Optimized menu display code.

Enabled Trade Wars Turbo support.

Mana Knight just learned how to copy and paste!! OH WOW!! The man has talents we never knew he had. He copied the below article regarding the BOTE and pasted to his website cuz he claimed he had to take a test and therefore did not have time to write his own article ..”

Ok Seinfeld, Ha ha ha…No. I’d really think you’d be working on your roof instead of your webpage. Somehow I don’t think that Practicing your “Mad r00fing skillz” is going to win you the WTC.

Thoughts: Looks good! What impact will this have on the players? I can’t imagine anyone using a broadband connection like Cable or DSL would see any real improvement if they’re playing from a fast server. However, they should see improvements if they’re playing from a slower server. 56k users should be improvements no matter where they play.

But the main impact will be on the servers themselves. Fast servers will probably see little improvement with their speed. But the program would still signifigantly lower the bandwidth usage and help out the slower ones. Will it lower CPU usage? I don’t know, but it looks like it should. I’m really interested to if I would be able to have 10 people on a server that runs off a 56k modem. A server running from a cable modem could have a tournament with 100 people on it simotaniously. Possible? Maybe.

Read on as you learn how John gets a job at Martech: By destroying Gary Martin’s car! If you don’t want to read it now, then you’re lying to yourself!

“The BOTE (Battle of the Elite) is a tournament in which many top TW game servers and BBS’s send their best players. It will be held at Fament this year on July 4(subject to change). I would like to send a team to respresent Intergate and will hold a closed tryout game on May 13 (5K sectors, 1K turns, stock ships and planets) as I will be playing in it as well and evaluating players to choose the team. To play,just show up. It will be a closed game but I will have already added intergate regulars to the list and even if I do forget someone, I will be online at big bang and for a bit afterwards to add anyone i may forget. I want to see players kick each other’s asses and how you perform in actual game situations. Also I want to see how you behave attitude-wise. That means, no whining..no bitching..no swearing.. you lose ,be a good sport..I want us to show some class in the BOTE even if we get our pods handed to us. Next year , the BOTE 2001 will be held at Intergate so wouldnt it be cool to bring the BOTE title to Intergate where we can defend the title on our home turf next year. :)”

With some luck, the BOTE is hoping to get Gatoraid to sponsor the event. Also in the works is the BOTE Tri-Lypithon channel witch will offer 3 channels of BOTE action. Call your cable operator for more information!

1) I have fallen for someone and you know what that means … TW usually gets put on hold.
I wouldn’t know about that, so I can’t comment.

3) Was on Vacation on the 9th – 15th of this month
If you consider working on your webpage actual “Work” and not “Goofing off” like everyone else in this country, I’d probably agree with that. But since you consider it “Work”, I’d like to see what your boss says if he ever caught you updating. I can see it now:

“Ho peon, what are you doing?”
“I’m updating my web page sir!”
“Good work! Keep it up and you’ll be promoted!”

Or maybe because you DON’T update your page at work like everyone else is the reason you don’t update. Hell, even >I< was on vacation, and still did things on this page. It wasn’t updating, but I was working on two features which you might be able to see before the universe ceases to exist if John ever returns my mail. (Hint, Hint)

This episode has touched me in a way no woman ever can. Here’s a quote:

“GENESIS – and when he created the ‘Hood, the almighty Bro-God sparked up a Phat Doobie and said: “That’s Some Kind Shit!”

egroups, (also now known as “the little usenet”) has recently had two groups fighting for control: The people bitching about the TW awards and the people bitching about the people bitching about the TW awards. It’s quickly become the most outrageous argument this side of Barefoot. If I were to compare this with movies, it would be the same as asking which one had the greater philosophical meaning: Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Strange Brew?

Before you even think of sending me hate mail calling me a hypocrit, I state it now: I don’t give a damn that I didn’t win Eleq’s award. I posted what I did because I thought it was funny.

But What ever happened to the egroups that was coherent most of the time? It’s been completely obliterated, much like my virginity should be by now. Unfortunatelly, not everything goes as planned.

e·go·tist n.

1.A conceited, boastful person.
Also see: Eleqtrizi’T

I’d post my own snippy commentary, but it seems a lot of people have already done that for me. If you don’t agree with the award, then just join the bitchfest on egroups.

BEST WEBSITE – Dragon’s Elite

This one tore me up. How can I even THINK about giving the award to anyone but Mana Knight? But fact is Mana Knight keeps wasting his life in school instead of giving us website updates. Plus, Guardian has the coveted guides of Shell’s that I was trying to get. Bastard.

This decision comes after the epifany that Eleq actually, “put a lot of thought into this.” I think it’d be pretty easy to give me the award, and I didn’t even have to think about it. Simply replace all refrences of Guardian with Mana Knight and “wasting his life in school” with “answering the call of his midlife crisis” and you got a winner. Here’s how the description should have looked:

This one tore me up. How can I even THINK about giving the award to anyone but Guardian? But fact is Guardian keeps answering the call of his midlife crisis instead of giving us website updates. Plus, Mana’s great skills destroyed me in the last tradewars game we played. Bastard.

As far as Wasting my life away at school, next time you have to program a linked list within a linked list within a linked list that is dynamically allocated, feel free to give me a call. So go back to writing those articles about Britney Spears for wherever it is you work at and we’ll see how well you do after I take over the entertainment industry. At least I have my own TV show.

Note to self: Add supportive comment here.

Since the beginning of time, Tradewars.com (And more recently Tradewars.net also) has been held by people who don’t use it. Domain name squatters. Tradewars.com is most recently held by DNSbank, and a few months ago, the whois information said it was owned by tucows. That’s right, the site that rates downloadable software held it.

William Smith who first came by a few months ago (Who will only be refered to as ‘Will Smith’ from now on since they both have the same size egos) tried to save tradewars but failed. However, his legacy lives on since his company registered tradewars2002.com, .net, and .org. Thanks buddy, your really helping us by taking these names. Who really needs three domains for one tradewars/TWGS site that still hasn’t materialized? More importantly, why does a company need a .org address?

What pisses me off is that these domains are just SITTING. sure, they could be used for the greater good, but that would mean that greed would have to go out the window. There’s a simple solution in my book: simply make a bill that disallows the selling of domain names for more than what was originally paid for it. This usually amounts to a whole $75. While this won’t keep all the selling from stopping, it will be a big deterent and will stop people who sell their domains to big corporations for a million dollars. (Which has happened)

I got my domain, good luck to the rest of you.

Fixed bug that allowed non-corp players to escape the Interdictor Cruiser of other non-corp players during an attack.

With all these gameplay bugs being fixed, how am I supposed to compete with people who don’t use bugs?

The voting process is very steamlined. Just vote for random people in every category until you reach Best Webpage. In that one, you vote for tradewars.org. Yes, Simplicity is good.

Send your questions to mk@tradewars.org

1. Redid CIM to be faster
2. Cleaned up code to speed CIM up and rewrote code to process evil ports
3. Above 2 changes result in a 30% speedup of CIM processing based on a 5k sector universe completely explored
4. Added Buy Planetary Shields as a form

the CIM speedup is a godsend. I remember the CIM before taking over ten minutes to proccess a 20k sector game on my Celeron 366. Taking a look at the Dev history, it also looks like the ZTM has been improved.

Quick note: If you registered ATTAC already, you need to contact Earth to get new reg codes.

For the two of you who didn’t hear yet, EIS has bought out the rights from Gary Martin (Martech). Read it. Basically, this now puts John Prichett in charge. Before, John had specific rules to go through when designing the TWGS version and had to go through Gary Martin for any new version of the Door version, which is why the Door is far far behind TWGS.

Garry Martin seems like he would more or less like to fall off the face of the earth, much like the author of TWHelp. More importantly, John now has the Name of tradewars 2002. This was also mentioned on Slashdot (Thanks to Earth for the link)

The truth of the matter is that I lead two lives. “Joel Gonzales” who attends college at the University of Louisiana is my pseudonym. He doesn’t exist. My real name is Steve Burns. I host Blue’s Clues, which can be seen five days a week on Nick Jr. I used the other name simply as a cover as I like my privacy.

Now on to the reason I’m quitting: as it stands, one Blue’s Clues episode takes five months of work to complete. (Multiple episodes are done at the same time) However, my role in each episode will be increasing and I no longer have the time to run this site.

On the left is a picture I sent to Cruncher. On the right is a picture of myself. It’s suprising no one has sent me an email saying, “You look like that guy from Blue’s Clues!” Maybe it’s because I’m wearing a hat.

Next, I will be selling the tradewars.org domain for $75 (The price I paid for it) under the following conditions:

a) The Home Sector is unaffected
b) I keep the mk@tradewars.org email address

If you are interested, contact me. Lastly, I’ll be making my goodbyes on Thursday.