Silver Dragon posts: >In first place an overwhelming victory with all planets with citadels and dispensing a bloody game indeed is corp 2 Star Endeavors! Blue Adept, Freejack, Cherokee, Haolemon, Overkill, Doctor Who This team functioned like a well oiled machine and played an excellent game. Congradulations [sic] on a spectacular win. It was the daring invasion of corp 3 that tipped the scale. Yes! Congrats to the winners! [Read More](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://hardcoded.dnsalias.org:81/USO/News.htm).

Damn, finally! Some exciting news in the TW universe. [TWX 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.twxproxy.com/) has been released and is ready for [download](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.twxproxy.com/download.php)! What kills me is this line from the download page, "new internals give it room for loads of new features and much faster processing." How much faster can it get?

My Choices for Captains are IF they Accept. Prestone - He's a favorite for too many reasons to list. That and i dont want his head any bigger then what it is already. A Proven Leader Who likes to play TW the way *I* like to see it get played. Timborulez aka Blue Adept - One of the most Anal Retentive guys I've ever corped with...And you know what? One of the best Leaders i've EVER worked for. If you have a chance to Corp this guy you better do it. Phoe6e aka Hekate - Never worked with her before I played USO on the draft team. Awesome Leader. Generally good attitude. Like any chick she has her time of the month too......EEEEKK just log off and come back the next day..... Res Judicata - Funker stole my nick name in the one you love to hate. Seriously he must be a decent leader with the showing that him and is team put forth in the HHT02. I will of course have to name a back up who will have to be on his team in case he up and quits or CBY's or something (GRIN) The object is to have 100 players or as CLOSE to that as possible with 25 players on each team. Each Captain will have a turn picking from a "pool" of other players. Followed by 2 rounds of trading between Captains. Most of the Stats can be found at [https://www.coastgames.com/biggame2/](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.coastgames.com/biggame2/) So come on out and sign up!

Jerry Brown from [Coast Games](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.coastgames.com) writes: >It is almost time for the TW2002 Awards for the year of 2002. Cherokee will be hosting them this year so if you do not have an account at https://tavern.homeip.net/TWGS/ (The Lost Traders Tavern) then you need to do so. Nominations start April 11th and April 18th the votes start being taken. Sorry to post this to everyone but I feel it is important to our community. Just a note to everyone (because TW players have an awfully short memory)... try not to forget the services and webpages that were up in the past year when submitting your nominations. Just because your favorite page may no longer exist, doesn't mean they shouldn't be recognized.

gravedigr points out that [Tradewars.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.tradewars.com/) has a totally different game posted, called Exarch. Maybe it isn't different.... did they just change the name, and why? [Do you have info or wish to speculate?](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.thestardock.com/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=GEN;action=display;num=1045343979)

The "Text Adventure" pops in at #7. Suprisingly, the "Graphic Adventure" is dying faster, because it hit #1. [Read the Article at Gamespy](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://gamespy.com/top10/march03/genres/index2.shtml)

Silver Dragon posted some USO info in the forum: "I must say its been a pretty good game so far, we are a few weeks into the game and still have several corps alive and well. Star Endeavors have built themselves a nice little lead. Scoring 22 kills giving them 220 points, they have also invaded 13 lvl 2 and above planets which should pay out some nice dividends at the end of the game providing they can hold them." [More..](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.thestardock.com/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=GEN;action=display;num=1047497913)

It seems to me that Tradewars has to have the most confusing community outside of the one where people dress up as [animated characters](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.cosplay.com). For instance, this page is called "The Home Sector" yet the address is thestardock.com. When this site was still running it's own tradewars server, it was called "The Stardock". Common sense would usually dictate that if you had a website running a server, you would probably name it after the website. Then again if you're an employee for pollstar, you probably don't have an IQ up there with Stephen Hawking. Then there's the acronymns. Let's see how many I can remember just off the top of my head: TWGS, TW, TW2002 TW:G, TWH, TWX, TW:DM, HS, SD, CF, ISS, SWATH, ATAC, USO, SST, SSD, PT, TWAR, ZOC, EIS, JP, DE, HHT, BOTE, WTC, and J-TWAT. The last one is actually a helper and not a porn site. Regardless, if you can do a search for it in google without getting a site that involves carnal gymnastics, you'll have my admiration until you realize what a waste of time that was. Want more? I write for this website and also [that other one you might have heard of.](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.tradewars.org) Heck, I've even been a part of this community so long I can't figure out if I should called myself Mana Knight or "MK". I mean, MK is just so much more cool and sexy then the full version. Maybe I should just do the same to my real name and have people call me "JG." Yea, they'll say "JG, what's up!" and I'll just point to them and nod. Is it any wonder why we get so few new people playing this game? [Forum]: [I like, totally disagree with you! J-TWAT really is refering to porn!](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.thestardock.com/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=GEN;action=display;num=1046660478)

Home base, EIS, has made a serious upgrade to [their forums.](https://eisonline.classictw.com/) It also looks like John Pritchett is back into developing the TWGS. That's great. Seems he was "away" as long as I was, because the TWGS has increased just .01 version numbers since I left in late 2001.

Want to see just how big the difference is between your old AMD K6 and a newer Athlon? You can't beat [this guide](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/index.html) over at [Tom's Hardware](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.tomshardware.com). It's a huge but great read.