Another security announcement, if you have or had an account in the Battlefield Heroes Beta and used a password you used elsewhere you need to change that password now. All 550k accounts were just leaked, various sites I help moderate have already lost quite a few accounts to this leak. You have been warned.

Over the next few days we're migrating our service to Cloudflare. This involves updating our DNS records which take time to propagate around the Internet, so may leave you unable to connect for a while. We would advise everyone use either Google's DNS servers or OpenDNS instead of the ones provided by your ISP as these are normally quick to update and reliable. Instructions for switching to either can be found on their respective websites.

We would also like to remind all players that if you go to command prompt and type "ipconfig /flushdns" this will wipe your locally cached DNS records and is a good way to fix problems connecting to our site. Some browsers like Firefox like to keep their own caches and will require a restart if you start having problems.

We are still hosting our site through Fasthosts but all connections will be routed through Cloudflares' reverse proxy. This will result in much faster loading times for players around the world as you will always be pulling images and other static content from local nearby servers. It will also be increasing the sites security and give us some level of protection from DDOS attacks.

Just some general security advice in this blog. Recently lots of quite large websites have been hacked, we use the best encryption we can on our account database but nothing is totally secure. We would highly recommend you use different passwords for each website, many Sony users have found their facebook / paypal / ebay accounts hacked due to password re-use.

We would also recommend you take advantage of our added support for non-alphanumeric characters in passwords and devise the longest passwords you can remember containing random letters, numbers and capitalization.

Another good idea is to regularly empty your inbox of automated messages that way if your email account is compromised the hackers will not know where you have other accounts available. At the end of the day all the security in the world we can put in place is only as secure as the password you choose.

Added a couple of new male outfit bundles to the store and some low level female outfits, all made by dk16. Will get bcfcespley's smiley pack up next hopefully. Currently top of my list of things to do is clearing out tickets followed quickly by new abilities. Also got the next warfare map to think about followed by the new combat system.

Lots to do anyway, don't remember my 'To Do List' ever being empty in 6 years.