[Tiggs]

On Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. and 9 p.m. EST, players will have two opportunities to interact with the Fallen Earth development team.

Starting at 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 pm EST, all registered Alpha participants will have the opportunity to play alongside the devs for control of New Gallows, one of the conflict towns in Sector Two. The devs will lead six teams (representing each of the six factions of Fallen Earth). Additional information will be posted on the Alpha Forums.

Then at 9:00 p.m. EST, any and all interested fans are encouraged to participate in a live dev chat hosted by Stratics.com. The chat topic will be anything goes with Fallen Earth. There will be plenty of Devs on hand for this chat: Alec Masters, RandomTask, Funslayer, Dst3d, Circatrix, Tiggs, Morgana and Quisno. After the chat some Devs will join the channel #fallenearth on Stratics network to get to know the participants.

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 1 p.m. play time with the dev team in New Gallows 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 are able to sign up for Alpha through membership to the forums. Visit http://forums.fallenearth.com/fallenearth/showthread.php?p=162037#post162037 for information on individual sign ups.

At 9 p.m. EST (8 p.m. CST, 6 p.m. PST, 2 a.m. Friday, February 13th GMT) Stratics network will host the third 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 open to all questions regarding Fallen Earth. During the hour, the community team randomly awards participants with alpha keys, clan invites and special prizes (t-shirts). 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.