SD> Heck, I just had a user request a particular Fidonet echo to be turned on
SD> for them.  That hasn't been asked of me in probably six or seven years
SD> now. It's nice to see that people still are calling BBSes though.

 MH> That is nice..  I did have someone ask me to install TradeWars
 MH> recently.  I have not had a chance to work on that yet.  

i have several TW2002 games here... there's a basic TW2002v2 and 4
TW2002v309 games... there are 4 levels of v309 games... novice, advanced,
expert and ultimate... each has varying degrees of hardness and different
aliens in them... i have 10 non-player tasks running which keep the aliens
moving whether or not there are any human players in the games... i forget
which v309 games have which aliens in them but the higher the level, the
more aliens... and at least one of the games has the borg and a borg queen
which, IIRC, i created myself...

lessee... what aliens i have running... there's the alien traders
(default), ferrengi, bynars, rstnng, borg and borg queen... all are
controlled by non-player servers (aka tasks) and they all move about even
with no humans in the game...

i actually need to reset all of the above games because they have been
running for 4 years if i'm reading the raw game log correctly... birthed on
"5/6/20" and the last maint run was on "2/4/24"... my
maint runs every night in my midnight maint processing... doing a bit more
digging, i think there may have been 6 players in the ultimate game with
one or two in the others...

pretty sad showing and sometimes i wonder why i still run them :?

)\/(ark