That bad female herself, Bad Girl, has launched her own TW site! You can check it out by clicking here. Nice work Barb.

No news lately out of the HHT. The Death Count List hasn’t been updated and no one has really been saying anything about it. If anyone has any new information, please let me know. With Timberwolf currently in retirement, is the Death List still going to be updated? Hasn’t been since 12/5/00…TIA.

I have been talking to The Ghost from TW Extreme and we are going to be working on a joint project using both of our web sites. When we have the plans laid out and ready to roll I report on this more.

TW Extreme has added the M.i.P. to their web site. You can vote for a most improved player every month to be featured on their site. Kinda like the Player/Server of the Month that I did on my old TW site (before TRADEWARS.WS), but never quite got it rolling. Head on over and vote for players from the current W Game featured on The Deep South.

Seems like things are pretty slow in the TW universe right now. Most TW sites out there haven’t had updates for a few days, so I’m actually going around today and trying to dig up what news I can find from servers, message archives, etc.

Icehawk and myself have started on our next project, which will hopefully become the final word in Trade Wars Players Guides–focusing at first on the standard mode TWGS game and later encompassing MBBS compatibility mode as well.  As soon as the first couple sections of mostly introductory stuff is finished, it will be available from the Library area, and as new sections are completed they will be made available for browsing immediately.  I’d like to request help from anyone with suggestions or comments regarding the guide.. whether its proofreading the first drafts, correcting errors regarding game play tips/strategies, etc.  The basis of the guide will be taken from Someguy’s Manual, Iago’s War Manual, Slice’s Trade Wars Guide, Xelian Field Manual, and several other more obscure and arcade TW 2002 tomes, but all information presented will be updated to reflect the changes made after the v3 series and TWGS was released.

All told, the guide looks like it might become an immense portion of the web site, and will have links to reference material, such as the planetary and standard ship database, which are already available from the library section.  Although a updated player’s guide has been one of my top priorities for the site, it only made sense to have the appropriate reference materials in place before tackling a much larger and complex project.

The Deep South is going to be rebanging three games on Friday at 8pm EST! Games A, B, and W will be started with a clean slate. Game A is 800 turns, 5,000 Sectors, and default edits. Game B is 1,500 turns, 20,000 Sectors, and 2 fancy new ships. Game W is Grazhoppa’s Star Wars game, but Stonewall will be make a few changes and renaming it “Saga Continues.” Stop by the Deep South and check it out! (Telnet: thedeepsouth.yi.org; WWW: Click Here)

Don’t forget that The Deep South is going to be rebanging three games tonight at 8pm EST! Games A, B, and W will be started with a clean slate. Game A is 800 turns, 5,000 Sectors, and default edits. Game B is 1,500 turns, 20,000 Sectors, and 2 fancy new ships. Game W is Grazhoppa’s Star Wars game, but Stonewall will be make a few changes and renaming it “Saga Continues.” Stop by the Deep South and check it out! (Telnet: thedeepsouth.yi.org; WWW: Click Here)

Goosemoose has announced that it has the world’s first web based tradewars helper. However, they forgot to mention that it’s also the world’s first web based helper that DOESN’T WORK. At least not for me. Try it out. Maybe you have better luck.

Addium – I actually have gotten it work after a reboot.

Electrizi’T, the leader of his own cult, has decided to move the Home Sector to linux. It will now be running using Andrew “Linux Guy” Wyatt’s FusionGS to give it a more BBS feel. Tradewars will be unaffected, but you’ll have access to extra things such as possibly other games and a teleconfrence.

Great, just what I need. Another linux freak who will sit around for hours discusing the finer points about how User Friendly is greatest work of satrical writing since the great bard Shakespear put quill to parchment. At least I get a teleconfrence out of the deal.