That time of the year is approaching. I just wanted to give a small update to clear up any issues that have been mentioned about the awards as of late.We have put together a committee for this year’s annual awards. This committee currently consists of myself, Wookie, Hekate, Stonewall, and Guardian. We are working on adding one more member, I just need to get confirmation from that person before I make it official.

We are currently working on finalizing the award categories for this year. There *will* be new categories in addition to the categories from last year’s awards operated by Wookie. Most of these are more specific categories broken down from the previous year, making for a much larger and more elaborate awards system.

Our goal is to have the site up by mid-March to let everyone check out the categories, etc. and let everyone get some ideas of who they would like to nominate. Then shortly after we will open nominations, etc., etc.

We are just beginning committee discussions on how the awards will run this year (ie, how people will vote, nominate, etc.). Once we finalize more decisions, they will be posted!

I’m currently going through all of the games on Stardock BBS (with the exception of the USO Tournament) trying to find out which games are done and which are still going. Here’s my run-down as far as I can see:Game (S): Stardock Classic – Looks to me like this game is still going strong. It will remain the way it is for the time being.

Game (A): Apocalypse – This game is dead, no doubt about it. It will be removed and more than likely replaced.

Game (R): Riot – From what I gather from some of the current players in this game, it’s over as well and -=[Nav Haz Unltd.]=- has won it for the second time in a row!

Game (L): Lil’ Funky – Looks to be going still, although it seems to be slowly coming to an end. This one may be rebanged with current settings as I have had a lot of requests to keep it. 🙂

Game (B): RETRIBUTION – Looks to be coming to an end as well. I need some players to contact me about this one and let me know what’s up before I do anything with it. 😉

Game (D): Dupers’ Delight – Game looks to be dead to me. It will be replaced by another Dupe game.

Game (C): Corporation Power – Game is little over a week old, despite the number of days shown on the “V” screen within the game. It won’t be going anywhere for a while. 🙂

I need help from you, the players. Look over my list above again and let me know if you disagree with any of my decisions above. If people are still playing some of those games hardcore, they will stay. If they are over, I need to know as well so that I can decide to rebang or replace. 🙂 I appreciate any information!

Andrew “Linux Guy” Wyatt over at Intergate Technologies, has announced the latest version of his Fusion BBS system which is used by many sysops.

Download it. Intergate Technologies is currently traded under Nasdaq and is “The worlds leading Linux BBS developer.” That should be refined to say “The worlds only Linux BBS developer.”

Hekate has informed me that twgs.twlinks.com is back up!Games M, S, and T are open for beta testing! Come help out!

The HHT is over. Space Ghost has given the victory to the Rebel Alliance. Esoteric Alliance came in 2nd. And Cloud Nine led by Xanos came in third. Space Ghost has explained the following reason for the controversey surrounding Megahertze’s ability to come back after 5 deaths:

“The Reason for Mega Hertze’s Return after 5 deaths is believed to be the result of going form one version of TWGS to anorther version and then Returningback to the previuos version. The only people who ever had any Access to the game’s tedit was EleQ and Fuse,,,and fuse didnt even know the he could till this happened,…..Server changes happend to this Tourny and for that I’m Sorry…..”

Sometimes these things cant be helped. TWGS is still in beta after all. The bugs always come out at all major games. To top it off, this game was orginally at Eclipse hosted by Intergate with one set of global settings. Then it had to go to the Home Sector/Stardock BBS, whose global settings are completely different. If the file was also sent from one version of the TWGS to another version, it could affect the game as well. I also noticed Eleq upgraded to .43 then downgraded back to .39. All this can really affect one game greatly.

Now I want to respond to a post on the SilverWings website that got me REALLY REALLY mother-f**king pissed off!. Big D posted this comment on the SW website.

“OK. Well that pretty much was the opposite of what another well respected member of the Tradewars community said when he stated that he was almost positive that Timberwolf had tedit access to be able to update the HHT game stats for certain newspages. Anyway, that’s his story and he’s sticking to it. “

Big D, are you IMPLYING that I had something to do with this controversy????????? Fuck no! What reason would I have to do this? What would I possibily gain by this???? I’ll have you know I never got TEDIT access to the HHT since it was moved to the SD BBS. I have asked Eleq a few times for access and finally got a response a few days ago only to find out the admin password was different than the Eclipse Server. The same day SG shut down HHT, Eleq finally gave me access to get past the BBS and into the port to the TWGS adminstration. I then typed my name and the admin password for the HHT I was given when it was at Eclipse/Intergate. I thought Space Ghost gave me a local admin password and it seemed that the admin password wasnt sent with the file and Eleq used a different password so I never got in the TEDIT at the SD BBS TWGS . The HHT was already shut down so I decided then to just forget it and let SG deal with it.

Big D, I take excellent pride in my honesty and reputation for all the games I run and I never..ever..have thought about using the editor..not even once..to help benefit a player or two. And I’m greatly insulted by the comment you posted on the SW website. I demand a public apology in all the Y-groups forums and on your website and also the comment retracted from your website. I also want this “well respected member of the Tradewars community” identified. This player then also should make the apology for EVEN thinking I had something to do with the Megahertze controversy.

Or..there will be HELL to pay. You got my word on that.

If you did not already notice the graphic on the splash page, here it is again:

More announcements about the WTC 2001 coming soon!

If you haven’t noticed, SETI@home has been down the past day or so…Frogland BBS sent me an ICQ just recently with a link to this site, stating why the SETI@home network has been down.

Hopefully they get it back up and running soon! Once it is back up, if you’re interested in helping out SETI@home, click on the image in the lower, right-hand corner of each page on this site to view the TW2002 group’s page and sign-up!

Congratulations to The Rebel Alliance for dominating the HHT 2000! The team consisted of Stonewall (Red CEO), Moldar, Chunky, Oso, Devil Dog (Blue CEO), and Neo! They played one hell of a game and I was lucky enough to be eliminated by Stonewall one night when I wasn’t able to make extern .Second place went to: Esoteric Alliance – Ovid, Planet Hopper, Coale, White Knight, Commando, and Bazzaarr.

In a CLOSE Third Place: Cloud Nine – Xanos, Nightwing, Brilliant Beast, Tienzi, Reydar, and Vasilis.

Congrats to all of these players for sticking it out until the bitter end!

Now there is no reason to complain because you cannot find a game to suit your needs.Hekate has updated her telnet game list over at TWLINKS.COM!

She has well over 100 active servers listed! So if you’re looking for a game and cannot seem to find one to suit your needs, you better head over there and check it out!

The master of killing himself, hELLCAT, has updated his capture site!Go there to find his collection of kills, including the cap where I podded hELLCAT himself! …but only because of the StarDock bug…SIGH!