The Players’ Association information should be up this week (along with the 2001 convention page). It will be preliminary information on the basics of how the association will function, its purpose, etc. It will then be built upon as ideas are passed around. It won’t be anything fancy for now until some issues are settled.

EleqTrizi’T is starting up the Home Sector Title Game once again! The game begins today at 6:00pm PST! One question…Can ya dig it? The last Title Game (Summer Xtreme) champions were Hekate, Gravedigr, Slim Shady (JacK BoX), Fuseblown (that’s me!), DarkOne, and Rawhead Rex, making up the corporation of KARMA. Will KARMA be back to defend their title?I wanna thank Timberwolf for sending me a postcard (mail, yay!) all the way from northern Michigan. The idea has been going around about TW players exchanging Christmas cards starting this year. Timberwolf came up with the idea and a lot of people seem to like it. More on this a little later.

If anyone would like me to send them a postcard from Washington, D.C., just e-mail me your name, alias, and mailing address and I’ll be sure to send one out ASAP! Speedy and Timberwolf expressed interest in this and I will be sending theirs out this week!

Once I get my hands on some of the software I’ve been trying to find on the Internet the past couple of weeks, I will be giving TRADEWARS.WS a new look. The pages should basically look the same, but with more graphics to give the site more of a visual feel instead of blocks upon blocks of text. If anyone knows where I can get the trial version of Bryce 4 (which is now owned by Corel) please let me know. I checked out the Corel site, but it seems that they don’t have trial downloads of any of their software. Also, if anyone knows of any good 3D creation software, feel free to let me know about those as well. I’d like something to make 3D models of objects, as well as 3D “worlds.”I will be adding my own links section to the web site in the near future. The link to Hekate’s site will still appear on all of the pages throughout the site. My list will contain links to other TW sites, as well as off-topic sites that I like to visit occasionally.

Sorry about the delay on the new Server List layout. Time has not been on my side the past week or so. It should happen sometime this week…I also have a couple of new servers to add to the new list, including the great Home Sector!

I have setup a tentative meeting with Bad Girl and Guardian (and possibly a couple of others that can make it) to discuss the Trade Wars Players’ Association in more detail with some fellow TW players that are closer to me. I have a lot of good ideas, but I want to run them by some other people and establish a basis for the association before I release anymore public information. More on this after the meeting (which is tentatively set for the weekend of November 10th, etc.).

Didn’t have access to the appropriate software to update the site this weekend. I was back in Pennsylvania for a visit. Well, here’s everything that happened while I was gone…WARNING, it’s a BIG update!!Timberwolf has been working on his line of TW-related soap operas over at the TW Gazette web site. Yours truly is the star in one of the latest “The Traders and the Warriors.” He has also been adding a few things to the TWGS-MBBS comparison chart for you old timers that are getting back into the game and need to see what has changed since the MBBS days. Go check it out.

Timberwolf is also working on a ‘Death & Destruction’ series of games to be hosted on The Deep South and Intergate. The Deep South game will be starting sometime in the near future, but the Intergate game will occur sometime much later. This first D&D game will consist of 2-man corps, while the second will be every person for themselves! I enjoyed the D&D games in the past, hopefully these will be just as enjoyable as the first! (Bring back the Action IV Transport, T!)

EleqTrizi’T has gone on an OFFICIAL rampage! He’s right with most of his points…except maybe the official best web site one. Actually I’m just kidding Eleq, I visit the Home Sector more than any other TW web site and it looks DAMN good!

OFFICIAL Trade Wars Discussion group founded by EleqTrizi’T and Aitvo is now up to 67 members in just a couple of days! It’s good to see that people still want to talk about Trade Wars and not fight with each other constantly. It also seems that there are already some opponents of the group that are jealous of the title “Official” being placed on the group. What do they do? Start bothering folks (mostly JP) over at the EIS forum about it. Oh well, they can whine all they want. If you’re not a member, sign up now!

While at the first annual Trade Wars Convention in Las Vegas last weekend, I hear Moldar threw out some ideas of his for a Trade Wars sequel. Word has it that he will be putting these ideas up on a web site sometime in the near future for people to check out and discuss. I have a ton of ideas myself. It will be interesting to see if Moldar hit any of those same issues.

Tournament Updates
The Haunted Halloween Tournament starts tonight at midnight CST!! Thirteen total teams have signed up to play! If you haven’t signed up for the game yet, you better get in gear and do it soon! Time is running out! Space Ghost is accepting registrations and changes up until midnight EST! Game starts at midnight CST!

More HHT news, KARMA has replaced their member, Merlin, with –{Cowboy}–. Merlin wasn’t able to join us full-time for the tournament and pulled out of the game. KARMA will still go on!

WTC is still running, I don’t have many details except that The Good, Bad, and Indifferent and The Huns are the only teams left after the Black Knights were eliminated last week in a joint invasion. EleqTrizi’T would not allow the game to end on a truce, so the last two corporations are battling it out until the end! Hopefully this game will see an end soon…before those folks begin to lose their sanity. I was part of The Huns until I was deleted a while ago for inactivity, I kinda wish I were still in their battling it out. Good luck to both teams.

NEW eGroups Forum:
Official Trade Wars 2002 eGroups Forum
Moderated by EleqTrizi’T and Aitvo
To join: https://www.egroups.com/group/tradewars_2002/
or send e-mail to: tradewars_2002-subscribe@egroups.com
Spams/Flames are NOT allowed! Those should be sent to tw2002@egroups.com.This eGroup is about to become the OFFICIAL Trade Wars 2002 discussion group on the Internet. A confirmation letter will be received from John Pritchett with the release of TWGS version 1.01.39 in the very near future!

Haunted Halloween Tournament – Only 5 days left!!! (HHT Site)

You know those factories the Federation is using that pumps out all of the StarShips with…click here.

TW League Update (https://www.twleague.com)
A new league game will begin this Saturday (Oct. 28th). Send registrations for the next game to lithe@twleague.com. The lucky server to host the next game is between Intergate and Silver Wings. No word yet on which it will be.

Interesting what happens in the course of a day. I’ve made my voice known about the Tradewars egroups. If you haven’t been following, here’s a recap: original tw2002 egroups good. Egroups erupts in a flamewar a few months ago that still hasn’t stopped. Hulk unsubscribe from egroups. Hulk look for new home. Hulk finally find new home!

Today, Aitvo, created a brand new tradewars egroup with the promise,
“You won’t HAVE to set a filter in this one…” You see, this forum is moderated. A few hours after this new group was announced, John Pritchett gave the forum is blessing, so it is now The Official Tradewars 2002 egroups forum. Before you start making remarks about how “The Man” is impeding your self evolution by moderating the forum, I think you need to take a look at the policy. So go ahead and subscribe! We won’t ban you… at least not unless you start a flamewar.

Haunted Halloween Tournament – Only 6 days left!!! (HHT Site)Stardock Alpha-Prime has been kind enough to lift all bans from his TWGS yesterday. This gives all of you bad boys and girls that have broken his rules in the past a chance to rebuild some of your reputation. Also, congratulations go out to Abraxus for the arrival of his new baby girl!

EleqTrizi’T has posted pictures from the first annual TW Convention held in Las Vegas. Go check ’em out! Hekate has a random image viewer on her main page over at TWLINKS.COM, some of those pics are available on Eleq’s page as well.

TW League Update (https://www.twleague.com)
A new league game will begin this Saturday (Oct. 28th). Send registrations for the next game to lithe@twleague.com. The server has yet to be announced…as soon as it is, TRADEWARS.WS viewers will be among the first to know!

Well the TW2000 Convention held in Las Vegas this past weekend was a great success. After talking to Space Ghost and Eleq they both had such positive, happy and funny tales to tell. After viewing the pics (which can be seen on Eleq’s and Hekate’s pages) it makes us a little jealous that we were not there.

Also, if you get a chance go read Timber’s page. I think he has finally found his nitch in life..that of a soap opera writer…its quite funny.

With all of the talk of the TW Convention 2000, I have decided to double my efforts on the TWPA project. Had I made it to the convention this past weekend I would have been able to explain my idea to the group there, but for now, I have sent out an e-mail to a couple of east coast TW players with my idea and a proposal to meet to discuss the project in more detail and to get more user input and leadership (besides myself) behind the concept of the TWPA. I will be adding more people to the contact list for the TWPA in the future once there is a firm foundation established for the association (i.e., goals, plans, etc.). Revisions, added ideas, etc. can be added from there.Some of you people are jumping way ahead of me here and it’s hard to keep up. I know there are plans for a couple of other meetings in the works across the country. I would like the TWPA to be able and help make it a constant thing.

I’m hearing about a lot of good things that came out of the TW Convention 2000. Lots of ideas flowing and that’s a VERY good thing. A couple of the attendees have taken pictures and will be posting them on the ‘net sometime in the near future. With this good news, I have decided to work harder on establishing the TWPA as soon as I can (See Site Updates).

TW League Update (https://www.twleague.com)
A new league game will begin this Saturday (Oct. 28th). Send registrations for the next game to lithe@twleague.com. The server has yet to be announced…as soon as it is, TRADEWARS.WS viewers will be among the first to know!