BIG GAME is a game where players sign-up (https://www.coastgames.com/biggame/index.php) and will later be hand-picked by Prestone and Space Ghost to form two large megacorps to battle one another. Once enough people are interested, they will begin picking teams one-by-one from the players who have registered.

Settings have been agreed upon by both captains and are posted at the BIG GAME web site.

The Summer Championship Tournament starts NEXT FRIDAY (August 16, 2002) at 10:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Game ends when everyone else has been beaten into submission…

TWGS: telnet://memphistw.org:2000

MBBS Mode Enabled
Turns: 750
Sectors: 7000
Time Limit: 6 hours
Deaths: 5

All other game stats below. Game settings, ship edits and planet edits are on the website. Per League rules, game will be open 7 days.

https://memphisTW.org/SCT

First of all, I’m still busy as a bee with starting this ISP, all of my time and energy has gone into working on this day in and day out and in some cases, night in and night out. Things are starting to come together and soon I’ll have a little bit of free time to put into some TW-related projects.

Next, the WTC is over, the GoodGuys tore it apart. I was given a list of six players to announce as the winners, however I somehow lost those from my ICQ history and do not have them. Either way, the GoodGuys won, I’ll post a list of the GoodGuys team on the WTC page ASAP. This year’s game was very quick and I know there are a lot of upset folk about the whole thing. However, it’s a no-holds-barred game, and that’s how it turned out this year. Hopefully next year, a little more time and organization will be put into it. I wanna thank Poison and MemphisTW for hosting the game for me this year!

Third, this year’s BOTE is coming up real soon…it will begin on July 17th at FEN. All public servers are eligible to send in a team to represent them in one of the best tournaments of the year. More information coming soon!

Finally, the Home Sector TWGS will be back up this week! I have to format my personal computer to take care of some performance issues and the occasional freezing it likes to pull on me. Once that is done, I’ll throw the TWGS up on it and run it out of our ISP office on a T1 connection. The BBS will be back up sometime later, once I make some room for it on a Linux server and get it all setup.. probably sometime in July.

I just wanted to be safe and hear back from JP before reopening the game.

The reason it’s 9pm tonight is because I will be gone most of the day and evening and won’t have Internet access to be online whenever the game goes back up. I’d like to be around just in case. 😉

Waiting for the official word from EIS before I go ahead and do anything…

Basically, here’s the situation…whenever someone is hitting a sector fig that does not belong to them, they are being booted to the main TWGS menu. This problem has happened before…both on a server I used to gameop at and also at the Stardock when I was a sysop there.

I’ll wait to see what the verdict is on how to fix it…if there’s any possible way to fix it without a rebang, I’ll go that route…if it comes to a rebang, then I’ll give a couple days break then start the game again. No new registrations will be accepted if this is the case. Rebang will be the absolute last resort.

Also, if we do not have to rebang, I will give good notice before the game comes back up.

Just so everyone knows of the situation…this will be posted in the various forums, the Home Sector, and the WTC site.

All of the information should be correct. I sent it to everyone WHOM I HAD AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR!

If I did not have an e-mail address, please make sure those team members receive their login information. Each team has their own specific password for login.

Please read the full e-mail that I sent you, if there are any questions please e-mail me (fuseblown@tradewars.ws) or ICQ me (3863812).

I’ll be around until about 4:40 PM EDT before I have to go to work.

Poison will open the game at 6:00 PM EDT…I’ll be back sometime tonight…around 11pm or so.

Also, deadline for final team registration will be 3:00PM EDT SATURDAY! So make sure you have everything figured out by then.