Greetings Everyone,

Not too long ago, our computers suffered major damage during a power surge. The surge devastated components throughout three different computers and made a mockery of our surge protectors. I was able to throw together parts to get two of the three machines working again, but in the end I was left with well over $700 in damaged equipment that needed to be replaced.

Without thinking twice, I made the trip out of town to a computer show where I picked up everything I needed. I returned home to find a slew of ICQ’s and emails that I did NOT appreciate. People badgering me to get the server back up, and some outright telling me I “sucked” as a sysop because of it.

I rebuilt the BBS, but decided to not resume service. Instead, I made my famous post from last month (viewable in our archives) expressing my anger over the unappreciative messages I had gotten.

Almost immediately, Bruce Davey (Dr. Bad) fired off a donation to help with the costs. Others soon followed. Within three days, I had almost half of what I needed. Overall, since then I’ve received OVER the $700 dollars needed for the computer. I put the rest of the money aside for ISP bills, put some towards my door game server (which hasn’t been deployed because I don’t own any doors), and bought a few much-needed programming books.

My wife and I would like to express our deepest appreciation for all those who have donated. The support has been absolutely overwhelming, and we cannot thank everyone enough. We are not exactly rolling in money, so every little bit helps. My wife finally understands why I love being apart of this community.

Fuseblown, I don’t know where I’d be without him. No one has any idea what kind of talent this man possesses when it comes to websites.

Thank-you everyone,
Mr. and Mrs. TriziT
Owners – The Stardock BBS, Home Sector Website

– Here is the list of those who have donated. If I forgot someone, please email me immediately. I did my best.. :    Dr. Bad, Bad Girl, Guardian, Hosem, Maverick, Leila, Dark Helmet, Corran, Black Bart, Lady Rogue, Kemper3, Animal, Darth Vader, Hekate, Lady Ice, Darkside, Hollywood, Kendrake, Lancez, G-dawg, Mega Hertz, Xerces, “We Got Duct Tape”, Spaz, Poison Arrow, Slice Wing, Kick, Brett Quinn, Devil Dog, Kidder from Alien Base, Gonzoid, Viking, Last Starfighter, Craig Castle, AlricTheMad, LordCam, Zep, Peacemaker, Dirk, Lucifer, Colebert, Macahan, Night Hawk, Atog, –{ Cowboy }–, Tweety, Kavanagh, Banano, Aitvo, Detrean, Cruncher, Viscious Beancounter and Timberwolf.

– Added Night Hawk to the list. Sorry bro!

– Added another. Who wants to apply for a SD secretary position? Thanks to Detrean for the donatiion

-Removed Soul from the donor list.

-Cruncher, Viscious Beancounter and Space Ghost have been added to the list! Forgetful, unappreciative jerks like me need to be whooped.

Nazwes Chaiwind has told me Mission NightHawk reopens Saturday the 28th. New address is nighthawk.bbsnet.ca, core BBS is in test phase, TWGS is being built today. I’ll get more details from Naz as he progresses in the rebuilding. Barring any unforseen problems, Naz expects to bang a few games on that day. More info coming soon.

Has been postponed until later today…I’m having problems with the Perl script and it saving the data correctly using the voting form. We’re working on it. I’ll post when all is up and working. Sorry for the wait.

Looks to me like Hammer and Zelda have won the Retribution game on Stardock BBS…are there are objections? Let me know. If I don’t hear from anyone in the next day or so, they will be declared the winners.

Fyreburn talked to me today and told me that he’s going to take Route 66 down for 3-5 days to do an overhaul on the system and to work on some new game edits, etc. So if you try to connect to his server from our main BBS menu, that is why. We’ll keep you all updated on the return.

Devil Dog (TW League fame) has opened his own TWGS server with a BBS front-end! Here’s the word from DD:

Hello all after being out of BBSing for a few years I have decided to
run one again, with a TWGS rlogin also, the BBS is set up and so are
a few Door games, the TWGS is also set up with 2 games for now. I
will be re-banging all games doors and TWGS on May 1st and I am
starting off the TWGS with a nice 20K sector unlimited turn, high
edit, 4 hours a day game. this game is set up as a practice game
right now and will re-bang on the first. (my wifes labor pending of
course!) Games will bang at 12:00PM (noon) at EST Come join us at

The Medieval Realms BBS
Telnet://medievalrealms.darktech.org:23
https://medievalrealms0.tripod.com

See ya there,
Devil Dog

I checked this BBS out and it was blazin’! Good work DD! You can count me in for all of the Inter-BBS games (BRE & FE)!!

Yesterday, the The Stardock’s Lufwaffe forces made a sneak attack on the country of Route 66. After a few minutes of Kung-fu fighting, Route 66 was forced to bow to The Stardock’s superior shaolin style. But now that The Stardock owns the land occupied by Route 66, it leaves open for an easy future attack on TWlinks.com.In a nutshell, Route 66 decided to merge with The Stardock. Now you can only play their games on the The Stardock…. which also has it’s own games. Make sense? Didn’t think so. And here you thought my story about them merging with AOL-Time Warner was a joke.

A powerful new server started up last week called Trade Wars: Route 66. We have linked to this new TWGS from our main menu on Stardock BBS. The admin/web master of this new server is Fyreburn and Cerberus is the sysop. Go check it out!

Yup. Game C at The Stardock BBS. I caught Babsy running SSM. First I tried to destroy the port soon as she docked at it but she lifted off before the port was blown. She warped out of sector and I quickly D-scanned to see where she went. I then was about to follow her when she came back. I immediately began attack on her, hitting her 45K some figs on her Chicken Megaship (A souped up version of the CFS – then again ,every ship in Game C is souped up – heh) with 10K figs at a time. I had no time to surround her, and this being my first online kill of a top player of the game, I was too excited to drop fig soon as i pinged her out to funnel her into another sector. I ended up pinging her back and forth in furious attack waves, wasting no time in powering up on her, without macros mind you, before I finally destroyed her ship.

I knew she was distracted somehow or she would not have allowed her self to die like that as she would have escaped right after I blew the port. She’s a hell of a good player, but was distracted in this case and I took advantage of it to nail her.

I then got an ICQ from her saying she was in another window working on her daughter’s web page and and she said something like “That will teach me to work in another Window” and I laughed. I actually felt bad, but at the same time, I now rank it as my #1 kill of all time. It felt good to pod a great player like Bad Girl after killing newbie after newbie.I was gonna make a hELLCAT style cap file, but the damn thing totaled like 10 images to compose and I didnt have the time to capture the whole attack onto one image so I just did the last screen shot of her podding. Image is here. I’m the player named Frucking Idiot, by the way.

Bad Girl, thanks for being a good sport. I realize game C is just a fun game, but it still gave me a rush to pod someone as good as you are 🙂

4th Annual Trade Wars Awards – Nomination Results
Last Updated: 04/22/01

Welcome to the 4th Annual TW Awards hosted by the Home Sector! This is the continuation of the legacy first started by Gypsy 3 years ago! (Click here to view the 3rd Annual Awards by Wookie, which are still viewable online)

Things are a little different this year. We have decided to stray from the norm and add to the award categories to be more specific and to give more people a chance to be recognized. This was due to high demand from the voters, that wanted to see these categories added. There are many aspects to Trade Wars and we have covered all of that areas that we could think of.

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Voting will begin Monday, April 23rd around 8-9pm Eastern time.

• Player Categories
• Server Categories
• Internet (Sites/Forums/Etc.) Categories
• Miscellaneous/Other

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Best Overall Red: 1) Prestone; 2) JackBox; 3) Maverick; 4) Peacemaker; 5) Guardian & Night Hawk (Tie)Best Overall Blue: 1) Rawhead Rex; 2) Father Cajone; 3) Guardian; 4) hELLCAT; 5) KavanaghBest All-Around: 1) Guardian; 2) Prestone; 3) hELLCAT; 4) Hammer, JackBox, Maverick, Night Hawk, Stonewall, Wookie (Tie)Team Leader (CEO): 1) Guardian; 2) Prestone; 3) Hekate; 4) Space Ghost; 5) Maverick

Team Player: 1) Mirkath; 2) Peacemaker; 3) Tweety; 4) Fuseblown, Guardian, Hammer, Speedy (Tie)

Most Dedicated: 1) Prestone; 2) Tweety; 3) Lady Ice; 4) Peacemaker; 5) Steel Magnolia

Most Improved: 1) Tweety; 2) Mandorallen; 3) Sir Lancelot; 4) Steel Magnolia; 5) Night Hawk & Space Ghost (Tie)

Rookie of the Year (Newbie): 1) Illusion; 2) Lady Ice; 3) Xide; 4) Corran, Res Judicata, Rulan, Sir Lancelot, Speedy, Steel Magnolia, Vicious Beancounter (Tie)

Most Valuable Player: 1) Guardian; 2) hELLCAT; 3) Peacemaker; 4) Prestone; 5) Space Ghost

Best Corporation: 1) Black Knights, Boo! Inc., Dragon Elite (Tie); 2) Cloud Nine, Dominance Enterprises!, Good Guys, KARMA, Nav Haz Unltd. (Tie)

Hunter: 1) hELLCAT; 2) Prestone; 3) Rawhead Rex; 4) Guardian; 5) Hammer

Killer: 1) hELLCAT; 2) Prestone; 3) Xide; 4) Hammer; 5) Rawhead Rex & Stonewall (Tie)

Farmer: 1) Kavanagh; 2) Bad Girl; 3) Father Cajone; 4) White Knight; 5) Speedy

Money-Maker: 1) Peacemaker; 2) Prestone; 3) Adomma; 4) JackBox, Maverick, Night Hawk (Tie)

Scripter (Writing): 1) Xide; 2) The Reverend; 3) Guardian; 4) Atog; 5) Tweety

Bot-User: 1) Space Ghost; 2) Prestone; 3) Xide & Nazwes Chaiwind (Tie); 4) Lady Ice & hELLCAT (Tie)

Most Feared: 1) hELLCAT; 2) Prestone; 3) Guardian; 4) Xide; 5) Rawhead Rex

Sportsmanship: 1) Peacemaker; 2) Prestone; 3) Space Ghost; 4) Guardian; 5) Bad Girl, EleqTrizi’T, Fuseblown, Hammer (Tie)

Most Helpful (Teacher): 1) Guardian; 2) Hekate; 3) Bad Girl; 4) Father Cajone; 5) Jackal

Best Combo (2+ Players): 1) Guardian/Bad Girl; 2) Space Ghost/Kavanagh; 3) Prestone/Night Hawk; 4) Artemis/Maverick

Best Solo: 1) hELLCAT; 2) Zoobar; 3) Adomma; 4) Prestone; 5) EleqTrizi’T

Fed Comm (Most Talkative/Trash Talker): 1) Epicenter; 2) hELLCAT; 3) Jackal; 4) Bud; 5) Darth Vader & Space Ghost (Tie)

Best Strategist: 1) Guardian; 2) Peacemaker; 3) EleqTrizi’T; 4) Prestone; 5) Stonewall

Best MBBS: 1) Family Entertainment Network; 2) Cosmos; 3) Ice Castle; 4) Millers Party Board; 5) Outlaw BBS

Best TWGS: 1) Stardock BBS; 2) Silver Wings; 3) The Deep South; 4) Family Entertainment Network; 5) Alien Base & TWGS.TWLINKS.COM (Tie)

Server w/ BBS Front-End: 1) Stardock BBS; 2) Family Entertainment Network; 3) Intergate; 4) The Pisces Network; 5) After-Hours BBS, Frogland, Mission: NightHawk, The Void (Tie)

Best Competition: 1) Stardock BBS; 2) Silver Wings; 3) Family Entertainment Network; 4) The Deep South; 5) TWLINKS.COM

Best Up-and-Coming: 1) Alien Base; 2) Silver Wings BBS; 3) The Deep South; 4) The Void; 5) TWLINKS.COM

Best Edit/Themes: 1) Stardock BBS; 2) The Deep South & The Void (Tie); 3) Family Entertainment Network, Frogland, Haunted Halloween Tournament, Modem Master, Silver Wings (Tie)

Game Selection: 1) Stardock BBS; 2) Silver Wings; 3) The Deep South; 4) Alien Base, Family Entertainment Network, The Void, TWLINKS.COM (Tie)

Game-Op: 1) EleqTrizi’T; 2) Fuseblown; 3) Space Ghost; 4) MacAhan; 5) Stonewall

Sysop: 1) EleqTrizi’T; 2) MacAhan; 3) Stonewall; 4) Soul; 5) River Rat

Comedic Site: 1) Tradewars.org; 2) Silver Wings; 3) TW Gazette; 4) The Home Sector; 5) hELLCAT’s Home Base

Editorial Site: 1) Tradewars.org; 2) The Home Sector; 3) TW Gazette; 4) Kitty’s Playground, TRADEWARS.WS, TW Extreme (Tie)

Scripting Site: 1) The Reverend’s Page; 2) The Home Sector; 3) SWATH; 4) TWX Proxy; 5) Dragon’s Keep & ZOC4TradeWars (Tie)

TW Forum: 1) EIS Forum; 2) Trade Wars Anonymous; 3) tradewars_2002 Y!Group; 4) The Home Sector Forum; 5) Yahoo! Groups

Design/Layout: 1) The Home Sector; 2) Dragon’s Keep; 3) TWLINKS.COM; 4) TRADEWARS.WS; 5) TW Extreme

Helper Site: 1) SWATH; 2) TWX Proxy; 3) ATTAC; 4) Zoc4Tradewars; 5)

News Site: 1) The Home Sector; 2) Tradewars.org; 3) TRADEWARS.WS; 4) TW Gazette; 5) Silver Wings & TWLINKS.COM (Tie)

Corporation Site: 1) Boo! Inc.; 2) Dragon Elite; 3) KARMA; 4) WolfPack

Most Useful Site: 1) TWLINKS.COM; 2) The Home Sector; 3) Dragon’s Keep; 4) Boo! Inc.; 5) TRADEWARS.WS

Best Overall Site: 1) The Home Sector; 2) TWLINKS.COM; 3) Silver Wings; 4) Trade Winds; 5) TRADEWARS.WS

Radio Station: 1) WEJL – DJ: Soul; 2) Boo! Inc. – DJ: Space Ghost

Most Original Site: 1) The Home Sector; 2) Tradewars.org; 3) Kitty’s Playground; 4) Boo! Inc., Dragon’s Keep, TW Extreme, Trade Whores, TWLINKS.COM, Ice Castle

[Miscellaneous/Other Categories]

Best TW Helper: 1) SWATH; 2) TWX Proxy; 3) TWHelp; 4) ATTAC; 5) TWAR for Windows & TWAR for DOS (Tie)

Best Communications Program: 1) ZOC; 2) SWATH & Telix (Tie); 3) TWX Proxy; 4) ATTAC, Pro-Comm, Qmodem PRO, Tera Term Pro (Tie)

Best Tournament: 1) USO; 2) WTC; 3) BOTE; 4) HHT

Hall of Fame: 1) EleqTrizi’T; 2) Gypsy; 3) Guardian; 4) Hosem; 5) hELLCAT, MacAhan, Maverick (Tie)

Most Active Contributor: 1) EleqTrizi’T; 2) Cruncher; 3) Hekate; 4) MacAhan; 5) Soul

Community Award: 1) EleqTrizi’T; 2) TW League; 3) Bad Girl; 4) Soul; 5) Hekate

Top 10 Players:
There will be twenty (20) players listed for the voting process in this category, voters will need to choose the top ten (10) out of those and put them in order from the best player (in their opinion) and on down.

1) Guardian
2) Prestone
3) hELLCAT
4) Rawhead Rex
5) Space Ghost
6) EleqTrizi’T
7) Peacemaker
8) JackBox
9) Hekate
10) Bad Girl
11) Hosem
12) Xide
13) Fuseblown
14) Maverick
15) Tweety
16) Zoobar
17) Stonewall
18) Jackal
19) Hammer
20) Night Hawk

Top 10 Web Sites
There will be fifteen (15) sites listed for the voting process in this category, voters will need to choose the top ten (10) out of those and put them in order from the best site (in their opinion) and on down.

1) The Home Sector
2) TWLINKS.COM
3) Trade Winds
4) Dragon’s Keep
5) TW Gazette
6) Cruncher’s Site
7) Kitty’s Playground
8) TRADEWARS.WS
9) The Reverend’s Site
10) EIS Forums
11) Boo! Inc.
12) The Deep South
13) hELLCAT’s Home Base
14) Micro’s TW Page
15) Silver Wings

Top 10 Servers
There will be fifteen (15) servers listed for the voting process in this category, voters will need to choose the top ten (10) out of those and put them in order from the best server (in their opinion) and on down.

1) Stardock BBS
2) The Deep South
3) Family Entertainment Network
4) TWLINKS.COM
5) Silver Wings BBS
6) Alien Base
7) The Void
8) The Pisces Network
9) Intergate
10) Toadville
11) Frogland BBS
12) Phantom Empire
13) Stardock Alpha-Prime
14) TW Galaxy
15) Merlin’s Keep

Voting will begin Monday, April 23rd around 8-9pm Eastern time.