Well its happened only 2 other times in the History of TW2002. A bunch of people are coming from different parts of the country and are "MEETING" in the spirit of friendship and its happening This year in Kansas City,MO. At the Harrah's Casino no less!!!!... <br> The first TWCON was held in Las Vegas..!<br> <img src="/static/img/twcongrp2.jpg" class="max-height:600px"> <br> The second TWCON was held in Virginia Beach,Va and it was just as much fun!!!! But this year we are holding the TWCON in Kansas City MO.On September 20th and 21st!! The Guest list includes Space Ghost, Xanos , Auntie B, Willow.Merlin From Merlins Keep!...But wait there is more!!!! The Probable list includes the man himself John Pritchett ( Auther of TWGS) Macahan (co auther of swath) Supermom and none other then our own Promethius.. So Come on out and be a part of TW History!!!!!!! Hope to see everyone there!!!!!!!

Google launched a new service called "Google Insights". Let you track trends over time. Well, things aren't looking good for TradeWars. <img src="https://www.thestardock.com/imgs/twinterest.png" /> To view the full chart, [CLICK HERE.](https://web.archive.org/web/20080000000000*/https://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&amp;q=tradewars%2Ctrade%20wars%202002%2Ctradewars%202002&amp;geo=&amp;date=&amp;clp=&amp;cmpt=q)

Announcing Big Chess..... There will be 2 Teams and we will be running Chessv2 with an edit to the Wall Ship allowing it to land.... Briefly Chess is a Capture the planet style game where each team starts out with a set amount of resources as well as a level 6 "King" planet. If your team loses its King planet The Game is Over. Winning conditions If the Log says The planet was invaded... Game over...no capping it back no hiding on planet. ..This clears up any speculation to when the game is over... If your King Planet is Destroyed You lose..Whether Bumped or Zdy'd. The Game is over when one Team has invaded or destroyed the Other Teams King Planet. Settings: 2 teams 1600 turns per day 2day turn bank 20k sectors, Players will be on Corp and in Citadel at start. King planet will have 40 million credits and 200k figs . Planet will have 20k ore. Game Will be started on May 16th at 9pm eastern on UTW. Each team currently is recruiting players And ANYONE who wants to play CAN. none will be turned away. Please post [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20080000000000*/https://www.classictw.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=20563) or Contact ParrotHead Or myself.

I met up with Mana last night in San Francisco. We were shocked to realize how long it has been since we last met up in the Bay. My youngest son was a fertilized egg when we met up last (and he's five now!). <img src="https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2027/2275928300_303133bcf7.jpg?v=0" alt="" />We ate some expensive food, talked some shop, a little bit of Trade Wars (neither of us play, not much to talk about there!), and had a good time. We've decided to declare our get together The TradeWars Convention 2008. We're sorry you all missed out.

<img src="/static/img/baretop.jpg" alt="baretop.jpg"> I decided I don't have a lot of time these days to be writing custom apps for these types of things, and today's software is so nice, I should just install something already made. Wordpress fit the bill and here it is. This will replace the forums and the previous site, and comments can be made to posts here directly. As a result of this change, and the fact that I'm admining classictw's forums, Tradewarsforums.com will go away. All accounts are gone and if you want to comment on this site, just make a new account here. The login is at the bottom of the right side links. I'll probably make it more obvious later. The biggest result of my changes is that I've painstakingly gone through the old news and entered them all into individual posts, as opposed to the previous method where I just sorted them by month/year and threw them into the library. Further, I've expanded the history of entered posts to include TW Gazette (Timberwolf) and Kitten's Playground (Kitty Moon/Icehawk), in addition to the Home Sector/Tradewars.ws (Fuseblown) and Tradewars.or (Mana Knight/Bad Girl) already present. I've also added a few pages from Jackal's old site, which include results of the 3rd Annual TW Awards. If you have some old archived news, send them my way. Because I had to enter these posts under the names of the users who made them, those accounts have already been created. If you try to register and your name is taken, contact me and I'll send you your password. Files - There are no files at this time. I'm still trying to decide what I want to do with them. TWX Archives - I'd like to offload the TWX message archives to someone currently handling or dealing with TWX. If you are that person, contact me and I'll email you a zip of the messages. Hope you enjoy the new site and design. One thing that TradeWars has been sorely lacking is good site design. I think this new site is beautiful, hopefully you do, too. Thanks EleqTrizi'T

Ladies and Gentleman I Present to you The 2007 Battle of the Elite also known as B.O.T.E! Where ??? telnet address [Runaway Proton Twgs](telnet://runawayproton.com/) When ??? Aug 04 @ 1:00pm Eastern Who is invited ??? Every Person who owns a Valid TWGS License are invited to send a team. Settings ??? 5000 Sectors 750 turns Stock Ships Stock Planets MBBS mode on No Delays..No Time Limits.Corp Size will be 5 Also there will be a 2 day turn bank. Victory Conditions ??? The Winning Team must own ALL citadels And have All Sectors Figged.(100% Grid) Only one Team of 5 will be declared winners..There will be no Tie's or Stalemates. Other Rules??? None...No Rules about information sharing or Mega Corping. Teams will be representative's of thier Home TWGS. Where do we sign up??? [](https://www.classictw.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19541&PN=1&FID=19&PR=3) EIS Forums!!!

Dear Fellow Trade Warriors, Ten years - WOW. When I started this site, I'll be the first to admit I did it out of wanting recognition. That was my primary motivation. I had just gone onto the original Stardock BBS and kicked everyone's ass with my corp, [Dominance Enterprises!](/static/img/0003.jpg), a corp comprised of a few guys you may have heard of - Ripclaw, Retaliator, and Guardian. It took 30 or so of the Tradewars "Elite" to gang up on us to get us out. It's a fact I'm still proud of to this day. My buddies and I became famous overnight, so why not start a website and capitalize? sidenote - yes, the "elite" of Tradewars has been an issue for well over 10 years. I've beaten them, been them, accused of being them, told I couldn't be one, told I'd never be one, was appointed the king of them, etc. It's been a long, sometimes very hard ride, to get where I am today. A ton of websites has come, gone or been forgotten. Remember [The War Room](https://web.archive.org/web/20020120072253/https://cyber-svcs.com/), [TW Gazette](/category/TW_Gazette), [TW Links](/files/Site%20Caps/TWLinks/index.html), Egroups Tradewars_2002, [Boo Inc.](/files/Site%20Caps/BooInc/news.html), [TW League](https://web.archive.org/web/20030603155707/https://www.twleague.com:80/archives.asp), and my favorite, [Mana Knight's Tradewars.org?](https://web.archive.org/web/20040321085208/https://www.tradewars.org:80/). But The Stardock is still here, still updating, still alive, still collecting muchas hits. I've met and talked to a lot of good people along the way. Such as John Pritchett, [Guardian](https://web.archive.org/web/20080911194423/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/guardian.htm), [Bad Girl](https://web.archive.org/web/20080922094940/https://tradewars.fament.com:80/guardian/playerbadgirl.htm), Ripclaw, [Maverick](https://web.archive.org/web/20080509164522/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/eliteplayermav.htm), Artemis, Lord Chaos, [hELLCAT](https://web.archive.org/web/20050205214731/https://www.depletecoitus.com:80/twars.htm), Ghost Ryder, [Timberwolf](https://web.archive.org/web/20080515164105/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/playertimberwolf.htm), Peacemaker, [the reverend](https://web.archive.org/web/20050424151745/https://www.blacksuntwgs.com/interviews/reverend.htm), Aitvo, [Traitor](https://web.archive.org/web/20050425123338/https://www.blacksuntwgs.com/interviews/Traitor.htm), Stonewall, [Hosem](https://web.archive.org/web/20080820213626/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/eliteplayerhosem.htm), [Gypsy](https://web.archive.org/web/20080511202129/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/spotlight/gypsyspot.htm), Kitty Moon, [Kemper3](https://web.archive.org/web/20040706054044/https://www.blacksuntwgs.com/interviews/kemper3.htm), [Xide](https://web.archive.org/web/20050424151737/https://www.blacksuntwgs.com/interviews/xide.htm), [earth](https://web.archive.org/web/20070000000000*/https://www.tw-attac.com/), [Bud](https://web.archive.org/web/20050417212103/https://www.blacksuntwgs.com/interviews/Bud.htm), Jackal, [Tweety](https://web.archive.org/web/20080509071137/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/playertweety.htm), Prestone, Kavanaugh, Nazwes Chaiwind, Adomma, Attila, River Rat, Jack Box, Last Starfighter, Epicenter & [Sir Lancelot](https://web.archive.org/web/20080511211327/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/playersirlancelot.htm). I've also literally met, in person, these great people - Retaliator, Mana Knight, [Cruncher](https://web.archive.org/web/20080303011337/https://tradewars.fament.com/Cruncher/tradewar.htm), [Space Ghost](/files/Site%20Caps/BooInc/news.html), [Hekate (aka Phoe6e)](https://web.archive.org/web/20050424010621/https://www.blacksuntwgs.com/interviews/phoe6e.htm), [Speedy](https://web.archive.org/web/20050424151652/https://www.blacksuntwgs.com/interviews/speedy.htm), [Rawhead Rex](https://web.archive.org/web/20060319232127/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/eliteplayerrex.htm), Animal, Diana & Leila. Then there have been those that helped me administer this site over the years, like [Fuseblown](https://web.archive.org/web/20050827035042/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/playerfuseblown.htm), [The Mad Hatter](https://web.archive.org/web/20050128063000/https://www.blacksuntwgs.com/interviews/MadHatter.htm) and [cbs228](https://web.archive.org/web/20050425123232/https://www.blacksuntwgs.com/interviews/Cbs228.htm). Fuseblown merged his popular website, Tradewars.ws, with mine. He then ran the site solo for quite some time. The Mad Hatter is nearly solely responsible for my huge file archive. cbs228 helped me write TWGS Search, which has been far and away this site's most popular feature over the past decade. I remember all those nights of 4 am externs with both fondness and disdain. I'd get my butt up, along with my corpies, to patrol the lanes and mop up the cloaks. It was both fun and exhausting. I had a hard time holding a few jobs before I learned how to manage it. I also kicked a lot of tail because of it. I remember how the phrase "we need more fighters" got stuck in my head for months like a catchy song lyric. I was constantly analyzing a game, figuring out what percentage of a game's fighters my corp had. Trying to figure out on past experience what another corp might have. Today, there is a huge body of research on how the game works. A lot of that started back in the late 90's when the first creds-per-warp calculations were done. My good buddy Retaliator was a master of knowing how a universe was laid out and where we'd most likely find our enemies. I was great at figuring out how good my enemies were and outstrategizing them. Trade Wars was always on my mind. I remember releasing the first useful Telemate scripts on the internet. People ran with them and they got better. Years later, I did the same for ZOC's REXX scripts. I can still find credits and remnants of my code in scripts downloaded today. That's shocking considering how long ago I made those, and how antiquated they really are compared to today's scripts. I remember writing my own BBS software to emulate MajorBBS. I was originally helping out Aitvo (Andrew Wyatt) with his FusionGS. But Andrew and I get along like brothers too close in age-fighting friends. We got into an argument, which caused me to go it alone. We're buddies again now. We had a lot of good times together talking Perl and Linux. I learned a LOT from him, so much that I went from being a computer tech to Perl programmer, then to Linux administrator and then to manager of my department. Thanks to Aitvo, I had a running start in my career. I remember having a ton of long, long conversations with John Pritchett over TWGS. When TWGS first came out, people didn't care for it. It wasn't like HVS's version for Major BBS. I convinced JP to create an MBBS-compatible mode to bridge the gap, and that's why you see it in TWGS software today. I opened The Home Sector TWGS specifically to help JP bug-fix. I was constantly installing pre-release versions of TWGS to help fix bugs. For my efforts, JP donated money when I needed help keeping things running and even named a port after me. If you ever see a port with the name "Eleq" in it, that's my port. I remember the Trade Wars Convention [(pics here)](https://web.archive.org/web/20050503051259/https://tradewars.fament.com/Cruncher/TWCon2k.htm). Actually getting to meet people you've already known for years is ODD, to say the least. It was impossible to convey to people what that is like until you've done it. Nowadays, knowing and conversing with people you've never actually met is common in today's internet-run world. But in 2000, it impossible for most people to comprehend how that could be. I remember many nights talking with Mana Knight over who was an idiot, who wasn't, Mana starting the TradeWars.org, that page envolving into tradewars.org, my TWGS opening at twgs.tradewars.org, and Mana's hilarious wit. I actually got to meet Mana a few years ago when he was in San Jose at Gamecon. The past two years I've missed him while he was near. I always regret that. Mana's a riot and it's cool to hang with an old buddy. I remember when DE! stopped playing TW, a new corp emerged that was to some, the greatest corp yet... the Black Nights. Maverick- CEO, Artemis, Lord Chaos, Ripclaw (yes, DE!'s Ripclaw), Kujo. Overall those years, when DE! was playing, BK was breaking, or vice versa, For many years Mav and I circled each other like two pit fighters but never heard the bell. In the end, Mav and I actually corped together for a little while. Maverick is supremely intelligent. I knew him as a good man. He is also remembered for making the single biggest donation ever to The Stardock in the form of a very, very expensive P3 1ghz CPU at a time when Intel had no better chips. I remember being inducted into the TW Hall of Fame. I was one of the first, something I'll always be proud of. I was once the "Godfather of TW" (huh Space Ghost?). Now I've been out of the discussions for years. There's a whole crop of players won't don't know me from John Doe. They've never played against me, played a game run by me, or been part of a forum thread dominated by me. I'm just kind of this name running this somehow-relevant website for God-knows-what-reason. And I'm finally OK with that. Personally, so much has happened in the past 10 years it's almost scary to think how much will change in the next 10. When I started The Home Sector website, which if you didn't know is was the former name of this site, my life was in heavy flux. Just months earlier, I found out my girlfriend (now wife) was pregnant. I had moved two hours north from [Clovis CA, to Modesto, CA](https://web.archive.org/web/20070000000000*/https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=clovis,+ca+to+modesto,+ca&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=71.934927,86.132812&amp;layer=&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=8&amp;ll=37.190505,-120.351317&amp;spn=4.655513,5.383301&amp;om=1) to find work. I spent about a year there before we moved back to Clovis. In 2000, I married the love of my life, Monica (aka Eleqtra). In 2002, we had another child (how fitting, right?). Over the years I've collected too many hobbies. Weight-lifting, cars, motorcycles, computers, guitar, gardening, I've gained weight, lost weight, put on muscle, gained weight again. I went from being thin to a toad, to a running back, now a small linebacker. I've crashed my motorcycle, met many celebrities (I work in the music industry), woken up in the middle of country rodes drugged, been robbed in a strip club and did a lot of really good deeds I'm proud of but won't talk about. As for the future of The Stardock, it'll keep on trucking. EIS is slowly rolling out Jumpgate, which might make TWGS Search redundant someday. I often think about what I'll do next. There are features on this site that either unactivated, unnoticed or underused. Maybe that'll keep SD current, I don't know. I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Thanks for the memories...so far! EleqTrizi'T [Myspace](https://web.archive.org/web/20070000000000*/https://www.myspace.com/eleqtriq) - [Flickr](https://web.archive.org/web/20070000000000*/https://www.flickr.com/photos/eleqtriq/) - ICQ: 7971550 - AIM: EleqTriziT

>Dear Trade Wars fan, <br><br> 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. <br><br> 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. <br><br> The survey is located at [](https://web.archive.org/web/20060000000000*/https://www.sylien.com/survey.php) <br><br> 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. <br><br> Thank you for helping us to update this classic game for a new generation of gamers! <br><br> John Pritchett, EIS<br> jpritch@eisonline.com

Okay now it is an official moment on the TW Awards, I have finished the compiling of it to my main website for official notice for all. Here is the link: https://vulcansforge-online.net/page_1.htm

USO 2006 is coming July 9th! The USO will be hosted by UltimateTW.com For complete information on this tournament go to www.sugarmebaby.com/uso. A webiste has been set up for every aspect of the game. Get a team together today! Send an email to twuso2006@yahoo.com with the name and email address of the CEO and a list of the members of the team. This is a closed game and only registered players will be able to enter the game. If anyone has any questions, please contact Bad Girl at electrafyn123@yahoo.com HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE...LET THE FIREWORKS BEGIN!