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On Thursday, January 8th at 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. EST, players will have two opportunities to interact with the Fallen Earth development team.

At 4 p.m. EST, all registered Alpha participants will have the opportunity to play alongside the devs in the Lightbearer town of Haven in Sector 2. Haven is a short walk North from Sunshine Corners. Again at 9 p.m. eastern time, any and all interested fans are encouraged to participate in a live dev chat hosted by Stratics.com.

Now scheduled for the second Thursday of each month, “day with the devs” was designed to increase interaction between game designers and fans for better feedback and increased community participation.

Although the 4 p.m. play time with the dev team in Haven is only open to Alpha participants, fans have two ways to sign up for participation. Fallen Earth is accepting clans into the testing program (http://www.fallenearth.com/index.php?page=guildapp) while individuals will soon be able to sign up for Alpha through membership to the forums. Visit www.fallenearth.com for information on individual sign up information coming soon.

At 9 p.m. EST (8 p.m. CST, 6 p.m. PST, 2 a.m. Friday, January 9th GMT) Stratics network will host the second monthly House of Commons (HoC) chat with the developers of Fallen Earth in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC. The chat topic for this HoC Chat is Storyline. During the hour, the community team randomly awards participants with alpha keys, clan invites and special prizes. Participants may submit their questions ahead of time on the Fallen Earth forums.


Participants can connect to one of the Stratics IRC servers through use of any IRC client, such as mIRC, ircle, xchat, trillian and others. Participants should connect to irc.stratics.com, port 6668, or the server in nearest proximity:

• irc.frws.com - USA - Colorado
• irc.epaxsys.net - USA - Colorado
• stratics.afraidyet.net - USA - Georgia
• irc.glowfish.de - EU - Germany

For further assistance with Stratics IRC click here. You may also connect through their handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage. Fans can also find transcripts of the HoC chat at www.stratics.com, available shortly afterward.