Due to a minor hitch when upgrading the server's OS, evo was down for a little over an hour.

The ticker will be restarted shortly, and the round will continue as normal.  Missed ticks will not be caught up.

If something is currently broken that was not broken before the downtime, please contact the admin continent so we can get it looked at.

--TMX

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The miniround will commence in a little under 24 hours at 00:00 on the 21st December. There will be 10 minute ticks and the starting conditions will be left as a surprise. In the meantime the ticker has been halted.

All the best, and to those not planning on staying for the mini round the current game will continue on the 4th of January.

Thanks and happy holidays,

-The Admins.

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The auction code to prevent auctioning items when you have incoming has been fixed, and will be activated soon.

There is a threshold before the restriction is activated, meaning that it will take a bit more than a single monkey to shut down someones auction access.

Checking the Attack value of incoming fleets was considered, however this was not implemented as it would give away the identity of decoy fleets.

Along with the incoming fleets restriction, the auctions are now paginated, allowing you to see more than 20 auctions.

If there are any issues with either of these fixes, please contact me (The Mysterious X Xiii) and not the Admin continent.

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The old rules still apply, if we find that someone has auctioned anything whilst they have incoming, we shall be punishing the offender.

Your vigilance is welcome,
-The Admins.

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Beginning 20th December 2009, at a time to be decided nearer the date (we shall aim to avoid 00:00 to avoid confusion!), will be the Christmas/New Year mini round.

It will last 2 weeks and carry through until the 4th of January 2010. More details regarding the event will be released as we near the time.

All the best,

-The Admins.

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We'll be down for a little while sometime after 15:00 tomorrow (Wednesday 21st).

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We're going to be down for about an hour to move to a new server. Sorry about that.

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As of 2 ticks ago there were 14 days worth of ticks left in the game. So, lets say 2 weeks at 00:00 UTC the round will stop.

There will be a day to check things before a reset is done, then a 3 day grace period like usual for people to get their planetary placements right.

-The Admins.

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I'm starting a new project, and I thought that it'd be good if I 'finished' Evolution 5 before moving on. Last time anyone donated was over a month ago, and the ads aren't really paying enough to keep Evo on the internet. I haven't put much effort into Evo for years. So, I've decided that instead of switching it off, I'll finally put some effort into ironing out the issues, change the advertising inside Evo to hopefully get more money in that way instead of relying on donations, and advertise the game on other websites to get a lot more players here. That way, it'll be able to stay on the internet, there'll be more players to play against, and I might actually get something for all my effort over the years for the first time ever. Everyone's happy.

dEvo is the development version of Evolution 5, located at http://ev5-dev.neondragon.net/. It is now open to anyone who wants to help with testing -- login with your usual username and password. If you know of bugs, or you have suggestions for things that can be improved, then now is definitely the time to go into dEvo and make your thoughts known.

-neonDragon

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