Boston
Well, I did it. You didn’t think I had it in me, but I did.
After talking about it last week with people in Boulder, and fruitlessly scouring the internet for an active game, I installed the Tradewars Game Server and started my own game tonight. Tell your friends!
Get excited once again about the classic door game of your youth / adolescence / early adulthood / late adulthood / golden years / retirement! Re-live your halcyon days as a trader / pirate / rogue / CEO / law enforcement officer!
telnet tradewars.off.net 2002
I’m planning to restart the game after a week (on the 14th), which should give the new people a chance to learn the ropes. It’ll also help me figure out if we need to change any of the settings before a more prolonged game. It will also give you a chance to tell your friends, because a game with six people is no fun. 30, 50, 100 people, that is a pretty fun game of tradewars.
I scoured the intertron a little bit for some guides, and found these classics:
And these brief tomes, which are completely inferior, but may also be easier to consume in a single sitting without the aid of some sort of enzymatic digestive aid or laxative:
There was a brief outage for reasons I can’t explain, but I rebooted the machine and it fixed itself. If you can’t connect for some reason, email me.
phik out.
