TeamEIS has made their first announcement concerning the future of Tradewars 2002. There are still openings on TeamEIS for those interested.

Tradewars has been added to MobyGames. Why not write a review for it?

The worlds leading Linux BBS developer, Intergate Technologies is proud to announce the availability of Fusion MBBS for Linux version 3.0 Alpha! This latest update to the Fusion GS line of BBS software adds User Management, an MBBS like theme, and more! Please note that Fusion MBBS v3 Alpha is not yet ready for production, and should be used with care. Visit intergate.cx and download it now!The registration generator at intergate.cx will grant you a FREE 32,000 node license for Fusion MBBS v3 Alpha. Aitvo asks that you please use accurate information so that he can keep track of who is using it. Enjoy!

You’ve played MajorMUD, you’ve seen unix muds, now play the best of both worlds! Introducing FusionMUD! FusionMUD aims to recreate the feel of MajorMUD while introducing a whole new world, as well as a world creation kit to build your own with!

Today Lisa Wilson (better known as Kitty Moon in the TW community) has been selected as one of Intergate’s newest staff member in charge of World Development. Her responsibilities (in her spare time) will be to create a team of volunteers to design, and input both a fantasy and a scientific world into data files to be used with Fusion MUD! Anyone who is interested in designing a part of a world be it a city, town, forest, continent, island, house, space ship, or whatever (person place object, etc) should email her at kittymoon@intergate.cx and express your interest.

Also, I have volunteered to help out Intergate as their Marketing Lead for Fusion MUD. I will be responsible for getting the word out about Fusion MUD, in product advertisement, as well as getting the word out as to Fusion MUD’s development talent needs!

Timberwolf is covering news of the Haunted Halloween Tournament on his web site, TW Gazette once again!Also, please don’t forget that we have HHT logs online in our Game Logs section, along with all of the other games currently being hosted on Stardock BBS!

Hekate made a post on egroups that I think sums up how all of us feel. It hits home especially after Kitty Moon has decided to discontinue her website.

Trust me, we have all been there.

Kitty Moon has posted on her web site that she has retired from TW completely.Icehawk has now taken over the web site and is looking for someone to help out with daily news. If you’re interested, visit Kitty’s Playground and contact him.

I’m just going to post all of these under one header. It’s easier that way…lots of new games banging recently, here’s what I have received:Stardock BBS banged “Corporation Power” last night at 7:20pm EST! The game is still fresh, get in there while you can! Corporation-based theme and new ships edits!

Timberwolf has put together a game honoring Andrew Wyatt (Aitvo) of Intergate BBS. The game is dubbed “Intergate Classic” and it will be hosted at The Deep South. The game starts TOMORROW NIGHT at 8:00pm EST! For more information on the game visit TW Gazette.

Jackal of Wolfpack fame, in conjunction with Silver Wings will be running a “Lethal Lottery Tournament” beginning April 1, 2001 (same start date as the Canadian TW Tournament). Go here to sign up and to get information. They will only be accepting 60 players!

Mission: Nighthawk BBS will be hosting a Canadian TW Tournament beginning April 1, 2001. The practice game for this tourney began last night and is currently running at nighthawk.lakehead.net. Once I receive more information on this tournament I will post it!

You may have noticed the Official EIS forum has been under construction for the past few days. It finally looks like it’s in a stable state while the last few bugs are hammered out. It’s leaps and bounds above the old format they had. I asked Rick Mead about personal icons and here’s his response:

“funny you should mention that… i am working on it now”

www.tradewars.com updates their website on Feb 23. Earlier I wrote about Trade Wars:Dark Millennium this morning with a quick review on how I feel about it…..which was that I basically wouldnt like it.

Guess what?

A couple guys wrote me how it could be a good thing for the TW community and I gave it some thought then decided to pull the review until I actually see it for myself when it does come out.

John Prichett was one of those people who wrote me. I was pleasantly surprised. This is what he had to say.

Read your post on the tw.com site.  You’re entitled to your opinion 😉 But I do want to point out that it most definitely IS supposed to look like a comic book.  That’s one of the design elements that I really like about this game.  I think it looks great.

Please, don’t look at this project as a TW sequel.  If you do, you’ll just be disappointed.  But these guys grew up playing TW and they love the game.  That doesn’t mean that they want to clone it.  They want to take some general ideas, and expand on them.  But unlike others who have done that, they wanted to continue the Trade Wars tradition.  Obviously if I didn’t think it was a good idea, I wouldn’t have agreed to it.

Reserve judgement until the game is written.  I’m working hard to get some basic TW design elements into the game.  And I’m working hard to help guarantee that the game will be fun even if it doesn’t quite hold up to the expectation of veteran TW2002 fans.

You can save the “it’s not like TW2002” criticism for my Team EIS project.  The goal there will definitely be to keep the game close to the classic, and I’ll be relying on the input from people like you to keep us in line.

If I can just manage to build this team without splintering the TW community 🙁

John Pritchett
Epic Interactive Strategy
https://www.eisonline.com

You heard it from the man himself, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you John.

The other person that wrote me is none than Animal himself, who offered a different perspective on TW:Dark Millennium

Man you need to sit back and look at the big picture concerning Dark Millennium if it comes out as good as it looks, good Tradewars players have got a shot at making money off of this game…Depends on how it turns out if it ‘s like the online game forget the name unreal or maybe Diablo?? people ar developing characters and selling them on ebay for big bucks depending on the exp. etc. of the character… That makes it possible for any good tradewars players that can pick up the new game quick enough to build up characters and sell them.never can tell too early yet but a good possibility.

Another perspective offered by Animal gives you something to think about. I want to thank Animal and John Pritchett for e-mailing me on my previous review of tradewars.com . I withold all my judgements on Dark Millennium until I actually see it for myself. My only reservation of this is that I’m afraid the game’s system requirements will exceed that of my own system which is 200 MHZ and 32MB of RAM, though getting more RAM wont be a problem as I gotta do it anyways.

Online community games like Unreal, Everquest, Ulitma, etc all exceed my system requirements so I’m missing out on those games and I’m afraid I will miss out on Dark Millennium as well. If a best selling game like Half-Life only requires 166 MHZ and 32MB of RAM among their requirements, I see no reason why TW:Dark Millennium shouldn’t either. I’ll keep an eye on this.

A new tournament is hitting the scenes this year. The Canadian Trade Wars tournament will begin on April 1, 2001. It will be hosted by Mission: NightHawk BBS (winning team of BOTE 2000).The practice game for this upcoming tournament will begin TONIGHT at 8pm EST at nighthawk.lakehead.net. Make sure you check it out!