The voting process for TW League Board members is currently under way over at the TW League web site! This process is open to *registered* League players and sysops, so if you haven’t signed up and want to vote on the new board members, get over there and sign-up now! Good luck to all of the nominees!

USO 2002 is now officially over! Corp [6] consisting of Xide (CEO), Gravdigr, Hekate, hELLCAT, Rave, and Speedy are declared the winners. RN: Bad Corp and Star Endeavors come in at second and third. Check the official USO 2002 site for official information!

Also, BOTE 2001 looks like it may end on a sour note as I’m sure most of you have heard. Someone managed to gain sysop access and proceed to CBY some of the players. MacAhan’s checking into everything, trying to figure out who did it. Either way, it looks as though the game might turnout to be the stalemate that some of the players wanted. FEN could be shut down for good due to this incident, but myself and many others hope that won’t be the case.

My friend and yours, SupG, has released the source code to all of his scripts over at www.twtavern.com with the exception of WorldSSM and PortCompare, which will undergo some refining before he releases those.

No more complaining about scripters in TW! People like SupG, the reverend, and Dell Bond have excellent script resource sites for you to use. Peek through their code to get a feel for how things work and write your own scripts! The information is out there, you just need to utilize it!

Redesigned and better than ever! I’ve become very active in the TW scene once again so I figured it was time for a new site design.

Hopefully, with all of the effort I have (and will) put into the site development, this will be the best version of the Home Sector web site to date! Please leave me any feedback that you may have!

Yeah I haven’t played in awhile, but here is an official retirement.  I hereby retire from tradewars, sure I’ll prolly be back, but I got to straighten my life out.  I now realize that life is short, in the past 4 months 2 of my best friends have died.  

Including last night.  On Monday I was in a car heading home from school with him.  The car stalled in middle of intersection, and a speeding, off duty cop car hit him going 85 mph in a 50 mph zone.  I have sustained minor injuries but unfortunately he had shattered most bones in his body, and had massive internal bleeding.  2 other friends were in the car, 1 had a broken pelvis, and the other had minor injuries. I know it wasn’t my time to go because if I had gone a few more inches forward my head would have gone right through a sharp metal pole.  I know that I have to get my life on track, it is too short to goof around.  So now I leave u, and I will probably be back in a few months, but for now PEACE OUT!

Sir Lancelot
Jay Mitchell

I want to express my views on time limits. Res Judicata thinks time limits suck. To me, if someone cannot do a 900 turn game in six hours, they have a serious time management problem.

Not all of us have 24/7 connections and the ability or know-how to run 24/7 bots.

Not all of us have the dedication or time to stay at keys to defend bases.

Not all of us have dedicated corpies to run bots or keep-alives as well. 

Many of us, like me, still play on dial up, and it burns my ass to see someone run a photon bot defending their sector. Granted, if you know that person is not at the keys, you can devise a plan to drain photons from the photon bot then commence invading, but not everyone has the skills or coordination to execute such a plan. 

I believe time limits should help put games on an even par with 24/7 players running bots and dial-up players who log in, run their turns and log out.

I believe if the BOTE had a time limit, it would be over long ago. As it is today, the BOTE is in serious danger of stalemating due to 24/7 defense bots.

For small games, time limits should be off, give players a chance to just sit and shoot the bull. But for the bigger games and popular games like, for example, TLTT’s Epoch game, I think there should be a time limit mainly to discourage defense bots and SD sitters/blockers. Player should run their turns, then run no-turn scripts like moving fighters from one planet to another or e-probe scripts, stuff like that, then log out. 

As for a claim that offline killing takes no skills, it does take skill to find and locate the person. To me, a kill is a kill and it gets the enemy a day off whether he was online or offline at the time of his demise.

And in conclusion, time limits rule, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it 🙂

Friday I’m doing some more work. More ZOC scripts might be added. Links page will be re-done to have websites broken up into different categories like corp site, TWGS site, news site, etc. I’ll be adding a USO News page. Yes while Planet TW and Guardian both will be doing USO news, I’ll also be doing my own version of the news as well. In fact, this website will have a permanent Game News page section where I’ll have news of all the games I’m currently covering/playing in. Speaking of the USO, here are a few questions about it that can only be answered at game time:

�         Will Space Ghost regain his title of the “Ghost with the Most pods in the USO” or will he last long enough to give his team a fighting chance?

�         Will Res Judicata CBY when one of his teammates make a mistake or will he play on and overcome the mistake by his teammate?

�         Will the USO be beset by corruption enough to warrant a rebang or will it be able to be played without a rebang – the latter never have been done in past USO’s?

�         Can Hardcoded handle 70+ people at once?

�         Will the major bugs appear or re-appear during the course of the game? The nasty bugs have a way of coming out in the big games.

�         Will a team you never heard of step forward to give the big boys a fight or will one of the favorites play up to their potential and wipe out everyone else as they promised in previous forum smack talk?

�         Finally – Who will win USO 2002? – this one can be answered in Mid April.

Sometime today awards voting begins. While I got nothing in player nominations – no biggie since I don’t play much anyways – and few nominations in game op categories – my fault as I not have done any fresh games before the Phenom game last week – I was pulling for TW Gazette to be nominated in many website categories. I was able to garner top noms in Best Website overall  and Best Website – News and Info. With all the abundance of TW News Sites out there such as a certain one run by a guy who thinks he is Steve Burns from Blues Clues, I’m very honored to get these two top nominations.Now I have to really step up my efforts in getting the Comedy votes. These are the top comedic Trade Wars Sites.

This section of the web site is dedicated to those that have directly contributed to Trade Wars 2002, the Trade Wars Game Server, and the Trade Wars Community. Whether it be hosting a server or web site, participating in the beta testing team, etc.; It will be posted here. This is our thanks to those of you that have helped this game get to where it is today! Keep up the good work!

If you have contributed to Trade Wars in anyway and do not see your name under any of the lists below that you belong under, please do not be offended that I forgot to add you. There are many people that have contributed to the game we all know and love, it’s hard to remember them all off the top of my head. 😉 Contact Fuseblown and we will get your name up there ASAP.

The complete teamEIS staff has yet to be announced. We will add more names as we receive them!

John Pritchett (EIS Owner/Lead Programmer)
Rick Mead – Gypsy (Project Leader)
Agustin Rivera – EleqTrizi’T (Webmaster)
Cruncher (Beta Testing & QA Leader)
Craig Castle (Technical Documentation & Support Lead)
Bil Simser (EIS Development Team)

Beta Team
https://tradewars.fament.com/Cruncher/Beta.htm

Names Taken from “About” Screen from TWGS v.43

Lead Beta Tester: Cruncher

Beta Servers:
Aitvo – Intergate BBS (No longer Active)
EleqTrizi’T (Agustin Rivera) – Stardock BBS/The Home Sector
Hekate – TWGS.TWLINKS.COM
Vid Kid (David Pascarella) – Vid’s World

Beta Testers:
Abraxus
Artemis
Bad Girl
Dark Rider
Fuseblown (D. Cohenour)
Gypsy
Hekate
hELLCAT
Hosem
J.T. Kirk (Bob King)
Jackal
Kavanagh
Krusty
Luke Skywalker
Master Time
Kage Noir (Vince Pangelinan)
Kidder
Mojoe
Mussolini
Nazwes Chaiwind
Neo (Jeremy Gates)
Night Stalker
Paladyne (Dean Griffith)
Peacemaker (Dan Klonsky)
Pixie
Retaliator (Michael Gentry)
Ripclaw
River Rat
Satan (Scott S.)
Silent Storm
Soylent Green
Space Ghost
Speedy
Stonewall
Timberwolf
Terminator (Kevin Pascarella)
Tweety (James Goudie)
Wookie

Game Operators

Abraxus (Alpha Prime)
EleqTrizi’T (Stardock BBS)
Fuseblown (Stardock BBS)
Hekate (Terra)
Hiawatha (The Pisces Network)
Kidder (Alien Base)
MacAhan (Family Entertainment Network)
Res Judicata (Public At Large)
River Rat (Alien Base)
Soul (Silver Wings)
Space Ghost (Boo! inc. TWGS)
Stonewall (The Deep South)
Vid Kid (Vid’s World)

Web Site Operators

Bad Girl (Bad Girl’s Trade Wars Page & Tradewars.org)
Big D (Silver Wings)
Cruncher (Cruncher’s Trade Wars Page)
EleqTrizi’T (The Home Sector)
Fuseblown (The Home Sector)
Guardian (Dragon’s Elite)
Hekate (TWLINKS.COM)
hELLCAT (hELLCAT’s HomeBase)
Kidder (Alien Base)
Kitty Moon (Kitty’s Playground)
Lady Ice (Lady Ice’s Lair)
Mana Knight (Tradewars.org)
Micro (www.tw2002list.com)
Res Judicata (Public At Large TW Game Server–Res has also designed many free TW sites for people in the community)
River Rat (Alien Base)
Stonewall (The Deep South)
The Reverend (the reverend’s tw page)
Timberwolf (Trade Wars Gazette)
Tweety (Boo! inc.)
Wookie (3rd Annual TW Awards)

Official Trade Wars League
https://www.twleague.com

Board Members:
Devil Dog
Guardian
Moldar
Stonewall
Vid Kid

Trade Wars Helpers

Doug Underwood (TWAR – DOS & Win)
Earth (ATTAC)
MacAhan (SWATH)
Stein (SWATH)
Xide (TWX Proxy)

Trade Wars Radio Operators

Soul – WEJL Radio
Space Ghost – Boo Inc. Radio

Trade Wars Tournament Operators/Founders
I know there are more people to be added here, please contact me if you should be listed. Thanks.

Bad Girl (United States Open)
EleqTrizi’T (World Trade Wars Championships)
MacAhan (Battle of the Elite 2000)
Space Ghost (Haunted Halloween Tournament)

BOTE Update [12/04 @ 8:45am ct ] – A 2 week update

• 11/17 – Timborulz podded and killed Kendrake.
• 11/18 – slow other than Menudo blowing  his corpie Zentock’s own unmanned colt.
• 11/19 – Server went down for a little while.  Star Endeavors blow some ports.
• 11/20 – Star Endeavors taunt by naming a port “Sign up now for BOTE 2002 at Chicken Coop”. 
• 11/21 – Hollywood busts planets. 
• 11/22 – Hekate busts planets.
• 11/23 – Slow. Only action not in the logs I don’t know about.
• 11/24 – Slow. Yawn.
• 11/25 – Gravedigr agrees it is boring as well. Dr. Bad told him to go attack something then. Timborulz blasts a crapload more ports. Some valiant ports fought back but was still blown up.  Kemper3 forgot to wear his seat belt and exchanges his ISS for a pod as a result.
• 11/26 – Kemper3 moths twice in IC. Timborulz continues his vandalism of the starports.
• 11/27 – Kemper3 becomes a repeat offender by once again forgetting to buckle up his seat belt in his ISS. He got a new pod as a result. This was the day Timborulz’s P-drop script killed me 🙂 Timborulz blows more ports.
• 11/28 – Timborulz robs an ISS from Fament. Timborulz the Port Vandal goes to work again. Port construction will become a booming business once the hazard clears.
• 11/29 – Swamp Lily’s ISS was blown up by a Q-gun. Think it was a p-drop.
• 11/30 – Cherokee attacks some ports. The ports fight back but ends up blown up anyways. Freejack unsuccessfully makes a planet invasion attempt. Timborulz blew up an unmanned havoc owned by Fament and took some corbo reaction in the process.
• 12/01 – Coastgames invade Corp 8 (Mission Nighthawk) and eliminate Nazwes Chaiwind, officially denying Naz a chance at a repeat for BOTE champs. Timborulz continues to vandalize the ports.
• 12/02 – seems Sunday got skipped in the logs.
• 12/03 – Timborulz hits Fament and robs a few refurbs. Cherokee blows up yet more ports. Won’t be long before the game has none :). Auntie B’s ISS was hit by a Q-gun and Timborulz gets the pod. Horny Toad’s CFS blows up in the path of a Q-gun. Massive photons launched in another invasion by Star Endeavors, resulting in more ports blown and a planet taken. Renato blows up an ISS owned by Corp 13 and took a corbo hit.
• -Current Stats for 09:44:06 AM Wed Dec 04, 2013 -=-=-=-

  2,743 ports are open for business and have a net worth of 179,742,599.
  800 planets exist in the universe, 25% have Citadels.
  27 Traders (62% Good) are active in the game.
  20,816,745 Fighters and 36,603 Mines are in use throughout the Universe.
  7 Corporations are in business. Remaining corps: Star Endeavors, Coast Games, Fament, Terra, Frogland, Risky Business, & Stardock BBS.  

• I’m parking in a sector just off fed so don’t kill me. 

BOTE Update [11/17 @ 8:45am ct ] – Highlights of the last week

• 11/11 – After Tweety’s ISS was hit by a Q-gun, he recovered to eliminate Xanos by podding Xano’s havoc and then Xano’s pod ran into Q-guns.
• 11/12 – Tweety podded Bad Command’s CFS and Bad Command’s pod hit a Q-gun. Menudo’s colt hit a nav haz and blew up. Tweety mothed in an IDC. Timborulz pods Tweety’s IDC and gets the pod. Timborulz posted this universal announcement: Tweety, that was for my buddy Cherokee.
• 11/13 – Timborulz went on a port destruction spree then either was planet dropped or mothed as his ISS was hit by a Q-gun. Star Endeavors hit the Stardock BBS, capping a few ships and some planets.
• 11/14 – Cherokee hit Bad Command with a p-torp, making Bad Command CBY.  Freejack blew serveral ports and capped a colt from Coastgames.
• 11/15 – Timborulz posted this universal announcement: Come on Corp 10, don’t be a wuss and run from your own sector!!!!
  G-dawg DESTROYED Bad Command or Filename’s Scout Marauder!
  Hekate posted this universal announcement: 5 down 1 to go
  Timborulz launched a Photon Missile somewhere!
  Timborulz posted this universal announcement: I guess Kemper is just afraid to fight a good old fashion ship-to-ship fight, what has this game come too?? Buncha girls!
  Gravedigr posted this universal announcement:
  Buncha Girls?! Where? Dam..stop those false alarms..i dont see any girls.
  Timborulz posted this universal announcement:
  heh.
• 11/16 – Timborulz podded Hollywood’s CFS. Timborulz posted this universal announcement: Is that 3 deaths for Hollywood now?
  Gravedigr posted this universal announcement: Corp 13 sure has gotten a bit cocky lately..heh.
  Cherokee posted this universal announcement: a little cocky? maybe. the question is, is it justified?
  Gravedigr posted this universal announcement: Win the game..then you can be as cocky as you wish.
  Timborulz posted this universal announcement: If anyone wants to get revenge from my lively remarks, I recommend parking your ships on our figs and just sitting there! <grin>
• 11/17 – Game stats: This game has been running for 98 days. 2,952 ports are open for business and have a net worth of 155,082,132. 768 planets exist in the universe, 21% have Citadels. 30 Traders (56% Good) are active in the game. 19,491,145 Fighters and 37,352 Mines are in use throughout the Universe. 9 Corporations are in business.

BOTE Update [11/11 @ 8:45am ct ]- Highlights of the last few weeks.

• 10/27 – Auntie B ran her colt into nav haz
• 10/28 – Timberrulz continued to be busy blowing ports.
• 10/29 – Illusion and Kemper3 were unsuccessful in invading a couple planets. Illusion was podded by Q-guns.
• 10/30 – Hekate tried to B-warp a colt and forgot to put on her seat belt. Kemper3 was able to invade two other planets, but was podded in an attempted invasion of another planet. Syntax Error was p-torped and CBY’ed.
• 10/31 – Happy Halloween. Kemper3, wearing a “Barney the Dinosaur” costume for Halloween, invaded  a volcanic planet.
• 11/01 – Tweety’s colt is hit by a Q-gun.
• 11/02 – Sytanx Error’s scout is blasted by a Q-gun.
• 11/03 – Tweety attacked team Fen and blew up a corbo laden unmanned CFS owned by Team Fen. Freejack also forgot to wear a seat belt in b-warping a colt.
• 11/04 – Horny toad robbed an ISS from Coastgames team. Xanos finds an abandoned iggy.
• 11/05 – Freejack robbed a colt from corp 2. 
• 11/06 – Gravedigr posted this universal announcement: Would you all hurry up and die!
  Gravedigr posted this universal announcement: Please.
  Dr Bad posted this universal announcement: I don’t know how. Please demonstrate.
  Massive photon war erupted between serveral teams. Tweety’s ISS was blown up by Q-guns and the pod got hit by mines.
  macahan posted this universal announcement: See Tweety know how to die with grace!! Now you know how to do it.
  Gravedigr posted this universal announcement: Ok..thanks tweety…..next.
• 11/07 – Master Time ran his colt into nav haz.
• 11/08 – Quiet day. Cherokee got bored and posted this universal announcement:
  just so there’s SOMETHING in the logs…. PPhhhhhfffffftttttt
• 11/10 – Freejack and Ryukin invaded a planet with Freejack losing a life and Ryukin capping the planet. Tweety ran his battleship into a Q-gun.
• Tweety’s Imperial StarShip was destroyed by a Quasar Cannon!
  Kemper3’s Interdictor Cruiser was destroyed by a Quasar Cannon!
  Dr Bad posted this universal announcement:
  The race for max pods is neck and neck… who can win? Gdawg? Tweety? Kemper?

Seems 11/09 got skipped in the logs or nothing ran that day.

BOTE Update [10/27 @ 6:35am CDT] – Highlights of the past week followed by a summary of Moe’s elimination from BOTE.

10/21 – Timborulz podded Moe and Moe tried to get Timborulz but Timborulz was not in his ship when it got destroyed by Moe.

10/23 – Timborulz podded and killed Abort,Retry,Fail. Auntie B ran her colt into nav haz.

10/24 – G-Dawg’s ISS is hit by a Q-gun.

10-25 Wierd. Only one line in the 10/25 logs not including port construction and planet smashes and that was Sytnax Error blowing a planet. I’ve seen quiet days, but that is quiet all right.

10/26 – Timborulz podded and killed Moe, eliminating Moe from the game.  Talon eats some corbo in a havoc. Details on both incidents below, the first from Timborulz and the second from Cherokee.

Timborulz’s account:

FEN Corp 3 had Moe get eliminated today, here’s the scoop:

Much unseen to the daily logs or posted on the BOTE News page, there’s has been a fierce daily open space war ongoing for weeks between Corp 3 (FEN) and Corp 13 (Chicken Coop). These daily upgraded port territory wars involved Xanos, Moe, Cherokee, Timborulz, Freejack and others. 

Today, another chapter in this war has closed – Moe got eliminated. A very patient and persistent Timborulz caught Moe at some sector figs and dropped a L6 H over his ISS. Moe was then at the sector prompt with an angry Timbo and a planet set to kill. Moe preceeded to attack one more round of the sector figs and then got blasted by a Chicken Coop quasar cannon. His pod fled to the next sector which happened to have enough naz haz to smash Moe’s exposed Pod. So that’s it, Moe is now eliminated. Timbo had only a few days ago delivered Moe’s 4th death in ship-to-ship combat by Timborulz.
Moe is the first FEN corpie to be eliminated and was the most active Blue on FEN’s corp. Moe was a formidable opponent and we all hope the afterlife serves him well.

-Timborulz

Cherokee’s account:

Corp 13, Star Endeavors (Chicken Coop) had some moderate success against corp 3, FEN Cloud 09 today.

-Cherokee

BOTE Update [10/21 @  7am CDT] – A follow up to Gravedigr’s invasion  and Lancelot’s death reported earlier. Then highlights from the last 4 days followes after Gravdigr’s account.

First Gravedigr had this to say about the planet he took,  the IC Fament took from his corp, and Lancelot’s death:

oh ya, the IC was left at the sector we took the planet in, it was limpeted and me and g were both low on turns, and decided to just leave it there, to attract them and make them waste turns on a dead sector.

lance’s pod was dropped off in space cuz he hasnt showed for about 3 weeks, and barely ran his turns ever since the 1st 1-2 weeks. So we dumped him off, and blew the port.

Now for action highlights covering the last 4 days:

• 10/17, both Talon and Horny Toad were hit by Q-guns, Talon in a havoc and Horny Toad in a frigate.
• 10/18 – Dr. Bad podded and killed Sir Hop-a-Lot. Guess Sir Hop-a-Lot is now Sir Hop-a-Not. 🙂 Dr. Bad had to re-apply for commish after the kill since both combatants were blue.
• 10/19 – Quiet day. Cherokee fired a few p-torps and Timborulz either planet busted or trying to make a planet.
• Yesterday and today were quiet as well outside of Menudo’s planet busts. 
• Game has run for 71 days with 9 corps and 42 players active. CLV shows of the 42 players as of 7:15 am CDT, only 4 are #SD#, and I believe they are eliminated too. So really, 38 players active.

BOTE Update [10/17 @  12pm CDT] – Highlights of the last week include:

• the demise of Sir Lancelot at the hands of djcosmic
• several more ports go under construction
• Renato’s colt hit nav haz on the 15th.
• plenty of unstable planetary masses yesterday but no collisions other than the junk ones in fedspace.
• Gravdigr took a planet yesterday – details later.
• Moe robbed an IC from Colonists of Terra today.

BOTE Update [10/11 @  2:15pm CDT] – Timborulz gave me some nice info on recent events. Cherokee and Talon also gave me news as well, but Timborulz’s was the most detailed, so here it is.

10/6 The Chicken Coop (Corp 13) took over most of the largest bubble in the game with upgraded ports that were owned by Coastgames (Corp 10). This was a ruthless attack by Chicken Coop to battle past several planet drops and a very angry Dr. Bad.  Chicken Coop ran over 8 upgrade ports by Coastgames and both corps stared at each others planets in the same sector several times.  Then, Chicken Coop was cut short when Cherokee got taken out by a quasar cannon by Coastgames.
Chicken Coop then deployed hundreds of thousands of sector figs in bubble sectors they took while Coastgames still controlled a few sectors in the back of the bubble.

-Timbo

BOTE update [10/09] @ 9am CDT] – BOTE updates for 10/4 to 10/09

10/04 – G-Dawg and Moe exchanged ISS’es.  Moe finally got ownership.

10/05 – Slow day. 

10/06 – Cherokee’s ISS hit a Q-gun and pod ran into nav haz. 

10/07 – Slow other than moneymaking and cashing. Cherokee named his scout on re-entry “Won’t make that mistake again” . Grins. Guess the man learned his lesson.

10/08 – Chicken Coop team got into a massive photon war with various foes.

10/09 – 8 sectors overloaded with planets. Only one collision. No injuries reported. Chicken Coop resumed the photon war.

BOTE update [10/04] @ 7:15pm CDT] –  August and September BOTE News has been archived..link above. On to the news starting with Oct 1.

Oct 1 – Timbolrulz (no relation to me<G>) took out a few ports, but the day had otherwise been quiet

Oct 2

1. A few ports under construction opened for business today.
2. Kemper took an O from someone, shields and all.
3. Dr. Bad robbed a colt from Corp 6,
4. Timborulz continued to defy Federal authorities by taking out more ports. Says Captain Zyrain, ” I catch this turd blowing ports under my watch, I’ll arrest him and throw away the key”. Team Fen owned the ports, I believe.

Oct 3

1. Cherokee and G-Dawg both blew a port, putting them on Captain’s Z anti-vandalism list. 🙂
2. Guardian is murdered on Stardock. Captain Zyrain promised to find his killer, named Res Judicata as the #1 suspect 🙂
3. Illusion ran his colt into nav haz. Guess he though the nav haz was an illusion 🙂

Oct 4

1. More ports open for business. Wal-mart better look out 🙂
2. Lots of unstable planetary mass, but only one collision, which were junk planets I believe.
3. Gravedigr gets bored. Wanted some furbs blown at least. Menudo entertained him with several MF’s destroyed.
4. Sir Lancelot returned to the game..very hurt no one missed him while he was gone..awwww. 🙂
5. Gravedigr suggested a name change of his corp name of Terra to Corp Whiners  In Hekate’s case, an excellent choice for a name. 🙂

I realize coverage is not as in depth as some people wanted, but have not gotten behind the scenes news outside of a few e-mails from Cherokee and Talon. Please let me know what is going on behind the scenes that leads to the action shown in the logs. Thanks.