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Idealab Forum Status - December 15, 2004

Weekly Dev Activities

Invision Board announced that server 3, the server that Idealab's forums reside on, has to have it's drives replaced.

They apologize for the inconvenience and are working as fast as they can to fix the server issues. I expect them to be back up sometime this week. So, fellow Emporium members, hang in there.

Update: The forums appear to be back online. Thank you for your patience.


Holiday Combat Event, Development Update - December 13, 2004

Weekly Dev Activities

Sporkfire posted a development announcement for this Holiday's Combat Event, centered around the Oshur Battle Islands.

This event will preview on the Test Server starting tomorrow and then

possibly go live for December on Friday, the 17th.

December’s Combat Event focuses on the Battle Islands, creating unique combat scenarios and offering benefits for locking the facilities on those continents.

Empire Benefits and Gameplay
When an Empire captures all facilities on a Battle Island, that Empire will gain global benefits that affect all friendly facilities in all zones. These benefits are described below. If the controlling Empire loses a facility on the continent after they have locked it, they will not lose the benefit. The benefit will not be lost until another Empire successfully locks the continent.

Also, the gameplay of each Battle Island will be modified with limited access to certain equipment, creating unique play conditions on each island.

Locking Extinction
The Empire that locks Extinction will have Bio Lab and Interlink Facility Lattice Benefits for all of their controlled bases, just as if they have fully functioning Bio Lab and Interlink bases always on their lattice, regardless of which continent you are on.

Extinction Gameplay: Ground-based Bridge Battles. Air vehicles, BFR’s, Medium Tanks and Flails cannot be purchased on this island or brought in through a warpgate.

  • Updated: Deliverer variants will not be