A week of Progression and scandal
Posted by Yam
Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.planetarion From: Yam <[email protected]> - Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:18:36 +0000 Local: Tues, Dec 2 2003 4:18 pm Subject: the latest official Planetarion news as taken from www.planetarion.com
A Week of Progress & Scandal Posted by MrBrick on 2003-11-27 16:10:23
Well, it's been quite a turbulent few days, all in all, but things are
moving along nicely. We've seen the scandal of the recent closures and
openings of a variety of planets. This has been more than helpful in
assessing the current hunting methods, the way players try to cheat and
firing up Alliance politics into heated debates and flaming. So I'd like
to take this opportunity to clarify a few points.
Closure Process
Currently when a planet is closed, you will receive a mail from
[email protected] containing a closure message. Once you receive
this you will obviously want to contact the hunting team to discuss your
closure. To do so you may either find the hunters in #support on
irc.netgamers.org or mail [email protected] . The current
hunting team representatives I suggest you contact are : NB3, Phil^,
Mit, A2 or myself.
Recent Closures / Reporting
Now to move on into detail on the closures you've recently seen in the
top 100 and below. The planets that were closed and reopened have been
opened because of a lack of evidence, corroborative statements from the
planet owners or an inability to close the case in question due to
dubious evidence against the individual. Please may I remind you that we
CANNOT accept IRC logs as direct evidence of cheating, but we may use it
to begin an investigation should we deem the log suspicious. However the
log will never be used as the sole piece of evidence for closures. If
you have what you consider to be strong evidence against any planet, and
feel it proves they cheat then use the Support System's 'Report Player'
function (found on the portal) or mail the hunting team at the address
mentioned above.
The Next Round
The next round of Planetarion is scheduled to start in December, and as
I'm sure you can gather, it will NOT be the new Planetarion which is
currently under development. We are, instead, going to launch a new
innovation based on the current and previous rounds. So, may I introduce
to you 'Planetarion Leagues'.
The Planetarion League scheme will allow players to play in a series of
speedgames and 30 minute tick rounds using an elimination ladder scheme.
There will be some very sexy prizes involved (Not Aryn). Jolt have told
me they intend to provide some shiny PC hardware to the final winners of
the series. Graphics cards have been mentioned. There will be more
details announced soon as to the structure and rules for PA Leagues, and
this announcement will also include the pricing details. Jolt however
inform me that the pricing should be significantly less that the current
PAX price.
For those that already have purchased Speedgame credits, may I clarify
that these will be independent games from the PA Leagues series. The
first independent Speedgame is a long time time due currently, but we
have a few hardware issues to resolve at present, I apologise for the
delay as it's something I feel that you become far too accustomed to,
and this is by no means desired.
Other News
The Suggestions forums are a great success, and I encourage you all to
continue with your valued input.
Planetarion Team are currently restructuring various processes within
daily admin, hunting and support schema to further improve the base
methods. This will see a testing of new hunting methods, support systems
and even staff over the next few weeks. I hope you welcome both the
additions to the teams and the new innovations introduced to better the
current systems.
Happy Roiding,
MrBrick
