Hi all,

Emails

As some of you may have noticed, there has been an issue with the forum emails.

Simply put, the issue is too many emails. The email hosts blocked the account for the volume of email.

I have therefore moved the emails to a new provider however their free tier is rather limited. As such, all subscriptions to posts and PM notifications have been turned off. I should be clear - you can still chose to receive and email by specifically changing your settings but if I still see more issues I will have to disable this completely.

If you have been trying to reset your password or activate your account and you have not spoken to me, then please request a reset again now or contact NI on discord and I'll have a look for you.


Funds

The alternative option is that we use a service paying for the emails we send, through Amazon SES or similar, however NI donations do not cover the NA & EU game servers* as it is and I don't want to add yet another bill that I personally will end up having to pay. For reference, there have been around 5 donations this year, excluding AU and China for around 100 euros. This is the cost of 1 month of game servers. The web server is not included in this cost.

*The AU servers are directly paid for by AU players, and therefore not totally relevant & the Chinese players have covered all costs associated with their server every month - a very big thank you to them for that!


So, two things please. Be sensible when asking for email updates from the forum and please, donate - please help me keep NI alive. And, if the donations are sustainable then we will use a paid mailer - and you can have all the emails you could ever want!


Thanks
/Nao

Another month, another blueprint cycle.  The legendary upgrade selection for July has been made.

The previous round of upgrade recipes will be removed in approximately 24 hours.

Greetings,

The AU servers are back again thanks to community donations!  For those who don't know, the upkeep is 32 AUD per month and you can check our current AU account balance any time from the Alien Hosting Public Pay page which is linked to on our Donate page.  Payment is due on the 15th of each month so we're looking for a credit balance of $32 by the time that rolls around.

Thanks and enjoy!
- Kip

June has arrived... and so has another legendary upgrade collection.

The previous round of upgrade recipes will be removed in approximately 24 hours.

The next installment of legendary upgrades is here for May.

The previous round of upgrade recipes will be removed in approximately 24 hours.

The legendary upgrades keep rolling through... April's roll is here.

The previous round of upgrade recipes will be removed in approximately 24 hours.

Dear NI Community,

Due to world events, we have decided to start our April event early this year to help give you something fun to do.  This event will go on through April 6th and will include April drops, April servers with randomized gear, and 1.5x XP and gold.  The April drops show up as pink in your inventory and cannot be equipped, traded, or sold except to the Marketplace for the tidy sum of 3500 gold.  To dispel any concerns, these drops do not at all effect your chances of looting materials or legendary items.  If you are a Donator and have not yet made your submission for your April drop, it is not too late - we will be adding new submissions throughout the duration of the event.

Please enjoy our silly event and stay safe,
The NI Developer Team

The March selection of legendary upgrades is here.

The previous round of upgrade recipes will be removed in approximately 24 hours.