There is an offline helper called "Tradewars Assistant" which has an excellent ZTM capability. It can establish beyond speculation about maximum warp length that certain sectors or clusters are orphans. It is available for download at http://www.thestardock.com - Eleq's site. Filename TWAST23.ZIP, if memory serves.

After completion of ZTM, run the following in the twassist.exe directory, either from a dos command prompt or as a batch file:

twassist gamename.dat /A SN,1Y,allsectr.txt,a,rm

You have to substitute your game datafile name for "gamename" above.
It will write the text file "allsectr.txt" to disk in the twassist.exe directory. This file will be a listing of all the sectors in the game, in order of distance from Terra. Any sector(s) that show "???" for distance are orphans.

Takes 45 minutes or so for a 5K bang to run the ztm. Downsides of twassist are that it cannot work with bangs > 5K and you need to use a terminal program such as Telix, Telemate, Qmodem, Zoc, etc. to script the twassist I/O.

if it is truly inacessible, i.e. not simply a gold bubble glitch or a max warp length edit, then you would not be able to get any course plots into the bubble, only out of it. therefore, it would be impossible to warp in, or even blind twarp in because the game has to calculate how much ore to use based on the distance, which would be infinite if its is really inacessible. the only way that swath would have any information about it is if the ztm plotted from inside the bubble out, i.e. you can get out of the bubble, but not in - which is how i would explain swath saying distance from the bubble TO dock and TO terra, these are distances OUT of the bubble, not into it.

rev.

quote:Originally posted by the reverend

if it is truly inacessible, i.e. not simply a gold bubble glitch or a max warp length edit, then you would not be able to get any course plots into the bubble, only out of it. therefore, it would be impossible to warp in, or even blind twarp in because the game has to calculate how much ore to use based on the distance, which would be infinite if its is really inacessible. the only way that swath would have any information about it is if the ztm plotted from inside the bubble out, i.e. you can get out of the bubble, but not in - which is how i would explain swath saying distance from the bubble TO dock and TO terra, these are distances OUT of the bubble, not into it.

rev.


thanks rev. I truly think that what you said is the case. Wonder if the sysop was just having fun or maybe he's using it to send in the gold aliens?