Google launched a new service called “Google Insights”.  Let’s you track trends over time.  Well, things aren’t looking good for TradeWars.

To view the full chart, CLICK HERE.

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 or Contact ParrotHead Or myself.

My congratulations to Parrothead and his team…He won a deceisive victory leaving no doubt who won the game. We hope to possibly turn this into a serious of 2 corp games.Games that hope to challenge all levels of players.. Sage at UTW did an Awsome Job at setting up this game… Thanks to everyone involved!!!! Next? maybe Big Chess heh….

It’s my pleasure to announce Big Game 08….. Parrothed vs Space Ghost.In a mutual effort to have a fun competive game me and parrothead will Go head to head with the aide of 8 our friends / corpies. In an effort to promote the game we would like people to sign up Right here and both me and parrot will pick from the pool of players….. This is an effort to have a fun competive game ..leave the Hate at home….. Rules are simple Two teams mine and Parrot’s no others.No buyouts neither planet nor ship. Closed game once we have teams day 1 they dont change.

Settings will be 8000 sectors MBBS 1k turns a day 2 day turn bank Stockish planets (1/2 time cits) and Ships,…(125 holds havoc.. missle 100holds twarp and holo 4tpw..CFS open….Twarp on the Colt )

Start Date 04-18-08 at 9pm eastern
Server UTW

Both me and Parrot will be posting our 8 people as soon as possible. If you would like to play Please Sign up in this thread with your intrest to do so. Both me and parrot will be picking people from the people who sign up.“

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!).

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.

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

Join the new TWGS BETA TEAM !!

Very soon JP will be releasing a Beta Update that will need Tested. IF you wish to be a part of this TEAM of Beta testors please sign up in this thread. Beta testors will be provided the address for the BETA test TWGS and the means of supplying FeedBack to JP about the Bugs found and addressed in this Update. IF you would like to be a part of this TEAM please post in this thread Sign UP!!

In the best interests of keeping a ton of drama about Vulcan and EIS off the front page of The Stardock, here are some threads to read about what has happened between the now-former host of EIS and EIS itself.

Thread 1
Thread 2

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

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???

I’ve added some new features for the users.

RSS Feeds – When you login, you will see a big orange icon in the top right of the page. That is a link to an RSS Feed you can use in Firefox, Thunderbird, Google, Outlook, IE7, etc. It lists all the newest posts as they happen.

Youtube and Google Video – You can use the bbcode to display a video. Here’s an example of the Sylien TWT video released late last year – https://www.tradewarsforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=53