Having seen the math for what some folks are doing with excess volumes of schools, I have destroyed them all, refunded their costs, and nerfed them.

Also, you will now gain bonus land in combat based on damage dealt to enemy shipping.

I've just reduced to effectiveness of Gun Batteries in the game by a bit more then half.  We'll be doing some other tweaking in the near future to tune other things up as well.

I just finished uploading the new version of SP onto the main site.  It uses the logins of the classes installation, so if you haven't played it then you'll need to reregister.

We've mostly got it squared away, though there's still the odd bug.  If you see anything, let us know so we can get it dealt with.

The top 10 players of the game were:
1. paTHan (1676)
2. Jesse James (1662)
3. Major (1426)
4. nickersonm (838)
5. Dante (803)
6. Bishbash (672)
7. Panzer G (646)
8. Basileis (641)
9. watchwood (611)
10. realkuka (606)

I haven't really figured out what we'll all get for it...but it'll be something.

Those of you who frequent the forums will know this already, but there's been a new edition of SP in the pipeline for some time now.

And as it happens, it's nearly done.  I'm planning on rolling it on or about this weekend.

I haven't decided quite what yet, but I'll be handing out some kind of rewards based on relative position when we get going in the new edition.

I just implemented a ban preventing people from using Gmail email accounts on the forums.  Nothing against the 2 or 3 people in the world that actually use Gmail as their primary email account, but we get a ton of spam bots on the forums using gmail addresses to register, and this is a very expedient solution.

Seems that 12 of you have been using an exploit involving island demolition to outsize your islands by a bit more then you really should have been able to.  I'm not too thrilled with this, so today I've dealt with it.  Any island that has been overbuilt using said exploit has been flattened, and everyone who used it will be unable to use the crash build function for 1 day per island that they've overbuilt.  I also capped their collective resources reserves at 100k for each of the physical resources, and 1 million for the cash and tech banks.

paTHan of hellfire - 23 islands
nickersonm of nickland - 14 islands
Imperialist of Imperial States of America - 13 islands
Jesse James of James Gang - 13 islands
GiKRapper of Most Dope - 11 islands
thinhdo95 of TonyDo - 9 islands
monster_kimex of kimiluvsmaya - 6 islands
Ian Smith of Mayhem - 5 islands
Bishbash of Spartak - 3 islands
Dante of Inferno - 2 islands
Tonyviet of VietCong - 2 islands
UNSC Shooter of New Zanzibar - 1 islands

Except for UNSC Shooter.  Since he's the only one of the bunch that could be bothered to bring this to my attention, he's been spared the capping of resources.

So seriously guys.  Don't just assume that I don't give a shit.  A lot of the time I don't, but there's times when I actually do.  People cheating and glitching is one of those times.

I reduced the minimum time on pause mode down to 3 days, but added a 3 day cooldown before you can go back into it.

I've modified the way weapon targeting works such that each of a ships weapons will now target separately from the rest of them.

I've also relocated the location of the forums on the website, in order to reduce the volume of spambots that get through the captcha.

I made a couple small changes to the combat code today.  I've extended a token bit of armour downwards to ships that can at least hold a straight face while calling themselves actual ships, but modified things a bit so that guns without an AP value now do quarter damage to ships with armour.

I know most of you don't play on it, though I figured a few of you might be interested in what we're up to on there.  The mods went off a little while back, so now anyone can just jump on with impunity.  There's a few good projects going on right now...though I think that this one is by far my favourite.  Anyone that is a fan of BSG ought to recognize what it is: