Editor's note: This edition of the Empire News was done by Ulrich Hannemann, in a one time release titled "The Empire Herald".

The Empire Herald
December, 1999

Contents

• About the code
• About games
• Other info

About the code

* The Server: seems to be stable now - there were no changes/fixes
recently. Deities twist and tweak to code for very interesting games. Rumors are that wolfpack is preparing an update to 4.2.7 code (Will escorts work correct then?). The introduction of paratrooper units and tunnel sectors has not been confirmed.

* The Clients: Ptkei 1.12 was released. You should try it!
http://empire.idlpaper.com/clients/
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~koconnor/ptkei

back to top

About games

* Finished: The BIG GAME (Deity: Pat Loney) ended with victory for
Escher, Kosovo(Ice Barbarians), and Balacrea(Rook and Temekula).
HEATWAVE (Deity: Per Marquardsen) was won by Escher and Pendor.
FALL FEVER (Deity: Per Marquardsen) was won by Mongol_Horde.

* In progress: Roman M. Parparov started "Empire Invitational I -
The Spectre Of Communism"
Host: kaplun103-2.tau.ac.il
Port: 1617

John Hickman started "War Unlimited" for players rated 7 or less.
Host: 206.245.140.168
Port: 6656

* Announced: None. Most possible Deities are involved in the
invitational in one way or the other.

* Blitzes : We have a number of places to fool around waiting for
the next long term game.

Changeling Blitz: Update every 10 minutes
Resets daily at 7:00pm EST
Code Version 4.2.4
Host : empire.idlpaper.com
Port : 6789

Chronologic Blitz: Update every 10 minutes
Resets daily at 6:00am CET
Code Version 4.2.6
Host : empire.chronologic.se
Port : 6665

Atlantis Blitz : Update every 10 minutes
Resets daily
Code Version 4.0.16
Host : atlantis.uwyo.edu
Port : 6665

Zebra Blitz : Update every hour
Resets weekly, Sunday 6:00pm EST
Code Version 4.2.4
Host : empire.idlpaper.com
Port : 5678

Polar Bear I : Update every hour
Resets weekly, Monday 11:00am AKST
Code Version 4.2.6
Host : empire.woods.net
Port : 3456

Polar Bear II : Update every six hours
Resets monthly, 15th of every month
Code Version 4.2.6
Host : empire.woods.net
Port : 4567

back to top

Other info

*WWW: The main source of information for empire players should be
the wolfpack pages: http://empire.idlpaper.com/
(Maybe one of the pack could spend some time on an update?)
Onda made up a nice Tutorial for the beginning player:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Hangar/6344/
Parpara put up a web site along with the invitational
http://empire.maxho.com/

*Best Anno: Well, it's always hard to decide, especially over a
long period. Our winner this time is Bungholio for pointing us to
http://www.muttonbone.com/

back to top

I wish you all a successful update. May you roll your fodder over the
next 366 RLTU.

   =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
   = The Empire News is a publication of Wolfpack Empire, bringing =
   =  you the best in Empire since 1996.  If you would like to add =
   =    content (new games, games ending, new web sites, hints,    =
   =  Anno of the Month submissions, etc. to the next edition of   =
   =        the Empire News, please contact the editor at          =
   =                  empnews@wolfpackempire.com                   =
   =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=