Had to format a drive on my computer to install a fresh copy of Win2k Advanced Server. Once that’s finished, I have some other things I need to throw on the machine for web development.

Eleq sent me the last backup of the Stardock BBS’s TWGS including all of the games we had run the last 6 months or so that it was online. So I have all of our old games…I’ll pick through those and see what I want to put online to open the server with.

It’s possible the server will be back up tonight, however, I may wait until tomorrow since I’ll be messing around with some development stuff on here tonight still.

If any problems start to occur due to my development processes, then I’ll cut them off so as not to disturb the TWGS.

First of all, I’m still busy as a bee with starting this ISP, all of my time and energy has gone into working on this day in and day out and in some cases, night in and night out. Things are starting to come together and soon I’ll have a little bit of free time to put into some TW-related projects.

Next, the WTC is over, the GoodGuys tore it apart. I was given a list of six players to announce as the winners, however I somehow lost those from my ICQ history and do not have them. Either way, the GoodGuys won, I’ll post a list of the GoodGuys team on the WTC page ASAP. This year’s game was very quick and I know there are a lot of upset folk about the whole thing. However, it’s a no-holds-barred game, and that’s how it turned out this year. Hopefully next year, a little more time and organization will be put into it. I wanna thank Poison and MemphisTW for hosting the game for me this year!

Third, this year’s BOTE is coming up real soon…it will begin on July 17th at FEN. All public servers are eligible to send in a team to represent them in one of the best tournaments of the year. More information coming soon!

Finally, the Home Sector TWGS will be back up this week! I have to format my personal computer to take care of some performance issues and the occasional freezing it likes to pull on me. Once that is done, I’ll throw the TWGS up on it and run it out of our ISP office on a T1 connection. The BBS will be back up sometime later, once I make some room for it on a Linux server and get it all setup.. probably sometime in July.

More than likely, I will simply be taking The Lost Traders Tavern down on or about June 22nd. Once I am settled into my new house in PA, and have a broadband connection established, The Tavern will re-launch, and I will open an all new series of games. This should be sometime in July or August.

I just wanted to be safe and hear back from JP before reopening the game.

The reason it’s 9pm tonight is because I will be gone most of the day and evening and won’t have Internet access to be online whenever the game goes back up. I’d like to be around just in case. 😉

Waiting for the official word from EIS before I go ahead and do anything…

Basically, here’s the situation…whenever someone is hitting a sector fig that does not belong to them, they are being booted to the main TWGS menu. This problem has happened before…both on a server I used to gameop at and also at the Stardock when I was a sysop there.

I’ll wait to see what the verdict is on how to fix it…if there’s any possible way to fix it without a rebang, I’ll go that route…if it comes to a rebang, then I’ll give a couple days break then start the game again. No new registrations will be accepted if this is the case. Rebang will be the absolute last resort.

Also, if we do not have to rebang, I will give good notice before the game comes back up.

Just so everyone knows of the situation…this will be posted in the various forums, the Home Sector, and the WTC site.

All of the information should be correct. I sent it to everyone WHOM I HAD AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR!

If I did not have an e-mail address, please make sure those team members receive their login information. Each team has their own specific password for login.

Please read the full e-mail that I sent you, if there are any questions please e-mail me (fuseblown@tradewars.ws) or ICQ me (3863812).

I’ll be around until about 4:40 PM EDT before I have to go to work.

Poison will open the game at 6:00 PM EDT…I’ll be back sometime tonight…around 11pm or so.