"Meridian 59" has received yet another significant update from the new/old development team comprised of Zaphod, Zandramas and MisterY.

For those of you that may have missed it (and for posterity) below is Chris "Zaphod" Kirmse's recent announcement on our message board, followed by the in-game log-in screen news that describes the recent update.

The main website for the game, http://www.meridian59.com, has also finally been updated for the first time since its January, 2010 acquisition by the Kirmse's.

Thank you to "Eric" for your great work and fresh look for this new era of the game.

- Mayhem, 101

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"We put in a small update yesterday. This is the first update where we've actually added something nontrivial to the game. Previous updates mostly fixed things that were broken and improved performance. So that's something of a turning point for us. In case you have trouble downloading the update, I've also built a new installer and put it on the Web site.

Behind the scenes, Zandramas has added some new debugging tools to track down the script errors that still pollute the logs, and I made some build system improvements that continue to simplify development.

Thanks to Eric, we have a newly designed site at http://meridian59.com (which is now the authoritative domain for the game, after some DNS changes)! He's also working on an improved account creation system.

Server 102 has seen increased population recently, but 101 is down quite a bit, especially after you take out all of the duplicate mule accounts. One thing I'd like to think about is how to get more people interested, and perhaps attract some new people. My feeling is that the player base is somewhat more friendly to newbies than it was a few months ago."



» Update, October 2010.


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(from In-Game Log-In news)



- You no longer lose faction by attacking another player.
- Attacking solidiers should not affect karma.
- Imp messages are in bold.
- Fixed some typos.
- Qor has a surprise for you!


The faction loss change can be toggled, so we'll give it a go for a few weeks and see what happens. We can always revert to the old behavior.


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Source: 1) Announcement posted by Zaphod on Gilroy's Message Boards, 2) M59 In-Game Log-In Screen>News