I added a little more power to the links area. You can now select either telnet or http as url prefixes, and I eliminated the double https://https:// problems. Thanks to the reverend for helping out.

Side note, I approve the links to GREEN a few times a day. The site doesn’t do it automatically.

The Home Sector website is back online. As is tradition with this website, everything has been rewritten, and everything has been redesigned.

I have recovered a ton of old articles and reposted them. Many of them will be missing images, but Fuseblown will help remedy a lot of that soon. It’s just good to see it all on the web again.

Check back often for more updates. There will be a lot of them in the coming weeks.

Poison has setup a new TW list serve, come check it out! To see the currently available lists, Click Here!

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.

I should have hit some of these when they first appeared, but alas, I can’t keep up with news much anymore…but here goes..

Good luck to all of you!

With the exception of Liquid Chaos leaving TW and handing over Planet TW to Silver Dragon, the 3 rebangs at Home Sector, and Col. Sanders making an (_|_) of himself in the forums, news has been slow of late, so I am gonna concentrate over the next couple days to getting my other websites online reflecting my interests in bowling, pro wrestling, and when I get a digital camera, nature photography. I may also put up a personal site. I have 30MB available to me here at Fament Webhosting Service so I might as well make use of all my space. Fament is pretty cool. Check out the link I gave you if you are looking for a web host. Now let’s get on with the news in the TW Biz. Liquid Chaos has left TW and handed over Planet TW to Silver Dragon and is working to get TW Links back online before he leaves. This link is LC’s statement.

If Epicenter is known as the King of Smack, then Col. Sanders should be known as the Peasant of Smack. Take a look at this message as an example and you can see what I mean. Wait until the HHT begins. I think Sanders will have nothing but a big fat bullseye on his ass through out the game – if he lasts the whole game 🙂

And finally, Home Sector banged 3 games: One Love, Massive, and Ground Zero. Go to The Home Sector server to play.

Every Tuesday, I’ll be doing editorials with my opinions covering a variety of subjects, whether it is Trade Wars related or not. Today’s topic is the departures of many long time TW players such as EleqTrizi’T, Cruncher, Bad Girl, Guardian, and Hekate. Let’s start with EleqTrizi’T. This man was a legend in the TW community and is still a legend. He provided a kick ass game server along with an awesome website. Eleq was never satisfied with his machines hosting the TWGS, always upgrading them so that it provides fast and reliable connections for his players. Let me tell ya, I have heard very few reports of lag except at maybe tournament time and even then lags were minor. If there was a problem, Eleq was quick to respond.

Eleq also was a very intelligent man and the only thing matching his intelligence was his ego 🙂 Eleq would write all sorts of programs inluding dupe catchers as well as an entire BBS and teleconference chat and many other small programs. Eleq probably is the only man who could match Res Judicata in artistic ability on a computer, though I have to admit Eleq’s images can be sometimes disturbing 🙂 Eleq was also the owner/moderator of the World Trade Wars Championships, the only tournament that had practically no rules – anything goes.

But late last year, Eleq had enough of the pissing and moaning by ungrateful players and shut down the Home Sector and Stardock BBS (both later taken over by Fuseblown) and left the community. Last I heard of Eleq, rumor has it he bought a house and I believe this is the same man who once told Cruncher he would never buy a house. I guess having an ever growing family can change a guy’s mind. My best goes out to Eleq and his growing family and wish them well. I still hold out hope that one day he returns with a vegeance and some new fresh ideas.

Speaking of Cruncher, she is still around, talking to a few select people in the community. She is just not as active as she used to be. She still has her website online that contains photos of many individuals in the TW Community. If you want to update a photo on the site, simply send her an updated photo. Best of luck to Cruncher..especially when tax time rolls around 🙂

As for Bad Girl and Gaurdian, both left after USO ’02 for the same reasons Eleq did. This page explains the reasons for their departure. Both Bad Girl and Guardian will be missed for one main reason: their work with newbies. They were always willing to let a newbie play with them and show them the ropes. Best of luck to Bad Girl and Guardian.

And finally, Hekate. I was unable to find out why she left. If anyone knows, contact me. For the time being, Liquid Chaos has the twlinks site and is currently waiting to get a hold of Hekate for DNS transfer so he can put it on a new server. Best of luck to Hekate.

To sum it up, I want to commend the community for stepping up and taking over many of the responsibilities of the individuals I mentioned above. Fuseblown runs the Home Sector website and TWGS. Rave is working on the Beta team in Cruncher’s place. Silver Dragon now owns the USO and should do a very good job of it from what I heard of how he hosted USO ’02. And Liquid Chaos has taken over TW Links site. As the saying goes, the show must go on.

Many of you have been waiting for it, but it still may not be *completely* what you were waiting for…

The new Sysop Rules for TW League servers have been posted at the TW League site.

There are still some matters to discuss, such as the game limit per year (currently set at 2 games per year per server) and whether or not we will switch over to a new rating system.

For the remainder of the year we will run the current rating system and the reverend’s proposed rating system side-by-side and do a comparison at the end of the year to see which will work out best for us.

That’s it for now, if you want to discuss, please go to the TW League forums and post away!

Written by: SupG

this year’s tradewars convention is going to be held in minneapolis, mn if there is enough interest shown.

i will be hosting the event, helping with lodging information and planning activities for the 4 days of the convention.

the proposed dates of the convention are september 18th – 21st.

hotel rates in the area seem to be pretty consistant to $89 plus tax per night, but i will also be searching for more affordable options as well.

activities to be planned may include, a visit to the mall of america, valleyfair (amusement park), fort snelling (war memorial and state park; hiking, etc…), casinos, canterbury park (horse racing/card club), science museum in st. paul, various theatres and comedy clubs, and downtown nightlife.

i’m sure there are more activities that i’m leaving out that can/will be planned for the event.

computers (at least 2) will be available at my place in case people need to run turns in games.

if we can get at least 6 people to confirm and commit to a hotel stay then we can go ahead with the actual planning.

if you are interested or need more information please let me know.

The Ghost over at TW Extreme has redesigned the site and it’s not back online! Look excellent, go check it out. 😀