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Welcome to Star Sonata, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game, where you captain a spaceship in a vast, hostile, and fascinating universe. Space Trading Game. Discover profitable trade routes. Create "slave" ships to fight at your side or to run trade routes. Build bases to mine moons or planets, build items from blueprints, create and control colonies on suitable planets. Create a team and vie with other teams for universal dominance. Deploy drones either in the heat of combat or to protect your galaxies or trade routes. The ultimate prize: be crowned emperor and rule the universe! Free Download, Unlimited Free Play The whole universe is open for free to players for an unlimited length of time, however, eventually you will hit level 20, past which a subscription is required to continue gaining levels. Please make your way to the Tutorial section and learn how to safely operate your new vessel or read more about the game in the About section.
New Server: Liberty.StarSonata.com   December 30th, 2008 We are now running on a new server. When you log in to the old server, it should patch your client and automatically direct you to Liberty.StarSonata.com. The new server is running off a pair of virtual machines on Amazon's EC2 elastic Cloud Computing environment. We expect to see much better performance here than on the old servers, particularly less lag, since the primary cause of lag on the old server was I/O lag from database reads and the I/O on EC2 is crazy fast. I will post a poll in the development notes board a little later asking everyone how they More.... Server down tonight   December 29th, 2008 The server will be down tonight at 11:00pm Pacific time (2:00am Eastern) for approximately 2 hours while we transfer our files and databases over to our new More.... Support   December 13th, 2008 Because the current support system has been having trouble remembering its settings we've moved to a new system so if you can all resubmit any tickets that are currently More....
Unclaimed The universe has achieved a sufficient level of civilization to support an emperor. Minimum colony population necessary to claim the throne: 5%   Help! What does this mean?
1.   Lord Nibbler     Death Mental 2.   Hermes     pantalones 3.   swingarm     Eminence Front 4.   DAMPA     Light Commerce 5.   Jumpen Jack     Eminence Front 6.   Slicer     pantalones 7.   space gnome     pantalones 8.   Lord Nibbler2     Death Mental 9.   Minch     Infinity 10.   TehGeneral    The Tolan Empire   1.     Death Mental    927 2.     Zephyr    754 3.     pantalones    629 4.     Aidelon    616 5.     The Forgotten Colonies    610 6.     Eminence Front    607 7.     Core    543 8.     Quantum Reach    478 9.     Traders    412 10.     Splinter Faction    403
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Client Patch and New Server 12-30   December 30th, 2008 * Everyone gets +1 range on their Astral Travel skill, so even if you don't have any of that skill, you can double click on an adjacent galaxy on the star map to autopilot there * F1 no longer tries to launch a non-existent help file * Client redirected to liberty.starsonata.com, our new server running on Amazon EC2 A want to offer a big thanks to Jey who is the mastermind of the whole EC2 thing. We should hopefully see a nice improvement in server performance and it's mainly thanks to hours of hard work and special expertise on his part. Also thanks More.... Team Flag Update   November 2nd, 2008 If you have had trouble submitting a new flag for your team over the last few weeks, I recently found and fixed a bug that was causing some flags not to get updated properly. If you have been affected by this bug, you can try resubmitting your flag in a 20x14 .png format and it should be More.... Micron Missing Keys   October 18th, 2008 If you somehow managed to lose your key to the blue course there is now a mission available from the base in Micron to replace More.... IMPORTANT: Billing Update   October 11th, 2008 I have updated our billing system to charge cards right away as well as check expiration every night to charge the accounts that are expired. This was done manually by Jeff beforehand. Anyways, make sure to check your bank accounts over the next few months to make sure everything is working as it should. File any issues with the support tickets. There are now 4 subscription models provided: $9.95 monthly $24.95 for 3 month recurring ($8.32 per month) $44.95 for 6 month recurring ($7.49 per month) $85.95 yearly ($7.16 per month) Each of these will be renewed when the account expires unless you cancel it. The More.... Server and client patch 10-9   October 9th, 2008 - Re-enabled UDP networking. You can turn it off or on in your options dialog. We want to make this the default, so please everyone turn on UDP networking and let us know how it compares. If you are using Jey's tunnel, please disable that for using UDP - Added support for Aliases for ships. These can be set by double clicking on ship list. - Your alts now all have a shared universe map - Your typing will now scroll as you're typing if it's more than a line long - Server is now ready for our beta release of the external chat More....

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