The time limit bug seems to have hit again.Someone CBY’d before extern (which occurs at midnight EST) with 5 minutes of game play time left in the day…he came back 10 minutes after extern was done running and his daily time limit had NOT reset. He still had 5 minutes or less left to play […]

What is it that people have against helpers. Not long ago, I had a conversation with someone who thought that tradewars had become as bad as the warez scene because of helpers and scripts. Ok, if we’re as bad as the warez scene, you’d be seeing a ton of pop up porn ads when you […]

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 […]

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 […]

Graz “I’m not a dupe…no really!” Hoppa recently announced something: https://www.egroups.com/message/tw2002/15143 “tw.tradewars.org will host it’s first major series of tournies.. there is a practice game already in progress.. the tournies will be a series of 5 games- … The tourney will be hosted on a DEDICATED 550 processor with a little over 1k ram-“ That’s […]

TWGS v1.029 Released by mk The TWGS beta center has released a new Beta of TWGS. Here are a few of the new changes: Optimized menu display code. Added Total Server Connections, a value that tracks connections since the server first went online. Under Configure, Server, you may specify the number of connections to start […]

My modem decided to break down into it’s component parts last night. Great job, Zoom! I also notice that sneaky bastard John Pritchett archived the posts used in the below news article a few hours after I posted it. I’ll eventually move the posts to this server… after I get a new modem! Right now […]

Seems Hellcat fibbed a bit on his profile. Apost made on the EIS Forum by Hosem clarifying a few items on his profile. First off, here’s a quote you should always remember: “Gypsy is correct. Bless his dusty cobweb infested brain….Gypsy is nothing? As much as he can be a pain in the ass, he […]

John Pritchett has given us a post on the EIS Forums saying he’s adding a new person to Tradewars development. This new person will be in charge of debugging and maintenance of the main tradewars program. This will let John work more on the Game Server. Check the post for the rest of the details!

John Pritchett recently made a Post concerning the upcoming TradeWars Game Server (aka TWGS) which has been in beta tests with sites such as tw2002.com. According to John’s post, the TWGS server will be available VERY shortly, and he’ll also have an on-line ordering form for both TWGS and Tradewars v3.09! Go to John’s Post