The SoL team have launched their new website and in order to celebrate have released a rather stunning teaser trailer showing off some of the features of their game, including atmospheric missions. Read more on this thread.

Karajorma posted an excellent tutorial on how to make multi-player dogfight missions using FRED. Check it out on the FRED Discussion board!

HLP IRC-channel was created nearly three years ago and it is still alive and kicking. Those who have been frequent visitors to the channel certainly would like to see new people joining them. If you like real-time discussion with the people you've got to know in the forums, now is your chance.

If you've been unable to join our IRC-channel due to various technical issues, you can now thanks to services such as Mibbit. No more need to install an IRC-client, no more need to meddle with odd settings and no more need to worry about firewalls and other networking issues.

In fact, click this link and select yourself a nick and you're good to go. The link automatically connects you to the correct IRC-server and channel, all you need to do is a web-browser. Which you do if you're reading this. If you prefer a local client software instead, feel free to pick one. And if you're curious what exactly is IRC about, read more here.


(Some advertising some odd-year doesn't hurt, eh... )

And special thanks to chief1983 and Axem for keeping some resemblance of order in the channel when it was needed in stead of the admins.

Hot on the heels of RC1, the Source Code Project team has released a second 3.6.10 release candidate build that fixes several additional bugs.  You can grab the build for the OS of your choice in this thread.  Note that this build breaks multiplayer compatibility with all previous 3.6.10 versions, including RC1.  As always, be sure to enter any bugs in Mantis, so that the final 3.6.10 version can be released as soon as possible.

Our very own Max Sterling is a webcomic artist, and recently put out a call for ships to use in his work.  Several people got back to him, and he's posted a thread to show the results.  Check it out!