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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: February 10, 2013

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GAME STATISTICS

by Hazed

Here’s some interesting statistics for you, gathered when Alan grabbed a copy of the Fed2 database in order to set up the test version of Fed last week.

There are 341 star systems in Fed DataSpace, containing 632 planets. All of those planets together have 15,062 locations.

I was going to issue a challenge for anyone who wants to be intrepid enough to visit all of them - but then I realised that amongst those 15,062 locations are a lot of death locations. While it would be possible to visit those, it wouldn’t be safe!

It also includes all the inaccessible storerooms where objects and mobile wait offstage to be called into action, which can’t be visited, not even with a teleporter.

Oh well.

Meanwhile, Alan has started to analyse the data that is being produced from Test Fed, in the hope of figuring out what the problem is that makes the game crash sometimes when new players set up their characters. He’s got lots of useful stuff to go through, and he may turn off the test version for a few days while he does that - so don’t panic if you try to log on and find you can’t!

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