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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: May 10, 2015

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SECOND PLANET AUTO-LINKING IS LIVE

by Hazed

After a whole lot of testing, the code which lets you auto-link your second planet into the game is now live.

As part of making sure it all works as it’s supposed to, I needed a bunch of POs at the right rank. I am now the proud owner of five Mogul alts, each of whom now has systems containing two planets. I even had to rope Pugwash into the testing process; the laziest PO in the galaxy had to do enough builds to promote Mogul, following which she had to have a very long lie down!

The last thing I tested was to see what happens if you try to auto-link a planet with a name that’s already in use. Since planet names are supposed to be unique, the game should have stopped me. But it didn’t – so one of my alts was all set up to have a planet called Mars in her system. That would have been confusing! Fortunately, Alan was able to remove the files before the next reset, and of course he fixed the bug so there won’t be any more Marses.

Even with all that testing it’s just possible that something slipped through, so if you spot anything odd please let us know by emailing feedback@ibgames.com – and don’t forget to put Fed2 somewhere in the subject line so your email doesn’t get tangled up in our spam filters.

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