It's very easy to making a building game edit, and server side scripts won't even be required.

1 - Turn photons OFF
2 - Edit planets to advance to level 3 cits very fast, and require a lot of colonists for upgrades.
3 - Edit planets to take a long time between level 3 and level 4.
4 - Edit planets to produce 1 to 1 fuel ore and figs, and hold a lot of fuel ore and figs.
5 - Provide ships with very high defensive odds and 1:1 offensive odds.
6 - Make any larger ships that can moth very expensive.
7 - Edit ships that have NO IG's.
8 - Turn rob/steal delay ON.
9 - Edit start up ships to hold a lot of figs and beginning players to start with a lot of cash.
10 - Edit stardock adjacent to fed space both ways.
11 - Make a rule that no ports can be blown is federation space. (Easy to enforce as it wll be in the logs)
12 - Max all ports in fed space.

Granted that this type edit will end up in a stalemate, but if you are just going to count assets after a certain period of time to determine the winner, then it won't matter.

The point of the building game that HiTech is talking about is just to build build build. The only interaction the sysop really ever had was making sure terra was full and if there were and complaints about players they would be dealt with adequately! (I spelled that right I hope) It was just a building game no scripts really needed just some really good edits with some aliens thrown in. it was 40k turns there were I believe 5-10 people who played everyday and no one attacked they just built. I was in the game as well. Myself I had over 600 planets another corp had close to 2000+ plus planets. They would log on everyday take extra colos off there planets and just build. Myself I had a 100+ sector bubble they have 2 or 3 100+ sector bubbles. There isn't any need to have a script to calculate who won or who lost. The point of the game was just to build.... BUILD BUILD BUILD.. No one attacked anyone.. If they did they would be banned from the game and forces to start over. I don't see why there is such a debate about the game. Either you can host it or not. I don't think Hitech was asking for anyone's opinion on the matter just if SOMEONE would host the game. Obviously V'ger won't becuase his board is geared towards low turn extended games and T0yman's server cease to exist due to whatever reason. Perhaps Y-City or TraderVic would like to host the game? You wouldn't get a overflow of people on your board. To be honest it would just be like the hell on earth edit with a couple of tweaks to the planets and for the unlimited turns make it 40k turns and just keep terra full and turn the photons off.. If anyone has the edit it's called the Imperial Battlestar Edit. Supposedly it was a UTW original. However, if i am correct someone was yelling that it was a knock off from another game. If you have something like it then speak up or keep your useless opinions to yourself.

Actually Klepto, I thought that Y-City was going to host it. I saw the game banged, but when I tried to go into it, I found that it was closed with instructions to contact the SysOp for an account. I emailed Destro, but he never got back to me, hence this thread.

I actually don't mind that no one is willing to host it, since I do understand all that is involved with being a SysOp, having been one once myself, as well as a co-SysOp, back in the BBS days. It takes a lot of time and dedication to run a major board, or game site.

As for opinions, those I don't mind either. Everybody has one on almost every subject that may ever come up. Some I may agree with, and others I may disagree with. But I also try to learn from other peoples opinions about different things. So in my opinion, all opinions are welcome. Unless the person stating the opinion happens to be a bleeding heart liberal, in which case their opinions are just plain wrong.

I don't have a problem banging the type game you guys are talking about, and I don't have a problem taking time to make the edit (since Hell on Earth is my edit anyway), and I don't have a problem loading Terra every few days. However I do have a problem with players trying to contact me every day trying to complain about another player in that game breaking a rule. Hence why I don't make special rules for special games. The rules I do make are very enforcable and can be determined very easily who was at fault, and IF they were at fault.

Actually I've decided to make the edit you guys are talking about. This will be a player friendly game. I'll bang this game tonight around 8pm EST. I'll furnish more details at that time.

thank you D. I am sure its very much appreciated

Thanks Big D. I'll try to check it out some tonight.

The edit is done, but it will need to be tested to see how it works out. I'll post the specifics in the game rebang forum.

Thanks Big D....

Thanks again Big D. Running the ZTM now.

Silver Wings TWGS (silverwingstwgs.com port 23)
Game - G (Builder)
The building game is going very well so far it seems, no one is dead with the exception of 1 player that cby'd and the game has picked up on activity.

Nice try D, but with photons on and no rules against invading, it's just another "stay online 24/7 or lose everything" game instead of a building game...

Either that or... "thanks man, not perfect, but I appreciate you putting it together on the fly. Hope you have a good 2 weeks at work." what ever floats your boat.

I did the best I could within the guidlines that I'm willing to adhere too. I did look into it, and it looks like the invasion took place next to fed space. As a word of advice, don't build where someone can find you so fast if that was your sector.

Besides, it looks like it was a failed invasion attempt anyway. Your invader is dead.

ah, gratitude.