EleqTrizi'T is a damn genius. Check out the [splash page](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://twgs.tradewars.org) over at the [Home Sector]https://www.thestardock.com/. It's not often that people come up with good ones like that. That's almost as good as his "The Home Sector is better than porno" graphics he had up in the past. Good job Eleq! HHT team to sign up was forced to drop out because of the 6 people per team rule. Soul/Hell Razor dropped from the team making it 5 people. No word on a replacement as of yet. Silver Wings **may** be shutting down in the near future (that doesn't mean they are!). More information about that on [their site](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.alaweb.com/%7Efreespirit1/TodaysNews.html). **TW League Update** The voting process has now begun!! You can check out nominee interviews here at TRADEWARS.WS) or at the [TW League web site](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.twleague.com/survey.html). Only members of the league may vote for the new board member and all votes must be in by Midnight EST on Thursday, October 19th! Send all votes to [lithe@twleague.com](mailto:lithe@twleague.com). May the best candidate win!

Don't be surprised if you check out the site sometime in the near future and it looks completely different. I'm going to restructure the page layout and the way I display certain things, so big changes could possibly happen. I'm going to try and keep it as close as possible to the current design, but ya never know! League page has been updated with the new board election information! Check it out! TWPA stuff is coming along well...shouldn't be too much longer until it is posted and ready to go. The server may be thrown back anywhere from a month to three months. I have decided not to host it from my place of employment, but to wait until I get cable modem access and run it from home. The server should be a rocking one and I can't wait to get it up there!

Supposedly Soul/Hell Razor has resigned from Silver Wings. There was a dispute in the TradeWarriors eGroup...things were thrown out of proportion, other things weren't explained, and in my opinion there was a lot of miscommunication. Should be interesting to see what happens...95% of the time people come back...you can't resist the all-mighty power that is Trade Wars :P **TW League Update** The voting process has now begun!! You can check out nominee interviews at the [TW League web site](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.twleague.com/survey.html). Only members of the league may vote for the new board member and all votes must be in by Midnight EST on Thursday, October 19th! Send all votes to [lithe@twleague.com](mailto:lithe@twleague.com). May the best candidate win! The convention is coming up very soon! If you haven't booked or decided to go it's probably too late unless you want to drive out to Nevada and sleep in your car! Haunted Halloween Tournament starts in **14 days**! Eleven teams have signed up so far...get your team in today!

I don't use the [boomstick](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.tradewars.org/boomstick.wav) often, but some people are just attracted to it. I Found [this](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.alaweb.com/%7Efreespirit1/TodaysNews.html) today on SilverWings: "The Den finally decides to update his webpage....Welcome back Timber. I thought maybe you and Mana Knight eloped together." If I don't update, it's for two reasons: I have nothing to say or I'm busy with classes. Usually the latter. So before you start bitching, try handling two Computer science projects (One consisting of writing a C++ program that makes a postfix parser using tree structures and another using pure Assembler) all sandwiched with a crunchy Calculus 2 Exam. Because, you know, [Calc2 is really easy.](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://interval.louisiana.edu/courses/301/fall-2000-math-301_exam_hints.html#The%20second%20exam) Right now, all I feel like doing is hitting my head against my desk until I become so stupid I'll have no choice but to drop out of college and the pain will finally end. And you know what else? **NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOU.** At least I don't require people to register with ICQ to view this website. It's people like you who make me want to purchase a .22 and some life insurance. Why? Because people as stupid as you can't be admitted to hell. I mean, lets think about it. Satan doesn't want stupid people in Hell, he wants them all in heaven so it'll be easier to take it over, and Hell is looking pretty atractive right now.

**TW League Update** The voting process has now begun!! You can check out nominee interviews here at [TRADEWARS.WS](twleague/elections.htm) or at the [TW League web site](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.twleague.com/survey.html). Only members of the league may vote for the new board member and all votes must be in by Midnight EST on Thursday, October 19th! Send all votes to [lithe@twleague.com](mailto:lithe@twleague.com). May the best candidate win! Things have been very slow as of late...what's wrong with you people?! TW League nominees have begun filling out and sending in their candidate questionnaires that were sent out last week! Check out the [TW League page](/twleague/) to read those that have responded! Voting will be taking place very soon!! The convention is coming up very soon! If you haven't booked or decided to go it's probably too late unless you want to drive out to Nevada and sleep in your car! Haunted Halloween Tournament starts in **15 days**! Eleven teams have signed up so far...get your team in today!

The tenth and eleventh teams have entered the Haunted Halloween Tournament! The first team, The Dark, consists of Peacemaker (CEO), GPC, Hammer, Leila, Mirkath, and Morgan. The second consists of Zex0s, Hoot Owl, Kestrel, Hell Razor, Madill, and BigJohn. I've heard of Peacemaker's team, but who is that second team? The only one I know of is Hell Razor...should be interesting :D

AHHHHHhhhh....oh...it's not that scary. :[] **TWLEAGUE UPDATE** The questionnaires have been mailed out to the nominees for the new board position! Answers are already starting to roll in...once a few more get their responses back I will be informed and will post them on the TW League page! Stay tuned for more! **Haunted Halloween Tournament Update!** The ninth team has entered the HHT! The Rebel Alliance consisting of Stonewall ( Red CEO), Moldar, Chunky, Oso, Devil Dog ( Blue CEO), and Neo. This is a team to watch out for!

John Pritchett and I had a discussion going on how to improve TWGS performance even more. My theory was the hard drives may be playing a big role in overall system speed, he disagreed. So I setup a RAM drive (meaning an emulated hard drive that is based ENTIRELY in memory), to see if it helped. The purpose was to eliminate the slow access time of the hard drive from the equation. To my surprise, a system with a RAM drive was SLOWER! This is completely opposite to any other benchmark ever seen with a RAM drive v.s. Hard drive. All this means is that the TWGS simply doesn't access the hard drive often enough for it to play a significant role in performance. Windows already does a great job of caching things in memory, making a RAM drive irrelevant. Look at the results.. ``` NO Ramdrive -------------- 1 players running colos - 1.36 minutes 2 players running colos - 2.22 minutes 3 players running colos - 4.40 minutes With Ramdrive --------------- 1 players running colos - 1.32 minutes 2 players running colos - 2.27 minutes 3 players running colos - 4.44 minutes ```

-=[TWGS Update]=- The port problem in version .37 has been fixed. Version .38 is now released! Check the TWGS Updates page for downloads, information, and links! **TWLEAGUE UPDATE** A new server has been approved for League use! Intergate operated by Aitvo is welcomed into the family of League certified servers! **Haunted Halloween Tournament Update!** An 8th team has signed up for the tournament! "Dystopia" consisting of Shallow (CEO), Ace Dekker, Belgarion, Desilence, Severian, and Talon Kaarde are now on the list! Check out the Haunted Halloween Tournament page for more information on the game!

Not much to say at this point on this glorious (yet cold) Monday. Not too much activity in the [TW2002 eGroup](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.egroups.com/group/tw2002/) as of late. Talk about web page hits, etc. People leaving as usual, but will be back within a matter of days -- they always come back (they can't live without the [irresistable charm](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.egroups.com/message/tw2002/23738) that flows through that eGroup). A patch has been released for TWGS v1.01.36! Check out the [TWGS Updates](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://eisonline.classictw.com/) page for downloads! JP will be releasing a patch for each new revision beginning with revision 36! Family Entertainment Network will be banging a new game this Saturday, October 14th! Only news on the settings so far is that it will be a 20,000 sector game with gold ship and alien edits! Be sure to check it out! A sixth team has signed up for the [HHT](/files/Site%20Caps/BooInc/news.html)! 'The Motley Crew' consisting of Troll, Monkey, Lindsay, Dunbar, Havoc, and Duncan has now been thrown in the mix! Get those teams in today! The tournament starts in 23 days!!