Twi posted on Aug 9th 2026 at 4:14am

Planets: Teos Reset And Tournament

Hi everyone,
The Planets: TEOS game has been running for a while and only has 3 players with
2 players controlling the whole game, without real possibilities of anyone
being able to catchup or change the status quo.
Therefor I would suggest a reset of the game, to let new players come in and to
reset the status quo to make the game more interesting.
Also, perhaps it would be possible to try and run a tournament?
With, for example, a cartel or person owning, for example, anywhere between
10-15 planets being declared the winner and causing a new reset?
Personally, I believe 10 planets to be a good limit if there are several people
playing, as when someone gets to 13-15 it is not possible for anyone to really
catch up.
If some kind of donation is required for a small price to run TEOS as a
tournament, perhaps the sysadmin could weight in what they feel would be
necessary, and perhaps interested players could pitch in?
It would be nice to have another active game, and TEOS becomes very interesting
in the mid-end game if there are enough people playing and fighting over
planets.
What do you think?

Thank you!

Comments:

By Booch on Aug 9th 2026 at 1:49pm

Sounds great! I can certainly reset Planets and host a tournament for the game
as well. I just want to make sure there is interest in the game first before
hosting the tournament. Whatever rules you all decide on for winning is good
with me. Who's interested?

By Uglyclone on Aug 10th 2026 at 6:50am

I'm interested! tournament sounds like fun!

By Tenticle on Aug 10th 2026 at 9:22am

I'm up for it.

By Q33blox on Aug 10th 2026 at 10:38am

I think we could bring a few back for a competitve run!

By Lime on Aug 12th 2026 at 1:40am

Yay competition!

By Booch on Aug 12th 2026 at 9:15am

Ok, when would you all like the reset? It can be as soon as tonight at
midnight.

By Twi on Aug 12th 2026 at 1:13pm

Perhaps it would be good to give time to people to get ready, TEOS in the end
has an important player against player component, and you want to have everyone
starting on even terms and not starting late against other players.
So perhaps put something like next saturday-sunday-monday to give people time?

By Q33blox on Aug 13th 2026 at 9:19am

Are we going to try and declare cartels/teams in advance (to try and balance
things) or are we going YOLO and seeing where the chips fall. I'm tempted to
lean toward setting a roster before the start, to limit the potential for
backstabbing.

I'm all for dirty tricks in a regular run, but if we are trying to run a
tournament style thing, we probably should have some ground rules (also a
prohibition on duplicate accounts, similar to LORD Tournamnt)

By Twi on Aug 13th 2026 at 12:32pm

One account per person would indeed be a fair thing.
Regarding Cartels, i think it all depends on how many people are going to play.
Personally, since there are not that many players, I would limit Cartels to 2-3
players/people per Cartel, as to allow some team play but not create one
dominant force. If there are, lets say, 10 players only, then having large
cartels does not make a lot of sense, since it would create a very stagnant
enviornment.
Then again, if you set a win condition that happens "early enough", like a
relatively low amount of planets owned by any Cartel, I guess you could YOLO it
once and see where things land, as long as it gets reset early enough if things
do not work out.

By Twi on Aug 16th 2026 at 4:18am

In all cases, maybe we can just YOLO this, and ask people to respect 1 account
per person, and see how it goes, and ask the admins to give us 1 week of notice
on the reset? In all cases, the game needs a reset to give new entries and
freshen things up in my opinion.

By Booch on Aug 17th 2026 at 10:28am

Sounds good. Let's plan on a reset on Monday, August 24th! If you all would
prefer sooner, let me know.

By Anxarcule on Aug 17th 2026 at 11:31am

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Dancelot posted on Aug 6th 2026 at 7:17pm

What Do You Guys Think Of Uzbekistan?

me and my relatives went to uzbekistan for a 10 day vacation to see my uncle
and i have to say. uzbekistan is a very colorful & fun place. there's a lot of
stuff in uzbekistan that is just worth seeing. especially the registan square
in semerkant. what is your opinion on uzbekistan guys? i like uzbekistan it's
colorful & fun and it's people are nice. but i want to hear what you guys
think.

Falafalafocus posted on Aug 7th 2026 at 9:42am

Is Trade Wars Down?

Won't kick past the front page since baout 7:00 am EST for me.

Comments:

By Falafalafocus on Aug 7th 2026 at 12:18pm

Nevermind. It's up.

Dravenheart posted on Jul 7th 2026 at 2:55pm

Returning To The Realm

Greetings fellow warriors, mages and adventurers!

Dravenheart here and back again after a very long hiatus due to life. Hope all
is well with everyone! Still residing in the woods of Northern Wisconsin. :)

Comments:

By Booch on Jul 8th 2026 at 2:35pm

Welcome back, Dravenheart!

By Dravenheart on Jul 22nd 2026 at 2:31pm

Thank you so much Booch! Life really has been a thing. lol I'll be back up in
your neck of the woods more regularly soon as the paladin-in-training (kiddo)
has a lot of upcoming specialist appointments and surgery and post surgery
appointments.

The_Inventer posted on Sep 22nd 2025 at 1:16am

What Is Your Most Favorite Operating System You've Used

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 11:41pm

My first OS was DOS on an 8088 and used that for a few years. The computer was
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.

By Lime on Sep 23rd 2025 at 5:58am

I have to say most times I've spun up a new OS, I've enjoyed - and been
completely bewildered by - the whole experience. It takes me months or years
to reach proficiency, but feels so good when I get there.

By Coolloop on Sep 24th 2025 at 4:38pm

Use a Mac now, have loved MacOS since 98 but started on Win 3.11, love that OS,
had so much fun on the BBS either on Win 3.11 or 95. Good old days.

By Graehaus on Oct 31st 2025 at 10:07am

My favourite(I am a Canuck) was a toss up from DOS 5.x and Windows 3.11 on my
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.

By Morlain on Nov 5th 2025 at 4:29pm

Probably a toss up between GEM on the old Atari ST or MacOS (classic 7/8 rather
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

By Fevermario on Nov 16th 2025 at 9:27pm

I realize this is probably a cliche answer , but, Windows XP.

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.

By Dancelot on Jan 2nd 2026 at 8:53am

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.

By Lily on Jan 27th 2026 at 10:46pm

Windows 11 because I'm not that into software lol

By Arthurius on Feb 13th 2026 at 2:32pm

WFW 3.11 was my favorite because it let me play Dungeon Keeper across an IPX
network in my apartment, and still let me play classic adventure games from
Sierra.

By Pulsar8 on Mar 21st 2026 at 2:49pm

Windows XP, so much memories and new features!

By Ironbloom on May 3rd 2026 at 11:41am

Maybe I'll get hate, but MacOS. Back in the day I used to do a lot of music
production and even now I'm a video editor. I think their system just works and
is less full of the bloat that comes with Windows. I use Windows 10 for gaming
(Hell Let Loose) but I want to switch that machine to Linux after SSD prices
come down.

By Condor on May 21st 2026 at 3:29pm

Windows XP, absolutely. It is almost a perfect balance between the old days and
the modern era, when things still had charm, yet were modern at the same time.

By Argi on May 23rd 2026 at 8:22am

xp absolutely!

By Reaper82 on May 30th 2026 at 12:57pm

I quite enjoyed Windows 2000, it was like a Windows 98 that actually worked and
without the Fisher Price feel of XP. Sadly it didn't have a ton of driver
support and we didn't get another "good" version until 7. But generally I find
things I like and don't about each version. Bring back moveable start bar for
W11 please!

By Ashtra on Jun 1st 2026 at 11:24pm

I would say my most favorite operating system i have ever used would have been
windows 10, it was the first operating system i have used (a early 2015 build)
when i was really young. The machine was an old hp mini machine with an atom
processor and i remember it vividly. Probably a second contendor would be linux
but that's too much rambling :3

By Neidnex on Jun 14th 2026 at 6:01am

My favorite operative system is Woidnows XP service pack 2. It was my first OS,
and I played Space Cadet almost all day everyday, while my family would play
Tekken 3 on PlayStation. :D

By Liv_Malum on Jul 8th 2026 at 3:22pm

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By Facades on Jul 12th 2026 at 8:02pm

Arch linux also, but I remember fucking up my 2001 hand me down laptop bricking
it from not actually knowing how to install it, I hid that laptop for a year as
I had 0 idea how to fix it. My "fix" was to install linux mint.

By Voltan on Jul 13th 2026 at 7:20am

Currently it is Linux (Debian 12). My window manager is Enhanced Motif. Pretty
much everything I need.


NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP is a close second along with earlier MacOS X releases.

By Dbnet18 on Jul 13th 2026 at 4:34pm

I am a fan personally of Mint Linux (although ParrotOS is good too for my
work). Most of my life though i've used windows. I personally think the last
good Windows OS was Windows XP/SP2 (propbably because I had a 15 year old
hand-me-down from 2002 that I had used for moos of my life ;P )[M =$[M#=$[M
>$[M#>$

Dancelot posted on Jun 25th 2026 at 7:46pm

How's Everyone?

i haven't posted something here in a long time (busy with life stuff) anyway,
how's anyone's day?

Comments:

By Booch on Jun 26th 2026 at 8:43am

It's going alright. Been enjoying the mild summer here but need to get out and
use the grill more :)

By Ashtra on Jun 28th 2026 at 10:24am

It's going okay :3 i got a new job and i am happy about it, what sucks is that
it starts at 6 am in the morning and that takes part of my evening away when i
would usually be staying up late.. but it's fun and i don't get to interact w/
people much doing my job so it's a win :3

By Dancelot on Jun 30th 2026 at 8:23pm

cool! i'm also doing fine. well at least trying to be fine. (dealing with a
passing is literally not easy). i've been trying to do a passion project on RPG
Maker 2000 based on an obscure game that cleverly uses default assets. and also
doing some multimedia art things like video editing photo editing music
composing etc etc and i want to properly get to drawing since i got a tablet
with a pen. so yea. trying to be fine. i guess.

By Dbnet18 on Jul 11th 2026 at 1:48pm

I hope all is well dancelot! I'm doing alright so far but i've been busy with
school. It's nice to meet you all!

Neidnex posted on Jun 20th 2026 at 6:16pm

About Doormud And How Awesome It Is

Hi all. I am right now level 4 in DoorMUD, and I really enjoy playing it. Yeah,
in the beginning, sometimes I got lost, and I open maps on my Android to get
into it... but not anymore. Once you learn to read important texts and learn to
watch MAP, you can never get lost again. What buyed me the most is that even if
you reach 0 Monster Fights, you can still battle monsters but you will not gain
experience until server's 00:00AM daily reset which is so so awesome to me. I
really like this game and watching how much damage I did and how much damage
monster did... numbers are addicting. I don't know if I am allowed to tell you
this secret, but there are rooms you can't see on the map. Awesome little game
hidden in the vintage tech, if I may call it. That's all I wanted to share in
excitement. See ya! ^_^

Comments:

By Coolloop on Jun 22nd 2026 at 4:10pm

I was really in to that doorgame, it is fantastic, like playing in an
interactive book, i only stopped playing because of time, im playing so many
other doors, wish there was more time in a day lol.

By Neidnex on Jun 30th 2026 at 9:16pm

That's definitelly true :D

Booch posted on Jun 22nd 2026 at 4:06pm

Lord Tournament Won! Next Tournament Begins June 24th!

Congratulations to Unknowinglybadd for winning the LORD Tournament! Those
dragons didn't stand a chance. The townsfolk rejoice for the heroic felling of
the last dragon. Well done!

I'm going to update ranks and figure out prize stuff. The next LORD Tournament
will begin on Wednesday June 24th!

Comments:

By Q33blox on Jun 22nd 2026 at 9:07pm

Congratulations and well played!

By Bagatyr on Jun 22nd 2026 at 10:10pm

Thanks, first DK was very lucky quick. After that had to just play with the
lowest risk possible to maintain the lead. However, I was getting worried at
end when I seen serial coming for it. I didn't get nearly the magic doubler as
the first time, guess we can't be lucky all the time ;) rng

By Crispiecritter on Jun 23rd 2026 at 2:18am

Congrats man, you flew ahead this round.

By Booch on Jun 23rd 2026 at 11:37am

Congratulations to the following players ranking up!

Bagatyr - Avatar!
Q33Blox - Veteran
Nazeri - Veteran

Well done!

Neidnex posted on Jun 19th 2026 at 11:09am

This Is So Awesome!

Hello. I am writing You from my other laptop - Linux Puppy, and I use Wine to
launch SyncTerm.

My laptop have:

900mhz Single Core Processor

2gb RAM

Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM(128mb VRAM)


And I am so happy it actually works!

Archnix posted on Apr 27th 2026 at 1:16pm

Grill Season Is Starting Soon Over Here, What's Your Go-To?

What do you peeps usually make when bbq/grill season comes around?
I usually go for any kind of ribs or steaks with coleslaw/potato sallad.

Then again people over here are sold on sausages too (I usually go for the
cheese filled variant), but i kind of consider that more as a snack for late
evenings by the lake.

Comments:

By Booch on Apr 27th 2026 at 8:35pm

We usually rotate burgers, pork chops and steaks. Mmmmmm..... :)

By Uglyclone on May 1st 2026 at 4:49am

hot dogs! affordable and tasty

By Coolloop on Jun 1st 2026 at 4:02pm

This post makes me hungry

Yeah posted on Apr 27th 2026 at 4:19am

How Do I Fix Negative Hp In Lord?

i have tried to run the first door game but it never loads. My HP are stuck in
negative :S

Comments:

By Booch on Apr 27th 2026 at 8:34pm

I tested the 1st game (tournament LORD) and was able to get in immediately.
What BBS client are you using?

With your HP stuck in the negative, are you talking about the 2nd LORD game,
Extreme LORD? If that's the case, you must have visited the Changeling in other
places. It can curse your character to have negative stats. To fix that, load
up LORD Life in other places. There's an option there to convert negative stats
to positive. So, there is a synergy between the Changeling and LORD Life. If
you get cursed to negative stats from the Changeling, the negative numbers will
be huge. Then, if you go into LORD Life and get those numbers changed to
positive, the benefit is HUGE.

By Yeah on Apr 28th 2026 at 4:42am

thank you, will give it a go. I am using ICT_TERM as a client, will try with
another!

By Yeah on Apr 28th 2026 at 4:57am

No luck.. oh well..
Selecting Lord Life shows the "HOLD ON.." and "OpenDoors 5.00" messages but
nothing else, waiting or hitting the keyboard does nothing.

I am on a mac and have tried two clients ICY term and SyncTERM. Every other
menu item has no issues, just Lord Life doesnt want to play ball. I could not
load it even in the previous game round.

Thanks for trying to help, will just sit out this round of extreme mode and
stick to tournament!

By Booch on Apr 28th 2026 at 10:12am

Bummer. Yeah I use syncterm myself and that should work fine. I tested entering
LORD Life and it loaded up fine.

I fixed your hitpoints by hand, so that's good to go. I also deleted your
character in LORD Life, so maybe that'll fix the problem with you not being
able to enter. Maybe give it another shot and let me know if that fixed the
problem.

By Yeah on Apr 29th 2026 at 6:07am

thanks Booch, Lord Life still just freezes for me. I think ill wait till next
round of extreme regardless.

I think ill use the time to check out some of the other games ;)

Appreciate you helping

By Booch on Apr 30th 2026 at 9:49am

Sounds good! Bummer that it's still not working... this old 16 software can be
quirky

By Q33blox on Apr 30th 2026 at 10:40am

By chance , were you holding onto a mountain of cash? I believe there is an
undocumented bug thst resets your player if you go ovr $2b in the bank.


/z

By Yeah on May 5th 2026 at 8:04pm

Hey there, no mountain of cash at the time.
Hitting that bug would be a goal of mine at some point though haha

Booch posted on Apr 13th 2026 at 8:45am

Lord Tournament Won! New Tournament Begins April 15th!

Congratulations to CrispieCritter, the dragon slayer and hero of the townsfolk!
Enjoy your rank promotion to Avatar!
This was a close tournament fight and others have ranked up as well:
Nazeri - Champion
Samika - Veteran
Renegade - Veteran

This was a great tournament! The next one begins Wednesday, April 15th! Good
luck everyone that joins!

Comments:

By Nazeri on Apr 13th 2026 at 7:24pm

Need to add CrispieCritter to the Avatars of the Realm list.

By Q33blox on Apr 13th 2026 at 8:48pm

Congratulations Crispiecritter!

By Crispiecritter on Apr 13th 2026 at 11:04pm

Thanks!I

By Crispiecritter on Apr 14th 2026 at 2:39am

I thought Nazeri was going to catch me at the end there but just got away with
it

By Booch on Apr 14th 2026 at 5:09pm

Nazeri: Yep, that is one of a number of things I am still working on to get
ready for the next tournament

By Nazeri on Apr 14th 2026 at 6:37pm

Crispiecritter: I had a few days in a row in the middle of third round I
couldn't log on. That set back was just enough to stop me from overcoming you.
Well done!

By Crispiecritter on Apr 15th 2026 at 5:21am

Dang, that sucks. Next Tourney, it's on :-P

Volksie99 posted on Mar 15th 2026 at 7:11pm

Reset Extreme L.O.R.D.

@SYSOP - can you please reset Extreme L.O.R.D.? Thanks

Comments:

By Booch on Mar 16th 2026 at 9:05am

Got it! Extreme LORD has been reset.

Good luck everyone!

Nazeri posted on Mar 2nd 2026 at 11:21pm

New Game Unlocked!

NEW GAME MODE. All the cartels on Planets: TEOS are destroyed. Players dead.
All the planets have been left open and defenseless. Only one planet remains
guarded. You want to WIN? Come and Kill the Master of Orion.

If you died in TEOS and left, here is your chance to return on equal footing
with everyone else.

Comments:

By Nazeri on Mar 2nd 2026 at 11:42pm

I will not protect any planets.
I will not take any planets.
I will not attack any players.
I will end every day on Orion.

Nazeri posted on Feb 23rd 2026 at 1:58pm

Updating Teos Settings

I think all of us would enjoy having Teos be a more competitive, interactive
and engaging experience. The early game is great. But as time goes on it has a
tendancy to become one sided or unbalanced in several ways. A good example is
how several ships seem to be fairly useless and never purchased.

But I don't think this bulletin board is a great place for these discussions.
For example, posting updated ships or planets would potentially be long and
unweidly in this format. I personally don't think Teos is more than a few weeks
or a month away from a potential winner. Once cartel hostilities break out we
will have a winner fairly quickly.

Suggestions on where we can discuss, collaborate, share files?

Comments:

By Q33blox on Feb 25th 2026 at 6:11pm

I ahve used a bunch of different platforms for various projects, but for
someething like this, maybe discord and google drive? keyBase was cool, but may
be overkill for this scope ofnwork

By Nazeri on Feb 26th 2026 at 1:24am

Discord could be a great solution. Get Booch or some to create one for the
server. I'm know how to adming discord servers.

By Thaifish on Feb 26th 2026 at 3:39pm

discord works. if it doesn't do live app sharing, i think a google sheets that
is shared with all members is vital to ensure we collaborate on the same data.

By Booch on Feb 27th 2026 at 11:21am

Ok, I've started a Discord server for collaboration. I will send mail on the
BBS to each of you with an invite link. If anyone else is interested in joining
the Discord server, please mail me.

Booch posted on Feb 24th 2026 at 11:43am

Fixed Longstanding Bug With Oracle Weather Forecast

I've noticed as well as other users the odd inaccuracy of the weather forecast
ability the Oracle provides. I thought it was due to inaccuracy of the weather
forecast data, but it was due to the wrong latitude always being provided to
the API call. This is fixed now, so you should see accurate weather forecast
information now :)

Paradoxical_119 posted on Feb 4th 2026 at 12:19am

Teos Might Be Messed Up

Not sure how it happens, but I have -2,000,000,000 funds somehow. xD Literally
can't do anything

Comments:

By Thaifish on Feb 4th 2026 at 9:57am

debt cllectors are a bitch! lol

but agree, something is not quite riht

By Paradoxical_119 on Feb 5th 2026 at 12:14am

Yeah... I made a sale, and all of a sudden I was at -2b and couldn't buy
anything lmao. I dunno what to do, might just be sitting this round out xD

By Q33blox on Feb 5th 2026 at 10:01am

Out of curiosity, if you attack a planet and get destroyed by the utopia, does
it clear your debt?

By Paradoxical_119 on Feb 7th 2026 at 12:11am

That's a good question, I have no idea!

By Jexis on Feb 8th 2026 at 3:29pm

I have no idea

By Booch on Feb 9th 2026 at 9:42am

Planets was reset a 2nd time recently. Is there still something wrong?

By Dash on Feb 9th 2026 at 7:29pm

Not that I'm aware of.

By Booch on Feb 9th 2026 at 11:43pm

Ok, good news. If there are any further issues with negative numbers and such,
post on the bulletin and I can take a look!

By Paradoxical_119 on Feb 10th 2026 at 2:41am

Booch: I made a sale and it set my cash to negative 2billion lol.

By Dash on Feb 10th 2026 at 6:56am

Ouch. Did something get corrupted? Sounds like basic math is broken.

By Booch on Feb 10th 2026 at 11:47am

Paradoxical, I checked your player in the editor and it shows a bank balance of
310,330. Is this still a problem?

Thaifish posted on Feb 9th 2026 at 4:10am

Do Ships In Teos Have Special Abilities?

dub question here.....but do certain ships have unique abilities that justify
their cost? if so, that would mak sense; otherwse, amimissing something onwhy
would someone upgrade to the "overpriced" ships?


.....asking for a friend :D

Comments:

By Dash on Feb 9th 2026 at 7:43am

It's mostly a comparison of cargo, fighter, shield, and photon torpedo
capacities along with combat odds and jump reactor charges. Some ships don't
really have a strong point.

By Q33blox on Feb 10th 2026 at 9:32am

Most of the ships do not have a purpose.

Q33blox posted on Jan 31st 2026 at 7:08pm

Teos Reset (again)?

The Honest Trader's Union has an insurmountable lead and so the gameplay is
falling off.

Do yall think it is time to reset the game?

Comments:

By Thaifish on Feb 1st 2026 at 2:33am

Concur! Mighty SYSOPS...please reset for the good of the universe!

By Paradoxical_119 on Feb 1st 2026 at 4:15am

Yep! We won this one, time for next!

By Dash on Feb 1st 2026 at 6:22pm

Agreed.

By Nazeri on Feb 2nd 2026 at 12:03am

We need to modify the planets and ships to reblance the game.

By Booch on Feb 2nd 2026 at 10:16am

You got it! Planets TEOS is reset! Nice job, Honest Trader's Union!

By Dash on Feb 2nd 2026 at 11:14am

Agree /w Nazeri on rebalancing, but that's something that takes planning. What
about a small committee that works on this for the next reset? I'd be happy to
assist. This is Smock in game, btw.

By Nazeri on Feb 2nd 2026 at 2:35pm

I have a redesigned ship stats and a few game settings changes. I don't have
anything for planets yet. But I can recommend a few small changes for this run.

We can discuss more widescale changes. But these settings will at least make
losing a fight not completely crippling.

Bank Limit: 20mil

Increase Utopia Price
WeaponWorld: 50000000 (50 mil)

Personally I'd greatly reduce fighter/shield costs but that might be more
settings changes than the sysop wants to do this go round.

By Booch on Feb 3rd 2026 at 4:20pm

Got it. I've increased the bank limit and increased utopia price at weapon
world to 500% (previously 100%). The fighters and shield prices aren't
outrageous, so I didn't mess with the prices on those.

By Thaifish on Feb 4th 2026 at 9:55am

need t fix utopia....it is showing negativecost. i dont think utopia is off
balance at 5M. no when each point only does 500 attack

By Thaifish on Feb 4th 2026 at 9:59am

this edited version feels a bit like back to the future II! "why is the fence
locked?" haha

By Dash on Feb 4th 2026 at 11:09am

We need to have some discussion about this stuff for the next reset so we can
get some agreement on changes.

By Booch on Feb 4th 2026 at 12:01pm

Ok, I adjusted Weaponworld's Utopia back to what it was. The integer must
overflow at some point.

By Thaifish on Feb 5th 2026 at 3:57am

booch - if youre willing,another reset to classic rules. the mods got squirrely
somehow. poorparadox is in debt purgatory :/

By Uglyclone on Feb 5th 2026 at 4:22am

please reset Planets TEOS. Thaifish was able to purchase the top of the line
ship in a few days (36mm) while the rest of us are floating around in Garbage
Scows..game is broke broke

By Thaifish on Feb 5th 2026 at 8:41am

all true facts....but i wu;d make one edit...they are flying around in the
finest garbage cans!

By Booch on Feb 5th 2026 at 9:58am

Ok, Planets has been reset again. I adjusted max bank to 20 million.

Singe De L'espace posted on Feb 4th 2026 at 12:09pm

Congrats, Taifish, On Winning Teos In 3 Days!

Bro, I don't know how you did it, but the game is essentially over. I had hoped
this reset would last longer than the last one, but you won in 3 days.
Incredible.

Go easy on us next time, yea?

Comments:

By Thaifish on Feb 5th 2026 at 3:55am

lol! yeah, paradoxgor 2B in debt....i snaggd millions....defiiteltyfeels like
Back to the Future! we need one more reset to classic rules....whilea team
decdes what small tweaks need to be made.

By Q33blox on Feb 5th 2026 at 10:04am

The
Exploration
Of
Suddenly unexpected economic changes

Dancelot posted on Jan 1st 2026 at 10:13pm

Coping With Loss

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 4:28am

That's a terrible place to be in, but one we all go through. I lost my mom
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.

By Q33blox on Jan 2nd 2026 at 9:08am

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.

By Graehaus on Jan 27th 2026 at 3:27pm

So sorry for your loss, it takes time, but you will heal.

My loss was a long time friend dyingfrom a severe run of cancer, he'd get
better, then drop, back and forth. To see a school chum witheraway from the
cancer. The worst part about it, is he had no family left, a cousin who died
shortly after he did.
To cope, I remember key points of our friendship, he introduced me to anime, we
had the same tastes, mecha etc. Music was big, Industrial, Techno, Comics and
playifully giving his mom a hard time.
Again our condolences.
Sorry about any spelling mistakes.

Booch posted on Jan 15th 2026 at 11:21am

Lord Tournament Won! Next Tournament Starts Sunday, Jan 18th

Congratulations to Jenkis (Frankspankum) for winning the LORD Tournament! Well
done! The townsfolk are now at ease not having to worry about rounding the
corner to a dragon in the face.

The next tournament begins Sunday, January 18th!

Comments:

By Crispiecritter on Jan 15th 2026 at 5:02pm

Well done Frank, lapped almost everyone I think.

By Lime on Jan 16th 2026 at 4:44am

That's some skill

By Jenkis on Jan 16th 2026 at 5:44am

Was a fun run, got really lucky with a 2 day horsekill on the 2nd DK. Good luck
to everyone on the next tournament!

Thaifish posted on Jan 13th 2026 at 8:31am

Global Wars: Who's Interested?

Hey everyone! I just started up a new game in Global Wars (#1). Looking for
some more players to get the game going. Cheers!

Booch posted on Aug 29th 2025 at 4:26pm

Usurper Fixed (again)

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 11:24am

i 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 3:05am

It's broken again ;)

By Varissa on Oct 28th 2025 at 3:34pm

Glad its not just me.

By Booch on Oct 29th 2025 at 9:45am

Server is rebooted and Usurper works again!

By Lazy on Nov 28th 2025 at 1:18am

Again pls ;)

By Gotpink on Nov 29th 2025 at 4:48pm

usurper broken again :( tysm

By Booch on Nov 30th 2025 at 7:45pm

Argh. Rebooted the system and it's back up.

By Jenkis on Dec 30th 2025 at 12:12am

The 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 :)

Nazeri posted on Dec 17th 2025 at 12:47pm

Planets Teos Tutorial

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 3:34pm

Just to add to this: When trading you always suffer a 10% penalty. So If you
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.

By Nazeri on Dec 17th 2025 at 10:08pm

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.

Q33blox posted on Dec 10th 2025 at 6:52am

Planets Teos Reset?

Soulburner has won the game. Can we get a reset and a fresh run?

Comments:

By Booch on Dec 10th 2025 at 8:53am

Absolutely! Congratulations Soulburn - nice job conquering the planetary system
:)
Planets has been reset! Good luck everyone

By Plague on Dec 16th 2025 at 10:29am

Is there any guide floating around about how to play this game? I gave it a
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!

By Q33blox on Dec 17th 2025 at 9:26am

There is a basic overview at planetsteos.20m.com/home.html but the basic loop
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!

By Plague on Dec 17th 2025 at 11:44am

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.

Bevoir posted on Nov 16th 2025 at 11:59am

Help Wanted

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

Danoise Won The Lord Tournament! Next Starts On Nov 16th!

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 2:59pm

Congrats Danoise and GG's all!

By Plague on Nov 14th 2025 at 7:01pm

Congratulations!!

Thesalonius posted on Nov 9th 2025 at 9:43am

Time For An Exitilus Reset?

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 9:44am

This 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 2:19am

I'll cry every day for loosing all my gold. ;)

Booch posted on Oct 5th 2025 at 9:38pm

Extreme Lord Reset! Congratulations, Got*ink

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 11:29pm

Congrats, 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

Rotorek Won The Lord Tournament! Next Starts On Sept 13th!

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 11:42pm

Very 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 3:08pm

Thank you. It was fun. I raced against Imperial and Jade, it was really

By Rotorek on Sep 14th 2025 at 3:23pm

Thank you to everyone who participated in the tournament. It was fun.

Lazy posted on Aug 24th 2025 at 11:04am

Lord Tournament Inn

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 11:10am

Oh and i talked to Mrs. Grizelda about this!!!! Won't recommend!

By Booch on Aug 29th 2025 at 9:42am

I'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

Outage Today - Finally Back Up

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 10:05pm

Thanks for the explanation. I wondered what was going on.