We'd love to have you in our empire, the only true empire representing the good ol breadbasket of the USA. As you probably already know we face stiff competition from other regional empires such as the Canadians, the Euro Allians and those wacky Aussies (and Kiwis!). Now I admit we aren't truly an East Coast empire but surely you have some connection or love for somewhere in the heart of the US. And thats all you need to join us and help represent. Check out our website before you join to see if its something you might like, there are some great strategies in the member's only forum. http://idle.thehueys.com/midwest
As far as your second question goes, here is a copy of what has been posted by frogboy regarding the expansion pack.
The free expansion pack is coming along pretty well. I thought I'd give you a head's up on some of the stuff that's already working internally:
1) Rally points. These rally points are like nothing you've seen before. They're quite powerful. Includes a way for managing them, hot keys to quickly send ships to them, and can be clicked on and managed like a quasi fleet. It's very cool.
2) Hyperlinks. If you right click on various things, it'll take you to more pertinent information. Example, in the trade screen, right click on a ship and it will bring up a new screen showing where that sihp is located as well as if it's in a fleet.
3) The Tech navigator will let you go through the technology tree and see what does what.
4) A bunch of new anomalies that visually look quite stunning.
5) The star graphics have been all replaced with ones that are bigger and nicer looking.
6) You can lock the sliders in the domestic policy screen.
That's just off the top of my head here at 1am on a Friday night/Sat morning. The team has put in a bunch of other stuff that I know I'm forgetting. But in a couple weeks when the beta shows up on Drengin.net, you'll be surprised at just how many new screens and such there are.
So that we're clear on the schedule:
June: The beta of it will show up on Drengin.net. Drengin.net is our full gaming network that includes The Corporate Machine, LightWeight Ninja, Stellar Frontier and of course GalCiv. The Political Machine should show up relatively soon on it as well. You can upgrade to Drengin.net for $30.
Late Summer: Finished and released. The released version will be available for free to all registered GalCiv players.
The above things I mention (feature wise) are the things that we have done already. Between now and the end of summer a lot of other goodies will show up. I know I have a bunch of events and AI updates I plan to work on when I get ready and the team has other stuff in mind as well.
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