Bug Fixes & Tweaks
- Fixed 9 bugs related to corrupted data.
- Fixed sun effects. (Bugs 548 & 567)
- Fixed HQ problem of StarSign Shipyard. (Bug 571)
- Deleted city on HY-890 sun. (Bug 580)
- Fixed a bug causing the privilege check on the city stats page to not work. (BugID 435)
- Fixed a bug in the auto-assign power script that was causing it not to check the remaining power properly. It resulted in events saying the buildings were powered when they actually weren't. Also clarified the Power & Cities rules so they no longer claim that generators by the same builder would be powered (it's only owners). (BugID 403)
- Fixed bug 0000062: Event Consolidation
The events for assigning and unassigning NPCs to work in mines has now been consolidated to one line in the personal events. ID tags have also been removed as well as grammar updated.
- Fixed bug with power due to facility action frame
- Fixed the issues with NPC Shuttles, and NPC Ship Party Travel in atmosphere.
- Fixed a bug preventing dead characters from replying to Darkness Messages.

Features

- Updated the capital required to create a transport faction to 30 million compared to 60 million prior.
- Updated the registration fee for transport factions from 25 million to 15 million.
- Added a Digg It featurette for posts made my info factions.
- If a user tries to access a members only page and gets passed back to the login page, they now redirect to the first page they tried to access on logging in.

Maintenance & QA
- Fixed caused generating daily GNS Tutorial NPCs (type=14) because someone deleted them without warning. What to do with the 687 existing ones ?
- Fixed error due to recycling reports sent by ships considered as coming from factions.

Rules Updates

- Updated the rules about transport faction capital.

Game Content

Art Updates

17 Rules page Room images (placeholder images only)
AA-9 100x100 and 400x300
B-Wing 100x100 and 400x300
Colossus-class Heavy Liner 100x100 and 400x300, MTV-7 100x100 and 400x300, V-35 Courier 100x100 and 400x300, GNK Droid 100x100 and 400x300, LIN-series Miner 100x100 and 400x300, TT-8L Sentry droid 100x100 and 400x300, YT-2K cockpit, YT-1210 cockpit,

Custom planets

Corvanni 1-5, Daeledor, Erelebas, Erezinbar, Qetix, Ker-Meh I & II, Meiaba, Rigneldia I, Rigneldia II, Rigneldia III, Rigneldia IV, Tellus, Dolomar, Douglas VII, Norval Sun and Naboo

Custom system

Rigneldia, Dresscol and Norval

Creature Images

Jakrab, Goff, Suubatars, Jaboon, Bursa, Fanback, Grazer, Houjix and K'lor'slug
20 corrected NPC images

Descriptions Team

- New Descriptions: Durthang [1562], Cirgost [1566], Serendal [1564], Subrania [4369], Oseon 6-7975 [3594], Shesharile VI [4317], Shesharile I [4312], Harawen [1314], Rhinnal [1318], Gorgolfin [1944]
- Updated Descriptions: Karideph [1563], Guardian-class Medium Cruiser, Gorbas [7], Rantsa [4313], Cathar [5150], Cathar Prime [1184], Sullustan, E-Web Blaster, Chadra-Fan, Spacetrooper Armour, S74-2 Speeder Bike, Scout Blaster

I would like to thank all of you who participated in this week-long invitation to send me an e-mail with your likes and dislikes related to Star Wars Combine. I received surprisingly large amount of e-mails with very interesting content - enough to convince me that this should be a more frequent event in a given year. I like the fact that a good distribution of players responded that fit in both beginner and experienced group. You were all very respectful and all criticism was backed up with explanation without random complaining and I thank you for that. I wanted to reply to a lot of your e-mails, but if I would reply to one, it wouldn't be fair not to reply to the rest. So let me thank you all here in public for your time.

Once I finish going through all of them in detail I will present the key elements that were common to most of your e-mails and present the findings to administration for discussion.

• Answering day-to-day mails sent to the assistants mailing list as well as answering questions through irc.
• Fixing corrupted accounts through the use of admin tools; (including the bug base)
• Managing multi-acounts & tracking illegal multi
• Various other tasks asked by the SWC Administration.

1. How long have you been with the Combine?
2. What is your Combine handle?
3. What have you done IC so far? What are you doing at the moment? What is your position in your faction?
4. Could you name two people that have been in the Combine for at least two years who worked with you and may be willing to give a testimonial for you?
5. Are you involved in any other Star Wars themed online games, or games of a similar nature? If so, please specify your position in them.
6. Have you read the Combine Strategic Overview?

1. Where do you live?
2. How old are you?
3. What do you do IRL?
4. How much time can you spend on the Combine in general and programming for the Combine in particular?

Please continue to be patient, as confirming reports and restoring the entities can be a time consuming process, and will be dealt with over the next week or two.

Also, new Grudge Matches somewhere around here, and hey, some are topical for once. Now you can be just a number voicing your anonymous opinion about exciting IC and OOC Combine events!

Not a big fan of this set of matches? Submit your own! Functional images please. If you're too lazy to include images, I'm probably too lazy to accept it.

P.S. If there is anything in the universe more important than my ego, I want it taken out and shot immediately.

Those who play here in the Combine seriously disappoint me. Numerous times I've received praise, and many thanks for being strict about the multi rules. I don't make exceptions because once you make an exception for someone, another person will require one... and another, and another. It gets so bad, that you question why you even have those rules. Yet, those same people who give me praise will grind their teeth and curse me for banning them for the same violations. Hypocrisy runs rampant through the player base. Of course with current leadership, I’m not surprised. I've made it blatantly clear in my dealing with multis that I do not back down to anyone. If I have ample proof that you are breaking the rules, I will ban you. If I am proven wrong, I have no problem apologizing and immediately reversing my actions. Because of my integrity, I have a serious problem with being over ruled because Veynom tells me 'I like them'. I do not care about your opinions towards me. I know I'm hated by a majority of you, doesn't faze me one bit. What I care about are the rules. Right now, Veynom's actions towards a recent decision has made a joke of the multi-account rules. Currently, if you are a veteran or Veynom likes you, you are immune to the multi account rules. I was brought on as a Multi Account Admin because I hold everyone accountable to the rules. Well, until today.

Last night, I had the unfortunate displeasure of banning someone I considered a friend. Now, unlike some of the Combine administration, I don't let personal feelings or opinions get in the way of doing my job. The rules are very clear, if you share a connection and do not register, you are to be banned. Now, Banquo asked me the night before if I would be willing to allow them to remain unregistered and in two separate factions. I specifically told him, he would be banned. I gave him a warning. That was the extent of leniency I was going to give him. I usually don’t warn anyone they are to be banned. Why warn someone that they are about to be banned for breaking the rules? I do not believe in allowing those who break the rules so blatantly more time to transfer assets, make arrangements, or what have you. Instead of complying however, they sent an email to Veynom. Earlier today, Veynom then ordered me to unban them in a private PM on IRC. (If you would like logs of this conversation, feel free to send me an email at kimseyt@pop.belmont.edu, trying to hold him accountable for his actions.) I then told him that if he over rules this decision, he would have to find a new Multi Account Admin. His response was to complement my work on multi accounts and then tell me I wouldn’t have to worry. He only interferes once or twice a year. The kicker? Both Banquo and Seele acknowledged breaking the rules and were fine with sitting out 30 days like the multi rules say and after they were both allowed to come back, complying with them. But, Veynom has declared them both immune to the rules, so they have been unbanned.

To those that follow the rules, I thank you. I know that following them at times could be a serious strain and a burden to real life relationships with those you work and live with. I was never trying to hurt you nor be malicious and tried to work with you when the need arose. But I don’t believe it’s fair that someone who has a lower join date than you should be allowed to violate the rules I hold you accountable for. I’m sorry.

I will continue my work as an ASim and continue to maintain the Dev Wiki. But I refuse to handle multis again. Those with multi questions issues, please send all questions and registrations to veynom@swcombine.com. He will be handling them until he can find someone else.