--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3V00015 Date: 03/22/98 From: THE MISANTHROPE Time: 09:21pm \/To: CAROLYN STOFFEL (Read 0 times) Subj: PROBLEMS I *just* uploaded a message where I predicted that your reply would be too brief and cryptic to be useful, and then *this* pops through! Sorry to have doubted you...:) -- dk (Dusan Kubias) -=> Quoting Carolyn Stoffel to Eric Curtis <=- EC> Care to enlighten us ignorant newbies on this technique? CS> Let's stick to seven sectors out - figures vary a bit with CS> distance. In the earlier stages, you'll probably run out of fuel CS> ore daily. CS> First you need at least a Level 1 Citadel plus enough cash to CS> create a transporter pad that will reach Terra in sector 1 - CS> seven sectors, 200,000 credits. (50,000 for the transporter pad CS> good for a single sector, 25,000 for each additional sector.) [etc., etc., ...] CS> Of course, if you're evil, you can't transwarp directly to Terra, CS> but the principle remains the same - drop a fighter as near Terra CS> as feasible, use the transporter pad to reach that sector, move CS> into FedSpace, collect colonists, transwarp home. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: Doctor On Board BBS: Niagara's Medical Host for Info (1:247/101) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3V00016 Date: 03/25/98 From: DAVID MCCARTNEY Time: 08:12am \/To: JIM PITTMAN (Read 0 times) Subj: "Honour is Everything" -> It's Bil's term for the battle plan that will result in total -> domination of the game within two weeks. I posted the short version -> of it a few days ago, but I'll try to post Mike's more detailed notes -> on optimum play again even though the Bil fan club will scream. Any -> team of two who uses this strategy will totally dominate the game if -> nobody else is using it. actually with busts being cleared daily (the default config in ver 3.05) a single player could use these tactics effectivly. of course he wouldn't make as muck money as a team of 2. 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: F3V00017 Date: 03/25/98 From: DAVID MCCARTNEY Time: 08:16am \/To: DAVID E. WATERS (Read 0 times) Subj: "Honour is Everything" -> *** Quoting David Mccartney to Jim Pittman dated 03-23-98 *** -> > also another term i'm not familiar with is poding (pod with me)? > -> No it means to blow your ship up and put you in an escape pod. -> Pod drivers wanted no experiance required. Thanks,DEW... these people were talking about it on the comlink, as if it were a good thing... 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: F3V00018 Date: 03/25/98 From: CRAIG HEALY Time: 05:25pm \/To: DAVID MCCARTNEY (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: reset the tw model -> -> Ah. Were you able to get the same paths as TW gets? Albin -> -> Gersich had that routine down. He supplied a utility used for -> -> my EXTERN replacement for finding the MSL's. -> -> I would be interested in this... I only have the EXE, and not the source code. -> I worote a path finder that is extreemly fast, but it comes up with a -> different path from TW every time (unless there is only 1 shortest -> path) It's not uncommon to get a route variance. The algorithm must be the same as the one used in the game or this will happen. -c- --- ViaMAIL!/WC4 v1.30 * Origin: Chowdanet! 20gb Amateur Radio BBS (401-331-5587) (1:323/120) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3W00000 Date: 03/26/98 From: DAVID E. WATERS Time: 01:32am \/To: DAVID MCCARTNEY (Read 0 times) Subj: "Honour is Everything" *** Quoting David Mccartney to David E. Waters dated 03-25-98 *** > these people were talking about it on the comlink, as if it were a good > thing... It is if you are not the one being podded. Thanks,DEW... A.K.A. Battletoad --- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: The Dance-Kill Routine! (281)343-9539 (1:106/4446) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3W00001 Date: 03/24/98 From: BIL BURTON Time: 08:20am \/To: JIM PITTMAN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: tw forum- public or n BB> If people want to move on to new insults, that's fine with me. But BB> I say if you can't take the heat, then get out of the kitchen. If BB> insults are tossed in my direction, I will respond. If the co- BB> moderator wants to insist that *everyone* play nice, according to BB> her intrepretation of some secret policy change, then I say BB> *everyone* means everyone, and not just me. Not just to me because BB> I have criticised her for the (clearly) unlevel playing field. JP> I stand by all the statements you posted. I'm surprised that you are JP> such a baby that you keep all of these responses to your babbles. I don't keep them. I go to a new BBS and dl all of them at once. As I said, I don't care that you like to call people names, as you did here. I do care that you can call me a baby and I am not allowed to respond. JP> The difference is, when Carolyn tells me to shut up, I shut up. Well, I have to agree with you there: it's all in lip position. JP> I have enough sense to know better than to argue with the moderator. I argue with people I feel are wrong. JP> I just wish I had enough sense to not argue with the likes of you. Me too. JP> The fact that you can't admit when you are wrong is YOUR problem I am happy to admit I am wrong when I am wrong. But I am not the only person in this echo that likes to believe he is right and will argue the point. ... Bil Burton, a.k.a. =: barefoot =: Corvallis, OR --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10 --- Big Ted 2.0 for Wildcat/5 * Origin: The Computer Hotline! - telnet://bbs.klock.com (1:357/1.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3W00002 Date: 03/24/98 From: BIL BURTON Time: 08:25am \/To: JIM PITTMAN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: abbreviations jp> Since you've never really played evil, I don't expect you to JP> understand this. Let's get it straight: I play good, I play evil. Everytime I play, I play differently from the way I played before. You are PK4, you play the same way with the same partner, with your finger following the list of 28 steps. ... Bil Burton, a.k.a. =: barefoot =: Corvallis, OR --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10 --- Big Ted 2.0 for Wildcat/5 * Origin: The Computer Hotline! - telnet://bbs.klock.com (1:357/1.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3W00003 Date: 03/24/98 From: BIL BURTON Time: 08:31am \/To: JIM PITTMAN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: sloppy scripts BB> right. I don't run megajettison often, and when I do, I don't do BB> it very long. If I were compelled to run megajettison, and I had BB> a comm program that ran scripts, I would take the time to BB> change the numbers when they started to waste money or at least BB> consider the posibility. I've seen all the Moses movies and have BB> yet to see 14/8/3 on the back of the tablets. JP> See, you don't play evil so quit trying to be the evil expert. I play evil, I play good. I look at the way the game is set up and who is or may be playing and decide which way would be the most fun. I find an old partner and wish him or her well, and find a new partner and ask how he or she wants to play. I don't need to be an evil expert to know when you are doing something the wrong way, and using 14/8/3 as something from the Holy Grail is the wrong way. JP> You offer advice on subjects you know nothing about and jp> criticise scripts you've never used. I don't need to be an expert on scripts or to even use a script to know that, if it using 14/8/3 for megajettison, it is not the most economical model. And, as you have seen, I am not the only one who has said so. ... Bil Burton, a.k.a. =: barefoot =: Corvallis, OR --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10 I --- Big Ted 2.0 for Wildcat/5 * Origin: The Computer Hotline! - telnet://bbs.klock.com (1:357/1.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3W00004 Date: 03/24/98 From: BIL BURTON Time: 08:39am \/To: JIM PITTMAN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: abbreviations jp> If he's in a game with one of you reinvent-the- wheelers BB> If you want to make up terms and expect them to stand the test of BB> time, take a tip: keep 'em short. E.G., PK4, pickets, CXs, FTs, BB> HaHa's, SST... JP> Ok, but you whine a run to mama when I say STUPID. I don't whine *because* you say stupid-- if you recall, I served two weeks on the bench via Kris because *I* said you had the right to do so-- I whine because I can't respond. There must have been a comma in there... ... Bil Burton, a.k.a. =: barefoot =: Corvallis, OR --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10 b --- Big Ted 2.0 for Wildcat/5 * Origin: The Computer Hotline! - telnet://bbs.klock.com (1:357/1.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 124 TRADE WARS Ref: F3W00005 Date: 03/24/98 From: BIL BURTON Time: 08:49am \/To: JIM PITTMAN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: "honour is everything ``> It would seem that Bil's philosophy is, if the sysop is playing, ``> and does better than him, then they must be using tedit. There is no ``> other explanation. Bil is right no matter what. JP> Or that if his stupid tactics don't work, it's not because they are JP> stupid but that somebody must be cheating. I am sure you have *never* played in a game where the sysop was cheating. Not only cheating, but doing a poor job at at. I don't have to justify why I quit-- among other problems, he had one person with over 100 aliases and it was hard to keep track of who was "who's". But cheating was not the reason I quit-- in truth I had such a low opinion of the sysop because of a string of disgusting public comments he was making about a 16 year old girl that I was embarassed to have his phone number on my computer so I deleted it. I guess I should have checked with you first, though, Jim. ... Bil Burton, a.k.a. =: barefoot =: Corvallis, OR --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10 o --- Big Ted 2.0 for Wildcat/5 * Origin: The Computer Hotline! - telnet://bbs.klock.com (1:357/1.0)