In the best interests of keeping a ton of drama about Vulcan and EIS off the front page of The Stardock, here are some threads to read about what has happened between the now-former host of EIS and EIS itself.

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I’ve added some new features for the users.

RSS Feeds – When you login, you will see a big orange icon in the top right of the page. That is a link to an RSS Feed you can use in Firefox, Thunderbird, Google, Outlook, IE7, etc. It lists all the newest posts as they happen.

Youtube and Google Video – You can use the bbcode to display a video. Here’s an example of the Sylien TWT video released late last year – https://www.tradewarsforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=53

I forgot to pay my DNS renewel. Ooops. Luckily, Sage emailed me right away. Thanks Sage.

I had to upgrade the machine for other reasons. It was down about 5 hrs tonight.

Dear Trade Wars fan,

As we approach the 20th anniversary of the original release of Trade Wars (December, 1986), I am pleased to announce that I have reached an agreement with Sylien Entertainment to develop a long-overdue graphical remake of this classic game. But before we can proceed, we need your help. Because Trade Wars is 20 years old, I have lost touch with all but a small percentage of its fanbase. Unless we can reach out to this fanbase and prove that interest in Trade Wars still exists, we will be unable to secure the funding necessary to complete this project.

To accomplish this, we are running a small survey to estimate the number of people who have played or hosted Trade Wars over the years. By answering this one-question survey, you will enable us to demonstrate the great potential of a new Trade Wars project. Nothing else will be required of you, but if you choose, you may request to receive a monthly Trade Wars newsletter with updates on our progress. And if you really want to help out, you can complete an optional, more extensive survey. We would love to learn more about your experience with Trade Wars.

The survey is located at https://www.sylien.com/survey.php

For this effort to succeed, I need you to forward this email to anyone who might be in contact with a past Trade Wars player or game host. Most of them have been away from the game for many years, and this is our only hope of reaching them.

Thank you for helping us to update this classic game for a new generation of gamers!

John Pritchett, EIS
jpritch@eisonline.com

I crashed my motorcycle over a week ago, so I’ve been laid up. But don’t worry…

the motorcycle will be OK.

I’m going to update the site with some much needed fixes soon, but for now, it’s just going to be broken.

I just added some more files thanks to a CD that arrived in my mailbox a few days ago, courtesy of Bandit.

The new files are located here, here, and here.

Cbs228 figured it out for me.

Forums are broken and I’m on vacation. Sorry, I’ll fix it soon.