(The following was retrieved from the top-secret Snakehead databases, located deep underground in sealed bunkers guarded day and night by especially ferocious cybernetic gorillas. I won’t bore you with the thrilling caper involved in extracting these 100% legit snippets of things to come, I’ll just go ahead and post the[…]
Free Captain’s Log #1
Free Captain’s Log Space Date: March 7, 2198 (Captain Athena’s Personal Log) Ship Upgrades It’s looking like exciting times all across the system! My Engineering Officer just told me that some existing ship classes have been upgraded, AND there’s a whole NEW class of ship – the Behemoth! Ooooh! Only[…]
Results from “Best Sith” Poll
I have to love our StarPirates gaming Community. We have weekly polls in game. Sometimes these are community referendum on major game changes, sometimes they are for feedback an idea we’re thinking of doing or have done. And sometimes things are a little sillier. We did a poll regarding the[…]
Halloween aftermath
I hope everyone had a fun Halloween! Star Pirates players had their Pumpkin Bombs and Spy Battle agents found Minisprays in their equipment inventories while experiencing the fun of trick-or-treating for martinis. The games even got a temporary spooky makeover. Ascension kept moving right along and Star Pirates has had[…]
Original Comic Contest Finalists Announced!
After much deliberation the finalists of the original comic creation category have been chosen. There were many high quality entries and it was a hard task for our team that chose the final ten. Each finalist will receive 1000 Star Pirates points each for making it into the poll. Now[…]
Star Pirates Comic Contest
Right now we are in the selection process for finalists in our Star Pirates Comic Contest (click for a link to the contest in the game.) There are two types of entry currently: original comics and captioning for some comic templates. One exciting thing about the contest is that we[…]
Welcome new players
We’ve got a lot of new players coming to Star Pirates from PvPonline.com where Scott Kurtz has kindly mentioned us. Check out the comic if you’ve never seen it. Here are some reactions we’ve received: [FTW] Wreck And Malk..It is a guarantee that this community here is the most helpful[…]
New Look for Starpirates.net
We got Gooey. No, not Gooey, I mean GUI — Graphic User Interface. See when we started StarPirates a few years ago, the preferred game interface was text and minimal clicks. And we went for it with all the links for the game spread over just two pages. And that[…]
Extra! Extra! Orderly War Dissolves into Chaos
From time to time, you just have to gracefully accept that with some major game updates, no matter how prepared you think you are, it’s just not a real update until you bring down the house. Or in this case, briefly, the game. In retrospect, we shouldn’t be surprised –[…]
NOM NOM NOM – Upgrade Parts now Findable in StarPirates.net
The SHG cats are hungry? Nope, instead all NOMs are now findable in StarPirates.net. “Huh?”, you say? NOMs are Nano-Optimisation Modules. They are used, along with some other ingame items, to upgrade weapons, shields, engines and other equipment. They can be used to push items up to Mark V, just[…]
Immortals – adding Angua von Uberwald
Starpirates.net exists to give a chance to have fun, and forget about the cares of the world. Sometimes though real life can’t be ignored. On the weekend we had another great of the game pass: Angua von Uberwald. She was ill when she joined us, but she didn’t complain about[…]