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Hey Star Army,

Behind every active faction there's usually a person or small group of people who maintain its articles and basically manage its day-to-day business. This faction manager is the central point of contact for GMs who want to know if their plot ideas make sense in the context of that faction.

Lately due to a personal disagreement much of the site leadership has been involved in a dialogue about what rights a faction manager does or doesn't have, and we've concluded that...

 

I was thinking of making a subforum where we could post deals and freebies we found on sci-fi, gaming, and other geek culture stuff. Many of us on SARP are non-rich people who want to make the most of our funds, or want to have additional income.

Threads could be things like:

• Free eBooks we found on Amazon or other (legal) sites
  
• Sci-fi stuff you're selling on eBay, or found on eBay
• Commission threads where you are selling artwork
• A sticky of free online courses
• "I just...

 

Hey Star Army! I'm looking forward to Dragon Con this weekend and I've been enjoying hanging out with you in the site's new Shoutbox. Time to post about what's happening on Star Army!

Shoutbox and IRC

The new Shoutbox is up and running and we've been having some great discussions in it. Already it's way more active than our IRC channel. If you missed what's happening in there, don't worry, all shoutbox chats are posted daily at the end of the day (midnight) into an...

 

Instead of having communications forums for each factions, I propose to merge all of them into one IC communication forum, and use thread prefixes to allow users to filter them by type (e.g. Star Army Orders, Nepleslian civilian traffic, etc). We could even add new types of communications. It's not really sustainable to keep adding new subforums every time a new faction is added, especially when the existing ones are uses so little.

Also, I'd like to do with with the IC news forums, too.

 

The forums will be closed on 26 August for an SQL server move. This affects our forum database. To protect your post data, I will need to disable the forums during the move until it is completed. The rest of the site (the wiki) will operate normally. Below you can find the notice sent to us by our webhost:

Our technical operations team is constantly working to improve our services. As part of these improvements, we will be moving your MySQL VPS to a new location while upgrading the...​