Haunted Halloween Tournament 2003 https://www.coastgames.com/hht2003/index.php Only the first 75 people who sign up can play,.... This years HHT is BIG Chess . Check it out before its too late!! Look whose playing! [https://www.coastgames.com/hht2003/hht_2003_players.php](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.coastgames.com/hht2003/hht_2003_players.php) The Five Captains are Kemper3,Cherokee,CBS228,Doc Who,Nazwes Chaiwind

From the BBSmates newsletter: >John Pritchett is the current developer/owner of the popular door game Trade Wars. The first versions of Trade Wars dates back to the early 80's, with ideas borrowed from people back in the early 70's. John has been the sole working on Trade Wars since 1994 and acquired all rights to the game in October, 2000. His involvement with the game has included making it multiplayer, 32-bit, and writing a stand-alone game hosting server called Trade Wars Game Server. Questions to be asked for this interview will be submitted by you, so feel free to ask John any questions relating to Trade Wars 2002, TWGS, past versions of Trade Wars or whatever else you're wondering about. Go here to post your question(s): [https://www.bbsmates.com/question.asp](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.bbsmates.com/question.asp) The Home Sector fully supports the efforts made over at BBSmates. If you haven't registered, please do so. Find old buddies from your BBS days!

Thanks to the powers that be the Boo! inc. Twgs Server is now back online! We start with two basic games the first a 5000 sector 1200 turn stock game. The second is a 20000 sector unlimited turn game! Boo! inc. will be hosting a League game in the near future. Come telnet to 68.10.92.136 or twgs.booinc.com once the dns updates! Enjoy the server folks it took some effort to provide it. Space Ghost The Host with the Most!

With recent discussion of another possible TW convention, I decided to bring up an old gag I created a few years ago for TWCon2000 in Las Vegas. That year **Mana Knight** could not make it due to personal obligations even though he really wanted to go. So I took this **group picture** and inserted Mana Knight into it and this is **the result**, saying MK was cloaked the whole time and only recently did he have cloak failure, resulting in his appearance in the group pic. The gag had a lot of laughs. <img src="/static/img/twcongrp2.jpg" alt="twcongrp2.jpg" />

Two legends of Trade Wars made an appearance in **The Home Sector forums.** The Last Starfighter AKA Fooman and RawHead Rex each made a few posts in the forums inquiring about the happenings of TW today. What's funny is, Rex posted that he was surfing the net one day, thought about TW and popped into Eleq's site. LSF did the same thing a few minutes later. What are the odds of two legends deciding they got bored and decided to check out TW on the same day? About as much as winning the Powerball lottery I guess. Who knows, I would not be surprised if legends like Ripclaw, Darkhawk, Rolodex, Hellcat, Gaurdian, and most notably - Hosem all decide to make a return to TW in time for the BOTE. I would like to suggest a slot be reserved in the BOTE named "Hall of Fame" for the legends to represent. I would love to see how these legendary players stack up against today's players. The Black Knights were one of the most dominating teams in their time. It is too bad I have not had the opportunity to play in the same game with them much other than the first WTC. But Artemis, Lord Chaos, and Maverick were in a class all by themselves with their dominating play. Before I close out this post, I also want to mention one more legend - Cruncher. Her knowledge of the game was outstanding. Her beta testing helped make the TWGS what it is today. She is in a class all by herself and I am honored to have been part of her beta testing not long ago when we together helped run a beta server at Intergate. Forgive me if I leave out anyone. Any ommisions are not intentional. These were just off the top of my head. Best of luck to any legends who decide to return to today's game :)

The edits are now posted at Coastgames: [Ships](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://twchess.coastgames.com/ship_specs.php) [Settings](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://twchess.coastgames.com/settings.php) [Planets](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://twchess.coastgames.com/settings_2.php) Also, Jerry has posted the [registration form](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://twchess.coastgames.com/register.php) for Chess V2. CEO's only need to log in and sign up their team. I'm not sure what the deadline is for registering, but the game starts August 9th, and Jerry typically likes a day or two to make sure everything is set up properly. Don't delay, sign up today!

Jerry from Coastgames will be hosting the first game of TW Chess V2, opening on August 9th. The .TWA file is posted at coastgames, and HTML edits will be posted in the next day or two. These edits are based on the very popular Chess V1 by Res, with some improvements suggested by a wide variety of players. Corp size for this game will be 6 instead of the traditional 4, so you can bring your BOTE team while we await the status of this year's BOTE. More details will be announced in the next couple of days.

Several very good players are looking for a casual game against other good players. The game will start this Saturday, 3pm eastern time at TERRA (terra.twlinks.com). Max corp size is 3, and at least 3 teams need to sign up by tomorrow night. If there are not enough teams by tomorrow, the start date will be pushed back until there are enough teams. Settings - gold, NON-mbbs - 5k sectors, 500 turns - 45 minute time limit (this is a casual game, no time limit subverting bots) - port regen - 100% - no death limit - no aliens - no rob delay, no probe delay, no ship delay - 3 second photons, multi-fire ON, fed photons ON - 100k starting colos, 10k/day regen - 100 traders/fed sector - 0% cloak fail - 80% port density, 90% initial - 40% planet density, 2000 ships - 50% rob factor, 70% steal factor, 100% planet trade - mostly stock, with a few gold edits ... improved battleship - 40k figs, 10k wave, Transwarp, 2 photons ... interdictor cruiser can land. ... improved earth class - 3:1 equip, 2:1 figs (6:1 final fig ratio), max 300k products, max 300k colonists per product. - Extern at Terra is at 12:30am Pacific - 3:30am Eastern. If you intend to play, please send the names and email addresses of your corp of up to 3 players to: brian_c_massey@yahoo.com

Friday, June 27th at 7pm Pacific Time, The Stardock BBS will open once again! However, you will not have to wait long to test the BBS. BBS testing will begin IMMEDIATELY in two stages... The BBS is open NOW running the TWGS in demo mode. Nothing special here other than to get reaquainted with the BBS software, remember your passwords and to get a feel for the system and its speed. ALL ACCOUNTS up to September of 2001 are still active! The next stage will be testing some new software that will allow me some control over the users of the TWGS. I hope to enforce timelimits with AUTHORITY thanks to a front-end BBS program. I also hope to finally integrate BBS-wide paging straight into the TWGS. During this phase, I will be banging some games to actually play and goof off with. Then on Friday, June 27th, the TWGS will close and reopen with MASSIVE, the wildly popular game I closed on (Sorry about that...ok not really..), and some unlimited turn action with the brand new game, Res IBitchAlota. More games will be banged in the days after the official reopening.

Go to [BBS Mates](https://web.archive.org/web/20030000000000*/https://www.bbsmates.com/) and register your handle to some of the BBS's you used to frequent back in the good ol' days. BBS Mates will email you when other's join the lists. Great way to find some old friends.