October 2002

News for Wednesday October 30, 2002 · seti@home & new games   Dear Vga Planets Fans, we're proud to announce that our seti@home group has now over 10.000 received results from it's currently 25 members. This is a Total CPU time of 16.546 years! Will this data help the seti@home-team to locate our very first alien? Will we be able to give it a name? You'll never know if you do not join our group. :-) "SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data." Unbelievable but true: 6 new games filles within less than a week by our hungry players as well as many replacement players. Much fun all who are in the games, for those who'd like to play but have not taken a seat in this first wave we have added 2 new games! Meanwhile Happy Halloween to you all from the echocluster.com-Team. Thanks for your witchcraft in getting us where we are now!   by Black Shadow

News for Friday October 25, 2002 · inactive accounts deleted   Dear Players, we have deleted about 40 inactive user accounts after checking the player database. But don't worry: only accounts with non working email-adresses were deleted.   by Black Shadow

News for Wednesday October 23, 2002 · big site update   Be greeted Galactic Traveller, Some weeks have passed since our last big update on echocluster.com and while the first leafs have fallen and autumn is coming we've continued working hard on the website and game templates to present you our newest additions. Many parts of the website were completely redesigned like the chat section or rebuilt like the new playerlist. Our players were notified about all new features by mail. All site-visitors have to find them out on theirself. We've added a bunch of new games for all who are interested... Our last poll results: Q: Have you visited #vgaplanets chat already? 21% - no, not yet but I want to check it out soon 16% - yes, but nobody was talking so I left after a minute 16% - yes, visit it from time to time 11% - yes, I am hanging around there every day 36% - no, I am not interested in chatting total votes: 176 Be sure to vote in the newest poll about what client you use.   by Black Shadow

News for Tuesday October 15, 2002 · website updates   Dear Vga Planets Fans, we are currently updating some website-templates. Because of this some parts of the website may be not uptodate for up to 48 hours. UPDATE: template work is going well but it'll take some more time than planed. We will hopefully be able to finish it till friday/saturday evening.   by Black Shadow