Mana Knight really unloaded his thoughts on the newest TW project. And to be truthful, I completely agree with the guy. If people would just leave things alone…(Click Here To Read MK’s Posts)

TW League game of the season began last night at the Deep South TWGS! This should be a pretty interesting game. Looks like there are three major corporations in the game. If you haven’t joined the game yet there is still time! You have until next Saturday to get in there and join in on the fun, but watch for those SD blocks 😉Also, CEO’s, if you haven’t already, you need to post your team name and roster in the daily logs before extern at midnight EST tonight!!

Looking around at various TW sites the past couple of days I have noticed that two different groups are going to be putting up Internet radio stations. Bravo! My personal favorite was EleqTrizi’T’s 80’s station that he put up temporarily a couple of months ago. Bring it back Augi!!

Wow, people must be really bored with themselves lately. Redesigns seem to be popping up everywhere. Earlier Cruncher gave us a new front page design on her web site. Kitty Moon redesigned Kitty Moon’s Place. Timberwolf over at TWGazette.com redid his as well. Mana Knight got some new graphics for Trade Winds, compliments of EleqTrizi’T, who hasn’t changed the look of his site in a while. From what I heard/saw Guardian is working on putting a new face on Dragons Elite with help from Cybershadow over at TW-Extreme, another web site that is working on a redesign! And of course I redesigned TRADEWARS.WS as well.Well I’m glad to see that people are working on making these sites more worthwhile and better to look at! I remember when I first started playing TW on the Internet and there were only 1 or 2 TW-related pages I could stand to look at (which is what made me decide to do my own), but now there are plenty of sites out there worth checking out on a day-to-day basis (when they’re updated <G>).

Stonewall will be banging “Stonewall’s Suprise” tonight at 8:00PM EST over at the Deep South TWGS. This will be Stonewall’s first attempt at a large edited game. He says there will be a few ships and new odd planets for players to find and the rest will have to be “figured” out. Sounds fun! Go check it out!

The GodFather of Trade Wars himself has made a dupe catcher so advanced, it is mind boggling. When I was a sysop at Intergate, I thought Andrew’s dupe catching tools were pretty cool. And then I go and read the following message Eleq posted in Egroups , or should I say, YahooGroups (more on that later).

I have created a new dupe catching program that is outrageously lethal to those who cheat.

It can catch dupes over a wide variety of IP addresses. Even if the cheating user logs in from different IP addresses for each of his dupes, he can still be caught! The dupe catcher employs up to 15 different techniques to identify potential abusers.

Using the logs from Fusion, it tracks and analyzes massive amounts of data to look for known duper patterns that I’ve identified over my years of being a sysop and player. I choose not to reveal exactly how this is being done, but it would be extremely difficult to avoid it. To give you an idea…the code is extremely optimized, but it still takes a AMD Duron 650 up to 30 mins to analyze and process all the data from the logs.

The first run of the new program identified a large (and disheartening) number of dupes that could of never of been traced using IP alone. Right now, they are not being deleted, but only blocked until they can contact me and explain their situation.

EleqTriziT
Sys Admin – The Stardock BBS

I’m very very impressed on this, Eleq. A very nice job. Andrew would be so proud

As you obviously can see, you’re looking at the new design of TRADEWARS.WS. I decided yesterday that I was going to cut out most of the parts that I have not had the time to finish and just launch the site with what I did have done. The other features will come gradually, but I’m not going to release any specific dates at this point. So enjoy what’s here for now and keep checking back for more!

I see someone shelled out the $1,500 (that’s what it was when I last inquired) for the domain name of TRADEWARS.COM finally (I knew of three other groups of people that were thinking about buying it for original TW purposes). And along with it: Trade Wars: Dark Millenium…the next step to the text-based game we all know and love. Looks like it could be really cool…but in some ways this news really disturbs me. Is this going to take the place of the text-based game that we have all become extremely addicted to over the years? I guess we’ll find out. Official site to be launched February 15th.On a different note: For a similar online game in development (Freelancer) check out this site: The Lancers Reactor (unofficial site)… This game is in a totally different league than the upcoming TW: DM game and looks to be very addicting.

ust a reminder that the second TWLeague game of the year will be starting this Saturday (Jan. 27th) over at The Deep South TWGS. The game will be a standard game (Type A) with no changes except those needed to accomodate the open game. Starting time will be 8:00pm EST.The first game of the year has already begun at the Family Entertainment Network and there is still time to get in that game before it closes!

Again, these games are open registration to everyone. They require no previous registration and you do NOT have to be a member of the TWLeague in order to participate. If you are a member of the league and want to receive points for the game (if you place), make sure you log into the TWGS with your TWLeague alias or else points will not be awarded. You can have a different name within the game however. If you would like more details or have any questions head over the the TWLeague web site and e-mail the board members with inquiries.

Xide seems to be working away on his TWX Proxy helper. In this message he tells us about one of his scripts to be released with the second script pack for TWXP. It is a helpful script for unlimited games…I have a similar one for ZOC. Xide states that the final release version of the ‘World SSM’ script will not be as powerful however. I haven’t had the chance to test out TWX Proxy yet, but I hear it’s pretty cool. (Official Web Site)