Greetings fellow ICers,

I'm happy to report that October was a fantastically productive month.  Here's what we accomplished:

Updates

New Layout is Live

Finally, it's out the door!  I won't rehash the details here, so if you haven't caught up yet you can check out its announcement thread.

A bunch of updates have been happening and work continues to be done.  Rather than list them all here, you can just mosey on over to the various support forums and witness/contribute to the madness for yourself.  We're identifying and fixing bugs even faster than we're creating them, which means I may need to start coding drunk again to restore the balance.

Coming up next

Fleet Morale Redesign

It's time to look at the gameplay itself.  The first big thing I'd like us to tackle is the Fleet Morale situation.  There's been quite a few strong opinions about how the most recent change turned out, and it'd be silly to pretend it worked out as planned.

There is a thread open here for this discussion to resume.  Your thoughts are very much welcome and appreciated.  Don't be shy, and don't hold back.  I'll see you there.

Killing the Wiki

In an effort to woo new players instead of scaring them away, we'll be looking at revising our various game docs.  This means The Guide, FAQ, and/or anything else we can think of.  The official wiki had good intentions but never really attained the success or usage of of ic-wiki.com, which is funny given that the latter doesn't work anymore.

Anyway, I am working on a new setup to facilitate contributions from any interested players out there.  You'll be rewarded for your time/effort of course.  More info to come soon, so stay tuned.

Thanks for reading!

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