Tradewars 2002!

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2003-11-03 02:35am

God, I loved that game. I used to be able to get into an ISS in about 5000 turns. I could never figure out how to be good at playing evil, though.

Anyone else remember this classic? Have any good tales of text-based interstellar war to share?

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-11-04 02:31am

I have no memory of this game. What was it about?

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-11-04 02:31am

Alferd Packer wrote:God, I loved that game. I used to be able to get into an ISS in about 5000 turns. I could never figure out how to be good at playing evil, though.

Anyone else remember this classic? Have any good tales of text-based interstellar war to share?

I was never good at it, but I was obsessed none the less.. I wish I could set up a server...

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2003-11-04 05:25pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:I have no memory of this game. What was it about?

It's a BBS game. The premise is simple: You're a space merchant who, by trading goods between space ports, skim profit for yourself. You then use the money to buy better ships, weapons, means of making planets or even your own space stations.

And of course, if you ran into a competing trader, you could blow his ass out of space.

The game was beautiful in its simplicity and dangerously addictive.

More info(warning, Geocities site with popups aplenty)

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-11-05 12:39pm

Anyone know where a good server is these days? Or better yet, anyone able to set up a server?

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-11-05 12:59pm

I know there's some PHP clone, but I hate it.

StarDestroyer.Net BBS

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