Deathmatch. Congratulations to the winner - Kimberly Tylger!
New matches are out! You can vote here!
Moving on to the last weeks grudge matches. Majority of voters for a question "Are you or your faction actively involved in the galactic war?" voted that they are not involved. Galactic war, what is it good for? The next one - "Favorite Feature Planned for the April 1st update?" - revealed that R&D is in very high demand. Good that it didn't state which april 1st. New grudge matches are out! You can vote here. People who submitted them should get their cp rewards soon.
Today we would like to try something new. On our forum, in General Talk, you will find a thread called "GMAAS - Grudge Match actually affects something". It's a short, entertaining story written by one of our players, happening in our galaxy. The story will have a few parts, and what will happen in them depends from our community! There is a special Grudge Match called GMASS with 4 choices that you can vote on. The answer with the most votes will happen in the next episode. Go vote here, I hope you will enjoy it!
I think this is all for today. Have a good week everyone!
Polar out
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Polar here
Last round of the current Deathmatch is out! Jawas very heavily invested in their visibility, you can see them everywhere nowadays! They put a lot of effort into advertisement, for example by writing and posting GNSes or creating some kind of community event called Swap Meeting, all of this just to make sure that Nejal wins the Deathmatch! Is it enough to beat Kimberly? We will see next week! Vote here while you can!
We have two new Grudge matches from 2 lucky submitters. You can vote for them here. Last weeks results are as follows: favourite item people wish to be implemented are... grenades! Because aiming is overrated. For the question Who killed Lancer? the most popular answer was... "No one! He is still alive somewhere!". Yes, about that... or maybe better some other time.
Anyway here is wonderwall this is all for today! Have a good week everyone!
Polar out
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Polar here
When the former Deathmatch champion, an armed Jawa, a Vratix doctor and the Queen of Falleens walk into a bar, you know it means only one thing. It's a new round of Deathmatch and you better vote for it here! Four people enter the arena, only one leaves. Then the rest of them leaves after him. But only the first one was the winner. Who it will be? Let's find out! One day.
Also we have some new Grudge matches. This weeks submitters will receive CP's for their submissions, like it was stated 2 sim news posts ago. Congratulations! Prepare to take all your friends to the best restaurant in town! Both submitters, Falcon and Polar, receive 500 cp each. Well done! (actually it's not true, but I won't reveal their real names). Keep them coming, some interesting posts are already waiting in line.
From last weeks grudge matches, we found out that the most valuable asset here are friends and ships! No one voted creatures, because this wasn't even one of the options. When it comes to custom images, majority of voters made at least one! 203 people never made any, and art queue team probably likes those people the most.
This is all for today.
Not too many people like mondays, but I wish you a good one! See you next time.
Polar out
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Polar here, I'm new.
Two announcements for today.
First one is about CP's for Grudge Matches Program, or as I like to call it - CP's being awarded for Grudge Matches Program. Second one is about L4anc3r bounty (for Master Bounty Hunters).
Starting today, for the next 21 days, we will be offering 500 CP's to every person whose Grudge Match will be published by us.
Here are the rules:
1. Grudge match has to be interesting for wider audience. Don't make it about something niche that only you and your friends will understand. Also try to avoid popularity contests, so submitting names of players or your friends just to check who gets more votes (we have Deathmatches for that). In some instances we may publish such match, if it's interesting enough (like for example "Who was your favourite Emperor?" from some time ago.)
3. It's not guaranteed that your Grudge Match will be published. Also in most cases it will be first come, first serve, so if your submission was good enough, but it wasn't posted for a while, it means that maybe there are more submissions which are waiting in line before yours.
2. Please make sure your submissions are appropriate for our audience. We still have the final word what gets published, but it will make our job easier.
5. No spamming submissions. For now you can submit max 3 matches at once. You can submit the next one, if one of your older ones gets published. We will prioritise picking submissions of various people than choosing the same person all the time, but this doesn't mean yours won't get published more than once. Especially if they are of good quality.
4. For now submissions for CP's will be available only for 21 days. After that time we will decide if we want to continue this program or not. Up until now I was publishing 2 matches per week (during Deathmatch updates) and for now it will probably stay like this. If there will be many submissions, this number may be increased.
To submit your Grudge Match, go here. To see examples of currently posted Grudge Matches, go here. Sometimes after submitting, there may be an issue with images, if they are in the wrong format or the link gets broken. I will try to inform you if it happens, so you can resubmit your grudge match. We can't edit your grudge matches. Have fun!
Second announcement is directed at Bounty Hunters with a rank of Master. Some time ago we announced putting on hold L4anc3r T0rp011 quest/bounty target. For now we decided to remove it from available contracts. Everyone who bought it's puck, should have their reputation refunded (you received event in game with a message). Also all the pucks for L4anc3r should now be gone, and Guild Master will not be offering this contract. If you still notice any issue or a bug with this contract, let us know.
This is all for today. Have a good day/night everyone and see you next time.
Polar out
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Greetings,
Time for an update in SWC's art realm. Due to the flood of content that it a bit too real world and at times inappropriate, I wished to remind the community that this is a Star Wars game and to submit customs that would only appear in a Star Wars universe setting. This is a loose ruling in that there is some flexibility in this due to the universe of SW being vast, however the Art Queue will be taking this into mind when it comes to approving content from this point forward. If you need examples, feel free to ask me (Galia Winters) in DM. In addition, real world holiday content not associated with a SW content holiday, will be denied from this point forward.
Edit: Community/Made up holidays are ok. >.>
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