Thought maybe some of you may be interested in this. While looking for one of the old games I used to play on the old bbs's (tw2) I ran across this game at http://ioresort.com. It's has a lot of similarity to Trade Wars, but has a lot of differences as well. It is based on a 4 million sector universe, and has ports and planets to trade, etc. It's a whole different animal after that tho. I found this game about a year ago, and I am hooked. If you are looking for something a little different, give it a try. There is a web interface, or you can use telnet on port 2323. There is also a client port at 666 which sends client info for those of you who know how to program, or can find a good client. If you are having problems getting started, just ask anyone online, most will be glad to help you get going. New game starts in about 2 weeks, so now would be a good time to get your feet wet before the new game starts. Hope to see you there..


Artemis

Uh not that I have forgotten that this particular forum is for open chat, but what is up with all you people driving players away from twars? First EVE, then WoW (which I understand!), then this? Heh, i'll check it out anyway. But why does everyone want to steal TWars players??

Cuz we're already addicted to gaming... it's like selling crack addicts a new brand of crack.

quote:Originally posted by Artemis

Thought maybe some of you may be interested in this. While looking for one of the old games I used to play on the old bbs's (tw2) I ran across this game at http://ioresort.com. It's has a lot of similarity to Trade Wars, but has a lot of differences as well. It is based on a 4 million sector universe, and has ports and planets to trade, etc. It's a whole different animal after that tho. I found this game about a year ago, and I am hooked. If you are looking for something a little different, give it a try. There is a web interface, or you can use telnet on port 2323. There is also a client port at 666 which sends client info for those of you who know how to program, or can find a good client. If you are having problems getting started, just ask anyone online, most will be glad to help you get going. New game starts in about 2 weeks, so now would be a good time to get your feet wet before the new game starts. Hope to see you there..


Artemis
GRRRR. No trading scripts. Have to trade manually. Will take a long time to get the hang if this game. One of the things that makes TW cool is autotrading scripts. I remember when I traded manually....boring.

There are clients available.. I wrote a few zoc scripts to start off, but clients can do a lot more..

Here is one that I wrote.. Full of bugs, but it kinda works...

http://home.insightbb.com/~jmjones/Art.zip

There are a lot of screenshots of clients here:
http://kry.is-a-geek.org/

And here are some basic clients, and one that does a lot of things, but it is somewhat tricky to figure out..

http://pages.videotron.com/sst/

and sorry, I'm not trying to steal TWars players. I still play TWARS from time to time, but since I found this game have been pretty addicted.

Art

I was JFWU you man. I would put "ignore me" in my signature, but what fun with that be? I checked it out, didnt seem to grab me off the paper. But then again, 4 million sectors? I'll never find my own sector then! Heh,

Ender

The sucker is addicting for sure. But no scripts. There is a good client though. We'll see how I like it after the new wears off.

checked it out, kinda bored me, but I just used the webbased version... didn't telnet in, might make a difference

lol

If your going to play a text game play TW.

If you want graphics play WoW.

It’s that simple.

What about LORD Speed Demon?

I forgot about LORD and BRE.

Ok maybe it’s not that simple for other people but for me it is.

I hated bre, LORD wasn't too bad, for a role playing game... I'm not too into role playin games though... BRE gave me a headache, simular to TW, but more like... risk, heh

I never played bre, but I am into rpg's so I did like lord. say anybody know of any good lord games still goin on?

alot of BBS's hosting MajorMud games also have LORD games goin.. of course you'll be playin by yourself cause only reason people are there is for the mud lol

Farpoint BBS normally has some decent LORD games. farpoint.1starnet.com