I have just filled a MIA report...Where the heck has Epicenter, Hellcat, Shark disappeared to, for starters. I know Fed Com hasn't been the same or should I say a little quiet without Epi! If you find any of them, please deposit in the nearest mailbox, Stardock guarantees they will pay the postage. Well VIVA LAS VEGAS is coming soon. If you havent made your reservations there is still time left. Many of the TW players will be there. If you can't make Las Vegas, starting saving your pennies for the 2001 TW Convention to be held in Virginia Beach- Oct 4-6, 2001. The HHT will be starting up soon. If you haven't put your team in there is still time, come on this is a fun tourney with lots of fun edits. Contact Space Ghost with your team registration. Yes folks (BIG YAWN) the WTC is still going on. We're now at a Mexican standoff (yes I make the best Enchiladas this side of the Mississippi). There is a cornacopia of games out there now. If you don't see one you like, wait a few minutes another one will pop up. But seriously, its great to see so many games out there with such variety. The week of the TW Convention is also ADOPT-A-NEWBIE-WEEK, take a newbie on your corp and show them how it is done. You may be surprised and you could pick up a permanent corpie that way! HASTA PASTA!

Now that I'm back I began work on the TWGS Games page. This page contains the tentative game descriptions for the upcoming games to be hosted on the TRADEWARS.WS TWGS! I was having major connection troubles from home, so I didn't get much else done. Since people seem to be complaining about locations of the future conventions and not being able to make it to this year's, I'm going to be working harder to complete the Trade Wars Players' Association page. This should help take care of some of the whining that has been occurring recently. I finally have more free time once again now that I've launched the new web site at my place of employment last week, which was taking up almost all of my spare time in the evenings during the week. Things should start to happen a little quicker now...and I will also be participating in more TW games...and maybe even playing them out <gasp>. I've also added a couple of servers to the server list and a new operator to the donations list...keep 'em coming in!! That's it for now.

I'm back from my weekend in Pennsylvania...only a few things at the moment to update on... Only three corps signed up for the [Haunted Halloween Tournament](/files/Site%20Caps/BooInc/news.html)...Wolfpack just sent in a team! Come on folks what's the problem here?? There are about two or three other corporations that will be registering a team for sure...is it going to be a low turnout? Will BK come back to defend their title? I guess we'll have to see! People are apparently complaining about next year's TW2002 Convention being held in Virginia Beach, VA. I don't see anyone else taking the time to sort all of this out, find hotels, and try to keep everyone from waiting until the last minute to sign up like Bad Girl, Eleq, and Cruncher have. Some of you have no real right to be complaining. Not sure what this year's convention will turn out like, but I'm sure it will be fun no matter what. If it happens to be a bad event, then I'm sure next year's will be better! Have faith people, come on. If you have a problem with locations, etc., then host your own TW meeting...or wait for the TWPA to start up (*hint, hint*). Also, another thing about whiners...Hekate made a very good point. If most of you hadn't waited until the last minute to book flights and reserve hotel rooms, they would not be so expensive. This convention has been planned for about a year now, if not more. Six months ago, the entire trip probably would have cost about a quarter of the price, give or take a little. Next year's convention WILL be in Virginia Beach. Get your rooms and flights now, or start saving and pick em up in six months and you won't have this problem next year.

## Dictionary ### Past Words of the Day SHOW ME DA MONEY: Big D, Webmaster of Silver Wings, this is what he calls a "donation"! Example: Show me da money and I will let you play on my server. (Bad Girl) TIMBERWOLFED: The immediate plugging your server via advertisement or "reminder" following someone else's game announcement in an attempt to divert users attention to your system. Example: Sg timberwolfed my game announcement with info about HHT... (Andrew Wyatt) ENERGIZER BUNNYISM: A post or topic in e-groups that causes the message responses to go on and on and on and on! (NIGHTWING) ELEQTRIQSIDE: The ability to photon pass huge amount of figs and slide into enemy territory and cause great destruction with just a little trizi'T, all this while DISCO music plays in the background! (Eleqtrizi'T) PODLEM: The inability to see what most ships look like on the inside for any long period of time. Most players with "PODLEM" only see the escape pod or worse a scout. (Hekate) TYPO FIASCO: You mean to type in a sector to warp to...say 1001..and you accidently type in 1010 and BOOM! You suddenly contract Ghostitis! (Timberwolf) GHOSTITIS: The ability to live comfortably in a small space for a long period of time. Example: Space Ghost attracts GHOSTITIS within 20 min. of entering a game with his desire to live in a POD! WHITE CANING KABOOM: When you tell a fellow teammate to blindwarp to a certain sector and you forget to lift up your fig. Example: BG leaves fig down then tells her evil on another corp to blindwarp! (Eleqtrizi'T) DISCO'D: Disconnected at an inopportune moment, bad timing or as in a John Travolta dance Step. (Lord Chaos) SELF-HAZARDIZATION: Running in to a Level 3 or above planet and blowing ones self to pieces..Example: Morpheus should have stopped for that RED light! (Lady Ice & Lord Chaos) REVERSED POLARITY: a Blue who attacks another Blue in an ISS and goes Red. Example: Guardian did the cross dressing ..oops cross over today when he attacked and killed Space Ghost. (Lord Chaos) Bi-Alignment: TW players who play red and blue equally well. An example is Artemis is Bi! (Lord Chaos)

EleqTrizi'T has posted some very interesting [**news**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://twgs.tradewars.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?) over at [**Home Sector**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://twgs.tradewars.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?). TW account crackers, BEWARE! Word is there have been hack attacks happening recently and still occurring up until this weekend. The 'Top Gun' game over at [**Silver Wings**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.alaweb.com/%7Efreespirit1/index.html) is now underway. I decided to be a part of the game and must say that I'm having fun playing. I haven't been playing games that much recently, so it's something to help me get back on my feet. Even though I died today while SSM'ing and making my dinner at the same time (big mistake), I think I'll stick with it until I use my other three lives. Only a month until the [**Haunted Halloween Tournament**](/files/Site%20Caps/BooInc/news.html)! Does anyone have the ballz to stand up to the already signed up competition of KARMA and Rolo's crew? The TW League section is up, I got some information there...I will add the rest when I get back Sunday night or on Monday morning. I will be in PA for the rest of today and most of tomorrow/tomorrow night, so things will be slow here at TRADEWARS.WS until I get back.

[**The Den**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.webcntrl.com/timberwolf/) officially shut down today. I want to commend Timberwolf on running an enjoyable server and hopefully the [**Den**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.webcntrl.com/timberwolf/) will return in the near future. Another reminder to reserve your rooms at the Excalibur for the [**TW Convention**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://twgs.tradewars.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?tw.htm) from October 20-22! Rooms are going fast and air fares are going up...don't wait too long to book your trip or you will miss out on the first annual [**Trade Wars 2002 Convention**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://twgs.tradewars.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?tw.htm)! All the cool people will be there!! I should be receiving a list of nominees for the open board member position for the Trade Wars League. That information will be posted on the **TW League page** here at TRADEWARS.WS. I will be working on the **TW League** section of the site tonight and it should be completed and active before midnight EST. Not much site news today, I've been real busy at work with our company's new web site launch, so I haven't had the chance to come up with any new clever ideas <G>. Oh I do have a volunteer for co-sysop and he will probably get the position. Darth Vader from my old corporation NAV HAZ UNLTD. on the Pisces Network is going to be setting up a Star Wars game for the server launch sometime late next week. It will replace the 'Red Alert' game that I was going to bang previously. Be on the lookout for that! EleqTrizi'T has posted a [**review**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://twgs.tradewars.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?twattac.htm) of the newest version of [**ATTAC**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.tw-attac.com) which now has graphical mapping AND supports REXX scripting!! Check out Eleq's [**review**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://twgs.tradewars.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?twattac.htm) for more information! [**Silver Wings**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.alaweb.com/%7Efreespirit1/) is banging an every man for himself game called 'Top Gun' tonight at 8:00PM CST. They are giving away [**prizes**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.egroups.com/message/TradeWarriors/306) to the trader who can withstand the competition.

Important message regarding the TW Community, from Stonewall in the [**TW2002 eGroup**](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.egroups.com/groups/tw2002/): ```text I had a user hack another players computer and CBY him three times while he was online on my server. (I let him create excess accounts to talk to him to hold him online) This player is using the IP 212.179.174.106 from bezint.net. I accidently shut down the program I was fingering him and logging him with so I dont have the complete route info. This is an overseas IP. This player says that isn't his personal account but none the less it is a start. He ran several port scans on me, but was unable to do anything. He is also causing havoc with another server I am talking with currently. All sysops and servers please take note!" Stonewall ``` Apparently some other systems got hit as well, so operators and players alike, be on the lookout! In other news, Timberwolf will be shutting down The Den TWGS around 10am Friday morning. The current games will be moved to other servers, players take note and keep an eye on the Den's [web site](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.webcntrl.com/timberwolf/) for more information. Ditched the File Vault section for the time being...it will come back at a later time. I also added the TW League section to the web site. This page will contain news/updates, interviews, future plans, etc. for the [Trade Wars League](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.twleague.com). I will be working on the content for that page today and it should be there sometime this afternoon.

Snips of news from the past few days. New v3.0 of [ATTAC](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.tw-attac.com/) has been released. It includes a new graphical map and more importantly, the ability to use [ZOC scripts!](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.thestardock.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?zoc.htm) This means that all you people who [get around ZOC without registering it](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.egroups.com/message/tw2002/15710) will now start looking for ways to get around ATTAC without registering it. In other news, Hekate has started to talk like a [late night infomercial.](/files/Site%20Caps/TWLinks/index.html) Oddly enough, the phrase, "Wow, that's amazing!" is not seen. [The Den](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.webcntrl.com/timberwolf/) and Avalon are closing down. Whatever. [Linux Guy](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.intergate.cx/) has released v2.07 of his Fusion software, used to play BBS door games through Linux

Moldar from the [TWLeague](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.twleague.com) has released a demo program for the new league ratings systems that have been proposed. [Download](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.twleague.com/ratingdemo.exe) the program, play with it a little and see which system you like better. If you have any suggestions, questions, or comments, please contact [Moldar](mailto:moldar@twleague.com), or any of the other TWLeague board members. Also, as a reminder, there will be a new league game starting this Saturday, the 30th. Deadline for registration is Wednesday at Midnight Eastern time. [Sign up now](mailto:lithe@twleague.com)! Click [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.twleague.com/game0930.html) for the current registration list. Just recently, I volunteered my services to the TWLeague. I will be posting updates, conducting interviews, and covering other league news‑related items here on TRADEWARS.WS. I'm still trying to figure out how I want to restructure the main page for these updates. I will have this figured out by tonight or tomorrow, at the latest. The first league interview will be conducted and posted within the next couple of days, with another to follow shortly thereafter. Keep checking back for these new updates!

Well lets see what is going on in the TW world. Egroups has been flooded to death with flame wars. And what was that Walmart shit you put in Egroups, Timber? We have lost some egroups subscribers...still wiping the tears after our beloved Mana made a quick stage left exit... Eleq would like to thank all those who sent flowers to his untimely Bote death. The Eulogy given by Naz left the Church of the Later Day Twarriors with not a dry eye in it. We will miss Eleq but he will be reincarnated at HHT! Speaking of the HHT...Come on people!!!! Sign up those teams TODAY! As of now only 2 teams have signed up 5 Bad Guys and a Bad Girl and Karma. Don't be lame sign up today and kick some booty! I was reading egroups today..or should I say wading thru the messages and saw that Barnhill brought the PODBAT out of retirement. I dont think I have seen that in 3 years. If you havent seen his PODBAT...check out Crunchers page of pics I believe you can see Barney and his PODBAT! Well Timber is taking down his server. Nope Timber is putting it back up. Nope Timber is taking down his server. Nope Timber is thinking of getting DSL and putting it back up...Stay tune to the Timber saga of will the DEN stay or go! Last but not least if you havent checked out Fuseblown's page..please do it is done very well. The addy is d OK this is the last thing can we stop having all those damn polls in egroups, I feel like I am being stalked by Gallop!