As someone completely new to managing a Tradewars game/server, and as someone who hasn't played in many years (and even then wasn't very experienced), I am extremely interested in as much information as I can get my hands on.

I've been lurking here for awhile now, reading just about everything and trying to learn from observation and experimentation, and I've noticed a distinct lack of newbie reading material. From what I can tell there have been a couple of attempts at writing a community manual for the game, and another for hosting. I'll be digging through them and consolidating/writing a tutorial/knowledge base for my own nefarious purposes. I will have a plethora of questions and need a lot of help from the more experienced members of the community. I would greatly appreciate any discussion or feedback on this project.

Specifically, at these early stages, I'd like help tracking down as much useful information as is already out there. I have found the following:
-Game Play Q&A Forum
-Tradewars 2002 Manual Forum
-Hosting Q&A Forum
-TWGS & TW2002 Settings Explained Forum
-http://docs.classictw.com/
-http://microblaster.net/Links.aspx?topic=guides
-http://tw-cabal.com/
-http://www.navhaz.com/

Thanks to Micro, Kavanagh, and Helix for the links!


I'm still working on getting the in-program help files to function on Windows 8.x.

Are there any other helpful documents/projects out there I should/could be looking at?

Check out my "Tips and Guides" page:
http://microblaster.net/Links.aspx?topic=guides

I highly recommend "The Cabal's Secret Hideout"

There is a documentation WIKI, but not much work has been done on it:
http://docs.classictw.com

If you are interested in contributing to the documentation WIKI, I am sure JP can setup an account for you. Just email jpritch@eisonline.com

As Micro posted, tw-cabal.com , in addition to his own site, is great. Also, navhaz.com has good info.

There is a pdf version of the TW-Cabal Site in this archive. It was made with the permission of the creator.


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/673 ... p_v102.zip


This public link to all of the files previously hosted on the TW2002.info site to be used as wanted or needed

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/673 ... 2_info.zip (85megs)

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Excellent!

Thanks for the information. I'll be spending some time this weekend working on this.

Even though the files aren't large, I'm more trying to find a good way to consolidate the files in a way that the community won't lose access if someone decides to drop their server or leave (some of us do grow up eventually, right?). I figure torrents (or one big torrent archive that gets updated every so often?) or a mirror archive would work. I'm actually not sure how a mirror archive works, but I know a single link could be provided here in the forums (or the wiki) and they would be served by multiple servers.

Cabal should have everything you would want to know.