To hell with it, it was adding too much overhead. I hope to have at least gained 200ms over the horrid 500ms in-game ping times I had. Let me know.

I needed a fresh test slate, so the only game on the TWGS has been rebanged. Please post notes in the forum.

Stability testing officially resumes. Please post your thoughts in the forums. I plan to bang an array of games in a day or two if things go well. I hope to take this sucker straight to gold ASAP. It’s been long enough!

To celebrate, I present the ductape bikini contest.

Man dies from crushed testicles.

We have pics in the forum.

Yeah I know I have not updated BOTE news – or any TW news. I’ll try and get going on that in the next couple days. But way it looks now, with Coastgames out and the settings set up the way it is, we are looking at a 2nd stalemate in BOTE history. IMHO, I think future tournaments can do without the death limit if settings are set to prevent rebuilding when a team’s base is invaded. Low terra regen is one option. They then will have to concede the game. With no death limits, teams can show, to coin a WWE phrase, ruthless aggression in competition instead of sitting back in defensive mode to avoid being eliminated. They can then afford to moth a heavy defended enemy base for days on end until the ore wear down and they can break thru without worry of invaders being eliminated. If invaders get #SD#, they simply will be back the next day to resume play instead of being eliminated, keeping the game going strong. Just keep pounding away and it’s over, one way or another. Sit back and it will stalemate.

Ship delay is another factor in the BOTE. Gridders and lawnmowers are more at risk of being podded so they are more hesistant to do their jobs unless they really have to.

To sum it up, for tournament games, I think settings should be set up for offensive play, not defensive play. And currently, in the BOTE, offensive play is just that..offensive..given the current settings. Therefore, I think the death limit should be abolished and the ship delay set to none IMHO.

It’s been a long hard few months here at work. My boss resigned, and I am the only one who can pick up the slack. But, I’ve emerged from the ordeal with a promotion and a raise worth bragging about. Now that things are settled down, I plan to get the HS website going again.

First order of business will be to get the update checker a little more accurate. The second will be to raise the TWGS. There is no reason it’s not running other than I just didn’t want it up yet. It’s sitting right here.

Someone brought up to me that I should do more game coverage news. Why? I don’t play in the games. I don’t even pay attention. There are other people who do that already, and do a good job of it.

Truth of the matter is I don’t really want to concern myself with other people’s events. That’s why I have guest editors. They do that already. If you want to post stuff to the website, let me know and I’ll consider giving you access to the news poster. More posters the better.

BTW, anyone seen my Ent. Editor?

Web-based remake of Legend of the Red Dragon. Cool.

Haunted Halloween Tournament 2003

https://www.coastgames.com/hht2003/index.php

Only the first 75 people who sign up can play,….

This years HHT is BIG Chess .

Check it out before its too late!! Look whose playing!
https://www.coastgames.com/hht2003/hht_2003_players.php

The Five Captains are
Kemper3,Cherokee,CBS228,Doc Who,Nazwes Chaiwind

Some nasty stuff here.