PLEASE HELP US PAY FED’S BILLS
by Hazed
I’ve just waved my credit card to renew one of our domain names. Failure to do so would cut us off from the internet, so you wouldn’t be able to play Fed. It did happen once, in the past, by sheer forgetfulness – and it took several days before I could get us back online again. Determined not to have that happen again, this time I paid the bill early.
This cost comes up once a year, but we also have bills that get paid every month, for the cloud server where Fed lives and the network connectivity that attaches it to the internet.
Since we don’t make you pay anything at all to play Fed, we need to recoup that money from you in another way, so we can keep the game going. We do that by selling you slithy toves, which are tokens that you can exchange in the game for goods or services. You can make one-off purchases of slithies at $5 each, or you can take out a subscription to buy some each month at a big discount. Go to the Extras page to get your slithies.
But why should you bother?
Well, leaving aside the fact that if nobody buys slithies and we don’t get any money in, the game won’t be able to run any more, and eschewing thoughts of altruistic motives on your part, you should buy slithies because of all the useful and entertaining things you can spend them on, such as:
- Price checking – there’s a variety of souped up remote price checkers available that will aid anybody trading goods on the exchanges
- Navcomp – if you’re running cargo in the Solar system, a navcomp upgrade can make it easy to find your way from planet to planet
- Teleporter – for truly luxury travel you can teleport from place to place with ease
- Boost your planet cash – exchange a slithy tove for funds in your treasury, to help you do those infrastructure builds quicker
- Planet design – if you’re feeling creative but the limit on locations on your planet is cramping your style, buy some extras
There’s a full list of all the exciting things you can do with slithies here. So go on. Give some dollars to Fed, and keep the game running.
