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.
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.