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Vast Improvements

by in August 25th, 2000 
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Grew tired of the last design rather fast, but I love this one (I always say that, don’t I?). One area that REALLY has improved is the game logs area. Check it out and feed me some back!

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The Mario Bros.(TM) Return!

by in August 24th, 2000 
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The crazy duo of Mario and Luigi known as the Super Mario Bros. have landed on the EIS Forums! Ah, Those two wacky plumbers would do anything for a mushroom. Drug abuse conotations aside, it looks like Mario and Luigi had to change their names to Max and Lucifer Ligh before they started posting on the EIS forums to keep their identities hidden.

Unfortunatelly, the Mario Bros.(TM) are probably the worst thing to happen to the EIS Forum since Barefoot. Let’s take a look at a few of the insights the Mario Bros.(TM) have on Tradewars:

The Mario Bros.(TM) on Being Old School Gangstaz”
“[Mario] tells me that the current generation of players think that they are better strategists than us old-timers. (BTW, if you weren’t playing in the single-node days you are not an old-school player.)”

This is the main problem with the Mario Bros.(TM) Since they consider themselves “oldsk00l,” they automatically think they have the right to become God and change the game as they see fit. I don’t care if you don’t use helpers. More power to you if you don’t. What I don’t like is people telling me how I should play the game. All I can say is that you better not tell me that I can’t use SST or Helpers because they cause cancer and make the game unfair. If you just happen to say that to me, I’ll probably be forced to change your name to some fictional video game character.

The Mario Bros.(TM) on Helpers and other things that make Baby Jesus cry:
“if a game must have 3rd party helper programs and command scripting to make it not be boring to it’s players, then this is a game in desperate need of a redesign. … Why not just eliminate the trade negotiations entirely, or simply go the whole hog and build the “helper” into the game itself?”

Well DUH. If you look around a few games, helpers and/or scripts basically are integrated into the game. Very few people don’t use them. Does it really matter if Tradewars has a helper built in? No.

As I’ve said before, Tradewars caters to the hardcore. One of the great things about that is we don’t have have to put up with the “D00d, can u give me some creds?” kind of people who run rampent in other games. The downside is that there is less money to be made so extras like integrating a helper into the game can’t be done.

The Mario Bros.(TM) on Geriatrics:
“I was writing FORTH code and hacking games like Telegard in the C64 and Apple IIplus while you were still getting beat up on the playground for your lunch money, son.”

I don’t care if you ported Nethack to an Atari 2600. You may have been around longer, but you still have about the same authority to change Tradewars as Gary Coleman does. Maybe if this were China where people respect their elders, things would be diffrent. But this is America and I’ll be damned if I start respecting them now.

The Mario Bros.(TM) on Challenging for Love and Honor:
“… no helper scripts, 350 turns per day. I’ll even take you at your word that you’ll not use helper scripts”

Smart Move Einstein. If your so against helpers, then why don’t you let them use the helpers and then kick their butt? (Note: Mario did allow the opposing team to use helpers, but this line just being said should tell you something.)

I’m probably throwing this thing well out of proportion. After all, only three people are constantly proclaiming that the game be changed: The Mario Bros. and Barefoot. It’s an incredibly small – but also incredibly vocal – Minority. I wish everyone had the same attitude as The Guardian (Not to be confused with Guardian) does: let them use helpers, I play the way I do because I like it.

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Word Of The Day

by in August 20th, 2000 
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Today’s Word of the Day is brought to you by Lord Chaos……..

SPACE FART: Saying something on Fed Com by accident or something unintentionally cruel, deserving of an apology. Example: Mojoe has diarrhea of the mouth!

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Word Of The Day

by in August 20th, 2000 
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Word of the day is 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!

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Word Of The Day!

by in August 20th, 2000 
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The Word for today is brought to you by Timberwolf..

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!

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WTC Poll Results

by in August 20th, 2000 
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Sorry it is not more presentable, I just really wanted to get the data out ASAP before I left for the week. 30 people took the WTC poll. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Opinion of WTC Format
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Very High – 30
High – 10
Average – 3
Low – 1
Game Sucked – 1

Opinion of Personal in-game WTC Performance
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Great – 4
Good – 14
Not so Good -3
I suck – 8
Didn’t Participate – 1

Suggestions
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Set Death Limit – 13
Not allowed Corp Switching – 11
Make Ship Edits – 5
Make Planet Edits – 3
Installed Daily Time Limit – 16
No Photons – 2
Use Classic non-MBBS Mode – 3
Nothing, it’s perfect – 10

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Quote of the Day

by in August 20th, 2000 
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From a post Exodius made in EIS Forums. I think a lot of Egroups people should keep this in mind, I know I’ll try…

“If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.”
-Dennis Roch

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Word Of The Day

by in August 18th, 2000 
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The word of the day is being submitted by Yours Truly

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!

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Rather be Photoned Dept.

by in August 18th, 2000 
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Coolidge Winesett, 75, said there’s only one way to describe what it was like being trapped for almost three days at the bottom of his Southwest Virginia outhouse after its floor gave way.

“I compare it to the Bible’s hell,” said Winesett, a World War II veteran and retired janitor.

It had hellish elements–the smell, maggots, snakes, spiders, rats. Plus there was the persistent notion that he’d done something wrong to deserve it, recalled Winesett, speaking by phone from his bed at Wythe County Community Hospital, where he is recovering from dehydration and injuries he suffered when the 50-year-old outhouse floor collapsed from dry rot Saturday afternoon.

Winesett’s ordeal began about 4 p.m. Saturday after he returned from getting a new battery for his 1978 Chevrolet Impala. Winesett said he was getting ready to pick the banjo on his back porch when he decided to make a pit stop.

“I screamed ’till I run out of voice,” he said.

After he fell, Winesett said, he was suspended over the “bad stuff”–the sludge–by a subfloor and the cracked floorboards. Eight-penny nails from the planks dug into his flesh, and his body was contorted and immobilized. But that, he said, was nothing compared with the horrors of the next 69 hours, which he spent dealing with creepy, crawly things.

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Word OF The Day..The Sequel

by in August 17th, 2000 
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This word is brought to you by Eleqtrizi’t and his version of a Space Fart….

WHADAFUQ: Something said on Fed Com that makes you think “Whadafuq! That’s messed up” Example: Mojoe with his diarrhea of the mouth.

Topics: People

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