GAME NEWS
The big news for this week is the first look at the new SRV - The Scorpion. There are a few video’s already around from the usual suspects dissecting this, but here’s a link to the relevant part of the video from Fdev themselves:
A lot of folks in the community have been asking for a new SRV for a long time, and it’s great to finally see this. Looking forwards to getting my hands on one to try it out. This should be landing tomorrow morning, Fdev have said that the servers will be going offline at 0900 UTC and are expected to be down for around 3 hours.
Lets see what we can do with this new toy.
SQUADRON NEWS
A couple bits of news, firstly (and I’m sure many of your will have already noticed this, however, I never put it in an announcement, so it’s time to address that). Following the departure of Dalvon, we had a gap in the Admin roles on the server, leaving me on my lonesome here, which didn’t seem like the right way to run things. I’m incredibly lucky to have an amazing staff team to make things happen here in NEWP, which made choosing the right successor for Dal very difficult.
However, CMDR Vadergans, the mighty WarGoose, has demonstrated amazing leadership skills over his time with us, especially in somehow managing to herd cats in order to lead our BGS team in their ongoing conquest of the galaxy. So, it’s my great pleasure to announce that he’s now going wearing Admin tags, and as such, is somehow even more dangerous.
Secondly, just a heads up that we’re currently doing an audit of nicknames on the server and trying to make it easier to tell who is who. Recently, some folks have been changing nicknames so often it’s hard to tag or track, so we’ve locked out the ability to edit your own nicknames, at least for now.
GALACTIC NEWS
Want a ship with a rebuy of 100cr? Well you may be interested in the current CG then. You have the opportunity here to get yourself a iEagle, a iCourier, and even a iClipper with effectively zero rebuy.
EVENTS
This weekend
Quiet weekend this week I’m afraid as we have the 7C’s Expedition coming to a close and the 5 Euro Tour still running. We’ll be back next week with a Fleet Carrier assisted trip out to the Crystal Gardens. Maybe we can see how the new SRV handles mat collecting