Dear HWS Community @everyone
IF you are interested in supporting us and the whole HWS Community, so we can keep our HWS servers running, then I have some news for you.
1. I activated the new Patreon subscription based feature. Basically it means that new Patrons do not have to wait for the 1st of a month anymore. You can join now whenever you want and it’s properly handled based on that date. For current Patrons nothing will change, all good.
More information about it here: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/8779192853261#h_01GCQZG85TZ3CWX00SZ54YMNA8
2. After a lot of feedback and requests, it’s finally available: your own Market Zone (Please make sure to click on the READ ME FIRST button). This zone took so long to implement because it’s the most advanced zone.
You can not only do better HWS Connect Marketplace trading in it (no fees) but actually start and create your very own personal Garage Shop ingame. Build a nice showroom, put your ship on the podium and advertise it to other players, so they can buy your ship for credits.
Last but not least, this Market Zone allows you to use our new Sell structure for credits feature more conveniently (as non-Dealer Origin for example)
3. Supporter Playfield Owner (Planet/Space) can contact me to get 1 free OCD Zone on top of all the other benefits. Together with the free HQ Station you can request from me, this OCD Zone can then be attached to it.
**4. **All Zones you can buy (Market Zone, EB Bank Zone, OCD Zone, Recycle Zone) can now also be attached to your CV. The overwhelming positive feedback from you here in <#1017074122016174201> , made it possible. This will allow much more dynamic and conveniences for you.
5. All those changes have some background impact though. For one, prices of all Zones and Supporter Playfields got increased (e.g. OCD Zone from 9.19 to 9.99) to reflect the new benefits / more workload it caused for me / the data infrastructure. And lastly, as announced last week, some HWS feature credit sinks will be adjusted to reflect those changes.
Last but not least, I want to highlight that all of the Zones and packages you can buy for real money, can be also bought for free. With HWS Ingots - by converting your Origin XP, which you can get throughout many ways, playing on HWS.
More information about it here: https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-ingot/14844
And yes, the current 20% discount (up to 90% for Patrons) on our Support Us page https://empyrion-homeworld.net/hws-connect.html#page-support-us also counts for HWS Ingots!
We thank you heartily for any support and hope you enjoy your stay on our HWS servers! <:hwsstar:535932728886034439>
Without you, all of this here would not be possible! 
Your HWS Team
