My Choices for Captains are IF they Accept.

Prestone – He’s a favorite for too many reasons to list. That and i dont want his head any bigger then what it is already. A Proven Leader Who likes to play TW the way *I* like to see it get played.

Timborulez aka Blue Adept – One of the most Anal Retentive guys I’ve ever corped with…And you know what? One of the best Leaders i’ve EVER worked for. If you have a chance to Corp this guy you better do it.

Phoe6e aka Hekate – Never worked with her before I played USO on the draft team. Awesome Leader. Generally good attitude. Like any chick she has her time of the month too……EEEEKK just log off and come back the next day…..

Res Judicata – Funker stole my nick name in the one you love to hate. Seriously he must be a decent leader with the showing that him and is team put forth in the HHT02. I will of course have to name a back up who will have to be on his team in case he up and quits or CBY’s or something (GRIN)

The object is to have 100 players or as CLOSE to that as possible with 25 players on each team.

Each Captain will have a turn picking from a “pool” of other players. Followed by 2 rounds of trading between Captains.

Most of the Stats can be found at https://www.coastgames.com/biggame2/

So come on out and sign up!

Silver Dragon posted some USO info in the forum:
“I must say its been a pretty good game so far, we are a few weeks into the game and still have several corps alive and well. Star Endeavors have built themselves a nice little lead. Scoring 22 kills giving them 220 points, they have also invaded 13 lvl 2 and above planets which should pay out some nice dividends at the end of the game providing they can hold them.  “ More..

It seems to me that Tradewars has to have the most confusing community outside of the one where people dress up as animated characters. For instance, this page is called “The Home Sector” yet the address is thestardock.com. When this site was still running it’s own tradewars server, it was called “The Stardock”. Common sense would usually dictate that if you had a website running a server, you would probably name it after the website. Then again if you’re an employee for pollstar, you probably don’t have an IQ up there with Stephen Hawking.

Then there’s the acronymns. Let’s see how many I can remember just off the top of my head: TWGS, TW, TW2002 TW:G, TWH, TWX, TW:DM, HS, SD, CF, ISS, SWATH, ATAC, USO, SST, SSD, PT, TWAR, ZOC, EIS, JP, DE, HHT, BOTE, WTC, and J-TWAT. The last one is actually a helper and not a porn site. Regardless, if you can do a search for it in google without getting a site that involves carnal gymnastics, you’ll have my admiration until you realize what a waste of time that was.

Want more? I write for this website and also that other one you might have heard of. Heck, I’ve even been a part of this community so long I can’t figure out if I should called myself Mana Knight or “MK”. I mean, MK is just so much more cool and sexy then the full version. Maybe I should just do the same to my real name and have people call me “JG.” Yea, they’ll say “JG, what’s up!” and I’ll just point to them and nod.

Is it any wonder why we get so few new people playing this game?

[Forum]: I like, totally disagree with you! J-TWAT really is refering to porn!

Silver Dragon states: “The USO is going well. A few players have died from STD’s, but the orgies are still going 24/7! “

Well thanks for that update, Silver. Now get your hands off my ass.

Timberwolf was going to close down his site, now it appears he is not. PlanetTW now is suddenly closing down instead.

If anyone should close down, it should be Boo! Inc. until Space Ghost stops offending my visual senses with his fonts and my audio senses with that opening wave file, that never fails to catch me off guard at work.

It’s been a slow news week at The Home Sector. I guess I forgot to mention that the USO was
moved back to the 23rd. Not that many cared.

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I’ll be quick and to the point. I’m keeping this site online for a while longer. I’m not gonna be able to get my bowling site up in time as the season will be over in only a couple months, so I’m just gonna run my bowling site off a subdirectory of this site. I have not maintained either this site or my bowling site for some time now, but now i’m going to find the time. Meaning I’ll keep the Trade Wars Gazette News online for a while longer. Let’s start with the USO. Currently it has 6 teams entered and the scheduled start date is Feb 23rd at Hardcoded. Planet TW is taking a haitius from Trade Wars so the USO site’s address is being moved to https://hardcoded.dnsalias.org:81\USO\USOTC.HTM. Silver Dragon had said that if there is not enough entrants in the game, he’ll cancel it. I think 6 teams is a good start and many players are known for 11th hour entries to keep the competition guessing. So Silver Dragon need not fret whether or not he’ll have enough players. So looks like the USO will be a go this year.

EleqTrizi’T continues to keep the Home Sector website updated and looking nice. Check it out at The Home Sector website. Fuseblown and Mana Knight also contributes to the site on an occasional basis.

Speaking of MK, he has woken up from a long, long, long coma, dusted off his old Commodore 64, not knowing today we use blazing P4’s at speeds of nearly 3 GHZ if that, and has updated his website. He discussed TW:DM and its apparent demise. More info can be found on his well written article.

Space Ghost came out of his trusty escape pod long enough to inform us that John Pritchett has also resurfaced and possible updates to TWGS might be around the corner. Not often I can read an article where I have to scroll down the screen just to read the next sentence due to its large font 🙂

Finally, I’ll get this website fully operational within the next few days such as my MBBS-TWGS page, the ZOC scripts, and links page. I’m gonna send Macahan a payment today as I’m behind on them.

Speaking of ‘Ol Mac, he rebanged several games at Fament. Telnet bbs.fament.com to check them out. That’s all for now. Happy belated Valentine’s Day everyone.

I just spent some time reading up on the events of last year’s WTC. I have to wonder if it is worth having the game again, especially under its current rules (or lack thereof).

To be honest, it seems unreasonable to expect or believe that TW players will whither themselves down to just six remaining players who can claim victory. Either they don’t want to, or can’t.

So my options are…1) drop the tourney and start a new one w/rules 2) add rules to the WTC. Don’t tell me I should leave the game alone, as you (the players) have proven two years in a row you cannot deal with it.

Discuss

Just around a year ago the Stardock it did leave.
EleqTrizi’T took it down ..Leaving us to grieve.
The Man had,had enouph! so he took his BBS down!
And while many have tried..None have been worthy of his crown

Just recently oh lord the website followed suit..
The Home Sector was leaving the issue had taken root.
Ever the gentleman Eleqtrizi’T was there to inquire.
Should he take it down for good? Should he let it retire??
The comments that followed brought a tear to the Eye.
If you hadnt known better you’d think this “E” was a nice guy.
Our Comments it seems his decision did sway…
“And Bring back the BBS too”…was all i would say.
This game is Dying!! on the verge of being Dead.
But E can help save it..I dont care if he has a big head.
His server was a Legend and I’m not goona Stop!
Nope not until the BBS is brought back up!

He’s been flamed by the best of them..Hell he’s been flamed by me!
But he wears the flames like stripes this man EleqTrzi’t….
You can call him a dick head…I call him Easy E….
But when he brings back the BBS Mark that day in history.

Thanks to you EleQ for all you have done.
For even having the website and providing past fun.
Mistake me not for being ungrateful..
Forgive me for things in the past that seemed Hateful.
Bring back the BBS and the Title Game and Massive too
Bring back One Love…and The WTC dude.

Your Server EleQ was a Legend in time.
To not bring it back would be a crime.
The playground of the Gods is what you had created.
Agaisnt your rep…other TWGS servers are rated….
This here poem I dedicate to you,,
And if you bring back the bbs..I’ll write another one too…..

Space Ghost

This is my first (and probably last) update in quite a while..

He is also working on a new tournament game called the Blast-Off Tournament. He is currently reworking the settings for the game, so if you have any opinions or suggestions, drop him an e-mail.

HHT is coming soon, BOTE is over, and there’s been a new baby by a former sysop of the TW community. Get a coffee, sit back, and read on.

• BOTE is over – Hardcoded wins in 47 days- Team Hardcoded won the BOTE in 47 days. 47 days??? When you consider this is the BOTE, a tournament with marathon games the last two years, 47 days is a blink of an eye. I believe only the first HHT was a faster tournament with the Black Knights destroying the entire field in about 34 days or so. And I’m not counting that US-FiascO a few years ago in which Eleq’s team won in 30 days on his own server in which the game op called the game despite protests from Kavanagh and his team.

  From what I heard about Team Hardcoded, they showed fine team effort and worked well together. They got kudos from the rest of the field on their play. Silver Dragon commended Macahan for hosting the game on a fine server. Silver Dragon relucantly agreed to host the BOTE next year. I was kinda disappointed about this as the BOTE at Fament was starting to become a tradition. But I also know the prize of the BOTE was the winning server to host it themselves, so I could not blame Silver Dragon wanting to host the BOTE 2003. He did a fine job with the USO ’02 from what I heard so he’ll do just as well with BOTE ’03. Silver Dragon’s full BOTE statement can be found here.

  Full BOTE news and info can be found at the official BOTE 2002 site at https://tradewars.fament.com/bote2002/ .

• HHT announced on Friday the 13th! – What better day for Space Ghost to announce the Haunted Halloween Tournament than Friday the 13th! You can read more details about the HHT at The Boo Inc. website. One major thing has changed which is corp size. You will have to bring a team of 5 to the tournament. Kemper was upset about this, but you gotta do what you gotta do to drop someone from the team of 6. Knowing Space Ghost, who is usually very innovative with his edits, I expect this year’s HHT to be one heck of a boo-tiful experience anyone will have in a tournament 🙂
• Aitvo has a girl! Born Sept 12th!- Congrats go out to Aitvo AKA Andrew Wyatt for having a baby girl born Sept 12. The proud papa announced she weighed 7’4″ and was 19″ long. Congratulations, Aitvo!