Registration for 1/25/02* Firaxis game

[burbel]

Registration thread for the latest Apolyton/Firaxis game. Even though this will be an open game, we are still requiring that everyone hit this thread and sign in, to help prevent duping.

The same rules as present in the last pre-registration thread stand.

[aeturneus]

I'll play, as myself. I'm looking forward to a bit of interstellar fun... have we got any new names since the last time I was around, or is it still just the 'old' crew?

[burbel]

Seems to be the same old crew. Oh, a favor - can we have everyone's game name be their Apolyton name? It's easier to keep track of for dupes, and and makes it easier to insult your attackers, both publicly and privately.

[Wittlich]

Count me in

Wittlich - Wittlich

[SlightlyMadman]

Wow, I haven't played in about 6 or 7 years, but I'd love to join the game! I'll have to go read through all the beginner stuff all over again. All I remember is that CEO's get the best ships

[Wittlich]

Glad to have you on board SlightlyMadman!

[Xentropy]

I'd love to play a Tradewars again; it's been years... but it looks like I missed the bulk of the play and don't see any more recent bangs ... also, with all the talks of "games on the Firaxis server" I sure never see what address and port to telnet to (firaxis.com:23 doesn't cut it)...

Oh well

[aeturneus]

firaxis.com:2002

waroftheworlds.ath.cx:2002

I'm gonna be rebanging WotW in a few weeks, so you may as well hop in the game and try to hone your skills for a while - Burbel and Wittlich should leave you alone since they have already decided who won

[Xentropy]

[Xentropy]

>sigh<

Beautiful. Spend a full day's turns trading (manually, mind you, I don't feel like paying to register a TWHelper until I know I'm going to be playing TradeWars enough again), build up moderately decently, kill/cap a few aliens to work up the alignment.

Then kill a toll fig just because it was bugging me, lose about half of that alignment gain because the toll fig belonged to a player with an alignment in the billions.

Then, first thing early the following day, take two steps from Stardock and smack into very low percentage NavHaz (christ, when was the damage this did increased from 10 points per percent to more like 50?! I'm still playing based on v1.03 standards.. 100% navhaz would take out a maxed Correllian at the damage I took from 11%!), which then sends my escape pod randomly flying into more NavHaz , losing over half of my remaining XP AND alignment, costing me 2 of my 10 lives, my max hold merc freigh with a trade-in over 100k, and kicking me out of the game the entire day before I go back to work tomorrow and wouldn't be able to play a whole lot for the next 4 days anyway.

So here I am after two days (really after six days since I won't be able to play until next weekend) WORSE off than when I started (a few k in the bank, whee, doesn't make up for losing 1/5 of my "lives" to the dirty tactic the evils are using of strewing navhaz in the SPACELANES between SD and sector 1).

Sweet. Now it's beginning to dawn on me why I quit TradeWars so long ago.

Yes, I density scanned; no, I wasn't particularly worried about 11% NavHaz since in v1.03 TradeWars, the last I played with any degree of seriousness, that would have taken out 110 of my figs and I would've yawned and moved on.. Then I watch 528 damage scroll by, followed by, when my pod fled into an apparently 47% sector, 2256 damage(!) turn my pod into a good impression of a scout pinned down by an interdictor.

Well, now I see why avoids are programmable. Even a battleship would be limping home after three or four 50% sectors...

[Wittlich]

Re: >sigh<

Originally posted by Xentropy
Beautiful. Spend a full day's turns trading (manually, mind you, I don't feel like paying to register a TWHelper until I know I'm going to be playing TradeWars enough again)

I use the J-**** (JTWAT place a "-" between the J and the T) helper and you don't have to buy anything. Just do a search for it on the web, you should be able to find it.

I can sympathize what you're going through in the current Firaxis game...actually, I think this game should be ready for a rebang since any new players into it do not have any chance anymore.

Concerning those toll fighters, I know what you mean...I perform a day of trading then endup posting between 100-200K reward on the heads of the "evil players" just to get my allignment back up to over 1000 so that I can use my transwarp capability in Fed space. My allignment always drops because of engaging all of those toll fighters on the port pairs....but what can you do?

Well Xentropy, Aeturneus should have his tradewars game rebanged in a few weeks (War of the Worlds Game (WotW)) - hope to see you there.

[E_T]

I used to pay the toll while SST'ing, and make it very tempting for the owner to come and collect the toll. Then I'd place a nice BIG Nav Haz with Mines, waiting for him to fall into my trap.

BRHAAaaaaaa......

E_T