🚀 go-pugleaf

 - > Maybe in a few months when GB is at a state of stability [...]
 
 - (chuckle)
 
 - Humanity Version 2.3 the All-Knowing predicts for 1993 that the game
 - will continue to be unstable during the course of the year.  You
 - read it here first.
 
Well, you are wrong... Sorry. :D
 
 - Seriously, the game will be unstable until you reach a point where
 - it's more interesting to fix non-lethal bugs than to add cool new
 - features.  And that'll probably never happen.
 
It's already happened... I've gotten a lowly band of people together
(Seeker being one of them) to form a group of programmers to move GB
coding ahead.
 
 - There may be *older* versions of the game that get completely
 - debugged and stabilized, but nobody'll want to play them because
 - they lack the latest and greatest.  C'est la joue.
 
5.2 is the basis for GBDT .1a... Eventually to be 1.0 once all the new
code is finished and reasonably debugged. If you want to get in on the
ground floor, join Seeker's new game. It uses the new database code,
which is extremly anti-corrupt proof, and is over 30% faster than the
old code.
 
I was going to keep things quiet for a few more months, but I couldn't
resist replying to your message. :) Work _IS_ being done daily, and
you'll see GB stable within 6 months. Hopefully it'll get a large,
strong player base, and move up there to the level Empire is at.
 
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Ok, so who are these people? Well, we're going to withhold any real
"announcement" for a while longer... Basicly, the FAF is going to run a
year-round GB server, starting with a Sun IPX. This will be running as
early as mid-January, but probably not until mid-February. The FAF
systems themselves may not be online until March or so, but we hope to
have GB up and running ASAP. 
 
With the new dedicated system, we'll have multiple games all year, an
archive site, etc. Other basic plans are for a telnet accessable
racegen and client. I can't really go into more detail quite yet.
You are welcome to email me with any specific questions, however.
 
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  F F  Jonathan Roy, of the Free Access Foundation    Email: ninja@halcyon.com
   A   Mail faf@halcyon.com for information, or FTP to halcyon.com:  /pub/faf/
  F F  Valheru, of the Galactic Bloodshed Development Team      GEnie: J.ROY18
 "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design." - _RotJ_