Note: Tradewars is on online role-playing game where you are a spaceship captain, and roam a 5,000 sector universe trading and/or killing away. You also get to build things and gather colonists. Look for the game on local BBS'

On your first game you most likely did the following:

• Warped around in a Merchant Cruiser with 30 holds. You stopped and ported at ports NOT for money, but for those few experience points you get from finding a 'neglected' port. That's the highlight of your day! "Yes, 50 experience just for porting at this one port!" Heh, you don't need the money, just those experience points!

• Asked for help, but never recieved any.

• FINALLY bought some holds around your 20th day. "Hey, these oddsendsers might do me some good!" You still warped around hitting P and enter a few times, then moved on.

• Never went good OR evil. You just kept on warping around porting for those exp point. Hey, you might actually have been in the top 10.

• Listened over fedcomm, wondering `what the heck are these people talking about?!'

• Bought some gen torps and popped a few planets in a 1 deep tunnel. You farmed class Ms and Us. For weeks, they only had about 1,000 colonists and weren't even upgrading.

• Sat in fedspace with over 1,000 experience then wondered "what am doing in this escape pod?"

• Traded in that escape pod for 1 week and finally bought another cheezy ship.

• FINALLY bought transwarp for that ship. But, five minutes after you found some fuel ore you blindwarped into a port.

• Bought ANOTHER ship with twarp, and blind warped again.

• By now, you've blindwarped quite a few times.

• Put fighters on a L1 planet to defend it.

• Started a port but didn't put any commodities on the planet for it to upgrade. Then you wonder, "what's the deal?"

• Someone tricks you into `typing cby really fast!' They said they'd pay you, of course.

• Gotten killed by nav haz and deployed fighters more times than you an count on your fingers and toes.

• Went into the Single's Bar.

• Gotten killed on the Underground.

• Had all your holds taken by Ferrengi.

• Been killed by Ferrengi.

• Killed aliens and got blown up by corbomite.

If you haven't done at least 10 of those things (or had them done to you), your first game wasn't REAL.
 

Shell
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