Every Tuesday, I'll be doing editorials with my opinions covering a variety of subjects, whether it is Trade Wars related or not. Today's topic is the departures of many long time TW players such as EleqTrizi'T, Cruncher, Bad Girl, Guardian, and Hekate. Let's start with EleqTrizi'T. This man was a legend in the TW community and is still a legend. He provided a kick ass game server along with an awesome website. Eleq was never satisfied with his machines hosting the TWGS, always upgrading them so that it provides fast and reliable connections for his players. Let me tell ya, I have heard very few reports of lag except at maybe tournament time and even then lags were minor. If there was a problem, Eleq was quick to respond. Eleq also was a very intelligent man and the only thing matching his intelligence was his ego :) Eleq would write all sorts of programs inluding dupe catchers as well as an entire BBS and teleconference chat and many other small programs. Eleq probably is the only man who could match Res Judicata in artistic ability on a computer, though I have to admit Eleq's images can be sometimes disturbing :) Eleq was also the owner/moderator of the World Trade Wars Championships, the only tournament that had practically no rules - anything goes. But late last year, Eleq had enough of the pissing and moaning by ungrateful players and shut down the Home Sector and Stardock BBS (both later taken over by Fuseblown) and left the community. Last I heard of Eleq, rumor has it he bought a house and I believe this is the same man who once told Cruncher he would never buy a house. I guess having an ever growing family can change a guy's mind. My best goes out to Eleq and his growing family and wish them well. I still hold out hope that one day he returns with a vegeance and some new fresh ideas. Speaking of Cruncher, she is still around, talking to a few select people in the community. She is just not as active as she used to be. She still has her [website online](https://web.archive.org/web/20020930090914/https://tradewars.fament.com/cruncher) that contains photos of many individuals in the TW Community. If you want to update a photo on the site, simply send her an updated photo. Best of luck to Cruncher..especially when tax time rolls around :) As for Bad Girl and Gaurdian, both left after USO '02 for the same reasons Eleq did. This [page](https://web.archive.org/web/20020930090914/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/uso02news.htm) explains the reasons for their departure. Both Bad Girl and Guardian will be missed for one main reason: their work with newbies. They were always willing to let a newbie play with them and show them the ropes. Best of luck to Bad Girl and Guardian. And finally, Hekate. I was unable to find out why she left. If anyone knows, contact me. For the time being, Liquid Chaos has the twlinks site and is currently waiting to get a hold of Hekate for DNS transfer so he can put it on a new server. Best of luck to Hekate. To sum it up, I want to commend the community for stepping up and taking over many of the responsibilities of the individuals I mentioned above. Fuseblown runs the Home Sector website and TWGS. Rave is working on the Beta team in Cruncher's place. Silver Dragon now owns the USO and should do a very good job of it from what I heard of how he hosted USO '02. And Liquid Chaos has taken over TW Links site. As the saying goes, the show must go on.

Corporation [2] are the winners of One Love this time around! The team consisted of Banano, the reverend, Kemper3, Cbs228, Hollywood, and River Rat. Congrats to them! The game is closed and all player passwords are changed. The game will be taken offline Sunday night or Monday morning...and I'll either rebang it or replace it Monday or Tuesday. I'm trying to squeeze in some new games to change things up a bit.

HHT is coming soon, BOTE is over, and there's been a new baby by a former sysop of the TW community. Get a coffee, sit back, and read on. * **BOTE is over - Hardcoded wins in 47 days-** Team Hardcoded won the BOTE in 47 days. *47 days???* When you consider this is the BOTE, a tournament with marathon games the last two years, 47 days is a blink of an eye. I believe only the first HHT was a faster tournament with the Black Knights destroying the entire field in about 34 days or so. And I'm not counting that **US**-Fiasc**O** a few years ago in which Eleq's team won in 30 days on his own server in which the game op called the game despite protests from Kavanagh and his team. From what I heard about Team Hardcoded, they showed fine team effort and worked well together. They got kudos from the rest of the field on their play. Silver Dragon commended Macahan for hosting the game on a fine server. Silver Dragon relucantly agreed to host the BOTE next year. I was kinda disappointed about this as the BOTE at Fament was starting to become a tradition. But I also know the prize of the BOTE was the winning server to host it themselves, so I could not blame Silver Dragon wanting to host the BOTE 2003. He did a fine job with the USO '02 from what I heard so he'll do just as well with BOTE '03. Silver Dragon's full BOTE statement can be found [here.](https://web.archive.org/web/20020930090914/https://www.twgs.org/?program=messages&command=read&message=8938) Full BOTE news and info can be found at the official BOTE 2002 site at **[https://tradewars.fament.com/bote2002/](https://web.archive.org/web/20020930090914/https://tradewars.fament.com/bote2002/).** * **HHT announced on Friday the 13th! -** What better day for Space Ghost to announce the Haunted Halloween Tournament than Friday the 13th! You can read more details about the HHT at [The Boo Inc. website.](/files/Site%20Caps/BooInc/news.html) One major thing has changed which is corp size. You will have to bring a team of 5 to the tournament. Kemper was upset about this, but you gotta do what you gotta do to drop someone from the team of 6. Knowing Space Ghost, who is usually very innovative with his edits, I expect this year's HHT to be one heck of a boo-tiful experience anyone will have in a tournament :) * **Aitvo has a girl! Born Sept 12th!-** Congrats go out to Aitvo AKA Andrew Wyatt for having a baby girl born Sept 12. The proud papa announced she weighed 7'4" and was 19" long. Congratulations, Aitvo!

Welcome to the newly redesigned Trade Wars Gazette. The redesign not only includes this new look, but also the format of the site. This website is all about information, not looks, so I decided to go with this basic design. Perhaps I'll change my mind in the near future. But for now, this is the direction I want to go. Also, I'm making an attempt to pretty much code this website by hand, using an HTML editor to do what I cannot figure out by hand and simply copy the code from that into this site. I will also copy parts of the code from the old TW Gazette to save me a little bit of time into getting this site back online. This will do two things. One, it will help me know HTML better and two, I won't have to deal with the extra coding crap left by editors like Microsoft Frontpage. :D Two things are eliminated. I have decided to 86 the ZOC scripts as there are much better script writers out there than I am such as the Reverend or SupG to name a few. The second thing eliminated is the archives. Old news are just that - old news. I do keep my archives on file so if anyone wants a news event looked up from the past, I can see if I wrote about it and send it to them. Perhaps in the near future, I'll put up the most requested articles. You will also find the side content table containing the links, affiliates, servers, and tournaments to be gone. I'll have all the links,servers, forums, helpers and tournaments all on the **[Links page](/category/TW_Gazette)**. This will allow me to only update the links only on one page instead of several pages. Read on for news such as the upcoming Haunted Halloween Tournament, the conclusion of BOTE 2002 and many other recent events. Feel free to [**e-mail me**](/category/TW_Gazette) your comments on this new look site.

It's not much of a move, I'm just going to move it to our co-location area where it will be a little safer than where it is right now. The network cable isn't very stable and keeps coming unplugged...I've secured it better for now, but I still want to get it moved. If possible, I would like to run TWGS on Linux if anyone currently does this or has any experience with it. I know some Linux (I work with it on almost a daily basis), but I'm not big on getting Win software to run on it. ;) I have RedHat 7.2...WINE might be an option, but I don't want to kill performance.

Yep, it's happening again, please bear with me on this one. To make a long story short...our Internet provider installed a new T3 circuit on their end to help reduce the bandwidth usage on our pipe that we had a couple weeks back. Looks like they got it installed, but they turned all of their residential users back up and spread it across both T3's at their location and it's congesting them BOTH now. Hopefully we can get this taken care of tomorrow (Tuesday). It's too late tonight to get much accomplished. My apologies...

That's right! Space Ghost's masterpiece tournament game, the HHT (Haunted Halloween Tournament) has now been announced! Run over to the [Boo! Inc. web site](/files/Site%20Caps/BooInc/news.html) for information!

For those of you that like megacorping, Prestone and Space Ghost, in conjunction with OldTimer and [CoastGames](https://web.archive.org/web/20020000000000*/https://www.coastgames.com/) have created a new game! [BIG GAME](https://web.archive.org/web/20020000000000*/https://www.coastgames.com/biggame/index.php) is a game where players sign-up ([https://www.coastgames.com/biggame/index.php](https://web.archive.org/web/20020000000000*/https://www.coastgames.com/biggame/index.php)) and will later be hand-picked by Prestone and Space Ghost to form two large megacorps to battle one another. Once enough people are interested, they will begin picking teams one-by-one from the players who have registered. Settings have been agreed upon by both captains and are posted at the BIG GAME web site. They're shooting for August 30, at 9:00 PM EDT for the game start, provided enough people sign-up by that time. At the time of this post, 30 people have signed up, making 32 total counting Prestone and Space Ghost! This looks to be an interesting game! 16-on16 at this point, hopefully more will sign up!

**Written by Daemon:** The Summer Championship Tournament starts NEXT FRIDAY (August 16, 2002) at 10:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Game ends when everyone else has been beaten into submission... **TWGS:** [](telnet://memphistw.org:2000) MBBS Mode Enabled Turns: 750 Sectors: 7000 Time Limit: 6 hours Deaths: 5 All other game stats below. Game settings, ship edits and planet edits are on the website. Per League rules, game will be open 7 days. [](https://web.archive.org/web/20020000000000*/https://memphistw.org/sct/) Winning team gets a free copy of SWATH and a free copy of ATTAC, and most deserving player gets a free reg key for TWX. Also, everyone who plays (or thinks about playing, or considers looking at the website) gets a free copy of J-TWAT...

**Written by [earth](mailto:tradewars@hotmail.com):** I released version 4.1.1 This is an update to v4.1 that i released a month or so ago. I fixed alot of bugs and added a few new things. [read the changes.](https://web.archive.org/web/20020000000000*/https://www.tw-attac.com/changes.txt) earth.