My gosh. I had a marathon of working on this site today! I can feel the radiation poisoning caused by my monitor already. 🙂 But it wasn’t all bad. The page is now 50% smaller thanks to Web site garage. (An EXCELENT Site!) I would suggest anyone who has a website visit this page. Here’s what’s smaller on the page:

Main Union logo: Was 20k, now 10k. It actually looks a bit better also. (No longer transparent though.)
TW Web Ring pic: Was 35k!!! Now only 5k. I wonder if Gypsy knows about this?
Lunar: Was 18k, now about 10k.

Also, a lot of HTML code was cleaned up, so it should work better with browsers other than Netscape.

BOTE’99 is coming up soon! There are going to be a lot of different things than last year. First off, the date for it is going to be around Late February/Early March to help out those who can’t play in the summer. Currently, it looks like Outlaw will be the BBS hosting this years tournament.

Well, we finally made our 1000th hit today. Thanks for all your support people. 🙂

So far, here’s what’s been done since School ended:

E-mail: You can now e-mail me from any place directly, without going to that stupid page like before. 🙂
Nav-Bar: Put at the bottom of all pages. Should make navigating easier.
Listings: Has been re-vamped and my personal pics have been added.

Stuff to do:
Make a links page.
Bring the Old news link back as soon as I’m done organizing it.
One or two more stories to be added.
Other stuff I can’t think of now.

Babylon 5 Movie premiers tommorrow! Not much has happened today, so I have to have some filler somewhere. 🙂 For those of you out there, the babylon 5 movie premiers tommorow. I’ll certainly be watching it, so you should too! It comes on TNT at 8:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time.

Gypsy Released his “Dummies Guide to Tradewars” a week or two ago on his BBS. It’s basically nothing more than his web pages information wise, but it’s all in executable format for easy reference off the web. Running TWar and need some advice before invading that planet? Drop to dos and load up the manual! Since it’s not available on his web page, I’ve put it on this site for easy access. Get it here.

I thought I had seen the end of Flamewars about Tradewars when I was no-longer able to play on BBSs, but a new flame war has begun between Gypsy and Zoobar. I’ve put all the related posts that both have made on Family entertainment and put them here. My personal views are also in there. If your wondering why I’m putting this on the site, read it and then you’ll understand better.

NavBar Added

I’ve added a new Navigation Bar at the bottom of my pages now. I’ve so far, only implemented it here and the listings pages so far. It’ll lead to you to everywhere on this page, and a few other places. It’s been up for a few days already, but it had broken links. I’ve (Hopefully) fixed those. If you find more, please tell me.

Famnet Resets

Family Entertainment reset their TW game not too long ago. The reason this wasn’t covered was because this was a spur of the moment reset. The reason is because of the amazingly large amount of dupes people were using. According to the Gameop, 43 dupes were delt with in only two weeks. God Help us.

Just want to wish you all a Happy 1998. Since ’97 is over, I’m compiling the best and worst things to happen to TW in ’97. For Example, the worst thing to happen to a BBS is bbs.paul.com going down. I’m in need of some sugestions, so please mail me them!

Rippers is open!

For those of you that forgot, Rippers is now on-line! The Current TW game there features an 800 turn game with some twists. As said before, I’m playing there under the TW name of “PaRappa the Rapper.” Just remember that there is

NO Attacking

for the first 15 days. You can check out all the rules at www.rippers.com.

As stated above, Rippers new game will start soon. Since I’m out of school for the time being, I’m once again going to try my hand at TW. I’ll be playing on Rippers under the Tradewars ID of “PaRappa the Rapper.” So if you see me, kill me because if you don’t, chances are someone else will! 🙂

Gypsy Redesigns war room!Shockwaves Were sent through the state of Arizona Wedsday morning as The phenomenon known as “Gypsy updates page” which was first covered December 18th, reached it’s height. As reported before, This rare phenomenon which happens once every 1,000 years seems to have subsided, but not before All of Arizona was left in ruins. Besides destroying all the buildings in Arizona, it also seems to have bestowed proper grammer on Gypsy’s page.

A local Arizonian, Eleqtrizi’T, said, “It’s a good thing he overhauled it. If I saw that Javascript message and those flames one more time, I was going to scream! Excuse me now while I start re-building my house that was just destroyed.”

But seriously, Gypsy’s War room looks 1000x better than it did before, although Gypsy still has those damn flaming skulls. 🙂

Back from Vacation

Ahh, It was quite nice not to have worry about the ‘page for a while. Quite a lot has happened, so I’ll be updating all throughout today.

Rippers to Reset January 1st

Bbs.Rippers.com, Once one of the largest Tradewars BBSs that was crushed by it’s own weight, is back! It’s now telnetable only now, in the tradition of Stardock BBS, and the Sysop no longer has to worry about being an ISP.

The “Comeback game” for Rippers is slatted to begin

Merry ChristmasYea, yea, So I missed yesterday’s promised update by 2 hours. So sue me. 🙂 Since I’ll be playing with all my nice toys for a while, don’t expect news until Monday or so. I’m also leaving for Wisconsin then too, so News will also be a little skimpy. 🙁

Debute on Web Side Story

Well, we debuted on Web Side story as #945. Not bad, not good either. I had really expected worse. 🙂

CDK re-does web page

Liquid Crystal (CDK) has informed me that he has redone his The Beginner’s Guide to Trade Wars 2002. It’s mostly enchanced for Netscape v4.0, so his old page is still available at the same address. Also, CDK’s page has been asked to join the Tradewars 2002 Web Ring.