8) In Ultima Online, if you belong to a Faction and wish to leave it, there is a seven-day waiting period before you are actually removed from that Faction. The effect this has is that players are not able to join a Faction, then right away quit from it, and join another Faction. Will founders be able to remove members immediately from their society, or is there any system set up to discourage ‘society hopping’.

These two things are not related in our eyes -- founders removing members from the society is different from players leaving on their own accord to join another group. The leadership of a group will always be able to remove any member they see a reason to remove, while players who wish to leave the society shortly after joining may or may not be able to do so -- we have a lot to testing to do before choosing which will work best. In one scenario this may be up to the specific society rules to decide, i.e. on joining society A, you submit to a seven-day waiting period on departure while in society B, no such submission is necessary. At this point, this is all very hypothetical and its practical implications remains to be tested.

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We will start to accept applications for beta testing of Project Entropia 1st of March.

Yes this is completely true, Project Entropia will be totally free, both the software