I have gone through many revisions of what I wanted to say in my head, and finally came down to only having a few last things to say..

Logging off,
Agustin Rivera
Premier/EleqTrizi’T
June 1991- November 2001

In another discovery Realm Interactive not only makes video games, they also play them! I met up with an Art guy from Realm last night while playing Tribes 2. I was able to coerce the following exclusive information from him: “We’re working on that Ninja thing.”

There you have it. You can disect that for all it worth or check out a new Preview of Dark Millenium.

The Tradewars Convention is coming up soon, taking place October 3-7th in Virginia. There’s more information made available today here and also some concerning sponsorships from teams, webpages, servers, etc. found here.

Southwest currently has a special running for online reservations. I’m talking $110 for a round trip from LA to VA. This would be really good for me except they don’t have any flights in for that whole week. This deal ends at midnight so you’ll have to be fast.

For those out of the loop, Andrew “maybe I should just change my alias to LinuxGuy” Wyatt took The Great Space Coaster into the realm of insanity and left the TW scene altogether. This meant that support of Fusion, the BBS front end many sites used, would probably stop. But Paul Bude announced that he will be taking over development of Fusion:

I just wanted to take a minute to let everyone know, that Fusion BBS development will not end.  I have been working on this for the past few weeks, and I am now ready to annouce, that I am aquiring the full rights and source code to Fusion 3.x.  I will continue development of it, and have a lot of things in store for it.  So if you were/are interested in a BBS package, you will have plenty of options.

Realm has been pretty busy with things like trying to find a publisher,(which just got a little harder since Sierra just signed on Dark Age Of Camelot) but managed to update with new gameplay mechanics:

I’ve also seen a page or two stating that the release date for TW:DM has been pushed back to next year. This makes sense since the Beta period was supposed to have happened by now, which will probably happen in fall. Until then, go play some Pokemon!

The Dark Millenium website is updated with post-E3 stuff. First announced is that they beat out Caeron 3000 for spot #9 in gamespot’s top 10 online games. There are also new screenshots from E3, but unfortunatelly it’s not of, or contain their booth or anything from E3. It’s MORE ingame screenshots which is bad especially since I can find game screenshots
everywhere else On the web. I sent a person to take shots of the booth, but aparently he got lost during the power outages and has yet to return home. I wasn’t able to attend because my cousin had a weeding that damn weekend. Of course, the $250 entrance fee is a bit prohibitive too. It would be nice if I got sponsored by a company for next year. *coughcough*

Or you can just complain about how you didn’t get to go to E3 here

Devil Dog (TW League fame) has opened his own TWGS server with a BBS front-end! Here’s the word from DD:

Hello all after being out of BBSing for a few years I have decided to
run one again, with a TWGS rlogin also, the BBS is set up and so are
a few Door games, the TWGS is also set up with 2 games for now. I
will be re-banging all games doors and TWGS on May 1st and I am
starting off the TWGS with a nice 20K sector unlimited turn, high
edit, 4 hours a day game. this game is set up as a practice game
right now and will re-bang on the first. (my wifes labor pending of
course!) Games will bang at 12:00PM (noon) at EST Come join us at

See ya there,
Devil Dog

I checked this BBS out and it was blazin’! Good work DD! You can count me in for all of the Inter-BBS games (BRE & FE)!!

Yup. Game C at The Stardock BBS. I caught Babsy running SSM. First I tried to destroy the port soon as she docked at it but she lifted off before the port was blown. She warped out of sector and I quickly D-scanned to see where she went. I then was about to follow her when she came back. I immediately began attack on her, hitting her 45K some figs on her Chicken Megaship (A souped up version of the CFS – then again ,every ship in Game C is souped up – heh) with 10K figs at a time. I had no time to surround her, and this being my first online kill of a top player of the game, I was too excited to drop fig soon as i pinged her out to funnel her into another sector. I ended up pinging her back and forth in furious attack waves, wasting no time in powering up on her, without macros mind you, before I finally destroyed her ship.

I knew she was distracted somehow or she would not have allowed her self to die like that as she would have escaped right after I blew the port. She’s a hell of a good player, but was distracted in this case and I took advantage of it to nail her.

I then got an ICQ from her saying she was in another window working on her daughter’s web page and and she said something like “That will teach me to work in another Window” and I laughed. I actually felt bad, but at the same time, I now rank it as my #1 kill of all time. It felt good to pod a great player like Bad Girl after killing newbie after newbie.I was gonna make a hELLCAT style cap file, but the damn thing totaled like 10 images to compose and I didnt have the time to capture the whole attack onto one image so I just did the last screen shot of her podding. Image is here. I’m the player named Frucking Idiot, by the way.

Bad Girl, thanks for being a good sport. I realize game C is just a fun game, but it still gave me a rush to pod someone as good as you are 🙂

Even more people are working on coming to the 2nd Annual TW Convention held in Virginia Beach this time around! Go check out the page and see who’s coming! If you’re not on that list, you SHOULD BE! It’s gonna be a blast!

Tradewars Web Page Union – A little slice of Americana

Sunday, April 1, 2001

New Tradewars: Dark Millenium Screenshots! by mk

Realm Interactive announced the completion of their new AN SI (Algorythmic Neccessary Social Insemination) technology. Created by Realm with help from the many programers and artists at ACiD, they promise that they will begin licensing this new technology to other companies so that everyone can benefit.

Jeff Moriarty, president of Realm Interactive said the following, “Using our new ANSI echnology with our already existing Smart Pointer framework(tm) will give us unpresidented graphical power in our programs.”

This power can already be seen. To the left, we have an excusive screenshot of a ship from Tradewars:Dark Millenium rendered using ANSI. The Realm logo displayed here along with the ship, appear exactly as they will in game. Truely a marvelous time for graphic junkies.

The Stardock to merge with AOL-Time Warner by mk
Today, an announcement was made by The StarDock/Home Sector enterprises that they would be completing a hostle takeover of AOL-Time Warner, effectively merging with the company. This comes after The Stardock’s sweeping victories and merges with Tradewars.ws and Intergate technologies. Fuseblown, the official bitch of the tradewars community, had the following to say about the buyout.“We believe that this merger is in the best interests of the entire human species. The next stage of Human evolution is upon us, and only the strong will be left to survive.”

Eleqtrizi’T, now owner of the biggest corporation in the world, changed his title from “CEO and Sex God” to “L’Emperor,” a title once bestowed on the great Napoleon. He also announced that the name of this merged company will be changed to America On-The-Stardock (AOTS). Stock closed today up $5.15

But all is not well in this new company’s land. Protestors gathered today at the company’s headquarters in Fresno, CA after the announcement was made. One such protestor was Joel “Steve” Gonzales who currently runs one of The Stardock’s rival companies, Tradewars.org. “By naming himself “L’Emperor,” Eleqtrizi’T has shown just how boastfull and conceted this merger had made him. … Well, he acted like this before, so I guess you could say he’s just being himself.”

Analysts believe that Eleqtrizi’T will now set his sites on LumCorp, after which he will own 95% of the world. To our new future world leader, we here at TWWU say this, “Don’t listen to that Joel guy! You’re just a nice person!”