Greetings, Fellow Explorer!
Praise to Jeremy, for creating such a neat game.
I answer all hails. I always hail the ship paired with me if it is larger, and highly recommend the practice. As a Chosen of the Mighty One, I'm always pleased to hear from ships interested in growth. Actually, I'm interested in hearing from anyone, even if they're not paired with me, or even not in the same system.
You can hail to the address in my flag, or
use the Utilities
page, or use the handy form below.
Be sure to sign your shipname or address if you want a reply.
I was glad to serve as Chosen of the Mighty One while Aurora Borealis was prophet and am sad to see her step down. I am happy for the opportunity to serve the Old Ones as the Prophet of the Mighty One, and ask for your support.
For entertainment purposes only (please, no wagering!), I generate Rankings based on the Top 20 lists from the Subspace Times as a rough guide to the Top 20 Mighty, Wise, Merciful, and Fierce ships. Many other factors that aren't shown in the Top 20 lists (like behavior) aren't included, so take the results with a grain of salt, especially for Fierceness. The Mighty rankings include the number of Offers of Dybuk Protection made in the last 100 turns.
Someday I may format it more nicely and automate updates.
Anything I know, you can learn too, by reading the Rules (over and over), then reading all the player home pages and following all their links obsessively, At a minimum, definitely check out Galaxion's former home page for useful information on adventures and combat, Galaxion's star info (based on Feline Grace's spreadsheet from ancient times, but updated), Useful things to Know about Dybuk, A Mad Ninja's trade information and newbie tips, and a mapulator. Vortex's Mapulator is so old it has an obsolete address for Corby and doesn't list S#6 (hidden by Indi's name) and ScAvenger's Mapulator hides the uninhabited star names with an unfortunate black on black text choice. But they're still useful.
Constitution's Guide to TBG has a lot of advice and tips, and ScAvenger's page has many useful links, especially the Rules Index. Wanderer offers some useful tips to young ships, as does Sword of Damocles.
Then read the entire SST Archive (Praise Corby!) from start to finish. By then enough time should have passed that you will have missed several turns while busy reading, and all your demo modules will have decayed into useless junk. So restart, and realize sheepishly that you should have spent all that time opening channels of communications to other ships instead of wasting it reading ancient news of titanic struggles in the dim mists of history, and why didn't I tell you that in the first place? See, already you're wiser. My work here is done.
But if you still have questions, feel free to hail me.
It would be easy to make a game where playing well for 500 turns
gives you no benefits over new starters, but in technical game design
parlance that would be what we call "Wrong".
- Jeremy Maiden, 2001.1.8
Evil has been banished!
But beware the greed of mortals, lest it return
- The very first Dybuk chaining, in SST 56
What was I to do? There was a label saying "Do Not Open This Box",
and naturally I was curious..
- If you dont hit, SST 61 (IYDH later
went on to be all four prophets at once, although Dybuk Releasing is no
longer considered a useful step on the path to prophethood, by most.)
I like the simple explanation, that releasing dybuk gets you labelled with a big sign reading "free modules".
-- President (at the time) Knjaz' Igor', Turn 805
Pants ... we're going down ...
- Hyperborean Princess, TBG SST 162
Who 13 turns later broadcast the immortal words:
Pants ... this ship is kak ... HELP !!!!!
For the appropriate response see
the TBG FAQ.
Note that preceeding your plea for help with "Pants" is sort of like Mayday or SOS, to attract the attention of the powerful and mighty, especially those who live in Britain. Some may speculate that this is why one of the most powerful ships was named after a belt.
Why anonymous? Well, I'm terrified. Everyone's terrified of Lollipop. I've seen grown men pull off their own heads rather than face BSL He uses ... sarcasm. He knows all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes, and... satire. He's vicious!
--Anonymous, SST 272
Life's made up of memorable events, where things go unusually well
or badly: adding features to make those things easier or softening
the extremes leads to a bland world where choices don't mean much.
-- Jeremy, on tbg_design 2001.11.19
None of this will be on the final.
Future goals:
Rankings for Out of Context (go me!).
Last updated on 2007.05.25 (turn 1550).