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New Graphical Trade Wars 'Dark Millennium'

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gimme-gimme-some-of-that dept.

7213 noted that the Tradewars site has announced "Tradewars, Dark Millennium", which presumably will be a MMORPG [?] RTS based on the terrifyingly addictive game that I used to write scripts to play my turns for me in middle school. Screenshots and descriptions are available, but its gonna be vapor for a long time I'm sure. TW2002 is really where I met Hemos, Nate, and Kurt The Pope. God I loved that game.

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  1. blacknova traders by Nonac · · Score: 4

    While you're waiting for Dark Millenium, you can play Blacknova Traders an open source html tradewars at blacknova.net. When DM comes out, you will probably want to stick with the open source version.

  2. Registration by the_tsi · · Score: 4

    I registered tw2002... I want a discount on the new one! :)

    -Chris
    ...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...

  3. TW2002: The ultimate game! And great socially too by TheZalm · · Score: 4

    I played this with my friends in early high school and it took up a lot of my time. We were obsessed with this game. We kept trying to write clones of it with QBasic. Eventually I gave up and wrote a full-fledged LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon) clone with QBasic. It was huge. I even utilized the modem to make an "online" version of it. This game is a true classic. I'm just waiting for NASA to come out with their commercially available Interdictor Cruiser. I mean, come on! 2002 Is next year!!! Hurry up! I met a lot of people on trade wars too.. It's great for meeting friends.. and enemies :) :) Long Live TradeWars!!!!!!!!