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News Janurary 6th, 2008 DigiBuy migrated to SWReg. What does this mean to people using SFB Online and FC Online? Digital River that owns both DigiBuy and SWReg is migrating all of its customers from DigiBuy to SWReg. If you have used DigiBuy in the past, you will no be using SWReg. Janurary 1st, 2007 Franz Games, LLC is the new owner of Star Fleet Battles Online. What does this mean to people using SFB Online and FC Online? Not much. Most of the work of maintaining the site and keeping the records was done by Paul Franz the owner of Franz Games, LLC, so the same excellence will be maintained. June 27, 2006 The latest in the SFU family of products is now available. June 24, 2006 The latest in the SFU family of products will be available to play online by the end of June 2006 June 27, 2005 The latest and greatest version of the client Version 4.0 is finally released with better support for fighters, PFs and ships. Features like Tracking weapons, H&R Raids, directed reveal, Orion/WYN option mounts and fighter expendables to name a few. The library is also being completely re-done with the help and direction of Aaron Staley. May 15, 2005 Congradulate Jude Hornburg in becoming the winner for the RA04Q4 Rated Ace Tournament. Flying his ever so famous Lyran against Scott Moellmer's Orion in the final. March 1, 2005 Congradulate Paul Franz for being promoted to president of Symbiotic Games, LLC. He has been the Director of Operations for many years working hard to keep everything running as smoothly as possible. December 4, 2003 In an effort to improve customer service we are integrating automatic notification of PayPal payments directly into our registration system. This will allow Symbiotic Games, LLC to ensure receipt of payment, while eliminating the need to block registrations coming from popular internet mail sites such as Yahoo and HotMail. Additionally, renewals initiated through the new system and paid via PayPal will extend your subscription within moments. No more waiting for someone at Symbiotic Games to manually process the renewal. PayPal payments can be sent without additional charge in 38 countries (including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia). Those who choose not to use PayPal can still subscribe and renew via check and money order. We will also continue to accept payments from DigiBuy though their greater processing fees require that we pass along a $5.00 charge per payment made using their service. Those living outside the area serviced by PayPal will need to use DigiBuy to pay with a credit card and if you contact us via the Contact Us link we will add an additional month to your subscription to help compensate for the inconvenience. November 15, 2003 As of the ending of the RA03Q4 Tournament the 2.x client will no longer be supported. Due to it becoming clear that supporting two vastily different program to do the same thing in no longer feasible for a company of our size. November 15, 2003 As of November 15th, 2003 anyone who has a non-expired will be get a free Email forwarder. For example, if our callsign Cool, now you can get Email sent to Cool@sfbonline.com and it will go to the Email address for Cool account. So instead of trying to look up somebody's Email address. Just send it to their <callsign>@sfbonline.com . November 15, 2003 After the RA03Q4 Tournament you will be required to use the "Activity Decision Window" for announcing any Impulse Activity. October 16, 2003 David Beeson has accepted the position on the SFB Online Staff as the new Communications Director. Please welcome him. October 7, 2003 Communications Director, Kevin Block-Schwenk has decided to retire from his position at Star Fleet Battles Online. He wants to concentrate on other opportunities. We will miss Kevin and hope him the best of luck in his future endeavors.We are currently looking for a replacement. If you are interested please contact sfbol or webtech at sfbonline.com September 29th, 2003 Due to problems with spam. The tourneydesk@sfbonline.com email address has been de-commissioned. It will be changed to tournaments (at sign) sfbonline.com. June 24th, 2003
Symbiotic Games is proud to announce the releasing of a
new version Java-based client called SFB Online XP. The following
features have been added since 3.2.6: November 25, 2002 The previous IRC and web server host for SFB Online was not meeting expectations for server availability. So improve the service to our customers we have moved to a dedicated server. To use SFBOL on the new IRC server everyone must download and install the User-Defined Ship Version (v2.5.3) or the latest Java-based v3.2 (Release) which was made available on November 25, 2002. If you have any questions about the move go to SFB On-Line Questions & Answers topic of the Star Fleet Universe Discussion Board. April 18, 2002 Symbiotic Games is proud to announce the releasing of a Java-based client called SFB Online 3.0.
This will allow a greater amount of people to play. In addition to the
cross-platform capabilities introduced with the version 3.0 of the
client, the following features have been added: August 25, 2001 Symbiotic Games is proud to announce the following organizational changes to further enhance the SFB Online experience: Frank Bradford has accepted the position of Chief Operating Officer reporting directly to Patrick Abram. He will directly manage the day to day operations of SFB Online and help resolve any issues that may arise as the development of SFBOL Version 3.0 moves forward. Frank will also assume Patrick?s answer role on the SFB BBS, and can now be reached through the Contact Us. Joe Butler has accepted the position of Chief Tournament Officer reporting to Frank. He will perform his current duties as RAT coordinator and will pick up the NETKill tournaments. Events Director Sam Clark will report to Joe and is heartily thanked for his efforts to keep SFBOL interesting to those who don't like RATs and NK as much as others. Paul Franz has accepted the position of Chief Information Officer reporting to Frank. He will perform his current duties as Web Technologist. Communications Director, Kevin Block-Schwenk will report to Paul and is also heartily thanked for his efforts to keep SFBOL customers involved and informed. Jeff Qualls has accepted the position of Chief Financial Officer reporting to Frank. His duties include Registrations, Contracts, and Finances. Jeff will be responsible for ensuring that all subscriptions are acted upon in a timely manner with minimal interruptions or delays. June 28, 2000 The previous IRC and web server host for SFB Online decided to quit the IRC server business effective June 30, 2000.This means that SFBOL needed to change servers within 8 days.There was no disruption in the service of SFBOL itself, but these web pages may have disappeared for several days.To use SFBOL on the new IRC server everyone must download and install the Latest Patch which was made available on June 27, 2000.Given the nature of this event all further messages will be posted to the SFB On-Line Questions & Answers topic of the Star Fleet Universe Discussion Board. February 21, 2000 Statement from Symbiotic Games, LLC |