Hopefully you all had an enjoyable Christmas (or holidays for those who don't celebrate Christmas) and hopefully Santa was very generous to all of you.
The staff is pleased to mention that in the last few days, we've noticed that there haven't been very many reports lately and that people are generally behaving themselves very well, so on behalf of everyone, I'd like to thank you all for that. Great job. 
Now, I'd like to talk about the Trading Post a bit, since I didn't talk about it in the Christmas news post. It was mentioned earlier that the Trading Post would be ready at around Christmas time, but that was under the condition that the person completing it would actually have completed it for then, and unfortunately they were not able to, as some of you already know. However, I have received the source code for what they (which happens to be Artificial, or Xth Cannon) have completed and it is still scheduled to be finished up some time soon (as you can see in my signature, it is up there in the priority list). Thanks for being patient so far, as we have been very busy preparing all of these improvements in recent weeks.
Another news flash -- for those using our programs, the CodexChex login procedure on every program has improved a bit speed-wise, as some useless data has been removed and will no longer be downloaded every time you validate.
I must now converse with the Section Leaders on what other ideas there are to come, so I will leave it at that for now.
