TRANSCRIPT OF MEET THE DEMI-GODDESS SESSION Sunday February 15 [The Nightmare Before Charging!] Note: This is an edited transcript. The session was so busy that many of the questions did not get answered at the time; the answers have been added to this transcript in [square brackets]. Your comm unit comes to life with a Public Service announcement from Hazed, "Meet the demi-goddess starting NOW on channel 11!" Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Ok guyz, let's get this show on the road. Everyone shut up please.". Your comm unit relays a message from Antimatter, "I love Hazed's frankness". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Keep the chit-chat, hellos, and unnecessary comments OFF the channel - the scroll will be bad enuff as it is. Anyone who disrupts will get gagged.". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I'm just going to answer questions in the order I see them on the screen... I'll try not to miss things but I prolly will because there are so many of you. So... first question!". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Oh - and don't bother TBing me because I will ignore all TBs.". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Don't all yell at once!". Your comm unit relays a message from Flostonbond, "Hazed - At the risk of sounding stupid. Will there be a need to worry about Disaffection level when P2P starts?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No, you don't have to worry about disaffection yet.". Your comm unit relays a message from Mmustang, "What's this I heard about an offline planet editor? Or was I dreaming?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Offline planet editor is being worked on now as an extension to FedTerm Loaded - I don't know how long it will take". Your comm unit relays a message from Agilder, "Hazed, when will we be able to check how much credits we have left?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "You will be able to see how many time credits you have left tomorrow". Your comm unit relays a message from Brenda, "Will we be able to check our time credits while playin In Fed? or do we have to bounce back and forth between the website, and Fed?". [No, you won't get that information out of the game itself...] Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "You will be able to see your a/c details on the web site, they will be updated in real time so if you keep refreshing the page, you'll see how many time credits you have left". Your comm unit relays a message from Smoothbutt, "is it true that you cant accept or give a planet to someone if you are leaving". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "What you choose to do with your character is none of my business. However, please do NOT advertise your character for sale in Fed, or tout for other people's characters. Keep it all private.". Your comm unit relays a message from Streak, "What's the rationale for now mandating that every event have a text message?". [This was discussed in the news dated February 16, 1998.] Your comm unit relays a message from Eggie, "How soon with the Duke Puzzle be put in, Hazed?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Duke puzzle is next thing we work on after we get all the charging stuff in place". Your comm unit relays a message from Newniall, "are there gonna be less umputs needed for builds?". Your comm unit relays a message from Jamestkirk, "hazed, will the builds price be lowered? its killing me!". Your comm unit relays a message from Sabin, "will the goods needed for baron builds go down?". Your comm unit relays a message from Chazman, "How about the build time required :) raise the price". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Check the news for new promo requirements". [News dated February 16, 1998.] Your comm unit relays a message from Elretardo, "For JPs...if they have enough profit currently to promote to GM, will they promote on pay day or will the cycles start over on pay day?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I assume that when you log in tomorrow, after we start to charge, if you have the profit, you will promote!". Your comm unit relays a message from Dragongpg, "Umm... when will snark be up?". Your comm unit relays a message from Dragongpg, "Hazed, will snark be up soon? Me and my friends wanna do it". Your comm unit relays a message from Vrmeyers, "Snark is up already.". Your comm unit relays a message from Dragongpg, "is snark realy up?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Yes, Snarka is up - check today's news for details". Your comm unit relays a message from Agilder, "Hazed, i regret to inform you, there is still one part broken in Snark- someone tried it earlier today and it didnt work". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Agilder, please send mail to Feedback with the details". Your comm unit relays a message from Zeeynot, "Why did they get rid of snark for promo?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Snark was taken out of the promo because it wasn't a puzzle when the solution was public knowledge and everyone had a macro to solve it". Your comm unit relays a message from Geiiga, "How long will it be until credit cards are implemented as a billing plan?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We hope it will be about 3 to 4 weeks before credit card stuff is in place". Your comm unit relays a message from Morbideyes, "no offense..but given the track record, 3 or 4 weeks seems to become 3 or 4 months..". Your comm unit relays a message from Flostonbond, "Hazed - In the event that the credit card software takes longer than 1 month to get running, Will deletion time for characters be moving up??". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Right now characters are deleted after 3 months inactivity. If it looks like credit card stuff is taking longer we'll up that to 6 months". Your comm unit relays a message from Tizpyro, "Hmm Hazed, Do planets still close down after 10 days?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Yes, planets close after 10 days of inactivity". Your comm unit relays a message from Newniall, "UM Hazed im not going to be able to pay for like a week,but thats ok right?". Your comm unit relays a message from Gorgon, "hey hazed I have one question if i dont send my payment for a couple of weeks will I lose everything I have seeing as how my finances are limited". Your comm unit relays a message from Trazier, "3 months is the player deletion time?... so if for some reason, I decide to cut a check and get a few hours credits before 3 months, will I still be able to return?". [We are changing the way characters are deleted. If you have any unused time credits in your accounts your character will NEVER be deleted. If you don't, then your character will be deleted three months after you last log on. So you have three months in which to buy some time credits.] Your comm unit relays a message from Agilder, "Alright, and also when do you start accepting Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Age minimum :)". s?". Your comm unit relays a message from Newniall, "is there an age limit for being a nav?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We will start to recruit Navs in a few months. The age limit is 18.". Your comm unit relays a message from Spoony, "hazed, why is there an age limit?". Your comm unit relays a message from Zeroz, "Ahh.. okies only a year to wait then;)". Your comm unit relays a message from Trazier, "age LIMIT? or age minimum?". Your comm unit relays a message from Elretardo, "So immature brats don't get the job. ;)". Your comm unit relays a message from Zeroz, "Bah..". Your comm unit relays a message from Slicer, "Ah, that's why I haven't seen any Nav that didn't act like a child.. there's an age limit". Your comm unit relays a message from Mmustang, "I think I know the answer, but will it cost credits to access the IB site, as originall planned?". [No - the web site is free.] Your comm unit relays a message from Antimatter, "Hazed, after a few months of pay- for-play, will the IB staff consider banners on the web page or Public Service Announcement ads on Fed to help off-set the pay if you ever to flat rate?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We have no plans to go to flat-rate - even if we do get ads or banners". Your comm unit relays a message from Kalock, ":::HAZED::: Why do you not what to have a unlimited pay". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Look on the web page for info about why we won't charge an unlimited price - it's too long to go into here - the Help page, Payment FAQ". Your comm unit relays a message from Sabin, "is it final that charging will start at maint. tomorrow morning?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Yes, charging will absolutely definitely positively start tomorrow after the morning reset". Your comm unit relays a message from Budwarp, "absolutley definitly positvely :) that covers that :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Lordelena, "My only QUESTION: When is the Duke Puzzle going to be repaired? If not an exact date, surely there is some estimate.". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Duke puzzle is the next thing we are working on after the charging stuff is done". Your comm unit relays a message from Lordelena, "Right .. but IS there an etimate .. I dont want to waste money scratching around, trying to determine when it will be ready.". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I can't give you an estimated date for the Duke puzzle (besides you wouldn't believe me if I did!)". Your comm unit relays a message from Brenda, "will IB advertise its games as to attract new people?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Yes we will advertise but I don't have the details - that's not my job :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Goldendragon, "how do we Kno if ya got our payment?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Tomorrow you will be able to look at your account details on our web site and see how many time credits you have. That will tellyou whether we've received your check :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Gehn, "What will happen if you have time credits and you dd?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "If you DD, you have to start over, just like now. You use the time creidts for your new character.". Your comm unit relays a message from Kittenb, "When we start to pay, will we still get into Limbo :)?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Yes limbo will still be in, and yes you will be charged for time in limbo". Your comm unit relays a message from Jackyl, "Hazed-I think that squires should be able to use PSA that would contact anyone at there planet". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Jackyl, we don't plan to let players use the PSA". Your comm unit relays a message from Romulusslave, "is there a way to switch credits from a dead character already paid for to another new character". Your comm unit relays a message from Lordelena, "Hazed , I decided NOT to bring a character that was paid for into the game, how do I go about TRANSFERRING her time credits?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "You cannot transfer time credits from one ibgames account to another.". Your comm unit relays a message from Romulusslave, "what about if someone turns over there account to you can you switch credits from another character". Your comm unit relays a message from Toyman, "what happens if we have time credits and staff lockes us out forever for a violation?". Your comm unit relays a message from Brenda, "what happens to your credits if your character gets locked?". Your comm unit relays a message from Lordelena, "Hazed.. I ASSUME that you will ISSUE a refund on Blocks players will not be using.. correct?". [If you cancel an account we will refund any remaining time credits, minus a $6 admin charge. The same will apply to any people who get locked out permanently but I don't expect that to happen very often.] Your comm unit relays a message from Almandot, "Hazed, when do you think free credit prizes for the official events will begin?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Probably in a week we will start giving prizes of free time for events". [details are in news for February 22, 1998] Your comm unit relays a message from Newniall, "HAzed,why dont you guys give castillo an economy?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Castillo is a research station, it doesn't produce anything except scientific papers". Your comm unit relays a message from Newniall, "well then hazed,make it so they can haul 75tns of Science papers! ". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Not immediately but we will have to come up with some way to let people try out the game before they pay for it :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Gehn, "I think when a player first logs on they should be given the tour, but you should change it a little". Your comm unit relays a message from Budwarp, "Hazed - sugget guest players have limited com - like chan 1 only". Your comm unit relays a message from Peggysus, "You have to pay for the tour right?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "You have to pay for everything you do while in Fed - tour, workbench, buying a ship, limbo, buying me a drink... everything". Your comm unit relays a message from Cryptosporidium, "And double for complaining...". Your comm unit relays a message from Budwarp, "pay for the loo ?? make sure and carry coins !". Your comm unit relays a message from Vorlon, "Understands the hint .... HANDS HAZED A DRINK .....". Your comm unit relays a message from Newniall, "i dont think its right to charge us for limbo". Your comm unit relays a message from Boom, "who said you have to sit in limbo?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "If you don't want to stay in limbo either leave by the emergency exit, or log off and come back later". Your comm unit relays a message from Smantsao, "i don't think limbo should be in and the planets should load in order that the players come in". Your comm unit relays a message from Tizpyro, "Hey All... You don't HAVE to be on fed while yer planets are loading... Just come back an hour later when everything is loaded... almost". Your comm unit relays a message from Newniall, "HAzed,do our planets come back if were not present for limbo?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Yes Newn". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Your planet will load without you". Your comm unit relays a message from Agilder, "How will we be able to earn free credits?". [See details in news February 22, 1998] Your comm unit relays a message from Antimatter, "Hazed, where does money I give to my own mobiles go?". Your comm unit relays a message from Jaime, "They take it and put it under their pillows Anti?". Your comm unit relays a message from Brenda, "speaking of complaining, since we'll be paying customers, will IB staff be alittle more polite? :ducks:". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Brenda, if you can think of a way to make Crypto be polite, please tell me :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Brenda, ":giggles: i can, but then Fed would never work right because it would have its hands full Hazed ;)". Your comm unit relays a message from Irocsstar, "Hazed, has a timer been installed to log you out if you get punted out and cannot get back in so you don't use up your credits even though you can't get back in?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We will be putting in a timeout but not immediately". Your comm unit relays a message from Metairiee, "Wonders how Hazed keeps up with all the questions?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I type fast :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "And I have years of practice at reading fast scrolling Fed screens". Your comm unit relays a message from Hecatomb, ":::hands Hazed a medal for keepin up with all this:::". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "what is IBgames projected income from this game?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Squids, sorry that's Top Secret info". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "how many players does IBgames expect to retaiun?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We have no way to guess how many players we will retain... but I think we won't lose many players completely but everyone will play far less hours". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "who will be in charge of quality control?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We have a new testing department that won't release any code till they have tested it". Your comm unit relays a message from Zeroz, "Hazed, How has Fed servived this long? ". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Fed has survived this long because people want to play it. :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "who do we contact for billing questions and disputes?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "All mail goes to feedback@ibgames.com, they then send it on to the correct person.". Your comm unit relays a message from David, "How will builds in progress be transferred to Monday? (I.E. Will a 75% build today be finished, or still needing 15 minutes?)". Your comm unit relays a message from Peggysus, "Hazed--- if you do1/2 of a build today, will the rest take 30 min on Monday?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I don't know what will happen to partially completed builds.". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Crypto says that he thinks partially completed builds will require the same amount of time as when they started". Your comm unit relays a message from Jonmadrox, "Hazed how will u keep up with all the new duchies?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I don't have to keep up with duchies - that's your job :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Merkdude, "How many people were in the game at once, when AOL was 2.95? I didnt notice such things then". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I think the max was 300 players or so". Your comm unit relays a message from Starraider, "Hazed - will Merchies and JP's have to wait till GMT monday to promote, or will they promote as soon as Fed restarts?\". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I think they will promote as soon as they log on, after the new version goes in". Your comm unit relays a message from Magicalelf, "Hazed, will there be a way to exchange groats for minutes? Like 1 gig = 10 minutes...". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No elf". Your comm unit relays a message from Metairiee, "Magic.....we wish!! LoL". Your comm unit relays a message from Peggysus, "The ib staff can used groats in RL about as much as you can. :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Brenda, "Will IB ever find other uses for Groats in Fed other then just Building and Stats?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Brenda, I am sure we will". Your comm unit relays a message from Zeroz, "Hazed, is there plans for a Customer Service Dept. and if so, will we have to pay for that? ". Your comm unit relays a message from Boom, "customer service dept? try the guide". Your comm unit relays a message from Zeroz, "Can ya yell at the guide? ". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We will do customer service via email, at least initially, and that don't cost nothing!". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "the complaint department will be handled by Helen Waite, take all complaints to Hellen Waite". Your comm unit relays a message from Pico, "Hazed, are there any plans to change or alter the Duke puzzle from it's current form?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I don't know if we will change the Duke puzzle.". Your comm unit relays a message from Magicalelf, "Hazed, will puzzles be able to give people time, and subtracting it from the POs?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No elf". Your comm unit relays a message from Sabin, "will fed ever be taken out for good?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I guess eventually Fed will disappear, when no-one wants to play it anymore, but I hope that won't be for many years". Your comm unit relays a message from Rainman, "how do you expect to attract players, if there are ton's of free muds out there?". Your comm unit relays a message from David, "Rain, there are none that duplicate Fed's economic system...". Your comm unit relays a message from Jonmadrox, "Why would we want to pay to play fed when we could find another mud that's almost as good as this one?". Your comm unit relays a message from Vrmeyers, "That a question of self reflection JonMadrox.". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Jon, if you can find another game you like almost as much as this one, then go play it.". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Obviously I don't want to lose any players, but hey, I can't force anyone to stay here if they aren't happy. :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I guess we could disable the quit command...". Your comm unit relays a message from Jonmadrox, "they could just pull da plug on thier modem". Your comm unit relays a message from Hecatomb, "Hazed, my duchy is closed right now because the duke hasn't signed on in a while. He's in the process of getting a new ISP. Will my duchy go back up when Fed comes up on Monday? Or do we still have to wait for the Duke to sign on again?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "You'll have to wait for the Duke to come back". Your comm unit relays a message from Agilder, "This is kind of a silly question...will players ever be able to use the FLOG command? :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Jaime, "That's only for Ming Ag :p". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No, players won't be able to flog". Your comm unit relays a message from Sabin, "will POs make as much when they're logged off as they do when logged on?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Probably not Sabin". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "Hazed, do you have a voice dictation thing or are you typing all this?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I am typing this, live... I am a very fast typist". Your comm unit relays a message from Zeroz, "Hazed has No lag we are lagged.. so it looks like she is reading our minds ". Your comm unit relays a message from Magicalelf, "Hazed, will people get more for tourist time since it will be hard to get a lot of people?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We don't plan to change tourist time or the TTTT award". Your comm unit relays a message from Metairiee, "Duke puzzle before credit cards??". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No, Duke puzzle after credit cards". Your comm unit relays a message from Bizcarp, "oh good....Credit cards are more important...;)". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "ETA of credit cards?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Well I think they are Biz - not sure the ten million Barons would agree :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Credit cards ETA is 3 to 4 weeks". Your comm unit relays a message from Bizcarp, "<---is a Baroness and agrees:)". Your comm unit relays a message from Vrmeyers, "Us Baroness agree;) :". Your comm unit relays a message from Eggie, "Okay.. Duke Puzzle in about 2 months then :P". Your comm unit relays a message from Hover, "when will the martians attack?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Martians won't attack for quite a while yet. They are slow movers.". Your comm unit relays a message from Brenda, "the maritan's gave up the idea of attacking after they accidently did a Sol PC". Your comm unit relays a message from Lugh, "Hazed, what do you think of the idea of paying for something thats broken?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Lugh, I think it's your choice where you spend your dollars.". Your comm unit relays a message from Magicalelf, "Will we be able to give GH and Captains money after the charge?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No you won't be able to give GH and commanders groats". Your comm unit relays a message from Budwarp, "- rank above duke? Martians ?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No we don't plan to put in any rank above Duke". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Don't ask me about the Martian invasion, it's too far away for me to know any details at all". Your comm unit relays a message from Hecatomb, "What are you doing about the death planets? If one is reported, will you destroy it?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No we won't destroy death planets". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I expect most of the deathtrap plants will go away in 10 days". Your comm unit relays a message from Hover, "what adding ship classes, like titan, or doom star?". Your comm unit relays a message from Spoony, "hazed, will there be an addon to ships to haul more cargo? to make gettin stuff fer builds faster?". Your comm unit relays a message from Agilder, "Will we ever be able to fight on the ground?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We don't plan any enhancements to ships". Your comm unit relays a message from Bizcarp, "Hazed....could PO's ever have larger ships?:) and bigger wares?:)". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No you won't be able to fight on the ground". Your comm unit relays a message from Hover, "I heard there will be new ship sizes that could clear an entire exchange in onerun". Your comm unit relays a message from Metairiee, "Agilder....flogging now fighting on da ground...Hmmmm LoL ;p". Your comm unit relays a message from Agilder, "aw man". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "You want a bigger ware? Jeez, what do you want to store in it?#". Your comm unit relays a message from Trazier, "will POs ever have the option of taking a huge ton of stuff from the ware, and selling it right to the exchange?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No there won't be new ship sizes". Your comm unit relays a message from Bizcarp, "I just want more bays;)". Your comm unit relays a message from Brenda, "batteries ;)". Your comm unit relays a message from Rainman, "will there be a way to sell directly from ware to ex?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I don't know if you will be able to take stuff from your ware and put it in the exchange". Your comm unit relays a message from Jonmadrox, "Is it possible that we will be able to make more than 1 planet?". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "when will breast augmentation be a traded commodity?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No - one player = one planet. If you want another planet, get an alt.". Your comm unit relays a message from Metairiee, "Have the expel and nationalize commands been talked about yet?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Expel already exists - it's a Duke command. I think you mean Deport. That and nationalize are on the list of stuff to do but I don't know how far down". Your comm unit relays a message from Zeeynot, "Will you ever be able to change the name of your planet?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No you can't chagne the name of your planet - we don't plan to let you". Your comm unit relays a message from Agilder, "Hazed, are you willing to sustain the major player loss?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Agilder, what do you mean?". Your comm unit relays a message from Agilder, "I mean, about half of fed's population will be gone tomorrow. Are you willing to sustain this loss?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Agilder, that's a silly question... if I wasn't willing, what do you think I could do about it?#". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "will we be able to dicuss adult matters with out fear of a lock?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Squids, you can talk about what you want in private. In public, stick to the rules.". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "That means, no vulgarity, insults, etc.". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Swearing isn't adult". Your comm unit relays a message from Elretardo, "Yes, that's been my point all along...swearing isn't adult. ;)". Your comm unit relays a message from Trazier, "swearing isn't adult... but I've seen plenty of folks go on with the 'if it's a rank below me, it's a snert' attitude....". Your comm unit relays a message from Bizcarp, "Hazed may I say that I admire your patience? :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "You may say that Biz". Your comm unit relays a message from Bizcarp, "You are an extremely patient woman Hazed:)". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "Hazed, do you put lotion on your fingers after these sessions?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I am using bionic fingers". Your comm unit relays a message from Lugh, "So starting tomorrow...you have 3 months to come back into the game before you are deleted yes?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Yes Lugh". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "Hazed, did you volunteer for this session or were you ordered to do so by a superior?". Your comm unit relays a message from Metairiee, "". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I don't have a superior. I'm the boss.". Your comm unit relays a message from Trazier, "what about Bella?". Your comm unit relays a message from Rainman, "Hazad, do you own ibgames?". Your comm unit relays a message from Squids, "what about Lenton?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I am one of three shareholders in the company, and I am the CEO, so youdon't get no higher than me.". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Alan is another of the shareholders". Your comm unit relays a message from Vrmeyers, "Can people be locked for whining?;)". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "I wish we could lock people for whining, but we'd have no players left :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Blkknight, "who is the 3rd shareholder?". Your comm unit relays a message from Geiiga, "You mean I wouldn't be here? ::whines::". Your comm unit relays a message from Zadymka, "Heeeyyyy....Have you ever seen me whine Hazed? ;)". Your comm unit relays a message from Vrmeyers, "LOL..we'd have a bonfire and wish the whiners well;)". Your comm unit relays a message from Rainman, "do you need another job to live, or does ibgames make you enough money?". Your comm unit relays a message from Trazier, "has anyone stopped resisting themselves, and told off A staff member in the past week or so? or has everyone been nice?". Your comm unit relays a message from Fishbutts, "will we get free cheese with a good whine?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "You think I'd have time for another job, having to deal with you lot?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "No free cheese in this game! YOu have to pay for it!". Your comm unit relays a message from Budwarp, "have the marsrats been checked for rabies recently ?". Your comm unit relays a message from Agilder, "Aw man! I want free moldy cheese!". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "The third shareholder is a shadowy figure you won't see much... Clem. He's our marketing weasel.". Your comm unit relays a message from Rainman, "any chance, that i can buy shares of ibgames?".Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We don't have any immediate plans to sell shares in ibgames, but in the future, who knows?". Your comm unit relays a message from Rainman, "how many people work for ibgames?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Not as many as we employ :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Vrmeyers, "We'll the role of Duke be expanded?". Your comm unit relays a message from Pico, "Hazed, in th near future, will there be anything for Dukes to actually do?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Pico, "near future" is one of those meaningless terms... obviously we plan to give Dukes somethign to do but I don't know when it will be.". Your comm unit relays a message from Trazier, "if I may ask.... what *ARE* dukes supposed to do? do they just go around sayin 'I beat that online federation game' sorta like someone brags about beating a arcade game?". Your comm unit relays a message from Dirklegend, "Hazed, as you start making more and more money, will you then start chargeing more money to play?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We have no plans to change the price - we think 60 cents is the right price". Your comm unit relays a message from Agilder, "Will Sol (earth, mars, etc.) ever get other planets? (i.e. neptune, jupiter, etc.)". Your comm unit relays a message from Pandemonium, "uranus was eaten by icedrake, pluto and neptune used in the building ofthe link, Ag". Your comm unit relays a message from Trazier, "so hazed, when your on your last time credit... and it runs out, what happens?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "If you are in Fed and you run out of time credits, you don't get punted. You start using up negative credits. When you log off, you wont' be able to log back on until you buy enuff credits to pay for the negatives and put in some positives". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "You don't get any message - you need to keep looking at the web page". Your comm unit relays a message from Zacman, "hmmm, decides to stay on fed forever and build up about 80,000 negative credits....lol j/k". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Don't forget the game shuts down once a day :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Sabin, "will the cheat command ever work?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "The cheat command does work". Your comm unit relays a message from Elretardo, "Will you reinstate the 'falling asleep', punting for idling thing?". Your comm unit relays a message from Zacman, "hazed, it would be good if the player doesnt do anything a message appears and if they dont respond to it, they get kicked off in like 10 mins". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "We will put in a timeout thing so you get logged off after a certain amount of inactivity but not immediately". Your comm unit relays a message from Trazier, "oh yah, if you see 'so n so is here, taking 40 winks' and their planet, facs, and everything shuts down 'til they wake up... will the billing clock stop too?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "40 winks isn't in the game now". Your comm unit relays a message from Mickeymouse, "why should we get punted for inactivity if we are BUYING the time ?". Your comm unit relays a message from Boom, "inactivity logout should be an option you can turn on/off, so rich people can idle all day if they really want to". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "The timeout will probably be optional... you choose whether to use it or not.". Your comm unit relays a message from Blueblaze, "is fed still going to shut down ever morning for matinance still?". Your comm unit relays a message from Brenda, "Fed will shut down once a day?". Your comm unit relays a message from Brenda, "when is the shutdown time and for how long?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Yes we will still have daily maintenance". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Shutdown is at 8am eastern every day... usually half an hour to an hour". Your comm unit relays a message from Zeeynot, "Do they really do maitnence during that time or is it just to annoy people?". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "It's just to annoy you, of course! :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Maintenance is for housekeeping chores... dusting, hoovering, washing the curtains, that kind of thing :)". Your comm unit relays a message from Sabin, "will there be a new command to transfer money from your bank balance to your treasury?". [No - but our long-term plans include merging together all balances; company, planet, personal etc, so this would become irrelevant. We've started this by getting rid of factory balances.] Your comm unit relays a message from Sabin, "if you try to log in, and fed's down, will you get charged?". [Charging starts from when you enter Fed itself. If you connect to the server but are told the game is not available, you will not be charged.] Your comm unit relays a message from Jam, "once a player buys a block of time is there an expiration date to it?". [No. Unused time credits will stay there until you use them, no matter how long that is.] Your comm unit relays a message from Midrats, "What about the 50K hauling requirement for GM to Explorer? With less lower ranking players and less tc's required to promote, will the tonnage requirement be reduced?". [We'll have to monitor this promotion once we have some new players coming into the game again, and then we'll make any changes that are necessary. PRESS THE BACK BUTTON IN YOUR BROWSER TO RETURN TO THE ODDS AND ENDS PAGE