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EARTHDATE: May 18, 2008

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NOTIFICATION OF NEW PLANETS

by Hazed

Every day after the reset, the cry goes up: are there any new planets in today? Because it's not always easy to tell. Of course, if a brand new star system gets linked into the interstellar hyperspace system, then you get to see the notification that the new Founder has promoted. But when a Mogul commissions a second planet, or a Gengineer a biological planet, the new worlds are not linked to a promotion so there's no notice in the SpyNet Review. The only way to tell is to look at the very long and unwieldy systems list, and try to spot what has changed.

SpyNet have been aware of this problem for some time and have been racking their collective brains to come up with a way to solve it. And finally they have. They've set up a data exchange with the Galactic Trading Guild, Inc, that will notify them whenever the status of an exchange changes. This happens whenever a planet promotes to a new economic level, and when it is first linked into the game - a new exchange is generated, and that information can be used to clue you in to the existence of a new planet.

Just check the SpyNet Financial each day and you will see the notification of new exchanges, which will let you identify when new planets appear.


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