Today is the day when the second official Discovery server, Discovery Freelancer PvP 24/7, is launched. The server is successor of Rogue Ideas 24/7 server and will be administered by BULLDOGNK, the server owner, and Igiss.
There are many reasons for creating this new Discovery realm. Discovery main 24/7 server has officialy become a role-playing one several months ago (and recieved "RP" part of its name). The new server will provide PvP gameplay not limited by strict role-playing and ID tag restrictions imposed on our RP server. This, of course, does not mean that there will be no rules at all; most Discovery rules that are not RP-related will stay. This applies to rules of conduct, rules related to cheating, PvP abuse, and others. You can read the complete set of Discovery PvP rules in this forum thread. Server is running the most recent Discovery beta, 4.83 beta 4.
Name of the new server is Discovery Freelancer PvP 24/7
IP is 81.106.181.110
The new server is open for new players, and you are welcome to join right now! We have set 10 million starting credit amount and neutral reputation for all newcomers. All former Rogue Ideas accounts are still available and can be used for playing. I will encourage Discovery RP 24/7 server players to start accounts on the new server, not only those who prefer PvP playstyle but everyone else as well. You can help us immensely by participating in new server's events, testing balance of different weapons and ships in harsh PvP environment, and even create factions on the new server.
As you know, Discovery Freelancer is a completely free modification that does not require any charges or donations to download. Development of the mod, although very time-consuming, is free and done for the benefit of players. Thats why I dont ask for any donations for mod development, for hosting Discovery forums and this website (hosting is not free). However, building and maintaining the server requires more significant sums of money that we cannot afford to pay ourselves.
In the end of February 2007, Discovery official server moved to a new dedicated host that was set up by Majk in Prague. The donations we collected before February were not enough to cover the cost of builing a new server. Since February, when the new server was launched, we did not get any donations at all; and we have to remind that we dont have any funds for maintainance and possible upgrades, and that we didnt even cover initial costs of the new server yet. To donate, you can use the button placed on the side bar of Discoveryfl.com website, or send money directly to this PayPal account:
discoveryserver@gmail.com
Your contributions will go directly to Majk, our server owner and hoster, and will be spent only for the needs of the server. We will provide more information on how the money are being spent and on those who donated on a new Donations website page and on the forums.
Recently, I've got some requests to refund lost characters, or accounts whose owner lost the key.
Some of those request are correct, some others are ridiculous.
For example: a player requested a refund of 700mill for a battleship that was supposedly deleted during the last inactive player's wipe because it was never more than 10min in game. Now, how can a character be a battleship (and with 700mill creds on it) and had never been on-line for more than 10 minutes? That is not possible because of the time it takes to get the battleship and weapons. And if possible, it means that the player in question cheated to get all in less than ten minutes.
So, from now on, you must prove that the chars in question are really yours. And also that those ships had the money and equipment you claimed they had.
For character deletion request, ascreen-shot of the character selection screen, showing ship name, level, credits and location is required.
For refunds, same as for deletion requests plus screen-shots showing equipment, money and name is required.
Said screen-shots are to be submitted only by PM/E-mail to an Admin. And never publicly.
Without those, refunds will be denied.
I take this measure to avoid abuse, and stop people from claiming inexistent sums of money from supposedly lost characters.
Acting on a system camping complaint by a Bs| member, five [SA] characters were found logged out in Omicron Minor today. Respective owners of the vehicles may now find them safely docked on Planet Manhattan.
This time they were just moved. If I catch ANY [SA] or, for that matter, any hostile character to the Bs| in Omicron Minor or Omicron-100, 30 million fee will be deducted from that character's money and it will be moved to California Minor. If the character doesn't have enough, I'll deduct the fee from the SA bank.
People, it's a lame tactic and please refrain from using it. I believe this time you had to go and your ships were inconveniently in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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