Two legends of Trade Wars made an appearance in The Home Sector forums. The Last Starfighter AKA Fooman and RawHead Rex each made a few posts in the forums inquiring about the happenings of TW today. What’s funny is, Rex posted that he was surfing the net one day, thought about TW and popped into Eleq’s site. LSF did the same thing a few minutes later. What are the odds of two legends deciding they got bored and decided to check out TW on the same day? About as much as winning the Powerball lottery I guess.

Who knows, I would not be surprised if legends like Ripclaw, Darkhawk, Rolodex, Hellcat, Gaurdian, and most notably – Hosem all decide to make a return to TW in time for the BOTE.

I would like to suggest a slot be reserved in the BOTE named “Hall of Fame” for the legends to represent. I would love to see how these legendary players stack up against today’s players.

The Black Knights were one of the most dominating teams in their time. It is too bad I have not had the opportunity to play in the same game with them much other than the first WTC. But Artemis, Lord Chaos, and Maverick were in a class all by themselves with their dominating play.

Before I close out this post, I also want to mention one more legend – Cruncher. Her knowledge of the game was outstanding. Her beta testing helped make the TWGS what it is today. She is in a class all by herself and I am honored to have been part of her beta testing not long ago when we together helped run a beta server at Intergate.

Forgive me if I leave out anyone. Any ommisions are not intentional. These were just off the top of my head. Best of luck to any legends who decide to return to today’s game 🙂

Ent Editor over at The Home Sector has been exposed for the CHICKEN-shit he is with the emphasis on Chicken. CBS228 had an idea to expose him and told me how he could do it. So I agreed to participate in the expose` of Ent Editor. You can read the full story at Fugitives From Fate website. The F3 website, which started as a permacorp website, now has turned into a full fledged TW news website and CBS228 has done one hell of a job in his news. Who will be the next person to be exposed in something? Just wait. 

BOTE practice game is being held at 10pm eastern time, Wednesday July
30th at The Lost Traders Tavern (tavern.homeip.net).

This will be an OPEN game, and will NOT use the regular web based
registration.

Since this is JUST a practice game, I will be playing with my BOTE
team.

Game will close when the real BOTE opens.

My Nizzles

The guy who does the voice for AOL, El Edwards (The Edwards?!), will now do a specialized recording just for you! Imagine, “Eleq, You BadAss Muthafunka, You’ve Got Mail!”. I plan to order soon.

The edits are now posted at Coastgames:
Ships
Settings
Planets

Also, Jerry has posted the registration form for Chess V2.

CEO’s only need to log in and sign up their team.

I’m not sure what the deadline is for registering, but the game starts August 9th, and Jerry typically likes a day or two to make sure everything is set up properly. Don’t delay, sign up today!

Jerry from Coastgames will be hosting the first game of TW Chess V2, opening on August 9th. The .TWA file is posted at coastgames, and HTML edits will be posted in the next day or two. These edits are based on the very popular Chess V1 by Res, with some improvements suggested by a wide variety of players.

Corp size for this game will be 6 instead of the traditional 4, so you can bring your BOTE team while we await the status of this year’s BOTE.

More details will be announced in the next couple of days.

You KNOW you always wanted the Ghostbusters’ Car! Better than the Batmobile!

This just in.

Because BOTE is coming up (and someone else posted their opinion) I thought it appropriate to post this trader’s view of the future of the BOTE. I mean, as long as people are sharing their stupid opinions and idiotic ramblings, whats the harm of one more? But, I digress. So, the BOTE, is a game with a lush and exciting history, a throwback, if you will, to a time when most TW players had a home BBS. Back then, people were regulars here or there, and it was quite exciting to get the best from all the BBS’s, to come together and battle. This is one game that has not yet been totally perverted (as far as I am concerned). It is an exciting game, and in my mind, the only TRUE major TW tournament left. But, I digress again. So, who should host the BOTE this year? I find that an amazingly easy question to answer. BOTE belongs to Fament now, as WTC belongs to Eleq, as, USO belongs to Silver Dragon, as Chess belongs to Coast Games. Its a true testament to the belief that fellow sysops have in Macahan, that they happily ask him to run the game, even after they have won the rights to it. With any TW game, especially big ones like tournies, there is complaining and whining, as well as technical issues and rule challenges, Macahan has been there and dealt with it for so many years he has earned his place in TW history. I can’t think of any major sysops (sysops of TWGS or BBS’s with a decent playerbase) that would not trust Macahan to run the game, or at least that would publicly impugn him. No other current sysop, besides Jerry of Coastgames, has run games as large or intense as BOTE. No other current sysop has done as much work to host a game, and to resolve issues for players as Macahan has done. While my anonymous vote may not count for much with a lot of you res-eaters, I vote to host the BOTE at Fament for the 4th consecutive year. That is where it belongs. Now, its your turn, what do you think?