Leviathan

Your troops inflict 0 damage on the enemy! The enemy sustains 11 casualties! Combine forces attack and inflict 4,650 damage on your army! Your army sustains 0 casualties! 11 casulaties?

Not during weekdays unfortunately, it'd be 2AM here when it's 9:00PM there. The zone needs more people from more timezones... but I don't think it'll grow very well unless there are some changes to make it easier for people to get started or at least get flagging.

Thanks for the offer MWarrior I might PM you if I see you DBE - Clearly you're just ignoring what I say. Fat Cat - Thanks for the constructive information, DBE could learn a lot from you. Looks like I won't be able to play in this zone, at least not to any decent level. It's a pity really. The zone could be so much more popular, far more popular than TW if it really tried to be but it has to get more newb friendly and draw in people from all time zones in order to get a constant high population. Staff like DBE and elitest community (a few people are very 'elitest' about who they let on their freqs or even talk to) won't let that happen (as you can see from the amount of time the zone has been going and the few regular players). Thankyou to everyone that replied here, it's all been useful information.

You've not understood anything I've said. ok.. when you and all of the other good players got their money there was a slight difference, there was NO ONE better than you around so you actually had the opportunity to get enough kills and make money. Events... I've seen one event hosted in about 2 weeks. That's not enough to be a viable way to make money. If you or someone else has hosted more events then great, but they're not in my time zone and if they're not in my timezone that excludes a lot of people from playing in HS. Flagging I would like to flag.. since I came into the zone I've wanted to flag. I even have a ship that would be capable of flagging (badly, but still I can do damage to the enemy and I'm a half decent player). The problem is that as a 'new' player NO ONE wants me on their freq. What am I ment to do? I like Hyperspace, I think it's a good idea. But how in the !@#$%^&* am I, or anyone else, ment to get started properly? Simply saying "kill in centre" doesn't help when there are lanc turrets with 4 vets attached floating around. Telling people to go flagging doesn't help when no one knows them because no one will allow them to flag. So you tell me what I'm ment to do to start properly in this game.. I'm open to suggestions.

It's easy enough to do when there's a reset as everyone would be equal at least for a bit... I don't totally suck, I have a useless slow ship and I have nearly 3k exp. That's not great but it's not totally crap. We need to have other ways to make money.

Sigh don't be such a mean spirited nasty person DBE... That second part was half joking.. I know you wouldn't grant because you're not that nice but if you did I'd have accepted it. But whatever.. It's not a challange, it's an impossibility. You can't make money from kills when everyone else is a thousand times stronger.. think Goldfish versus Shark.. which one do you think will win?

Hi, I was talking to Fat Cat the other day about the game and suggested that newbies should be given more money when they start. Fat Cat said it was a bad idea because people would make new accounts just to collect the money from then. So I thought about this and... 1) Make accounts unable to ?give for 24 hours (usage time) or 2) Make accounts unable to ?give if they have less than the start money or 3) This is the best option, have other ways to make money or get staff to give out money to people they know are new/poor. I have nearly 3k experience but my ship sucks because I can't get the money to improve it. Can't flag because I don't have a ship worth flagging in... no one knows because I can't fight with this ship and so no one wants me on their freq anyway. We should either start with a maxed ship and zero money or just 100k (either given when confirmed new or right off the bat).

Well at least it's up now... although I do wonder why people lie and say the server was always up and say the whole thing was a joke... mental problems perhaps?

scarface.nl is funny.

I'm guessing there'll be a reset then.. hopefully. oo maybe Dr Brain will use the time to do some much needed updates, like bringing back the power ball and other ways to make money.

Funny... If it's down.. why are the forums still dead... what's happening?

To what do we owe this down time?

Is the hyperspace server down? It's red in my list and when I download zones again it doesn't change.

The "no swearing" rule is a stupid rule when the "no racism" rule is completely ignored. Enforce the anti-racism stuff and then you can enforce the no-swearing otherwise it's just re!@#$%^&*ed.

I agree about Permaportal although it would be interesting the cons out weigh the pros. Regarding the work on your part... How would someone go about helping you code, what would they need? I'm employed as a programmer, although it is a bespoke language (strange mix of VBS style with some JAVA syntax) and have VS.NET 2005 from work so depending on the language you use I might be able to help. Oh and I have experience with MSSQL Server 2005 and SQL in general.. ASP and website development too but I doubt that'll be useful to you.

Hi, I have two suggestions. The first, allow people to make money through something like the powerball (this was fun in previous versions) and/or separate arenas. I believe in the old HS there were other arenas that had different settings, why not have other arenas where you can win money like a trivia game or powerball only zone etc... Now for the items. I suggest two new ones and they are as follows: 1) Spec Shield No one in spec (except for staff) can see you. Basicly, it's as if you are cloaked. Spectators cannot see you or follow you. While speccing people with flags can be useful the feature is unfair as there is no defence against it and it always means that anyone with a lesser powered ship will be destroyed within seconds of getting the flags. There's no compe!@#$%^&*ion or hunter-killer fun. 2) Perma-Portal Ability to set a portal in one location permanently. This would have obvious drawbacks (people could do it in flag rooms and such) and so probably isn't a good idea at this time but I thought it was worth mentioning. One other note, to those who have already spoken to me in game (Deathboy, Dan Man, some others..) I'm not actually an !@#$%^&* but it's really annoying when you're practically new to a zone and get ignored when you ask for simple help. I played HS long ago under other names but not for very long so I do know how things work and what the community can be like, I'm still surprised there's not enough help for newbies to get started. A relatively skilled player can build up their little warbird quite well in a few hours of game time but they can't get beyond that without basing or hand outs... so the problem begins there (see money suggestion above, or add a basing bot to make sure teams are fairly newbish/vettish.. or a newbie arena that does not allow anyone with over 50k to play)