02-10-2001 05:30									#1
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The Apolyton Alternative Tradewars 2002 Game has begun! People who are registered in the Apolyton Pre-Registration thread are welcome to join. Unregistered players will be deleted after 1 day. On my word of honor, I have not tampered with the settings in any way other than indexed below. I will not touch tedit now that the game has begun except to delete unregistered players. Here's to a fair, fun game!

Address: halcyon.ath.cx
Port: 2002

Initial Turns per day 1000, fighters 250, credits 3,000, holds 20.
Inactive players will be deleted after 30 days.
Maximum players 200, sectors 5000, ports 2500, planets 2000.
The Maximum number of Planets per sector: 5, Traders on a Corp: 2, Ships per FedSpace Sector: 5.

The StarDock is located in sector 1361.
Photon Missile Wave duration is 40 seconds.
Ver# 3.11.49 running under Sockets.
The local display is OFF AT ALL TIMES.
2,125 ports are open for business and have a net worth of 0.
3 planets exist in the universe, 33% have Citadels.
1 Traders (100% Good) are active in the game.
18,250 Fighters and 50 Mines are in use throughout the Universe.
0 Corporations are in business.

Terra Population Growth Rate: 10,000 per day
Terra Max Population: 1,000,000

Cloaking FailRate: 3%
NavHaz Dispersion: 3%
Start With Planets: Yes
No Aliases
Port Regeneration Rate: 25% / Day
Planetary Trade Offers: 90% of Normal
Daily Game Time: 400 Minutes / 6.6 Hours
Invincible Ferrengal: No
Inactivity Timeout: 300 Seconds
Steal from Buy Port? Yes

The Alien Traders are Active
The Ferrengi are Active

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I forgot to mention that this is an open game. You can be killed an infinite number of times and still keep on going... and going... and going...



- Aeturneus

Last edited by aeturneus on 02-10-2001 at 05:44

	02-10-2001 08:34									#2
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"Dude, thanks! " - Burbel

"Dude, that sucks! " - My Employer

I'll try and connect there ASAP!

	02-10-2001 09:09									#3
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What are the settings like for evil traders? Are they good ones? I would hope to get more evils in a game than the current one had.

	02-10-2001 13:34									#4
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eeer

quote: Citadels are only in the registered version of TW2002.

	02-10-2001 13:37									#5
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and...

quote: The Shipyards are not open in the un- registered version of TW2002. Ask Your SysOp about registering Trade Wars 2002.

	02-10-2001 17:12									#6
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If the shipyard isn't open, how come I see three merchant freighters in the game?

Also, how much does it cost to register the game?

	02-10-2001 17:19									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Swissy If the shipyard isn't open, how come I see three merchant freighters in the game?

that's what you start with....

you also start with an earth planet(but not on a good spot)

	02-10-2001 20:00									#8
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Actually, I started with a Merchant Cruiser and traded it in for a Merchant Freighter. So the Shipyard IS open for business.

	02-10-2001 20:53									#9
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ok

i'm in a cruiser

but the shipyard is still closed....

	02-10-2001 21:47									#10
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OK, the oddest part - the game was registered the first night, I bought my merchant freighter (and should have bought a battleship! .

After maintenance, it was no longer registered. So, I logged on and blew all my money gambling at the tavern (trying to figure that game out).

I went from around 450k up to around $500k, then all the way down to $0. (well, $30k). So I guess I didn't figure it out, after all.

	02-10-2001 22:46									#11
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I will try to resolve this problem asap. Something must have been corrupted... I have to go to work, will be back in several hours and look at it then.

	02-10-2001 23:03									#12
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ok I just looked at it, seems that the registration key has been replaced by the bbs name.. changed it back to what it was supposed to be, and it is registered again. I apologize for any inconvenience, and am scratching my head to try and figure out why it did this and how to prevent it from happening again.

	03-10-2001 01:14									#13
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To answer a few earlier questions, steal rob ratios are both 100%. I didn't change anything... i don't know if this is good or bad yet.

and...

It costs $40 to register the game, with the 4 node package. Reasonable price.

	03-10-2001 02:58									#14
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1000 turns? Phew! If you play without helpers it can take hours to use all those turns. I'll have to pass on this one.

	03-10-2001 02:58									#15
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Drat, I wasted my money, and this game is for real?!?!

Nooooooo!!!!1

	03-10-2001 03:09									#16
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quote: Originally posted by CapTVK 1000 turns? Phew! If you play without helpers it can take hours to use all those turns. I'll have to pass on this one.

Well, why don't you use a helper? Takes the monotony out of port pair trading.

heh, last game I played all my turns in about ten minutes under normal circumstances. That just wasn't enough to satisfy my addiction!

	04-10-2001 02:58									#17
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Shipyard is open. What are the rob/steal factors?

	31-10-2001 23:28									#18
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Aeturneus, The current halcyon game has basically gone to Burbel.

The bottom line is everyone else is destroyed (those who are actually playing, that is).

Burbel ended up hunting me down like a dog and Bit*h-slapping me around the quadrant! Good game Burbel!

So, can we have a rebang? I suggest setting the Ferrengi to a higher aggressive setting - to give Burbel a challenge and keep him off of my back.

Good game all!

	01-11-2001 03:34									#19
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Agreed, it was a good game for all, and I'm sure that a lot was learned. It was a close compeition between myself and Wittlich for a bit, but then the fighter advantage that I had ended up closing it out.

I to am in for a re-bang, like the 1000 turns and 5000 sectors (although dropping it to, say, 2500 might not be a bad idea, given the number of traders in the game). Also, I think that increasing the number of bubbles (by increasing the max distance between any 2 points, I think), would be nice.

No idea on Terra and colo regen, since I never once went there.

Is there a way to only allow registered players into the game? Ie, have you create players for everyone that wants in, and then locking the game, and only letting us on? Does that seem reasonable?

Oh, and no starting planets? I get tired of blowing them up...

Anything else? Once again, thanks a lot for running this for us; hopefully this time you will get to stay with us in the game.

Thanks again!