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1) If you have units in enemy zone, and another empire has units in enemy zone in the same zone, and you attack that zone, units of the other empire with units in enemy zone will not participate; the battle will be between your units and the zone owners units only.

2) If you attack a zone which contains units in enemy zone of another empire, those units will not be engaged. They will instead REMAIN in enemy zone until the battle is resolved between the attacker and the defender. At that time, they may be engaged normally by whichever empire holds the zone.

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There are two noteworthy aspects of this feature. First, only level 3 empires can send money, so as to limit the abuse potential of people making a few small empires just to take their cash with their main empires. Secondly, the cap on how much you can receive will greatly reduce the effect of a large empire trying to fund a smaller war empire. because of these critical considertaions, you may send money between empires you control! This is a major change because before ANY financial interactions between your own empires was strictly forbidden. You still may not set up duels between your own empires, and you may not sell equipment between your own empires for unreasonable cost. With the ability to send money between your own empires and the limits of the marketplace caps, there is no reason to prevent people from selling goods between their own empires for fair prices. Trying to bypass the caps or otherwise trading equipment below current value is still illegal. However, buying equipment from your own empires, at fair market value, is allowed.

We are hoping these features will greatly increase the enjoyment and playability of the game.

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Several players were expressing concerns about their current "floating" logins that they use for donation points. They put a lot of DP on the floating login and then rush it to whichever empire or ally is under attack and voila! Instant DP power. After a lot of ideas were thrown around with how to enable the transfer of DP between empires without floating logins it was decided that we will implement a full "transfer DP" option on the donation page. You will put in the amount of DP you wish to transfer, and the empire you'd like to send it to, and it will be sent. An empire may receive up to 5*level DP (total) in a given week in this manner from 1 or more sources. This will in no way affect how much you can donate for your empires, or how much you can donate in someone else's name if you wish to give them a lot of DP quickly. This new DP transfer system has been long asked for by some players and should help a great deal those empires who wish to take mercenary contracts for DP, sell cities for DP, or otherwise deal in DP without requiring people to actually donate again in their name.

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Example: Joey Neveron has a level 3 and a level 9 empire. His level 3 finds some Strikers while on an expedition into a neighboring empire. Joey decides to sell the Strikers on the market to fund more attacks. Strikers sell for about $10 million each, and Joey knows that will put him over his market limit of $7.5 million. Still, the Strikers were free and profit is profit so Joey decides to sell them. Just then a DR request comes from the empire he attacked offering him cash for a 2 Nevyear cease fire. Knowing that the money transfers will interefere with his market sales, Joey asks the empire to send the cash to Joey's faction leader who will in turn send it to Joey. If Joey had been sent the money directly from the empire, he would have needed to wait for 3 days to start selling his Strikers or else he would have only gotten 10% of the market sale price.

Later that day Joey is logged into his level 9 that actually produces Strikers. Joey sells them on a regular basis along with Jeeps and Scorpions. These sales account for about $8 million per Nevday of income. That means in a 30 Nevday period he is taking in about $240 million in market sales. Because he has the designs researched and produces them, they only count 50% towards his market cap. That means only $120 million of his $500 million market cap is reached. He still has $380 million he can receive from empires other than his faction leader, or to be used in market sales of other items. He still can get $500 million at any time from his faction leader, or if Joey IS a faction leader the $500 million may come from leaders of OTHER factions.

These numbers will be printed out for everyone to see when this change is implemented and so it should be quite clear. We think this is a very balanced alteration to current rules which will give people the freedom to transfer funds to other empires without allowing for the current funnelling of large amounts of cash in small periods of time.

6/17/04

Empires will be able to transfer funds directly to one another subject to level limitations, the aforementioned restriction, and the following restriction.

Market sales and direct money transfers from empires other than your faction leader are limited to one half the total amount. For example, a level 8 empire can receive 500 million in any 3 day span, but only 250 million can be from combined market sales and direct transfers from empires other than its faction leader. The remaining 250 million can only be received if sent by the faction leader. Faction leaders do not have this limitation and can receive up to half from market sales and up to the full amount in direct transfers subject to the total combined amount receivable.

Funds received will not automatically credit to your empire, but will be held in escrow subject to your acceptance. You may choose not to accept a funds transfer for up to 3 days after it is sent, at which time it will be automatically denied and returned to the sender. You may want to deny an incoming transfer if it would put you over the limit, as the balance would be lost. Or if you're planning on making some market sales you might reject a direct transfer because of the loss of market income, explained further below.

Market sales which (combined with non-FL transfers) exceed the limit are subject to the following loss. Up to double the amount receivable will be taxed at 50%, and anything over that at 90%. For example, a level 3 empire wishes to sell a behemoth for 100 million. The limit for a level 3 empire is 10 million, half of which can only be received from a faction leader. So, 5 million total in market sales and inter-empire transfers every three days. Assume no other sales or transfers have been received in the past 3 days. When the behemoth sells at a market price of 100 million the seller would previously receive 90 million (10% loss for all market sales, as always). The first 5 million is received normally. The second 5 million is subject to a 50% loss (2.5 million) and the remaining 80 million is subject to a 90% loss (8 million received) for a total of 15.5 million received.

When this goes into effect and not before we will relax the ban on self-interaction between your own empires wholly or partially. The specifics of what interactions will be allowed between empires you have acces to will be described in detail before this change goes into effect.

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You may move the infantry units from zone to zone normally, but if you move the APC from zone to zone, the infantry unit will automatically travel in it. So, you can move infantry a LOT faster if you have an APC assigned to them and move the APC rather than the infantry unit. If you move lances, companies, or battalions with APC-equipped infantry, the APC movement rate is used instead of the infantry, so again, its much faster moving infantry if they are assigned APCs.

When you attack a zone using just a single unit it will work properly -- just that unit (either APC or infantry) will attack. Thus if you want to use empty APCs for scouting/stalling or infantry for ABR tower killing or whatever, you don't need to have both attack together. However attacking with a lance/company/battalion will, of course, bring both the APC and infantry unit into battle, assuming they're both adjacent and mobilized. So even if you have just 1 APC/Infantry pair you can attack with both together by using the lance attack option.

When an APC/infantry pair enter battle together the infantry automatically begins loaded into the APC. It will not be visible on the map, and it will travel with the APC as it moves around the battlefield. You may unload infantry at any point during the movement phase and then the two units will operate as separate units. You can later reload the infantry into its APC (or any APC for that matter) during the movement phase if they are in the same hex and the APC doesn't make any other move that phase. If the APC is destroyed any infantry unit it is carrying is also destroyed.

As one angry public mail stated "Those rare individuals with skills below 2 are elite. They are the best of the best on Neveron and can singlehandedly defeat forces of regular troops who significantly out-number and out-gun them. It is very difficult for someone to train to elite status." That is correct but is worded in a way that I understand is misleading, but not intentionally so. The text on the training page is old and was intended to give an idea of the relative worth of pilots, as when training was unlimited there was often an attitude of "skill 0 or bust." The page also talks about both TRAINING AND BATTLE as a means of 'training' pilots, and thus the word 'train' is used in that context.

Accusations that this has anything to do with donators are totally true, but not how people want to suspect. The chances of skilling down from skill 2 to skill 1 are 1.5625% for the average pilot. That means that only a very rare person will ever get to that skill unless they have boosted multipliers which can be gotten only through donating and supporting the game. This change was made, as I stated earlier, back when DP skilldowns were capped at skill 2. This was done because if we hadn't ALSO capped training at skill 2, everyone could have simply used the DP to train to skill 0 by using multipliers instead of normal skilldowns. This change was meant to prevent people from amassing large standing armies of uber-elite pilots that have never seen combat, and was made over 2 years ago.

We have always announced game changes as game changes and bug fixes as bug fixes. As stated before this change was made a long time ago to limit the power of Donation Points, as should be clear to anyone who simply thought it through. Knee-jerk reactions and brash accusations don't help any of us, and they certainly don't change anything. If you really think we are here to screw people over then I'm not really clear on how or why you are playing Neveron to begin with. We work extremely hard to bring you the best game we can and we will continue to do so as Neveron grows and changes.

Sincerely,
Wayward Son

Edit: The bug that I had originally explained in the above statement was incorrect. The bug was simply that it still allowed pilots to be trained to skill 1, when the cap was actually supposed to be skill 2. The rest of the statement still stands.

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