We will be expecting some downtime in your servers during the 28, 29 an 30 of this month (December).

This downtime is due to some changes in our servers.

Thanks for your understanding

Regards

Orion’s belt Team

In the last couple of weeks we add several server break downs. We are trying to address the problem as fast as possible.

Yesterday we were able to correct a major problem in the server, a problem that was crashing the server constantly. We hope that for now on the server we become more stable.

Because this server has been given us so much problems, we are planing a change of server. When this change is done we will notify you here on the blog. Just for you notice, we will be changing your server from linux to window, so the game core can be more stable.

In the name of all the team, we have to apologize for this problems and hope that we can fix them as soon as possible.

All the Orion’s Belt teams wishes all it’s players and friends an Excellent Christmas with all they desired.

Has you all have noticed, Orion’s Belt has been down until about 12:30 GMT.

There was a major Powersurge in the area where we have our serves. This caused some instability and the crash of all our servers..

Although it was not our direct fault, we are obliged to apologize to all the players for this downtime.

As all the players can see, there are some sections in Orion’s Belt that seem, well… incomplete.

So we are currently making the necessary changes to all the sections of the game. It will be a iterative process. Meaning that some sections might appear with the new design but others won’t. in time we hope to improve all your user experience with the design.

But don’t worry. All the sections will be in the same place as they were before and everything will work “as usual”.

Here is a little sneak peak of the Home page of the Renegates:

Next week we are planning to put some of the pages online, including the one above.

Hope you like it.

the last week the server had some problems. Some hardware firewalls blew up in the server and created some instability in the Game.

Today i got the response that everything has been resolved. Proof is that Orion’s Belt is up for about 10 hours without any problem. So we thing the problem is finally resolved and close.

So, let the war begin (again).

We have being experience some problem due our web provider. We sorry by any inconvenient it may cost you, and we are trying to resolve he problems with them so this wouldn’t append again.

There are already seven players that completed all Merchant Quests! So we need to add even more quests… Would you like to suggest some merchant quest types? Do note that these quests should be harder than the ones that already exist.

Although all the races have a Ultimate Weapon, only the devastation was used. Maybe because it’s cost justifies it’s usage.

But the the wormhole generator and the Beacon were not used and it was creating a little disadvantage because both the Utopian and The levyr had a useless ultimate weapon while the Renegates have a powerfull one.

So we made a little ajustment. We basically remove a Zero from it’s cost. We hope this change could justify the usage of both ultimate weapons.

With the devastation, everything will continue the same.

You can see all the updated costs in the WormHole Manual Page and in the Beacon Manual Page.

Several players have said that the best part of Orion’s Belt are the battles (and i have to agree with them). For that reason we made a section of the tournaments specially dedicated to the ones that love the board game.

Also, many new players that register in the game don’t have immediate contact with the battles and for several it’s very confusion the presence of the tournaments in the game. For others only several weeks after they began the game, they discover the battles.

The idea is not a new one, but i would like the opinion of the community.

WHAT IF Orion’s Belt was split in 2 games????

The first would be the known strategy game with the universe, planets and battles made in the board.

The second one would be only a game with the tournaments and the battles.

The advantages? the players would not be confused and we could make 2 types of publicity:
- one of the game itself (that is being made for several months now)
- the other to a game where the only objective is to enter in tournaments and play this fantastic board game.

Also the players could specialized in what they wanted. many players register in the game only for the battles (Of course, if they wanted, they could play both games).

Finally, the game User Interface would be a lot cleaner. There wouldn’t be so many elements and the players wouldn’t have to explore so much menus (and sometimes became a little confuse with all the things that we have available).

So what do you think?