Greetings friends,

Another month is behind us, and we've only one more left for 2016!  The new year's right around the corner.

Here's the latest from November:

Updates

An update to updating

We've reached the point where using these monthly posts to discuss update details is no longer practical.

If, however, you care to know how the sausage is made, you can check out our Trello board.  Everything that will get done and/or has been done will be on this board.

November's archive is here: https://trello.com/b/ANPySUWY/archived-nov-2016

The current work plan is here: https://trello.com/b/gNAr9gke/tasks

Additionally, there is a new "Changelog" forum here: https://imperialconflict.com/forum/view … p?id=11305

Of course, if you don't care about any of this, feel free to ignore it!

New Rules, Guide, and other Docs on GitHub

New rules went out earlier this month, which I'm sure everybody read carefully and didn't just scroll and click "agree" to.  Along with that came the groundwork for our new player's guide.

Both of these documents are open on GitHub to contributions.  If you don't know what that means, a guide will go up at some point to explain how this works.

If you're curious or ready to dive in, our repo is here: https://github.com/ImperialConflict/doc … ter/source

As mentioned last month, contributions will be rewarded.  On that note:

Coming Soon

New VIP/Premium Accounts

Details are still pending work that needs to be done, but we will be rolling out a revised VIP/Premium account system in the near future that is no longer limited to only monetary donations.

That means player will be directly rewarded for all kinds of things.  A few examples:

• submitting contributions, edits, and/or fixes to the docs mentioned above

• helpful forum posts (this new system will replace forum tag points)

• reporting bugs

• lots more!

As for the rewards themselves, some examples are:

• drafting spots in regular galaxies

• access to custom games (yes, these are coming back)

• access to private test servers

• lots more!

Although the system isn't ready yet, you can start preemptively taking advantage of it anyway.  Forum tags will be transferred in some manner, and GitHub contributions will be integrated retroactively when this launches.

I'm looking forward to this, and hope to have it ready for us soon.

What about Fleet Morale?

Unfortunately this is a little more involved than anticipated, and in order to do it correctly it will take a little while longer.

We're almost there, and as always your patience is appreciated.  The good news is, the work being done here involves managing the galaxies themselves, which means after this is finished we'll be able to offer more variety across rounds with a lot less effort including tweaking things like Fleet Morale far more easily.

Thanks for reading, and here's to a fantastic December ahead of us!

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