We added a new feature to the referral system. Until now you could win orions with referral when a referred player made a payment, now adding to this, you will win 100 orions when a referenced player reaches level 5, and every time a group of 10 players reaches level 5 you will receive 1000 orions.

This feature was suggested by an active member of this blog and the game (Agni), for us it’s very important having this kind of feedback, so with it we can do Orion’s Belt a more pleasant game.

I went to random.org and randomized the list of players that posted a reply on the Read this and win 500 Orions! event.

As you can see the winner is Dristera. Congratulations!

There were only 21 players making a reply. This surely means that the blog isn’t being properly presented to players. We don’t expect a lot of feedback on this blog(for example, our Gazette as a lot more commets). But the blog is important for communicating game news and changes, and all active players should be aware of it.

We’ve partnered  up with freebrowsergamer and we gave them some discount coupons for them to give away to users. You can rush to get your own at the Orion’s Belt Giveaway. Only one per account will be accepted.

From time to time players detect errors on the game’s text. Now it’s very easy for translators to fix those errors/typos. You just need to login on the Orion’s Belt Translation Project and go to the Search Page. Search for the desired text and you’ll get direct access to that token.

Let me remind you that you can help translating Orion’s Belt to your language and earn orions!

The Quiz Contest in BBG site announced in a previous post has ended.

The winners are below (with no particular order)

1 – ad420
2 – Valtorian
3 – danceman
4 – reveille
5 – Ashis
6 – PowerLite
7 – petehurh
8 – ulisses
9 – stoneage fan
10 – kioboki

All the above players won 1000 Orions. All the prizes had already been added to their accounts.

Thank you all for participating.

This is the universe dispersion from a few days ago. On this image each dot represents a fleet or a planet. Different colors represent different alliances. We can see that there are a lot of players without an alliance, witch is hard to understand because of the great benefits that players can get from relics.

We can also see that all first level top worm holes have been open to new players, and that the center of the universe is becoming very populated.

You can see the last universe dispersion for comparison.

Do you want to win 500 Orions? Here’s what is going to happen:

• You’ll write a comment on this blog post with your nickname on the game
• A week from now we’ll choose a random comment and we’ll give 500 Orions to that player
• Duplicate or invalid players will be punished… don’t mess around with us

Why are we doing this? Well, we want to measure how many active players do read the blog.

In the last days, Orion’s Belt has been updated several times in order to resolve pending bugs and make some usability changes.

The one you will notice more is the tick that has passed from the bottom of the page to the top center of the page:

In the next days more issues are going to be resolved and new features will be completed. Maybe you will meet the Space Force!

Between June 18 and 20 we’lll be at FIL for the Innovation Days 2009.

So if you want to know something else about the game, or you have some new ideias, it’s a good occasion to talk with us.

The prestigious site Galaxy News, has just published an interview on Orion’s Belt. Galaxy News is responsible for the so known Browser Game of The Year awards.