There’s been a very big lack of news lately. Most other sites have resourted to tell about their latest TV appearance, or who just joined their corporation. (Speaking of which, myself and rest of the worthlessbastard.com staff will be holding a worthless chat this Sunday at 8:00 Eastern.)

But I have a proposal: Somebody do something horrible to their house. Have it burn down, abducted by aliens, have your server melt down in a freak overclocking accident, ANYTHING! I’m personally asking Naz to take on this mission. Besides being the only Canadian I know of with no sense of humor, it would be better for something to happen to him, than say, having TheStardock’s servers get blown up.

I recently called this game over due to multiple people e-mailing me and telling me the game was finished and that corporations 4/22 had won.I received an e-mail yesterday from a player who does not concede and feels the game can turn to his favor. The game will continue. I apologize for any inconveniences…the game has also been re-opened to new players.

If any of you are big into music like myself and like the group Clutch, then you know that they have a new CD out entitled “Pure Rock Fury.” On this new CD you will find a multimedia video of a live performance of a previous song of theirs called “Spacegrass,” which was recorded on 9/8/2000 at the 9:30 Club in downtown Washington, D.C.I’m actually in attendance during this performance and appear a couple of times in the video, I’m going to throw together my personal web site once again and I will have screenshots of the video on the site. I just thought it was pretty cool that they did that and I could actually see myself on a world-wide musical release. 😉

Sorry if you find this post tacky (I know I would if I weren’t me, but I’m kinda excited right now, heh).

The time limit imposed on “Red Alert” has been removed, it is now unlimited time. A player had trouble with his time not resetting. In order to prevent this from happening in the future we decided to just remove it altogether.”Corporation Power” has been won by corporation(s) 4 & 22! They will be added to the site along with the winners of the first Lil’Funky game (the second Lil’Funky game is currently in progress).

Our “Big Bang Friday” two days ago was a hit. We hit 62+ people online at once! As soon as I opened the games they were flooded.

If you haven’t checked out the games yet, do so now! Games L, A, R, and D are only two days old now! Still plenty of time to get in there and get rolling!

If you haven’t signed up for the Lethal Lottery Tournament starting on April 1, 2001, you need to do it soon!Last I heard the registrations were up to 51 out of the maximum 60! I’m sure if they’re not already filled by now they will be shortly! Registrations will be accepted past 60 in case of drop-outs.

Click here to register.

I’m leaving this morning for yet another week in Denver. Should be returning on the 17th or 18th providing things go well at the job site. What this means is that there’s no one local who’s experienced with The Void’s MBBS settings and system, so hopefully there’s very few problems. If you do have problems, contact one of the Sysops–either DagBot or Space Ghost–for assistance. If necessary Kitty Moon can reboot the system, but if there are any remaining configuration problems, they’ll have to wait until my return. Good luck everyone, and don’t enjoy the party too much without me!

Eleq and Fuseblown have put together a page on the Home Sector website that contains a list of people who have made contributions to the game of Trade Wars. They include beta testers, sysops, game ops, website owners, and most importantly of all, they also mentioned Team EIS. Because without EIS, Trade Wars would have been dead long ago.

I was mentioned both as a beta tester and web site owner, though not as a game op because I op at serveral servers at one time or another. You can also see my name for beta testers if you own a TWGS and click “Help > About” and a list appears of beta testers for the TWGS.

I want to thank the Home Sector for putting up the page to recognize many individuals in the TW community that were at least partly responsible for the progress of Trade Wars. See the page right here.

The Void BBS has been born…here is the information from Space Ghost:“Announcing the NEWEST World Group Server on the Block.
Please everyone come checkout void.tw2002.ws It’s a World
Group System and EVERYONE is invited to come and USE.
We Have a FAST connection and a Fast Server!!!!
We offer 2 Twgs servers !!!!!!
Many Many Games to choose from !!!!!!
Starting NEXT Friday at 8pm Eastern We Will have the
Weekend Pod Party!!!! Most Kills Wins 1000 Sectors max ports!
Busts Clear Nightly Game will end Sunday at 11:59 pm
Stock Game No Edits No Dupes..

Your Sysops are: Kitty Moon and her Fiance Icehawk, Dagbot, The Ghost aka , And ME!!!! Space Ghost!”

Check it out!

Home Sector & Stardock BBS have constructed a page (found on the top navigation bar: “TW Contributors“) dedicated to those folks that have put in the time, money, and effort that has kept this game alive over the years! Without these folks, there would be no “community.” Heck, there wouldn’t even be TWGS or any new versions of TW2002 past the v3.09 door, if that!These people deserve all of our thanks and support and this is the least we could do for those people.

If you are not listed anywhere you feel you should be listed on this page, please let us know and we will get you up there.

*Four* fresh games are starting TONIGHT, 9:00pm EST at Stardock BBS!**RED ALERT** – 650 Turns, 5k Sectors, 4 Hour Time Limit, Lots of Ship Edits, One New Planet, Citadel Construction Times Cut in Half

Duper’s Delight 2 – 500 Turns, 5k Sectors, Unlimited Time, Unlimited Dupes (Use “Dupe Access” command from the BBS for dupe accounts)

APOCALYPSE – Unlimited Turns, 20k Sectors, Unlimited Time

Lil’Funky – 840 Turns, 5k Sectors, Unlimited Time, Lots of Ship/Planet Edits