--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3D00006 Date: 03/03/98 From: TIM PEETERS Time: 05:09pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Telnet Anyone know whats up with loft.martech.net? AllTheBest, Tim Internet: lumpy@applegate.com Telnet, Vmodem, FTP, or http://www.applegate.com --- GoldED 3.00.Beta2+ 429LM3 * Origin: APPLEGATE, a BBS oN tHE iNterNET (1:139/631) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3E00000 Date: 03/03/98 From: JIM PITTMAN Time: 04:17pm \/To: DAVID MCCARTNEY (Read 0 times) Subj: abbreviations -=> Quoting David Mccartney to Jim Pittman <=- DM> I the game I'm playing I atached an alien, got blown to bits and now I DM> have 23,000 experience. Strange... but nice sice i don't have to worry DM> about experience for a while.. That's interesting. Nobody else has reported that bug. Maybe I'll have to change my mind about attacking aliens. I'll get blown up for 23,000 exp anytime the first week. That's even better than mega-jettisoning. Heck, you could even do Bil's EDO. Has anybody else had this experience? ... It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire --- Cyber Dragon BBS! 423-821-6034 * Origin: Cyber Dragon BBS,home of the one and only cybernetic dragon! (1:362/923) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3E00001 Date: 03/05/98 From: JIM PITTMAN Time: 06:49pm \/To: ``KENSHIRO COCHRANE`` (Read 0 times) Subj: Cim removal. -=> Quoting ``Kenshiro Cochrane`` to Jim Pittman <=- `C> Anyhow, for clarification, the CIM does NOT provide any data that is `C> not attainable elsewhere? Correct. `C> What I'm curious about, most of all, I suppose, is HOW it maps, and `C> finds players planets... It doesn't map. Some programs like GURU and TWHELPER use the info to create maps. `C> Someone found a planet that belonged to the corp I was on in like 1-2 `C> days, and I want to figure out how he did this. Probably by e-probing. Or the blocked sector report if you had a port in the sector and left fighters. `C> Can you detail to me exactly how you make a zero-turn map, and how you `C> use it to find other players planets? I crank up GURU and hit "Z". The zero-turn map doesn't find planets, it is most useful to find dead ends to e-probe. ... And God said: E = /mv2 - Ze2/r ...and there *WAS* light! --- Cyber Dragon BBS! 423-821-6034 * Origin: Cyber Dragon BBS,home of the one and only cybernetic dragon! (1:362/923) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3E00002 Date: 03/05/98 From: JIM PITTMAN Time: 06:55pm \/To: DUSAN KUBIAS (Read 0 times) Subj: Cim removal. -=> Quoting Dusan Kubias to Jim Pittman <=- DK> You're right. But the essential point of my post is valid DK> regardless of whether there might be better helpers than TWHELPER. DK> My point was that a decent player can do just as well without a DK> helper as without it, and the helper is only a time-saving device DK> just like any form of automation. That central point is not DK> threatened by any question of whether "just as well" means better, or DK> approximately equal too, or even slightly worse. You wouldn't believe the flack I got when I said that I do better trading by hand than by using a script. I agree with you completely, I just wanted to point out that some helpers will go for the 5 points and usually get it. At least GURU and POWERMACS did. ... Hud - World Tour - 1998 --- Cyber Dragon BBS! 423-821-6034 * Origin: Cyber Dragon BBS,home of the one and only cybernetic dragon! (1:362/923) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3E00003 Date: 03/04/98 From: ``KATHERINE I. MCCLURE`` Time: 03:28am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: TEDIT settings I played a TW2002 game on a Telnet board (Applegate), and for finding a unused port, I recieved 50 exp. On the registered game on our board (I'm a sysop), the experience is only 1 point. We've looked through tedit, and can't find a switch to change this. Help? *<{ Eileen Stone }>* The Lady Healer! --- WWIVGate 2.00c * Origin: * Eagle's Dare * Laurel, MD * (301) 498-1984 (1:109/500) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3E00004 Date: 03/05/98 From: CRAIG NADELL Time: 01:46am \/To: DAVID E. WATERS (Read 0 times) Subj: Bug DEW> In your Dreams! Can you buy 2M Fighters at the DEW> cheap price at 150 credits? DEW> If you can, you best do it now and forget 20 days. DEW> We can buy 2M at 150. DEW> Its over!!! Thanks,DEW... how do you buy 2m figs for 150.... --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: * GATEWAY BBS -A friendly place to be (810)742-6126 (1:2240/320) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3E00005 Date: 03/05/98 From: DAVID MCCARTNEY Time: 06:47pm \/To: JIM PITTMAN (Read 0 times) Subj: abbreviations -> That's interesting. Nobody else has reported that bug. Maybe I'll -> have to change my mind about attacking aliens. I'll get blown up for -> 23,000 exp anytime the first week. That's even better than -> mega-jettisoning. Heck, you could even do Bil's EDO. -> Has anybody else had this experience? I couldn't duplicate this in a local game... I don't know how the aliens in this game got so much carbinite, but they are totally lethal. Bil's EDO? Never mind I probably don't wany to know. l8r, David --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0154 * Origin: MicroLink BBS * Dinuba, CA 209-591-8753 (1:214/80) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3E00006 Date: 03/05/98 From: ``RAMIREZ`` Time: 11:08pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Okay. What's up with those past posts. Nothing, from nobody. . . Oh well. --- WWIVGate 2.00c * Origin: * Eagle's Dare * Laurel, MD * (301) 498-1984 (1:109/500) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3E00007 Date: 03/06/98 From: JOE E. DODSON Time: 07:11am \/To: ``KATHERINE I. MCCLURE`` (Read 0 times) Subj: TEDIT settings 04 Mar 98 03:28, ``Katherine I. McClure`` wrote to ALL: `IM>I played a TW2002 game on a Telnet board (Applegate), and for finding a `IM>unused port, I recieved 50 exp. On the registered game on our board (I'm `IM>a sysop), the experience is only 1 point. We've looked through tedit, `IM>and can't find a switch to change this. Help? The older the game, the longer a port is unused the more points received. -Joe jdodson@freewwweb.com --- Msged/2 4.20 beta 3 * Origin: A Place Called Joe's 281-351-9757 (1:106/977@fidonet) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3E00008 Date: 03/06/98 From: ``KENSHIRO COCHRANE`` Time: 02:17am \/To: DUSAN KUBIAS (Read 0 times) Subj: CIT's +-[ To: Dusan Kubias (1:247/700)@8213.Fidonet ]-- - . . . | `C> CIT = Colonists in Thousands | `C> CIT = A 1k block of colonists | | `C> See? Same thing, different wording. | | Of course... but the first way the acronym actually stands for | something, whereas the second way it's just arbitrarily-chosen letters.