TradeWars 2002: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 22:43, 4 January 2024

This page is dedicated to The Bottomless Abyss Trade Wars 2002 server

Background

Trade Wars 2002 have always been a leader in games and is the precursors or much larger, recent games like Eve Online for example. This is a very easy to play but very hard to master game.

The Bottomless Abyss Trade Wars 2002 server is the perfect place to play the game, experiment strategies, develop bot scripts and learn the ropes of this great game.

Several game types are available with different objectives in mind.

Server Information

** The server is not yet available publicly **

The server can be connected using 2 method:

Via the BBS, from the Game Servers sub-menu, off the Door Games Menu.
- This is the easiest way to connect and play
Via RLogin (using your BBS handle or a new one if you want separate accounts)
- This is mostly to use a 2rd party interface, script proxy or other helpers

Game types

Many games are running simultaneously
They have different flavors and parameters
- large/small amount of turns
- large/small universe
- large/small amount of starting money
- automatic resets, etc

Reference material

Trade Wars is a complex and very deep game, to get the best chance at it, you can start by reading (some of) this reference material.

Clients and helpers

These clients and helpers allows you to create scripts, automate certain tasks (like trading for example).

GUI

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 === Reference material ===
-Trade Wars is a complex and very deep game, to get the best chance at it, you can start by reading this reference material.
+Trade Wars is a complex and very deep game, to get the best chance at it, you can start by reading (some of) this reference material.
 * [https://www.penismightier.com/clme/Trade_Wars/Trade_Wars_2002_Bible.htm The TradeWars 2002 Bible!]
 * [http://www.electricscotland.com/games/twadvice.txt How To Play TradeWars And Stay Alive!]
 * [https://www.classictw.com/ The official TradeWars forums]
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030402134353/http://www.tw-cabal.com/index.html Trade Wars Cabal]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030402134353/http://www.tw-cabal.com/index.html Trade Wars Cabal] or [https://tw-cabal.navhaz.com/index.html Mirror]
+** [https://tw-cabal.navhaz.com/strategy.html TW Cabal - Strategy]
+** [https://tw-cabal.navhaz.com/tips.html TW Cabal - Tips]
+** [https://tw-cabal.navhaz.com/formulas.html TW Cabal - Formulas]
+** [https://tw-cabal.navhaz.com/glossary.html TW Cabal - Glossary]
+* [https://www.thestardock.com/ The Stardock]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230613063720/https://www.grimytrader.com/ The Grimy Trader]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20021212101507/http://hatchet.badaxe.k12.mi.us/~chris/index_tw.html Beginners Guide to Trade Wars 2002]
 === Clients and helpers ===
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 * [https://goffconcepts.com/products/gath/index.html GATH]
 * [https://twdata.sourceforge.net/kokua/ Kokua]
+* [http://www.tw-attac.com/ ATTAC]
 ==== Proxy ====
-* [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/raw/master/msi/TWXP27-Pre2.msi TWX Proxy 2.07.00a for Windows]
+* [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/raw/master/msi/TWXP27-Pre2.msi TWX Proxy 2.07.00a for Windows]  (Getting started: [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/wiki/Getting-Started Click here!])
-** Getting started: [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/wiki/Getting-Started Click here!]
 ==== Scripts and Bots ====
-* [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/raw/master/msi/Mombot47-Pre1.msi Mombot 4.7beta]
+* [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/raw/master/msi/Mombot47-Pre1.msi Mombot 4.7beta]  (Reference: [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/wiki/Mombot-Reference Click here!])
-** Reference: Click here!
+* [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/raw/master/msi/Zedbot220-Pre1.msi ZedBot 2.20+ Unleashed]  (Reference: [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/wiki/Zedbot-Reference Click here!])
-* [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/raw/master/msi/Zedbot220-Pre1.msi ZedBot 2.20+ Unleashed]
+* [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/raw/master/msi/TWXS27-Pre1.msi Over 350 additional public scripts]  (Reference: [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/wiki/Pack-1-and-Pack-2-Reference Click here!] and [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/wiki/Public-Script-Reference Here!])
-** Reference: [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/wiki/Zedbot-Reference Click here!]
-* [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/raw/master/msi/TWXS27-Pre1.msi Over 350 additional public scripts]
+=== Scripting reference (create your own scripts) ===
-** Reference: [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/wiki/Pack-1-and-Pack-2-Reference Click here!]
+* [https://github.com/TW2002/twxp/wiki/Scripting-Reference Reference]