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WE WANT YOUR COLD, HARD CASH

by Hazed

It’s been an eventful few months at Federation HQ, with Alan losing his job, moving house, then hitting the interview trail before finally getting a new job which he started last week. All this disruption has delayed getting the new virtual server set up on the cloud.

As a result, Fed is still running on the real, physical machine, which costs us a lot of money. We have to pay in excess of $250 each month to pay for the hosting and network charges that allow you to play Fed. I say “we” — actually it comes out of my credit card,

Since I don’t run the Bank of Hazed, nor am I a registered charity, I want to get that money back from you — the players, when you buy slithy toves.

Slithy toves are tokens that you buy, using real dollars, and can then use in the game to get a variety of useful and entertaining things. Here’s a sample of what you can do with slithy toves:

• Price checking — there’s a variety of souped up remote price checkers available that will aid anybody trading goods on the exchanges
• Navcomp — if you’re running cargo in the Solar system, a navcomp upgrade can make it easy to find your way from planet to planet
• Teleporter — for truly luxury travel you can teleport from place to place with ease
• Boost your planet cash — exchange a slithy tove for funds in your treasury, to help you do those infrastructure builds quicker
• Planet design — if you’re feeling creative but the limit on locations on your planet is cramping your style, buy some extras
• Charms — regular items of jewellery that go on sale for a limited period, like the April Fool charm from last week’s Star. Build up your collection!
• Finally, you get that warm, smug feeling that comes with the knowledge you are helping to keep Fed going.

There’s a full list of   all the exciting things you can do with slithies here.

A slithy tove costs $5. You can make individual purchases, or you can take out a subscription and get a big discount: $13 a month gets you four slithies (which would normally cost you $20).

Go to the Extras page to make a purchase or subscribe.

If you do, you’ll be helping to ensure you can carry on playing Fed2.

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