There's been a announcement already
Winter Round
The winter round signups will open on 7th December, with ticks starting on 14th December at 20:00. The winter round will be a free round, with races, government bonuses and ship statistics based roughly on last round (
http://winter.planetarion.com).
Code is based on the Round 49 code, with the following changes:
-Buddy packs of 6
-No alliances
-No defence limitations
-2 Cluster defence ETA bonus
-Ticks will be 30 minutes long
-"Capture the Flag" mode enabled, with every galaxy having its own special asteroid.
-In-galaxy defence will be ETA 4 (news scan delays will change to 2 ticks to compromise).
There will be no prizes for this round, and any further changes will be announced closer to the time.
And yeah boring with same stats as last year
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