I just finished my latest TradeWars blog post. It's the next installment in my overview of Botlink functionality. This one is about objects and how they are used to interact with game data.

http://blog.classictw.com/

Speaking of botlink... once it goes public, would you consider an option to disable extern entirely, so it can be replaced by a botlink program? I'm sure the unlim crowd would love to see citadels develop in hours instead of days, and stuff like that.

Definitely. This is one of the things that motivated me to start working on this tool. Rather than write an option to run realtime EXTERN as part of the game, I'd like to do it as an optional add-on, or maybe someone else will beat me to it ;) But definitely, it would be necessary to turn off Extern if you have something else managing those tasks.