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Purely Solar Empire News
By: Charles Rector | Other | 4:59pm, February 22, 2003
The following News has been cut and pasted from the
Purely Solar Empire Server Game Listing Page and only applies to the SE games running off that
server:

Server News

Moriarty - 02:14 - Feb 22, 2003
IMPORTANT! READ THIS!

I have made some rather dramatic changes to the game and have just uploaded them.
There are now fleets in the game. All ships form part of one fleet.
I have Got rid of Towing!. Instead of towing now all that happens is that every ship in a fleet will follow every other ship in the same fleet. So there is no real 'command ship' any more. You can command any ship in a fleet, and all the rest in the same fleet will follow.

- Each player can have up to 120 seperate fleets!
- At present the Fleets only purpose is to allow for more efficient towing. However when fleet attacking is complete they will have many more uses.
- Any new ships you buy are in the same fleet as the ship you are commanding.
- A ship can only be assiged to 1 of your fleets at a time.

There are also Clan Fleets. These will server simply to afford clan members mutual protection. At present they don't do anything. Again this will change with fleet attacking completed.

I have added Armour to the game. At present no ships have any as it doesn't do anything.

There is now a new page called Fleet Command this will allow you to do lots of stuff with fleets. It is from this screen that you must now self-destruct ships from.

That lot shouldn't be too much to take in. Enjoy. :)

- Moriarty

Moriarty - 07:15 - Feb 21, 2003
This will probably be my last update for a few days.
I'm about to start work on the fleet-attack system. And as well as that i'm going to be making a few drastic changes to planets, and probably bombs too. You won't see any of these changes for a few days though. But they will all come at once when they do come.

Recent Changes
- More bug fixes and code improvements.
- It is now possible to fill a fleet with goods from a port.

- Moriarty