FED is Back

[Cloudbase]

Received from Hazed

Yes, the game is back but for the time being you need to connect to:

serenity.ibgames.com

instead of the usual address.

I'll be sending out a bulletin and posting it on the web site soon.

Hazed

and don't forget you need to recreate your FED characters to get into the game

[desaxman13]

Tried, and can't.

Asynchronous socket error 10049

or

Windows Socket Error. The requested name is valid and was found in the database, but it does not have the correct associated data being resolved for (11004), on API 'ASync Lookup'


Tried emailing [e-mail], got a permanent failure to deliver -
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at serenity.ibgames.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.


Anyone else have any luck?

[oddball]

If using FedTerm, change System Name (available from the Connect tab) to serenity.ibgames.com. Then connect. You may have to do twice, I did.

If using Zmud or similiar highlight character. Click edit. Change host to serenity.ibgames.com, change IP Address to 207.99.73.210.

Port is still 30003.

Hope that helps.

Odd

[desaxman13]

oddball said:

If using FedTerm, change System Name (available from the Connect tab) to serenity.ibgames.com. Then connect. You may have to do twice, I did.

If using Zmud or similiar highlight character. Click edit. Change host to serenity.ibgames.com, change IP Address to 207.99.73.210.

Port is still 30003.

Hope that helps.

Odd

Yeah, I had changed the name a couple times, but I gave it a go in CMud and it worked, tried again in FedTerm and it now works there as well.

And apparently, the email has changed now, but Hazed only posted it in the game itself, not on the website...not much help if you can't get in the game. But for now, you have to email [e-mail], not net.

[desaxman13]

I received some feedback from Hazed, thought I would share it (slightly edited, not for content) in case anyone else was interested

Hazed said:

Q. For Financiers, how will they get back their shares? Can they provide a list of their portfolios?

A. The companies are all gone, and won't reappear until the various CEOs get bumped back up and set the companies back up again. So there's no way for us to replace your lost shares - you are more or less going to have to start the rank of Financier over again.

Q.For a Mogul, how does one do the builds that could only be done at Agri or Resource level but are still valid at Industrialist? Will a PO be promoted to Founder, given a chance to do those builds, then promoted to Resource, given a chance to do those builds, and then finally to Mogul? Would a complete list of the builds done and at which level they were done at help?

A.You will be promoted to Founder and then given all the groats you need to do all your missing builds, so you can promote yourself back up to Mogul.

Ed. note - it appears that yesterday, anyone pushed to Founder but who then paid off their loan were automatically promoted to Mogul, I'm sure ibgames is working on it[/]

Q. For Manufacturers, will they be put back to the number of cycles they completed? Will depots and factories be restored? If the planets all reset, will those facs even be viable? Or do they basically start at Cycle 0 with nothing?

A. No, I can't replace a specific number of cycles, but if they tell me how many cycles were done, then subtract that number from the number of cycles required, and let me know when they get to that number and I will bump them over the rest.

Q. For Merchants, will they get back wares and contents?

A. No, they will tell me how many groats are needed to replace the wares and the contents and then they'll have to buy them again.

Q. For any characters, will they get back remote price checkers, warehouse permits, etc?

A. They will tell me how many slithies are needed to replace all that stuff.