Tradewars Web Page Union – A little slice of Americana

Sunday, April 1, 2001

New Tradewars: Dark Millenium Screenshots! by mk

Realm Interactive announced the completion of their new AN SI (Algorythmic Neccessary Social Insemination) technology. Created by Realm with help from the many programers and artists at ACiD, they promise that they will begin licensing this new technology to other companies so that everyone can benefit.

Jeff Moriarty, president of Realm Interactive said the following, “Using our new ANSI echnology with our already existing Smart Pointer framework(tm) will give us unpresidented graphical power in our programs.”

This power can already be seen. To the left, we have an excusive screenshot of a ship from Tradewars:Dark Millenium rendered using ANSI. The Realm logo displayed here along with the ship, appear exactly as they will in game. Truely a marvelous time for graphic junkies.

The Stardock to merge with AOL-Time Warner by mk
Today, an announcement was made by The StarDock/Home Sector enterprises that they would be completing a hostle takeover of AOL-Time Warner, effectively merging with the company. This comes after The Stardock’s sweeping victories and merges with Tradewars.ws and Intergate technologies. Fuseblown, the official bitch of the tradewars community, had the following to say about the buyout.“We believe that this merger is in the best interests of the entire human species. The next stage of Human evolution is upon us, and only the strong will be left to survive.”

Eleqtrizi’T, now owner of the biggest corporation in the world, changed his title from “CEO and Sex God” to “L’Emperor,” a title once bestowed on the great Napoleon. He also announced that the name of this merged company will be changed to America On-The-Stardock (AOTS). Stock closed today up $5.15

But all is not well in this new company’s land. Protestors gathered today at the company’s headquarters in Fresno, CA after the announcement was made. One such protestor was Joel “Steve” Gonzales who currently runs one of The Stardock’s rival companies, Tradewars.org. “By naming himself “L’Emperor,” Eleqtrizi’T has shown just how boastfull and conceted this merger had made him. … Well, he acted like this before, so I guess you could say he’s just being himself.”

Analysts believe that Eleqtrizi’T will now set his sites on LumCorp, after which he will own 95% of the world. To our new future world leader, we here at TWWU say this, “Don’t listen to that Joel guy! You’re just a nice person!”

I thought I should do these awards before the more official awards are announced. At least with my pickings, they are only worth the value of my opinion. I have categories similar to those of the official awards, plus some of my own.

The people eligible for the awards include everyone not named EleqTrizi’T.

BEST BLUE PLAYER – Rawhead Rex

He builds like there is no tommorow. Somehow, he manages to get a few kills in after he’s done upgrading 30 planets. A farmer if I’ve ever seen one. A farmer with a big gun.

BEST RED – Ripclaw

He knows all the tricks because he’s been an underling in the two greatest corps of all time, DE! and the Black Knights.

BEST HUNTER – Hellcat

Come on, he kills like his name is Manson. Does he even know how to do anything else?

TEAM PLAYER – Peacemaker

He’s played on many, many corps. He gets along well with people and can take orders or dish ’em. I hear about a lot of things, and one thing I’ve never heard is a complaint about Peacemaker.

SPORTSMANSHIP – Peacemaker

I had to include this one. Peacemaker is the model player for all the little brats terrorizing us Sysops and fellow players on a daily basis. A perfect gentleman.

TEACHER – Guardian

The only person I know of that holds master classes in TW.

TWGS SITE – Intergate (bbs.intergate.cx)

Fact is, when I think of places to play in my spare time, the first place I would check is Intergate. They have a hot connection, and now that there is some more horsepower in their TWGS machine, it’s got a nice, fast feel to it. Aitvo is sysop supreme. He even wrote the Fusion GS software that front-ends the TWGS.

TWGS GAME-OP – Timberwolf

He promotes hard, runs good games with good edits. I haven’t received too many complaints about a Timberwolf-run TW game. Matter of fact, I can’t remember seeing any…

HALL OF FAME – Hosem

He was a badass, be glad he’s gone.

BEST WEBSITE – Dragon’s Elite

This one tore me up. How can I even THINK about giving the award to anyone but Mana Knight? But fact is Mana Knight keeps wasting his life in school instead of giving us website updates. Plus, Guardian has the coveted guides of Shell’s that I was trying to get. Bastard.

MOST USEFUL WEBSITE – Hekate’s TWLINKS

I actually visit Hekate’s more often than anyone’s. But the fact is, you can’t give a link site the best award. That would be like giving Altavista an award. Still, the site makes for a great interchange for TW information on the internet.

BIGGEST PROBLEM – William Smith, iDSO

“April 16, 2000 – iDSO, known for it’s great information and technology prowess, today announced the Anal Examinor 2.0. With this product, iDSO will forever change the way bodily excrement is extracted from the rear cavity of today’s women and homosexual men. This, coupled with an alliance with mamma.com, gives iDSO the unrivaled leverage needed to finally finish making their own corporate website to include something besides ‘under construction’ gif images.” – fake press release, but reads like the real ones.

MALE AND FEMALE HONOREES

FEMALE – CRUNCHER

She’s head of the beta-testing group. Without the beta testers and Cruncher, we would be much farther behind in eliminating all the bugs. We all are indebted to her, and don’t forget it.

MALE – JOHN PRITCHETT, new owner of TW2002

All hail the king! Without JP, our game would be dead, and no one would be here reading this today. He constantly releases bug fixes, rewrites entire chunks of code and stays up late many nights just so we can play. On top of that, he’s easily accessible and answers his email. What a guy!

WGS Version .44 has a minor change in that the [Pause] prompt is removed after blowing up a planet. So for those of you using scripts or macros to bust planets, you need to modify your scripts slightly in order to bust planets quickly on servers running .44 or later. I dont know about Q-modem Pro, TWX, and SWATH java scripts, but in ZOC, a common planet detonation line is this: LZDY^M. The ^M gets you past the [Pause] prompt. If you play on a server running .44 or later, modify your planet bust scripts to remove that ^M or whatever is your symbol for a carriage return for your scripting program. This will allow your script to move along swiftly. Otherwise, the ^M will slow you down a tad as it ends up re-displaying the sector when in previous versions it gets you past the [Pause] prompt.

I’ll be soon posting modified planet bust scripts to accodomate TWGS .44 users and for players using Havocs and MC’s to bust planets. I hope to have them posted later today or tommorow if I’m not too busy preparing for my vacation.

Even though I haven’t received any complaints or concerns over WTC’s donation-oriented nature, I am going to make these changes…I’m going to lower the exemption to $40. I’m also going to allow anyone in high school or below to be exempt from donations as well. You will need to be willing to provide proof of age if requested, however.

I plan to use the WTC as a once-a-year game-based fund raiser.

I was out of town for 5 days last week and was unable to refill the Lil’Funky colonists. It is now refilled. Enjoy!

Here’s the information from the TW gOD himself…That’s right, it’s time for WAR. Deadly, low-down, devastating, take-a-toll-on-your-soul WAR. I proudly present WTC 2001!!

Jump over to the WTC page for information!!

https://www.thestardock.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?wtc.htm

Yeah, yeah. I know you all missed me over the past 4-5 days. I’ve been in San Antonio, Texas for work since the 20th and I finally got back about an hour ago.I see that I have 200+ e-mail messages to go through. Once I catch up on my sleep today I will be back in full-force doing daily updates once again!

Look for today’s update sometime in the late evening/early night!

Well since it is such a quiet week in TW I thought I would share with everyone that Prestone (the big meanie!) ran into Bambi the other night.. and I mean that literally! He did go back to look for the pod but it was no where in sight…looks like his ISS may have to be in the shop a week or two.

Lethal Lottery is coming up soon…should be alot of fun. I am sure the day by day results will be published in egroups!

Maztablazta won with 7 kills, Xanos had 5, Winner(Bud) had 4, Paladyne had 2 kills and Animal had one. In fact, Animal’s lone kill was the last one that clinched at least a tie for MaztaBlazta. Xanos conceded the game to MaztaBlazta as there were only 2 leps left and Xanos at best could only tie MaztaBlazta.Logs are here. The Next Hunt game is April 2 at 7pm CST. It is called the April Fool’s Hunt and players will be hunting Fools instead of Leprechauns. This time, I wont put corbs in ships and also SD will be by Fed so everyone could have a fair chance to hunt. I will also close game in 2 days instead of 1 day.

Due to the outpouring of support yesterday in a time of crisis, I am able to reopen the server much earlier than anticipated. While I haven’t exactly received everything I needed to cover costs, the help so far cannot be ignored. I strongly encourage those who have made promised donations to please follow through. For once, it would be nice to not only meet basic operating costs, but to get a little ahead and pay past costs as well.

Thank-you to those who have helped out with donations. The donation link is still available for those who haven’t yet helped and would like to. I will be posting a bigger thank-you in the days to come.

-Agustin, Owner SD BBS