As stated above, Rippers new game will start soon. Since I'm out of school for the time being, I'm once again going to try my hand at TW. I'll be playing on Rippers under the Tradewars ID of "PaRappa the Rapper." So if you see me, kill me because if you don't, chances are someone else will! :)

**Gypsy Redesigns war room!** Shockwaves Were sent through the state of Arizona Wedsday morning as The phenomenon known as "Gypsy updates page" which was first covered [December 18th](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://www.thestardock.com/gypsy.shtml), reached it's height. As reported before, This rare phenomenon which happens once every 1,000 years seems to have subsided, but not before All of Arizona was left in ruins. Besides destroying all the buildings in Arizona, it also seems to have bestowed proper grammer on Gypsy's page. “It’s a good thing he overhauled it. If I saw that JavaScript message and those flames one more time, I was going to scream! Excuse me while I start rebuilding my house that was just destroyed.” But seriously, [Gypsy's War room](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://www.azi.com/war_room/wr_main.htm) looks 1000x better than it did before, although Gypsy still has those damn flaming skulls. :) **Back from Vacation** Ahh, It was quite nice not to have worry about the 'page for a while. Quite a lot has happened, so I'll be updating all throughout today. **Rippers to Reset January 1st** [Bbs.Rippers.com](telnet://bbs.rippers.com), Once one of the largest Tradewars BBSs that was crushed by it's own weight, is back! It's now telnetable only now, in the tradition of Stardock BBS, and the Sysop no longer has to worry about being an ISP. The "Comeback game" for Rippers is slatted to begin

**Merry Christmas** Yea, yea, So I missed yesterday's promised update by 2 hours. So sue me. :) Since I'll be playing with all my nice toys for a while, don't expect news until Monday or so. I'm also leaving for Wisconsin then too, so News will also be a little skimpy. :( **Debute on Web Side Story** Well, we debuted on Web Side story as #945. Not bad, not good either. I had really expected worse. :) **CDK re-does web page** Liquid Crystal (CDK) has informed me that he has redone his [The Beginner's Guide to Trade Wars 2002](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/4685/). It's mostly enchanced for Netscape v4.0, so his old page is still available at the same address. Also, CDK's page has been asked to join the Tradewars 2002 Web Ring.

I did some work re-doing parts of the page. First off, The Listings page has been redone, (More on that below.) the E-mail page is re-designed, and I now have a counter at Web Side Story. They have a MUCH better tracking program than what I currently have, and it was free. :) Plus, you can also check out our statistics by clicking on the link above. **New "Mana Knight's picks" added.** Yes, the listings page finally got a much‑needed facelift. To top it off, I have now added MK Pics. These are sites I feel they deserve to be visited. To those who won: Congratulations! To those who didn’t win: I am in desperate need of a TV and VCR.

John Pritchett has just released a small bug fix for the DOS version of Tradewars. Straight from John, Here's what it does: > The main bug it addresses is the alien record bug. Whenever it runs, it looks for aliens with maxed Corbomite and re-initializes those records. Every time a player kills an alien, the game creates a new one with the maxed corbomite. That means, to keep up with the problem, you’ll need to run the repair program at least once a day. I don’t see a problem with running it at startup or shutdown of each game session. Just add it to the batch file before or after the game runs. > You can also capture the output to a file so you can keep an eye on what changes are being made. If you’re not familiar with this, you can follow the program with > to send output to a file, and >> to append output to a file. > Also, not all reported situations are repaired. I’m going to make a change where it says “fixed” or “not fixed.” That way, some situations that it can’t automatically repair can be addressed in TEDIT by the sysop.

**War Brewing** In more amusing things happening today, Cruncher is currently in war with Jake to see who can get the most pictures of Tradewars players. What makes this funny is that this war has no point! Cruncher gets a new picture which is immediately stolen by Jake and vice versia. If you take a look at [Cruncher's page,](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://www.fament.com/cruncher/) you might find a picture of me with my friend Karen. (Soon to appear on [Jake's page](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://www.fament.com/tradewars/) also, I'm sure.) **Tradewars 2002 Web Ring** For those of you who have noticed, a Tradewars 2002 Web Ring graphic has been at the bottom of my page for about a day or so. Gypsy Just started the TW2002 Web Ring a few days ago, and ten sites were asked to join. (Yours truelly is one of them) If you were invited, your mail should be in it's box. If not, don't worry. Gypsy has informed me that new sites can send in applications to join, but will not be considered to join until the "founding members" have been assembled and gotten a few things squared away. The reason behind this is that the Web Ring will only have high Quality sites as part of it's ring. These are the known sites that were asked to join: - [The Home Sector](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://http//www.jps.net/eleqtriq/) - [Slacker's Guide to TradeWars 2002](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://menagerie.net/twars) - Tradewars Web Page Union - [Family Entertainment](telnet://bbs.fament.com) - [Gypsy's War Room](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://www.azi.com/war_room/index.htm) - [The War Room BBS](telnet://azi.com) - [TWAR: The Tradewars 2002 Helper](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://webhome.idirect.com/%7Etwar/) - [Rippers BBS](telnet://bbs.rippers.com)** It's also suspected that The [Tradewars v3 Homepage](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://cypress.idir.net/%7Ejpritch/Version3.html) and [Martech Software](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://www.martech.net/)'s homepage were also asked to join. You can visit the Web Ring's site by the links at the bottom of this page.

You certainly can't build Rome in a day, and I certainly couln't have built it at all without some help. This page is dedicated to people who I owe my sinceriest Gratitude for. [Shlonglor](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://www.lighthousewc.com/fraizer/) While his legendary Warcraft 2 page is no longer up, more than a few ideas were taken from his page and implemented here. I can only hope that I can implement more ideas of my own, but until then, My thanks! [Eleqtrizi'T](/) Without Eleq, I would have never have taken the initive to set up this site! Along with providing some graphics, he's given me a great amount of moral support and is still a backbone in this site. [Starr](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/5721/) Originally came up with the concept of having a tradewars website specifically for listing pages. While there were a few flaws in the page, (Most notiably frames :) the Tradewars Consortium is what the listings page is baised off of. [Brandy's Web Design Emporium](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/1288/) More than a few graphics were borrowed off here, and in Return I provide a link. Not completely finished, so if your not listed, don't gripe just yet.

**Gypsy updates page** In a rare event that happens only once every 1,000 years, Gypsy has updated his web page! While it's not known what caused this rare phenomenon, Sources say that his [Interview with Gary Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/19970000000000*/https://www.azi.com/war_room/wr_main.htm) has finally been completed and has now been posted on his page. Stay tuned for more on this once in a lifetime happening. **Thanks page done** I can't sleep, so I've decided to do some stuff. Look up above and you can see that my Thanks! page is now up. A cheezy background has now been added. I hope to change it if I can find another one.

**FEN Bans Due to Dupes** I had my account deleted at FEN for about a month, so I'm sure this is "old" news. But it seems that FEN is no longer allowing it's trial members to partake in it's TradeWars 2002 game. The reason behind this is that almost all the dupes used in the game were from trial members. You are now required to be a paying member of FEN to play Tradewars. This is a sad day indeed. :( **Home Sweet Home** I'm not finally back at home. Having nothing to do, a lot of things will be getting done around here. Included on this list are: - Main Page - More WebPages added, along with Webmaster's Picks - Thank you list - A Mirror of Martech's HTMLized Player Docs - A Bunch of other junk I can't remember off Hand. **Pir8.net gets cleanup working** Pir8.net has finally gotten it's cleanup working. (About time!) According to Hosem, there will also be new player and Ferrengi ships added to the game soon.

**Finals are Ova!** My Finals end this Monday, so Ill be packing up and leaving within the next few days. We'll finally once again have (semi)regular updates! **Pir8 gets game working.** Pir8.net has finally gotten it's cleanup working again. According to Hosem, new mods and a new host of ferrengi and player ships will be implemented if they haven't been added already.