Ray Yeargin’s Starship traders has gone open source. Now you can download it and run your own games on Linux!

Thanks to Bad Girl for sending me this update:This weeks we have seen some mass destruction from the USO! The KILL List
is getting quite competitive lately. Here are the top 5 killers:

Mr Clean – 19 Kills
Xide – 19 Kills
Hammer 10 Kills
Prestone – 7 Kills
Zoobar – 6 Kills

Now the ROAD HAZARD report on the latest ROAD KILLS/PODDINGS!

Nav Haz:
Poddings – 19
Kills – 7

Mines:
Poddings – 3
Kills – 4

Figs:
Poddings – 0
Kills – 3

CBY’S:
Kills – 19

Fusing:
Poddings – 9
Kills – 0

Capt Z:
Poddings – 4
Kills – 0

Corbo:
Poddings – 1
Kills – 0

Planet Figs:
Poddings – 5
Kills – 0

Q-Guns:
Poddings – 4
Kills – 0

Planet Collision:
Poddings – 1
Kills – 0

To date 43 people have been eliminated through deaths and time outs!

It’s rare that a revolution comes along in the video game industry, let alone the game of TradeWars 2002 itself. So blessed are we today that such a revolution should happen while all of us are still living.

But I digress, I actually like Princess Maker 2.

Dell Bond has started a TWGS called the InsynQ War Zone. Here’s the information he sent me:“I have 3 games op. there are 7 games on my server game
b is called blue’s dream game it’s the best game for
blue players but red players can play it too. the next
game I have it is game d dragon killer which is made
by GAMI hestity, and it is a very good game to play.
the next game in line is called silver future (f)
which is made by lilrogue still working on that game,
so far it is looking good. next game is called InsynQ
War Zone (I) which is named after the server, lot’s of
edits . next game is Star Wars (S) a game that is made
by Sojourner still in the works but looks good so far,
lot’s of edits. next game is called tournament game
(t) this game have 850 turns 20k sectors and also who
ever win this game gets to make his/her’s own game on
this server. the last and final is War Zone (w) it is
all that poeple want’s the game to be it has lots of
edits and planets and everything.
the add to my server is 63.201.228.233 the server is
called the InsynQ War Zone.
-dell”

Lots of games to choose from! Check it out!

Here are some new games coming up:Stardock BBS will be rebanging/starting a few games THIS Friday!! We’re looking to rebang a couple of the current games that have been completed and also start a couple of NEW originals! More details to come.

Hekate will be opening a few news games tomorrow at twgs.twlinks.com around 10pm Pacific time! Here is the post:

“Game L: Lounge Lizards (rebanging – 20k sectors, 5k turns)
Game K: Karma (3500 sectors, 750 turns)
Game A: Alarm! (5k sectors, 900 turns, MBBS)

These will be competitive games and will not have betatest logins. Dupes
are NOT allowed.

telnet://twgs.twlinks.com

Hekate
hekate@twlinks.com
https://www.twlinks.com
ICQ: 10370329″

Check ’em out!

This should also be a very interesting game to say the least! 60 players may enter and 10 teams will be chosen randomly from those 60 names! Here’s more information that Jackal has posted:“Ok I know most of you are still enthralled with the USO, However there’s still open spots for the Lethal Lottery over on Silver Wings. First 60 spots get in. Here’s your chance to corp with people of varying skill levels. No one will know who they are corped with until start of the game. At present expected settings ( not written in stone so may change) CFS, Havoc, IC, Colt and ISS will be slightly modded. 2 Planets will be slightly modded. Turns will be somewhere between 850-1200.

Settings that are definate are 60 day game. MBBS mode. 7 death limit.There will be a 5-6 hour time limit for the game. In the event that there is no clear cut winner, most L6’s will break any ties, if still tied from there most figs. will determine the winners.

This tournament is to provide more competition for other games and tournaments, since you won’t know who your corpmates will be until the game opens it is set up to promote teams that have players of varying skills to learn from each other and hopefully get better players for better competition in the future. At present we have 25 players signed up. 35 more spots need to be filled. You can sign up for the game in the TW anon forum on the Silver Wings site, or you can ICQ/Email me or Soul to get entered.”

They still need players to sign up! There are some big names that are planning to play this game. This is your chance to team-up with someone that you’ve always looked up to!

This looks to be a VERY interesting game. This is not based on your normal TW2002 gameplay/strategy. The object of the game is to build empires from pre-placed planets throughout the universe.For more information check out the game’s description page over at Kitty Moon’s Place.

SIGN UP NOW! You can have a corp of 8-12 players (by the description on the link above). This should make for some fun!

The Rebel Alliance for winning this year’s Haunted Halloween Tournament!

For winning HHT 2000. See graphic here. It is too big to fit on this column. Those of you on slow dial up like Cruncher, I apologize in advance for the size of the graphic. www.booinc.com has full stats of the tournament.

Guardian had this to say in egroups:

At the end of today ( 2/28/01 ) at midnight … I will no longer be a member of the board for the league …. I appreciate all the people that voted for me ….  As time passed , I realized , I was the wrong person for the job . I hope the league has great success in the future . Stonewall please remove my moderation powers on egroup …

This is a great loss but Moldar suggested Space Ghost as a replacement and Hekate and I already agreed. Seems Siver Wings dont agree. They posted this on their website:

By the way, whoever it was thinking of starting a new league? I’ll back it completely if Space Ghost gets on the current league as a board member.

Man..how petty they are. If Moldar didnt think SG was capable of being on the board, he would not have brought up his name in the first place. I support SG every step of the way. Sure, SG and I dont always see eye to eye, but I feel he can do a good job for the board.