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A Wolfpack Empire Publication
"All the news that fits, we print."
August, 2003
In This Edition
Wolfpack recently regained contact with Ken Stevens, who headed Empire development in 1994-96. This resulted in an interesting article by
Ken on his tenure. Read it at http://www.wolfpackempire.com/kenstevescomments.htmlQuite a bit has been published in the `History' section on the Wolfpack website recently. More and more old documents are preserved there, including the `PEA Pages', the first `official' Empire website, and the complete Empire News.
Hennes Passman (Synchron) is mirroring the Wolfpack website at
http://mud.stack.nl/wolfpack/default.htmWolfpack now has a public `Development & Management' website at
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/develop/default.html
Links/Resources/Getting Started
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There are rumors of new long term games being in the works, but
nothing definitive, yet.Please contact us if you want your game listed here!
PANGAEA: Deitied by <anonymous>, is running at 66.69.41.175, port 6665. This game's distinctive feature is a humongous continent `Pangaea' of about 10K sects, initially garrisoned by one POGO mil per sector.
The protracted war between power leader chochise and No-man took a
turn when chochise's ally Max joined it. No-man lost quite a bit of
ground so far, but there's plenty of ground left.Max eliminated PromisedLand and chased Perdition off Pangaea together
with X.Sparta forcibly relocated Oleander, then turned aside to Hades `to
finance the war against Oleander'.The tech leaders developed a significant lead, and are reckoned around
tech 200.- = [ Empire Power Report ] = - as of Fri Aug 1 00:41:52 2003sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money cochise 4.2K 97% 3.7M 21K 37K 5.2K 81K 521K 21K 167K 1.9K 80 460 2.7M Max 2.6K 93% 2.2M 16K 43K 5.6K 123K 247K 13K 256K 1.3K 40 410 420K X 1.3K 98% 1.2M 16K 19K 3.2K 78K 220K 6.2K 187K 280 30 250 2.0M No-man 1.1K 96% 923K 48K 40K 3.6K 115K 166K 9.1K 94K 150 120 70 1.6M Somewhere 1.3K 92% 633K 2.8K 5.3K 1.2K 35K 143K 4.8K 68K 70 90 40 240K Sparta 580 91% 496K 26K 41K 5.2K 31K 70K 7.8K 48K 200 150 170 385K Oleander 290 99% 240K 5.0K 13K 1.7K 7.2K 70K 1.4K 35K 50 50 50 70K Perdition 150 100% 144K 4.4K 13K 1.1K 8.6K 55K 900 20K 2 30 0 155K Hades 150 96% 126K 7.0K 250 95 1.4K 4.2K 2.4K 56K 40 6 10 310K wesland 200 87% 160K 2.5K 2.7K 580 0 92K 1.4K 99K 0 20 0 650K Anorian 150 100% 140K 1.9K 3.0K 475 10K 53K 13K 40K 50 10 0 460K ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- worldwide 12K 95%10.0M 151K 219K 28K 490K 1.6M 82K 1.1M 4.0K 620 1.5K 9.1M
Mid-Shipman's Empire 2 --- The Ugly Mug: Deitied by Mark Ballinger, is running at mid.wolfpackempire.com, port 6665. It is a game for
non-newbies who are also not vastly experienced. The Ugly Mug was
created with an ugly fairland command. There are lots of twisty
little islands and many mountains. Bridges are priced out of range.The 10 players are very active, but very quiet. Alliances are forming,
but distrust reigns. One major attack has taken place but the defender's
capital has not fallen. Planes are just now appearing.- = [ Empire Power Report ] = - as of Wed Jul 30 11:54:33 2003sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money OrionSynd 95 84% 64K 1.4K 850 115 800 9.8K 3.6K 1.1K 10 50 6 1.4K Aberdeen 120 70% 59K 1.9K 725 75 1.0K 6.2K 1.6K 1.1K 0 30 20 1.7K DexterPV 90 95% 60K 1.3K 800 95 3.2K 7.2K 2.2K 3.4K 8 20 10 783 Big Rabbi 110 66% 56K 1.4K 325 60 0 8.0K 600 1.2K 7 50 10 15K Pax 70 95% 48K 2.0K 525 55 0 9.8K 2.3K 1.8K 0 30 20 5.0K Stardust 80 85% 52K 950 775 45 1.2K 5.5K 1.4K 2.0K 0 30 6 1.3K Venaus 55 98% 41K 1.8K 475 75 0 5.5K 300 3.2K 0 20 20 5.0K Bwian 70 70% 30K 1.5K 350 55 0 6.7K 600 1.1K 0 20 10 15K .dot-dash 50 80% 29K 800 150 0 0 5.8K 1.8K 1.1K 0 10 8 70K Aquataine 35 80% 20K 1.2K 100 30 0 1.1K 550 2.2K 0 5 8 25K ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- worldwide 775 81% 458K 14K 5.0K 605 6.2K 66K 15K 18K 30 270 110 150K
Newbie 3: Lanny Andelin is continuing his series of games designed for
newer/less experienced players. Newbie III is running at 208.187.205.245, port 5000. Several major powers emerged, but no
major battles between them have been reported, yet. Technology leaders are approaching the nuclear age.As in previous games of this series, players are helping each other
getting the hang of the game. Lanny's Newbie games are a friendly
learning environment. Well, as friendly as Empire can get ;-)- = [ Empire Power Report ] = - as of Fri Aug 1 13:05:02 2003sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money Savoia 410 100% 725K 18K 12K 1.9K 56K 104K 14K 17K 900 130 110 3.0M Pern 680 100% 674K 22K 20K 1.6K 51K 129K 28K 32K 1.1K 240 330 705K Zern 690 93% 586K 23K 21K 2.8K 66K 59K 16K 21K 260 220 30 1.4M Kurszlic 430 90% 435K 18K 15K 1.4K 51K 106K 9.9K 32K 650 200 40 1.1M Epirus 485 98% 430K 22K 15K 1.1K 38K 96K 16K 27K 390 140 50 495K Armengar 165 100% 199K 3.8K 11K 725 15K 28K 50 4.3K 270 70 60 1.1M Raist 135 98% 135K 7.1K 3.6K 535 24K 20K 3.8K 3.1K 130 30 40 225K Czechoslo 95 99% 91K 5.7K 2.8K 405 9.8K 16K 2.0K 6.1K 10 20 20 355K ZenHamste 25 92% 8.8K 300 150 3 6.2K 50K 16 1 0 10 0 180K TheMoot 0 0% 0 100 22 4 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 310K Oblivion 0 0% 0 100 125 20 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 80K Hades 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50K tzang 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 60K Paradise 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15K Doc_D 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20K ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- worldwide 3.1K 96% 3.3M 120K 100K 10K 318K 608K 89K 143K 3.7K 1.1K 670 9.1M
The Changeling Blitz is running at blitz.wolfpackempire.com, port
6789. This blitz resets at 7:00pm US/Eastern (currently 23:00 UTC)
every day. Updates are enabled at 7:30pm. There is a 60 ETU update
every 10 minutes. Note that world size and some options change daily.
It is up to players to figure that out each day, but typing "version"
helps.
The Zebra Blitz is running at blitz.wolfpackempire.com, port 5678.
This blitz resets at 6:00pm US/Eastern (currently 22:00 UTC) every
Sunday. Updates are enabled at 6:30pm. There is a 48 ETU update
every hour on the hour.
Mid-Shipman's Empire, deitied by Mark Ballinger, was won by
DexterPV/Thistle/Pax/Armengar.The winners kept their alliance secret and unleashed a furious attack,
which proved to be decisive.Mid-Shipman's was a rather small world with small, resource-rich
islands, comparatively easy to overrun. Diplomacy played a crucial
role.- = [ Empire Power Report ] = - as of Wed Jul 2 12:33:34 2003sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money DexterPV 217 100% 213K 16K 2.8K 494 3.3K 33K 5.1K 2.4K 233 58 140 99K 15828.97 Thistle 203 97% 189K 13K 4.1K 476 6.2K 35K 7.9K 11K 177 51 132 43K 12771.94 Pax 158 92% 147K 8.9K 4.2K 594 14K 24K 7.0K 22K 104 56 91 56K 10817.75 Armengar 90 100% 82K 9.3K 5.2K 267 13K 14K 7.1K 14K 34 37 90 71K 6970.17 Kurszlic 106 100% 101K 11K 3.7K 415 4.5K 25K 6.1K 8.6K 61 67 24 -329 5945.24 OrionSynd 110 96% 106K 9.0K 1.1K 304 4.2K 26K 4.4K 1.9K 78 61 68 149K 5746.73 ToyMachin 100 99% 93K 7.2K 2.3K 277 9.3K 23K 2.8K 9.0K 45 57 34 16K 5030.19 Venaus 81 99% 78K 7.3K 2.4K 270 7.0K 17K 1.8K 7.1K 34 21 7 15K 4613.79 Stardust 27 94% 25K 1.5K 294 43 0 1.5K 0 0 0 3 4 -7.1K 905.07 unemployd 0 0% 486 554 253 45 0 0 0 0 0 32 2 25K 215.84 Finland 0 0% 1.8K 239 11 6 0 0 0 0 0 22 0 12K 119.84 Strata 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40K 42.10 Shire 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36K 35.52 Mizar 3 100% 2.6K 98 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 -15K 35.00 Bwian 0 0% 0 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 4.0K 19.87 PromisedL 0 0% 0 30 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 9.7K 18.45 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- worldwide 1.1K 98% 1.0M 84K 26K 3.2K 62K 199K 42K 76K 770 480 590 515KVisit http://www.wolfpackempire.com/midshipman.html for more
information.
The basic Empire client can be found at
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/clients.html, source as well as binaries
for many platforms.The latest version of WinACE is 2.2.12. Read the announcement at
http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=1e50e999.0305301501.19d4184b%40posting.google.com
and download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/winace/The latest version of PTkEI is 1.18.0. See the PTkEI home page at
http://www.lfmm.org/ptkei/The latest version of eif is 1.3.0. See the eif home page at
http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/empire/
The current Empire server is 4.2.11. Download it from
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/server.html
Recently, a bug in sub interdiction took down PANGAEA. The deity
asked for help on r.g.e., and got it speedily. So far, so good. But
it turned out that this particular bug had been reported to Wolfpack
some time ago. We missed it. Sorry about that. We're human :)But that's not what this editorial is about. It's about the Wolfpack
Bug Report Feedback Policy. Big name, lots of capital letters, I just
made it up. And all it says is that we take bug reports very, very
seriously. You can expect a timely acknowledgment from us. If you
don't get it, we probably didn't get your bug report. Resend it! If
that doesn't help, take it to r.g.e.!Markus, a.k.a. Dorwinion
:Big Room, the: /n./ The extremely large room with the blue
ceiling and intensely bright light (during the day) or black
ceiling with lots of tiny night-lights (during the night) found
outside all computer installations. "He can't come to the phone
right now, he's somewhere out in the Big Room."
-- Jargon File 4.0.0Sorry folks, it's summertime and your editor is too busy with other
things to come up with a hint for you. Next month, promise!
No suitable announcements were observed by the Empire News in the past month. Come on, folks, submit the ones you liked! Here's one from
the archives (Harvard Fall Empire):> Announcement from The Hole, (#59) dated Mon Oct 22 23:06:54 1990 Well, I give up. I can't keep up reading all these telegrams, besides I've got an interpreter I need to write.P.S. Anybody want a slightly buggy che-fighting program? I've been working on it all night. It's supposed to keep military levels up in any sector that has che. I "finished" it about 20 minutes ago and checked it out.The first couple of moves looked OK, so I ran it on the whole country (or is that Hole :-) ) Anyway I think I've just abandoned about 30 sectors :-( a little buggy yet. waaaah
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