Hello, All!

I would like to announce the establishment of a new tradewars gold server. The address is TWGSGOLD.servegame.com, available 24/7 on port 23 (telnet) from Indianapolis, Indiana.

I have a website under development as well, but I am working more on the custom game design side for the time being. The games are typically designed to be "turtle" games, long-term building games that lend themselves to long term strategy rather than quick victories and re-bangs. Two games are currently available, both true stock, differeing pretty much only by the size of the universe. If anyone out there still enjoys the longer-term play style, give us a look!

For the technical side, I bought a used HP DL470 G3 with dual Xenon processors, dual power supplies, and hot-swap scsi drives. I packed it with 6 GB of Ram and 5 Nics and then proceeded to load it with ESXi. I used PFsense 1.2.2 as a virtual appliance for a firewall, router, and DHCP solution in the virtual environment. I then built out several XP virtual machines to run various game servers for myself and my son. A true all-in-one-box solution to live game serving. Tradewars is the first to be implemented.

If you are looking for a more relaxed environment for building and re-exploring the olden days of Tradewars, this is the place! (although this does not mean there won't be tons of custom edit games as well!)

-Rival
TWGSGOLD.servergame.com
TWsysop@gmail.com

Just as a heads up your connections are disabled. I want to check this server out. I have not been able to play a good building game since I took over ICE9.

Fixed, thanks for the heads up

Dont forget to up your max commands from default.

Edited to include:
Oh one other weird thing I noticed. Is there anything in particular you are trying to accomplish by having the extern not set to the local time of the server? When extern does not happen at midnight, some strange things can occur. Check out http://tw-cabal.com/glossary.html#Midnight and [url]http://tw-cabal.com/glossary.html#Extern:
[/url]. If you are not intending for these things to occur at different times, you may wish to set your local server time so that 4am EST = midnight server time. Just my two cents.
Nice ping there. My only comment is you have two very similar games right now. Stock games with 250 to 300 turns. I know there is a different in universe size, but for a 20k universe you might want to consider having at least 1k turns, otherwise people will never see eachother.

Max commands increased to 40.

Extern changed to midnight.

Connections increased to 40.

Have fun!