Which hopefully brings us back to the original question, the lack of interest in
real competition, I think there is a niche for a server kicking off
scheduled low turn - medium turn games on a regular type schedule.

I do enjoy real competition, but it does take time to get a team together.

Once we have a full team, we'll play either version.

On my server, I bang a game at least once every month. I'll be offering a tournament mode game, original edit of mine without the usual delays I use to help new and returning players get reacquainted without becoming space debris too quickly.

I'll clarify. To me, low turns are 700-1000 turns. Not 2500 turns.

Why did people stop watching black and white televisions? Why doesn't anyone use morse code anymore? Why did people put indoor plumbing and electrical wiring in thier houses?? Things change, technology advances, this is an old text game, but that doesn't mean we have to run off every player that still appreciates playing Tradewars. The players that are still left are the ones that want to play TW just the way it has been for the last 9 years and not some edit version of it. The only thing most of the players wanted was a bug free version of this game which "we didn't get".

Also maybe post (turn) game openings where the turn players hang out - namely Facebook.

Fair enough. The next time I rebang one of the turn games, I'll set it up for 1000 turns and see what happens.

I love this post, however, I'd break us old-timers down into two categories - those that want to play the game as they did in the bbs days, and those that want to play the old game + internet multiplayer. There are many who, like I bumped into just yesterday, want to play the game fully manually because that is how they learned and enjoy playing it. On the other hand, there are those that have fully adapted to the game as it has been applied to the Internet, like yourself, who also want the old-fashioned game, but at a faster, multiplayer pace. While these two groups are indeed quite different, they have more in common than not. In both cases, I'd agree, they are a dying breed.

Why don't we turn the game on its head and let players decide when a game bangs? Why not have a signup sheet and let the players create quorum and agree when a game should bang?

I love this post, however, I'd break us old-timers down into two categories - those that want to play the game as they did in the bbs days, and those that want to play the old game + internet multiplayer. There are many who, like I bumped into just yesterday, want to play the game fully manually because that is how they learned and enjoy playing it. On the other hand, there are those that have fully adapted to the game as it has been applied to the Internet, like yourself, who also want the old-fashioned game, but at a faster, multiplayer pace. While these two groups are indeed quite different, they have more in common than not. In both cases, I'd agree, they are a dying breed.

I have a question, would you be interested in playing a game that only allowed one person at a time to log in, like the old single-line bbs days? Maybe a stock game with 500 turns an a 2 hour time limit?

That may be fun, but can you still allow multiple people to log in to chat, yet still only give turns to one player at a time? I am finding it fun to chat with folks over fedspace, which certainly beats the fidonet boards

I'll clarify. To me, low turns are 700-1000 turns. Not 2500 turns.

Wrong? Careful sir, as you come close to mixing Fact with opinion. *smirk*

Note I underlined the opinion in the above quote. Your preference is to play
w/o delays. Fine, see Constitution, re:Free Country.
'As most other players today?' Most public players are breaking down
into two camps, the die hard v1 player, (including myself) and the v2
players..who are rusties and crusties and grudging former v1 players.
As to which camp has more players? see Micro's troller...


We've lost nothing. We still have the original v1 game that
we've played for years....more than 10. At worst we missed an
opportunity to get the v1 bugs fixed, you can't blame a dwindling
player base on that.

Which hopefully brings us back to the original question, the lack of interest in
real competition, I think there is a niche for a server kicking off
scheduled low turn - medium turn games on a regular type schedule.

Fair enough. The next time I rebang one of the turn games, I'll set it up for 1000 turns and see what happens.