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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Important change</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/important-change-r75</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<span  style='font-size: 12px'><span  style='font-family: arial'>Benefits:<br /><br />- Cost reduction of 40%<br />- Faster loading times due to SSD databse<br />- Fixed email delivery<br />- Less server-sided maintenace for us<br />- New forum version</span></span>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New Euro Modding Section</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/new-euro-modding-section-r74</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello to all!<br />
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As a predominately European Game, it's always been a bit strange that we're mostly focused on American Modding. There's an obvious desire to see more European modding from that community, so we as a staff have been working with a well known name to develop just that. <br />
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It's my pleasure to welcome and announce Ghost Graphic Designs (aka Ghost) to our staff as head over the European Modding section. This section will be the home to all European based mods. Any preexisting mods will be moved over the next few days that belong in this category. <br />
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Ghost will be the main moderator for this area, so any issues within this forum, please contact him first. <br />
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Welcome aboard Ghost, and good modding to all!]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Updated Terms of Service</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/updated-terms-of-service-r73</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The updated terms of service include:<br />
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Clarifications regarding the Advertising clause. If you're advertising a non commercial Emergency related venture, that's fine. If you stand to make money, you must get prior written authorization from us to post it. That means a mod gofundme, kickstarter, whatever, you cannot post it here unless you enter an agreement with us, usually where you'll be paying to advertise the venture. <br />
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There's also a definition place in for what is a public versus a private mod, it's common sense, but feel free to review it. <br />
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We also added in writing that we do not tolerate abusive behaviour of any sorts. If you don't want to follow the rules and play nice, you're still not welcome here. We want a fun community, so behave and it will be. <br />
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As always, if you have any issues with these adjustments, please contact staff and we'll close your account. Discussion can be posted in this thread. <br />
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Thank you,<br />
EMP]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2015 13:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Submod/Mod New Rules</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/submodmod-new-rules-r72</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone,The staff and modding community at Emergency-Planet have determined the need for a differentiation between different levels of mods out there. Since the release of the LA Mod as an open sourced modding tool, the community has changed a lot. We see a lot more mods released, however we've also seen a lot more content sharing. While this is great in one way, allowing the community to have more to enjoy, there is the problem of content crediting. Over the past few months, we've brought in some regulations to try to curb content use without permission and content theft. Those rules have been working good, but we wanted to make one more adjustment to make it clear to people looking the amount of effort put into a mod. This is the reason for a submod/mod distinction. Now all mods that do not have a minimum of 25% content AND their own original structure (not based off of another mod) will be called submods of another mod, to provide homage to the original authors who put in th...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 21:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Emergen...</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/merry-christmas-and-happy-holidays-from-emergen-r71</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<span  style='color: rgb(40,40,40)'><span  style='font-family: helvetica'><br />Another year has come and past and we've seen some big changes in our community, from the growth of the modding world, to the release of the next generation Emergency Game, Emergency 5. On behalf of the staff of Emergency Planet, I'd like to thank you all for another year here, and wish you a Happy, Safe and Wonderful Christmas, full of good memories and joy. I hope you all have a Christmas that'll last in your memories.</span></span><br /><br />As the Christmas season comes and passes I'm sure we'll see lots of interesting developments for both the very active Emergency 4 community, as growing interest into Emergency 5 as well.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2014 14:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Emergency 5 has been released!</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/emergency-5-has-been-released-r70</link>
		<description><![CDATA[System Requirements:<br /><br /><span class='bbc_underline'><strong class='bbc'>Minimum requirements:</strong></span><br /><br /><strong class='bbc'>OS:</strong> Windows Vista SP2 / Windows 7 SP1 / Windows 8<br /><strong class='bbc'>CPU:</strong> Intel Quad Core with 2.4Ghz or AMD Quad Core with 2.4Ghz<br /><strong class='bbc'>RAM:</strong> 4 Gb<br /><strong class='bbc'>Video Card:</strong> with 1Gb of VRAM, nVidia Geforce 400 series or AMD Radeon HD 6000 series (Or higher)<br /><strong class='bbc'>Sound: </strong>DirectX 9.0c compatible soundcard<br />DVD-Rom drive<br /><strong class='bbc'>HDD: </strong>18 Gb of free space<br />Broadband internet connection<br /><br /><span class='bbc_underline'><strong class='bbc'>Recommended:</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><strong class='bbc'>OS:</strong> Windows 7 64bit / Windows 8 64bit<br /><strong class='bbc'>CPU:</strong> Intel Quad Core with 3.2Ghz or AMD Quad Core with 3.2Ghz<br /><strong class='bbc'>RAM:</strong> 8 Gb<br /><strong class='bbc'>Video Card:</strong> with 2Gb of VRAM, nVidia Geforce 660ti series or AMD Radeon HD 7950 series (Or higher)<br /><strong class='bbc'>Sound: </strong>DirectX 9.0c compatible soundcard<br />DVD-Rom drive<br /><strong class='bbc'>HDD: </strong>18 Gb of free space<br />Broadband internet connection]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Downtime</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/downtime-r69</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<span  style='font-family: arial'>Dear Community,</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: arial'>As some of you might have noticed we had some downtime the past 24 hours. The downtime was caused by an automatic update, that's the reason why it took time to find the exact error location.</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: arial'>After locating and fixing the error we are back again. We will be improving a few things in the coming days.</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: arial'>Regards,</span><br /><span  style='font-family: arial'>Stan</span>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Emergency 5 Specs and news screenshot</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/emergency-5-specs-and-news-screenshot-r68</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong class='bbc'>Minimum configuration:</strong><br /><br />OS: Windows Vista SP2 / Windows 7 SP1 / Windows 8<br />CPU: Intel Quad core with 2.4Ghz or AMD Quad core with 2.4Ghz<br />RAM: 4Gb<br />Free disk-space: 18 Gb<br />DVD-Drive for the boxed version<br />Sound-card: Directx 9.0c compatible<br />Mice & Keyboard<br /><br /><strong class='bbc'>Recommended configuration:</strong><br /><br />OS: Windows 7 SP1 64 Bit / Windows 8 64 Bit<br />CPU: Intel Quad core with 3.2Ghz or AMD Quad core with 3.2Ghz<br />RAM: 8Gb<br />GPU with 2Gb of VRAM (nVidia GeForce 660Ti or higher / AMD Radeon 7950 or higher)<br />Free disk-space: 18 Gb<br />DVD-Drive for the boxed version<br />Sound-card: Directx 9.0c compatible<br />Mice & Keyboard<br />Internet broadband connection for updates and multiplayer games <br /><br />And now to the screenshot:<br /><br /><span rel='lightbox'><img class='bbc_img' src='http://forum.emergency-planet.com/screenshots/01-10-2014-hamburg.jpg' alt='Posted Image'  /></span><br /><br />Rescue mission in Hamburg]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 20:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Emergency 5 Intro released</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/emergency-5-intro-released-r67</link>
		<description><![CDATA[News from Sixteen Tons Entertainment, the Cinematic trailer has been officially presented. Along with this presentation a less pleasing announced was made, Emergency 5 will be delayed with two weeks and will be released on November 14, 2014.<br />
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Emergency 5 Will be released in two versions, the normal German version will be sold at 39,99€ and contains the standard game. The deluxe version will comes with a scaled model of a firetruck, an additional map and printed maps of the metropols and is currently listed at 59,00€.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Emergency 5 Renders Released!</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/emergency-5-renders-released-r66</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The well known "STW" Patrol car:<br /><br /><span rel='lightbox'><img class='bbc_img' src='http://forum.emergency-planet.com/screenshots/render_stw_8k.png' alt='Posted Image'  /></span><br /><br />The well known "RW" Fire Rescue with equipment<br /><br /><span rel='lightbox'><img class='bbc_img' src='http://forum.emergency-planet.com/screenshots/render_rw_8k.png' alt='Posted Image'  /></span><br />And to conclude, the "RTW", Ambulance<br /><br /><span rel='lightbox'><img class='bbc_img' src='http://forum.emergency-planet.com/screenshots/render_rtw_8k.png' alt='Posted Image'  /></span><br />Enjoy!]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Emergency 5 Release date and screenshots!</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/emergency-5-release-date-and-screenshots-r65</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Get ready for the rescue operationEMERGENCY 5 ready for sale in October 2014 - and in August, already at the Gamescom!    Major fire at the Cathedral of Cologne, anger on the Reeperbahn and an avalanche in the Bavarian Alps - in EMERGENCY 5, the newest part of the successful rescue strategy series, it goes on "hot"again. At the Gamescom 2014, the title will be presented to the public. Sixteen Tons Entertainment and Deep Silver publish EMERGENCY 5 on October 30, 2014 for PC.    EMERGENCY 5 is the newest part of the rescue series from Germany. The first part appeared in 1998, since then the series has been continued with growing success.In EMERGENCY 5 for PC, the player directs thrilling rescue missions at three extensive and detailed maps. For this purpose the pool of vehicles and emergency services grow gradually and ensures that each unit is on the right place on the right time – who has always wanted to direct fire, police, paramedics and technical forces, is on the right place. I...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>News: Emergency 5 Editor Event (With pictures...</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/news-emergency-5-editor-event-with-pictures-r64</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's Saturday, early in the morning. Not a classic summer day in June, thick clouds drift across the sky and raindrops splatter on our heads all the time. After countless hours of driving we finally arrive at our destination - the studio of Sixteen Tons Entertainment in Potsdam. The chic office building with the reddish outer facade is on the edge of the Babelsberg Film Park and is flanked by the "Quentin Tarantino road". A place for creativity? Definitely - it's not for nothing that a small but ambitious team works here every day to let EMERGENCY dreams be true!http://forum.emergency-planet.com/screenshots/editor_event_1.jpg    We enter the hall and discover a blackboard - that rather resembles a mosaic of different lettering and logos – with a decisive indication that we are at the right place: the badges of Promotion Software and Sixteen Tons Entertainment. Community Manager Serbay Sönmez receives us warmly and asks us to the third floor immediately. Here, in rooms full of flat s...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2014 06:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Editor Event for Emergency 5</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/editor-event-for-emergency-5-r62</link>
		<description><![CDATA[This event was launched in collaboration with the newly introduced community manager Serbay "Turk_SeSo" Sönmez from Sixteen Tons Entertainment and the EMERGENCY Newstime. It’s the aim to present the new capabilities the new framework and the extensive developer tools to a small group of modders before the release of EMERGENCY 5. Numerous individuals from different areas of the community have been selected for this exclusive event: In addition to representatives of the EMERGENCY Newstime and EMERGENCY Fanforum, the modders of Wegberg and members of NRW-Modifications will participate at this event. In addition, the Deep Silver community is represented.At the event the focus will be on the capabilities of the new game engine at first. Head of Art Martin Dietrich will give a short overview of the new graphical technics. Afterwards Level Artist Tatiana will take the fans into the depths of the editor. She will show some of the new features live on screen and in action.Ralph Stock, creato...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Sixteen Tons Entertainment introduces new Commu...</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/sixteen-tons-entertainment-introduces-new-commu-r61</link>
		<description>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/screenshots/140516_Serbay_Bild.jpg How was your start into the game business? How did you get to Sixteen Tons Entertainment? I had my first contact with gaming communities with the game „Battlefield 2142“ in 2006. I joined a clan and got into an international tournament community. I took over the administration for two years, followed by the work as team leader at the company 4PL GmbH. In addition I’ve started my own event project. This project brought me to Sixteen Tons Entertainment last year. I wanted to turn my hobby into a career – by giving the community the opportunity to contribute in the production process and make the best out of the game. That’s why I am here. Which experience could you already gather with EMERGENCY? I’ve read some articles about it in game magazines and gaming sites in the internet some time ago. But at that time, my focus in gaming was on FPS and the FIFA-series. During the recent years, this view changed. My behavior i...</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tapatalk</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/tapatalk-r59</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<span  style='font-size: 12px'><span  style='font-family: Arial'>Dear community,</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>Upon request of the community we have added support for Tapatalk.</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>Enjoy the new way of browsing Emergency-planet with your Phone or Tablet.</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>Suggestions or comments are welcome!</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>Regards,</span><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>Stan</span></span>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2014 10:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Emergency 4 Multiplayer Group</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/emergency-4-multiplayer-group-r58</link>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, I ran a little test with whoever was interested at an Emergency 4 multiplayer group. I don't like the word clan because it implies some sort of restrictions to joining. Well over this weekend, I've learned a lot of things that the community enjoys doing, and some things we can do to ensure that everyone is having more fun here.With great pleasure, I would like to announce the creation of the Emergency Planet's Mutliplayer Game. How do you become a member? If you're reading this, you already are!How it Works Anytime: Using the site's multiplayer forum, members can post they are hosting their own games throughout the week. These games will be usually hosted through Hamachi, and can use the site's Teamspeak server, listed below.Every Weekend: There will be arranged games for every weekend, in which certain mods will be preselected to be used for multiplayer games. These games will use the site's Teamspeak, provide downloads ahead of time for all files needed, includi...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Some information about the site</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/some-information-about-the-site-r57</link>
		<description><![CDATA[1) New members  First of all, hi and welcome, please remember that the first post you make as a new member of our site will have to be validated by our administrators manually. Once this is done once you will be moved to a new group and your posts will be displayed automatically. So please remember that there's no need to post the same post more than once.  This security measure caused a decrease of displayed spam posts made by bots by 100% so we decided that this measure will stay.  Thank you for understanding  2) Broken parts on the siteSince our RAID 1 failed and both HDD’S where lost we have several issues on the site.Tutorials are broken at this moment, I am aware of this and found out the reason. Working on a fix at this moment.Downloads are being recovered, all downloads have been tested and 37 downloads are actually broken. Those will be re-uploaded in the next days.Terms of service are currently down, they will be re-added shortlyInformation about the games seems broken, we...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>We are back!</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/we-are-back-r56</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<span  style='font-size: 12px'><span  style='font-family: Arial'>Dear Community,</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>After some stressful days full of work we are back online. Some profile pictures might be lost and some downloads –might- be broken.</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>What happened?</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>The two hard disks of our server failed together, which destroyed our backups too.</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>We were able to recover a lot of data from the destroyed disks but were unable to avoid some data loss.</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>Now we need your help. Find a broken download? Report it! See some strange things? Report it!</span><br /><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>Regards,</span><br /><span  style='font-family: Arial'>Stan</span></span>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Happy new year</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/happy-new-year-r55</link>
		<description><![CDATA[We would like to wish everyone a healthy and wonderful new year! <br />
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Best luck in 2014 and see you next year]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 21:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Eergency 2014</title>
		<link>http://forum.emergency-planet.com/articles.html/_/news/eergency-2014-r54</link>
		<description>Saving lives is the core principle of the Emergency series. Quadriga Games and Deep Silver announce a new mission pack for the rescue simulation. Emergency 2014 has new content involving deadly meteor strikes.Asteroid Caligula is on a collision course with Earth. Meteors strike the blue planet prior to the main impact. One of them reduces the leaning tower of Pisa to rubble. In three missions, the player must use rescue forces to regain control of the disaster areas. The new fire-fighting helicopter is a real help.Another first is a bonus mission with a fire brigade from the past: 1890 sees Caligula pass the Earth, destroying a farmstead in the Rhine province of the German Empire. Given command of a horse-drawn pumper and historical fire fighters, the player must prevent the conflagration from spreading to the nearby towns.Hobby rescuers also get a huge new operation area for free-play and multi-player games, likewise involving dangers from space. Emergency 2014 will be released in...</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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