Yet another TLR/SST fansite
The Last Resort (A SST Game)
Visit http://ioresort.com to play!
I guess the title says it all…
I’ve been told an email has been sent to Ray, so I guess we’re playing the waiting game now 🙂
BTW I’ve reset the data for my online graph of TLR to just before the problem occured. The graph showed that over a 2 hour period the number of users gradually reached over 100. Since nobody was actually able to log in the graph isn’t that useful.
Cheers,
KRY
Another round has passed… no teams this round…
BUT, we’ve been promised a return of the game settings that TLR originally had! 1000+ productivity guaranteed in every resort.
______Player_Name_______ ____Title+Level____Gang Rank Pack __Score__ _Region_ WYNDROSE Explorer+6 [---] 1 JPl 20154184 Io BULL_831 Minor Tyrant+4 [---] 2 HFr 14843699 240001s BATU KHAN Lord of All Things [---] 3 Fan 7965139 Io BESTARK +Czar+ [---] 4 Spo 6506009 Titania KRAZY +Czar+ [---] 5 Fan 5482269 Io BABYLON 5 Warlord+0 [---] 6 Fan 5430798 Io MISDIRECTION Tourist+0 [---] 7 Fan 5412920 Io TANADOR Tourist+0 [---] 8 Fan 5410756 Io DAMIAN Tourist+0 [---] 9 Fan 5408760 Io SILVER Tourist+0 [---] 10 Fan 5407647 Io
Looks like the current TLR game will be replaced with a new one. Settings look interesting… hope it will attract some new players or at least bring back some of the old ones. New game will be starting near the end of September according to the message posted by the admin. A test game has also been setup for players to check prior to game start.
Message: 1 Sat Aug 18 16:37:12 2007 (Public)
To: BESTARK
From: SYSADMINB
Subject: New Game Format
Next game will be a 3 month game.
Format will be resort game in a 1.6M sector/room universe and with
the following game settings:
6 days production, 1000 production bonus, 2M fuel allocation
initial base cost 15000, team size 12 and maximum bunker size 15
Those interrested, can check out the 35 day test game which is
configured at the settings of the next game.
SYSADMINB
Has it been 6 weeks already?
At least we had teams formed this round!
______Player_Name_______ ____Title+Level____Gang Rank Pack __Score__ _Region_ GUMBY +Czar+ [RDC] 1 CFp 97995300 Bianca POKEY +Czar+ [RDC] 2 CFp 97751086 Bianca BESTARK +Czar+ [RDC] 3 CGa 66813324 Bianca MISSILERACK +Czar+ [UEF] 4 JPr 43539993 Umbriel BLUEREVENGE Ruffian+1 [UEF] 5 JFp 38494146 Umbriel DREAMWEAVER +Czar+ [RFI] 6 CFp 29655391 Rhea MILES GLORIOSUS Hunter+8 [UEF] 7 JFp 24124966 Umbriel AIR FORCE ONE Scoundrel+9 [---] 8 CGa 23545720 Siarnaq ARMY ONE Hunter+7 [---] 9 CPl 22622255 Titania SLOW RIDE Scoundrel+8 [RFI] 10 JPl 22337436 Ariel
______________Gang_Name________________ Abbrev. Rank Score (1000s) Resort Development Cooperative [RDC] 1 262559 United Earth Federation [UEF] 2 128312 Resort Farmers Inc. [RFI] 3 85677 Planet Strippers Inc. [PSI] 4 58042
One of the reasons I wanted to start this site was the slow disappearance of all things SST related.
If you do a web search on the terms SST / TLR / StarshipTraders / IOResort most of the entries returned are links from Web Game directories. After weeding through all these you may (if you’re lucky) find a link to something like The Wog’s old website or similiar.
The only other available sources of content are the two (three?) yahoo groups dedicated to these games… however, due to a lack of moderators, these groups only seem to be an endless source of spam.
So what can we do about this, what are our options?
1) Create new fansites! – Easy to do, however they never seem to last.
2) Get some blogs going – Even easier to do, go to blogger.com, wordpress.com, live.com and start writing. Blogs don’t have to have a single author/owner, and most can be imported into other blogs if something better comes along.
3) Share information and links – If you’ve got some info, get it posted somewhere!
I did some Web trawling earlier, and found an interesting players guide written by EMPNEFSI about two years ago. The original guide can be found here, but I’ve archived a copy here as well.
The trawling also turned up some blogs… World of Starship Traders, and a couple of old Vet’s appear to have started blogs. One of these vets appears to have had a Nimrod problem as well!
If you know of any fansites I don’t have listed, let me know… If you have any (constructive) ideas for this site, feel free to pass them on.
Speaking of ideas… I’m considering writing a Bunker Buster plugin for TLF. The idea is that a random bunker location will be revealed once a week… what happens to the bunker then is anyones guess. To be fair, all bunkers will be included, no Team or player favourism. No details of who the bunker belongs to, or the strength of the defences will be revealed by the plugin. Readers will be able to submit new bunker locations. 😀
Nice quiet round… couple of returning players have hinted that they’re going to kick butt next round! 😀
Oh, and it’s not a mistake, there were no teams at the end of this round?
______Player_Name_______ ____Title+Level____Gang Rank Pack __Score__ _Region_ BESTARK Gambler's Anonymous[---] 1 CFp 61780626 Umbriel QUIETLY Shhhh! [---] 2 CFp 54686457 Titania POKEY Try Space Tyrant! [---] 3 CFp 49811249 Ophelia FELYZA Space Tyrant+3 [---] 4 SCr 34447605 368001s DRYLAR Lieutenant+1 [---] 5 SFr 25822667 272001s BULL_831 Commander+4 [---] 6 HFr 25063259 1s SLOW RIDE Voyager+9 [---] 7 Fpa 22038719 Miranda REDWOLF Mercenary+1 [---] 8 SLi 19562737 272001s BLOOD HUNTER Ensign+8 [---] 9 HFr 12043902 160001s KORIAND'R +Tamaranian+ [---] 10 HCr 11618050 112001s
I’ve been promising this for awhile now. A few players have been running the client on window systems. One on Windows 2000 and another on XP. There’s a link at the bottom of this article, to download the client. Nothing fancy like the installer for Art’s client and not much eye candy either. I’m more interested in what you can do with client than how it looks. Also, it’s not nearly as automated as some of the other players clients/bots, except for score collecting which I occasionally do. I’ve retired my bots more than 2 years ago. You’ll need to unzip the files into whatever directory you wish to play from and do a full install of mono from the Novell website http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads. Just select the appropriate stable release for the OS you’re running. Works on any OS, as long as you’re running Windows 2000 or above, or a Linux distribution on which you can install mono 😉
Once the client and mono are installed, on windows start the mono dos box and switch to the directory where you’ve unzipped the client files. Type “mono GameClient.exe” to run, and that’s it. No instructions are included to run client. Anyone out there care to write a client manual? For Linux, consult your distribution’s help for how to run mono.
Something strange is happening over at ELF… the number of logged in users is jumping all over the place which makes the graphs look very strange.
I’ve done a quick workaround with the graphs, so they look a little saner.
Sane Graph
Crazy Graph
I’ve sent Dragelet an email about the strange figures, as I think it’s something that should be investigated.
If (and when) the figures come good, I’ll restore the ELF data from a backup, which will remove the bogus data…
When I first started playing starship traders, there was an active yahoo group with much advice and other interesting postings. Among those post, and which I was fortunate enough to have saved, (somewhere along the way, the posts just got deleted) a post explained the structures of the galaxies. I’ve updated the content and used for training new captains and just recently added the equivalent hotel structures for resort worlds in the last resort.
Newsflash, new player wins round at TLR!
Bot Collector must have dozed off this round 😛
______Player_Name_______ ____Title+Level____Gang Rank Pack __Score__ _Region_ FELYZA Commodore+7 [---] 1 SDe 41510934 384001s BESTARK +Czar+ [---] 2 CFp 35233785 Nereid POKEY Try Space Tyrant ;)[---] 3 CFp 35124343 Nereid THE BOT COLLECTOR I want my client ;([TF3] 4 SFr 30962503 320001s UBERTRADER +Czar+ [TF3] 5 SFr 30498489 32001s SHADOWS Minor Tyrant+3 [---] 6 HLi 25313590 336001s MARCO_JEEZ Back in black! [ROA] 7 HLi 21874856 384001s RAVEN The Morrigan [---] 8 CFp 21113864 Nereid MR. JERK +Czar+ [ROA] 9 HLi 20319301 176001s CHAMPION WOMBAT +Czar+ [TF3] 10 CGa 18658911 Miranda
______________Gang_Name________________ Abbrev. Rank Score (1000s) The Fabulous Fig Fighters [TF3] 1 97021 Return of the Ancients [ROA] 2 75897
