Subj : Chicken Coop to rebang
To   : All
From : col sanders
Date : Mon Jan 06 2003 06:40 pm

Thursday night, at 10PM EST, I will remove ALL games from the Chicken 
Coop and bang one stock (edits) MBBS Gold game, 750 turns, 4 hour time 
limit.  Photons will be 2 seconds, port regen at say 3 days.  The rest 
of the settings I will determine at bang time, so come check it out.  It 
could be a big game if lots of people come out.  I will not bang another 
game for at least 2 weeks, likely not till the end of January.

A while back hELLCAT suggested people should only run ONE game... well, 
I am gonna try it for a bit.  You will have 8 days to enter, maybe I 
will do 10 death limit or something.  Will figure all that out at bang 
time <G>.  I will "fix" the universe so dock will be right off Fed, that 
should help people who can't make bang.  And, I will offer a prize, lets 
say a $25 gift certificate to www.thinkgeek.com.  

So here are the basic rules, regular server rules apply, in other words, 
everything is legal except things defined by EIS as bugs, no duping (see 
note at bottom), info sharing is fine, only time I may ask you to cut 
something out is if it is killing the server, such as game mail spamming 
or something odd.  If you can do it though, and not crash the box, its 
legit.  Its war.

Game will run a minimum of 1 month, meaning till the last day of 
January, at which point I will see if anyone can be declared winner. 
 Winner will be declared at whatever point after the last day of 
January, that I determine the game is over.  There is no objective 
criteria, only my opinion <G>.  If you are curious how I determine 
winner, I generally look at overall assets.  I realize that is pretty 
open ended, but so be it, I don't anticipate more than 1 corp 
disagreeing with my calls at any given time <G>.

I think that covers the main stuff.  I hope alot come out to play and 
warm up and all that.  

*NOTE*
This is for rule benders and such:
If you run remote control bots, I won't be able to tell, same as if you 
run VNC or PCanywhere, but you will know deep down you are breaking the 
dupe rules and cheating.  So there is no question, it is against the 
rules, but goes in the unenforceable category and is therefore up to the 
players to police themselves on this kind of thing.
Also, if you exploit the time limit situation, there is nothing I can do 
but tell you how lame you are.  TWGS lets it happen, and I don't ever 
remember hearing anything definitive from the abandonware ghosts at EIS 
if its a "BUG" or not.  I would rather just call abusers names than 
enforce it randomly, as I will not be awake for extern every night <G>.

Thats pretty much it, if you have questions about what I said here ask, 
but if I did not explicitly list a setting or edit, (am going to print 
this out after sending and use it for reference), you will have to wait 
for game bang to adjust.

One last setting, 4 man corps.  That way, nobody can monopolize the "elite".

Col Sanders
telnet://bbs.bawk.org

p.s. if you are currently in a game on the Coop and do not want it to 
end on Thursday, tell me ASAP so I can leave it running or 
something...(though I am confident all the games are/have been over for 
some time)

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