Faction Requests

There is a new feature available to factions and faction owners.
Anyone with "view" inventory privileges can send faction requests. A request is a set of assets plus an inventory action (asset assignment, asset makeover, asset unprotection).
These requests can be seen and executed by people with appropriate privileges (assign privs, makeover privs or faction ownership).

You can raise requests via inventory actions, or access the list of requests from the factions menu.

Known issues:
- Error when "reason" field is left blank (Workaround: Put a non-empty reason in)

Bugs:

- Faction owner page reworked, in particular now it is less heavy to load when owning a lot of stocks.
- There is a new faction privilege "Can see Faction Status Overview" (leaders will need to assign this new privilege to people to use it)
- Fix crash on messages when trying to send message to purged character
- Removed "Lack of Interest" faction dissolution condition (it was never used)
- Fixed faction forum "infofield" permission checking
- You can now only see inventory actions you have privileges to do
- Assigning faction asset tags via inventory checked incorrect privs (now requires Assign Tags priv)
- Protecting assets via owner screen now generates batch events rather than one event per asset

Other Changes:

Maybe new issues with the following features:
- Faction Privileges storage major rework
- Asset Tags storage major rework
- Ctools rework

Y21 D108 Edit from Evan: Someone made a great tool that lets us delay the expiration of asteroid deposits. We've added more time to all deposits and will continue to do so until the full feature release of asteroid mining so that you can prospect without fear of your efforts going to waste. Be sure to thank Noctis!

Look and Feel:

- Viewport options (the default width/zoom for pages on phones) are now configurable on the Look and Feel screen.
It's device specific so find a setting that works for your mobile if you don't like the defaults.

- Who Is Online page now more mobile friendly.
The Who Is Online page now has a quick link to send a message to players who have joined recently. This link will populate the message screen only with players handles who you have not already sent a message to.
The Search Profiles link in the right menu now links to the Who Is Online page.

- Improvement to the Credit Transaction sheet, made Mobile friendly, and some simple filtering ability added.

- The "overhanging header" issue on mobile has been fixed by moving the page layout to CSS Grid. Hopefully everybody is using a browser updated in the last decade.

Bugs:

- Fixed a bug with sector bounding coordinates in deep space.
- Unpowered warning shown on cockpit when inside an unpowered facility.
- Shield Gen and CCC cockpit functionality now does not function when unpowered (previously they did).
- Fixed Shield gens not shutting down when PG recycled.
- Fixed some issues with travel planner triggering when inside immobile things (stations/facilities)
- City creation events now linkified, taxes event has had information leakage reduced, and no taxes are returned for hidden cities.
- A bug with our HTML parser (used anywhere HTML is accepted) has been fixed to avoid extra list elements showing up.
- Fixed a bug on rules pages showing some hidden cities at 0,0.
- Hidden cities that you have privileges to see should now show up on the planet deposits inventory.
- Fixed an issue with faction dissolution hanging due to multiple join requests.
- Join requests page now shows a warning if you have no HQ/unpowered HQ.
- Faction join requests no longer expose the player's email address.
- Changed how multiple inventory filters stack again (so it prefers includes over excluding again).
- Fixed XSS on LISP Script Modules
- Added specific error for LISP variable names too long (max of 32 characters)
- Facility construction from city permissions now can edit the facility name on the construction confirm page.
- Fixed XSS on messages screens. Fixed issue with message impersonation. Messages from non-character sources should show specifically what they have been sent from if not a character.
- Scanner screen repair droid button added.
- Planet image max width on rules pages is 300px.

WS:

- WS Credit Limits removal

As part of the GE / NR situation ~40 datacards have now been made generic, after discussions with the parties involved.  I will likely edit this later to list them out but enjoy.

Also as part of this we are going to being doing an audit of the generics datacards assigned to factions to ensure that that are not overallocated. This will be starting likely in 2 weeks, so please clean up your stuff before then on your own otherwise we will just remove the highest slot values first until you get under the limit, and other things might happen as well in addition to that such as but not limited to fines, removal of more generics from you, get attacked by vicious attack porgs that Baugrems has been training in secret for just such an occasion.

The List

Website on Mobiles
- Tweaked how the website displays on mobiles. If you liked the older layout width better on your phone, go to your browsers page settings and enable "Use Desktop Site".

Asteroid Prospecting
- Asteroid prospecting now gives you XP, hooray!
- Asteroid prospecting now spams your cockpit events with more events, hooray!
- You can now issue a queued move into prospecting order from the map context menu. This is queueing behaviour is handled by travel planner, and should make asteroid prospecting more chill.
- This also works with planet based prospecting when you are at atmosphere level. Basically only for FK-7 squads though, so probably not as useful as its counterpart.
- Rules for asteroid mining should be released with next sync, and asteroid mining itself still on track to be released before all the juicy Y-8s are finished.

Travel Planner
- There is now an icon in the Inventory to populate the travel plan to a given asset's location.
- Additionally, the mishmash of icons in inventory have been cleaned up and moved to their own column, wow much clean.
- Fixed an issue where travel planner had an irrational fear of travelling on diagonals.

Bugs & Fixes
- Fixed an issue where a regular faction member with privs could expel the 2IC. 2IC is a privileged spot, only the leader can remove or expel the 2IC. (This particular issue was thought to be fixed many years ago, recent events made us re-test this).
- Improved information on skill allocate screen when below skill category minimums.
- Fixed an issue where entities with no ionic cap were permanently disabled. Entities with no base ionic cap cannot be disabled.
- Fixed an issue where cutting power to factories that were producing things was ineffective.
- Fixed an issue with Inventory filters: Some filters when combined together with themselves would generate the wrong results e.g. the "powered" filter.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes you could not see hidden cities on the galaxy map, related to how the city was assigned and owned.
- Fixed an issue with how identifiers for datacards are assigned.
- An issue where you could purchase multiple duplicate generic datacards has been fixed (maybe).
- The cockpit map context menu has been rewritten to allow it to be more hip and dynamic.
- Fixed a bug with deep space sector calculations, relating to sector borders/vertices. Deep space sectors are still cosmetic only.

Edit Y21D29

A follow up sync has fixed some regressions caused in the above sync. Forum quotes, station construction, and NPC skill point assigning should all be fixed.

Additionally, a new feature has been added to the scanner interface, where players and NPCs will now show a Heal option if they are injured and you are able to heal them. This is automatic, and will use the most powerful healing item you have equipped to your character. Healing is also still accessible from the Equipment page. More suggestions for quality of life changes such as this are welcome; the next option on this screen will likely be Repair for droids.

With the latest sync, we are happy to announce a new feature that many of you have requested: Asteroid Mining!

You can find the rules for the current implementation here: Asteroid Mining Rules

Additionally, a new, related ship has arrived! Introducing the Y-8 Mining Vessel:

For now, please consider this feature in Open Beta; as such, values and mechanics are subject to change. To begin, we have released the ability to prospect for materials in asteroid fields. The ability to actually mine the found resources will be released in a future sync, but we wanted to give you all a chance to get started finding your precious, precious RMs!

As outlined in the Asteroid Mining Rules, only ships equipped with Mining Sensors are capable of prospecting for raw materials in asteroid fields. To help people jump into this new features, we have TEMPORARILY given mining sensors to all generic light freighters. On or about February 1st, 2020, the mining sensors may or may not be removed from those generic light freighters. For now, the only ship guaranteed to have mining sensors after February 1st is the Y-8 Mining Vessel.

Again, the mining sensors for the generic light freighters are temporary!

For those that like to plan ahead, you should expect the Y-8 Mining Vessel to play a critical role in the actual mining operations of asteroid fields, as well as the use of depot stations. More details will be released later, but hopefully that's enough to get your ol' noggin churning for now.

Special thanks to Clarr for his work on this, please send him all your love.

- Recruitment liaison field is now stored differently, so leaders and 2ic can remove themselves as liaisons without being readded. Faction recruitment liaison is set from the dedicated faction screen.
- The autocomplete box on privilege page was fixed to only autocomplete within faction (when character has appropriate privs to view memberlist)
- Cockpit and Travel planner now show sector when in deep space (this is purely cosmetic)
- Fixed alazhi refining pile selecting ownership issue
- Skill point category minimums are enforced when allocating character skill points
- Added link to NPC Inventory skill points icon
- a target="_blank" is allowed on forum html now.
- Fixed issue where repair was granting XP twice in transaction log, and repair now generates better events and error messages.
- Fixed combat hooks not being fired correctly (affecting force quest)

There is no longer a free skill reset when changing to a newly discovered race.

For future race changes, each skill from your base skillset will be modified as follows when changing race:

skill = max(oldSkill - oldRaceBonus, newRaceBonus)

In general, this will sometimes give you some skill points back when changing race, and changing races will never spend any unallocated skill points you have.

There is a minimum allocated skill point amount per skill group that must still be met (14 points, 10 points, 8 points, 6 points, 4 points). If your race change puts you below any category minimums, you will be required to allocate within particular skill categories until the minimums are met. This requirement will be enforced when allocating new skill points.

Forums:
- Added an overview page for which faction forums you have access to. If you have special access to any faction forums they will show up on this page.
- Added checkbox to disable forum automatic linebreaks, to allow easier html things in forum posts like tables. When checked, you will need to add <br> or <p> tags manually to your post. This is accessible from the Add Post page (not via quick post).
- Added more audit events for faction forum modification.
- Increased length of forum name, description fields
- Fix bug with "factionPriv" forum permission, and forum permission strings are now mostly case insensitive.

Facility Constructions:
- There were a number of old facility construction actions under an old system that will be removed.
- Generally, these are ones that are started over 12 months ago and had not been completed.
- These were migrated to the new system. Due to some incompatabilities, anything that was migrated will currently be paused and the builder will have been reset.

Bugs:
- Fix issue where some item crates without max uses would crash when repackaging.
- Fix issue where the disabled overlay would not show up on combat report.
- Improved error messages when conditions to process alazhi into bacta are not met.
- Fix crash when no sensors available from cockpit.

Changes:
- Hostile ships/droids that have been disabled will now no longer start travel. Currently, they may still continue travelling if they were previously travelling.
- Vehicle cockpits on the rules pages has had their background updated.
- Added quick link within the dropdown area to directly disembark when inside something you can directly exit from.
- Some look and feel changes: more fonts added, and selected fonts are more pervasive. Verdana is now the default font.
- You will get a (slightly wonky) live preview of skins and fonts when changing them.

Web Services:
- Events list resource changed.

Features

- Faction forums: Faction leaders and 2IC can create a board for your faction on the SWC forums.
- There are instructions available on how to set up and configure permissions for faction forums.

- Alazhi Refining (Turning Alazhi into Bacta at a Bacta Refinement Facility) has had a UI makeover and had its code updated.
- The equations have been tweaked slightly to make it take slightly more time to yield, and to put more emphasis on using NPCs.
- Now always requires the source materials to be aboard the Refinery. (Previously had some code with silos, etc. Cannot use silos anymore).

- Browser Notifications have been reworked. (As such, you will need to re-enable them from the settings screen if you want to use them).
- Browser notifications now keep track of unread events separately from the events screens, and do not reset the notification flashers when received.
- You can enable browser notifications for DMs.
- Browser notifications will now only prompt for browser permissions if they are first enabled in the settings screen, and browser notifications are disabled by default for new players.

- You can now block certain characters from sending you DMs. You can find the blocking controls on the settings page.

- Sensor blocking in asteroid fields have changed. Asteroid squares now reduce sensor power by half for each asteroid encountered. Previously asteroids blocked sensors.

- When you are within in a hidden system, you can view the galaxy map rules pages for that hidden system, previously this was not allowed. A tag has been added to hidden system rules pages.
- Travel planner: Manually plotting destinations within hidden systems using the coordinates should work. You can not browse hidden systems from within travel planner.

- Require items to have maximum uses when repackaging
- Fixed a bug where recycling a mine kept mining.
- Fixed an issue with faction dissolution caused unrelated event spam about warrants.
- Fixed an issue with bacta tank usage not resetting NPC Fitout Equip status
- Faction privileges page updated to work better on mobiles

D344 Hotfix:
- Fixed some errors that generate links showing incorrectly (kicking passengers, cockpit quick assign)
- Fixed regression with crating droids
- Fixed crash when hiring NPCs of new race.
- Fixed missing link back to faction forums in forum top menu when you aren't in that faction.

For the first time since galaxy 2.0 a new sector has been added to the galaxy, happy hunting

HTTPS Enabled:

- The core of the website and the static images are sent via HTTPS now, and the website will redirect you into HTTPS most of the time. Update your bookmarks.
- Now would be a good time to consider changing your password to the website especially if like me you have used the same password for SWC for over 17 years. Reminder to always use a unique password for every website you use, and consider using a password manager (such as Keepass, Lastpass, 1Password, pass, etc). Account passwords are stored on our server with a unique salt and hashed using bcrypt.
- User submitted content may still be submitted via http, so the website will remain "mixed content" (for example: images in forum posts, images in descriptions and links to external sites)
- If you are having issues with parts of the page rendering, please whitelist this website in any security extensions you are running (such as ghostery, firefox tracking protection, etc), and disable "mixed passive content blocking" if you have it enabled for this website.
- Huge thankyou to Sel who did a lot of work over many weekends to update our software to be able to do this change.

Live Chat

- The IRC Live Chat applet has been discontinued, in its place is a page with connection instructions to IRC and an invite link to the discord server (discord link only shows to logged in accounts).
- Faction profiles with discord links in the "Chat" field will show up as discord invite on their faction profile.

Bugs/Features:

- A number of bugs relating to duplicate travel actions and other duplicate actions have been fixed, in particular duplicate travel actions should no longer cause timers to pause for the entire game.
- Added custom item names to scanner
- Adding range select to summary credit view
- Fix display of uses on items without uses
- Fix missing zeros on rules pages
- Fix medical menu headings
- Fix inventory tooltip html being shown
- Market: make total bid count update on bid placed
- CP Exchange image submission field now only accepts numeric IDs
- Fix XSS in makeover confirm box
- Fix XSS in boarding events
- Fix XSS in hail screen
- Fix export cockpit scanner when focused on a single square (#5349)
- Travel planner: changing pilot now causes the travel plan to cancel at the next segment. Include events for travel planner into the ship event log (viewable in cockpit).
- Travel planner: when in hyperspace visiting the travel planner will show your hyperspace destination as the default location if no plan is set (previously it showed you 0, 0).
- Travel planner: When in a ship that cannot fly in atmosphere, travel planner will not show planet view after clicking on a planet

Javascript:

- Add justify plugin to CKEditor (simnews/gns editor), update from 4.10.0 to 4.12.1, make title field required on sim news and gns posting page
- Fix missing jquery-ui css file (and overwrite weird looking autocomplete css), remove unused colourPicker.php, slider.js, slider.css files
- Upgrade less.js to 3.10.3
- Hide jquery-ui accessibility text that shows up when you used autocomplete fields

The Great Baugrems has deemed you all worthy of receiving a most benevolent gift!

From this day forward, Zoo Stations are now available for construction by Information Factions.

But wait, there's more!

Zoo Stations also come with a brand new Incubator! Now you can cook your eggs in the comfort of the vacuum of space!

Remember to send all sacrifices to Baugrems!

Year 21 Day 113, 7:37 Evan has changed a players handle: Lencher Gand to Lencher Chynnre.

I want to take this moment to thank Noctis for his support and enabling me to contribute, however small it may be, to the success of this community. Next time you see him roaming the halls of Discord, be sure to give him a gentle nod of appreciation.

Year 21 Day 102, 21:41 Noctis banned player Seeka Noth providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Failing to register as multis.

Year 21 Day 102, 21:41 Noctis banned player Khazz Sada providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Failing to register as multis.

Failing to register as multis.  3 week timeout.   Baugrems to the rescue.

Year 21 Day 102, 21:33 Noctis banned player Nuri Ludar providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Failing to register as multis and accessing each others accounts.

Year 21 Day 102, 21:33 Noctis banned player Elias Arawton providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Failing to register as multis and accessing each others accounts.

Year 21 Day 102, 21:33 Noctis banned player Dimitri Narrius providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Failing to register as multis and accessing each others accounts.

Oldest account can request an unban after 3 weeks.  Previously contacted administration and additional information was provided, all is well. 

I just want to take a moment to remind everyone that if you share a connection, register.  If you're registered, don't log in as each other.  Pretty simple.  If you receive a DM from administration, please attend to the request to prevent other issues.  Account security is your responsibility, I suggest avoiding the Remember Password feature if you share connections (as well as some browser password plugins).

As always, for any questions or concerns, contact Evan.

Year 21 Day 97, 21:07

Baugrems banned player Xeno River providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Year 21 Day 97, 21:07

Baugrems banned player Castor Cage providing the following reason: Multi Ban

3 Month Ban (2nd Combine Offense) - Castor can request unban via support ticket at that time. Illegal multi will not be unbanned nor will future multis be allowed.

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Year 21 Day 100, 8:44

Baugrems banned player Kai Tykha providing the following reason: Misinformation to Administration

 2

Year 21 Day 100, 8:42

Baugrems unbanned Xeno River (the reason was: Multi Ban).

 3

Year 21 Day 100, 8:42

Baugrems unbanned Castor Cage (the reason was: Multi Ban).

It isn't often that people get away with trying to use admins as a weapon. Usually it is easy to spot and the cases are weak. This time, I have to admit I was wrong and acted on information that was manufactured to look just right. I apologize for the confusion to the pair who got banned for it. It should go without saying that trying to accuse others of OOC misdoings in order to "get one over" on an enemy is NOT okay. While many were involved and fell into the bandwagon of hatred/accusations that were untrue, only one party seems to be the core. So all that said, Kai Tykha can request an unban after 4 weeks of downtime.

One person with 2 seperate accounts; attempting to make a 3rd.  The oldest of the two accounts can request reinstatement in 4 weeks.

Edit: Due to attempting to create a 4th account, ban has been extended to 2 months, that's all.

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Year 21 Day 15, 18:12

Noctis banned player Waled Shehata providing the following reason: Multi Ban. Account created at the time two additional accounts were banned.  

Sometimes they try to be sneaky.

1 Year 21 Day 97, 18:51

Noctis banned player Waled Embaba providing the following reason: Multi Ban;

Ambitious.

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)

Year 21 Day 84, 19:57 Noctis banned player Sylvein Iego providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Just adding to the list.

 1 Year 21 Day 76, 19:47 Noctis banned player Dav Koor providing the following reason: Multi Ban.

Permanent ban is still permanent.

 1 Year 21 Day 73, 21:20 Noctis banned player Liderc Alak providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Failing to register and coming under control of a single player.

 2 Year 21 Day 73, 21:20 Noctis banned player Ho Pihe providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Failing to register and coming under control of a single player.

Due to this being the 3rd offense, the bans are permanent.

 1 Year 21 Day 71, 18:02 Noctis banned player Jin Croth providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Failing to register, one player accessing both accounts.

 2 Year 21 Day 71, 18:02 Noctis banned player Bob Erric providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Failing to register, one player accessing both accounts.

Edit:  1 Year 21 Day 72, 16:08 Noctis banned player Jacroy Kalli providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Oldest account can submit a help ticket in 3 6 weeks requesting an unban.  Also, go vote in grudge matches and deathmatch.

 1 Year 21 Day 40, 16:58 Noctis banned player Watitia Airdiver providing the following reason: Multi Ban - Accounts coming under control of a single player.

 2 Year 21 Day 40, 16:58 Noctis banned player Byogahe Zapalo providing the following reason: Multi Ban - Accounts coming under control of a single player.

Oldest account can request an unban in 3 weeks through a help ticket.

 1 Year 21 Day 22, 19:39 Noctis banned player Shersha Gaines providing the following reason: Multi Ban

 2 Year 21 Day 22, 19:39 Noctis banned player Caedmon Gaines providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Accounts coming under control of a single player.  Oldest account can request an unban after 3 weeks.

 3 Year 21 Day 22, 19:39 Noctis banned player Les Barin providing the following reason: Multi Ban

 4 Year 21 Day 22, 19:39 Noctis banned player Aura Sahuquill providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Accounts coming under control of a single player.  Oldest account can request an unban after 3 weeks.

 5 Year 21 Day 22, 19:39 Noctis banned player Raa`hse Nahk providing the following reason: Multi Ban

 6 Year 21 Day 22, 19:39 Noctis banned player Ashantie Starsage providing the following reason: Multi Ban

Accounts coming under control of a single player.  Permanent ban.

 1 Year 21 Day 12, 12:51 Noctis banned player Jen Fantora providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Accounts coming under control of a single player. Failing to register as multis.

 2 Year 21 Day 12, 12:50 Noctis banned player Pei Torin providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Accounts coming under control of a single player. Failing to register as multis.

Oldest account can request an uban in 3 weeks. Assets laundered will be removed.

 4 Year 21 Day 12, 12:46

Noctis banned player Warren Sullivan providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Accounts coming under control of a single player. Failing to register as multis.

 5 Year 21 Day 12, 12:46

Noctis banned player Beriothien Angelis providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Accounts coming under control of a single player. Failing to register as multis.

 6 Year 21 Day 12, 12:46

Noctis banned player Jacob Mcloed providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Accounts coming under control of a single player. Failing to register as multis.

Oldest account can request an uban in 3 weeks.

Kevin Fontana is now known as Kane Starlight.

New deathmatch and grudge matches.

Also, these are all totally not rigged.

Deathmatch

GRUDGE MATCHES!

Good afternoon Combine!

Administration is looking for a new Descriptions Director.  The Director is responsible for uploading/updating descriptions, working well alongside description team members, and paying the team.  If you would like to be considered, please DM one of the following; Baugrems, Kyle, or Evan.  Also include your responses to the following questions.

1) When did you join the Combine.

2) Experience with descriptions.

3) Your activity level/frequency.

4) An example of descriptions you have written/submitted.

5) Is a hotdog a sandwich. (AND A HOTDOG IS A SANDWICH - Noctis) 

Please submit your responses no later than Y21 D87. 

EDIT:

Paul Luz is now the Descriptions Director. Thanks for the applications. I hope everyone still tries to join the team even if they didn't become director!

Looking to make your impact on SWC? Want to get paid in Combine Points to do it? Join a team! 

There is an SWC team for just about every skillset. We have art team, descriptions team, NPC team, Scenario/RP team, Quality Assurance/Bug Testing team, the development team, and more.

Art Team: (Jic Uiji)

• Job - Create 3D and 2D art for the combine.
• Pay - Between 5,000 and 50,000 CP per model/piece. (Inquire inside for more info)
• How to Join: Submit artwork for needed combine entities and assist others on forums/discord. They'll find you.

Descriptions Team: (Tomas O`Cuinn)

• Job  - Write descriptions for entity types and for the galaxy.
• Pay - 10,000 CP per month for activity (moderation, edits, comments). 500-10k CP per submission.
• How to Join: Submit 3 successful descriptions on the public description suggestions forum. (You get paid for these too).

NPC/Quest Team: (Baugrems)

• Job - Write dialogues for NPC types, droids, and creatures. Assist with Quests.
• Pay - 10,000 CP per month for activity (mostly discord). Bonuses per script or quest available up to 10k CP.
• How to Join: Write 3 sample dialogues using LISP. Message Baugrems with intent to join.

Scenario/RP Team: (Syn/Loki)

• Job - Run Scenarios as GM for Scenario Hall.
• Pay - 10,000 CP per month for activity. Bonuses available per scenario up to 30,000 CP.
• How to Join: Message Syn.

Quality Assurance/Bug Testing Team: (Kay Dallben)

• Job - Test new features for bugs and confirm current bugs.
• Pay - 10,000 CP per month for activity. Bonuses possible.
• How to Join - Message Kay Dallben with combine experience and available times to test.

Dev Team: (Clarr Solo and Mikel von Bianchi)

• Job - Code new features and fix bugs for SWCombine.
• Pay - 20,000 CP per month of activity. Bonuses available.
• How to Join: Complete the Dev challenge and discuss it with Dev Team.

A rules page is being built for "How to join an SWC Team" soonTM that has this info for players to find.

Greetings everyone.  As administration continues to work toward improvements and changes, NR leadership was re-established in the meantime.  This does not mean that final decisions have been made regarding the GE win.  As with the spirit of the button press to make the game better, we do not want players left in limbo for extended periods of time as changes oftentimes take.

For questions or concerns, please contact Evan.

A discord server has been created between Seele, the Administration, and those interested in obtaining the shell of rebel datacards, lands, etc. The admin role is moderation and assistance at this time. To get an invite, please contact Baugrems on Discord (Baugrems#5197). Read the rules below before requesting access or I will ignore you/shame you.

Purpose: The Galactic Summit is an OOC conference to discuss moving forward with the critical story element of the anti-GE portion of the SWC community. With the seizure of the New Republic faction by the Galactic Empire, the SWC community must discuss options for managing the former-NR datacards, assets, and territory. The summit seeks to bring the directly involved parties together and reach a consensus of what the anti-GE power bloc in the game will look like, including leadership, where technology and assets will be distributed, and how the IU and anti-GE blocs can progress SWC's story.

Rules for the Galactic Summit:

1. Discussions are strictly OOC. We will discuss IC things and reasonings, but we are interacting as players, not as characters.

2. Be respectful to one another. This is a sensitive topic and it's not a nice thing to have occurred, but name-calling, vitriol, and rage will earn a ban.

3. You must have a direct interest in the discussion to be here. This is not a place for tourists and spectators, we need to discuss serious things and we don't need a peanut gallery.

4. Political "parties" or Factions may only have two (2) representatives each. We want to hear a diversity of thoughts and interests, but not have things drowned out by an alliance turning up with all of their nationalised factions.

5. No proposals or debates regarding game-mechanics. This isn't the place to specifically pitch ideas to the Administration or come up with game mechanics.

Message should include your handle, faction/group, role in said group, and a two sentence summary of your Rebel proposal.

The administration is working diligently around the clock reviewing improvement ideas and possible changes related to the game winning button push.

If you would like contribute to the discussion, you can post here.

If you have any questions, you may contact Baugrems again.  (Multiple DMs may be necessary, keep trying.)

WINNER!!!

Congrats to Kez for just scraping out a win against Dac in the latest Deathmatch. You may claim your free hug from your nearest Baugrems.

A whole new tournament has begun! And some fun grudge matches are up, too. Be sure to vote and submit new ideas for grudge matches!

Death Match

GRUDGE MATCHES!

Starting November 1st October 25th, I will be moving back to the player side of the game. It's been a good 3 years but it is time for a break to go play. I'm wrapping up all my tickets/work these last 2 weeks so don't expect me to pick up new things for you. Check with the rest of the team instead (please). 

For any LISP/Quest related questions speak to Noctis.

Otherwise bug Evan/Erek directly. And repeatedly.

Rounds advanced! The winner gets a free hug from Baugrems! May the Force be with you all...

Go vote! Or else! Submit more matches too! 

Death Match

GRUDGE MATCHES!

1 Year 20 Day 245, 16:02 Baugrems banned player Kyota Navic providing the following reason: Spying

6 month ban for using and encouraging others to use a script to pull discord channel logs and info. This resulted in massive sharing of ooc info and is not an acceptable way to use communication mediums. It is NOT and never has been approved by the swc administration. If you feel pressured to use a program to spy, don’t do it.

Hi everyone,

As of today, I've decided to step down as art team director. For the time being, Jic will be acting as the art team director.

Thanks!

Now that the Zookeepers have won the Zoo Feud Quest, the design contest is open! Anyone can participate. Even if you did not participate in the quest, you can submit a design.

You can submit up to 2 designs per person. Winner will be decided by members of the Zookeeper team.

See this link for full rules and to post your submissions: http://www.swcombine.com/forum/thread.php?thread=77251&page=0