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EARTHDATE: June 17, 2007

Official News - page 6


HAZED HOLDS OUT THE BEGGING BOWL

by Hazed

It's that time of the month when the hosting company that rents us the servers upon which Fed DataSpace lives wants to get paid for the computer space, network connections and so on. With Fed being free, our only source of income - and thus the only way we can pay these bills - is from the slithy toves that you, the players, buy.

New players may not know what slithy toves are, so I shall explain. A slithy tove is an alien creature, possession of which is considered quite a status symbol amongst the rich and famous of the Galaxy - so much so that certificates of ownership are traded as if they are money. The slithy toves certificates thus become tokens which can be exchanged for goods and services, sometimes legitimately and more often as a bribe to the right person. The Encyclopedia Galactica has an entry on bribery, corruption, and ownership of these alien beings.

In real life, you use your dollars to buy slithy toves, which you can then use in the game for all kinds of things. Some of them are very useful, such as the navcomp upgrade which lets you move between Sol planets instantly or the various remote price checking facilities that Merchants and above find so valuable. Some are social, such as the ability to get married or divorced. Some are purely decorative, such as the trading cards sold by Clive's Collectibles on Titan.

Whatever you choose to use slithy toves for, purchasing them gives us the dollars we need to pay Fed's bills. If the players don't buy enough, then we won't be able to keep the game going. So that's why I am holding out the begging bowl: we need you to buy slithies so Fed can survive. And to keep Bella in green Rigellian gin!

You can make a one-off purchase of between two and ten slithy toves, at a cost of $5 each, through Amazon.com.

Alternatively, you can take out a subscription to buy four slithies each month, at a discount price of 15 UK pounds - depending on exchange rates it works out at about $15 which means you get four for the price of three.

Whichever method you choose, point your browser here to make a purchase.


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