Somebody, not sure who, brought me a laptop to use in bed. Wonderful.

I am hooked up on oxygen and all sorts of tubes and wires. Any sort of movement involving my torso makes me see big blue-white spots in my vision.

Surgery went well, only died for about a minute or two. Nothing a big needle full of juice rammed into my heart can't fix, as well as a little voltage. Doctors say everything went much better then expected.

I might be able to breathe better after I heal. Doctors blasted some of the big hunks of scar tissue in my lungs with the laser to break them up and give my lungs more surface area to work with. If it heals right, I should be able to do well with what I have. If not, I will need something to help me breathe. Right now I am breathing from one lung. I have about 1/4 of the other lung left. It is filled with a little balloon like thing to make it stretch. If all goes as planned, I will have enough lung power to keep me running for a long time.

Got home last night. Was to doped up to try and do anything. Somebody needs to do something about pot holes on public roads. Ouch.

Feels good to communicate in some fashion. Can't really talk to well right now. No voice for the time being.

All of this is making me tired.

http://www.new-tradition.org

Check out that crazy site. I guess it takes all kinds of people to populate the world, but wow are some off base or what?

Been playing the occasional game with AnorXorcist-AMZ, did a 15-16 clear today. Jade and Laz both dropped Eaglehorn, Bloodlust dropped a Protector, and Gorash dropped a Messy. Jade only dropped some book (Stone Curse I think, she can't read much of anything anymore anyway). A while more of preparing then a huge quest-a-thon at 40. ~20-mil. to go.

- AnorXorcist
Amazon Queen
Stealth Huntress
Guardian
Destroyer of Nightshadows
(Hmm, was there anything else?)

I was wondering if there are any RBers out there who play Trade Wars 2002 and/or Black Nova Traders.

I've recently returned to TW, a game I haven't played since the good ol'days of Local BBSing in the mid-90s. This week I was overjoyed to find out that there are many Trade Wars servers that one can Telnet into, and that there are still many players playing this addictive game. I was also happy to find a few helper programs (SWATH in particular) that automate some of the more carpal-tunnel inducing tasks in the game, like port to port trading. However, I'm a little dismayed by the use of some of the more advanced scripts: a few days ago I wondered into a sector with another player's toll fighter - and 2 milliseconds later that player's planet T-warped into the sector and annihilated me. After some more reading I discovered that there's a script that enables this - a player only has to be logged in and have some turns, and can kill anyone who happens across his fighter! He can even be AFK and still kill people!

Black Nova Traders is a TW clone, but it's entirely a .PHP game and has far less detail and options. That game basically seems to equate to 'colonize scores of planets, collect all the credits off of the planets, move sector-2-sector and kill everyone' type game.

I'm wondering if there are any RB players who are members of/run servers that run different, 'old-school', variants of these games.

We've never done a thread like this at RB. There's a lot happening now, though. C3C patching is nearing its end. The MOO Imperia have been launched and are taking up some of the attention that would have gone to Civ3. Epics rules are getting an overdue tuneup. Civ4 is in development. And I have not been following all of the succession game chatter the way I used to. So I'm wondering what's on the minds of RB players.

If you could change one (and only one) thing about Civ3, with everything on the table -- removing something you don't like, fixing something you wish were different, or adding something that isn't there, without regard to whether you think it's reasonable, likely, or even possible -- what would you change? And why would you change that thing as opposed to something else? Why is that item the most important to you?

- Sirian

After posting a query at the Lurker Lounge, I was pointed to these two websites.

This Affix List is, apparently, accurate about what sorts of charged skills can occur on different items, but is incomplete about what levels and numbers of charges the items can get.


This Affix Calculator will list for any input item what sorts of affixes can occur on it, including spell charges, but is inaccurate about what spell level the charges can get.

So, it looks like Ice Bolt is possible. Now to find it.......

I've never played this game. I know nothing about it. I've only read some of the posts here, and a few pages of Bam-Bam's training day game.

The feeling here is that the game is 'broken.' Yet to my n00b eyes the game seems like a mix of MOO and CIV3, and I'd like to try it out. BUt before I shell out the $$$, I'd like to know if you guys think this game is worth it. I've avoided reading any in-depth strategy threads on this game, since I don't want to 'ruin' it. Can a n00b have fun with Gal Civ?

A few random questions:

-The good vs evil thing sounds intriguing. What are the pros/cons of each path?

-How well balanced is the ship design aspect? In MOO I like how there are almost no 'uber' ship builds - even the Death Ray is only useful in certain situations? Is this the same for Galciv?

-Are there races in MOO? What are their bonuses like?

Thanks in advance

Cheers Guys (and gals),

Sorry for not having been around for the last couple of days and keeping up with my posting responsibilities. I'm in the middle of my move to Japan, which will be mostly complete as of Thursday... or at least that's when I'm in Japan. After that my wedding is on the 28th of May, and as a reult I'll be fairly busy until at least the 10th of June. Other, argualbly, more important issues coming to the fore (like figuring out how to get through a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony).

I'll try to keep an eye on things here as I will always (except for when I'm on Hawaii) have access to the internet, but as I'm sure you recoginze I have other things on my mind at the moment. :wub:

In any case, I just wanted to give you folks a heads up that I'll be busy... but that I will return!

Take Care and keep having fun!

I'm looking forward to hearing how this went!

-Griselda

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-Griselda