Dan has finally added an in-game friends feature to solve the issue of the buggy Facebook friend linking. With it, are three new Medals:

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Exo-Galactic Recruitment [10 Medal Points]
Invite 10 or more Facebook friends to play

Reward: Tribute Cache



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Exo-Galactic Trading [10 Medal Points]
Collect 20 or more Galaxy Points from new (Aug 27, 2016 or later) TrialPay offers

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Squad Goals [15 Medal Points]
Have at least 3 Facebook friends reach Rank 10 after being invited to play by you

Reward: Ship design - Javelin

one medal easy...will see who wants to play? would love the new ship skin AND new plauers...alts beware!!

anyone else having problems with getting the Exo-Galactic Recruitment medal to work ?
(Invite 10 or more Facebook friends to play)

sendt out 5 invites yesterday, and still 0 / 10 on it
or is the problem inviting someone isnt enougth, they also need to actualy join the game before you get credit for it

I've having the same issue. 10 invites sent, 4 accepted, but Exo-Galactic Recruitment medal still shows 0/10

I have had over 10 requests accepted but it shows 1/10...so yes, like a lot of things in this game, and life in general it is broken.

had no issue. just invited 10 people and got the medal.

make sure everyone you invite is NOT or HAS not played GL...i tested that first...then sent to 10 people who dont play and got medal no issue

LOL. All of these look like Dan finally noticed how small the playerbase has gotten. Day late and a dollar short, I'm afraid.

Exo-Galactic Recruitment [10 Medal Points]
Invite 10 or more Facebook friends to play

Reward: Tribute Cache

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THIS will see a ton of fake accounts made so players can get this medal

My first thought on seeing this was: Oh look, Dan wants to reduce the player population through bans!

the cache is two hours prod...that wont drive lot of alts....

The Ship design is something nice though.

I like it. Just got it a few mins ago

tryed one I know never have played GL, and still didnt work.....

ticket? dont know what to tell ya on that one

These should have been added back when people still played. I doubt the X friends reach X levels will be attained by other than just hackers, multis and cheaters. Mostly multis.

This was a good update, and Dan has expressed a willingness to tweak issues with the blocking feature if and when they pop up.

I'll say it again: good update.

So many of you forum regulars... wow. I truly hope you aren't suffering from this level of cynicism and misery in real life. Sheesh.

+1 to that. I like this update. I also like the fact that he gave us a heads up about Chuhn starting and lasting longer than normal. That's something that really doesn't happen, so Thank you Dan!

+1 from me as well.

A. things that i can do now that i couldn't do before the recent change:

1. quickly and easily friend and unfriend in.game for a trade (and in.game is MUCH MUCH better than going the original fb friend route).

2. i can easily figure out which legion someone belongs to after probing my planets for new scanners

3. i can block 5 multi.raiders / multi.hackers who target me

4. i can target those who send me in.game friend requests on my newsfeed (this one might need a tweak Dan !)

5. i can get more medal points for inviting fb friends to play the game


the number of friends / blocks MIGHT need tweaking depending on how it impacts PvP, but i am sure Dan will address it if it becomes an issue.

AND the Players tired of your weird comms can now comm block you and if you zero as per your *policy* They can block you.

I think it makes trading easier, and now you can kill people that were stuck on friends list.

It should have been enforced from the day it was announced, not retrospectively because whiners like Senatorhung who cannot take what they dish out ran to the block list. Despite having performed multiple actions on my ship, were able to block.

Hypocrisy at its finest.