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The SSX Backyard ~ SimCity
Posted by SSX-MS on Monday, March 11 2013

SSX SimCity

Interested in city-building? Simulation strategy games? Co-operative gaming? or just fancy playing a new game with the group? - Why not give SimCity a try and come join us in the SSX Backyard?

After a very rocky launch week (some may say disastrous), several of us here are now managing to play SimCity together on a daily basis. There's still many improvements that need to be made both with the servers and issues with the game itself, but there's no denying that it's an incredibly fun and addictive gaming experience when everything is working as intended. One not to be missed.

Never played a SimCity title before? Don't worry as this one is easily accessible to newcomers and offers a very intuitive tutorial to help get you started too.
Been a fan of the series for years like myself? There's a lot under the hood of this one and whilst it is easily accessible for newcomers as I say, it is actually very challenging when you're dealing with multi-city regions and players.

Also please try not to be put off by the overly negative reviews who are basing their comments and scores solely on this past weeks performance. They are completely justified with their complaints of course and EA/Maxis should have been better prepared but they're already on top of this and working to get things running as smoothly as possible for us. We've already seen the signs of that but hang in there as I'm sure it won't be long before server connections, endless loading cities and other issues like that are a thing of the past. As said before, it's a really, really great game when all is running as intended. A lot of fun.


If you're interested in joining us too you can find us in The SSX Backyard, a 16 city region (Viridian Woods) based on the NA West 2 server. This is a private region however so just give one of us a shout on IRC or the forums and we'll get you invited asap providing there are still free city plots to claim, and if there aren't we can always start a new one on the side!

See ya'll ingame.

SSX New Year Giveaway!
Posted by SSX-MS on Saturday, January 05 2013

So, we're now into 2013 with a fantastic looking year ahead for us gamers. 2012 proved to be surprisingly good for gaming too though with releases like the awesome Assassin's Creed III, Dishonored, Telltale's The Walking Dead & the spectacular indie title; Mark of the Ninja just to name a few of my personal favourites.

Here's your chance to grab a free copy of one of 2012s other gaming highlights - Sleeping Dogs on PC.
Please see this thread for further details on how to enter.

Good luck, have fun & Happy New Year!

Messiah becomes the SSX arbiter
Posted by SSX-MS on Friday, October 19 2012

This years Arbiter nominations & election process has now fully concluded.
Congratulations to Messiah who who came first in our 2012 election poll and will now serve as the SSX arbiter until September next year, when we'll begin this whole process once again.

Thanks go to Mech for serving this past year and cheers to everyone else for taking part as well.
Good luck Messiah!

Arbiter vote is up
Posted by SSX-MS on Tuesday, October 02 2012

Just a quick update from my previous news post. - Nominations and candidate posts have now ended and we have now moved on to the poll for selecting our new Arbiter for the next year.

The candidates people have nominated and who are in the running for the position are;
Anubis, Isileth, Messiah, SL33PY, Stracius and also myself.

Good luck to everyone involved and thanks to everyone else for taking part.
You can find the poll here. This will run until Mon Oct 8th.

"Exiles"?
Posted by SSX-MS on Monday, September 24 2012

Today, do you consider yourself to be Exiled from anything?
What did Exiles mean for you when you joined and what does it mean for you now?
Can a name mean whatever you want it to mean? Regardless of how we came to choose it?
Do you believe the Exiles name is still representative of who we are as a group?
What is our identity? Who are we today?

These are just some of the questions the group has been discussing in regards to whether the Shattered Star should continue to be known as "Exiles" anymore.
As to be expected many of us have strong opinions on what we believe, others don't hold as much meaning to the name and some aren't too fussed whether we remove it or not.

Just to be clear as well. These talks have nothing to do with the "Shattered Star" part of our name. This will always remain. This discussion is simply regarding the "Exiles" tag.

What do you think? Come and share your thoughts in our "Exiles" discussion and poll thread.
-Poll will run until Oct 6th

Arbiter Elections 2012
Posted by SSX-MS on Wednesday, September 12 2012

Nominations and voting for this years Arbiter elections are now underway.

Like previous elections we have started by opening up the nominations process for members to vote for up to 2 other members they would like to elect as the new Arbiter of the SSX. Once a member has received 2 nominations their name will be added to the ballot (unless they wish to withdraw) and no further nominations for that person are needed or counted.
Once the nominations process has ended each of the candidates will have the opportunity to make a post on why you should or shouldn't vote for them and a poll will go live for members of the community to finally vote for 1 candidate of their choosing. The person with the most votes will then takeover (or remain) as our Arbiter until September 2013 when we'll begin this process once again.

You can find this years nominations thread here. Thanks for participating!

 
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