The Word for today is brought to you by Timberwolf..

TYPO FIASCO: You mean to type in a sector to warp to…say 1001..and you accidently type in 1010 and BOOM! You suddenly contract Ghostitis!

Sorry it is not more presentable, I just really wanted to get the data out ASAP before I left for the week. 30 people took the WTC poll. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Opinion of WTC Format
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Very High – 30
High – 10
Average – 3
Low – 1
Game Sucked – 1

Opinion of Personal in-game WTC Performance
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Great – 4
Good – 14
Not so Good -3
I suck – 8
Didn’t Participate – 1

Suggestions
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Set Death Limit – 13
Not allowed Corp Switching – 11
Make Ship Edits – 5
Make Planet Edits – 3
Installed Daily Time Limit – 16
No Photons – 2
Use Classic non-MBBS Mode – 3
Nothing, it’s perfect – 10

From a post Exodius made in EIS Forums. I think a lot of Egroups people should keep this in mind, I know I’ll try…

“If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.”
-Dennis Roch

The word of the day is being submitted by Yours Truly

WHITE CANING KABOOM: When you tell a fellow teammate to blindwarp to a certain sector and you forget to lift up your fig. Example: BG leaves fig down then tells her evil on another corp to blindwarp!

Coolidge Winesett, 75, said there’s only one way to describe what it was like being trapped for almost three days at the bottom of his Southwest Virginia outhouse after its floor gave way.

“I compare it to the Bible’s hell,” said Winesett, a World War II veteran and retired janitor.

It had hellish elements–the smell, maggots, snakes, spiders, rats. Plus there was the persistent notion that he’d done something wrong to deserve it, recalled Winesett, speaking by phone from his bed at Wythe County Community Hospital, where he is recovering from dehydration and injuries he suffered when the 50-year-old outhouse floor collapsed from dry rot Saturday afternoon.

Winesett’s ordeal began about 4 p.m. Saturday after he returned from getting a new battery for his 1978 Chevrolet Impala. Winesett said he was getting ready to pick the banjo on his back porch when he decided to make a pit stop.

“I screamed ’till I run out of voice,” he said.

After he fell, Winesett said, he was suspended over the “bad stuff”–the sludge–by a subfloor and the cracked floorboards. Eight-penny nails from the planks dug into his flesh, and his body was contorted and immobilized. But that, he said, was nothing compared with the horrors of the next 69 hours, which he spent dealing with creepy, crawly things.

This word is brought to you by Eleqtrizi’t and his version of a Space Fart….

WHADAFUQ: Something said on Fed Com that makes you think “Whadafuq! That’s messed up” Example: Mojoe with his diarrhea of the mouth.

After today, I’ve realized just how much I hate networking in windows. I spent from 5:30pm to 12:00am today trying to fix my proxy server. I don’t know why it stopped working, but It’ll be the first thing I ask the almighty when I die. I can hardly imagine my Mom or even my Dad trying to fix what I did. Stay with me, there is a point.

Besides having to deal with the problem of turning a text game into something graphical, the makers will also have to tone down how hardcore it will be. I suppose it probably doesn’t matter in the end. Chances are it’ll be made on a shoestring budget. It’ll be able to cater to the hardcore because it won’t need to sell 2 million copies to foot the development bill. I’ll probably buy and play whatever sequal is made and no matter how hardcore or horrible it ends up being and I’m sure I’m not alone.

Let’s see what is going on in the life of TW.

I am still looking for interesting TW words…send them to me at Barbcruz@home.com

Two days ago marked the 3 year anniversary of Tradewars.org! Unfortunatelly, my DSL died on the same day. This year, I decided to go through the archives and post some of my best stuff. Here it is!

On a more ironic note, congradulations to Eleqtrizi’T and Monica who are getting married today!

Pranks – Old April Fools Saturday, April 1, 2000 Tradewars.org to cease operations by mk
This has been a while coming. As of next thursday, April 6th, Tradewars.org will cease operations. I’m sure you are all asking, “What are you doing! Stop messing with our minds, man!”

If you are interested, contact me. Lastly, I’ll be making my goodbyes on Thursday.

October 1, 1998 April fools comes six months early! I originally wanted to post these Thursday, but my C++ Compiler and my car had other plans. I therefore submit to you, these parodies:

Nik to Sue Himself

In breaking news today, Nik has announced that he will be suing himself. “I caught myself saying, ‘Attac suxs,’ and if anyone should be suing this person, it should be me.” Will Smith, Nik’s lawyer, has said to TWWU that, “This is a remarkable case that I think that has the potential of creating new paradigms in how law is done.”
With the expected money Nik is expecting to make with this case, he’s told us that he’s already making plans to port ATTAC to Machine Language. “I plan to forgo the limitations of Visual Basic, and intend to port ATTAC straight to Machine Language. This should cut the size of ATTAC from 7 Megs to 6, and is going to be made a reality by this impending lawsuit.”

Human Population to evolve before TWE’s release

Recent studies have given an interesting turn to TWEnhancer’s development. The studies states that the Human population will evolve to a higher state of being before TWEnhancer will be released. “Even though humans will be living in a state of pure energy, I will still try to release TWEnhancer in case any would be aliens ever find out about Tradewars and need a good helper. That way, those Aliens would elevate me to god status, and then I’d make $$$ for the registrations.” said Saluki. Saluki Enterprises is an invester in TWWU.

Nik’s 2002 Web Heaven Blasted…. Literally

Late last night, Nik’s 2002 Web Heaven’s server was blasted by a Nuclear Missle. Fortunatelly, Both Nik and Earth had left 1 hour prior to the Missle’s impact. The IP header retrieved on the Missle points to a band of Gypsies living in the country of Azi, located in North America. Ricardo Gin, the leader of Azi, has said, “This is absurd that we’re being pointed to for this Attac. If we sent out this missle, it obviously would have been while Nik would have been AT the site! Think about it people!” Further investigations are being planned.

Wedsday, April 1st, 2014

New Bug in HVS TW2032

A new Bug has just been found in the latest Version of HVS’s Virtual Reality (VR) Port of Tradewars 2032. The bug seems to open a dimentional rift to the year 1998. Right now, I can see Mana Knight, our owner, sitting down doing nothing! ARGH. HVS says this bug will be fixed in the next fix-pack.

Colonists take over Family Entertainemnt for Oysters

Colonists on Family Entertainment have taken over FamEnt’s server as a result of a lack of Oysters.

“Without Oysters, how can we reporduce? You have to realize that Reproduction in the data realm is not pleasent. Why make us suffer?” said Terra Ferrengal, the leader of the colonist revolt.
“Unfortunatelly, I have to side with them this time. While I normally would prevent this outrage, they’re Riot has a good cause. If you want to blame anyone, blame Cruncher for giving them this idea.” Commented Captain Zyrian, Fament’s chief of Police.

This is just one of the many problems Fament has had with it’s Tradewars game ever since it went self-aware late last year. HVS Buys out Microsoft

In an unpresidented move, High Velocity Software (Nasdaq HVS) has bought out Microsoft Corporation. This follows Martech’s Aquisition of Electronic Arts last month, and The Home Sector‘s buyout of Nintendo last year.

“Thanks to extrememly high sales our VR Port of Tradewars 2032, this buyout of Microsoft was possible.” said president Jeff Morinartery.

The new name will be HVS-Soft and its new slogan is already slated to be “Where do you want to (blind) T-warp today?” HVS’s stock jumped 16 to 666 points at Nasdaq’s close today. Hell has frozen over

TSIA. (Title Says it all.) The Home Sector has stayed at the same internet provider for 16 years.

Betty Ford Clinic Opens offical TW Rehab Center

Today, the Betty Ford Clinic Officially opened it’s TW Rehab wing. This wing is meant for serious Tradewars players who constantly need an influx of their favorite game every few hours to survive.
The cases of TW Addiction have been constantly rising ever since the first person diagnosed with this disease, Cruncher, was treated in 1998. The Recent Spectacular sales of Tradewars 2032 and the VR Port of Tradewars 2032 done by HVS have elevated this problem to the point of causing global economic colapse. We’ll keep you updated on further events.