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A Wolfpack Empire Publication
"All the news that fits, we print."
August, 2003

In This Edition


What's New?

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.html

Quite 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.htm

Wolfpack now has a public `Development & Management' website at
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/develop/default.html

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Links/Resources/Getting Started

Home of Wolfpack Empire : http://www.wolfpackempire.com/
FAQ : http://www.wolfpackempire.com/faq.html
Usenet : news:rec.games.empire
More : http://www.wolfpackempire.com/links.html

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New Games

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!

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Current Games

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 2003
         sects  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 2003
         sects  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
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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 2003
         sects  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.

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Recently Ended Games

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 2003
         sects  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
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worldwide 1.1K  98% 1.0M  84K  26K 3.2K  62K 199K  42K  76K 770  480  590  515K

Visit http://www.wolfpackempire.com/midshipman.html for more
information.

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Clients and Player Tools

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/

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Server and Deity Information

The current Empire server is 4.2.11. Download it from
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/server.html

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From the Editor

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

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Hint of the Month

: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 4.0.0

Sorry folks, it's summertime and your editor is too busy with other
things to come up with a hint for you. Next month, promise!

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Anno of the Month

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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