Trade Wars, what is it? You ask, it is an old dos base text game that believe it or not, is still around today with many game servers located around the world, it is one of the first MMO games on the internet, and was around since before the internet and wold wide web, and is still fairly popular in some circles and has a player and fan base that still keeps the game alive, I will be surprised if some of the younger people on the Internet have ever heard of it, though in its time it was widely popular and had a massive player base.
Some of you are wondering what could an old text base game have to offer us? The games we play are fast paced and hard. Well if you really do believe that then you really don't know Trade Wars at all, even though it is an old text base game, it is a faster pace game than any game played today, with excitement and fun around every corner, with players that are extremely talented and creative.
The game if free to play and open to anyone who wants to play on any server out there, I happen to have 2 servers myself as well as played on many other servers, but the rule of thumb on sysops playing is this: A Sysop doesn't play on his own server, unless the players agree that it is okay, the reason for this is it would be easy for the sysop to cheat, by using the games editors to make things in his favor, though by rule, most sysops are fair and do not cheat, but to keep arguements down we don't play our own servers unless players who trust us ask us to play in a game with them.
The game is accessed by Telnet, you can use a free putty connection software or try a Trade Wars helper software to connect,
There are different kind of helpers out there TWX Proxy is free, and can be gotton from several Trade Wars forums, where they host file sharing, as well as the game scripts for it, it is by far the best of the helpers, and the fastest one of the bunch, then you have SWATH, and ATTAC, which are free to try and Pay to unlock the full helper, they have one thing TWX Proxy doesn't have, they have their own Telnet client programs built in them. But here is the fun part you can link TWX Proxy to them and use both helpers in a way that is crazy good. SWATH it a great graphical helper, ATTAC is the other one that is great, they both have their own built in scripts to play with and you can write and or find someone elses sctipts to add to them, coupled with TWX Proxy and all the sctipts you can get for it then you have something that may make you a really good player if you can figure out how to use it all, which is very easy, as the forums for the Trade Wars games have dedicated areas within them to help out players and especially the new players to learn how things work so they can go out and play and hopefully get to the level to be competitive with the players already out there. We have had some new players that have come in and have got to be very compeditive in the game. Some came from EVE Online and some from other games and have found they actually enjoy the game and have stayed to keep on playing.
The reason for this blog is to gain some new interest in this old game as the maker is working on newer versions of the text game and making things hopefully get better, though the original version is fairly popular now as it is. But change is welcome and appreciated as long as it keeps the players coming back for the games. As I said the games are free for the players to play, the sysops are the ones who have paid for the game servers to host them for the players. So for the free to play reason I hope all of you will want to play this game and keep it around for a long while. It is fun, addictive and very fast paced, and each servers sysop has many different edits of the game available and multiple games per server, with many different edits to offer the players of the game, some edits are custom made by the sysops themselves and some edits are very hard, some edits are easy, all catered for player enjoyment. At the end of this Blog I will give some websites for where to get Helpers and a few of the forums where you can get some help with the game to scripts for some of the helpers. We used to have a script repository but that site went down, we don't know what happened so we are using the forums now to make the scripts available to all now in more than one place.
So if you think you have what it takes, come on into the world of Trade Wars and see if you do, if you like it, stay and get the others to help you become the next great player of the game, what have you got to lose, it is free after all, and everyone likes something for free, don't they!
Vulcan
Forums for the Trade Wars Games
Classic Trade Wars
http://classictw.com/index.php
Hyperspace
http://hyperspace.forums1.net/
TW Subspace
http://www.runawayproton.com/twsubspace/index.php
NavHaz Junction
http://www.navhaz.com/
The Swamp BBS
http://theswampbbs.net/
and coming soon
TwarBase
http://twarbase.com/
Website to get your TWGS online for players to come to if you want to become a sysop
Micro's Site
http://microblaster.net/
The company that develops the Trade Wars game, for those who may want to become sysops themselves
EIS ( Epic Interactive Strategy )
http://www.eisonline.com/
Trade Wars Graphic Game helpers, TWX Proxy can be gotton from the forums.
SWATH
http://www.swath.net/
ATTAC
http://www.tw-attac.com/index.html
GATH, a totally free graphic game helper with telnet client built in.
http://goffconcepts.com/products/gath/changelog.html
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