Sorry it is not more presentable, I just really wanted to get the data out ASAP before I left for the week. 30 people took the WTC poll. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. ### Opinion of WTC Format * Very High - 30 * High - 10 * Average - 3 * Low - 1 * Game Sucked - 1 ### Opinion of Personal in-game WTC Performance * Great - 4 * Good - 14 * Not so Good -3 * I suck - 8 * Didn't Participate - 1 ### Suggestions * Set Death Limit - 13 * Not allowed Corp Switching - 11 * Make Ship Edits - 5 * Make Planet Edits - 3 * Installed Daily Time Limit - 16 * No Photons - 2 * Use Classic non-MBBS Mode - 3 * Nothing, it's perfect - 10

After today, I've realized just how much I hate networking in windows. I spent from 5:30pm to 12:00am today trying to fix my proxy server. I don't know why it stopped working, but It'll be the first thing I ask the almighty when I die. I can hardly imagine my Mom or even my Dad trying to fix what I did. Stay with me, there is a point. Maybe that's the whole problem with Tradewars. The majority of game buyers out there are content with the $20 Deer Hunter clone at Walmart. They want their games dumb and cheap. Then there are the Quake junkies who pay $300 for a new video card every year and play the most sophisticated games made. But there are certain games that successfully appeal to both sides. Any Blizzard game such as Diablo or Starcraft are good examples. When a Tradewars sequel is created, the hardest challenge may be getting that balance. Let's face it, Tradewars screams hardcore. You have to play through some weird "telnet" thing and practically need a helper or scripts to play effectively. It's not the easiest game to learn and you need to play consistently to win. That last reason is also why I don't play much. Besides having to deal with the problem of turning a text game into something graphical, the makers will also have to tone down how hardcore it will be. I suppose it probably doesn't matter in the end. Chances are it'll be made on a shoestring budget. It'll be able to cater to the hardcore because it won't need to sell 2 million copies to foot the development bill. I'll probably buy and play whatever sequal is made and no matter how hardcore or horrible it ends up being and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Let's see what is going on in the life of TW. Eleq got married and is now on his honeymoon trying to making little jolts of eleqrtizi't! Hekate's TW School is now in session! Open house will be next week and current students will be displaying their mapping skills in crayola. Seriously if your a new player and need help learning the game Hekate is more then willing to help you. Applications can be picked up at library or police station! Guardian is going on an Excellent Adventure! He is moving to Virginia next Saturday so he can hang out at Hooters with SG. They keep saying they go there for the WINGS! And all this time I thought it was for the potato skins... or some type of SKIN!...Go Figure! Lots of games rebanging around the universe...Read Egroups I am sure you can find one to your liking. The people playing in the WTC I hear are going thru withdrawls with everyone on their WTC Honeymoon for a week. Thursday will be here before you know it! I am still looking for interesting TW words...send them to me at Barbcruz@home.com

Two days ago marked the 3 year anniversary of Tradewars.org! Unfortunatelly, my DSL died on the same day. This year, I decided to go through the archives and post some of my best stuff. Here it is! [Past April Fools](/post/144) [The Long Lost "You Suck!" Awards](https://web.archive.org/web/20010222112231/https://www.cris.com/~joel1/tw/specials/parody.shtml) On a more ironic note, congratulations to [EleqTrizi'T](/)and Monica who are getting married today!

Pranks - Old April Fools **Saturday, April 1, 2000** **Tradewars.org to cease operations** by [mk](mailto:mk@tradewars.org) This has been a while coming. As of next thursday, April 6th, Tradewars.org will cease operations. I'm sure you are all asking, "What are you doing! Stop messing with our minds, man!" The truth of the matter is that I lead two lives. "Joel Gonzales" who attends college at the University of Louisiana is my pseudonym. He doesn't exist. My real name is Steve Burns. I host [Blue's Clues](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%27s_Clues), which can be seen five days a week on Nick Jr. I used the other name simply as a cover as I like my privacy. Now on to the reason I'm quitting: as it stands, one Blue's Clues episode takes five months of work to complete. (Multiple episodes are done at the same time) However, my role in each episode will be increasing and I no longer have the time to run this site. On the left is a picture I sent to Cruncher. On the right is a picture of myself. It's surprising no one has sent me an email saying, "You look like that guy from Blue's Clues!" Maybe it's because I'm wearing a hat. <img src="/static/img/manak.jpg"> <img src="/static/img/steve.jpg"> Next, I will be selling the tradewars.org domain for $75 (The price I paid for it) under the following conditions: a) [The Home Sector](/) is unaffected b) I keep the mk@tradewars.org email address If you are interested, contact me. Lastly, I'll be making my goodbyes on Thursday. **October 1, 1998** **April fools comes six months early!** I originally wanted to post these Thursday, but my C++ Compiler and my car had other plans. I therefore submit to you, these parodies: **Nik to Sue Himself** In breaking news today, Nik has announced that he will be suing himself. "I caught myself saying, '[Attac suxs](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.tradewars.org/quotes.shtml),' and if anyone should be suing this person, it should be me." Will Smith, Nik's lawyer, has said to TWWU that, "This is a remarkable case that I think that has the potential of creating new paradigms in how law is done." With the expected money Nik is expecting to make with this case, he's told us that he's already making plans to port ATTAC to Machine Language. "I plan to forgo the limitations of Visual Basic, and intend to port ATTAC straight to Machine Language. This should cut the size of ATTAC from 7 Megs to 6, and is going to be made a reality by this impending lawsuit." **Human Population to evolve before TWE's release** Recent studies have given an interesting turn to TWEnhancer's development. The studies states that the Human population will evolve to a higher state of being before TWEnhancer will be released. "Even though humans will be living in a state of pure energy, I will still try to release TWEnhancer in case any would be aliens ever find out about Tradewars and need a good helper. That way, those Aliens would elevate me to god status, and then I'd make $$$ for the registrations." said Saluki. Saluki Enterprises is an invester in TWWU. **Nik's 2002 Web Heaven Blasted.... Literally** Late last night, Nik's 2002 Web Heaven's server was blasted by a Nuclear Missle. Fortunatelly, Both Nik and Earth had left 1 hour prior to the Missle's impact. The IP header retrieved on the Missle points to a band of Gypsies living in the country of Azi, located in North America. Ricardo Gin, the leader of Azi, has said, "This is absurd that we're being pointed to for this Attac. If we sent out this missle, it obviously would have been while Nik would have been AT the site! Think about it people!" Further investigations are being planned. **Wedsday, April 1st, 2014** > **New Bug in HVS TW2032** > A new Bug has just been found in the latest Version of HVS's Virtual Reality (VR) Port of Tradewars 2032. The bug seems to open a dimentional rift to the year 1998. Right now, I can see Mana Knight, our owner, sitting down doing nothing! ARGH. HVS says this bug will be fixed in the next fix-pack. > **Colonists take over Family Entertainemnt for Oysters** > Colonists on [Family Entertainment](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.fament.com/) have taken over FamEnt's server as a result of a lack of Oysters. > > **"Without Oysters, how can we reporduce? You have to realize that Reproduction in the data realm is not pleasent. Why make us suffer?"** said Terra Ferrengal, the leader of the colonist revolt. > > **"Unfortunatelly, I have to side with them this time. While I normally would prevent this outrage, they're Riot has a good cause. If you want to blame anyone, blame Cruncher for giving them this idea."** Commented Captain Zyrian, Fament's chief of Police. > > This is just one of the many problems Fament has had with it's Tradewars game ever since it went self-aware late last year. > > **HVS Buys out Microsoft** > > In an unpresidented move, High Velocity Software (Nasdaq HVS) has bought out Microsoft Corporation. This follows Martech's Aquisition of [Electronic Arts](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.ea.com/) last month, and [The Home Sector](/) 's buyout of Nintendo last year. > > > **"Thanks to extrememly high sales our VR Port of Tradewars 2032, this buyout of Microsoft was possible."** said president Jeff Morinartery. > > The new name will be HVS-Soft and its new slogan is already slated to be "Where do you want to (blind) T-warp today?" HVS's stock jumped 16 to 666 points at Nasdaq's close today. > > **Hell has frozen over** > > TSIA. (Title Says it all.) [The Home Sector](/). has stayed at the same internet provider for 16 years. > > **Betty Ford Clinic Opens offical TW Rehab Center** > > Today, the Betty Ford Clinic Officially opened it's TW Rehab wing. This wing is meant for serious Tradewars players who constantly need an influx of their favorite game every few hours to survive. > > The cases of TW Addiction have been constantly rising ever since the first person diagnosed with this disease, Cruncher, was treated in 1998. The Recent Spectacular sales of Tradewars 2032 and the VR Port of Tradewars 2032 done by HVS have elevated this problem to the point of causing global economic colapse. We'll keep you updated on further events.

If any of you read egroups you will see the race is on to see who can bang the most games in a week. Now the long standing title has always been held my Timberwolf but closing the gap is River Rat. So now you can go to the Timberland or the Swamp and TW yourself to death! And a BIG TW Welcome to Intergate..our long lost child has returned to the fold! Stop by and see what is going on there...just beware you don't get a "Crunch" take out of you... WORD OF THE DAY - Today's word is once again from the TW archieves of Lord Chaos' vast collection..... DISCO'D - Disconnected at an inopportune moment, bad timing or as in a John Travolta dance Step. YOUR CORDIALLY INVITED!!!! - If you don't already know Eleq is getting married! He is taking down his server starting Thursday night and will bring it back up the following Thursday when he returns from his Honeymoon. Now for the good news...Eleq feels so bad that he has to take down the server that he wants all of us to join him on his honeymoon! Since none of us will have anything to do with the server being down...he felt it was the least he could offer. Contact Eleq at the Honeymoon Suite in Vegas and let him know if you will be joining him and Monica for the Honeymoon. All reservations must be into Eleq no later then Wednesday Evening. WORD OF THE DAY! - Today's word of the day is a combined effort of Lady Ice and Lord Chaos. SELF-HAZARDIZATION...Running in to a Level 3 or above planet and blowing ones self to pieces..Example: Morpheus should have stopped for that RED light!

The AOL Dupers monthly meeting will be held this Saturday at the Den. Bring all your names and party like is 1999! All AOL Dupers are encouraged to come and mingle with your fellow dupers! Refreshments will be served at Stardock! WORD OF THE DAY - Today's word is REVERSED POLARITY which refers to a Blue who attacks another Blue in an ISS and goes Red. Example: Guardian did the cross dressing ..oops cross over today when he attacked and killed Space Ghost. The word of the day was once again submitted by Lord Chaos!

I was sworn not to tell anyone where Mana has been hiding. But...damn those bamboo shoots under the nails start to hurt after awhile! So I am here to tell you that Mana is off at Tradewar University taking a remedial course in port trading! He flunked out the first week for not haggling but now I have word that he is 5th in his class out of a class of five! Way to Go Mana! Hurry back and share your expertise with all of us! NOW...let's see what else is brewing around the TW Universe... Hekate has a job posting in Egroups. I have looked over her classified and the benefits are outstanding. That corporation sure knows how to take care of its own. I believe the new uniforms she ordered are quite striking also! For those of you out there who don't know Eleq is trading in his bachlorhood on August 12th. He will be marrying the very beautiful Monica...boy did he get the better end of that deal.. J/K...Much happiness to you both. WTC is still going...like that energizer bunny...hope someone kills that bunny soon! BOTE is pretty much dominated by the BAD BAD PEOPLE! Then of course Bad People usually do dominate... Over in the Timberland we believe the 52nd game of the week has been rebanged at the Den! There is surely something for everyone over there. I will be posting for a while...until Mana graduates from port trading class.

On the request of Earth, I've taken down "Spam ATTAC" from the [Articles](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.tradewars.org/articles.shtml) section. The article dealt with issues that no longer matter. Also, the person who threated to sue me two years ago (Nic) over that article hasn't been part of the ATTAC team for about 18 months. You mean I'm supposed to FIX this stuff? In a nutshell, here's what happened: 1) [That project](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.tradewars.org/class) I'm working on is put in the tradewars.org Directory 2) While fixing the problem, the backups of this site get deleted 3) I start to recode the page, but don't finish before I leave for vacation 4) Can't FTP while I'm on vacation. (computer was behind a firewall?) 5) recode the main page... AGAIN. Still have to fix the colors So what else do I have to say? Hulk SMASH! Then Hulk Sleep. Hulk tired from projects for [Evil Lady.](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://home.att.net/%7Eeugeniapb/) Hulk thank [Linux Guy](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.intergate.cx/) for help!

Quick note about the below post: It was done by Barbra "Bad Girl" Cruz. That's right, Bad Girl now has the rights to post here, which means that if [someone](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.webcntrl.com/timberwolf/index.htm) were to make accusations, they might want to check who is actually making the post first. Right? Right??? Barb says she won't be posting much because she is computer illiterate. This ends up not making much since since she can pilot an ISS fine, but can't figure out how to put a subject line on her posts? In any case, [Working Designs](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.workingdesigns.com/) has released [Vanguard Bandits](https://web.archive.org/web/20000000000000*/https://www.dailyradar.com/reviews/game_review_775.html). So if you'll excuse me...