thanks and yes im still looking for more lol got a LOT of work to do

need to build at least a dozen planets or so lol

If only I had the time to help you myself, the last time I needed to build a slew of new planets I went to the command line and typed "bigbang.exe"… (now, to see if anyone here gets the reference…) :wink:

Hmm, so that makes you….older than dirt. And a god.

LOL, and i bet when you populated said planets you went to www.Darwinian_Evolution.com and downloaded yourself a whole lot of survival of the fittest.

Well, certainly older than some dirt, but I only come close to being a god within my mud and then really only because I saw no reason to change the stock title of "immortals". :wink:


:lol: Nah, we still had to wait on the planet in sector one to self populate for the most part in order to transport them to our own planets back then. The reference was really to a BBS game called Trade Wars, but maybe the folks who've actually played it hadn't also run it ..or hadn't made it over here for posting yet. :wink:

No, he went to www.darwinia.com and downloaded a whole lot of survival of the flattest.

OH NO, I knew it sounded familiar, not that i ran that game on my BBS, but i had scene it and did play it on another BBS that i did frequent. Sorry for the thread derail, but out of curiosity, how many hits a day do you get with your BBS Conner. A few years back when Altere was still with Eldhamud, he ran a BBS as well and almost got me excited enough to fire up something on my own machine. Never did because i thought that they were totally dead.

Ah, Trade Wars. That game ruled. Played on several BBS's back in the day and more or less had total control over half the games easy. I even ousted someone who had exploited a cheat and had built up several fully defended planets. All on my own, without using the cheat against him. But I've never actually run my own game, so bigbang.exe had no meaning :)

wow trade wars tehres draggong something up out of the dungen

Good point, apologies for the derailment, it really wasn't intentional.

Actually, I need to either locate a new NIC that I can also find MS-DOS drivers for or else change my signature and web site because, a few months ago the NIC in the box that runs my BBS died on me so currently, none, but for awhile there I was still getting a small handful daily - mostly friends and family really, but I also haven't advertised the BBS even a quarter as aggressively as I have the MUD in years. I do still know several other SysOps out there though who are still running BBSs with regular memberships that visit in the dozens daily, mostly folks running SBBS these days though where I ran that as my secondary game server and was running WG (Worldgroups, formerly known as Major BBS) as my main BBS, so they're definitely not dead yet, maybe a little slower than MUDs these days actually, and we all know how dead those are. :wink:


Amazingly enough, it was one of very few games back in the day that were good enough that I'd play it on several other BBSs as well as on my own. :lol:
On my own BBS I ran two copies, one that was heavily modded and one that was basically stock.

Sounds like you'd gotten pretty good at the game though. :smile:

Alas, from the SysOp side, it was really a very simple game and mostly ran itself, you'd run the bigbang to establish the universe providing answers to a dozen questions to determine sizes and such and then there was a nightly maintenance file to be run, otherwise once it was installed in your BBS you really didn't need to ever actually do anything with it. (It was always one of the best behaved doors available, in fact.)


Well, considering my BBS has always been called The Castle's Dungeon, that's an exceptionally good coincidence. :wink:

got 2 great builders now

looking for at least 2 more solid builders then ill start considering some semi experinced builders for small projects and to gain experince

Grats lspiderl builders are a tough commodity to find.

Yes especially when you start commoditizing them… :wink:

HAHA yeah could you just imagine them being listed on the Nasdac. Builder are on the rise again to day, going from a low of $1000 to a high of $1259 at the close of trade.

rofl

well things slowed down a little bit for a week or 2 but were starting to ramp up again and preping for a first run of code changes and add ons