Kitty Moon has posted on her web site that she has retired from TW completely.Icehawk has now taken over the web site and is looking for someone to help out with daily news. If you’re interested, visit Kitty’s Playground and contact him.

I’m just going to post all of these under one header. It’s easier that way…lots of new games banging recently, here’s what I have received:Stardock BBS banged “Corporation Power” last night at 7:20pm EST! The game is still fresh, get in there while you can! Corporation-based theme and new ships edits!

Timberwolf has put together a game honoring Andrew Wyatt (Aitvo) of Intergate BBS. The game is dubbed “Intergate Classic” and it will be hosted at The Deep South. The game starts TOMORROW NIGHT at 8:00pm EST! For more information on the game visit TW Gazette.

Jackal of Wolfpack fame, in conjunction with Silver Wings will be running a “Lethal Lottery Tournament” beginning April 1, 2001 (same start date as the Canadian TW Tournament). Go here to sign up and to get information. They will only be accepting 60 players!

Mission: Nighthawk BBS will be hosting a Canadian TW Tournament beginning April 1, 2001. The practice game for this tourney began last night and is currently running at nighthawk.lakehead.net. Once I receive more information on this tournament I will post it!

You may have noticed the Official EIS forum has been under construction for the past few days. It finally looks like it’s in a stable state while the last few bugs are hammered out. It’s leaps and bounds above the old format they had. I asked Rick Mead about personal icons and here’s his response:

“funny you should mention that… i am working on it now”

www.tradewars.com updates their website on Feb 23. Earlier I wrote about Trade Wars:Dark Millennium this morning with a quick review on how I feel about it…..which was that I basically wouldnt like it.

Guess what?

A couple guys wrote me how it could be a good thing for the TW community and I gave it some thought then decided to pull the review until I actually see it for myself when it does come out.

John Prichett was one of those people who wrote me. I was pleasantly surprised. This is what he had to say.

Read your post on the tw.com site.  You’re entitled to your opinion 😉 But I do want to point out that it most definitely IS supposed to look like a comic book.  That’s one of the design elements that I really like about this game.  I think it looks great.

Please, don’t look at this project as a TW sequel.  If you do, you’ll just be disappointed.  But these guys grew up playing TW and they love the game.  That doesn’t mean that they want to clone it.  They want to take some general ideas, and expand on them.  But unlike others who have done that, they wanted to continue the Trade Wars tradition.  Obviously if I didn’t think it was a good idea, I wouldn’t have agreed to it.

Reserve judgement until the game is written.  I’m working hard to get some basic TW design elements into the game.  And I’m working hard to help guarantee that the game will be fun even if it doesn’t quite hold up to the expectation of veteran TW2002 fans.

You can save the “it’s not like TW2002” criticism for my Team EIS project.  The goal there will definitely be to keep the game close to the classic, and I’ll be relying on the input from people like you to keep us in line.

If I can just manage to build this team without splintering the TW community 🙁

John Pritchett
Epic Interactive Strategy
https://www.eisonline.com

You heard it from the man himself, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you John.

The other person that wrote me is none than Animal himself, who offered a different perspective on TW:Dark Millennium

Man you need to sit back and look at the big picture concerning Dark Millennium if it comes out as good as it looks, good Tradewars players have got a shot at making money off of this game…Depends on how it turns out if it ‘s like the online game forget the name unreal or maybe Diablo?? people ar developing characters and selling them on ebay for big bucks depending on the exp. etc. of the character… That makes it possible for any good tradewars players that can pick up the new game quick enough to build up characters and sell them.never can tell too early yet but a good possibility.

Another perspective offered by Animal gives you something to think about. I want to thank Animal and John Pritchett for e-mailing me on my previous review of tradewars.com . I withold all my judgements on Dark Millennium until I actually see it for myself. My only reservation of this is that I’m afraid the game’s system requirements will exceed that of my own system which is 200 MHZ and 32MB of RAM, though getting more RAM wont be a problem as I gotta do it anyways.

Online community games like Unreal, Everquest, Ulitma, etc all exceed my system requirements so I’m missing out on those games and I’m afraid I will miss out on Dark Millennium as well. If a best selling game like Half-Life only requires 166 MHZ and 32MB of RAM among their requirements, I see no reason why TW:Dark Millennium shouldn’t either. I’ll keep an eye on this.

A new tournament is hitting the scenes this year. The Canadian Trade Wars tournament will begin on April 1, 2001. It will be hosted by Mission: NightHawk BBS (winning team of BOTE 2000).The practice game for this upcoming tournament will begin TONIGHT at 8pm EST at nighthawk.lakehead.net. Make sure you check it out!

Tradewars.org) reported yesterday that in addition to Trade Wars making headlines at SlashDot, that it has also made news at Daily Radar.The release of Trade Wars: Dark Millenium is almost sure to help get the word out to former (and new) Trade Wars players that the original text game that they loved to play so long ago is still alive and thriving!

After being posted earlier today on slashdot, Tradewars: Dark Millenium has also made headlines over at Daily Radar. I’d also like to point out that the Tradewars: DM website will next be updated this Friday. Realm says that they’ll be adding a new FAQ, Screenshots, and discussion groups. No doubt today’s actions will help spread the word about the Original and upcoming versions of Tradewars.

Hekate has just posted her new games list! She has added a lot of servers the past couple of weeks so go check it out! And if you run a server that is not listed on her site be sure to contact her with your information!site has a new design! Looking good Hekky!

That’s right! “Trade Wars” has once again made Slashdot.org headlines! This time it is about the launch of TRADEWARS.COM and the release of Trade Wars: Dark Millenium!

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Cruncher has posted an update today in the tradewars_2002 group stating that the beta team is “hot & heavy into working on .42 now.” Check out the rest of the message here and the official beta testing site here. Good work Cruncher and the rest of the beta testers!