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Announcement 735

Lara Stardust: hi guys! The stream is up, so I encourage you to tune in! http://cosmicrage:5555/stream.ogg or, for browsers you can also go to http://cosmicrage.earth:5555 lets rock!

Announcement 736

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Hopefully you enjoyed that stream, as it is likely to be our last before the Christmas time. Hopefully you enjoyed the patriotic ending. But, don't go to sleep! We have an event in under half an hour for you to enjoy, so make sure you stick around, and tell your friends!

Announcement 737

Lara Stardust: good morning everyone. I can not believe, how long, that event, took! Seriously! I'm off to get some sleep, but I hope you enjoyed the mayhem, the puzzles and the little droidic mockery at the end. Don't forget to check out Cosmic Rage's newest planet, Salura which will, in a few days, become the new spawning place for when a human character joins the game. Your feedback on the event, and the planet, will be highly appreciated.

Announcement 738

Charley: Hi Ragers! Seems some folks are having some issues with password resetting. We're going to get this problem resolved as soon as possible. We ask for your patience in the matter. We apologize for the inconvenience!

Announcement 739

Your boy Dante: Hello Ladies and gentleghouls, As the darkness of Halloween approaches, I would like to take the time to wish you the scariest and spookiest Halloween ever. With that in mind, We also wish for you all to be safe. Light your jack-o-lanterns with care, Brew your potions responsibly, check that trick or treat candy before your lil goblins eat it and don't feed the gremlins after midnight! What ever you do, we hope you have fun and remember, I love chocolate!

Announcement 740

Your boy Dante: Hello Players! It is time now to announce this years winners of the Halloween scary story contest. We had quite a few entries this year and the decision making was tough. In third place, Yivana midnight blue designation has scored herself the ability to fight from horseback! In second place, Quentin Waters, who will be taking home a unique pet with a couple surprises in store! Last, but certainly not least, In First place, Jason Hamilton, who will be taking home a truly one of a kind weapon, forged in the flames of hell itself. Let us all wish yivana Quentin and Jason our heartfelt congratulations. This year's volume of Twisted Tales is up for sale at in-game booksellers. Thank you all for participating this year!

Announcement 741

Lara Stardust: Ladies, gentlemen and ghoulish skeletons alike. After immense begging from the players, and some wheeling and dealing on the host's side, we have now enabled name changing on the out of character channels for the next 24 hours only. To change your name, type halloween. More to follow soon!

Announcement 742

Your boy Dante: Ladies and gentlemen, beings of skin, scales and metal. I, The angel of Death need your help. Someone has taken my tome, the book of the dead and they fled deep into hell with it. I need your help to get it back. On Vakari, the river Styx flows wildly. Will you cross the river, enter the 9 circles of hell and win back my book? Do you have what it takes to brave sin at it's darkest? If you do, head over to Vakari, cross the Styx and brave the 9 circles of hell! But be warned, you might not make it out alive!

Announcement 743

Your boy Dante: Don't have enough souls to cross the river Styx? There is still time. Type souls and submit those ideas! You need a minimum of 50 to cross!

Announcement 744

Charley: Howdy you soul-collecting Ragers! There are people around these parts who are attempting to collect souls. Again, you may type souls to submit or check on how many souls you've collected. You gain souls by doing things like suggesting exit messages, an NPC for an area, description suggestion for a room, ambient messages/s for a room, as well as suggesting a seating arrangement for a room. You lose souls by suggesting an NPC that already exists, seating in a room that already has relevant seating, violent and abusive ambient messaging, and suggesting a description that isn't relevant to an area. Please, oh please look at descriptions for the room you are making suggestions for to make sure that what you will submit is relevant. You will make a Charley very happy if you challenge yourselves by submitting ideas for a room on a planet that isn't Star Command, or any of the other home planets. We look forward to seeing your ideas!

Announcement 745

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! the name changing on OOC is now over. I hope you enjoyed it and remember, get those soul ideas in and participate in the Angel of Death event. It runs only for another week or so!

Announcement 746

Lara Stardust: evening all! Due to the amazingly high amounts of this which I have seen, I have been forced to update the resetting policy. Please read it, as you continuing to play means you agree to it! Let me summarise though briefly: Anyone who resets because a host has not answered their assist, or they can not bothered be bothered to assist to get help with a problem, will have the reset command revoked. Immediately. Thank you. remember also: I love you!

Announcement 747

Lara Stardust: hello folks! From now until Monday evening, I have decided to put on a 25 percent off sale on all donator items! Enjoy it and celebrate and remember remember, the 5th of November, gunpowder... I forgot the rest

Announcement 748

Lord Parias: Hello everyone. When you donate, please cash in with the code provided in your email by typing @donate and pasting the code there. This is important for us to keep track of funds and who's donated what. thank you

Announcement 749

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! This was a change put to a poll a while ago and it has now been implemented. IF you have a loan, when you receive cash it now automatically puts a percentage of that amount towards your loan. How much of a percentage depends on your loan. The maximum it will take is 40 percent of the reward. I hope this helps!

Announcement 750

Lara Stardust: hello folks. Because I am a very nice person, any loan that was held by any character that was over 100 trillion has been capped to 100 trillion. further any player who had less than 15 million in cash now has 15 million in cash. I selfishly admit this was in part due to me needing to fix something, but enjoy it none the less.

Announcement 751

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Due to the fact it made absolutely no logical sense what so ever and was completely boring to the highest degree, the planetary cannon has been removed. In its place is a new system called I.P.I.D.A.D, you can read about it by typing sHelp I.P, so I will keep this announcement as brief as possible. This system is completely unlike the planetary cannon, and is also a lot fairer. I hope you like it. It is fully tested by HTPL's and is one of the changes that come under the space combat umbrella! Enjoy!

Announcement 752

Charley: Hello folks! I just wanted to remind you all that the @rp-nominate command exists. It has been a long, long time since I've seen anyone make good use of this command. This is great for recognizing the people you roleplay with and want them to have a little something special. I look forward to seeing your nominations!

Announcement 753

Lara Stardust: hi guys. It's rare I do an announcement like this, but I feel it is perhaps required, seeing as it is a Tuesday and all. My topic is the phrase, it only takes one. It only takes one to bring you down, yet, it only takes one to cheer you up. I was on Facebook the other day, posted an idea, and it only takes one person to say it's a good one for me to start making it. So remember, as you play an ever growing game of 60 players of real humans with real feelings. That for one, I'm here to talk to but more importantly, it only takes one to cheer up someone's day. Keep raging!

Announcement 754

Lara Stardust: hello guys! I just wanted to remember you that the souls competition, as well as the hell quest, closes Saturday night! Remember it's 50 points in order to get into the quest, and the person with the highest points by the end of the event gets one donator item for free, including all skills maximised! The donator sale, which was suppose to end Monday, is going as well until Saturday, so make sure you take advantage of that. I am fully caught up with souls now, so make sure and give me more work to do! Enjoy!

Announcement 755

Charley: Less than thirty minutes until the General roleplay class. I hope to see l there!

Announcement 756

Charley: I wanted to take the time to thank anyone who took the time out of their Fridays to join me in the roleplay class. As always, should anyone have any questions about roleplay, character building, job roles, describing, among other things, feel free to send me an OTR and I will be more than happy to toss ideas with you. Have a great weekend everyone and happy raging!

Announcement 757

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Just a reminder that tomorrow, we have a host to player chat event. You are now able to submit what topics you would like raised in this HTPC by typing HTPC submit. Please see the @events command for more information. I look forward to seeing you there! Lots of love!

Announcement 758

Charley: I wanted to take the time to again thank all of you who were able to attend and or contribute to November's host to player chat. As always, if you were not able to attend or forgot something, there are always the suggest, report and feedback commands. Happy Raging!

Announcement 759

Lara Stardust: hi guys! The @mentors and @hosts commands have been removed. We have decided to simplify it a lot and simply made them into @staff We hope you like the new look and could you please report any place the old commands are mentioned in help files so we can update them? Thanks!

Announcement 760

Lara Stardust: hi folks! I meant to end it then, and then then, and then then, but kept forgetting. well, I have now officially ended the donator sale. Any tickets already in will be given the sale discount, any not will not. I hope you grabbed this opportunity to get some cheap stuff! I have also now ended the souls competition this year. First, let me thank you for all of the wonderful, wonderful suggestions you submitted. Each one was amazing and have made Cosmic such a better place. This has to be one of my favorite event things we've ever run because it produced so much idea generation. My congratulations to the winner, Gladr gold scale, who racked up a massive 605 points in total spread over 150 mortal and 94 immortal souls. Feel free to claim your free donator item Gladr at any time. thanks again and enjoy the rest of your evening!

Announcement 761

Lara Stardust: hi guys. Just wanted to let everyone know that all current gripes now have comments, excluding one done by a player who is not currently around, but I can't think of anything to write other than you are amazing. Regardless, feel free to have a browse and, if you are a poster, to react to the comments in a nice way. Thanks!

Announcement 762

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Nate here, your all powerful, all amazing, all... insert sound of fast forwarding here. As I was saying, in about half an hour to 40 minutes, providing I don't get interupted by outside sources, I will be forced to literally disable all weapons on starships for about, hopefully, an hour. After that hour is complete, there will be a big surprise and no Julia, I don't mean a big chocolate cake. Point is, make sure you're not in a situation where you might need weapons, otherwise... Well, they'll kill you! Lots of hugs!

Announcement 763

Lara Stardust: and the natural thing just happened. I just got interrupted What does this mean for you? It means business as always until later on tonight when I get back. Sorry about that

Announcement 764

Lara Stardust: hey guys! Please remove yourself from any situation in which you would need to use a starship weapon of any kind. combat drones will still work, but I will be changing out weapons starting in ten minutes. I will not be held responsible for any tracebacks, accidental cup spillages, cursing at computer screens or rage quits that take place during this time. thank you!

Announcement 765

Lara Stardust: ok! I am now taking weapons offline and braking them. this will take me an hour at most, plus occasional cup refills and snack obtainment time. So... yeah.

Announcement 766

Lara Stardust: ladies and gentlemen. noble ragers of the cosmic universe. It is my ultimate pleasure, after countless long nights of coding and testing, of lack of sleep, to finally reveal to you, in all it's glory... the new space combat system! What does this new system have? I hear you ask. I reply, What doesn't it have. You requested realism, we have implemented realism. You requested not needing to type a thousand commands, we have knocked it down to 3 weapon commands. You asked for low spam, we've done so. You asked for uncomplicated, we've supplied it. You asked for the ability to hit specific ship components, we've done it. To explain this combat system in an announcement would be like trying to explain the hole of cosmic Rage in a 500 word paragraph and I just do not have the words. Considering I have had to split the hole thing up into 6 different files? Well, that just goes to show, doesn't it. To begin reading, check out sHelp space combat overview. We're pretty sure, me being my wonderful team of testers and hosts, that we have covered everything, but, remember that it comes out today! Meaning, we still might have to file off a few rough edges, in particular, the balance of missions. Unlike all my other usual big releases though, this one works, and of that we are sure! To that, I oh a huge thanks to Julia, James, Stormy, Gladr Dealan and Olivia. Both for testing and for giving me ideas, and for tying me back when my fingers ran away with my brain. As far as I know, this system is 95 percent unique. You'll see why it has that 5 percent unsure when you get into it. But... Well, what can I say. It's been a long time coming, and this last week has nearly killed me, but. I think I'm proud. proud of a system that Cosmic can truly call its own. I'm really, really looking forward to hearing your feedback on this new system, so get stuck in, and enjoy!

Announcement 767

Charley: Hi everyone! We're aware that there are some issues with the newly-rolled out space combat system. Should you encounter a problem that you feel should not be happening or get a traceback, please do not complain to OOC or newbie. Please report it first. We the staff would really appreciate patience on this matter.

Announcement 768

Lord Parias: Hello everyone. We are more than aware that shields activating automatically is a bug. We ask you to refrain from mentioning it on IC. Going on about bugs on an IC channel is against policy. Thank you.

Announcement 769

Lara Stardust: hi guys! just a quick note on typo reports. It makes our lives easier if you tell us, exactly what is wrong with the line, rather than showing us two lines of text, or embedding it in a line. The best typo report for us is one that says: In help file x, or in command x, there is a line in which the word donkey is spelled donkee it appears in the line: Nate is a donkee Thanks guys!

Announcement 770

Your boy Dante: Hi folks. Just giving you all a heads up. Now that the combat system has been released, I already foresee that some of your starship control boards will not work properly. I will be working over the next couple weeks to fix them and bring them in line with the new system. I will try to make it so you can keep the control boards you already have, but i make no promises on this. Please bare with me as we work to improve things. thanks and have a truly cosmic day.

Announcement 771

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Because I'm an idiot, I just cleaned up i.p.i.d.a.d stations, rather than the pods. If you had one on a ship, assist and we'll get it rebuilt for you. Sorry about that.

Announcement 772

Your boy Dante: Hello Everyone. As you may or may not know, today is Thanksgiving day in the United States. In the spirit of the holiday, we reflect on ourselves and give thanks for the joy we find in our lives. Today, I give thanks for each and everyone of you. I am thankful to be a part of such an awesome team. I am thankful to be a part of the CR family and that I have the chance to have fun with yu all every day. Today, and everyday, I wish you joy, health and prosperity. Thank you for playing CR, thank you for being truly wonderful. On behalf of our entire staff, Happy Thanksgiving!

Announcement 773

Lara Stardust: evening all. As a little thanks giving gift to you all, I pushed ahead and got my overhauls to Galactic Science Core HQ done a bit quicker. The core is now made up of several spheres, though only one is open for viewing at the moment, others will be added later. the name of the station has changed, it is now called Astraeus, moving away from purpose names. there is now a world help file explaining the history of the station. In terms of layout it's nice and simple, but I definitely recommend you take a quick stroll, if nothing more than to take a glance at the new fancy descriptions. two of the stores have had more items put in them but otherwise everything that was on the old station is on the new one. The labs are gone, but there is a temporary one where the npc's are while the secondary sphere is built. I hope you all enjoy the new concept that this station presents, and remember to type jump when at the top of the sphere! Enjoy!

Announcement 774

Your boy Dante: Hi players. In homage to Black Friday, there is now a sale going on On Harmonia. 90% off in all shops. These savings will only be available for the next few hours. Enjoy!!

Announcement 775

Your boy Dante: The 90% off sale is now over. I hope you enjoyed the savings!!

Announcement 776

Your boy Dante: Thank you everyone who attended the event. We appreciated your participation, your questions and thoughtful comments. We truly hope you found this session helpful to you as you adjust to the new combat system. as always, your feedback is appreciated. Much love my players, Rage on!!

Announcement 777

Lara Stardust: hi guys! I have now finished building a new area on Cape Dread. It is rather a boring area, but it is for military folk who get into trouble. Instead of rank deductions for small disputes, the upper level officers can now assign punishment points. If a military officer has punishment points, they go to the area on cape dread and perform a number of tasks. These tasks include shoveling crap, carrying parcels, and running around an area to touch some poles. The officers can view their punishment points, if any, by using their MFAS device. The players will be able to assign these points as soon as we decide which rank they will be put at. Until then, enjoy!

Announcement 778

Charley: Howdy Cosmic Rage! As some of you are probably aware, the monthly host meeting is coming up on 8 December. What does this mean for me, you ask? This means that if you are interested in trying for newbie mentor, HTPL or host, this is the time to apply. Take a read at the files that appear when you type help mentor and follow the recommended help files as well. If any of you has any questions about the application or positions, you are free to approach any member of the host or HTPL staff for clarification. We would appreciate it if applications were submitted before the 7th of December so your application is more likely to be reviewed on meeting day. We look forward to reading your submissions! Have a Cosmic day!

Announcement 779

Lara Stardust: hi guys! So you know how those planetoid anomalies you pick up from harvesting seem to clutter up your inventory? Clutter no more! For the mere cost of 10 million credits, you can buy a container to store them in from Sarah. Type buy from Sarah to buy it. It stores up to 100 of these little items with the store command. You can sell the containers back to her with the sell to Sarah command. best of all, when you use this container, it gets vertualised enjoy!

Announcement 780

Lara Stardust: hi guys! There has been a slight change to how housing wall stuff works, instead of buying plaster and wall paper separately, it is now all one item called wall decorations. there is now a custom option to this, so go crazy

Announcement 781

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Have I mentioned lately I am quite clever? Well, I am. You will be hopefully amazed by the fact that trees on the game now grow. If you visit a hunting area one day, you might see 20 seedlings, go there 3 weeks later and you might see 20 mature trees. Trees have a 30 life day process here, with 7 stages from shoots, to ancient trees. You can cut trees down when they are at the mature stage, which they are at for 14 days. On top of this there is a new command, room-resources, which shows you the resources in a room like trees, and scraps, and such. Enjoy!

Announcement 782

Lara Stardust: hi guys. Just another quick announcement, if you see a room where trees should grow and don't, please let us know and report it. If you have other awesome ideas like this one, where you think a room is missing a certain something, or an item in the game could be better suggest suggest suggest! thanks as always

Announcement 783

Lara Stardust: hi guys. Check me out with all these announcements! So I'm not sure when this was implemented, but as I've seen this twice in the suggest queue I thought I'd bring your attention to it. I have just updated the help file to include this. When using resource trolleys, you type dump from trolley. dump bricks from trolley for example, however, you can also type dump 20 bricks from trolley. Just not sure if people new about that, because I didn't!

Announcement 784

Lara Stardust: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Cosmic is in the mood. Take a look at the Christmas place, glistening once again, with gifts for all and fun at every turn! in light of the Christmas season, a number of changes have just occurred. 1. There is a new elf npc on the snowy access tube on Navidad 2. When you log in, there is a Christmas quote for each day of Christmas and 3. For the next 14 days, in Santa's house on Navidad there is now a wishing star. You can go to this star and type wish upon star, and make a Christmas list of 3 donator items you would like for Christmas If you've been good, the Christmas elves may make you this gift ready for an event on Saturday the 15th The deadline for Christmas gift requests is the 1st of December. The elves may make 1, none, or all 3 gifts! It is really up to the elf and how good you've been! Enjoy and ho ho ho from Santa!

Announcement 785

Lara Stardust: the deadline is the 14th not the 1st sorry I typed it wrong. bad Lara elf.

Announcement 786

Lara Stardust: hi guys. Now that it has been here for a while, we have officially made salura the home spawning place for the humans. If you have an alt that you are going to make any time soon, or you see a new human, we'd love to know how this affected your experience and would also love to know where we need to update references in help files through the report system. Much love

Announcement 787

Lara Stardust: hi guys! From feedback we received during that event, all weapon rooms are now automatically soundproofed. This does not, however, include control rooms, which you will have to soundproof manually if you want that. I hope you all feel a great deal more confident in this system now, and look forward to missions being run once again. Much love

Announcement 788

Lara Stardust: hi guys. I've seen a lot of this around, so I just want to remind you that the system of selling ships in your starship stores on factories is designed like this: 1. You build the ship. 2. You list the ship for sale. and then 3. You buy ships. IF players have figured out a way in which to create clones of the ship, for instance, the 1-pilot ship is listed in this starship store, but there is also a copy I have hear and fly around myself, it is absolutely, 100 percent, without a doubt a bug. All ship names should follow the format of, when being flown around the galaxy, type, name. for instance: The bucking bull Nate's swaggy ride. We should never, ever, see just, The bucking bull. Or, The shuttle. The only reasons we should see this is if the ship is one of a kind. If you have found a way around this system, it is essential you report it, because otherwise it is bug exploitation. I hate to be the Grump who stole Christmas, but I felt this really had to be said. On a brighter note, I hope the event last night boosted some of your confidences with that respect, and please, if you would like more like that, don't hesitate to ask!

Announcement 789

Lord Parias: a gentle reminder that IC PA is only to be used in English This is an IC channel, and we are strongly enforcing it. If any more exchanges are done in another language that isn't English warnings will be issued. Thank you.

Announcement 790

Charley: Howdy Ragers! I want to start off by thanking everyone for submitting their Christmas gifts. It is a pleasure doing these for you. However, I just wanted to remind you that if you have a request pertaining to a factory, do let us know what your factory's name is so that you save us the time and you the frustration and confusion, particularly if you have more than one factory. Thank you so much from the staff.

Announcement 791

Charley: Howdy Ragers! Today's HTPC will be held east of the library on Business Central. I hope to see you all there with your questions, comments and suggestions!

Announcement 792

Charley: Thank you all for attending December's Host to Player Chat. Each and every one of your suggestions, complaints and all that other good stuff were appreciated and of course, heard. Of course, as usual, if anyone can use the feedback, suggest, report, gripe, support and Nate's pigeon to send us anything you want to tell us relevant to the command. The staff of Cosmic Rage hopes that you all have safe and happy holidays wherever you are. Until next year!

Announcement 793

Your boy Dante: Sorry my lovely players, this was brought up earlier today at the HTPC I checked and debris refineries do appear to be working again, if you notice this is not the case, please report.

Announcement 794

Lara Stardust: hi guys. due to something coming up, the space combat Q and A, due to be held on Friday, has been moved. Please see @events for more info. Our deepest apologies!

Announcement 795

Lara Stardust: good evening everyone! in an effort to make cosmic rage more newbie friendly, we are changing up our lesson styles in the Academy. so far, I have converted one lesson to the new format. the lesson is the difference between IC and OOC. To get to it, go two north and then west from the landing pad. Please, please, please, please! take this lesson and let me know if you find it helpful, if the format is useful, ETC. You can let me know your thoughts by mail, or by OLINK thanks so much. Lara!

Announcement 796

Lara Stardust: joy be to blindies! When you create a new account on cosmic Rage, the mud now asks if you are visually impaired. If you answer yes, it gives you links to soundpacks enjoy, and as always, spread the word!

Announcement 797

Charley: Howdy folks! This is just a reminder to you all who wish to request a Christmas gift to get it in as soon as possible! The cut-off date is December 14. You can pick 3 things. You submit your request by going to Navidad and to Santa's House, and 'wish upon star'. Please remember that your factory-related requests must have your factory's name somewhere, that your description for physical items include a name and description but if it doesn't come with a description I will be putting one on it myself. If you have a max skill request, please include the name of the skill. The rule of fun is to be as specific as possible with your request so you're not unhappy with it. Looking forward to making your gifts!

Announcement 798

Lara Stardust: hi guys! the second lesson, this one on communicating, has been converted to the new system on galactic academy. I am still desperately looking for feedback on this new lesson format, so do please let me know what you think. As always, enjoy!

Announcement 799

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Just a gentle reminder that secret Santa apps close The 14th of December, at around 19:00 GMT. So make sure your requests are in by then! Much love!

Announcement 800

Lara Stardust: hi guys! The hosts now have the ability to open up our ooc links to players. What this means is, as long as we have them open, you can just drop us a message without establishing a link first! For me, type OTR Lara and then your message. as stated in my recent subannouncement my mind is ready to listen. Much love

Announcement 801

Lara Stardust: hello all you lovely wonderful, beautiful players. Did you request something for secret Santa? Well, come and get it! Elves have been hard at work, accept Nate, who is the local town clerk. So come wish upon the star once more, to see what Santa has in store. If you move fast, you might even see an elf or two, I got a gift, did you?

Announcement 802

Lara Stardust: hi guys! The merry christmas every one event is over, but, do not get down! You can still pick up your christmas gift, if you wished, from the star until the 31st of December, and we will still be doing christmas related things right up till christmas itself. So stay tuned!

Announcement 803

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! for those who were unable to attend the small mini event I just held, cosmic Rage just had an exciting, and by exciting I mean I've been on and on and on about it and the HTPL's are sick of testing it, release. this release is: Megasuits! I don't want to spoil it too much with my silly person words, so read help megasuits, and related files. I hope you enjoy this, because I sure enjoyed coding it! Feedback and suggestions appreciated

Announcement 804

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Just wanted to pre-warn you. About 19:00 GMT tonight, give or take 15 minutes for dinner, cosmic Rage will go through the usual monthly reboots. This one will be different in that, we will not run any clean ups, all your stuff, including those mineral sacks you might be hoarding, are all safe. Thanks to some industrial strength listening skills, the hosts have decided that the value gained from the clean ups does not outweigh player happiness and therefore any future reboots of this kind should not include them unless absolutely necessary. As such, at about 19:00 we'll chuck out a subannouncement telling you to get somewhere safe, meaning not in a field, mission or instance area then at 19:10 we'll lock logins, do some magic our side, reboot the server, and be back by around 19:20 for another month of smooth game play. I am also very please to announce these reboots are not here to stay. We are working on upgrading the cosmic Rage server slowly to a new version that will illiminate the need for such reboots. This however has many things that could go wrong. that is why I am being up front with you when I say you can expect this, perhaps, as a Cosmic Rage 3 year present from us to you. I hope that not running clean ups is a nice comprimise. As always, feedback is appreciated.

Announcement 805

Lara Stardust: hi guys! so I had a momentary blonde moment, and there may be some rooms you are in that just became unlinked from their exits. Please type look, and if you see a missing exit, immediately assist. Note if you were not online during this announcement, ignore it.

Announcement 806

Lara Stardust: hello you amazing people. After receiving feedback from the players, I looked into the code behind lasers and realised there was actually a logic error. Lets think about this for a second, I fire a beam of light. that travels almost instantly, because hello? It's travelling at the speed of light! duh! So any time the weaponeer would have to be wait would be from the lasers cooling, not the laser beam moving itself. As such, I've made some code changes behind the scenes to how lasers work that basically means,, fighting fighters is a hell of a lot easier now. Enjoy and again, feedback makes changes!

Announcement 807

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Just wanted to tell you about a new change to the x command, also know as the commands command. we have now made it so you can filter your examination. So say you are in a starship room, you might type x here. But you only want things that start with the word gas, we now allow this using a dash before the word gas, like this: x here -gas. or, x here -g. I hope you enjoy!

Announcement 808

Lara Stardust: hi guys, temporarily the land plots for sale on Diana is closed. This is only temporary, for like 24 hours though, and it will be back soon!

Announcement 809

Lara Stardust: hello all! I am pleased to announce improvements to our web boards that you access to view OOC events. As you may or may not know, you are able to access the message boards and select web in order to see the log of an ooc meeting. These logs have previously been rare, as only a coder could create them. Now any host can create them. Further, the links are shorter and less likely to break. As part of this, you can also view the pages while not logged in to the game. As of any new events, the logs will also show people socialing, entering, leaving, and talking directly to someone. I hope you enjoy!

Announcement 810

Lara Stardust: hello ladies and gentlemen. I am very pleased to announce a change to houses. You know how on Tarrania when you purchase a farm, the path expands if there is no more space, and then your farm is added on to it/ Well, instead of you going to a landing for sale area, buying a plot, and then entering it, it now instead becomes part of a community. Each community is slightly different, from Mulrala's which is part of the forest, to Salura's which you teleport to get there. As part of this, the plots of land are now open to the public. To preserve people's safety, we have made it so that, for now, only authorised owners, or the owner themselves, can enter the house itself. This is the first of a few updates that will be coming to houses over the next week or two, and I hope you like it!

Announcement 811

Lara Stardust: hi guys. In response to a recent event held on ground combat, the combat grid has been expanded from a 3 by 3, to a 5 by 5. Mobs will still operate on the old 3 by 3 for the time being, but this will change tomorrow. Hope you enjoy!

Announcement 812

Lara Stardust: hi guys! I have just made it so that any host can add context objects to a room. What on Earth are context objects and why do we care? I hear you ask. Lets say you are in the Academy, and in the description it talks about a staircase. If you type look staircase, the context object is the object you then look at. In the staircase example, it is a hidden context object, meaning you'd either have to type search to find it, or have a lucky guess. You can also get visible context objects, like the guards on Earth, or the tank on Maraquda. Why am I telling you this? Because I'd like you guys to suggest where more could be added! Context objects are a really easy and fun way for us to give more detail about an area, so if you see a place that needs something extra, suggest it, please! good ideas may get bonus rewards!

Announcement 813

Lara Stardust: hi guys! So I wanted to be creative and decided to go a bit crazy, this is what I came up with. When you walk around a planet, if the weather is clear enough, and the planet has stars, you will now see where in the sky the star is, for instance, you might see it rising, or at its zenith. I hope you enjoy!

Announcement 814

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Please avoid Earth wasteland for now, as well as combat tin vehicles if you can.

Announcement 815

Lara Stardust: hi guys! I just want to remind everyone to please vote on the polls. We look kind of silly when there are only 41 voters out of an average 51 players on a day. Especially option polls like the one is up, where the vote is extremely close. Every vote counts, and we keep the polls open at east a week to make sure you can vote, so please do! We care what you have to say

Announcement 816

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! As you may recall, at the end of the last cosmic rage radio stream, I promised to do another near christmas time. tonight is that night. the stream will begin at about 19:30 Give or take the usual 5 or so minute either side for technical difficulties. Hopefully you'll tune in, and join us for a very christmas cosmic rage radio!

Announcement 817

Lara Stardust: hello all! The cosmic rage stream, with christmas theme, is now up! Tune in on either http://cosmicrage.earth:5555, or http://cosmicrage.earth:5555/stream.ogg. I'll be playing classical and rabbiting to myself for the first 5 or so minutes while you guys get connected, and then we'll get this christmas thang under way!

Announcement 818

Lara Stardust: hi guys. So first off, you can level now. Feel free to do so. Second off, I have tracked down and fixed the bug that was causing their to be a need for the "my points are broken" function in the assist queue. as such, this item has been removed. Ultimately leveling might be that little bit harder, but then again it might not. Let me know. Much love

Announcement 819

Lara Stardust: hi all! By typing beaconn-t in your control room you can now send out a distress beaconn. this functions like the sci-fi moovie distress beaconns. If you are in a mission sector, only people in local space will hear it, if you are in deep space, only those within 100 sectors will hear it. If a distress beacon is being broadcast anyone can type stargate as though going to a mission, and they will be taken to the same location as the stressed ship. enjoy!

Announcement 820

Lara Stardust: hi all! As per the recent, important, options poll regarding ratika, they have been slowed dramatically The poll result was split between 30 and 20 seconds, so I have tried to be as fair as I could. They move around now once every 25 seconds, that is to say they will perform an action every 25 seconds. I hope this helps the spam, and what not. Feedback appreciated. Also, there is now another very important options poll up. Much love.

Announcement 821

Lara Stardust: hi all! Thanks to you guys talking to the HTPL's and them feedbacking to us, a change has been made that allows, providing you have at least one building, you to convert cash to moon bucks. This is done at the standard 5 to 1 ratio. Type account in a moon base to do this. Enjoy

Announcement 822

Lara Stardust: ladies and gentlemen. The long awaited announcement is here. My belated christmas gift to clan members. Blueprint data centers. When selecting to import onto a info computer, it now asks how many of the selected blueprint you wish to import. Exporting: Exporting has now got a new look, sporting an exporting wizard that allows you to: 1. Add individual blueprints, including how many of that type you wish to export. 2. export all your blueprints. 3. Queue them so you can export 3 of one type and 4 of another, and the wizard even comes with a fancy prompt so you know exactly what you are exporting and can choose to go back to the menu if you are unhappy. I hope you enjoy this belated gift, and feedback is appreciated. Enjoy!

Announcement 823

Lara Stardust: hi all! when buying in shops and in a color prompt, you can now type, for example, all blue, to see a menu of all the blues, or all red. Hope you enjoy!

Announcement 824

Lara Stardust: hi guys. In order to improve your shopping network experience, we have made a change to do with matching. What we need you guys to do though is, if you see an item that could be more than one thing, we need you to report it so we can fix it. What I mean by this is this example. In harmonia, there is an item called smellable previously, if you typed perfume into the shopping network, you'd get no matches. Now though you can type perfume, aftershave and calone and get that object. So things like that. Please enter it under report. Thank you!

Announcement 825

Lara Stardust: evening all. As the headline may have informed you, there is now a new transportation pod on Astraeus Boarding this will take you to a shop from which you can buy 4 new items to customise your ship. These items change what you use when firing cannons, lasers and warheads, or what you tap to reload your warheads. I hope you enjoy!

Announcement 826

Lara Stardust: want to help us out? Know someone who left and why they left? Find the game boring? Please, if you have 5 minutes, do us hosts a massive favour. Fill out this online review, you don't even have to tell us who you are! We'd love to know why people left, what you think of us, ETC. It takes 5 minutes, but is definitely worth it for us, and for you. http://cosmicrage.earth/review.php

Announcement 827

Lara Stardust: good day everyone! Thanks to help from two sighted players who I'm unsure if wish to remain nameless, there are now a few more possibly helpful things for a sighted person on the game. First up, announcements and changes, when viewed using the @announcements or @changes command are now indented. Second, you can now enable a prompt. This prompt is basically white space after output. Type options prompt o to set up your prompt. Finally, all of this can be enabled when you create your account. Enjoy, and further improvements welcome!

Announcement 828

Lara Stardust: hello everyone. I have made a change to the cash payout of minerals. Please, please, please do some harvesting over the next few days. If reasonable, this change will be the first that of 3 that will change minerals for ever. For one, this price change will be global, meaning that the amount of money you pay, and get from, the mineral market will sky rocket. More changes however will include that if earth has 89 percent of the mineral market, it will pay a lot less than kaldara, for instance. Please let me know if the drop makes it still worth doing the activity by feedback, or by mail. Thanks!

Announcement 829

Your boy Dante: As 2018 draws to a close, We the hosts would like to thank each and every one of you for being with us this year. We have had our trials and our triumphs, our gains and our losses, but the epic story that is Cosmic Rages on!! Tomorrow is New year's eve, and for many of us, that means a party! I for one am looking forward to a brighter, better year in 2019. But before we head out to whatever the year's end will bring us, We want you all to be safe, happy and prosperous because we definitely want to see you here in the coming year. So celebrate responsibly, use the buddy system, keep your phones charged and close and be cautious if you go out. With that said, On behalf of the Cosmic Rage Staff, Happy New Years to all!

Announcement 830

Lara Stardust: good day mates. I'm cheerful to announce that the downtime you experienced will not happen again. While I call it downtime, that is actually the wrong kind of word. The game did not go down, and nothing should be lost unless it was, obviously, on a 24 hour timer like food decay, for instance. That being said and all, if you did lose something, let us know and we'll fix it right up. Never the less, cosmic Rage is back up and staying up for your gaming experience, and this will not happen again. Welcome back and a very happy new year to you all.

Announcement 831

Lara Stardust: hey all. Just a reminder of the current polls again. They are all very important, and will affect your game play!

Announcement 832

Lara Stardust: evening all. Just thought I would notify you of an ultimately small, but rather interesting change. This is something you can expect to see on more things in the future, but anyway. There is now a market, I suppose you'd say. Basically, there is a net value of minerals, lets say 10000 in the market. Of those, 8000 went to Earth, and 2000 went to star Command. this new system now makes it so star command pays higher than Earth, and Kaldara, who received no minerals before hand, pays the highest. I hope you enjoy and look forward to hearing where else you'd like to see this implemented.

Announcement 833

Lara Stardust: to add to my announcement earlier, the mineral market on the info computers has been updated so that: 1. The price of minerals is higher. but, 2. It is affected by the planetary mineral market. What this means is the closer to the high end the average is, for instance, if all planets have roughly the same amount of minerals as each other then the market price and reward will be highest. I hope you enjoy

Announcement 834

Lara Stardust: hello! remember me? I'm She who breaks things. Anyway, if you know my name, remind me because my brain is mushed. In any case, I wanted to make you aware of a few changes to debris, salvaging, ratika, and all things related: 1. Ratika now will not appear if the debris cloud is relatively new. This does not apply to debris drones. 2. there are now grades of debris. These range from barely usable to perfect condition. the higher the grade of debris, the higher the reward. That's basically it for now. I know that can be summed up in a few words, but... Yeah. Enjoy!

Announcement 835

Lord Parias: Hello everyone. Just a gentle reminder that if you come across any public factories which are undescribed please report them right away. We do not permit factories to be made public unless all rooms are described. Much thanks and keeping raging on!

Announcement 836

Your boy Dante: Hello Ladies and gentlemen. Today, we will be holding our January host to player chat, a time when the players get to sit down with the hosts and talk about the things you both like and dislike about CR. This is the time to have your thoughts and ideas heard by the staff. We take your concerns quite seriously and for me, this can be one of my favorite times of the month. Last month, you told us, among other things, that the turnaround time on donator items was way too long. I am pleased to tell you that we not only heard you, but have taken steps to make this process go much faster and the turn around time on donator items was sped up greatly. We have also heard your thoughts and concerns over the combat changes and have taken steps to make this new implementation better. These are just a couple of the changes which were brought about because of you! and we want to hear more. Please join us later today for the first hpc of 2019. Type @events and look at the first option for the details. We hope to see you there. Oh, The host meeting is next week, so if you have been sitting on a staffing application, now is the time to polish those off as well. Much love my players, much love!

Announcement 837

Charley: Howdy! I forgot to announce this earlier. I wanted to thank all of you who took the time to attend this month's and this year's first host to player chat! If you attended but forgot, or were not able to attend but want to say something, you still have the feedback, support, suggest and report commands. You can also talk to any one of us hosts or any of the HTPL staff as well. Just get an olink with us and we'll be happy to chat! As a small reminder, if you are interested in becoming a newbie mentor, HTPL or even a host, please read the help files associated with these, particularly newbie mentor and HTPL. There will be a host meeting next Saturday and that is when we review applicants. Please try to submit those before the end of this next week so they are guaranteed to be discussed. Have a great weekend!

Announcement 838

Lara Stardust: hi! As part of a project to change ship cafes and lounges, we want to hear from you regarding foods and drinks. This new system will allow you guys to fill up the lounges with food and drinks of your choosing from a master list. We are asking you to suggest list of foods and drinks. specificly it can not be: a coke, cherry, classic. It has to be: a bottle of classic coke, a bottle of cherry coke. For every item you suggest, you get a bonus 2 rp points per item. Please, if you can, write each item on a separate line. Thanks!

Announcement 839

Lara Stardust: hello all! I have made an important change to how lounges and cafes work on starships. Basically, you start off with empty holds, and an empty lounge or cafe. You then go to a food bank factory, the only one right now is on Harmonia. Here, you pay 10 credits per item, and can load your ship with what ever you like from our lists. Lets say you load 60 packets of crisps, and 20 bottles of cola. Next time you go onto your ship and buy that food, either: 1, if loaded, a ration pack is used, 2, someone pays money, which you the owner then receive, or 3, the owner gets it for free because he or she has, obviously, already paid for the food to be loaded. I hope you enjoy, help file to follow soon

Announcement 840

Lara Stardust: hi guys! remember that announcement about minerals and the resource market, where the price would change based on what planet had what and where you were transferring? Well, that is now the same for gases, as with the mineral change, the resource market's prices for gas are now also affected too. Enjoy

Announcement 841

Lara Stardust: hi guys! As you may have already noticed to start to take place, I have implemented a change to do with guard drones. They now vertualise a little like defense drones but they are different. once your ship is completely clean and empty of rats and nests, the guard drones power down. The next time ratika spawned, they power back up. Only 9 will spawn at a time, because that is all you can control. You can have up to the amount of rooms in your ship in storage. They automatically store themselves. To view how many are stored, type def-d status. Thanks

Announcement 842

Lord Parias: Hello everyone. Please do not use the garage for houses for the time being. It appears using it renders vehicles unuseable We will look into it and will let you know when it is safe to do so.

Announcement 843

Charley: I wanted to thank everyone who made it to the non-combat idea swap. It was a great exchange of ideas and enjoyment. Look out for things to pop up here and there over the next days and weeks and through Cosmic Rage's future. As always, if you've an idea for an event of any kind, talking to a host, an HTPL or using the support or suggest commands is the way to go. You all are absolutely wonderful and thank you for spending another day with us on the Rage that is Cosmic!

Announcement 844

Lara Stardust: hi guys. You may notice a rather large dip in the payout for enemies being destroyed. This is actually deliberate and part of a scheme to make the game more balanced in the future. I ask you to, as part of this, report anything you think pays exceedingly well, or anything you think costs exceeding amounts. thank you!

Announcement 845

Your boy Dante: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to take a moment of your time to remind you that Cosmic Rage has rules against scripting, command stacking and triggers. While we allow single line aliases and text output to be gagged, Creating aliases which send more than 1 (1) command to the mud as well as triggers which do anything other than fire a sound effect or flat out writing some code that makes your player do anything automatically is strictly forbidden By playing CR, you have already agreed to be bound by our rules and policies. This means, we will assumed that you have read and understood our rules and policies. If you have not, please do so now. Ignorance of the rules is not a defense if you get caught violating them. That being said, the staff here works very hard to bring to you an enjoyable and entertaining game. If you have a computer doing your gameplay for you, it is not only cheating, but you are robbing yourself of the enjoyment of our labors as well as robbing your fellow players of achievements they have come by honestly. Bottom line, scripting effects everyone, not just you and it is not tolerated here. If you are found guilty of scripting, we, the hosts will not be happy. scriptors have found themselves hit with severe penalties which include but are not limited to, more than a 50% reduction in rank. A 90% cash reduction as well as the removal of any titles or achievements they may carry. This will also be noted in your record and may even prevent your character from joining an organization and will not look good on you should you wish to pursue a staffing position with us. To those of you who use any sort of scripting method, you will be caught eventually, so just don't do it. That's all for now, thank you for your time and attention.

Announcement 846

Lara Stardust: The very best of evenings to you all. I am delighted to announce that our tree system has been revamped. Visually it looks similar, however, back stage the code behind it is now more accurate, easier to understand, and more logical. We can also do more with trees if you suggest now, such as being able to pick certain fruits from planets. We can even specify what types of tree you will see on planets. What you can do: suggest different things to do with trees, suggest tree types for planets, and suggest rooms that should have trees, and don't! Enjoy!

Announcement 847

Lara Stardust: good day all. I am going to break hearts. I know I am. This weekend, starting Friday, cosmic Rage is going to be going through a server upgrade. It's one of those ones I keep putting off, but needs to be done and is generally an improvement for all. Due to it being a major update, things will break. Basically, we'll start Friday and finish Monday. Hopefully nothing will go wrong, but... You know what they say you can do with your hopes in one hand... We won't be going down too much, hopefully, but we shall see. Just thought I'd prewarn you!

Announcement 848

Lara Stardust: hi guys! This is perhaps not an announcement you will be pleased to see, but it is none the less important. There is now a nasty... Thing, that happens when you die. It is called Trauma. What this means for you: when you die, if it is your first death with, your skills get knocked down by ten percent. If it is your second death within the trauma period, they get knocked down by 20 percent. A trauma period is define as an hour after death. This, however, gets extended if you die during the trauma period. I'm not sure I can explain it very well in an announcement so take a read of help death for a better explanation. After the trauma period is up, your skills are restored fully. During the trauma period, you are unable to save or train. I'd say enjoy but, I think I'll just duck instead. All flames will be used to roast toast

Announcement 849

Lara Stardust: oops, I realised I didn't explain why I made that change, which is kind of important. This is not me being mean! I promise! I ran this past Fay, some other hosts, and even an HTPL or two before this was implemented. The reason this is in place is so that we can start coding more realistic battle lines. Before this change, players could endlessly respawn and the enemy would eventually just give up. Now, however, it gives us the chance to actually get stuck in and take over planets, or create realistic battle fronts, ETC. Hope that helps. all flames will be used to roast Julia's.

Announcement 850

Lara Stardust: hi guys! As part of the new server upgrade, I gift you with a slight upgrade to tracebacks The traceback ID's are now perminant, so for example if you get a traceback of 5, and then a few days later have to rereport it, the ID will still work. Enjoy

Announcement 851

Lara Stardust: good day everyone! As you are no doubt aware, cosmic Rage is a game built around its players. We strive for the ultimately welcoming and enjoyable atmosphere that any decent game, with any decent staff, should achieve. We have many systems in place to ensure this is the case. But, sometimes, it's not enough. That is why I have opened up a survey. Now, I will tell you that this survey is quite long. There are five sections, each with around 20 questions in, accept the last. Do not panic! The questions are simple 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, answers. For every completed section, you get a 200 rp point reward, that's a total of 1000 rp points up for grabs! There is also a little bonus hidden inside, if you can find it. The survey is about a few things, but we would appreciate it if you gave us your honest opinion. As a sign of good faith from us to you, we have put donator items into a 25 percent sale for the next 48 hours. Take advantage of us while our good moods last! Thanks so much, and as always, Rage on! To take the survey, type: @survey

Announcement 852

Lara Stardust: I forgot to mention, you do not have to do the survey all at once!

Announcement 853

Lara Stardust: good day folks! thanks to a number of factors that include, the surveys, HTPL opinions, but most importantly, you asking us nicely! A number of changes have been made to space combat: Change 1: Aliases have been added to make typing angles quicker, see sHelp alias. Change 2: when dog fighting, meaning when you are in close quarters with an enemy fighter, it now tells you exactly when it moves. This change can get a little bit spammy so we're working to clean it up a little. Change 3: Most enemy starship engines have been slowed down a bit. We hope these changes help, and have more to come soon!

Announcement 854

Lara Stardust: the very best of afternoons to you all. It's Saturday, and you know what that means? No post! No post on... wait... That's Sunday. In that case, have a new activity. We've been a little mean recently, and this one is one I've been dying to implement for ages. It is a 1900 level activity, so definitely the highest we have yet, but should give you high ups something new to play with! rift research is the latest and best in 25th century research as they try and divine the secrets into quantum wave scanning interference while trying to not irritate the sleeping giants of supernovas. check out ahelp quantum rift research, it is said to be lots of fun! I hope you enjoy!

Announcement 855

Lara Stardust: the donator sale is now over, though any tickets entered before now are still subject to it. Remember though, there is still over 1000 rp points up for grabs in the survey.

Announcement 856

Lara Stardust: good day me hearties! I have made a very interesting change to application machines to make them more friendly. Instead of the machine sending out mails, it now has a few more commands. first, view , this allows you to view your application if you have submitted one. Second, review , if you are authorised to do so, this allows you to either, 1, comment on an application, 2, close it, or 3, go through the questions and rate them out of 10, including an additional comment. This is useful, for instance in the sdl, because bob could apply, he could do great on 6 out of 10, but then the last four he screws up, by looking at ratings, and the comments, he will see this. I hope this helps you guys, and hope you will apply for some organisations soon!

Announcement 857

Lara Stardust: hi all! inspired by something completely random and off topic in a suggestion, I give you a new recreational activity that is just for fun. Sitting alongside pilot's parody is now another section to the arcade, holographic dueling! Want ultimate bragging rites that you can beat everyone else up without actually getting arrested? Then head over and activate a hologram! This fun little game allows two or more players to control holograms to fight, heal and defend from each other in a fun, and manageable, combat situation. Help holo dueling has more information, but I hope you like it!

Announcement 858

Lara Stardust: hi all! There are currently two very important polls up regarding space combat, the result will directly affect how it works, so please vote and let us hear your thoughts.

Announcement 859

Lara Stardust: hi guys! the survey will be closing this Saturday. If you have not already, please get your opinions in and claim your reward!

Announcement 860

Lara Stardust: good day folks! Are you tired of the same ol' same ol'? Want to explore deep space but have no reason or motivation? Are you stuck between level 1500 and 1800? If you answered yes to any of these, then do I have good news for you? No, not really. Sorry. What I do have though is a brand-spankin' new activity, designed with help from Dealan of the Dealan scale, this activity involves a small amount of puzzle work in order for you to successfully build and deploy communication devices to aid into the SDL and SDF's monitoring of local space and our surrounding territories. It is a break from the usual activity type stuff, and hopefully is fun and enjoyable! Feedback always appreciated. aHelp communication network patching for more information. Enjoy!

Announcement 861

Lara Stardust: hello all! part 1 of the event is now done. This is a continuing event, meaning part two could pretty much happen any time, due to the fact it is based on how many players get involved. In the mean time, its onto you guys. On a slightly different note, the OOC to IC policy has been updated. Please read! Thank you

Announcement 862

Lara Stardust: hey all. so I just wanted to address the muttered, and sometimes not so muttered, complaints that today's event was short and or cut short for some reason. First, thank you. You have validated a point in my mind that I had been arguing with myself for a while about whether longer events are better than shorter ones. But secondly, I wanted to provide a little background to this event. this one is not... exactly over. It never really finished. the hosts involvement however, is done for now and that is why I took us out of event mode. To move the event on now is entirely on you guys. I hope this helps!

Announcement 863

Lara Stardust: hello everyone. The survey is now closed. the hosts will look over your answers during the next few days and will attempt to continue to provide top notch service to all of you. I wanted to take a moment to extend the staff's appreciation for you all in a very heart-felt thank you, for logging in and reading this. Whether this is your first time in the last week, or whether you're about to log back out, the fact you log in at all is appreciated by us. We empathise and sympathise with you all that some changes we make are not indeed, for everyone. But, we thank you for continuing to ride with us on the Cosmic Short Bus. Thanks again

Announcement 864

Lara Stardust: hello all! so as you may or may not have seen, there have been a large number of changes recently involving turning anything level related into everything rank related. Reporting anything you see that references level where it should reference rank will get you a very big thank you from the host. This will be the same for anything else that is breaking your rp experience in some way. thank you!

Announcement 865

Lara Stardust: hi folks! As per the change to socials, please report any socials you see that break rp in some way, including: 1, ooc references, or 2, doing things to objects that should otherwise be impossible. This applies only to IC socials

Announcement 866

Lara Stardust: hello again! In the points command, it used to say how many points were required until you could level. It no longer does. The information has been removed because it is already shown in the rank command and was preventing the command from being made fully OOC. Thanks!

Announcement 867

Lara Stardust: good day everyone. The skills command has been stripped down and recoded skills short was removed, as well as skills raised. Instead, typing skills on its own shows all of your skills just like it used to. Typing skills a, will look for all skills that start with the letter a. typing skills followed by trashing now shows the name, your level, the max for, and the authorisation of, the trashing skill. If available, it will also show the description for that skill. Due to this, the skillinfo command has now been removed. enjoy

Announcement 868

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Ever had that moment where you've entered a course, typed in your speed, and... Nothing happens? the ship says it's moving, but really, to you, it looks like it is just sitting there? Or, have you had it where you've set course for somewhere, over shot, and your ship has seemingly gone round in a kind of circle before it got there? Ever wondered why that is? Cosmic Rage is great in the fact that our ship's run on a very interesting system of turning in which the maximum amount of degrees a ship can turn per second is determined on its size. A lot of this is handled backstage and really of little importance in the grand scheme of things, other than giving the hosts something to smirk about privately. I can understand though that when you have no idea why the ship is doing what it is, this can get rather frustrating. Which is why I am proud to give you a slightly new feature to this. The ship will tell you, broadly, what it is doing. For example, you might see a message saying: The ship angles hard to port and angles slightly upwards. This means that the ship is, you guessed it, going to starboard and up. Now I know what you're thinking, enter Doctor Spam, spam hammer in hand. That's why I also implemented the following. By typing system in your ship and choosing option 18, you can choose how often these messages appear per minimum. So if your ship was driving in a huge circle, and you set the messages to show every 5 seconds as a minimum, you would not get spammed out. I hope you enjoy, and brag to your fellow persons about the awesome turning system of the... Ahem, excuse me. Enjoy!

Announcement 869

Lara Stardust: good day all. Until further notice, please do not use the private networks. I understand that some of you rely on these, so bare with me and I'll work as fast as I can.

Announcement 870

Lara Stardust: good evening all. The private networks are now reenabled with a few twists. We understand that some folks were confused as to whether they were ooc, IC, or even if they existed. Not to mention the fact they were incredibly annoying and a bit weird to try and configure. in the interest of simplicity therefore, the hosts have discussed amongst themselves over the past month or two, and then talked to the HTPL's about, and then thought about the system and came up with the new private networks. They are still called private networks, and the command is, you got it, pn. They are however, now, 100 percent OOC. There is no IC private network and you'll see why soon. The new private network are, in a few words, your own ooc channels. They are monitored by the hosts, but are yours to do with as you see fit. If you want to discuss the world cup? go for it. Each player has a single channel, per account. The command syntax is much easier, and just over all very much nicer. Help private networks is the new file. Due to this therefore, the languages channel will be retired, as it is no longer required. I hope you enjoy.

Announcement 871

Lara Stardust: Hi! Just letting you know, the event description has been updated for the HtPC

Announcement 872

Lara Stardust: hi! When extracting from a core, do you remember how it used to be the computer said an angle, then you had 5 seconds to enter that using core adjust? Well, I've changed it. Slightly! There is no time limit on it now. If you get the angle wrong, you will take damage, but, you can take as much time as you need. Hope that helps

Announcement 873

Lara Stardust: hi! It's me again! The other element of star coring, the splitting, which required time accuracy, has now been redone. It is all now about memory. Your character is a lot more involved in doing the coring itself now, but, more than that, here's what you do. You still lock on, and you still type core split. Your character then prepares the laser pointing controls. Your character will notice either that the laser will fire to the right, so you must type core left, the laser will hit the core in which case you type core continue, or the laser will fire to the left, in which case you blow up and die. Just kidding! You type core right. Again, no time restraints are in place, so take it at your own pace. enjoy!

Announcement 874

brandon red designation: Attention players if you are having issues with mission central please assist and I will move you back on the landing pad This means that missions are currently off limits until we get this issue resolved. Since I am the only host on at this time I am unable to fix this issue. I appoligize for all the trouble that you have or currently experiencing. And I will try to fix any of you that are stuck as fast as I can. thanks for your understanding.

Announcement 875

Lara Stardust: hi folks! It has been brought to the hosts attention that the NPC who handles the city research materials may have gone missing. I will do my best to restore her tomorrow evening. Sometimes NPC's think they have the right to go and grab a pint down the pub. It's our jobs as your staff to drag them back, kicking and screaming, and to give them a firm talking to. Sorry for any inconvenience

Announcement 876

Lara Stardust: hi guys! The researcher for city research is back. I found her in bed with... well nevermind she's back in the temporary lab now, and her pay has been docked

Announcement 877

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Do you like special rewards? Do you like competitions? Well here are three competitions to tickle your fancy! Competition 1: Carried out through mail. Hand mining, hunting, and asteroid hauling are completely boring! tedious. So boring, they make political speeches sound interesting. Therefore, I would like your ideas on, either, replacement activities, or way to make these activities more interesting. The prize for this competition is a free donator item, up to the value of 15, for the winner of each activity. For example, if your idea is selected as the best for hunting and hand mining, you will get 2 donator items for free up to the value of 15 dollars. Smaller rewards may also be given if your idea is used, but not the winner. To enter, mail your idea to Lara or the hosts as a whole. Competition 2: Undocumented items. This one is much easier, but a bit longer. For a limited time, we will offer double rewards to anyone who reports an item, or items, which have no help file or help file reference. meaning if you can't type help-search , and get some info, and you report it, we will give you double the reward! Competition 3: this competition is split into two parts: part 1, crappy upgrades. Double rewards will be given to anyone who reports an upgrade that either requires you to type repeat, or does a double payment, meaning one that charges you once, and then twice. It is our hope to get rid of these. Part 2: Double rewards will be given to any suggestions for new, logical upgrades, or new, logical improvements to the upgrade system as it stands. This includes upgrade drones. These competitions are likely to run for a week or two. Get stuck in, and feedback is appreciated!

Announcement 878

Lara Stardust: hi guys! We've had a few assists about this, so I want to reclarify Please read this change: * weapon rooms now do not come with the test weapons built in. This means that if you had or bought a ship that had not had weapons installed on it, they will have disappeared. This is not a bug. To fix this, you can either: 1. If your ship does have weapons, just not installed, use the conversion drone on Omega to select them. or, 2. If it does not have weapons, you must install the weapon modules onto it first, then carry out step 1.

Announcement 879

Lara Stardust: hi guys! The website that cosmic rage runs on is back up. Visit us today at http://nathantech.net

Announcement 880

Lara Stardust: hello players! A number of changes have been implemented to or about the game from today, March 2nd's, host meeting. We have summarised these for your reading pleasure in this announcement. A message board post will be posted in the next few days detailing this further: 1. New Newbie helpers of Alko and Tod have been promoted, so feel free to cheer in their general direction. 2. We have fresh blood in the hosting team, in the form of one new member. 3. A flee command was added. This is because the hosts were discussing ship wrecking, and how the work is may be too much for the reward adjustment. The flee command, we hope, evens this a bit. 4. Licence skills are now not included in trauma. 5. The hosting team has been split into several parts. They are still one team overall, but certain hosts will be focusing on certain parts of the game. These parts are: a, long term projects, b, roleplay, c, code improvement, and d, quality. More will be in the summary. Enjoy!

Announcement 881

Lara Stardust: hi guys! The player verses player castle has been closed temporarily. Just letting you know!

Announcement 882

Lara Stardust: hi guys. Something for some reason bugged with the factory auction, and they have had to be reset. If you had a factory listed for sale, please relist it, and assist if you need help in doing so. thank you

Announcement 883

Lara Stardust: Roleplay. What is it? How do you do it with out looking like the local village idiot? "I avoid roleplay enforce MUDs, because I can't roleplay." Is a common quote said by 90 percent of players both here, and on other MUDs, It is my goal to help with that. I have decided, over the next few days, to offer one on one lessons to help teach anything roleplay related. What can you expect from this session? I will show you how roleplaying can be done without any strain upon the mind, how it can be rewarding to you the person, how to get into your characters head, and more. I will do my best to answer any questions you have as well. Sessions can last between 15 minutes to an hour, depending on you. If you want to grab one of these free sessions, please mail Lara with your ideal time, ideal date and preferred race , or subject, to learn about. Don't by. These will be 1 to 1 only and tailored to you. Hope to see mails soon!

Announcement 884

Your boy Dante: Hello players, I would like to suggest to factory builders, please be careful when placing your biometric scanners. If you set up your scanners in such a way that it traps another player, the hosts will come and remove the scanner entirely. If this results in leaving your factory vulnerable, so be it, thats on you, not us. If the host is in a good mood, they may notify you that the scanner was removed, but we are not obligated to do so. Thank you, please keep this in mind when building, Rage on!

Announcement 885

Lara Stardust: heya! I just wanted to reiterate my colleagues words and say thank you very much for coming to tonights event. If you missed it, you can see the log by typing use and choosing it from the web board option. I look forward to seeing your applications, which you can enter through the support command. thanks!

Announcement 886

Billybob Dark blue designation: hi guys! Well, I've got good news for those of you who tried to put in support tickets yesterday. That system along with a few other ones that were being a bit cranky are now fixed, feel free to support to your heart's content again!

Announcement 887

Lord Parias: good evening everyone. We ask that if you see huge sums of donator dollars on your account and you know that you haven't not donated for it, please report it to us and we will look into it. doing so will not only preserve honesty, but it will insure that a bug is not undermining donator items and obtaining them. Running cosmic rage is not cheap and we rely on your honesty to insure we keep the moo going by collecting donations to pay for various expenses that are required to maintain cosmic rage. Thank you for your attention and keep raging on!

Announcement 888

Lara Stardust: hi guys. I am going to upset probably a lot of people, but hopefully they will only be angry for a little while. Please do not use any of the reload commands, be that engineering, control room, or weapon room. I have gotten so tired of them, I am going to smack them hard with a Bob Bobski sized hammer out of the game, and create better ones. So, bare with and don't use them? Cheese and pancakes!

Announcement 889

Lara Stardust: hi! With any luck, reload has now been revamped. there are no obvious differences, though a few of the messages may have been tweaked. The only difference to note is, with plasma missiles, it now requires both a missile box, and 10 times the capacity of the banks in plasma to reload the banks. so, if your plasma banks hold 5000 plasma missiles, to reload, you will need a missile box, and 50000 plasma. The only other obvious difference to reload is now, that, you know, it should work? thank ya!

Announcement 890

Lara Stardust: good day folks. I am in need of distraction and have thus opened up something we sometimes do here on Cosmic Rage. for the next hour or so, you can type the word question, then hit enter. This will present you a field in which you can ask the staff of a game a question, either annonimously or as your self. this question can be about anything you like, from the path of the game, to what events you would like to see, to what is the name of that bloke who keeps throwing pies out of the Cosmic rage kitchen? So start them coming!

Announcement 891

Lara Stardust: evening all. I have a small present for you guys that I decided to code on a wim It is a new, sort of simulator, in the Academy. This one is to do with predictive shooting. If you learn how to do predictive shooting, it makes killing space enemies a lot easier because you can tell which way they are flying, and then, shoot them as they arrive, rather than shooting them where they are, they move, and you miss. This little simulator is actually just a gun and a moving target. The speeds vary each time you play, and you get an accuracy rating when you stop playing. It is super fun, super adictive and quite easy to understand, according to the two players, Denny and Syuri who helped me test it out. I hope you enjoy!

Announcement 892

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! I recently read a very interesting article to do with game design which raised a very interesting point to me, something which I had never considered before, not to its fullest, anyway. To that end, I want to put this idea to everyone, and see what kind of response I get. I am looking to compile a team of around 3 to 4 people, who are mixed in abilities both physical, and mental. I do not mean that to sound demeaning, merely that I would like a team that contains a person who might be able to handle complex math-orientated systems, and another one that can't handle complex systems. The aim of this team will be thus: Together as a team you and I will first, go and experience other games, both space based and fantasy based. We'll probably attempt 6 or so in total. We will play each for between 7 to 14 days and analyse performance, leveling, interaction with game environment IE roleplay, welcoming, how adictive the game is, what people do on that game that keeps them coming back, and a few others. At the end of that, we will then create new characters on Cosmic Rage, and do the same process. At the end of this, my aim is to have compiled, ultimately, a large amount of data about text-based games in general, what people like, and what they dislike. This is what is known as market research, and is a common practice in a lot of businesses. It will ultimately end with data compiled that we as the staff can then act upon to improve Cosmic Rage by knowing what it is players like and what we lack. I hear you asking, why can't the staff, or HTPL's do this: Both the staff and the HTPL's are a team of individuals who work together to ultimately achieve an end goal, accept, we all, mostly, think on similar lines and have a habit of being brilliant at one thing, but not at another. To that end, half of us would go on another game and go wow! great combat system! while the other half would go wow! great roleplay system! But both of us might miss that the documentation is written in a very friendly manner, because we are all so used to reading cosmic Rage's style, which might be too technical. To that end, what do you need for this job? A few things: First, is time. This is not a role you can dip into for five minutes each week. This is ultimately, at least, a 4 day week job for 6 to 8 weeks that, while yes most of us can, and will, be doing other things, this is a job that I, personally, will be, and will expect the team behind this to, put a lot of effort into in order to get the best results. Second, you have to be able to set aside previous game differences. I will be up front in the fact that we will be trying out the other space MUDs including Miriani and Star Conquest. To that end you will need to, temporarily, be able to set aside any previous you have with the games in order for us to get clear results. And that's it. At the end of it all, I may, if feeling particularly brave, compile the data into an over all mud report, to which we can, depending on your choices, publish it on the internet for other MUDs to gain benifit from, but that's ultimately a long way off. So, lets see how it goes. If you wish to apply to help out with this team, enter a support ticket, under category 5, and just include your name, and a short description about yourself, IE are you a seasoned mud player, what is your favorite game to play aside from Cosmic, naturally, and any other thing you think might be relevant. I know I've dressed this announcement up in ultimately fancy and rather scary sounding language, but this is a very good opportunity for you, as a person, and for me, as a developer, to sit on an even footing, while you also gain experience as to how the teams of staff work here and what is expected if you wished to apply. Further, you also gain experience into how real world businesses will carry out analysis on their competitors and actions that could be taken. The entire project will take between 6 to 9 weeks in total and will start most likely near Easter Hopefully, I have convinced some of you to apply, at least. Ultimately, the team itself will help each other in terms of difficult barriers to some games, including visual elements, profile writing, ET. This is a team effort, and I would like everyone to come away from it feeling like they've learned something, and had fun and contributed to cosmic Rage's future. So, if you're a mature, Cosmic-loving mud player who wants to grab the bull by the horns, let us know via support ticket. My mail, using Lara in the to box, is open if you have questions. Thank you!

Announcement 893

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Have you got two seconds? Please type rate to help us get a feeling of the game. There is an optional comments section, too, which is completely annonimous Appreciate it!

Announcement 894

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! Still struggling with what to wear or what to do in tonight's event? From now until event time, my links are open for any and all help, advice or tips you might have. Just type OTR Lara and then your message. See you there!

Announcement 895

Lara Stardust: hi guys. If you applied, or are thinking of applying, to be on the market research team, see previous announcements for reference, please do not close your support ticket at any time. Otherwise, the hosts can not consider you in the running. The deadline for entries is April 6th.

Announcement 896

Lara Stardust: the very best of evenings to all of my fellow Cosmic Ragers. As some of you may know from some of my messages on ooc now and again, I have been working like a working thing in working town on working day. I have just overhauled the upgrade system, well i say I've overhauled it, I've upgraded it. Ha ha! Anyway. What does this bring to you guys, well, here goes: 1. The list and buy commands are now detailed realistic. Meaning that, if you have just entered the store and type list, your character will first step up to the display board, or whatever is in the shop, and then use it. Second, it remembers where it was left, so if someone was viewing say, upgrade 1, and you typed list 2, your character would tap home, then tap item 2. 2. When entering a store, you now see a display board or similar at the bottom of a shops description which displays what the board is focused on. You can also look at this by typing l display. 3. The list command has been changed, it now shows only item names, to see details, you type list and then a number. 4. List and then a number shows the following: 1, name, 2, price, 3, level, 4 skill requirements, and 5 description. If any of these requirements are not current on your character, IE you are looking at a level 400 upgrade while you are rank 300, then the words requirement not met will be shown next to the information, and it will be in red. 5. I think. 5. all 252 upgrades now have descriptions, and the uHelp category has been deleted. 6. Prices are now clearer. IE it will show 15000 per drone, rather than just 15000. 7. All double charging upgrades have been removed. 8. The buy command now shows different things depending on whether you are upgrading a ship, a vehicle, drone, or container. 9. All upgrades are now categorised. 10. There are more categories! 11. Buy now accepts both an item name, and an item number. 12. Display boards are now more contextial in terms of what they show to you, and what they show to the room at large. 13. The upgrades command has been made very slightly quicker. I think that is everything, but I may have missed something or other. I hope you enjoy, and feedback is appreciated!

Announcement 897

Lara Stardust: hi guys. Because they were all over the place in terms of levels, I have redone the ranks for the comet activities. they may not be in the order they were before, so just be aware of that if you are getting to be leveling near them soon and make sure you do them in the right order!

Announcement 898

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Adverts have been changed slightly: 1. The submit-advert command is gone. 2. The adverts command now allows you to submit new ads, delete old ads, view ads, and update the time limit of an ad. 3. You can now choose how long your ad is up for. 4. Ads are more expensive. 5. You now see how many times your advert has been viewed. 6. Fixed a bug in how adverts were saved. 7. You now see how long the advert has till it goes down. Enjoy and feedback is appreciated!

Announcement 899

Lara Stardust: hi everyone! Some of you may be keeping track of host meeting dates and such, so I will say we did, indeed, have a meeting today. We have as of yet not finished, and the meeting ending has been postponed for another day. We will get back to those who have applied for positions either later on tonight, or tomorrow, but the general meeting summary may be a couple of days late.

Announcement 900

Lara Stardust: hi! So, two things. First things first, we've changed how the rp where command works. Go us! Rp where will now not be set to locations. Instead, if there are 3 or more people gathered on a public planet, not factories at the moment, we're seeing how it goes, then they will appear on rp where. To clarify, names will not appear on rp where, but if 3 people or 6 people hang out in a bar on Earth, it will say: People are hanging out at Earth, Lara's bar. Secondly, we have changed how the @rp-nominate command works. First of all, you can now just type @rp-n Second, we've made it so that you actually choose the person, which will speed up the process at the approval end. And third: the nominator will get a small reward themselves if it is approved! Enjoy these little changes, and feedback always appreciated. Hats off to the HTPLs and Staff Sergeant Vazbal for contributions to the cause.

Announcement 901

Lara Stardust: hi guys! the cLevel command has now been depricated It had very limit uses, and, for most, was just a trap anyway. Aside from that it had no IC explanation, and those who would truly benifit from it, didn't use it anyway. So, in short, cLevel is gone. thanks!

Announcement 902

Lara Stardust: hi all! A change has been to made to wormholes that make them a touch more dangerous. Remember that, when you scan a wormhole, it would say something about gamma traces? Well now that means something. each time you go through a wormhole, it will use up 1000 gamma traces. If there is less than 1000 when you jump, the wormhole will start to implode, and your ship will take crippling amounts of damage. So watch out!

Announcement 903

Lara Stardust: Hi guys. This is a gentle reminder that, if you have not already, we'd really love your feedback to be given through the rate command. Thanks very much!

Announcement 904

Lara Stardust: hi guys. As part of a scheme that is to do with game balance in terms of both credits, and resources, a few caps are going to be placed on various storage items, and buy amounts that previous were not already there. These caps will not affect your game play in any way, in terms of, they will not limit you greatly, and are merely to prevent those huge, and rather over the top, storage amounts. You may have seen the first of these in the change log, regarding resource marketing. The second has now just been implemented which is thus: Debris refineries on factories may only hold up to 500,000 pieces of debris at any one time. If your refinery holds 500,000 pieces of debris, no one will be able to unload to it in any way. Thank you for reading!

Announcement 905

Lara Stardust: hi guys. Thanks to Elyria for making me aware of this, I realised that the refinery cap changes came at a very bad time, considering the clan competition. As such, to hopefully help ease into this, until the clan competition resets tomorrow, there will be a temporary boost to refining debris speed. Your drones will refine 100, rather than 10, debris until then. Enjoy

Announcement 906

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! We, the staff, understand that Cosmic Rage can be a difficult game at times. especially if you are a new guy. So many things to do, so little time, and what in the name of the name of the dragon queen, is that! to help with this, with a main focus on new guys, we have introduced a new feature. this feature is a tasks list. This list is not, in any way, required for you to complete. It is designed to compliment your game play, and, if you're stuck, give you a goal to achieve. There are currently 8 categories, including getting started, and 88 tasks for you to complete in total. I have no doubt these will get added to and expanded as the scheme is expanded. The help file for this change is: help the tasks list. Each task you complete will earn you a certain reward. I hope you enjoy, and feedback is appreciated.

Announcement 907

Lara Stardust: good evening everyone. As you are no doubt aware, though I also know some of you might be quietly, or not so quietly, disagreeing. Hear at cosmic Rage we care about what our players are saying. Hosts here make time, either on channels, or at Host to Player Chats, to listen to what you guys are saying, and, with luck, act upon it. one theme running through the HTPC's on a decidedly tilted note is that of combat, be it space, or ground. Half of you say it's alright, some of you say it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, while some of you say its the worst thing implemented in the history of coding. They say you can't please everyone? I beg to differ. As such, open for a little while is a short, 10 question, survey about ground and space combat. It takes less than 5 minutes to complete, if you're fast, and, you get 100 rp points for filling it out! How sweet is that! Not only will you contribute to your own game play experience, but you will help boost your fellow gamers fun too. So, lets hear it you folks! Type combat, and complain, or congratulate, to your hearts content. The survey will ask you, at the end, if you wish the submission to be annonimous too! Thanks! feedback on this survey method is encouraged

Announcement 908

Billybob Dark blue designation: Hello players. I regret to inform you that at this current time, Ground combat seems to be broken. Please refrain from doing ground combat for now until we can get it fixed. Thank you.

Announcement 909

Lord Parias: Pauagiwa joe is back on diana guys. He must've taken an extended vacation

Announcement 910

Lara Stardust: good afternoon folks! I bring you a few changes to how the reset command works. First of all, reset is no longer instant. due to a rise in what we call rage quit resets, where a player resets, and then regrets it, you can now abort a reset within 24 hours of typing the command. After 24 hours, the character will be reset. Due to this, the gun shot message has been removed. Hardcore and nightmare characters will still be instant. Second off, if a player selects bullying as their reason for reset, which I am delighted to say doesn't happen often, it now asks for more contextual information, so that the hosts can investigate. Next, when you reset, you are sent an off-game email which will tell you it was typed. Useful for if it was not you typing the command and you want to abort it. Unfortunately however, due to the changes that took place and the change in format, the deletion list had to be cleared. If you had a character cleared. If in the list of to be deleted, you will need to put them back in. Finally, some more options for method of death have been added. Enjoy

Announcement 911

Lara Stardust: good evening, ladies, gentlemen, and variations of such. The curiosity event, focusing on space, was indeed held tonight, though we didn't get much done as we did a lot of experimentation around reducing spam, and getting gunner output right. that being said, I hope the end team, Briana, Jason Eddie, Akasha, Vazzieball, Eric Austin and Jim all agree that what we do have now is a system at least, that is a great start, and a few more steps in the fun direction, rather than the laud, how much spam now? front. In essence, the changes thus far are below: 1. Tracking in cockpits. the track command in control rooms has been changed. You type track to turn it on, and track to turn it off. It will find the nearest enemy, and update you when it moves, basically. this frees up the pilot, making it so that he or she doesn't have to repeatedly tell the computer to track something, or to do something else, while trying to fly! 2. Tracking in weapon rooms: Instead of a flat rate of 5 seconds, this tracking system now only updates you if their is an angle change. To that end, it is worth, if it has been a while, to double check the angle, just in case the ship is sitting right in front of you and you are wasting missiles. 3. Repeat. You can now type repeat to have your computer announce tracking information again. 4. Salvos, salvos take more charge now, see change log. 5. Repairing now takes some charge. I think that's it for now, however, there will be a few more bug fixes that I noticed, and the dream team above came up with a few suggestions to make engineering less boring that have been taken into consideration. the curiosity event will be on tomorrow, at the same time, where we will first run one or two more space missions, to determine whether we've hit the nail pretty nicely, and then, we will move onto ground combat. I'd rather not mess with ground combat too much, but we will at least gather some data, identify what is fun and what isn't, to hopefully provide a better experience. I definitely recommend going to read the most recent post on explanations on systems, which is on the message boards. Thanks for reading, and feedback is appreciated. game on!

Announcement 912

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! Lesson 1 on space combat in the galactic academy has now been written. This one focusses on gunning. I hope you like it, and look forward to your feedback!

Announcement 913

Lara Stardust: hi all! the babies are undergoing some changes, so some commands might not work for a bit. Blame Ada, as it was her report that motivated this recode Bare with me for a bit

Announcement 914

Lara Stardust: hello! It's me again! Babies will now be back to normal, with a few tweaks First, the check command has been removed. Just like with an actual baby, you now must see what is wrong judging by what the baby does. For example, is the baby hungry? Is the baby crying a lot? Emotes occur properly now, along with the cute other stuff babies should do, like bumping into each other if there are more than one in the room. Finally, I have fixed bugs where some commands gave no output if you were not holding the child. also, hunger has been made more realistic, and, as well as that, babies will now stop crying if you make them happy through socialing with them. Babies will look unimpressed if they are not happy. On top of that, I have improved the announcing messages, so if a baby does something, it will show to everyone else, for instance, Being held by Lara Stardust, Samira silver scale waggles her tail. Or, On a baby bed, Samira silver Scale throws a tantrum. More changes to come soon. Feedback always appreciated

Announcement 915

Lara Stardust: hi guys. I have fixed a bug with undress, and force stripped all babies, please reclothe your babies, before they get cold!

Announcement 916

Lara Stardust: The very best of evenings to you all. I am delighted to announce the first of our moves we will make to remove boring activities and replace them with far more interactive, and far more interesting, ones. This first, not only is much more interesting and fun, but also comes with the added bonus of being able to be done group, or solo. To what do I refer? I speak of course, of asteroid processing. asteroid what now? asteroid processing is the replacement activity for the previously dull, previously boring, asteroid hauling activity which has now been removed from the game. asteroid processing is truly too much to explain in an announcement, though I will indulge curiosities by saying that not only is the hauling process interactive, but the second section, the part where you get the materials from said asteroid, is also very interactive. It was tested and reviewed yesterday by five players, who seemed to enjoy themselves very much. prior to that, two other players gave the thumbs up to how the hauling part was overhauled. We can truly say, hand on heart, well accept Nate because he doesn't have one, that this is perhaps the most unique way of considering asteroid hauling ever seen. We sincerely hope you enjoy, and look forward to your feedback as we continue to get rid of rubbish, and implement ideas.

Announcement 917

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! After deep consideration, and with much, much encouragement from Charley in particular over the years, you can now type private or private , to block the your location being shown in peoples links. Note though, this will not hide it from members of the military, who will have an override. Your location will also not be shown however if you turn the radio off, or drop it. For cy-larkans, the command is /private

Announcement 918

Lara Stardust: hi! I am going to be breaking hand mining for a little while. If you are a newbie dude, welcome to the game, but please don't hand mine for a bit. If you are not a newbie dude, well... Hi! don't do hand mining for a bit. Thanks!

Announcement 919

Lara Stardust: the very best of evenings to you all. I am delighted to announce the second overhaul to what was previously a very boring activity. This time, hand mining was up for redo. Remember the old one, right? dig, dig, dig, dig, dig dig dig. It's like a bad Disney song! The activity is now much shinier, much more fun, and even has a few mini puzzles inside. It also has some comedy, because laughter is the best form of medicine. I hope you like it, and while I realise this might not be such a big change for older players, perhaps it will make that first step into the Cosmic Rage world much more fun. Enjoy, and feedback is appreciated!

Announcement 920

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! As you might be aware, tomorrows HTPC is in less than 24 hours, but it is, sadly, on a Monday! To that end however, if you are not going to be able to make it, we have opened up a command. If you can not be there, please type @htpc, this will take you through a little topic configuration which will let you express your views. Thanks!

Announcement 921

Lara Stardust: hi! As per the feedback from last nights Host to Player Chat, the damage command now sorts components by damage, with least at the top, and most at the bottom. It is also now only showing components as percentage. Hope you enjoy, and feedback appreciated!

Announcement 922

Lara Stardust: hi guys. As you probably no, I sometimes send out a newsletter to registered Cosmic Rage players detailing big changes that have taken place recently. I thought, this time, it would be great to get some current player input on it. I'd really love to hear what has been your favorite event, change, or happening, that took place on the game over the past month. Just let me know through mail, by entering Lara in the to box. thanks!

Announcement 923

Lara Stardust: Hello, fellow Cosmic Rage player item thingies. The hunting activity will become unavailable soon, while it is upgraded to a new system. The upgrade should take between 6 and 12 hours, at the end of which will be another announcement, as usual, informing you of the changes. To that end, until then, please stick to hand mining, or ore extraction. thank you!

Announcement 924

Billybob Dark blue designation: hi ladies and gentlemen. Happy to inform you that space missions are fixed. Sorry for the delay.

Announcement 925

Lara Stardust: the very best of evenings to you all. Our final overhaul to level 1, starter, activities is now complete and boy is this one a big one. Hunting has now been made far, far more interesting, with some features including: 1. The area for hunting now actually looks like a forest, with trees, bushes, and undergrowth. 2. There are now four types of hunting: fox hunting, Incora hunting, deer hunting, and horned-sheep hunting. 3. Dragon's hunt differently to other races. 4. Some new NPC's have been introduced. 5. You now sell your meat directly to NPC's 6. Spears now only use one hunting method, where as bows, newly introduced, use two. 7. You make your own bows, from scratch and can customise them. 8. You can look at, and social at, everything. literally, even the path. try it. There are many more features that this new hunting activity includes, something which the testing HTPL team were more than thrilled about. To give you an idea, here's the opinion of one of the HTPL's The coolest thing to me about this new activity is the maze. I like mapping things out like that, and it adds something we've never seen in cr before as far as I can think of. it's like you have to find your way around the forest and actually strategise your hunt a little. Feedback always appreciated. Enjoy, and keep raging!

Announcement 926

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! If you have two seconds, can you do us a massive favour, and help us test our email service? The more of you who do this, the more accurate our results. Just type email-test to help us. thanks!

Announcement 927

Your boy Dante: Hi folks, In about ten minutes or so, I am going to shut down the schedulers to test something. Please use this time to stop any tasks you might be performing, such as harvesting or combat. this test should only take a moment or so. thanks.

Announcement 928

Your boy Dante: Hi players, I am pleased to announce a new addition to factories which, I hope, will add some realism, but not too much realism, making factory management a bit more "hands on" and less "set and forget". I also hope this will spark some RP from you wonderful folks. Introducing factory Life Support Centers and the concept of air quality on factories. What this means: If you own a factory ranked large factory or higher, you will notice a slow decline in your air quality over time. If the air quality reaches 0 %, pets, babies and players unprotected by spacesuits will suffocate and die. If it was me, I would sue the factory owner, ha ha. The Life support centers tie in with gas and oxygen compression chambers and together, can help factory owners maintain air quality on their factories and avoid a potential lawsuit? There is a help file which explains how they are used, so give that a good read. For non-factory owners who do not wish to breathe in foul air from poorly maintained Starbases while shopping, I recommend purchasing the air quality patch for your mapper. This will alert you if factory areas nearby have poor air quality, so visit a communications store and grab this must have patch. I hope you enjoy this new addition to CR, which was inspired in part by reading about the International Space Station. Thanks to Lara and Billybob for your help and as always, your feedback is appreciated.

Announcement 929

Lara Stardust: hello everyone. Just so you are aware, and do not worry. A slight clean up has been done with moons. You may recall back when, a while ago, a change was made to cap moons to 100 rooms. Unfortunately, some moons had over this limit and were essentially, stuck. The hosts have just ran a kind of clean up to attempt to get rid of these rooms that are essentially useless. Here's where you don't need to worry. If you were a moon owner whose room count exceeded 100, you have not lost any buildings. The buildings have been folded into existing rooms, and then the empty rooms destroyed. It's not perfect, as there are still a few moons around with over 100 rooms, but, it's hopefully, a nice solution. thanks for reading

Announcement 930

Your boy Dante: Hello players, Today is Memorial Day in the US, A day where we honor those who have given their lives in service to their country. In the spirit of the holiday, I, on behalf of everyone at CR, would like to take this opportunity to thank those of you who have sacrificed much in the service of your countries. I would also like to extend our thanks to any of you who have family serving or has served in the military, regardless of the country you reside. It takes a special kind of person to stand up and help protect those who cannot protect themselves and your sacrifices help make the world itself a better place. Thank you very much. While there is no way we can repay you for this service, please know that your sacrifices, your pain and your service to the rest of us is appreciated. On this day, as we should everyday, we honor you!

Announcement 931

Lara Stardust: hello everyone. tonight I have been, and tomorrow night I will continue to, tweak the way monsters move around. Due to this there may be some unexpected... um, results, with ground mobs. If you can, try and avoid them for now. Thanks!

Announcement 932

Lara Stardust: hello players! From now until 20:00 3 hours after this announcement's post time, we have opened up the question command. the question command is exactly what it sounds like. You write a question, and the hosts will answer it! this can be anything from queries about an upcoming change, upcoming or already made move, rp plot lines, queries about game systems, or anything you like. Just type question and we'll try our best to answer. You can submit either as yourself, or as annonimous

Announcement 933

Lara Stardust: good afternoon everyone. The event, healing harmonia, which was scheduled for tomorrow at 20:33 GMT, has been postponed. It will be held instead on Sunday at the same time, due to a unrealised clash with a host meeting. Thank you. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Announcement 934

Lara Stardust: hi there! do you know someone who has left the game? We'd really appreciate it if they'd fill out this form, please drop them this. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCp9rA0sd_Y0YLUMk_A5ZEIFxaP4GPnB0TTnG2dXz096s6dQ/viewform?usp=sf_link Thanks!

Announcement 935

Lara Stardust: hello players. I am delighted to announce that the shoot and swing command is now back online and with some extra special changes! First: If you are not wielding anything, and you type swing, your player will attempt unarmed combat, with different messages for each race. Second: All 19 of the different host built weapons that you can buy now have unique firing sequences, and messages. Third, you can now swing while in a battlesuit, and your character will punch the enemy in the face with a metal coated paw, or hand, or whatever. I hope you like the new changes. Enjoy!

Announcement 936

Lara Stardust: hi! Me again with another combat related change, which is semi-related to the last announcement. In light of the change yesterday where you no longer see exactly how many points of damage you take, the target in the combat arena has also been changed. It will now flash a different colour depending on how hard you hit it, with reds being at the bottom, and blues at the top with white in between. The laser weapons also conform to this, where different laser damages make different laser colours. The colours actually correspond with dragon fire colours, so if you want to know if you're hitting hard, find a high level dragon and ask them about their fire colour. Enjoy!

Announcement 937

Lara Stardust: hi! It is me for a final time, announcing a semi-related combat change, but this one only as it stands to weapons. I forgot to mention something that is actually rather critical that was changed. As you may or may not know, a rifle is a type of gun that is more suited to long range combat, while a shotgun is suited to shorter ranged combat. Similarly, we have changed some weapons such that they can only fire, for example, 2 squares away. So if you were at 1, 1, and your enemy at 2 2, you could not hit him, your enemy would have to be at 3 3. Only rifles and snipers have been affected by this change, but we hope it will spice up your experience a bit.

Announcement 938

Lara Stardust: hello! Me again with another ground combat announcement. First, n room descriptions, instead of giving you coordinates, it now says where in the room you are, for example, you are in the middle of the east edge. Hopefully this makes things a lot clearer than they were, and makes it more interest. Second, when moving, you are no longer shown coordinates, and instead your character moves normally, for example, you move east, or you move west. finally, players who are at your old coordinates will only see you leaving, and players at your new coordinates only see you arriving. No one else cares.

Announcement 939

Lara Stardust: hello! One of the first changes we will be making with space combat is reward types and methods. Make sure you have claimed any unclaimed rewards on the terminals before the event time begins, because you will lose them otherwise. Much love!

Announcement 940

Lara Stardust: good evening everyone. In light of continuing change with the space combat system as per the event shown in the @events command, the laser, warhead, track and cannon commands have all been locked off temporarily. Please avoid combat situations until the changes are announced as complete, for your own character's safety. Remember, to avoid pirates in fields, harvest out of sectors with a high, a to c, security rating. Thank you

Announcement 941

Lara Stardust: good evening peoples! Or for some, good morning. a very, *yawn*, good morning. The changes to space combat are now complete, and the system has been changed in accordance with how the staff discussed at the most recent host meeting, based on player feedback. Some of the changes are minor, others are big. Here are some minor ones first: 1. If a star has been drained, it can't be used as a stargate. 2. Bug fix, only local sector stars can be used for stargates now. 3. Manual now takes a varying amount of time based on a ships size. It will take significantly longer in bigger ships. And now for more major. Angles are gone. You may rejoice. The angles system has been replaced with a far more simplistic directional system of port, starboard, fore and aft, with up, down, and neutral on the z axis. the command structure, mounts, ETC are still very much the same, and engineering has been left as it was before. To that end, a few other things have changed: Some enemies have sped up, others have slowed down, and the rewards system there in, covered in a moment, has also been adjusted. Dog fighting, that where you fly quickly around an enemy fighter and hit it with lasers, has been made more significant in certain situations. the rewards system has changed, where you get creditted for damage done, and then separate bonuses for whether the ships leave the sector, or are destroyed. the sHelp gunning file has been rewritten and sectioned off, with a strategies file also being thrown in for good measure. The new system is far less math based than the last one, with an easier to type command syntax, EG, you type wa f n, rather than wa 0 0. Less hand stretching and the like and easier to remember. Tweaks will be made to it over the next month, while we settle rewards at a balanced amount, maybe speed up an enemy here slow down an enemy there, things you can only know with time. For now, at least, space combat is back online, the help files are updated, and I hope you enjoy the changes and will fall back in love with a truly wonderful system. Feedback, as always, appreciated.

Announcement 942

Lara Stardust: good evening to you all. I have one or two things to write about, so bare with me for a moment. First of all, a short reminder to use your feedback command. As you know, we recently changed over the space combat system to one we hope is a lot easier. Ultimately though, we don't know if it is unless you give us detailed, constructive feedback using that all mighty feedback command! secondly, and perhaps more importantly. I have been asked by Snapp Blue Scale, the developer of Cosmic's most up-to-date soundpack to make you all aware that he will be on an extended vacation until further notice. However, the soundpack still has two, if not more, very active developers and administrators on it, and we, the staff, also throw our full support behind the upkeep of said pack, and will do what we can to ensure your bugs and ideas are looked at and responded too in a timely, um, time. Thanks for reading, and much lerve!

Announcement 943

Your boy Dante: Hello My wonderful players, I am pleased to bring to you a new activity. Are you one of those players who wish there was more for everyone to do after an invasion or disaster? Introducing Medical evacuations. A new non-combat activity for players with characters ranked 60 and up. It finally brings a use to your old dusty medical evacuation ships and comes with a few new cool toys to play with. A help file is available and always, shoot us your feedback with the trusty feedback command.

Announcement 944

Your boy Dante: Hi players, I would like to take this time to thank all of you who are giving our newest activity a go! Your enthusiasm for this makes me feel quite wonderful. Remember, now that you have tried it, let us know if you love it, or how we can make it the best activity possible by shooting us your love with the feedback command!

Announcement 945

Lara Stardust: hello players. I am personally planning a little bit of an overhaul as foods and drinks are concerned, simply due to both how rubbish, basic, and broken some of our foods and drinks are. As such, please withhold your reports. We're working on it. Thank you

Announcement 946

Charley: Howdy Cosmic Ragers. I will be available for the next several hours to help advise or consult or whatnot with descriptions. I will be in the room east of the library on Business Central. Please press 2 at the prompt when attempting to enter the room since this is not an HTPC. Looking forward to assisting you all.

Announcement 947

Charley: Howdy you Cosmic Ragers! I will be available again later today some time for another few hours to advise/consult you on any help you may have on your descriptions. Thank you to those of you who came by and got some help. Brandon and I really enjoyed it. For the rest of you, I look forward to seeing you all later on.

Announcement 948

Your boy Dante: For those of you who have asked, The @htpc command is now available to take down your proposed discussion topics for tomorrow's host to player chat! We look forward to seeing you all there! @events for more info!

Announcement 949

Lara Stardust: good evening players. I am very, very very pleased to announce the introduction of new, friendlier elements to already very common commands. The get, drop, and put verbs have all been given a bit of tender loving care and the following is now possible: get all. Drop all. Get all bob. drop all bob. get 3 bob. drop 4 bob. put 6 bob in container. get 4 bob from container, and so on and so forth. the redundant commands, like getall are going to be stripped out soon, and I hope you like the changes.

Announcement 950

Lara Stardust: oh, I have also made those commands more friends in terms of, drop wielded weapon automatically unwields it, and drop clothing automatically removes it. So feedback! or something

Announcement 951

Charley: Howdy! The time has come once more this weekend to seek assistance with your descriptions should you need the help. Me and other hosts are going to be north of the library on Business Central. We are able and more than willing to answer most any question you have about describing anything from small personal items to entire rooms. We are looking forward to seeing you!

Announcement 952

Billybob Dark blue designation: hi players. I've been working on this particular suggestion that I think is a wonderful idea, but I need your help. How can you help? Well, here's what you can do. As you explore planets, make up a list of rooms that do not have smells, accompany each room with your suggested smell, and mail it to me, Billybob Rewards may be there for the players with the most and best ideas! This goes for any planet, any space station that is not privately owned. Happy sniffing!

Announcement 953

Your boy Dante: Ladies, gentlemen, beings of skin, scales, slime or metal, May I have your attention for a moment? First, I wish to thank all of you who tried out the medical evacuation activity. I have already implemented some of your feedback requests, others are still in the works. With the release of this activity, we should see some real momentum towards the upcoming release to the GMC! With this in mind, it is likely that healing centers will see an overhaul to accommodate the new system and the new org. Here is your chance to get your ideas in while things are still on the drawing board. We wish to see a more realistic, for lack of a better word to describe treating dragon boo boos, approach to healing. If you feel so inclined, please take the time and write up your ideas on what you would like to see in the new healing centers and submit this as a suggestion. All ideas are welcome, but the more thought out and reasoned your idea, the more likely it is to be included. Here at Cosmic Rage, it is all about you, the player and what you think matters to us. We look forward to reading your ideas. Thank you for your time, you may continue with your regularly scheduled Cosmic Raging! This is Dante Steel signing off for now!

Announcement 954

Lara Stardust: Hello! Many of you may have noticed that enemies seem to be moving extraordinarily fast since the reforms, which, really, kind of voided the point of the reform. I was made aware of this by one of your fellow users, and will be attempting to change the fundamentals of how enemies move about in the next 24 hours. In short, expect enemies to become a bit less move about like in the next day. Just thought you'd like to know. Thanks!

Announcement 955

Lara Stardust: Good morning to you all! Yes, it is true. The three year birthday of cosmic Rage event is now underway! For those who don't know, an email was sent out yesterday, on which you can find the schedule for the event and all the lovely things we have coming up! I won't make this too long, as we have a busy day, so, lets get started! It's now 11:00 A.M which according to my schedule, means host memories and something special! I will be in a room south of the library on business central for the next hour, if you'd like to drop in to share your favorite memories, talk about how you found out about the game, and more! In the mean time, you can now type birthday, to set yourself a super special ooc name, available up until midnight tonight! So lets get this party started!

Announcement 956

Lara Stardust: hello again! As the hour strikes 12, a new event is now open for you to enjoy! A combination of all of the hosts personalities and quirks and with a healthy dose of comedy, the Cosmic Rage third Birthday quest is now open. Host Dante Steel is in big trouble, and he needs your help! A combination of exploration, looking at things, and talk will see you through to the event's completion! Type @join-event to begin!

Announcement 957

Lara Stardust: a little competition for all you Cosmic Ragers. over the next few ours. As you know, our last peak was this time last year, in fact, it was about now that it occurred. Now while we might not be able to reach such dizzying heights, we can certainly hit some big numbers! So, here's my challenge. Get your friends to log in, spread the word, and if we reach 50, everyone will get 50 billion credits, and 500 role play points. 60 by midnight, and its 60 billion and 1000 role play points. 70 by midnight and you could be claiming yourself a massive 100 billion and 1500 role play points. Get us to 80, and I'll personally grant one free donator item to every player connected. So there is my challenge

Announcement 958

Lord Parias: Hello everyone, before I forget, happy Canada day to all our Canadian players today! May this day be a happy and fun filled one for all of you.

Announcement 959

Lara Stardust: hello y'all! We're going to kill the stream there, as it started to get a bit dodgy But I hope you enjoyed that huge 8 hour stream, both with memory lane at the end there, as well as the interviews and such. The event continues, however, so enjoy!

Announcement 960

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! It's a little later than we expected due to various donator item requests we were powering through, but the Cosmic Rage birthday items are now over! Birthday names have been reset back to normal, the sale has finished. In this event, we saw the opening of the Galactic Medical Corps to the players, had some cracking fun with trivia, had hosts up for interviews on the live stream, had lots of memories, and so, so much more. We smashed our all time peak and sent it to all new dizzying heights, and I can truly say it was a fantastic day. Cosmic Rage now enters its third year of public state, and I hope you all will join us, your staffing team, in wishing the game good fortune, and many good changes in the future. Thank you, everyone, for attending, enjoying, and sharing in this joyous time. The quest will stay open, out of respect for our American players, until 11 A.M July second thank you once again.

Announcement 961

Lord Parias: I would like to take the time to wish all my fellow Americans a happy and bountiful fourth of July. Take some time to spend some quality time with your family, loved ones and friends and have a drink on me.

Announcement 962

Lara Stardust: hello folks! I have made one or two changes to covers which you make in crafting rooms. First, they can now only be applied to things you wear, be they backpacks, phones, clothes, containers, ETC. More can be added if necessary, but we'll see how it goes. Anyway, new covers can now be written over by newer ones. So what I mean is, say you cover an item in one cover, and then cover it in a second, that second one will take the place of the first. This only works on newly crafted covers, though. And finally, the name of the cover will now be put onto the item name, for example, a red data pad encased in a black shell. Thank you to Caralee for the suggestion that prompted these very awesome changes.

Announcement 963

Lara Stardust: hello you military types! Patrol logs are now end of patrol logs, and each person may only submit one log entry per day. This is to encourage each officer to pull his or her own weight, and to prevent the log becoming clogged up with just patrols by a single person. . Thanks!

Announcement 964

Lara Stardust: hello! Please do not do celestial splitting for a bit while I modify some of the activity. I won't be long. Thank you!

Announcement 965

Lara Stardust: hello! I am done tinkering with celestial splitting. First of all, you will notice that the number chunks you get has been lowered significantly. This is because there are so many planetoids, that kicking out that high amount of chunks was just frankly unnecessary. Second, a reward is no longer given for blowing up the asteroid or planetoid, because um, why would the SDF reward you for that? the alternate celestial cannon splitting upgrade has been removed. Now for the good stuff: 1. You are less likely to lose so many chunks. 2. You can now transfer the chunks for a reward. 3. the firing sequence of the cannon has changed. 4. A new upgrade, called celestial cannon explosives, and a cargo expansion to the same effect, have been added and are now required to blow up the celestial body. The help file has been updated to reflect all of these facts. Enjoy!

Announcement 966

Lara Stardust: oh! that's the other thing I forgot to mention in all the excitement. The chunks from celestial chunks now go into the first cargo bay with space. If you collect 10 and only have space for 6, the ship will try to put those 4 into another bay, instead of losing them like it did before.

Announcement 967

Charley: Howdy Cosmic Rage! As most of you already know, the monthly host meeting is coming up soon. At this meeting we go over applications submitted by you the players. If you are interested in becoming a newbie mentor, an HTPL or even a host, please submit your applications before midnight GMT Thursday the 11th of July for a guaranteed review. If you submit it on the day of the meeting, it may go unseen so please do this as soon as possible if you are interested. To submit an application, type support and follow the prompts accordingly. If you have any questions, you may ask any of the host staff or a member of the HTPL team. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Announcement 968

Your boy Dante: Hello players, This message is for those of you who have a donation request waiting in our queue. If you have requested an item, such as a baby or a pet or other item which requires things like custom names, descriptions, or emotes, you are the one to supply this info, not the staff. These items are meant to be unique, an expression of your role play, if you will, and do not come with these items standardized. That would be boring. If you are awaiting such an item and have not supplied this information, your item may not get made. We do offer many help files which, in detail, tells you what info we are looking for when you make such a request. Help babies and help pets comes to mind. If a staff member is in a good mood, they may decide to help out by adding this information for you, but we are not required to do so. So, please, check your requests and make sure you have provided us with the necessary info. If you think we are missing a help file somewhere, regarding a donator item, please suggest one be added. Thank you and as always, thank you for playing!

Announcement 969

Lara Stardust: hello players! the cargo command has just been shown some tender loving care. It is now much more dynamic, and allows you to do, well. Honestly? pretty much anything, from totals, to specific items, to specific bays... It's very much a Cosmic command in the fact it does what ever you want it to do. Literally. In any case, full details are in sHelp The Cargo Command. Enjoy, and feedback is appreciated!

Announcement 970

Lara Stardust: hello guys! Just a little pre-warning the role play class may be a little later than we expected, due to unpredictable happenings My dinner arriving late! how dare it! It is still on, but may start slightly later depending how fast food gets eaten. Juts a heads up!

Announcement 971

Lara Stardust: Alrighty And that concludes the rp class for this evening. I really, really hoped you found it beneficial and remember, the feedback command for hosts, and the @rp-n command for your fellow players. Thanks to those who attended, and the like. :)

Announcement 972

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! I am very pleased to announce improvements to our colour system. As you may have seen in the change log, I recently fixed a bug with it that was preventing colours like blue and red, yellow and pink and the like. Thanks to the player who reported that, of course. this inspired me a little bit, because the colour code was a little bit all over the place, and due to there being several merchant options, shops, npc's, the baby toy machine, and the like, I decided, what the hell, lets clean this up and make it all nice and uniform. so I did so. In doing so, I am pleased to give you the following changes: 1. Red and blue still works. 2. If you enter a colour like black, or blue, and we have options similar to this, like bright blue, dark blue and the like, the moo will now ask if you would like one of those. In this menu, the colour you entered, for convenience, is always option 1. Further, if none of them suit you, there is a no thanks option at the bottom for you to carry on with your colour choosing options. 3. Our list of colours grew even more, so we have a grand total of 265 in the list now, growing with every player suggestion. 4. The system for choosing a colour improved as well, where as before it could bug out it will now not do that, and finally 5. all colour buying options are now uniform, and work the same way. So yay! Enjoy and feedback/suggestions are of course, welcome!

Announcement 973

Lara Stardust: good afternoon and a very happy Sunday to you all! I hope you have been enjoying the luxuries of the new cargo command, and really putting it through its paces in terms of giving those fancy arguments a try, and seeing how you can filter what you see down. To that end, I hope this announcement brings you as much joy as it does me, now that I found all the bugs and got rid of them. I am, of course, speaking of your transfer command. The transfer command now works exactly the same way as the cargo command. But more than that, here are the changes: 1. transfer times are now realistic, without being boring. 2. Transfer drones can now be looked at from the landing pad. 3. We, the hosts, can now change the transfer drones a planet has. 4. If you type transfer, and the transfer is already in progress, it will tell you roughly how long is left. 5. Transfer now accepts the same arguments as the cargo command. 6. Acids and gases are now on the same system of minerals in terms of planets with less, pay more. 7. The transfer command got a lot less spamtastic to the control room. 8. Landing pads now see what transfer drones are actually doing. 9. Cargo bays now see what transfer drones are doing. 10. Each planet has a different transfer rate. And much, much more. I really hope you enjoy the customisability of this new overhaul to a very cosmic Command. The sHelp transfer command file has been updated for your browsing pleasure. A Transfer menu command has also be added, to serve as a menu interface if you do not understand the arguments or are afraid you'll muck it up. Thanks to the people on ooc who suggested this idea. Feedback and suggestions are appreciated. thanks so much!

Announcement 974

Lara Stardust: A very good evening to you all. This, the latest release from the Cosmic rage coders is one that was inspired by the imagination of Angelique, and added to by Vazzieball, Briana, Parias and a few others. It is a new mission, but more than that. I speak, of course, of Baurgan Raid, the latest combination space and ground mission available for players to try out. Built as an answer to the growing shortage of cargo barrels, this multiplayer mission requires group teamwork and attention to detail as you take on the task to launch a raiding mission into Kaltz space. There are many elements to this mission that would take too long for me to explain in this announcement, so I shall take the cheaters way out and point you at sHelp Baurgan Raid. I sincerely you hope you enjoy and look forward to seeing this being run in the future. As always feedback welcome.

Announcement 975

Lara Stardust: hi guys! We have just made a change that means it is now almost impossible for books to become unlinked from their pages, whether you put them in a container or not. Some books, post change, may have had this issue. If you find yourself with a book that you wrote that is missing its pages, and you would like us to help you restore it, we can do so with no problem at all. Just assist and we'll get right on it. This relinked offer will only stand until August first and then any unlinked content will be deleted. Thanks!

Announcement 976

Lara Stardust: hi guys. After discussion amongst the hosts, all Mobile infantry and Space Defense League weapons have now been made specialist. We viewed it as unfair military people were being restricted and that military was almost, especially in the case of the MI, pay to play for some ranks. If you did donate for a special weapon of the military, please enter a ticket and we will refund you the cost in full. Thank you!

Announcement 977

Lara Stardust: the very best of evenings to you all. It has been brought to my attention that our emoting system is rather lacking for a role play mud and this is something I have been attempting to rectify. I'm sorry to disappoint and say this is not a release announcement. To be fair, the behind the scenes code is pretty much finished minus one or two feature additions, but I want to bug test it more before release. So what is this then? This is me asking you, what do you want out of your emoting system? What substitutions, special symbols, or extra features would you like in your emoting system. I know some of you would like it to combine actions with the emotes, like we have already done with sit and stand. that is something I can expand on if I know the specific items you would like performed. I'll be working on this tomorrow really, and if it takes that long, though I don't for see it doing so, the day after. So if you have feature requests you want to see, now is the time to tell me about them. Just send me a mail, using Lara in the to box, and I'll see what I can do. Go crazy!

Announcement 978

Lara Stardust: hello players! I know some of you have already seen, but we now have a new emoting system! It's fancy, It's shmancy, and its Cosmic! Just like the recently overhauled cargo and transfer command it can be as simple, or as complicated as you like. The help files, under rpHelp, are split into easier to read chunks. Features of the new emoting system include: 1. Better pronoun targeting including easy usage. You can do target.him, or target.her for example. 2. More substitutes for the emoter including %fn for first name, %ln for last name, ETC. 3. Lots of piped emoting commands including eating, drinking, leading and giving. 4. Better sitting piped commands allowing custom chairs and real chairs or players. 5. Allowing of lie and curl instead of sit in piped emotes. 6. First person emotes so you see something like: you grin and hug brandon While brandon sees Lara grins and hugs you. 7. Slightly improved directional system for leaving the room. And so much more! Have a read of the files, and learn at your own pace. I hope you enjoy!

Announcement 979

Lara Stardust: Hello! Thinking of buying a donator baby any time soon? Well the process just got a lot smoother! there is now a wizard under support, 4, 3 which will walk you through what you need in order for us to make your baby. Once complete, it will send what you want to us, and we can make it quickly our side, providing no issues are found! Enjoy!

Announcement 980

Lara Stardust: hello guys! Celebrating 50 years since man first stepped foot on the moon, and also in celebration of a few fixes to the website, we are now having a 25 percent sale on all donator items until the 21st of July, at midnight. Grab those items while it lasts!

Announcement 981

Lara Stardust: hi! Phones may break for or during the next 24 hours. This is because, thanks to a certain player who shall not be named Angelique, I am going to overhaul the code and redo them a bit. They're a feature of Cosmic that is not cosmic. This upsets me, and makes me want to eat lots of chocolate. Therefore, phone overhaul time. Think of Lara's dress size, after all!

Announcement 982

Lara Stardust: hi guys! I'm done tinkering with the x command. It now accepts more than one letter with the dashed syntax, meaning you could type: x here -yel for example, rather than just x here -y. The return message you get if you type x also gives you better syntax help now, and finally the x command should be able to figure out what is common and what is unique a lot better now. I hope you enjoy, and as always, feedback, feedback, feedback!

Announcement 983

Lara Stardust: hey folks. Just to let you know, if you see one of your suggestions related to phones get implemented, but are like hey, no change log entry! It's because I'm currently going through and implementing as many as I can into the phone overhaul, which I will then announce later on when it is all done. Just thought I'd let you know

Announcement 984

Lara Stardust: hello guys! My phone overhaul is just about finished for now. They should be back in working order. I have put all of your phones onto the new system, though bare in mind that NPC's numbers have changed. NPC talking has also changed, and it is worth giving the help file on phones a quick once over to find out the important facts. A lot of the invisibility has been gotten rid of with phones, and most of their functions are now in logical menu form under various app categories. They've also got a few more additions, including answerphones, call logs, and increased picture storage. The range of the phones has been also improved vastly, and they're just all around very nice pieces of kit. There are now also four phone networks that offer different prices for you to choose from, though their coverage is the same. The prices of each pack will vary each week, so it is worth watching out for good deals. I think I covered most of it, but have a look around with your phone, and have some fun. They're really a brand new product. Enjoy, and as always, feedback appreciated.

Announcement 985

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! If there are more than 10 ships in a room, the mud will now group them together. If that group does not contain any ships you own, it will simple say a group of x ships are landed here. If it does, it will say: A group of x starships including the premium miner bob and the premium miner Jimmy are landed here. You can see an ungrouped list of ships by typing look ships, or look starships. I hope this helps cut down on spam, and gives you easier access to descriptions, which we work hard to reform and rewrite to be better, like Parias did on Sahariana. Huge hats off to him. Enjoy! a

Announcement 986

Lara Stardust: hi! I coded this yesterday, but forgot to announce it because I'm amazing like that. You can now type @extra this will allow you to submit a temporary extra line to your description that will time out after a set period of time. that period of time is up to you. Enjoy!

Announcement 987

Lara Stardust: hi guys! Please do not do the pollution collection activity for a bit while I... make improvements to it. Overhaul! overhaul! overhaul! I mean thanks

Announcement 988

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! As some of you discovered earlier, probably because you didn't read the previous announcement, poke, poke. Pollution collecting has been given an overhaul, overhaul, overhaul! It is now called pollution repairation and is an activity that has many things for yo u to do inside. It is an activity that can be done on your own, or with a friend for a bonus in reward! The pollution collector has also got some love, with new messages and the like, and the activity is much more scientific! I hope you enjoy, and feedback is appreciated.

Announcement 989

Lord Parias: may I have your attention please. We ask that you do not try pollution repairation until further notice.

Announcement 990

Lord Parias: in the event you tried the activity and have noticed drastically unusual point payout, please report it. Failure to report it and continuing to do the activity will be seen as violation of the exploit policy and will be dealt with appropriately. Thank you

Announcement 991

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone. pollution repairation is now back online.

Announcement 992

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! I'm going to be writing up a page in the Pauagiwa book about the families and how they tend to treat their Pauagiwa before freedom tomorrow night. If you would, please enter a support ticket if you have a pauagiwa and tell me how you have roleplayed it so I don't squish your roleplay in the process! Thanks!

Announcement 993

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! Over the next day or three, I am going to be working on improving our options system a bit. I'd recommend not changing any of your options until I'm done, as I'm going to be restructuring the system a bit, hopefully to make things easier to find. thanks!

Announcement 994

Lara Stardust: Hello! Me again! As part of restructuring options, I am also going to be redoing ANSI a little bit, in terms of what is displayed in what colour. Please let me know, via mail, if you'd like something shown in a certain way, and I'll do my best! Thanks again

Announcement 995

Lara Stardust: hello players. I am saddened to say that Cosmic Rage is officially sunsetting its social media and pushover off game notification systems. due to limitations with the twitter API it is no longer possible for us to give you DM notifications of off game matters. we can, and will, continue to maintain our changes and announcements posts on twitter, but dm notifications is now gone. In light of this, we are also sunsetting pushover, as we think it unfair for you to have to pay just to receive notifications off game. Certain notifications, such as the happy birthday email, and newsletter, will still be sent out, but anything through twitter and pushover is now gone. Data that we hold pertaining to this info will be purged over the next few days to protect your privacy. I hope you enjoyed this feature while it lasted, and hopefully, look forward to other ways for us to provide you off game enjoyment soon.

Announcement 996

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! I am done tinkering with moon splitting. Not much has changed, only the following two things, really: 1. The messages are more interesting now. and 2. It's more interactive. I've made triple sure that the interaction is nothing complicated, it is simply making the activity a bit more enjoyable, rather than just move, moon split, move, moon split. The interactiveness also gives you more control over how many chunks you get. Rather than it just being, huh, I only got 300 this time, or, huh, I only got 400 this time. It's now: huh, I got 450, can't have been that accurate this time. Thanks to the increased input to the activity, the chunks payout has also been increased. As long as you are accurate with the lasers, you could get up to 800, if not 1000 chunks! Enjoy, and feedback appreciated.

Announcement 997

Lara Stardust: oh, I forgot to mention. If you split a moon, it will now fill up all your cargo bays right to full capacity

Announcement 998

Lara Stardust: hello players. The bans and punishments policy has just been updated. Please read over it as your continuing to play the game means you agree to be bound by it. Thanks!

Announcement 999

Lara Stardust: Hello again! the bugs, loopholes and tracebacks policy has just received an update. By continuing to play, you are agreeing to be bound by the rules set there in. thank you!

Announcement 1000

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! I am extremely pleased to bring you a new change that everything will like, without exception! First of all let me say my favorite line. the options command has received an overhaul! overhaul! overhaul! 1. there are now more categories. 2. Old options have been removed. 3. Options are better sorted into their categories. 4. If it can the mud will now tell you if an option is enabled or disabled. Enjoy, and as always, feedback welcome!

Announcement 1001

Lara Stardust: hi guys! I'm going to be messing with armour for a couple seconds. Please bare with me for a moment, and don't be surprised if your armour doesn't work for a bit

Announcement 1002

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! I'm finish tinkering with armour for now. The changes are as follows: 1. The slots that you wear armour in have been overhauled, and removed from clothing. Clothing and armour run on separate slot systems now, which, unfortunately means some armour is now unusable. If you have armour that is unusable, it's up to you what you do with it. You can trash it, you can assist, and we'll reposition it for you, or you can assist and we can turn it into standard decorative clothing. It's entirely up to you. So why did I do this change? 2. Armour now fits directly with body parts. So if you have, for example, a Biocore piece of armour, it actually protects your Biocore 3. All armour slots have their own wear and remove messages. 4. HS now shows what is protecting that bodypart on the same line as the damage the bodypart can take. I think that's it for the big things. A few minor menu changes occured to respect the new slots, but if you see anything odd, please let us know. As always, enjoy, and feedback is appreciated!

Announcement 1003

Lara Stardust: Hi! There is a new cave on Navu in which dragons can sharpen their claws to give them extra damage. sharpening needs to be maintained as they get dull over time. the more you sharpen the more damage you get. Sharpening can be done once per day. Type charinfo to see how sharp your claws are. enjoy!

Announcement 1004

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! As you are no doubt aware, the hosts are extremely excited to be having an August HTPC later on today, the time of which can be found in the @events command. there will be two ways to get to the htpc, either by walking to the room at business Central, or by typing @htpc Be aware that, the topics are registered when you enter, so if you have something to bring up, make sure and enter them when prompted! If you want to be eager, and give the hosts a glimpse of what is coming upon you can register your topics starting now, by typing @htpc Enjoy, and I look forward to a fantastic meeting with you all!

Announcement 1005

Lara Stardust: hello all. Delivery drones have been improved some what. Now, when someone sends a delivery to you, you are told what it is, and what the message is. You now have 60 seconds to accept or deny said delivery. You can not send deliveries to people in deep space, missions, or death. Whether the drone should return to you after its attempt is now built into the send command. enjoy

Announcement 1006

Lara Stardust: hello y'all. As a sign of good faith, and in apology for traceback city, we have handed out a token amount of free rp points to everyone. Spend them well!

Announcement 1007

Lara Stardust: Hi players. For those wondering, the most recent poll on the Star Coring activity has been closed. Due to their being no clear majority for either option, the poll will not be implemented.

Announcement 1008

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone. It was brought to our attention that space mines were being used as somewhat of a way to cheat around the space combat system, and get lots of ship kills, for very little effort. The host deliberated on this. We decided not to change the damage they output, as you might expect. Instead, we decided to decrease their range. We knocked a 0 off of the end of it. In a way, this is more realistic, as mines are meant to be concentrated small explosions, rather than sector-wide bringers of doom. while I understand some of you may not be happy with this change, I can assure you that it was implemented due to player complaints, and not just because we don't like you. :)

Announcement 1009

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! A couple changes have been made to the planetary destruction systems of the game. First of all, they have been made group only and can not be soloed any more. Secondly, a bug was fixed where sometimes the planet's would not blow up. Third, the reward for planetary destructions has been changed, with an extra for the more who help in the destruction, the more you get in terms of cash and points. Enjoy!

Announcement 1010

Lara Stardust: Good evening y'all! Planetoids have received one or two tweaks that you should be aware of. It's nothing major, simply one or two of the messages have been changed slightly, and planetoids are now more accurate in what minerals they hold. So instead of a total of 1500 made up of iron and gold, you now have iron 400, and gold 1100, as an example. Thanks!

Announcement 1011

Lara Stardust: Hello all. As per the feedback in the August Host to Player chat, the code behind the conversion drones has been cleaned up and vastly improved. A new help file about them has been added, that includes their locations. More than anything though, this is because the new overhaul over overhaul now includes the ability to work with multiple weapon rooms at once. I hope you like it, and as always, feedback is appreciated!

Announcement 1012

Lara Stardust: Announcing the release of Episode 1. Bring you, an all new, never tried before idea. Welcome to the Cosmic Rage Podcast. the Cosmic Rage podcast will be a weekly hourly release from the staff of the game where we will talk about projects, events, your feedback and more. This idea comes about as we strive to continue to create firm understanding between the players and the staff of the game in as many ways as we can. Plus, hosts are just not as scary when you can hear them calling each other names! To pose topics, questions or feedback related to the podcast, please type @podcast. To listen in, or for more information, please go to: https://cosmicrage.earth/podcast

Announcement 1013

Lara Stardust: Hello players. Announcing the release of milkshake mixers. With over 70 flavours to choose from, these all new machines allow you to mix and match in the ultimate culinary masterpiece. Mix up to five packets each of five individual flavours to produce taste messages that will rock your world. Help milkshake machines contains all the details, but all I can say is have fun, and lift a plastic cup to the feedback command when you do!

Announcement 1014

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! the GMC have just got some love from the brain of Billybob, so treasure it, it's something that rarely occurs! First off, you can now get escorted from the lobby to the waiting area, and back again. Second off, in the waiting area, you can now type book. this will walk you through choosing an appointment time to see a member of the gMC. third, GMC members now have an appointment manager on their MFAS device. In this, they can both see appointments that have been made, and, if necessary, they can choose to confirm one. Basically, the idea behind this is player 1 says when they'd like an appointment, then members of the org see this through the MFAS, and one of them, who can make it, confirms they can. The appointment manager also will show you appointments that you have confirmed. Finally, if you do have a confirmed appointment, the mud will remind you, once a day, when it is and at what time. Enjoy!

Announcement 1015

Billybob Dark blue designation: Hi guys: It appears that planet chunks are a bit broken. Please refrain from partaking in this activity until we can fix the problems with them, thank you for your understanding in this matter.

Announcement 1016

Lara Stardust: planet chunks should be fixed

Announcement 1017

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! Most of this you will know already if you have read the message boards, but if not, here's a quick summary of recent goings on from the hosts. We had hour monthly meeting and absolutely smashed through the items today. First, and very importantly. We have decided to lower the maximum amount of alts you can have from 8 to 4. We have also however, lifted the restrictions about each one being within 50 ranks of each other. Now, you simply must have all your characters at rank 200 or above to be able to create another one. If you already have more than 4 characters, don't worry! They are yours to keep! The only restriction you have is that you can not reset any of your characters until you only have 4, but they are yours to play and do with as you see fit. 2. There is now a donator item that will allow you a perminent team talk channel with a password and name of your choosing on our server. 3. the mail a host option of the info computer has been removed, as support does the exact same thing. 4. The rename an item donator item was cut down in price, made an rp points item, and renamed, (ha ha) to make it more clear what it does and does not cover. And finally, the hosts have implemented several back stage coding functions that allow us to flag private network channels. If your private network channel has been flagged, you will receive a notice telling you such, and showing the reason why. It will also show up when you send messages. Flagged channels can not be left, can not boot people, and can not be disbanded. A private network would be flagged if it broke any of the rules in the help private network file. If your network is flagged, and it continues to break the rules, the network will be shut down. Flagged channels are reviewed each week. to finish on a slightly brighter note, the second episode of the Cosmic Rage Podcast has been released, and contains lot of fun stuff! I apologise for the recording quality, as it was I who had to audio edit this week, and I'm just not as good at it as Billybob is. I hope you enjoy!

Announcement 1018

Lord Parias: I hate to state this again, but when you have a donator request in the queue, assisting about it, opening additional support tickets and demanding us when the item will get done is not going to get the item completed any faster. In fact, by doing so, it is going to prevent us from getting them done quicker since we will be responding to any additional assists and support tickets explaining how we can't get them done as soon as you want them to get done. Thank you all, and happy raging.

Announcement 1019

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! some fun changes to shedding have just been implemented, as per the HTPC feedback. First of all, the shedding timer has been removed. Now, the longer you leave between sheds, the more scales you are likely to get. Second, the shedding sequence has been made more dragon like, rather than dog trying to get rid of annoying fur. third, there is now an upper limit to the amount of scales you can carry upon your person at any one time, calculated roughly against the amount it takes to make the armour from the cave in the dragon caverns. this limit may be raised in future. Fourth, if you shed in the same room that you can sharpen your claws, you now have a chance of using the sands to shed an extra amount of scales. I hope you enjoy!

Announcement 1020

Lara Stardust: As per HTPC feedback, when you now add someone to the trusted list of a baby, it now asks you if this person should be set as the secondary parent. If you choose yes, the person will have the same reactions from the baby when he or she picks up said child, or when the child is handed to them, as the owner does. You can see your babies secondary parent in the details command. enjoy!

Announcement 1021

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! So we've just reworked the names of informational computers slightly to be grammatically correct. So why am I announcing this? Simply for this reason, as I did with the player who reported it, the resolution of reports that are about things letting the game down either in type options, the format of object names or object descriptions, room descriptions, help files, ETC, will receive a bonus of role play points, and, if severe enough, donator cash. This is something we mentioned on the podcast, which we release every week and can be found on our website. Listening to that will tell you also things to suggest to earn yourself even great rewards in the future. I hope that tickles your fancy!

Announcement 1022

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! in an effort to start making cosmic Rage a more newbie friendly environment, and also to try and help with the many commands we have available on the game, I have implemented a new addition to newbie tips. These tips will show up after the exit line when you enter the room, and will tell you what it is, along with useful things you can do in that room. please let me know if you come across a room you think could do with one, and i look forward to hearing newbie dude feedback soon!

Announcement 1023

Lara Stardust: Hi guys. Say can once again be used. We have made a few minor changes to it which are listed below: 1. Instead of saying you say you say you say all the time, it will now vary up how say messages appear a little. 2. There are now more ways for your character to express himself. 3. You can now customise where the you say part appears when talking. See rpHelp the say command for the full details. Unfortunately, this only applies to Pauagiwa, and humans. Sorry!

Announcement 1024

Lara Stardust: Hi everyone! Lots of improvements have been made to AMU which for those who don't know, stands for Automatic movement unit. First off, you can now supply it with similar directions to weapons if you wish. So AMU north, AMU fore, AMU 8 and AMU n will all do exactly the same thing. 2. AMU now aborts if you stop your engines. 3. AMU can now be changed on the fly, without having to stop it, then change. 4. AMU now obeys the turning system of the game, and has had several bug fixes in behind the scene stuff. 5. You can now supply it with more than one direction, so you can now move north up, or 8+ or pf u if you so wish. Things to note with this are, if you use numbers, then plus and minus can be appended without a space, so AMU 4+ for example. However, if you use the other ways of navigation, IE AMU north, or AMU fore, then you need to include a space. So: AMU fore up, for example. I hope you like these changes, and if you do, give them a big thumbs up on the feedback command and the message boards. Enjoy!

Announcement 1025

Lara Stardust: this is a reminder. I am going to be overhauling shelves at around 7 GMT tonight, which is in 4 and a half hours of this announcement. Please ensure you have unshelved your items, otherwise you will lose them. thank you!

Announcement 1026

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone. The overhaul to shelves is now complete. First, to install shelves, you now need a drill and screws. Shelves are actual objects you can buy and customise now and appear in description of the room they are installed in. Items are better vertualised when put on shelves now, so you don't lose anything. You can look at the shelves, and the items while they are on the shelves. You can have 5 shelves and 5 items per shelf. Each shelf has 20 places to choose from in terms of where you want it. Enjoy

Announcement 1027

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! Just to let you know, we are working on salvaging, and debris in general, over the next day or two. I estimate tomorrow afternoon or evening, the entire system will be taken offline for about an hour so that we can effect a smooth change over. This is just mainly backstage code changes, but it will resolve a lot of your transfer problems to factories. In the meantime, please do not report salvaging bugs. thank you!

Announcement 1028

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! Those who had the 6000 healing skill from the old system got a kind of immortal heal on the new one, where if limbs mangled, they would just regenerate. This feature has now been removed, and anyone who had it has been given a refund of 30 bucks. Thanks!

Announcement 1029

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! I'm now making some serious changes to debris, so if you get tracebacks just bare with me.

Announcement 1030

Lara Stardust: Hi! It's your favorite Lara again. So I am pretty sure I am done with changing the code behind debris. Things for the players to note are, for the most part: 1. A new command, debris, which gives you a detailed breakdown of debris in your cargo hold. 2. cannisters from moons can now not be unloaded in ship cargo bays, as it caused too much unbalance. 3. the bug regarding salvaging, and then trying to unload at factories with no success should be fixed. The only command I have for yu guys is: go break it! As a sign of good will, and to give you terrors some fun time to test and break the system, beating me over the head with report after report, I will be disabling ratika for 2 hours. So have fun, salvage until you are blue in the face, and report, suggest, and feedback.

Announcement 1031

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! Sorry about that. It was very unexpected! On the bright side, it's a server bug, as aposed to a server instability, which means we can actually easily prevent this from occuring again. Sorry about that, but rest assured, you should have lost absolutely nothing.

Announcement 1032

Your boy Dante: Hello Players, We have become aware of a bug with enemies while on missions. They seem to have a ridiculous firing range and can hit you from very far away. We are working to fix this bug and hope to have this annoyance resolved as soon as possible. Until that time, space mission at your own risk. Thanks all.

Announcement 1033

Ines Donahue: Hello guys, specifically GMC personnel. For those who got access to the medical vehicles, please refrain from buying them for now until they'll be fixed. We will let you know when it happens. Thank you!

Announcement 1034

Lara Stardust: Galactic Medical Folk may now use their modes of transportation once they have reacquired them from the store.

Announcement 1035

Your boy Dante: Hello Ladies and ghouls, Let me be one of the first to wish you all a very happy halloween! I have my big bowl of chocolate candy ready for the kiddies, thriller blasting on my smart speaker and a spirit of mischief in my heart! Because I wanted to beat Lara to it this year, it is my pleasure to bring back halloween names! (for a limited time only!) Have fun and use responsibly! The command is halloween

Announcement 1036

Billybob Dark blue designation: Seek and ye shall find. The depths of our twisted mind. The time has come, to feel your heart kick like a drum. Fear the mournful toll, because it's time to steal a soul. Halloween Time for fear, time for the word soulsuck to be whispered in to your ear. The ruthless will prevail, but before only one will all others pale. Participate if you dare, but mortal, beware. Look at me, horrible poet. Everyone knows it. But nevertheless, the Dante corpse has risen from hell to provide you with a contest you won't soon forget. Type Soulsuck help" for more info and tremble!

Announcement 1037

Lara Stardust: Hello Everyone! Like we did last year, Cosmic Rage is holding a soul competition. You are already familiar with the soul traps, which makes up one part of the over all competition for the week long Haloween event! The soul competition is thus: It is split into mortal and immortal souls. What you do to get souls is suggest improvements to the game. Literally! Use the souls command to categorise your idea into one of eight, yes eight! categories! Mortal souls are given for every idea suggested, and then bonus mortal or immortal souls are handed out. Immortal souls are 5 times more worth points than mortal souls. And the person with the most souls, and points, wins the end of event prize! Have fun, and I look forward to working on your ideas!

Announcement 1038

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! I'm not even going to bother giving you a riddle, I'm rubbish at them. Basically, there is a new event area open for you! To enter, you must have captured at least 200 soul points using your trap. Though it is recommended you have closer to 350 or 400. It is a fun event area, though it comes with a strong warning of adult themes, and very, very gross descriptions. In the area there are 9 challenges to complete, of varying difficulty. To start, type @join-halevent. Do not share info on how to complete challenges, or I will punt you! But seriously, have fun with it, and feedback welcome!

Announcement 1039

Ines Donahue: Guys, we are aware of the fact that the Halloween event is broken. We'll try to fix it as soon as possible. For those who hasn't joined in yet, please do not do so, as stated in the earlier subannouncement Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Announcement 1040

Lara Stardust: Hi guys. the event should be back on track. enjoy, and blame Ines But not too much, she's dangerous

Announcement 1041

Lara Stardust: hello players! Just a reminder the Haloween event will end shortly after mid day on Thursday the 7th of November. That's UK time. Remember there are 3 prizes up for grabs: 1. The person with the highest number of points for the souls competition. type souls. 2. The person with the highest number of points for the soulsuck competition, type soulsuck. and 3. A prize for the winner of the event raffle, which you enter by completing the Haloween event area, type @join-halevent Currently, the scores stand thus, for the soul competition: "A female bald eagle named Arglarg with 327 points, Lora Jensen dressed in a silvery red cotton vampire costume with 330 points, Luke Mcallister dressed in a black cotton wizard costume with 330 points, SDL Midshipman Stormy White scale with 341 points, Vlad Runningwolf with 520 points. For the soulsuck competition: 5th: Lora Jensen. 4th: SDL Midshipman Stormy White scale, 3rd: MI Sergeant Major Vazbol, 2nd: A female bald eagle named Arglarg and 1st: Zogroth Silvery Yellow scale. Keep having fun, and remember the feedback command is your friend!

Announcement 1042

Your boy Dante: Hello folks! Just popping in to say that the halloween ooc names are over for this halloween season. We hope you enjoyed the fun!

Announcement 1043

Your boy Dante: I am stunned! Knocked over with a feather! Simply astounded! The soul trapping contest has come to a close and what an amazing race! It had ups and downs, twists and turns and what i can only hope is melted halloween chocolate on my chair! in fact, the race was so close, We decided that the top 3 master soul trappers will win the prize. In third place we have MI Sergeant Major Vazbol who gathered 1024 points. Way to rep the MI! In second place we have Zogroth Silvery yellow scale who gathered 1089 points, that's right do it dragon style! and the player who caught the most souls and wins first place by the sol of some damned NPC..., Holding it down for Mulrala... was A small ball of slime named Arglarg who gathered 1094 points! These fine hunters shall each receive the special edition, Aston Martin Vanish, a hauntingly special vehicle with an ability so secret, you will need to speak to the owners to find out. Congratulations to all 3 of you! As an extra special halloween treat, everyone who participated in the contest will receive twice the number of points they collected in rp points! We hope you enjoyed this contest and as always, send us your feedback via the Feedback command! To see the complete list of soul trappers, type soulsuck Oh! One more thing! Feel free to keep your soul traps as a momento of Cosmic Rage's fourth halloween!

Announcement 1044

Lara Stardust: Hello Players! By popular demand, the MOTD will no longer display every time you log in. instead, you are greeted with a much shorter series of messages that tell you 1. If the MOTD has changed since you last saw it, 2. Currently how many days until christmas, 3. the daily quote, 4. The voting link, and 5. the last subannouncement Please do read the MOTD, as it lets you know about our goals here on the game. Hope everyone likes the change.

Announcement 1045

Lara Stardust: Hello all you wonderful players! The soul idea competition, and the Haloween area, are now closed! The winner of the raffle shall be announced shortly. The winner of the ideas competition will take longer, as we are still working to get them all implemented! I must say, I was very impressed with all of the ideas, and ended up rewarding over double the amount of souls I did than last year! Keep tuned!

Announcement 1046

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! congratulations to the 20 people who completed the Haloween Haunted House area for 2019! Each one of you has been awarded ten bucks of donator cash to spend as you see fit. Additionally the raffle winner has been chosen, drum roll, please! Wait, what do you mean we have no drum roll? Billybob spent the sound effects money on weed? Right, well. Ahem! The winner of the raffle is: William Jones131507! Congratulations to him!

Announcement 1047

Lord Parias: Hello everyone, I hate to reference this again, but please when doing cash transactions, keep said transactions all in english When you do them in what ever language you speak, we have no idea what is being said, and finally, in character communication is only suppose to be in english Therefore, all such transactions will be denied unless you can show that it was conducted in english

Announcement 1048

Your boy Dante: Hello Ladies, Gentlemen and hosts named Parias! We have 2 events up in the event manager which I think might be of special interest to some of you and I just wanted to take the time to personally invite you to attend each of these events. The first, comes up in just about 3 days and is aimed towards those of you who might feel like they have what it takes to become part of our awesome staff. If you have ever thought about becoming a newbie helper, one of those fine folks who will take the time to help a player learn the ropes and become the best character they can be, or an htpl, someone who will listen to a player's concerns and work with host and player alike to make our MOO just a little more spectacular every day, or a host, someone who will pull up their sleeves to help us build and create the rage-iverse around us. This is the meeting for you! In this meeting, we hope to encourage you to put your best foot forward by sitting down with you and sharing some of our experiences with you, answering your questions and discuss the application and the process of getting involved with the staff. If you are one of those folks who said to themselves, "I know what it is like starting on a new game and I would like to help", then we want you at this meeting! If you plan to attend, I recommend that you take a look at our staff applications, which you can view by typing support and following the prompts. Take a look at the questions we ask in the apps and bring your questions or concerns with you to the meeting! Next, is or monthly Host to Player chat, or htpc. This is the time of the month where we get together in an out of character environment and sit down with the players and listen to and address any ideas or concerns you wish to bring to the table. Everyone is welcome to come and tell us what you think about the moo, our activities, game mechanics, role play, etc. If there is something you like, or something you don't, we want to hear about it. If you have ideas on how we could make something better, or just wanna pop in and see what's good, here is your engraved invitation. Alot of changes are brought to you directly from feedback from our host to player chats, So don't miss out on having your voice heard. This one happens in 4 days. We sincerely hope to see you at these special events. You can type @events to get more information on either meeting. Thanks for reading this, and have a wonderful day!

Announcement 1049

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! Just a reminder the host to player chat, a very important event for us on the game, is happening in two hours. From now until then, you can register your topics you wish to see brought up, and we will happily do so. To do this, simply type @htpc. i hope to see you there in a couple hours, and am very much looking forward to a good session!

Announcement 1050

Lara Stardust: hello players! I just wanted to give another warm and heart felt thank you for attending last night's host to player chat. It was very long, over four hours! and left most of the staff with blistering headaches after but, having got some sleep, and re-reviewed the notes we made this morning, every fibre of me says that was productive, and very welcome! At some point today, I am going to schedule the final HTPC for this year, the December one, but otherwise, thank you very much and I hope to be implementing your suggestions and answering your problems soon!

Announcement 1051

Lara Stardust: hello guys and girls! I thought I'd give you an announcement, just to tell you what I'm doing, basically. I mean you may not care, in which case feel free to ignore, and don't mind the Pixy over here, but, here goes: so my current project is farming. I am determined to chern my way through farming, and I'd say I'm around 30 percent done. That doesn't sound like much, but that 30 percent is the slow percent, and it should, all going well, be going up from here. In that regard though, I've still got a bit of work to do, but at least know where I'm going and have all the data I need. After this, my next project is likely to be ground combat. I know, and hear, that you all are having so much annoyance with ground combat, and after farming I really want to crank in and get some good systems out for you guys, starting with getting the bigger, invasion style system sorted, and then the more hand-to-hand gonna punch you in the face style. That will honestly probably take me up to, and past, christmas. but in the mean time, I will also be working on little projects. You might have noticed, for instance, that a lot of the gripes were cleared out today, that is one of them. I'm also working, with the other hosts, on the ideas command, we honestly got a bit overwhelmed there! Finally, my other target is to build a minimum, or describe a minimum, of 5 rooms per day on one of the outstanding or dormant projects: partaculous Kaldara, Mission Central, Oriali. If I've missed any of those let me know. I'd like to get those projects finished sooner rather than later, too. I'm definitely open to ideas on things you'd like to see, especially for Kaldara! The HTPC has really given me some great ideas for partaculous so I'm super excited to get that done. Koroku A K A, the Museum, is also drawn in my head, but that will come after I've finished cranking out those others mentioned above. So there you have it. That's generally my plan until the end of the year. Obviously we'll still have events going on, we have a cracker of a christmas event in the works, but I hope this shows you, at least in principle, what I'm up to. I'm open to all questions!

Announcement 1052

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! the totals are now in, and I have the great pleasure of revealing to you the final results of the 2019 Haloween soul idea competition. In third place, and receiving a prize of 10 dollars of donator cash to spend: Avery Fields! In second place, receiving a prize of 15 dollars, and holding it up for the guys, is Vlad Runningwolf! Avery ended up with 553 points, while Vlad ended with 610. But beating Vlad by only 5 points, in first place, and receiving the choice of either 50 dollars donator cash to spend on what they like, a special request of the hosts within reason, or an event of their choosing... Is... Tod Mitchell! Congratulations to all three of you, and thank you to all who took part!

Announcement 1053

Lara Stardust: Hello Everyone. so I just saw the time where I am, nearly three in the morning, and suddenly saw exactly what was going to happen. I'd finish overhauling the sit code, be super proud of it, go to bed and then it would break, everyone would get stuck and Dante would beat the crap out of me. For that reason, I am going to do the following: First, I have locked the sit command, and its related lie, curl and so on verbs to host only. I'm still breaking that. Stand should work fine. However, if you do get stuck, assist, then option 4 will force you to stand up. I'll be done tomorrow, I just don't want people getting stuck while I get some shut eye. Thanks for your understanding!

Announcement 1054

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! the sit command has now been opened up once again! So what's new. Basically? Not a lot. there are a few slight text changes, in terms of how you sit, and the mud now tries to be a bit smarter about where it places you in terms of default seating and such. This update was mainly code based, making the system more flexible for us and more readable. I'm not sure if you could do it before, but you can now target virtual seats, like sit left bench or sit right bench. quite a few logic errors have been cleaned up too. I'll leave the stand assist option open for a day or two, but otherwise, have fun breaking it!

Announcement 1055

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! I am going to be doing some work, alongside the other hosts, to move the timeline file out of the game. this will be transformed into more of a database style in your info computers, and will contain all of the events not just the main ones. for example, it will not only include when humans went to space, but also when the first mining company opened, and such. While we're doing this, we're going to make some very minor tweaks to a couple of things. For example: in 2020, instead of it being the first commercial flight to the moon, it's the first commercial flight to a nearby space station. The changes won't be massive, but I thought I'd let you know. This project will take about a week or two, but I'll let you know when it is done!

Announcement 1056

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! there has been an update to the ooc policy, bans and punishments. Please read it over, and continuing to play means you agree to be bound by it. thank you!

Announcement 1057

Lara Stardust: Hello players! With the help of my trusty test ship, bob, who was previously a Vacus attack ship, come on bob... Take a bow... Well, he's shy. Anyway I have tracked down a number of issues with space combat! I know! So what things are cool, first of all, I fixed enemies firing distances, basically they were measuring it all wrong, and when they should hit they were not, and when they shouldn't they were. That has now been fixed. So yay for that. The second thing I've fixed is to do with warheads and cannons, which once they hit you once, would decide to hit you over, and over, and over, and over again. Once every second. This now no longer happens. Basically what was happening was the warhead would fire, travel to your destination, hit, and then not be destroyed. It would just hit. And then the check came around and it said hey! I'm here, ship is here, so... Hit! The bug has been fixed though, and I challenge you, go take on an attack ship or two and just watch them as they work out where to fire from, and watch as the cannon ball sails for you. It gives chills at how sexy the system actually is, when you see it fully in action and bug free. Enjoy, and as always, feedback is appreciated!

Announcement 1058

Lara Stardust: Hello players. Two important changes have taken place regarding the Cosmic Rage policies that I wish to make you aware of. Okay so maybe one of them isn't that important, but, still. The first, less important, change is that the date that the policy was last updated has now been made readable. I hope that helps. Secondly, the IC policies section has now been completely removed. All of the policies are now OOC. the previous bounties policy has been made into a law which is viewable in the laws of your info computer. Remember that, by continuing to play, you are agreeing to our policies and that ignorance of the rules is not a credible defense for breaking them. If you have any questions, or wish one to be clarified or wish to challenge one of them, for example, you feel that we have missed a point, or need to explain a point better, please enter a support ticket today, such that it can be discussed at the next host meeting. We're a fair staff, who respect our players and we dislike punishments. So if we can increase your understanding, we'll be happy. Thank you!

Announcement 1059

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone. Recently, there was an incident on OOC where I displayed unprofessional conduct towards several players. While that is strong wording for what occurred I wanted to extend my apologies to those who were involved, and can only offer up the fact that I was very tired. In the interest of providing constructive feedback, however, and avoiding such situations in the future, I have changed the feedback command to where you now must give a good, and a bad, line or two about what you are talking about. i hope this will lead to a brighter Cosmic Future.

Announcement 1060

Lara Stardust: The very best of Saturdays to you all. In light of the fact we're not planning an HTPC until around the 16th of December, I wanted to open up a line of communication. The host meeting is tonight, December 7th and one of the things we always discuss at these is player concerns. As we're going to miss this months HTPC with the meeting, I'm opening up the question command. this command allows you to pose a question to the staff, which we will then do our best to respond to as quick as we can. This command will be open from now until the host meeting starts. Enjoy and I look forward to hearing your questions.

Announcement 1061

Lara Stardust: the policy, multiple characters, has been renamed to characters, accounts and purging. But no content change has yet taken affect. thank you

Announcement 1062

Lara Stardust: the policy, the reading room, has been removed as it was unnecessary. Thank you!

Announcement 1063

Lara Stardust: hello everyone! We have updated our policy titled characters, accounts and purging. We have also updated our private information policy as well. please give them a read over, and ask us any questions you may have. Remember that by continuing to play the game, you are agreeing to be bound by said policies. thanks so much!

Announcement 1064

Lara Stardust: hi guys! If you can not make it to the HTPC tonight, the topic submissions are now open. Just type @htpc and thanks.

Announcement 1065

Lara Stardust: ho ho ho! Santa's gone on strike this year, and left it up to us to provide you some Christmas Themed entertainment, so sharpen your claws, prepare your stun guns, and ready you paws of doom and get stuck into this little beauty. Available on Navidad I give you: Snow Forts! You are given 8 forts in a line. Opposite you sits an enemy. the enemy will have a name, and will occasionally taunt you, just to show how superior he is to you. your job is to get in there, build snowballs, and knock his fort into next week! While you're doing that he'll be throwing his own snowballs back at your face, so you must choose, do I repair? or do I destroy. You can find the snow fort room east from the entrance to the village on Navidad. Enjoy!

Announcement 1066

Lara Stardust: hello everyone. Well, mainly newbie helpers. the newbie helper FAQ has been changed slightly. First, newbie helpers no longer need to wait for hosts to approve questions. Second, newbie helpers can now add, and edit, the FAQ directly. third, FAQ questions can now have keywords that will trigger them. So for example, in the question what is trauma and how do I get rid of it, the keywords might be what and trauma. Enjoy!

Announcement 1067

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone. By popular demand, and as a special christmas gift from me to you, I have now made it to where a number of socials can be done on the in character channels. for example, if you type chat laugh, your character will now transmit laughter. There are three ways for you to use these socials, and currently 22 supported socials. More can be added too over time if you so desire, simply by suggesting. You can read all about this much wanted change in rpHelp socialing on the IC channels. enjoy, and Merry Christmas.

Announcement 1068

Lara Stardust: Snow is falling. all around me. children playing, having fun! Tis the season.. Okay I don't know the rest of the lyrics, sorry. The point is, from all of the hosts here on cosmic Rage: "Merry christmas, every one!" We hope you get all the gifts you wished for this year, and remind you, despite the fact, expected crashes aside, that while the game will remain active during the period, it should be also used as a time to gather around your loved ones, be they family, friends, partners or pets. Speaking from personal experience, you never know when a christmas may be the last you spend with them. So make sure you spend it with those who are important, like I'm spending it with me, the most important person to me in this entire raging universe! On a serious note, have a great holiday celebration, and much love to you all.

Announcement 1069

Your boy Dante: ladies and gentle beings. I am pleased to open up to you 2 Christmas activities which We hope, you will enjoy. Both take place on Navidad. First, you are invited to visit the island of misfit toys. Meet with the King of Misfit toys and help him find loving homes for his subjects. Next, Stop by the reindeer pens and visit with Santa's riddling reindeer. Each one poses a puzzler for you to solve. There are some fun rewards to be had and anyone of any rank can participate. Before we begin the festivities, I would like to remind all of you that sharing Christmas related quest information is not allowed. These activities were designed to be enjoyed by each of you individually. Please, do not ask for, nor offer help during these activities. With that out of the way, (drumroll begins, trumpets blow) Players of Cosmic Rage , Navidad awaits thee! Merry Merry Christmas to you all! and remember x and x here are your friends.

Announcement 1070

Lara Stardust: Hello players! On cosmic Rage, we're all about feedback. that's all we bang on about right? HTPC's feedback command, honestly! All we do all day is read feedback. Well, and drink beer. But that's not the point. After all, we got to fuel ourselves up somehow! In any case, as we come to the New Year, we have launched a short, 3 question, survey for players to fill out. If you could kindly fill it out, and give us at least a sentence and a half on each section, you will then, after your questions are checked, be rewarded for your time. thanks very much!

Announcement 1071

Lara Stardust: I forgot to mention, the command is survey.

Announcement 1072

Lord Parias: I want to reiterate dante's announcement about the christmas event. This event is to be done independently, which does not mean you lead other players to where they need to go, or tell them where to find things or where to go. If we find anyone in violation of this, they will not only be given a formal warning, but all of their winnings will be deducted. Please play fairly and abide by the rules we've set forth.

Announcement 1073

Your boy Dante: Hello Gentlemen, Ladies and things we call Billybob! January 6th is the 12th day of Christmas and your last chance to get in on the Misfit toy and Reindeer riddle contests. His majesty and the 9 Reindeer will be heading back to the north pole on the 7th We really hope you have enjoyed this season's holiday events, were challenged by the riddles, found some nice homes for some nice toys and hit a few of your friends with snowballs. We really appreciated the heart-felt feedback we received from you. Please stay tuned to future announcements as we will be announcing the winners soon thereafter. From all of here on your hosting team, may your 2020 be all that you hope for, and so much more!

Announcement 1074

Your boy Dante: Hello Ladies and gentlemen. The Riddling reindeer and the Misfit toy contests are now closed. I am sad to see that there was more than a little dishonesty going on during this event. For the misfit toy contest, each player was presented with a toy to take to an npc somewhere in our universe. These npc's were only ever supposed to get one toy from each player, but some of you chose to use game mechanics such as transferring ownership of the toys to defeat this. If you recall, you were asked to do these individually. There were only 105 possible npc's to find. The scoring was recorded in such a way as to keep track of each npc gifted. I went through and removed all duplicates from the scores and we now have a more accurate and fair reflection of the contest, as it was intended. I am proud to announce the player who has found the most homes for the misfit toys is, (drumroll begins) Kiana Lawson, who has found a home for 86 misfit toys. Congratulations to Miss Lawson! You have made many npc's happy this year! In other holiday related news, 13 of you managed to solve all 9 reindeer riddles. We would like to commend Draco Black scale, SDL Recruit James Donivan, Kiana Lawson, Savanna Robinson, Alexander Blue designation, William Jones131507, GMC Doctor Shelby Craig, Charles Lewis, Rosalie Featherstone, JAG attorney Todd Mitchell, Mohammed Blue scale, Amara Navy blue designation, and Haschwalth Cyan designation for their brilliance in getting them all right. In addition to what they have already won, The 13 winners will be entered into a raffle to receive this year's grand prize, so watch out for that upcoming announcement. If you still have misfit toys out there, do not worry, they are now yours to keep as a collectible. Here are the riddles and their answers... 1, Dasher the reindeer - Search out for me the item I seek. Its something a human would wear on their feet. It can be worn by a son or a daughter, but is most effective in the water. Answer: swim shoes. 2, Dancer the reindeer - Automated things are really neat. They can get to places that might be hard to reach. Can you think of one that will fix up a breach? Off you go, to seek to find, that item in which I see in my mind. Answer: a breech repair drone. 3, Prancer the reindeer - Do you think you could acquire the item in which I desire? I might give you a hug so big, if you can show me a tool to dig. Answer: a shovel. 4, Vixen the reindeer - This one might take you a while, for you may have to search for miles, Out in the wilds, seek if you will, something that grows and cures the ill. Answer: any pickable plant, the kind that cures poison! 5, Comet the reindeer - A game of chance, with no wheel to spin, it is moolah I wish to win. Anything is possible, don't be so bleak. Go and get the item I seek. Answer: a lottery ticket 6, Cupid the reindeer - I myself, am in the mood, for a common staple of american fast food. Tasty meat, inside the bun, would be to me, more than fun. Don't be stingy, if you please, tell them to add a slice of cheese. Answer: a cheeseburger. 7, Donner the reindeer - Communicating has come a long long way. From ancient cave paintings to what we use today. I think i will just relax here a spell, while you seek out the thing made famous by Alexander Bell. Answer: a phone. 8, Blitzen the reindeer - When the air is cold and the ground has froze, I like to sit back and binge my shows. I think you know what i have in mind, now go get one before i put my antlers up your behind. Answer: a television. 9, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer - A world in miniature, held in the hand. give one a quiver, and the flurries will fly over the land. I bet this one will set you afire, have fun finding the item I desire. Answer: a snowglobe. From all of us on your hosting staff, I would like to thank all of you who participated and continue to wish all of you the very very best for this new year of 2020. We now return you to your regularly scheduled raging!

Announcement 1075

Lara Stardust: Hello players. As you may know, the poll regarding the upgrades has been closed, and was not an ideal solution to begin with. the reason the poll was closed is because it know longer has any relevance. Providing you have a phone, it is now possible to buy multiple upgrades for a ship at the same time. The mud will then queue the upgrades and, when they are about to be installed, an assistant at the store will ring you on your phone to ask you any questions that may occur during said upgrades. Enjoy and feedback appreciated

Announcement 1076

Lara Stardust: hi! The armour making skill has been raised to 250 as a maximum. I swear I did this before. but aparrently not! enjoy and all that

Announcement 1077

Lara Stardust: Hello players. As you know, we strongly encourage everyone to have their origins channel on, and have been, and will be, continuing to promote it throughout the next few months. Origins are set to be a big part of your characters experience, and they're a huge step in grouping together with people, getting involved in the Cosmic Rage world, and making a difference, be that short term, long term, or even making a change in the story line. One of the unpopular features of origins is that we merged the announcing of rankings into it. This saw a lot of users turn the channel off, and down the drain went potential rp, and grouping together! Understanding this, a new option has been added to your radios, or advanced communicators, which allows you to turn off this feature of the origins line, while still keeping said channel on. We highly encourage the use of this, and hope that this gesture of good will from the hosts will see players turning on the channel, getting involved in conversations and perhaps making changes to Cosmic Rage's story! You can access this option in the adjust command of your communicators. Feedback, of course, is appreciated.

Announcement 1078

Lara Stardust: hi players! Our roleplaying policy has been updated! Please remember that by continuing to play the game, you are agreeing to be bound by this updated version. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in a support ticket. Thank you!

Announcement 1079

Lord Parias: Hello and the best of mornings to you all. I just wanted to briefly take the time to mention that we're going to regulate adverts a bit more. What this means is, if there are adverts wich consist of excessive typos, grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, they will be removed. We ask that you please spell and grammar check before submitting, and insure it reads the way you want it to. Ways of inspecting your writing for errors include google docks which is 100 percent free, and grammarly which will help with well, grammar. There is also a grammarly plug in for chrome if that is easiest. with that, I bid you farewell and happy raging!

Announcement 1080

Lara Stardust: I forgot to announce this earlier, because... Um, well, what ever the reason was, blame Stormy. I have made some big changes to armour making that will hopefully make the system a lot, lot more interesting! A lot of the messages, both in and out of the forge, have been modified, and 2 more resources types have been added to. Each armour is now an individual mould, and requires different amounts of each resource to make. they have default names and descriptions, though you can change those if you wish. Finally, when a piece is complete, a line of text representing each member of the race who worked upon it is put at the end of the description. Armour smithies have been made more expensive, to encourage the roleplay side of things. Enjoy!

Announcement 1081

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! The New Year survey has now been closed. We thank you for your feedback, and will now take a week or two to carefully analyse all of the data into one report, which will be acted upon during February. thanks again for playing, and for your feedback!

Announcement 1082

Lara Stardust: Hello Everyone. This announcement is one you may find upsetting, but is, unfortunately, necessary. It has now been made to where, like all of the components on starships such as your defensive armour, the components you repair in the hatch once at 100 percent become no longer repairable. You must then go to a battle station to get these repaired. This is a change that well and truly is a bug fix, but one we've been hesitating over because of the amount of grief it would cause you guys. I've decided to go ahead and rip off the bandage, as it were, and fix bugs in the name of a good long term game. Just remember that now, if your warp core hits 100 percent, you will not be able to seal the breech unless you're very, very fast at getting to a battle station. Thank you!

Announcement 1083

Lara Stardust: Hello players! there have been two updates to the policies in the bans and punishments, and the resetting policy. These updates bring in a punishment that the hosts have been talking about for a while. Cosmic Rage is a roleplay encouraged game, which does mean we do have a few grinders on the game, too! In this regard, this new punishment has been made as a deterrent for grinders. This punishment is called the policy breaker flag. Like all of our punishments it requires the approval of 3 or more hosts to vote on it being put on a player, but basically it does the following: 1. Nullifies any gains from nightmare or hardcore. 2. Any reward of cash or points you receive, you only receive a third of the actual amount. This is a very serious punishment that we would only use in very serious situations. the details of the policy breaker flag is in the bans and punishments policy, while the resetting policy contains a warning about this flag. Please remember that by continuing to play, you agree to our policies! if you have questions, don't hesitate to enter a support ticket.

Announcement 1084

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! Just for the time being, the over arching rewards for missions has been disabled. You will still receive rewards for blowing up ships, but the award for the end of the mission has been shut down due to an exploit. We'll work to fix it as quick as we can!

Announcement 1085

Lara Stardust: Hello guys. We have removed the attitudes to combat page in the Pauagiwa book and replaced it with a page titled Pauagiwa in combat. On this page we state more specifically what it is meant by the combat training provided by the Antanov's to their pauagiwa as well as clarifying things a pauagiwa would absolutely not do. We realise this page may clash with some current rp lines some of you have going and can only apologise we were not more clear on this issue from day 1. One man's understanding of a pink elephant is different to another's after all. We are, of course, happy to work with you as an individual to smooth over any cracks in your rp as a result of this issue. For the rest of the players we ask that, should you have seen a Pauagiwa who was doing actions that are, in the book now dictated as a bit odd, then to please just not make a big deal out of it. Chances are the player's were not aware, and it is no ones fault in this matter. Thank you, and constructive feedback welcome as always.

Announcement 1086

Lara Stardust: Good evening players! You may have noticed something rather odd that has taken place recently, or rather, something which isn't there to be noticed. I speak, of course, of the fact there was no January HTPC< nor will there be a February one. I wanted to put out this announcement to basically explain why that is, and hopefully set your mind at ease. First off, HTPC's are not discontinued We will hold one during the month of March which I shall put on the manager in just a moment. The reason we've not had one this month is simple. Currently the hosts are working closely with our htpl and newbie helper team to crack down on all tracebacks, bugs and loopholes associated with the new farming activity such that when we release it to you guys there will be a smooth running, bug-free activity that will hit the ground running. We are also working on a number of minor, but none the less important, implementations such as to do with citizenships that may shake up the IC world somewhat. In this regard, it was viewed as that if we held an HTPC, a lot of the concerns raised would be those that, by March would be obvious, for example: What's happening with farming? Well... by March with any luck, you'll have farming yourself. that's not to say, however, that we don't want to hear from you! Quite the opposite, in fact. If you have something you want to talk to us about, please do throw up a support ticket, and we'll get right on your feedback as soon as we can. Postponing the HTPC until March also allows the coders to catch up on a few things from previous HTPC's that were marked as longer term, giving you guys even more fun things to play with. I hope you enjoy, and continue to rage, Cosmicly!

Announcement 1087

Lara Stardust: Good Afternoon everyone. I hope you're doing well! As you know I have been tinkering with books a little and I'm proud to reveal the best system yet. Unfortunately, the ability to write in blank books, and draw in them, has been removed. To that end, all blank books have been removed from the stores. Books are quite simple now, in that you either open and close them, read them, or turn them to a page. The great thing about this new system is the writing system. As part of your text editor on your info computer is now the book editor. This new system allows you not only to write your pages and reorder them like before, you can edit a page line-by-line, you can add people to your book to help you write, you can reorder it far easier, you can reorder lines, rename the book and so much more! I have converted all unwritten books into the new system, but if you have one in your container that got missed, please put a support ticket in by February 29th or the data will be deleted! I hope you enjoy the system, and the help file will be updated momentarily. Feedback welcome!

Announcement 1088

Lara Stardust: From now until the 29th of February, in celebration of the fact we are in a leap year and all, I am pleased to announce a 29 percent off sale on all donator items. Enjoy it while it lasts!

Announcement 1089

Lord Parias: hey everyone, in roughly 10 minutes we will begin the dragon rp class. Come on by if you want to learn how to roleplay your dragon character, or improve on your line of rp. In any case, bring yourselves and any questions you may have! We will commence in the theater on galactic academy

Announcement 1090

Lara Stardust: I am going to be doing some work with the backup command, so please ignore any calls for backup and any invasions you see in any sector. Thank you

Announcement 1091

Lara Stardust: Hello players! As you may or may not be aware, the hosts had a meeting today in which we were very productive! I will post minutes of the meeting on the boards later tonight, however, first I have a number of announcements which will be posted over the next hour or two. This is the first. obviously. this one is to let you guys know we will be cracking down on the rp channel. The purpose of the rp channel is for asking for advice on or giving tips on good roleplay. To that end, as they are not necessary, ooc socials have been disabled on the channel. We encourage you to read our policy on roleplay as well as the IC to OOC policy. the rp disclaimer is a great place, too! I'm sorry this comes across as a bit of a negative announcement, but this is not a gripe against any one in particular, and is simply is hosts buckling down and making sure things are how they should be and that a great roleplay environment is maintained without ooc breakages. Thank you very much, and more to follow soon!

Announcement 1092

Lara Stardust: hello again! This announcement is. Well I wouldn't call it more positive exactly, but I know a lot of you have been wanting a change like this for a while. The timer for the delete char command has been dropped from 30 days to 48 hours. the timer for resets has been dropped from 24 hours to 12 hours. If you are away from the game for 3 months or more and have no idea what you are doing, the the first time you log in after that period you can reset with no timer. thanks for reading and keep raging!

Announcement 1093

brandon red designation: Hello all! I would love to introduce our newest host to our cosmic family. Please give a warm welcome Elijah Perez!

Announcement 1094

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! We have just rolled out a new size system across planets which will hopefully make it easier to see what one planet's size is in relation to another, rather than just an arbitrary figure in units. whatever units are anyway. In this new system, sizes are shown in relation depending on your race. For example: A ship built by dragons will show size in Navu units, meaning that the sizes will be compared to Navu. So if a planet was 0.5 Navu units, it means it is half the size of Navu. Alternately if your ship is human, for instance, your ship will display things in earth units. I hope this layer adds a new fun little toy for you guys to play with and I guess, happy scanning!

Announcement 1095

Your boy Dante: Sorry folks, it appears that connecting to the moo via cosmicrage.nathantech.net is down. If you, or someone you know can not connect, please use hostname cosmicrage.earth ports 7777. thanks. We will have this fixed as soon as possible.

Announcement 1096

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! You can now connect through cosmicrage.nathantech.netq once again. The website may be a bit on the blink still, but I'm working on it.

Announcement 1097

Your boy Dante: Hey guys, as you may have seen just a few moments ago, since addition to television content is considered to be in-character, it will no longer be logged in changes, instead, you may notice an ad on your info computer, or via some other in-character means. These are one time only announcements, most of th e time. this is to help enhance immersion and no, there is no such thing s data access. Enjoy and happy role play.

Announcement 1098

Lara Stardust: Hello folks! In the @events command, you can now, after vieweing the event, choose whether you are attending, interested but may not attend, interested but can't attend, or not interested in the events displayed. This allows us to tailor events better to you and do what you enjoy more! If you mark that you are not interested in an event, the mud will not remind yu about it when you log in. enjoy!

Announcement 1099

Lara Stardust: Hello Everyone! I'm actually running on schedule, for once. The early topic registration for the host to player chat is now open. To enter your submissions simply type @htpc Remember to give as much detail as you can, just in case you can not make it. I look forward to seeing you at the event!

Announcement 1100

Lord Parias: hello everyone. In light of the United states observing daylight's savings and the UK not yet moving ahead, I thought I put this out to alert you to the htpc happening at 3 pm eastern, not 2, as the event manager, if set up to show events in your timezone may have shown. 1900 GMT is 1500 eastern, 1400, central, 1300, mountain and 1200 pacific.

Announcement 1101

Elijah Perez: HI players. Sorry to announce, but Mutariansi seem to be broken at the moment. If you are currently not stuck and are a Mutariansi and have read this announcement, please do not reform or you will get stuck. If you have reformed and are now stuck and would like to be moved to a place of safety, assist and we will move you as soon as possible. If you are Mutariansi and have gotten stuck and haven't read this announcement, we will still move you if you assist. Thank you, and we will get this fixed as soon as possible. Have a cosmic day.

Announcement 1102

Lara Stardust: hello mutariansi! You are fine once again to commence movement.

Announcement 1103

Lara Stardust: Hello Players! As most of you are now likely aware, either through having seen the conference or by having heard it from a friend, cosmic Rage is now investing in a series of positions in origins. Origins, right from the start, as you know were the hosts way of trying to bring players together to create a feeling of unity within the player base. Both as a system to give you somewhere to start in the game, and give you people to roleplay with. A way to get stuck in the story as it were. Origins positions are an extension of that. For the sake of brevity I won't go over the positions on this announcement, but there are 4 in each origin, each having a unique purpose and power. With these positions also come upgrades which have been made available to the players and which are also detailed in the help file. We realise at this point some of you are probably going, dude! I wish I was in that origin! Or, well... I really put my characters in the wrong places here. Rest assured though we're trying to make the upgrades equal each other out and appeal to as many players as we can. That is to say I see no reason why more can not be added in the future. Origins positions also now serve a way for you to directly influence the game story line, with your diplomats and Chansellors able to, if you want, for example, to go to war with another origin, or you want to set up an alliance, you can now very easily do so through the application of good effort and roleplay. With these origins positions also come a number of other important additions to the game. In your destination finder, if you type the name of an origin planet like harmonia, you are now shown the history of that planet including public holidays, date of discovery, their flag and much more. It is possible we may move this to the library, simply for the sake of less spam, but it is there for now. Origins shops will also begin to crop up around the place, giving you specialty items for your origin be it statue, flags, a weapon or something even better. Finally, my fellow hosts and I are not ignorant to the fact this change mirrors systems which many other games already have and seems to be against Cosmic Rage's general ethic of don't copy others. I mean, at a glance, this is guilds, right? Guild masters, guild counsel members, the lot. It's so obvious, it's silly. We have done our best to make this system as unique as possible, both in the number of positions, their names, what they can do and so on. We simply ask your indulgence in that matter and rest assured we continue to improve upon the system on an almost day by day tract to ensure we're not even remotely similar to others. As always, your feedback is appreciated.

Announcement 1104

Lara Stardust: Hey. It's me again. I know what you're thinking. Will she never shut up? It's okay this announcement is a vastly shorter one than the previous. This is just regarding the change made a little while ago about cargo bays, which I know literally no one is happy about. I mean no one. Harvester's aren't happy because they probably can't land. combat folk are not happy because they can't move as fast, the hosts are not happy because the player's are not happy... All over a bug fix, amazing! But seriously, I want to just take a minute here to talk the change through and tell you the moves we can make. First of all, for the love of the in character world, please stop referring to it IC. Ship's don't just magically grow. I refer you back to the policy on this one where sometimes changes are made for out of character reasons, for game balance or realism. Arg! that word, realism. You hosts hide behind it just to really cheese us off. I can certainly see how it would appear that way. It used to stand that cargo bays did not make that much difference to your ship. A cargo bay that had a tank of 100 debris was exactly the same size as a cargo bay with everything in. Even from a believable point of view this is a bit... You know? As a coder, I already thought they grew and was surprised to find out they did not. All is not lost however. There are steps we can take, as coders, to make it so that the size change between one tank and the next tank up is a bit smaller, perhaps and that is something I will be looking into. Equally, however, all is not lost for the players either. Transfer can be still done at space stations, that has never changed. Dock to your station of choice, transport to the hangar and transfer away to your hearts content. Combat is still not impossible, rocket fuel is a thing that works wonders for your ships, and what is more, who needs 20 bays in combat anyway, right? We're not going to revoke this change but we do hear your complaints, even the players who roar mindlessly and beat on our door chanting free ee dom! give us food! cheese on toast! Which has nothing to do with what they mean. Work with us, not against us, we're doing the same. Feedback and love

Announcement 1105

Lara Stardust: Attention, citizens of Danimara! Because of it's nature in not requiring a position holder, your facility for getting materials from pollution and trash collection is now available for use! Enjoy, and feedback welcome!

Announcement 1106

Lara Stardust: Hello! I may have neglected to mention this the other day when the poll closed and I implemented it, so here's one for the logs! Mutariansi forms now all have different body parts. Your points are equally split between these parts when ever you reform and you do not have to assign them. Enjoy.

Announcement 1107

Elijah Perez: Hi Players. RP is fun! We'd like to thank player Malachai Silver scale for running today's event, The Health benefits of Flying and encourage the rest of you to join in on the fun! These sorts of events are the types that any player can run no matter what connection or lack there of you have with the staff. We take notice of it and rewards abound. For example, we rewarded everyone at that event who stayed just long enough 1500 roleplay points, because that is what those points are for. Remember, our world is not only about Vacus and explosions and meetings. It's about parties, and dinners and yes, even the odd talk given by a medical professional about why dragons should fly regularly. Gather up, have some fun, and keep raging! And thank you once more to Malachai and the players who helped him with the event!

Announcement 1108

Lara Stardust: Hello folks! For the next day or two, houses are going to be off limits while we implement your wonderful suggestions. Before though, I wanted to announce the very first important change. Builders trucks are being removed from the game. Their messages were lame, the building process was lame and we don't keep lame things on cosmic! apart from me! As such, all building truck owners have been refunded roughly how much the vehicle is worth. They will be completely destroyed this time in two days. So make sure to remove anything you want from them before then. thank you!

Announcement 1109

The cosmicly tired hippy: Hi there, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, clowns, dwarves elves, dobbies mutariansi, dragons, etc etc. From the time this announcement goes up for exactly 24 hours, any typo reported to us that proves to be legit will win you 40 rp points Reports for typos on player built ships will not be counted. Thank you and good luck!

Announcement 1110

The cosmicly tired hippy: Hi cosmicly playing players! I'm here to let you know that aircraft missions seem to be broken. Please do not do them until further notice, as they will likely result in you being stuck and starved to death by angry vacus who want their airplanes back or something. Anyway, yeah, broken. Please do not attempt.

Announcement 1111

brandon red designation: Hi players I have changed one of the acting classes. Instead of one of them being this Saturday both events will be held next Friday Thanks and sorry for the confusion!

Announcement 1112

Elijah Perez: Hello, players. If you assist about a factory or ship or any other thing you need fixing, please assist from the location where you need fixing. Otherwise, your problem may not be fixed. Thanks for your attention to this matter, and keep raging as cosmically as possible.

Announcement 1113

Lara Stardust: Good afternoon, players! It took us a lot longer than expected and for that I can only put blame upon the research aspect, who knew how much of a rabbit hole this activity would turn out to be? In any case it is finally done and it is finally here. Farming. Nearly all recognisable aspects of the old activity have been completely removed in favour of new, more real, more shiny and interactive features such as a farmer's market, a food system that is more workable into other game systems, more livestock and animal management and so much more. We've broken down this activity into easy to read chapters in the farming book as it was going to be too long as a help file and you may find yourself only wanting to do one part of the activity such as raising horses, or growing crops. Your feedback is more than welcome and while there are one or two things we can add in the future that have been left out of first release, I hope you enjoy what we've made. Keep raging!

Announcement 1114

Lara Stardust: Hello players! I am excited to bring you a change to how factory inspections work. there are now two types of inspection you can opt for. The first type, the full, is exactly how they were before. A host comes in, reviews your factory and you can rank up. If unsuccessful, the cooldown is a month and you will receive a summary paragraph on ways to improve. 2. partial. A partial inspection allows you to mark specific rooms for us to look at and comment on. the cooldown for this is two weeks. The help file on factory ranks has been cleaned up and some details have been added and such. Enjoy!

Announcement 1115

Elijah Perez: HI there, players. We'd like to request that you leave support tickets open after you comment on them if you want us to be able to read the comment. If you comment then close the ticket right after, we won't be able to see what you wrote since we cannot read closed support tickets. Thanks for your understanding, and keep raging cosmically on.

Announcement 1116

Lara Stardust: Hello folks! So there's been a lot of IC noise about this, but we didn't really announce it so I figured I'd bring it to the attention of those who had yet to notice. There is actually a jury system in game now. For each trial 7 people who are relatively active have been selected to be members of the jury. Your characters receive emails about this. If you do get an email, please go to cape dread, south of the landing pad and type register. This is where you say whether you can or can not attend. Please don't just ignore the email. If you can't or don't want to attend, just use the register command. You're not rule bound to attend, you don't have to act slim Shady to avoid the hosts. It's perfectly fine to not attend. But by letting us know, it allows our system to choose someone else instead. Similarly, by letting us know you will be there, it allows us to understand whether we will have to take morphs in order to make up numbers. Remember as a jury person you don't have to know anything about law. Your job is simply to say whether someone is guilty, or not guilty. If you're unsure if you, or an alt, has been selected, head over to cape dread, south of the landing pad, and type status. Thanks and enjoy

Announcement 1117

Lara Stardust: Hello players! I thank you so much for your patients and kind suggestions when it comes to houses. you can expect to see changes cropping up very soon! I just want to remind you not to try out any new commands you might see until they are officially logged in the change log, as some of them probably, almost certainly do not work! you may also notice some commands disappearing, such as inside, outside and such. Don't worry! It's all part of the plan. You can, of course, walk around your house still, sleep in it, roleplay in it, just don't do any specific house commands like building and such. expect changes soon!

Announcement 1118

Your boy Dante: Ladies and Gentlebeings, players of all ages! Please join me for a moment while we give our cheerful congratulations to Host Billybob, who was promoted to implementer at the April host meeting. He now has the power to work on and implement your suggestions! A task, if i might say, he is well suited for. Congratulations to you implementer Billybob!!

Announcement 1119

Lara Stardust: Hello players! After a somewhat in-depth discussion on the subject in our most recent of host meetings, we have decided to make a number of small changes to how the GMC organisation works. In particular our focus was on the ranks of the organisation. The ranks of the org are now split into 3 parts. Part 1, the highest, contains the chief medic, Orlanna and physician roles. That is the hierarchy of the organisation. Section 2 is the middle part. This used to be healer and medic. You can now instead choose to follow 1 of these three paths: Path 1 would rank you as a combat healer, and then a battlefield medic. Path 2 would rank you as a home healer and a home medic. path 3 would give you a custom role, such as psychologist, but no other promotion after that. The final section is section 3, doctor and trainee doctor which have staid the same as before. For current and new members. To choose your path, head over to the promotions machine in your org area and type set If you choose the custom path and already ranked above a doctor, please let us know after you set your role so we can review it and adjust your rank accordingly. thank you and enjoy!

Announcement 1120

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! I just wanted to draw your attention to the message of the moment, as it is rather important and could bag you some very nice prizes! To view it, type MOTM That's the other thing, because it is a message of the moment and not a message of the day, the command is now MOTM Thank you!

Announcement 1121

Lara Stardust: hello folks! You may notice things are changing, for instance, the radio jumbling when in deep space suddenly started working after months of it not, what happened there? And someone broke ryuchi phasing, how rude is that? We're actually going through at the moment and closing down bugs related to exploration such as comms not jumbling, unlimited phasing, history not jumbling when it should be, all that good stuff. Ryuchi phasing should be fixed, in that if you're in range of comms you're in range of phasing, too, but we hopefully have closed down the unlimited phasing bug. If you notice anything strange though, report first, and we'll let you know if it's a change. Keep raging

Announcement 1122

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! I will be upgrading our reports system over the next half an hour or so, so please try not to break anything while I do so. Thank you!

Announcement 1123

Lara Stardust: Hello folks. The reporting system is now back online. this new system allows you to view what reports you have in the queue, update the body of your report, update the item you attached, update the traceback you attached and more. It also has a much better interface for you to work with when attaching items and such in the first part of the report. Finally and most importantly of all it now has a comment system so you and the hosts can exchange queries and answers if necessary about your report without having to reopen and rewrite your submissions. There are no command changes. Enjoy!

Announcement 1124

Lara Stardust: Hello players! As part of houses, well. Actually, that's partly a lie. Okay let me restart. Ahem. Hello players! One of the rooms being added to houses requires that our video system be upgraded so that you can actually claim your videos as your own. As such, a claim command has been added to video computers. If you would, very kindly, buy a video computer and claim which videos are yours I , the other hosts and your past self who worked hard on said video will be very, very greatful! Unclaimed videos willl be deleted without mercy or quarter given on may 15th Keep raging!

Announcement 1125

Lara Stardust: Hello. It's me again! so that video change I hinted at in the previous announcement is now available for you to use. Basically it allows you to upload your videos to your video computers but instead of being public they are first private. Using the computer you can now make your videos public, private or delete them entirely. Enjoy

Announcement 1126

Elijah Perez: HI players. This is for those of you who aren't logged in when I did all the fansy stuff with info comps. You will now have a new feature where you can look for certain things on planets when you are landed on them. This should also work in factories and space stations. Please report any bugs as usual, and give feedback on the thing. Enjoy and don't shoot Eli if it breaks, even though he did sort of write it.

Announcement 1127

Lara Stardust: Hi guys! I'm going to be cleaning up some stuff to do with food and drink and how your character handles being hungry and such. What I'm saying is, don't worry if you look at your hunger stat and you suddenly are 2000 percent on the way to death. I've disabled the task for now

Announcement 1128

Lara Stardust: Hello! I'm done messing with food and drink. the output of hunger and thirst has changed only slightly but other than that there is not much to see player side, accept that if your character is full up, he or she will no longer eat or drink. Thanks!

Announcement 1129

Lara Stardust: Hello folks! The topic manager is now open for you to register your topics for this evening! I look forward to seeing you at the host to player chat.

Announcement 1130

Elijah Perez: Hi players. Thanks for attending our April HTPC. WE hope those of you who showed up got your thoughts heard. WE will be making changes and releasing the minutes on the meeting board fo you all to check out. Have a good one and happy raging.

Announcement 1131

Lara Stardust: Hello folks. Due to a typo in farming which has now been resolved, alpaca may not be working properly. If you do have alpaca please chuck up an assist and we will come and fix it for you. If you don't, just consider this a change log that is a typo fix. Thanks a lot

Announcement 1132

Lara Stardust: Hello folks. Housing is once again back online and you are able and encouraged to use it. The system has been very much improved, with commands being simplified where ever possible such as there simply being now a construct, and an edit command. These will handle about 90 percent of all of your operations. there are a lot more house room types for you to choose from now and all of them come described. On top of that, the generic, empty room type has several descriptions for you to choose from if you're not feeling creative. We've combined in many feature requests into this update, such as being able to toggle the title between the house and the plot name, as well as being able to link direction to your plot. There are still one or two things to come, the biggest one of which is ponds but I wanted to push this release to you now as ponds and the like could take a while if I want them to be accurate and fun. the construction process for houses has also been heavily modified to be more realistic and a little bit less the same message for ten minutes. If that's not enough to get you drooling, we have also vastly improved the windows of houses and the curtains you can hang within them, allowing you to open and close said curtains, customise them to your hearts content and more. There have also been some minor changes to houses such as outside rooms matching the temperature of the planet, things like that. I hope you enjoy the changes and like the new housing system. Enjoy!

Announcement 1133

Elijah Perez: Thanks to all the folks who came to the first showing of the cy-larkan role play class. WE will be having another later on, so if you missed this one, you can try to make it to the next one. WE hope you are all doing well and have taken something away from this lesson.

Announcement 1134

Lara Stardust: Hi folks! Just wanted to put out a note that the next host meeting is next week! so if you were thinking about putting in an application for any position, now is the time to do it. Much love

Announcement 1135

Elijah Perez: Greetings players. Thank you to those who attended the cy-larkan roleplay class. I hope you found it informative and even enjoyable. If you have any questions or even would like more lessons like these in the future, feel free to put in a support ticket and they very well might happen. Have a good one, and keep raging on

Announcement 1136

Lara Stardust: Hi folks! remember that farming typo I fixed that I said might break stuff? It did! Proof positive Nate knows his code, but other people know how to break it. Anyways. It is now fixed. Until stormy wakes up anyway. Enjoy!

Announcement 1137

Lara Stardust: Hi folks! I may have accidentally broken everyone's windows. It's okay! I fixed it, but you may need to re-install some windows and such in houses

Announcement 1138

A traceback named Billybob: Attention players and playerettes Is that even a word? Hey Lara, fire that script writer. These aren't even words! Anyway, I'm kind of in a bind you guys. I honestly think we need some alien Mutariansi animal forms. These would take the form of any realistic land dwelling mammal bird or insect equivalent. Dragons are excluded, nothing made out of metal, no robots. Short of that, let your emagination run wild and submit the following information in a support ticket; animal's name, a reasonably detailed and gramatical/typo free description, any abilities you think this animal would have, any walking styles, and the sound of their mind voice. Do they growl, bark, hoot, screech, snarl? It's all up to you! All submissions are reviewed, and if yours is accepted, you will receive 100 rp points and a traceback to spend at the gift shop. Let your emagination run wild!

Announcement 1139

A traceback named Billybob: Secondary note. They must be origional

Announcement 1140

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone! I am very pleased to bring you the latest and greatest upgrade to our mapping system. It now is able to map through things it formally could not. So instead of just telling you oh hey... there's a train around here somewhere... It'll probably get you there. Instead the map tells you, ah, yes! head north, down, take the train to station x, and then go 4 north and buy Lara some chocolate. It can do this for trains, lifts, jets and special exits such as the castle on Salura It can also handle the escort command is very upgradable Enjoy!

Announcement 1141

Lara Stardust: Hello everyone. For the next little while. At least until stormy and I get sick of the sight of each other, we are going to be playing around with the space combat system. Fixing broken things, slowing down or speeding up other things, and such. We can't do this alone however. If you're looking for something to do, or want to contribute, then come to Earth's landing pad on the double! Don't worry if you think something is too fast or too slow, or something is lame or piloting sucks! That's the hole point of this session. He has 20 spots in this ship of his I just made immortal for these tests, so come on over, lets have some fun and make Cosmic's space system not just the best, but the best voted by players

Announcement 1142

Elijah Perez: Hi, cosmic ragers As per Billybob's competition/request in a recent announcement, a couple players have submitted new alien mutariansi races, and we have seen fit to add one of them. This creature is called a Calyara and you can read all about it in Help Mutariansi Forms. Requiring you to be rank 1200 in order to learn him or her, we hope this form will provide lots of opportunity to role play and have some fun. Make your way to Mulrala today if you're a mutariansi, and feel free to provide feedback via the feedback command. And if you see Kuro be sure to thank her, because she heavily contributed ideas to this magnificent creature.

Announcement 1143

Ines Donahue: Thank you everyone who attended the morning medical roleplay class! We hope it was informative and fun for you guys. Thanks much, from me personally, to Matwin for running it! There will be another one held later in the evening, feel free to hop in!

Announcement 1144

Lara Stardust: Hello folks. As you know, we're always looking at different ways to prevent people from hoarding and such because the more someone hoards, the bigger the game gets and the bigger the game gets, the slower it runs. the slower it runs, the less fun it is for everyone else! At the same time it is important to us as staff to not punish, like at all. But it's further important not to punish the masses for the actions of a few. One place in which hoarding is a big problem is warp and subatomic crystals. The reason is obvious, after all. There is loads of them everywhere, especially in cargo barrels and when you're going on a blueprint hunt, all those crystals come up and what are you supposed to do with them? We've implemented two new things that may help with this in the future. First of all is that subatomic and warp crystals will now decay over time. If you keep rubbing a crystal or any rock, it begins to slowly shrink, after all, that's what erosion is on a basic level. This is not our only step however. one of the biggest places to keep subatomic and warp crystals are in the fuel tanks. to that end, you can now type process followed by the name of your tank to start it sorting through crystals it has within it. Doing this will get the tank to try and shift smaller crystals together, freeing up space for more to be inserted. Bit of a double edged announcement this one, but I hope you appreciate the reasoning and the steps we are taking to also ensure the continued enjoyment of the game itself. Cheers!

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks. Two changes to report for this announcement, both of which hopefully you will like. First of all the matching system has been changed a little so that living the dream will match to the ten-pilot capital ship living the dream as an example. This is a change I'm keeping a close eye on though as if it becomes to match sensitive we'll have to reverse it. The second change is to do with the OOC side of the message boards, on which several unused threads have been deleted and a new thread has been added called lore. In the lore section you are able to flag up anything you think is odd, or could do with a back story and the hosts will then be able to review this and in time, get it implemented. Now i know what you're thinking. but couldn't we suggest that? You certainly could! however, by putting it on the boards it enables you to see who has already flagged what, whether the hosts have already responded to such a query and also allows the players to keep up with what is and is not known by the staff. Bare in mind writing histories for planets can take a little time as not only do we have to carefully look at what is already written, but we also have to cross reference the dates with what went on in other places and whether this would have impacted in some way. I hope you enjoy and as always, feedback! feedback! feedback!

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Elijah Perez: HI players who use soundpacks Since I've seen this question pop up like fifteen times today alone, I thought I should make an announcement. If you are using the Cosmic Rage Experience and have the intro music turned on, when you log into the mud, your music will continue playing. This is not because of the soundpack but because of some text that has gone missing in action upon log in which the hosts are going to rectify. Thanks for your patience and understanding, and we will fix it as soon as possible.

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks. As per a vote at the host meeting I have one or two donator item price changes to announce. First off, as they increase to become a shining star in the cosmic Rage universe, with both their realism and uniqueness we have made the much debated choice to raise them to 25 dollars. As a flip side to this though, based on it's usefulness we have decided to make the automatic saving item purchasing by purely rp points, compared to the half and half split it was before. I hope this announcement founds you all well, and remember: Keep raging!

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Lara Stardust: oh. the them in that announcement referred to babies. Me smart

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Your boy Dante: Spacex will attempt to launch a ship into space today, which will send 2 astronauts up to the International Space Station. This will be America's first attempt to do so using a commercial spacecraft, and I am really excited to watch the live stream of this historic launch. I thought you might also be interested, so I have decided to run the live stream up on CR's TT server so the entire player base can enjoy it. The launch is scheduled to take place at 16:33 EST, but If there is bad weather, NASA will be forced to reschedule. So, let us hope for good weather in Florida and join me on TT to witness the next generation in space flight! If you want to watch, but do not care to join us on TT, Tech crunch has provided a link to view it. https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/watch-spacex-launch-people-to-space-for-the-first-time-live/

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Your boy Dante: well, the weather lead to a disappointing scrub of the launch. Let us hope the conditions are green when they try again on the 30th. Thanks to all of you who tuned in. We will try to stream it again. Launch time is scheduled for the 30th. at 3:22 pm. Happy raging!

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Your boy Dante: NASA has begun live coverage of today's launch of Dragon. We are streaming the action on TT. All are welcome to join us on the music channel. Let's hope we get a green light on weather and get to see Dragon fly!

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Elijah Perez: Thank you to those who attended our evening and morning HTPC. We value your attendance and ideas greatly, and happy raging. See you all next month.

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks. As I promised before reboot, I am very pleased to be able to bring you a feature that is so well requested, I built a house out of them! this feature is a nifty little description checker for your houses, factories and dwellings. you access this command by typing @spellcheck but it does more than just check your spelling. It will look to make sure you have capitalised your sentences, give you tips on words you've used a lot, nudge you about force rp words and so much more. It's a top notch description checker and I really hope you like it. Enjoy and as always, feedback, feedback, feedback!

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks! I figure this would be best in an announcement, as it is kind of important! Only kind of though. As voted for in a host meeting, if you are a position holder in an origin, you will automatically run again at the end of your term. This means you do not have to type apply in the office to stay in your position. You can however, during the application period, type withdraw if you no longer wish to be in that position. Enjoy!

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks! Another one from the host meeting, and this is one that may affect a lot of you both new and old. It is now only possible to relocate and teleport to factories which are powered up. This is so that factories of players who are not around, and potentially are therefore dangerous, will not trap newbie dudes with the nasty air. Further to that though, you can still dock to them, they are still public, they just don't appear in the list until powered up. There is also an automatic recharging upgrade for factories, available at I think the rank of Starbase? So you don't have to log in every 10 hours just to power your factory back up. Feedback welcome!

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Lara Stardust: hi guys! This is just a reminder that if you type status in a vehicle and see something, or rather, don't see something you would want to, like an upgrade, hit that big red report button. Thank you

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Lara Stardust: Hello guys. I've made a slight backstage change to how your autoscan works for ships. It is tied in with ship movement, so if your ship's for some reason seem to lag in some way, or, for instance, limp along then please let me know so I can figure out another solution. Solutions may include a hammer, a drill, and some industrial strength tape. Otherwise though, keep raging!

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King Typo!: Sorry about the delay in the event you guys. Caused by an unfortunate, and unexpected tree + ground intercept. Everything is back up now, and I'm no longer running on hotspot so the show will continue today. tune in to the cosmic rage tt music channel in 3 and half hours. We have an hour long stream from Brad Paisley who's going to play some music for us, and I'll be around for as long as everyone likes to play music upon request after.

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King Typo!: Ok, ladies and gents. I'm been convinced to start early after a very interesting morning of thinking I'd actually be starting late! Good news all round and no panic. What this means for you. If you want to jump in now and throw me some music requests, anything you want to hear, come in to the cosmic rage tt music channel and throw in your request. I'll cue them up and we will have some great fun. The Brad paisley stream will stay take place at the regularly scheduled event time.

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Lara Stardust: Hello players! One of the strongest and most efficient ways in which Cosmic Rage can attract new players is through you, our current and much loved users. We, the hosts, want to show our appreciation for the many of you who do this on an almost daily basis. To that end, when a new player creates they are now asked if someone recommended them to the game, and if they say yes and pick you, you will receive a massive, and unbeaten, 10 dollars donator cash to spend on what ever you like. Recommend 3 players, and you could get a pet or baby and have money left to spare. Recommend a mere 25 players to get all your skills maximised. cosmic Rage is the mud that cares and we thank you, future, previous and current players for making it the safest, and fairest, mud to play.

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Elijah Perez: Hi players. Because Billybob is running another songs event this week, we took the liberty of making a way for you to request songs and optionally dedicate them to people. To do this, type @REQUEST-SONG and follow the prompts. Have fun and we hope to see you there!

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks! Just wanted to bring a couple of changes to asteroid processing to your attention. first of all, the chance the generator's will need to be adjusted has been reduced, making the activity easier to solo. Second of all we have done away with the starboard and port thing, and you can now simply refer to the generator's as 1, 2, 3, and 4. Finally, the messages that warn you about changes, which were previously rather wordy, are now short and to the point, telling you exactly where the problem has occurred. I hope you enjoy the activity a lot more now and as always, feedback is appreciated. Keep raging!

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Your boy Dante: Hi all, just a small note, I made a change to trackers yesterday which cause some trackers to get stuck in belts. For everyone who fell into this category, your tracker was moved to your inventory. it should now clip correctly. sorry for any confusion! hugs all!

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Lara Stardust: Hello Folks! some of you may be aware that I have been doing some work on upgrading cosmic Rage's email system! In that regard, if you've got five minutes, can you do me a favour? type testmail this will send you a test email and then ask you where it ended up, whether it was your inbox spam box, or not received at all. This would really help, and you might even get rewarded! thanks a lot.

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Your boy Dante: Hello everyone, Dante here with a slightly important note for my players out there who wish to participate in CR's birthday celebration, but do not usually listen to random events. You may wish to take this time to toggle random events on, otherwise, you might miss out on some of the fun. We would not want that. So you can toggle these message on by typing options and selecting channels and prompts. Thank you. Looking forward to partying with you!

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Elijah Perez: HI players! Guess what! We have the birthday names enabled. Just type BIRTHDAY and type in your desired OOC name. Please no one put anything generally offensive or you shall be debirthdayified and your name removed. Let's have some fun. And hey, if you see a birthday balloon float into where you are, type pop balloon and you will receive a random prize, but catch it fast or it will float away. It Goes without saying, but the balloon is OOC.

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks! At the most recent host meeting, though by now that would be the one back in June, the subject of Mutariansi accents came up in discussion. We found it unfair that Mutariansi had to pay for each form to have a custom accent, when potentially all the other races only had to ever pay once. to that end we have devised a new donator item for Mutariansi only called, perhaps a little obviously, the Mutariansi custom accents. This is priced the same as a custom accent on a different race, but gives you access to the accents command. The accents command lets you set one accent, per form, for your race without having to pay any extra. to that end, anyone who spent rp points on extra accents has been refunded anything they paid above the cost of a single accent. We hope you like the change and for more information see help donating. enjoy!

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brandon red designation: oh my dear dear players! I seem to have lost my instruments. Some are scattered all about the moo. Would you kindly find them for me please?

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King Typo!: good morning. In the usual state of my life I'm up 3 hours too early to start the stream, but seeing as how I like pushing buttons and it was almost all the way set up anyway. I'll start the stream early. To that end, we are in business in the music room on team talk, on a public free table in quentin c, and finally you can catch us by pointing your favorite media client and/or web browser to http://cosmicrage.earth:5555/stream.ogg

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Lara Stardust: How much do you know about the hosts of the game? specifically can you order them into how long they've been with us? type quiz to give it a shot and enter yourself into a grand cosmic raffle!

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks. You may have noticed the twinkle of Pixy dust in the corner of your eye, the scattering of some pink dust glittering in space as you power through the void. Hostess Lara Stardust was let out of her cupboard and before we could stop her she overhauled enemy jumping systems. Now, if you take out an enemies engines, they can not jump out of the sector. Secondly, lower, less valuable enemies like fighters and attack ships are much, much more likely to stick around and duke it out to the end than more expensive ships, like motherships. On top of that, the enemies have also had a bit of love in how they do calculate that, for instance, Kaltz ships are more likely to break and run because they don't like loosing expensive ships, where as droids who couldn't care less are most likely to stay and fight. Enjoy and as always, thanks for playing!

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King Typo!: awesome sauce. Ok Thanks for giving me a chance to get food. After this episode the music will start back up. The request line is open, @request-song

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks! While you ponder and worry about the event going on in character, you may be interested to no that in around ten minutes, several of the hosts are going to be going live on air to answer your questions. Tune in to the Cosmic Rage stream, http://cosmicrage.earth:5555/stream.ogg, and type panel to get your question submitted! We'll be live on air in 10 minutes, so act fast!

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Your boy Dante: As CR's 24 hour celebration comes to a close, I wish to take this time to thank all of you who joined in and jammed with us today. special shout out to dj Billybob who did a great job on the stream! Congratulations to William Jones for popping the most balloons. We had a blast today and hoped you did too! Happy Birthday Cosmic Rage!!

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Lara Stardust: Congratulations to a lion named Hans, a small dog named Royoko, a small squirrel named Jackie and JAG Attorney Lora Jensen for getting the quiz answers correct and winning 25 dollars of donator cash a piece!

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks, me again! I made this change earlier today but it was mid event so I didn't want to distract everyone. When using AMU it is now possible to not only type AMU followed by your directions, for instance, AMU south up, but you can also add a number to the end to represent how far you want to go. So for instance: AMU south 10000. this would set your ship moving 10000 units south of your current position. Best of all, you can type the numbers in shorthand, 10k rather than 10000 for instance. Enjoy!

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks! I hope you all enjoyed Cosmic Rage's birthday bash, the hosts sure did! Along with the new station release, we have also had many, many other releases during the course of the day, not to mention prize handouts, trivia, fun quizzes, announcements left right and center, a fantastic stream from Billybob, a host question and answer session, ooc name changing and more. We've had laughs, cheers and, of course, not to forget our huge peak smasher of 98! Can you believe it, I sure can't! We've also redone how enemy ship kill point payouts are worked out, such that they scale with your level now so enjoy that. OOC names are now being turned off as we wind down the final parts of the day but before that, I just wanted to bring everyone's attention to a bit of a tradition we have here. When a milestone peak is reached such as 90 we give out certain prizes. To that end, the prize for 90 is two free skills being maxed. To that end, if you logged in during the 24 hour birthday period, you can now maximise two skills, absolutely free. Enjoy this final good cheer of the day and as always, keep raging!

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Elijah Perez: HI, players. Just giving you all a shout to let you know that star rescuing is about to get a bit of an over-haul which will include it being adapted to work with or around Tera Base. For now, it has been disabled. Sorry for the inconvenience, and keep raging on.

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks. Just a reminder that the next host meeting is on July 11th so be sure to have your applications for newbie helper, htpl or host in by at latest, this coming Wednesday to guarantee it being seen. thank you

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Lara Stardust: Hello players. There is now a new category in our report command called force rp description. you can use this category to let us know of any descriptions you find that are force rp. If you are on a planet, space station or host built ship and the room has one, you can also type FRP to quickly flag the room you are in, rather than going through the report process. To show you just how serious we take such things, you are rewarded 60 roleplay points for every force rp description you find, so go wild and get those builders working!

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Lara Stardust: Hi folks. I just wanted to very briefly give a shout out to the player Richard Campbell who has been tireless in letting us know about missing capitals in various points throughout the game. We generally don't always log these changes, simply because you guys have fed back to us that it gets to be too much, but that means sometimes players like this guy don't get due credit. So if you see him around, give him a slap on the back. Thanks all!

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Your boy Dante: Hello Players, I just went through about 5 examples of this, so I feel a reminder might be in order, so please bear with me? or is it bare with me? I dunno, i'm too lazy to look it up. Anyways, if you give another player a large amount of cash, it will be investigated by the hosts. If we fail to notice any related role-play to go along with the transaction, it will be reversed. If you are one of those nice people who like to give cash to newbies, bless you and use the gift command. Just as you do not walk up to people in real life and say, oh, you are new here, have a thousand dollars, you should not do that in your RP. If you are, i would love to meet you in person, I have bills to pay! Remember, you are actually taking away from a newbie's cosmic experience when you give them large amounts of cash, this is the reason we discourage this very highly. Thank you and have a wonderful day!

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Lara Stardust: Hello! In line with our usual proceedings, the @htpc command is now open for early registration of your topics. enjoy!

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks. As per the upcoming events regarding policies, you can now access our new and improved policies, raising your concerns, questions, feedback and hopefully congratulation at said event. You can do this by typing: @new-policies. Note that the new policies are as of yet not worth anything in terms of rules, and will not be brought into effect until an announcement saying so is posted, until such time, consult your policies command for the rules and regulations and all that jazz. Looking forward to seeing you at the event.

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Lord Parias: Hello everyone. we've had a few of these requests so I figured I address them here. We simply won't allow other races not being mutariansi to have custom messages to retrieve, and place items in containers with just a thought. Humans do not have this ability in character thus lacking any way to telepathically manipulate items in and out of a container. Please keep this in mind when requesting custom messages.

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Elijah Perez: Ask a Player! We shall attempt to introduce a new segment to our radio stream, where players can ask a question to a dragon, mutariansi, ryuchi, cy-larkan, human or pauagiwa! We Need your help to pull this off. First, we need to put together a panel of players to represent each race. We would appreciate you sending in your recommendations as to who you think does a good job role-playing a dragon, human, etc. Next, Please, send in your questions, telling us which race you want to answer. We will review your questions, determine the panel participants and put together a CR radio event unlike any we have attempted before. Have you ever wondered why dragons mate only once or need a little more explanation about why ryuchi are so warlike? Now, you can type @stream and pose your question to the DJ and possibly have your question read and answered live on CR radio by a fellow player who has demonstrated skill in role-playing that particular race.

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Lara Stardust: Hi folks! Ever had someone say to you, hey, did you see my message and spent the next 15 minutes frantically scrolling through your 50 history messages trying to find out what it was? Well you can now not only type ohistory followed by a number to see the last amount of messages of that number EG ohistory 20, but you can also type ohistory then a string to search your history for the string for instance: ohistory Kiana to see anything containing the word Kiana Enjoy

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brandon red designation: Hi players! I am going to add some restaurants to the game but I need your help. I am going to add the following restaurants a Thai food place, a Boba tea place, and a Chinese place. The things I need help with are names! I don't want to come off as insensitive to different cultures. So, if you would like you can mail me either menu suggestions or name suggestions. If you also want you can tell me where a place for these restaurants to go. And yes you will get rewarded for your ideas! Have fun and I cannot wait to hear from you guys!

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Lara Stardust: Happy Sunday everyone! In an effort to clear off one of the long standing gripes from our board, and also to bring great enjoyment to you, our wonderful wonderful players I would like to hear your thoughts on what you would like to see regarding unique items for merchant ships. Whether this be items that are sold, things they can do, places they can go, rooms they have, the lot! Please either mail me your ideas, or enter a suggestion with the title merchant ships and I shall see it! thanks a lot and 60 roleplay points for anyone who submits ideas regarding either this, or Brandon's request above!

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Elijah Perez: Hi, players. If you didn't know then I am here to inform you that the astronauts Dug and Bill from the dragon mission from earlier this year has been a success. The two have safely splashed down back on Earth.

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks! I hope you're all enjoying your Wednesday... Wait. it's Tuesday? Well. I hope you all enjoy your Wednesdays, in the mean time, I'd like to inform you of a change regarding the PVP command, or rather, the complete decapitation of the PVP command. Someone let Dante loose with a chainsaw, and as a result we have completely removed the PVP command from the game, both due to the fact that it was buggy, some of the abilities just went passed it completely and because also, if you want to punch someone in the face in real life, nothing is stopping you except the fact they might hit you back twice as hard. Do not despair however. If you are someone who does not like player verses player combat or, you're not really that interested in combat, the MI are here to help! If aggressive action is taken in front of an MI patrol, they will shut down the area and call for player backup over the MI channel. MI officers also have limited powers that allow them to detain your attacker until a player can be on the scene. there is also the emergency phone number which will do similar from any public location. This just really is an announcement that the previously old, buggy and irritating system is gone, opening the door for new changes in the future. As a final side note to this, any combat-related action between two players, punching, kicking, ETC, will result in the room becoming a grid for five minutes after the last attack is performed. Enjoy!

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Lara Stardust: Hello folks! I have changed how the fire fighting activity works a little bit, based on player feedback. First off, if you are doing the activity and have to put out a fire using extinguishers, you now get rewarded. Better, you now get rewarded slightly more for putting out the fire with an extinguisher rather than using the trucks. The trucks also are now not one shot wonders and may require several sprays to put out a fire. To that end, rewards for fire fighting are now done based on contribution. If four people turn up to help put up a fire, instead of only one getting a reward, each of them will get rewarded based on how much effort they put in. Happy fire fighting and stay hot!

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Your boy Dante: Rejoice by letting those truck sirens wail! The ever so Spammy firefighting bug has been fixed.

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Lara Stardust: Hello! Do you like breaking things? Do you have a keyboard that is capable of more than just the standard a to z required in other languages like Arabic Spanish and french? Then let me know! I might have a task for you. Simply drop me a mail to register your interest and we'll go from there.

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The Staff: Hello folks. We are aware that there may have been an issue or two that has cropped up with the ship called the blade, and the ship called the Wayfinder If you own one of these ships and it is not acting how it should please pop in an assist and we will get it fixed for you. Thank you!

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The Staff: Over the next few days and or weeks, some of your suggestions may be implemented but may not necessarily be noted in a change. Don't worry! It simply means we've chosen to put them on merchant ships. You will be able to keep track of merchant ship overhauls through the IC mediums. thanks and enjoy.

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The Staff: Hello folks. Cy-larkan folks, specifically. You may notice in your hs command a new piece of information called oxygen levels. this is a stat that will be between 0 and 100 percent. Cy-larkans now have internal oxygen tanks that, when full, will allow them to go into hostile environments without wearing a spacesuit. Biocores are very much like brains and as such when they do not have any oxygen they die. Larkans can however absorb oxygen while in outside rooms on planets, which they can then store for later. The death from lack of oxygen messages for Cy-Larkans have also been changed. Enjoy!

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The Staff: Hello everyone! I am pleased to bring you a new feature of our already very awesome bars. Not only can you mix your own cocktails, get ice in your drink and get hammered, but you can now also order in a round for you and your friends. This is done by typing round while in a bar. each person can then type round to tell the barmaid what they would like and when 5 minutes have past, or everyone has submitted their order, she will serve and the person buying the round will pay. If the person buying the round leaves the bar before the barmaid begins to make the drinks, the round will be voided. enjoy and happy rp!

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The Staff: Hello everyone! If you claimed a video, but for one reason or another it seemed to have not been correctly claimed, please send a mail to Lara. A recent bug was just fixed host side that may have accounted for this.

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The Staff: Hello folks. At the request of many of you after being frustrated by the fact you just randomly keel over and die unexpectedly, there are now messages for hunger and thirst! These messages will appear once per ten minutes in the form first you will get one about hunger. Ten minutes later, one about thirst, then another ten minutes for one about hunger. You can of course, turn these off under options as these replace the messages that used to be refreshments. If you let your character starve or get thirsty enough he will also experience some side effects. these will start first with headaches, then dizziness and staggering, then at the extreme end of the spectrum, passing out for several seconds. At the headache stage if thirsty your character will also start to find it difficult to talk on radios and in person. I hope this answers your requests! As always, feedback. feedback. feedback!

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The Staff: Hello again. The rewards for air pods have been tinkered with, but not in a bad way. The exploit of being able to shoot up the newbie ranks by spending ten minutes in them has, obviously, been closed. We've made a concerted effort to make them fair though, to the point where older pilots who sit back and wish they were still worth it, can now do them and get a nice reward, too! As always, feedback, feedback, feedback.

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The Staff: Hello players. There is now a flat limit of 100 water and 100 food that can be stored in a kennel at any one time. On the heels of this, the fill-water command in kennels, if there is enough barrels on the ground, will now automatically max itself out, rather than you having to type the command 10 times. Similarly, store will ask if you want to store all the food in your inventory. Enjoy!

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The Staff: Hi Players, I would like to take a moment to correct a small oversight on our part and clear up a wee bit of confusion. When the farming activity was overhauled, orchards were removed as an in-game activity. Those of you who had orchards before this change, had your orchards rolled into this new system. In our enthusiasm to release the new farms, we forgot to document the changes we made to orchards and forgot to remove the associated help file. For this, we apologize and regret any confusion or frustration this may have caused you. Thank you for your patience and understanding, as always, your feedback is welcome and appreciated. Happy raging!

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The Staff: Hello everyone. This is just a kind of informational announcement from us to let you know that we are also very, very aware of the recent server instability experienced by the mud. It is not our intention, in any way, for Cosmic to remain unstable nor for these to become a regular thing. Further to that we can promise you that the there are no plans to take the game down on a permanent basis and any crashes or downtime are merely temporary. We all find the crashes extremely frustrating and we're all doing our best to hammer out workable solutions so we can only ask your patients in the matter. Thanks for reading as always

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The Staff: Hello players more specifically our members of the GMC. You will find a new level on Galactic medical Complex called level 6. This new level houses a brand new collection of rooms that some of you have requested. Just like in real life sometimes these things take longer than expected. But you will find them fully functioning and ready for you to make use of. Enjoy!

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The Staff: Hello folks. We have changed up how assists are rated slightly. Previously, when a host resolved your assist a prompt would pop up in front of you asking for a rating and a comment. This will no longer happen as from feedback it often could abort out when you were busy, or get in the way while you were in the middle of combat. Now, when an assist is resolved, to rate the hosts you simply type assist again. This will ask you if you wish to rate your previous experience, telling you what the subject was and how long ago it was resolved as a reminder. The comment field has also been made multiple lines, too. I hope you enjoy!

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The Staff: hi guys. So it seems that one of these servers isn't listening to the other one anymore or something. Look I'm not tech genius, so I can't explain it. What it means for you though is if you've donated any time after September 11 at 19:26 and have not received your donation email. If you wouldn't mind putting up a support ticket with your donation details, including the code you would have seen on the web page after donating, and the name you donated under. so we can get your your money. This problem is not expected to last long, and all donation details can still be checked and confirmed, so you will get your money promptly.

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The Staff: the submissions for the htpc topics are also open! If you want to submit your topic before the HTPC.

Announcement 1209

The Staff: Hi guys due to something I messed up on my part the htpc topics are now open. Type @htpc to submit your topic enjoy!

Announcement 1210

The Staff: Sorry about the crash, everyone! We're back up now and plan to be forever, of course.

Announcement 1211

The Staff: Treating the cause: Hello folks. So I'm finally willing to reveal to you the reason for the most recent of crashes most recent being the last 6. as part of the way we store some information including most importantly tracebacks we use a very, very outdated system. As evidenced, this system can break very easily. Instead of continually patching it and trying to bring it up to modern standards, I've instead decided to find different perhaps slightly efficient but more stable methods. To that end I have implemented a new method of traceback logging on the game. The last two crashes were caused by the traceback storage system becoming unusable. This problem will now be fixed. However, due to the relative newness of the new system if you notice anything odd, such as as seeing code rather than the standard message, please do let us know. If this system remains stable over the next two to three weeks, then we will upgrade the few other systems that also use the old outdated method. I hope this announcement brings you joy as it should lead to a brighter, more Cosmic Future for us all. On a personal note I would like to extend to everyone to please stay safe in these times, stay in touch with family and with the Cosmic circle of friends and most importantly: Stay raging!

Announcement 1212

The Staff: On a brighter note: Times are hard and health systems are being run into the ground. In times like this we focus on the huge things while behind the scenes, charities and support groups crumble. Cosmic recognises this and we are, after all, a community, not just a game. For that reason and to show our support to the wider world, during the month of October we will be keeping a running total of donations received. That's from the @announce On a brighter note: Times are hard and health systems are being run into the ground. In times like this we focus on the huge things while behind the scenes, charities and support groups crumble. Cosmic recognises this and we are, after all, a community, not just a game. For that reason and to show our support to the wider world, during the month of October we will be keeping a running total of donations received. That's from the 1st of October, to the 31st of October at midnight. At the end of October we will get that total and take a massive 50 percent. This 50 percent will then go directly to a charity of your choice. How it works: From now until October 5th you can enter a charity via the support command that you would like to be entered. For these tickets please give us the name of the charity, a short description of what they do, and a web link. On the 5th at our host meeting the hosts will consider these charities and if more than 3, which we hope, will shortlist them into 3 charities. These three will then be put up into an options poll for you to vote on. The leading charity at the end of the month will receive the donation. Stay rageing! of October, to the 31st of October at midnight. At the end of October we will get that total and take a massive 50 percent. This 50 percent will then go directly to a charity of your choice. How it works: From now until October 5th you can enter a charity via the support command that you would like to be entered. For these tickets please give us the name of the charity, a short description of what they do, and a web link. On the 5th at our host meeting the hosts will consider these charities and if more than 3, which we hope, will shortlist them into 3 charities. These three will then be put up into an options poll for you to vote on. The leading charity at the end of the month will receive the donation. Stay Raging

Announcement 1213

The Staff: Good morning players, well it's morning for me! What it's not morning for you? Ok, good happy morning afternoon night. Anyway, this announcement is for those of you who asked if we would do another cosmic stream and I'm here to provide the answer which is of course we will. Starting now you may request a song with @request-song Please include song title and artist. The stream will start Friday afternoon at noon my time, 1800 game time I hope. As always, the stream will go out over our team talk server and through cosmicrage.earth:5555/stream.ogg I hope to see you then.

Announcement 1214

The Staff: Guess what, players! WE have an HTPC coming up in less than an hour. If you want to participate, and you know you do. Yes you do! Look at that face! Anyway, come to the Library on Business Central. See you there soon!

Announcement 1215

The Staff: Hi folks. Thanks for attending the early HTPC to those of you who did. To those of you who didn't, you missed the most awesome and weird thing that ever happened. But those who attended the early HTPC are swarn to secrecy so you will never know what it was. Or will you? Come to the later one and find out. See you there.

Announcement 1216

The Staff: If you missed both the first and second HTPC, I guess you will never learn the secret secret of all secrets which we have imparted to you. Next time, attend and find out. IN all seriousness, thanks to all who showed up. We're always happy to chat with you. See you at the next one, and keep raging on!

Announcement 1217

The Staff: Hi folks. Before I fixed that bug I mentioned about storing vehicles in the change log, Adrian and I discovered it had a silly side effect of duplicated your vehicles. If you discover you have more than one of the same vehicle, we would appreciate it if you attached said copies to a report so we can easily clean them out of the game. Thank you, have a truly cosmic day.

Announcement 1218

The Staff: Hello folks. A few changes have been brought into affect with food and drinks which you may find pleasing. First you can now eat and drink a little more than you previously could, this will allow you to finish off foods or drinks and reduce waste. This comes with a small caveat however. If you over eat or over drink it is possible your character will find themselves feeling very ill! while they will not throw up or make a mess of themselves, they will have annoying moments of ugh I feel like crap, which comes in the form of a little bit of round time. To warn you when you are approaching this area, your character will go from just eating and just drinking, to slowly eating and slowly drinking. Enjoy.

Announcement 1219

The Staff: Hello folks. Usually response to gripes go on the board, however I wanted to draw particular attention to the way in which this gripe is going to be handled as we have had a few of these crop up at HTPC's as well. I speak, of course, of the multiple characters policy. In this announcement I'm going to address some of the most common questions we get asked and hopefully provide answers you can understand and find acceptable: 1. What is with the fact we can only have 4 characters? We used to be able to have 8 or 9! A while ago, and by a while I mean many months, the hosts discussed the state of the game in so far as character development. One thing that became immediately obvious was that when trying to hold down more than one character, the depth of the rp begins to degrade. When you add 3, or 4 to that the roleplay just degrades more and more until you have 4 separate objects with no real personality to them, or worse, 4 characters who are basically the same! We also didn't want to cut the throat of creative genius though and smack everyone down to one character for the sake of quality. At the end of the day we wanted you to enjoy yourself. to that end, the 4 character rule came into effect. 2. Why can't I have more than one character in a clan? cosmic Rage is a big world. A huge world, in fact. In that regard we hit a player count of at least 50 per day. that's not 50 which could be 30 people and 20 alts. that's 50 unique, amazing, beautiful people, like your good self. There is no reason therefore that your alts should have to know each other. They really never even need to have heard each others names. But more than that, the clan question ties really into the final question: 3. Why can't I buy stuff, use stuff, or travel through, my alts stuff? Fairness seems to be a really misunderstood and crappy answer but that simply is it. When you joined the game as a player you were one player, one amazing, but ultimately on your own, player. And you did it! You didn't use anything from an alt, because you didn't have one. You made it to a point where you felt so comfortable in the game that you could make a second character. That's amazing. I mean just think about that. And you did that all without having any alt help. So why would you think you need it now? I refer again to my earlier comment, there are at least 50 wonderful, amazing and often times funny players who grace this game on a daily basis. When you first joined you got to know some of them. When your alt was made, you could get to know a different group. It's scary, hell I personally would be quaking in my boots! But you know it's doable, you've done it before. TLDR and all that, alts don't interact, because alts don't need to interact. And just remember, remember back when you were that player starting out, all those people who helped you, all those kind folks. Now think how unfair it would be if all those folks were like well, you know. I could give you some help, but actually I'm just going to help myself instead. Totally unfair. I hope this clears up some issues for you and clarifies all the things for the future. Keep raging and keep safe! Wash your hands. and your alts hands, too!

Announcement 1220

The Staff: cosmic Rage. The mud that cares. How many times have you heard this saying? Over, and over, and over again. It's in our adverts, it's on our logon screen, most of our players say it about us merely when the conversation comes up! We're a game built around the central, simple idea of listening, of being on a level and of an even and fair playing field. they make up a large part of what HTPC's are all about. To further this idea we've decided to try out a new level of Host to Player Chat. This is an idea we understand not everyone is comfortable with, and it's not going to replace the usual event in any way. The hosts have come up with a kind of short, informal team talk styled chat. How it will work is two hosts will be on a channel, and at a set time they will invite players in to talk in groups of 3 to 5 or so. They'll spend up to a max of an hour chatting with these players, whether that is listening to concerns, answering questions, getting to know them, or even just being a friend to chat to in what can be very lonely times. This is experimental and we're still hammering out the details at our end, however, if you are interested in taking part, please type the command interest and follow the prompts. Once we have a few people in we'll try and work out a good time and put everyone into small groups and then get the ball rolling. We look forward to meeting and chatting with you all.

Announcement 1221

The Staff: Hi folks! So as you know, we made an upgrade to our tracebacks system. As you also know, the mud keeps crashing. As you further know: this sucks. It sucks big time. More than having to wait 15 minutes in a social distance queue just to get a coffee that's a buck 50. So, you as we have may make the obvious connection: The upgrade, didn't, work. We upgraded the system, then we upgraded the server. The upgraded server maybe fixed the issue? but it also leaks, it leaks worse than that damned leaky pipe downstairs in the basement. Here's our plan. We're going to reboot the server in just a couple of minutes. This is because, like that damned leaky pipe, the server is filling up our memory and if we don't reboot it'll eventually crash and you'll loose stuff. Tomorrow, we're going to role the server back to the way it was a couple weeks ago. And the rest, as they say? Will be history. I'm writing this so that you're not in the dark about it. I'll shout as usual to give you warning of the reboot, but hopefully. Hopefully! After tomorrow, we'll be back to what we used to be. Lots of raging love.

Announcement 1222

The Staff: Hello folks! thank you to those who have registered interest in the small team talk host to player chats. We have now scheduled those who have registered interest into small groups based on the time slots you selected. You can view what time your slot is by typing when. How it'll work: At as close to that time as you can we would like you to come on to team talk with your nickname set to the character name that you registered interest with. When the hosts are ready we'll move you to the private channel we will have set up for the location. There are only a few rules which are as follows: 1. Please make sure you are either on push to talk, or when you are not talking, you are muted. 2. Show respect to each other, and to the hosts. Unlike at presidential debates if you keep interrupting or shouting over each other we can mute you. 3. Try and be prepared. An hour is not as long as it seems, so please do have your questions ready! Aside from that though, the hosts are super excited to chat to you all, and we'll see you soon! Not registered interest yet? don't worry! you can still do so with the interest command and we'll schedule you when we can. Can't make your slot? Lets us know! We'll adjust accordingly.

Announcement 1223

The Staff: Hello players. This is a very, very important announcement, so please read and take the advice there in. Having received feedback that some of our policies are a little bit hard to understand the hosts have sat down and carefully written a new set. You will have seen these available to read in the @new-policies command for quite a while now and it is tonight, finally, they come into affect. Thanks to the beautiful Ines and the equally as beautiful Kiana these policies are not only available in English, but can also be read in both Russian and Spanish Unlike other games, we keep our policies simple, and to the point. We don't require 20, no not even 15, but a simple, round, easy 10 policies is all you and we need. We will begin to enforce these policies over the old ones at midnight, which is just over 40 minutes from now so make sure you are aware of them and have read them. The command is still policy, or policies. The @new-policies and rules command have both now been removed. Thanks for playing and enjoy!

Announcement 1224

The Staff: Hello folks! Hello? Folks? Hey! Stop ignoring me! This announcement is about modifications to the ignore command, specifically that it has been changed so you can now ignore someone ICly or OOCly The command remains the same and it is a menu based system. for the sake of convenience, all those people you were ignoring on the old system have currently been ignored both ICly and OOCly but you can modify this as you see fit. Enjoy!

Announcement 1225

The Staff: Hello players. Right now, playing videos seems to be broken, so please do not try to do it again. At the very least, don't expect it to work until you see a change or announcement telling you otherwise. Thank you.

Announcement 1226

The Staff: Hello folks. I have just fixed a bug that was related to how videos were uploaded from video cameras. Unfortunately this bug did mean that all of the videos in the public directory were somewhat useless. However, all is not lost. If you had published a public video and do not have it, put up a support ticket and include when you recorded it and we can get it restored. Aside from that, videos are usable again

Announcement 1227

The Staff: Hi! I made a change to planetoid harvesting so that if your ship scoops copper and you don't have any room, it will just drop them and carry on harvesting for the other minerals. It is minimally possible I missed a bug with this, but it is also possible it works completely. Either way though, enjoy!

Announcement 1228

The Staff: Hello players. All of you must have read our new policies, I believe in you. As one of them states, your characters may not have ships made by the clans your alts are in. This is quite different from the old standpoint and we understand it may have tripped quite a few of you up. Therefore, we give you fourty eight hours to get rid of those ships that were purchased from the clans your alts are in, including assisting for help with this. After two days, anyone who owns one or more ships purchased from their alts clan will be given a policy warning and a penalty. Thank you, keep raging cosmically.

Announcement 1229

The Staff: Hello folks. Feel free to star study once again. I've made some mostly mechanical changes for now in regards to how the mud handles you moving away from the star verses the star pulling you. Basically, when the star says it pulls at warp 9, it actually means it pulls at warp 9 now, rather than 1.8 units under warp 9. As well, while you are in a star the speed bonuses you get for smaller ships automatically disables itself for warp engines. This should hopefully make it easier for you to be able to balance yourself against the pull of the star itself. In addition to this I have also halved the damage you take per second to your heat shields providing the star is not overdrawn. Let me know how this goes, as I seem to be out of practice!

Announcement 1230

The Staff: Hello everyone. I just wanted to mention that if you're going to report forced rp in any of the room descriptions, please do so in the affected room, rather than from a completely different room. This helps us out grately in tracking down the room you are reporting about.

Announcement 1231

The Staff: Hello folks! I am done messing with fields and I have only good news! First, autostop should now be a lot more reliable in terms of what it does and does not stop in. Even better though, remember those times where you'd go over to a field, your ship would arrive... And not be in the field somehow so you'd have to type field? Well, put your head between your legs and kiss those days good bye because I have fixed that bug. Finally, remember that bug where you'd leave your research craft on a planetoid, go to go get it later, and the field had seemingly vanished except your tracker says otherwise? call it a three out of three for the hosts this evening, as that bug has also now been fixed. In short, you can now enter, exit and find fields accurately, quickly and so much less buggy that it's like a brand spankin' new system! but it's not. Just a bug free one. So I hope you enjoy, and keep raging!

Announcement 1232

The Staff: Hello folks! this announcement concerns the equally loved and hated obfuscation field. We have made a few minor modifications to it that I hope you will like! The subject of an invisibility cloak. Everyone thinks that's what a cloaking device is, and quite rightly, too. to that end obfuscation fields are now invisibility cloaks, of sorts. When you power on your obfuscation field, if no enemy has spotted you, you become invisible to their scanners. that is, for 60 seconds. After 60 seconds if you've just sat there, eating your burger, smoking your pipe, they'll triangulate where you are, and come beat you up. If however you keep moving, they'll have absolutely no clue where to go or who to shoot. However, if you open fire on your enemy, they will also notice you. Similarly, doing loud things, like subatomic, or planetary rifting, or launching combat drones will also cause the pilots of those enemy crafts to sit up and take notice. I hope you like this new change and I look forward to seeing it get used! you

Announcement 1233

The Staff: Hey folks. The Early htpc has been moved back by 30 minutes to ensure we can be there on time. Hope this is okay.

Announcement 1234

The Staff: Hello folks. I wanted to announce this rather than just log it in a change because that will allow me to explain it. If you type olinks then a player's name it will now show you, providing it only matches to a single ooc link, who that persons alt is. However! However! They have the ability to hide their alts if they wish too. If they have chosen to hide their alts, olinks will simply just say that they have chosen to hide their alts. By default, your alts are hidden, you can change this option in the private data section of the options command. I hope this is a middle ground everyone is okay with!

Announcement 1235

The Staff: the HTPC early topic submission is now open! Please type @htpc if you wish to use it.

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