Dancelot posted on May 3rd 2025 at 8:35am
i recently got into metal music i listen to things like metallica and
dissection (yes i listen to some degree of black metal despite how somber they
sound but that's beside the point) and a little twisted sister (does that count
as metal idk) what do you guys listen in terms of metal music?
Comments:
By Booch on May 5th 2025 at 10:08amI'm not a huge metal fan, but I did go to a show a couple years ago with
By Maniac on May 12th 2025 at 12:53pm
Metallica in Atlanta. That was a lot of fun!Megadeth
By Tarot on May 16th 2025 at 1:06amHas to be Slayer. I've been a fan since 2019. Saw them live awhile ago. Definitely in my top 5 favorite bands.
By Lazy on May 23rd 2025 at 3:35pmAndy James ;)
By Carcaussa on May 24th 2025 at 1:53pm
Dark Tranquillity, Insomnium, Dissection, Iced Earth, Tristania, Samael,
By Centurion on May 30th 2025 at 7:44pm
AgathodaimonPantera, Judas Priest, King Diamond, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Dio, etc
By Damage Control on Jun 6th 2025 at 11:12pm
Yep, what Centurion said but add Megadeth.
By Damage Control on Jun 6th 2025 at 11:16pm
Oh crap I forgot Anthrax on my list. Got the time?!
By Graehaus on Jun 11th 2025 at 4:43am
A toss up, depending on how I want to rock, Judas Priest or Amon Amarth. Raise
By Lamneth on Jul 9th 2025 at 2:21am
your horns.
Rush, of course!!!
By Vxdzero on Jul 14th 2025 at 8:24pmDio!
By Crispiecritter on Jul 15th 2025 at 9:22pmMetallica, Black Sabbath, System of the Down, Sepultura, Slip Knot, Megadeth,
By Soylent Bob on Aug 7th 2025 at 10:40pm
Korn, Mega Death, Pantera, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Rammstien, Disturbed and
Godsmack are all on my rotationWell, the answer to that sorta depends on the day and my mood. It can change a
By Cm961 on Sep 12th 2025 at 7:45pm
lot. Often, I'm playing classics like Black Sabbath, Metallica, or Slayer.
Motorhead, Mastodon...Nocturnal Rites
By Archnix on Sep 18th 2025 at 2:47pmElectric Callboy, still trying to figure out if gonna buy live tickets or not
By Reacharound on Sep 25th 2025 at 8:40pm
this year.Motorhead, definitely...
By Plague on Nov 11th 2025 at 11:28am
Metal is an endlessly deep adventure - enjoy the journey! Usually around this
By Damage Control on Nov 12th 2025 at 11:32pm
spooky time of year, I'll listen to Mercyful Fate and King Diamond; but
recently I've been getting more into black metal bands like Mayhem and
Darkthrone. Slayer will always reign supreme when it comes to thrash. I just
bought a ticket to see Iron Maiden next year and Megadeth and Anthrax are
opening!! so incresibly stoked for that show!Agree with Plague almost word for word. HA, Merciful Fate and King Diamond,
By Damage Control on Nov 12th 2025 at 11:33pm
bands I haven't thought of in a long time. (Life has been busy lately.)
My overall vote reluctantly goes to Metalica, for the volume of killer songs.
Agree to those who shouted out DIO! And I wholeheartedly agree!! But, like all
the other bands mentioned (Anthrax, MD, JP) just don't have as many KILLER
songs. Great songs sure, but not as many in a single band.
That's just my opinion and maybe because I didn't spend enough time with entire
albums from the above bands, whereas I wore out a few Metalica albums.
Metalica (Lars) really pisses me off sometimes though. I didn't care for the
Black album in particular but that's another conversation.Ah forgot to mention Pantera in the list. Probably forgot others.
By Plague on Nov 14th 2025 at 6:59pm
I agree with Damage Control agreeing with me - hah! I also agree that the first
By Paradoxical_119 on Dec 29th 2025 at 2:25am
4 Metallica albums are completely untouchable. Did you see Dave Mustaine is
"covering" Ride the Lightning on the latest Megadeth album??I go through phases, but I love Tarja-era Nightwish, Blind Guardian, Judas
By Plague on Dec 29th 2025 at 6:16pm
Priest, Iron Maiden, and Amon Amarth are all excellent. My current listening
favorite is Sabaton. I lean towards more melodic stuff, not into super heavy
growly/screamo stuffAre you going to see Iron Maiden at their upcoming tour with Megadeth and
By Samika on Jan 5th 2026 at 12:30am
Anthrax?? I'm so stoked!Stone
The_Inventer posted on Sep 22nd 2025 at 1:16am
From all the operating systems you've ever used, which one stuck out as being
the best at whatever criterias atds
Comments:
By Booch on Sep 22nd 2025 at 11:41pmMy first OS was DOS on an 8088 and used that for a few years. The computer was
By Lime on Sep 23rd 2025 at 5:58am
then upgraded to a 386 with more ram and a larger HDD, still using DOS. I
fondly remember going to the store and buying a box copy of Windows 3.1.
That OS is my favorite of all time. I spent time recently trying to spin up a
DOSbox image of Windows 3.1 with Qmodem (for Windows). The software installed
fine, but it wouldn't run. I'm thinking this install of Qmodem is actually for
Windows 95... oh well.
I did, however, get Telix for Windows installed and running on 3.1. Sadly, it
doesn't handle ANSI escape sequences it doesn't recognize properly. So, I can't
really use it for BBSing. It's fun software, though.
Great memories of my childhood flood back when I spin up Windows 3.1 in DOSbox,
though.
Windows XP is a close 2nd, though. It's solid, works great and doesn't have all
of the unnecessary bells and whistles of today's Windows. The BBS ran for a
while on XP and it ran great. The BBS only moved to Windows 10 out of necessity
with being able to install and use NodeJS.I have to say most times I've spun up a new OS, I've enjoyed - and been
By Coolloop on Sep 24th 2025 at 4:38pm
completely bewildered by - the whole experience. It takes me months or years
to reach proficiency, but feels so good when I get there.
Use a Mac now, have loved MacOS since 98 but started on Win 3.11, love that OS,
By Graehaus on Oct 31st 2025 at 10:07am
had so much fun on the BBS either on Win 3.11 or 95. Good old days.My favourite(I am a Canuck) was a toss up from DOS 5.x and Windows 3.11 on my
By Morlain on Nov 5th 2025 at 4:29pm
386 sx 33 which I ended up with a 486 dx2-66. I use to BBS, Game *I rather the
olld school floopy games).Life was so much easier then.
Probably a toss up between GEM on the old Atari ST or MacOS (classic 7/8 rather
By Fevermario on Nov 16th 2025 at 9:27pm
than OSX), that having been said you can't really beat DOS. The youth of today
could probably work their way around GEM or an old MacOS but I'm not sure how
they'd fair on DOS :D
I realize this is probably a cliche answer , but, Windows XP.
By Dancelot on Jan 2nd 2026 at 8:53am
My first OS was my dad's Windows 98, but a dell laptop with windows XP was the
first computer that was my own. did a lot of fooling around with windows movie
maker.Windows XP & Windows 7 (and maybe Windows 8/8.1 & Windows 10)
but to me my most favrouite OS has to be hands down windows xp, i used it when
i was young and i still use it via VM to use things like windows movie maker.
windows xp is windows perfection to me.
Dancelot posted on Jan 1st 2026 at 10:13pm
my dad passed away a few weeks ago (actually a month ago at this point) and i
have been making nonsensical art to cope with my sadness. what is your coping
mechanism for lost loved ones?
Comments:
By Paradoxical_119 on Jan 2nd 2026 at 4:28amThat's a terrible place to be in, but one we all go through. I lost my mom
By Q33blox on Jan 2nd 2026 at 9:08am
relatively recently, and my dad is well in his mid-70s, so that's also a
thought. Family being together was a huge part of us all getting through it
(she was one of four sisters.) A good mutual support system is the best answer,
in my experience. Lacking that, just... Don't be afraid to lose it and let it
all out for a bit. It sucks and it hurts, but it's far better to let it out and
get it out of the system. Think of it as a cleansing or purge.
I can't help you feel better, but I understand and feel for your situation, and
absolutely wish you the best in getting through an extremely difficult time.
I'm sorry for your loss--I know it is part of life, but that doesn't make it
hurt any less.
I had a very close friend who passed away some years ago, suddenly and
unexpectedly. In the end, talking about them, the feeling of loss, and just
finding the words to artculate the feelings was what helped the most. Hopefully
you can find a way to honor his memory while healing your own soul.
Booch posted on Aug 29th 2025 at 4:26pm
Ocassionally, Usurper stops working and won't load. Thankfully, someone let me
know that it wasn't working. When this happens, the only way to fix it is to
completely reboot the server. Usurper is working again. Sorry for the
trouble... these old games aren't the most stable.
Comments:
By Gotpink on Sep 6th 2025 at 11:24ami think it's broken again. thanks!
By Booch on Sep 7th 2025 at 11:29am
And fixed again! Same issue I'm afraid. Thanks for letting me know!
By Lazy on Oct 27th 2025 at 3:05amIt's broken again ;)
By Varissa on Oct 28th 2025 at 3:34pm
Glad its not just me.
By Booch on Oct 29th 2025 at 9:45amServer is rebooted and Usurper works again!
By Lazy on Nov 28th 2025 at 1:18amAgain pls ;)
By Gotpink on Nov 29th 2025 at 4:48pm
usurper broken again :( tysm
By Booch on Nov 30th 2025 at 7:45pmArgh. Rebooted the system and it's back up.
By Jenkis on Dec 30th 2025 at 12:12amThe thing happened again :(
By Booch on Dec 30th 2025 at 9:04am
Rebooted and it's fixed again. Sorry for the trouble. Old software can be old I
guess :)
Q33blox posted on Dec 10th 2025 at 6:52am
Soulburner has won the game. Can we get a reset and a fresh run?
Comments:
By Booch on Dec 10th 2025 at 8:53amAbsolutely! Congratulations Soulburn - nice job conquering the planetary system
By Plague on Dec 16th 2025 at 10:29am
:)
Planets has been reset! Good luck everyoneIs there any guide floating around about how to play this game? I gave it a
By Q33blox on Dec 17th 2025 at 9:26am
shot last night and it seems fun but I could barely understand what I was
supposed to do besides trade and be cool to baddies trying to block my way to
the next planet!There is a basic overview at planetsteos.20m.com/home.html but the basic loop
By Plague on Dec 17th 2025 at 11:44am
is to make trades, earn credits, upgrade your ship, and try to conquer planets.
It's most fun when you have some friends (and rivals!) in game. Form a cartel
to strengthen your hand, but also beware the possiblility of betrayal from
cartel members!Thanks for the explanation -- sounds fun!!
By Nazeri on Dec 17th 2025 at 12:36pm==Combat==
You will encounter lots of ships while playing the game, some friendly some
not. Fighters and shields are you best friends. Though you can also load
Torpedos Bays when you have spare cash. And when you have more powerful ships
you can conquer planets. A ship has a combat rating. This is how effective your
fighters are at killing enemy fighters.So a 1.1 combat rating means 100
fighters will kill 110 enemy fighters.
Nazeri posted on Dec 17th 2025 at 12:47pm
Planets: The Exploration of Space is a game of trading, combat and conquering
the universe. But it can be a bit daunting on its surface. Here's a tutorial
for anyone who want to get started. We are treating this run of the game as a
Tutorial run, and are playing more friendly than the games requires.
==Beginning==
When you first start you are focused on building up cash. This is needed to
upgrade your ship, move into better ships and eventually afford attacks on
planets or other players. Every ship has a Flight Path. You can move to the
next planet on your Flight Path for one reactor unit. The Flight Path is one
planet for the base number of reactor units. If you upgrade reactor units, it
give you more jumps, but doesn't give more planets on your Flight Path.
Upgrading reactor units and Big Cargo Spaces increase how much trading and
money you can make. And move into better ships as you can afford them.
*ALWAYS END YOUR DAY BY CLOAKING, SEE DEVICE OF CLOAKING BELOW*
==Trading==
The key is to buy cheap and sell for higher. When you are trading, you can see
the prices for the next planet on your flight path. You want something that is
at least 3k more at the next planet. If not, you can instead type in your own
destination. This will skip the next two planets on your flight path, but it
can be better than having no good trades. Buy one of these at a reasonable
price and jump to the corresponding planet. Its usually good for a 6k-8k
profit.
Medical Units > Homeworld
Heating Units > Hothor
Novelty Packs > Tribonia
Ground Weapons > Tribonia
Plastic Trinkets > Baboria
==Ships==
Several plants will let you buy ship upgrades like Reactor Units, Big Cargo
Spaces, Shields and Fighters. Only Earth and Norhaven sell new ships, to
upgrade to a better model. Its good to keep 350k in a bank so if you are killed
you can upgrade into a Maxiport. The better ships requires you to join the
Alliance or Maraken to purchase. In general the Alliance has better ships,
though we'd like to reblanace them at some point. If you are a member of the
Alliance or Maraken, the enemy won't let you land. But you can cloak to skip
the checkpoint and land anyways.
==Combat==
You will encounter lots of ships while playing the game, some friendly some
not. Fighters and shields are you best friends. Though you can also load
Torpedos Bays when you have spare cash. And when you have more powerful ships
you can conquer planets. A ship has a combat rating. This is how effective your
fighters are at killing enemy fighters.So a 1.1 combat rating means 100
fighters will kill 110 enemy fighters.
==Special Items==
Device of Cloaking - Let's you cloak on the level you select. Its good to buy
one at some point of your trading day. That way you can cloak even if you end
your day on a planet that doesn't sell them.
Anti-Cloak Scanner - Fairly Pricey. It lets you scan a single
Comments:
By Q33blox on Dec 17th 2025 at 3:34pmJust to add to this: When trading you always suffer a 10% penalty. So If you
By Nazeri on Dec 17th 2025 at 10:08pm
buy at 100% you will only get 90% back if you sell it again at a planet that
advertises a 100% price (even if it is a different planet.) This isn't an
advertised feature and I think it can vary between different BBSes. So if you
find yourself earning a little less than you expected, that is why.PART TWO. It cut me off before I finished. SEE AGREEMENTS BELOW
==Special Items==
Anti-Cloak Scanners- Fairly pricey about 90k-100k each. Lets you scan a single
Cloaking channel. So it takes multiple to find someone on a planet. If you see
that your Scanners have Interference that means someone is cloaked.
Eden Warp Unit- Purchased from Eden for 25k each. They allow you to instantly
jump to any planet, without using any Reactor Units or skipping any planets on
your Flight Path
Onboard Printing Kit- For 100k each, they can print propaganda that convinces
the people on a planet to destroy some of the fighters protecting it. The more
population, the more fighters they destroy.
Utopia Planetary Defense- These are basically a giant laser (or something),
that fire from a planet when its attacked. Can buy one from WeaponWorld for
5mil but they take a long while to charge when they are installed or after
firing.
Zone Atomic Bomb- Giant bomb to drop on a planet. But they cannot be purchased,
only found randomly.
==Agreements==
We have setup a Trading cartel called Independent Traders. If you join you can
request to be allied with other cartels, so you can visit planets when their
beacons are turned off. Lets you trade unrestricted. But the agreement is you
will not attack planets while a member. IF you want to conquer a planet, leave
the cartel first, or join a different one. The Independent Traders password is
blank.
Bevoir posted on Nov 16th 2025 at 11:59am
Hello and good day fine travellers. I've a quest of a... particular nature
which needs doing. I'm willing to compensate any fine adventurer for their time
*IF* you have what it takes.
I eagerly await your reply.
-Bevoir of House Bevoir, son of Bevoir
Booch posted on Nov 14th 2025 at 2:45pm
Welcome back, Danoise and well done winning the LORD tournament!
Also, well done to Jenkis and Nothabib for killing two dragons and making
Veteran rank!
The next tournament begins soon: Sunday, Nov 16th!
Comments:
By Habib on Nov 14th 2025 at 2:59pmCongrats Danoise and GG's all!
By Plague on Nov 14th 2025 at 7:01pmCongratulations!!
Thesalonius posted on Nov 9th 2025 at 9:43am
I think this round of Exitilus has run its course. My character glitched out a
long time ago to where there were two to three clones of him out there that
were all feeding their daily income and xp to me. More recently something
happened that apparently gave me unlimited high xp, which made it so I could
max out all stats and become undefeatable (I'm able to defeat a lvl 800 player
with my lvl 600, for example).
Sidebar unrelated to the glitching: I don't get the whole Megabozz quest. Even
completely maxed out (30k in every stat and with the maximum weapons and armor)
there's no way possible to get past even the first day (out of seven) of the
quest.
Anyway... how do my fellow Exitilus players feel about wiping the game?
Comments:
By Thesalonius on Nov 9th 2025 at 9:44amThis is, of course, about 2.05.
By Booch on Nov 9th 2025 at 2:11pm
We can do a full restart unless anyone is opposed.
By Lazy on Nov 11th 2025 at 2:19amI'll cry every day for loosing all my gold. ;)
Booch posted on Oct 5th 2025 at 9:38pm
LORD Extreme has been reset! Congratulations to Got*ink for killing a TON
(literally) of dragons! (I've starred out the 'p' in the name. I don't want to
be potentially offensive to anyone. So, there it is.)
Anyway, I may have accidentally released like... 20+ dragons into the realm.
Sorry about that...
Good luck!
Comments:
By Damage Control on Oct 5th 2025 at 11:29pmCongrats, GP!!! WOOT!!!
By Gotpink on Oct 6th 2025 at 5:14am
thank you!!! i have no desire to ever keep up that pace again. so an early
congrats to the next winner!
Booch posted on Sep 10th 2025 at 12:14am
Congratulations to Rotorek for winning the LORD tournament! That was quite an
advancement from level 10 to 11, then to killing the dragon right away after
getting to level 12!
The next LORD tournament starts Saturday, September 13th!
New prize offerings will be posted soon!
Comments:
By Lime on Sep 11th 2025 at 11:42pmVery skills.
By Damage Control on Sep 12th 2025 at 1:40am
Congrats Rotorek!
By Booch on Sep 12th 2025 at 4:50pm
Prizes have just been published on the BBS website and Facebook!
By Rotorek on Sep 14th 2025 at 3:08pmThank you. It was fun. I raced against Imperial and Jade, it was really
By Rotorek on Sep 14th 2025 at 3:23pmThank you to everyone who participated in the tournament. It was fun.
Lazy posted on Aug 24th 2025 at 11:04am
This is a complaint! Every Day someone broke in my room in Lord Tournaments
Inn. The Barkeeper is unable to help and just offers my some kind of "Drinks"
to take my last diamonds. This all started when they invented this damn
electronic locks, so these individuals are some kind of hackers.
I'll leave a bad comment on trip advisor! 0 stars!
But the nature is great! Won't recommend camping there.
Comments:
By Lazy on Aug 24th 2025 at 11:10amOh and i talked to Mrs. Grizelda about this!!!! Won't recommend!
By Booch on Aug 29th 2025 at 9:42amI'm suspicious of the bartender. I was having a drink when I noticed a shady
exchange between the bartender and a cloaked adventurer. I saw the adventurer
hand the bartender a sum of gold much higher than the cost of a room at the
Inn. The bartender handed him a key and the adventurer quickly departed
upstairs. Could this be bribery?
Booch posted on Aug 23rd 2025 at 9:10am
The BBS was down for several hours today following a storm that went through
the area. Everything is back up and running now. Thanks for your patience,
everyone!
Comments:
By Grenache on Aug 25th 2025 at 10:05pmThanks for the explanation. I wondered what was going on.
Booch posted on Jul 31st 2025 at 10:13pm
A new portal has opened in the Mages Guild to Stack'Em, a tetris clone!
This new door game supports both ANSI and RIP. The RIP graphics look amazing!
If viewing using RIP, please use RIPterm 1.54. Among the RIP BBS clients I've
tested, this is the only one that works.
Damage Control posted on Jul 10th 2025 at 10:33pm
Contrats, Maniac, on your first LORD win! 30 dragon kills!!
Comments:
By Damage Control on Jul 10th 2025 at 10:35pmDid I really spell that word wrong twice??? Congrats, Maniac!
By Grenache on Jul 11th 2025 at 6:26amI have never played LORD - maybe oneday.
Spinash posted on May 26th 2025 at 4:19pm
Did you used to use these back in the days or discovered it after it's era like
me?
Comments:
By Booch on May 28th 2025 at 9:05amI was a teenager in the 90's and learned about BBSes then before the Internet
By The_Inventer on May 30th 2025 at 2:47am
became available. I believe my friend showed me a BBS for the first time from
his home. It was very exciting to be able to connect to another system and post
a message, chat, play games and download files.I discovered them WAAAY after their heyday in the 80s and early 90s, something
By Grenache on Jun 7th 2025 at 1:25am
like a year ago.
I don't know how or why I got interested in them. Probably was googling a way
to browse the internet on older machines and discovered the concept of BBSs. I
knew about them for a few years by then, but I somehow couldn't fathom that
they are still in active use or accessible by almost any computer ever made,
even an HP 48G pocket calculator. This accessibility really made me interested
in BBS's and without BBS's I wouldn't know what to do with some of my machines
now, they give them somewhat a reason to exist in this day and age of
communication.
Though this journey took a few weeks or even months, since I had no previous
knowledge about them and it was daunting to learn all this new stuff. Telnet,
SSH, terminal programs, how datatransmission with Z or Y modems works, how
ASCII code works, transmitting text data via serial, ...
It's fun to think now how modern web browsers are just more sophisticated
terminals. I would've never made that connection if it weren't for BBSs!
I was in my mid 20s in the early 90's when modems and ISPs became a thing for
By Graehaus on Jun 11th 2025 at 4:49am
home hobbyists. The international aspects were especially appealing, and I
loved reading the newsgroups that were available, plus playing some doors and
tying up my home phone line for 4-5 hours at a time, which drove my wife crazy
since she couldn't get through to me from her work, and no-one had mobile
phones then. BBSs just seemed like a cool way to make new penfriends at a time
when I couldn't afford to travel. I still keep in touch with someone I met in
America in the early 90s via a BBS sports newsgroup.
Knew about them from dear friend, who set me upp in the late 80s/early 90's
By Gigastyrant on Jun 20th 2025 at 7:53am
with a C=64and a 1200 baud modem andsurfed the local BBS's. Loved that machine
, even to this day.
This BBS, I just came across it, while looking for infoon old Door GamesI loved
to play on those CitadelBBS'sIuse to cruise.What afind.
Apologiesfor my poor typing, myold ryrs are not so good.I first learned about bulletin boards back in the early '90s at school during
By Jamaica Joe on Jun 21st 2025 at 10:11pm
recess. I joined a computer club and folks there were talking about BBS. I
started with a 1200 baud modem and used to stay up all night connecting to as
many as I could find.My dad got me an IBM PC Jr in the early-mid 80s, had a 300 baud modem on it. Having watched Wargames, I kind of knew what a modem
was and somehow found a bbs list. Called my first board I still remember to this day, The Hidden Canyon. The sound of the modem
connecting, and the knowing that what was on my screen was from another computer had me hooked.
agster posted on May 11th 2025 at 1:34pm
Hey just started a new game. Would love to get 4 players!
-Ag
Comments:
By Jamaica Joe on Jun 18th 2025 at 10:16pmI will play as many games as you create! Love that game.
Booch posted on Jun 5th 2025 at 1:03pm
The Realm of Serion's cosysop, Kernelpanic (Nighthawk), has won the LORD
Tournament! Congratulations!
Nighthawk made good time with whoopin' 3 dragons. This tournament was a close
one. Imperial was close behind. Well done, Imperial!
The next LORD Tournament will begin Wednesday, June 11th! The website will be
updated with these details at some point as well with a new selection of prize
options!
Comments:
By Dimmi on Jun 5th 2025 at 1:12pmCongratulations! Well done!
By Nighthawk on Jun 5th 2025 at 9:43pmi think its been 17 years since i won a tourney!
By Rotorek on Jun 6th 2025 at 4:22pmCongratulation Nighthawk!
By Damage Control on Jun 6th 2025 at 11:09pm
Congrats! 17 years, eh? Well then I'm glad to have donated so much experience
By Gotpink on Jun 8th 2025 at 12:24pm
to your cause ;)
Congrats nighthawk! does anyone know when the game will be reset?
By Maniac on Jun 8th 2025 at 2:14pm
Nice one!
By Lime on Jun 10th 2025 at 5:51am> The next LORD Tournament will begin Wednesday, June 11th!
By Lime on Jun 10th 2025 at 5:51amGreat job Nighthawk :-)
Glabrezuius posted on May 10th 2025 at 4:24pm
It's hung when you choose option 3 from the warrior menu. Stuck on loading?
Vallidor posted on May 7th 2025 at 5:48am
I'm using Syncterm 1.6 on Linux and followed the instructions on the website to
enable RIP support (v1), but I get nothing when trying to login or in LORD.
Is there another trick to it?
Comments:
By Booch on May 7th 2025 at 9:55amHmm, that's strange. It works for me, though I'm using Windows. It might not
hurt to reach out to the author, Deuce, and see if he has any recommendations.
Might be a Linux quirk, might not be.
Kernelpanic posted on Mar 26th 2025 at 8:12pm
Hello its time to reset Usurper, it needs it about every year or so and the
current game is well over 12 months. I'm planning to do this at the end of the
week so plan to start new characters Saturday!
-KP
Comments:
By Glabrezuius on Apr 25th 2025 at 2:44pmA1!
Alys posted on Apr 12th 2025 at 6:17pm
what are the main differences between the different versions of LORD?
Comments:
By Booch on Apr 16th 2025 at 1:40pmLORD Tournament has no IGMs and settings tuned for fair play and offers prizes
By Alys on Apr 16th 2025 at 6:57pm
to the one who can win the tournament!
Extreme LORD has many IGMs and less restrictive settings for more free and
rapid play, such as advancing stats, gold and levels much more quickly than the
tournament. Also, the tournament is 3 heroic deeds (dragon kills). Extreme is
20, I believe.What are IGMs?
By Booch on Apr 18th 2025 at 8:17amIGMs (In Game Modules) are kind of mini games inside of LORD. In Extreme LORD,
from the main menu, select 'O' for Other Places to see a list of IGMs. They are
known for boosting stats and provide some spice a variety to LORD. Check them
out!
Booch posted on Mar 27th 2025 at 11:43am
Congratulations to Jleap for winning Extreme LORD!
20 dragons, wow. I would think that if any other dragons catch sight of Jleap,
they will tuck tail and run.
Extreme LORD has been reset! Good luck everyone that joins!
Comments:
By Jleap on Mar 28th 2025 at 2:28amThanks Booch! I had a blast playing this round! :)
Might posted on Mar 2nd 2025 at 10:46pm
As the title says, frozen on load again. Lorum Ipsum, 100 characters.
Comments:
By Booch on Mar 3rd 2025 at 8:22amThanks for the heads up. Usurper is up and running again.
By Might on Mar 19th 2025 at 5:22amAnnnnd again :-)
Thanks :)
Booch posted on Mar 9th 2025 at 6:39pm
Congratulations to Lupin for completing 3 heroic deeds and winning the LORD
Tournament! Well done!
Also, congratulations to Hera for achieving Veteran rank!
This tournament was a close one with some others right there at the end.
The next LORD Tournament begins Wednesday, March 12th!
Comments:
By Penguinberry on Mar 10th 2025 at 12:13pmCongrats Lupin!
By Lime on Mar 11th 2025 at 4:11amCongrazzzz
By Lupin on Mar 11th 2025 at 9:56amThank you. Ill rest a little and in the future ill come back to kill this
By Booch on Mar 12th 2025 at 8:35am
dragon again.The LORD Tournament has started! Good luck everyone!
Doomii_Blue posted on Mar 2nd 2025 at 3:14am
For some unknown reason, i can not connect to the t0kerz hut BBS, is it
shutdown? or am i having a connection problem, i can connect to any other BBS
just fine
Comments:
By Booch on Mar 3rd 2025 at 10:23amI also tried connecting to the BBS and do not get through.
By Doomii_Blue on Mar 5th 2025 at 11:31amStrange
By Booch on Mar 7th 2025 at 3:06pm
I tried it again and the BBS is back up.
By Doomii_Blue on Mar 8th 2025 at 3:21amYes i have also seen it has back.
Zeroflag posted on Feb 25th 2025 at 7:05am
Hi,
When I start LORD using SyncTERM with RIP enabled, it says I need to download
an icon pack first. But pressing the download button doesn't work.
I found a LORDICON.ZIP file on the internet, and put it under .syncterm/icons
but I still got the same error when starting the game.
Has anyone managed to make this work?
Comments:
By Booch on Feb 25th 2025 at 9:47amIt's awesome you're checking out the BBS in RIP! I recommend getting in contact
By Zeroflag on Feb 25th 2025 at 10:48am
with the author of Syncterm to find out where to put the RIP icons. It's not an
intuitive location at all... something like
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\SyncTERM\ ???
An alternative you could consider is using a ready packed RIPterm setup instead
that uses DOSbox. It comes with the LORD icons, so LORD RIP will
work right out of the box. Info is here: https://serionbbs.com/rip-bbsThanks for the answer. I managed to find out the correct directory.
By Booch on Feb 27th 2025 at 11:44am
I use Linux and my Syncterm looks for the rip graphics under:
~/.cache/syncterm/Serion/RIP/
I put it there, and now it all works.Good to hear it's working now!
Booch posted on Feb 24th 2025 at 11:38am
Soulburn has dominated Planets: The Exploration of Space.
I would like to reset the game and start fresh. Would that be ok?
Comments:
By Gromas on Feb 25th 2025 at 8:37pmyes please
By Booch on Feb 26th 2025 at 2:59pm
Ok! Planets has been reset! Good luck everyone!
By Soulburn on Feb 26th 2025 at 9:48pmTanks for all!
Booch posted on Jan 28th 2025 at 11:33am
After years of running, unfortunately Exitilus 3.17 needed to be reset due to
unrecoverable player data corruption.
Enjoy the fresh reset and good luck everyone that joins!
Comments:
By The1sttk on Jan 28th 2025 at 10:06pmcrap
By Miles Teg on Feb 21st 2025 at 7:35pm
I cant count the times exitilus 3.17 ate my character. Is the code still
maintained ?
Graehaus posted on Feb 1st 2025 at 10:20am
Hi, Something weird has hapopened to my Character (Graehaus), I went and did
Other Places with The Changling. A Debug screen showed up, and I tried to get
out of it, And I messed up my character. Not to cheat, just to get out of it,
in fear of screwing the whole thing up. My character has a Negative hitpoints.
I can not play the game. A shame I had a couple 100 million build up in the
Bank. I just want to get back to play.
Comments:
By Jleap on Feb 2nd 2025 at 7:47pmHey Graehaus, this is one of the 'Bad Things' that can happen when you
By Graehaus on Feb 3rd 2025 at 5:28am
encounter the Changeling in the forest. If your Hit Points are still negative,
you can fix them by visiting the Counselling Services in 'Lord Life'. I have
sent you a little gold to help you get back in the game! :)
Thank you, I'll try that.
By Graehaus on Feb 3rd 2025 at 6:02am
Just tried Lord Life and it freezes up nd freeze til I disconnect. Might be a conection issue. I use Netrunner and the website
By Penguinberry on Feb 3rd 2025 at 6:12am
telnet I guess. hmm, will work at it some more.Hi! Just a note that I can't access Lord Life either, not sure what the issue
By Jleap on Feb 4th 2025 at 6:15am
is. Same thing happens, it just hangs until I disconnect.Hmm...weird. Everything is working fine for me. Not too sure what the problem
By Graehaus on Feb 5th 2025 at 4:05am
could be.That is odd, hmm. I'll keep on it.
By Booch on Feb 5th 2025 at 10:21am
I have restored Lord Life from an old backup. Hopefully this fixes the issue.
By Graehaus on Feb 5th 2025 at 1:26pmIt worked, thank you very much to all involved. See you in the game :)
By Booch on Feb 5th 2025 at 2:45pm
That's great news! I'm sorry to everyone that made progress in Lord Life as
By Penguinberry on Feb 6th 2025 at 8:00am
that progress has been wiped out. These old 16 bit programs have issues from
time to time. Sometimes, the only way to fix them is to restore from backup and
start clean.Worked for me too! Thanks so much!