There has been a significant amount of interest in being able to build additional tools and utilities for working with planets data and even some thoughts about building completely new clients for other platforms. To help empower our very creative community we have created a new application programming interface (API).

Since it is the holiday season, our gift to you is a whole set of new features, just the ones you've been asking for on your list. We have also made one change to the default config and have now made "beginner" games available.

The best commanders in the Echo cluster are showing their prowess early on. Despite the early collapse of the Cyborg homeworld the ship limit of 500 has been reached in just 25 turns! As was loudly stated in by Thin Lizzy... we now enter the mid game. Commanders will have to make do with what they have and now carefully manage their current fleets as they engage in combat to earn priority points to get critical build rights.

Recently a number of very long running games have come to a close. It seems appropriate to highlight our current longest running game Beta 3. Beta 3 was the 7th full running game to launch here at Nu. It began in the Nu Year -0002 which is November 2010 Earth time and so it has been running now for more than a year and has seen 162 turns.