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May, 1997
Vol. 4, No. 2

In This Edition

What's New

Empire Wolfpack Server updated to 4.0.9
Timestamp and dump commands for those whiz-bang clients we're waiting for!

Current Games
One new long term game is due to start up this month.

Renaissance II Empire
was won by Cathouse, Frumple and Park Place.

Newbie Empire
was won by Subway.

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New Games Starting Up

South Pacific Empire starts mid May
Another Pat Loney production, the game's name should suggest what's to come. Fixed tech, strong carriers and planes, small island.

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Current Games

Current Long-Term Games (http://www.empire.net/~wolfpack/whereplay.html)
Several games came and went since the last Empire News.

Current Blitzes (http://www.empire.net/~wolfpack/whereplay.html)
For the most up-to-date information on available blitzes, see the Empire
page above. Here are the three blitzes confirmed operational at press
time:

Blitz Name  Host                      Port Comments
Vampire     149.84.128.9              6667 Wolfpack code 4.0.9 
            (149.84.128.9)                 Resets 6:00 am EST
Cheetah     empire.net                6667 Wolfpack code 4.0.9
            (205.164.80.15)                Resets 6:00 pm EST
Howitzer    empire.net                7778 Last 3.1 server developments.
            (205.164.80.15)
Low Key     gobblernet.dyndns.com     7776 Resets every third month.
            (204.167.177.201)

"Low Key" Game
One the first of every third month, this game with daily updates will
reset. Anyone interested in playing should connect right away, using one
of countries 1 to 10.

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Clients and Player Tools

More Empire Client Binaries Available
Empclient 2.6 is the basic client released by the Wolfpack Server Team.
Source, as well as binaries for several platforms, is available from the
Wolfpack Home Page (http://www.empire.net/~wolfpack/).

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Server and Deity Information

Wolfpack Server Release 4.0.9
The as-yet unnamed members of the Wolfpack Empire Server Team made available a new release, available from the Wolfpack Server Home Page at empire.net (http://www.empire.net/~wolfpack/). Inquiries, bug-reports and comments can also be sent to "wolfpack@empire.net". For a complete run-down of changes from the 3.x generation server, connect to one of the blitzes (http://www.empire.net/~wolfpack/whereplay.html) and enter "info Empire4". Or, point your browser to the wolfpack Change Log (http://www.empire.net/~wolfpack/ChangeLog.txt).

How to Run a Game
(http://www.empire.net/~children/ftp/deity/docs/how_to_run_a_game.txt) Before making a game announcement to rec.games.empire, please read and heed this document.

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This month's winners

Renaissance II
was won by Cathouse, Frumple and Park Place. The two power leaders both withdrew from contention when threatened with world-wide alliances against them.

         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
Pinky&the 300  100% 295K  11K 6.7K 1.7K  30K  55K 8.0K  26K 620   40  110  265K
Mithrilie 280   99% 263K  18K 5.9K 1.2K  12K  74K  10K  31K 530   30  100  260K
 Cathouse 310   99% 296K  26K 7.8K 2.3K  20K  52K 7.4K  39K 570   40    1  415K
  Frumple 295   92% 197K  14K 5.0K 340   18K  30K 6.4K  18K 450   50   90  235K
Dristonia  60   97%  53K 1.8K 2.8K 880  8.0K  11K 1.4K  14K 590   20   40  145K
Park Plac 175   77% 105K 4.8K 5.1K 665  3.4K  32K 4.0K  14K 490  120   50  215K
 15    Cathouse         272.80      0.00       16.43      14.29  -16,20
 17    Pinky&theBrain   375.23      0.00       18.89       0.00  44,-6
 20    Mithrilien       365.21      0.00       24.19       0.00  -37,9
 22    Frumple          333.20      0.00       22.34       5.57  -35,-25
 23    Park Place       332.39      0.00       20.83       7.20  29,17
 25    Dristonia        322.15      0.00       28.36       0.00  4,26

Newbie Empire
was won by Subway.

         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
   Subway 375   94% 229K 8.1K 8.9K 1.5K 7.5K  64K 4.4K  14K 168  146   68   27K
 39568.10
     Blam 240   85% 170K 6.4K 7.3K 883   14K  61K 4.4K  18K  76   75   35  2.1K
 26526.50
  Scourge 143   88% 104K 3.8K 3.2K 656   16K  35K 2.0K 3.1K  51   27   36   15K
 16649.88
  Palmyra 166   90% 108K 5.2K 5.9K 231   13K  57K 1.2K 1.5K   0   22   15   67K
 13278.17
 #     name         tech      research   education   happiness  cap-location
 6     Scourge      304.96      2.92       26.13      12.37     -49,3
 11    Palmyra      295.61     15.55       36.99      18.42     36,18
 15    Subway       295.40      2.99       35.42       0.00     20,-20
 16    Blam         301.67      2.52       28.72       0.00     -20,-20

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This Newsletter

Mark Ballinger is responsible for the Empire News and the Empire FAQ. If you have suggestions, corrections or announcements, please email me at
uesugi@empire.net.

Mark Ballinger (Uesugi)


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