Thanks for digging this up.
I'm posting it here because every time I've gone back to try and reference something in past BOTE's it seems to have disappeared.
Perhaps 2012 we can use some of the above settings for the edit. If I read it correctly it has a few more turns, but fewer Cit's. (7 Corporations!)
I do however see aliens, and not sure that's a good idea for a tournament, but it could add an interesting dynamic.

The game started with 15 Teams I believe, each team was allowed 6 members to run in whatever mega corp configuration they wanted. (Pre-Mega Rob) The sponsor had to be indicated in the corp name. You see the below caps, and the "V" Screen you posted are from 8/17/98, the game started on 7/4/98 The game was aged 100 days to start. After 44 days of playing we were down to 7 corps, 2 of which were ours. Deleting inactive players after 7 days helps to clean up the CLV.

< R a n k e d C o r p o r a t i o n s >

Rank C# Name C.E.O.
---- -- --------------------------------- --------------------------------
1 8 Total FEN Screwups Rorschach
Corporate Experience: 27,938 Corporate Alignment: 270,810
---- -- --------------------------------- --------------------------------
2 5 Faments Finest (FEN) Maverick
Corporate Experience: 25,323 Corporate Alignment: -1,229,209
---- -- --------------------------------- --------------------------------
3 4 Little Wanderer <ECL> Moe
Corporate Experience: 8,334 Corporate Alignment: 60,017
---- -- --------------------------------- --------------------------------
4 1 Phoenix Rizing (XSO) Grumpy
Corporate Experience: 7,407 Corporate Alignment: 1,239
---- -- --------------------------------- --------------------------------
5 12 [Evo] The GasHouse Gang Kumarbi
Corporate Experience: 7,366 Corporate Alignment: 42,072
---- -- --------------------------------- --------------------------------
6 3 GHOSTLY (MER) ACES HIGH
Corporate Experience: 2,223 Corporate Alignment: -5,264
---- -- --------------------------------- --------------------------------
7 13 The Infinity Project <TIP> Ming
Corporate Experience: 1,387 Corporate Alignment: 1,185


1 49,963 95,277 8 Anthrax Imperial StarShip
2 46,687 -283,583 5 MacAhan Havoc GunStar
3 31,587 322,737 8 Rorschach Imperial StarShip
4 22,009 -2,957,616 5 Cruncher Havoc GunStar
5 8,334 60,017 4 Moe # Ship Destroyed #
6 7,407 1,239 1 Grumpy Imperial StarShip
7 7,366 42,072 12 Kumarbi # Ship Destroyed #
8 7,273 -446,428 5 Maverick Corporate FlagShip
9 5,550 3,567 13 Ming Havoc GunStar
10 2,265 394,418 8 Budweiser Imperial StarShip
11 2,223 -5,264 3 ACES HIGH Corporate FlagShip
12 382 341 25 Black Bart Merchant Freighter
13 57 18 31 CyberBlob Scout Marauder
14 33 33 ** Micro Scout Marauder

http://tradewars.fament.com/original-bote/elite.htm

Yeah, the Aliens, I don't know if it was possible to turn them off in the old HVS MBBS version. We'd have to ask a sysop currently running 2.03. I don't see why having them active (non-gold) would hurt anything. Aliens have always been our non-discriminating grid busters. Nothing wrong with that, unless you were playing a game that scored on % of grid layed.

I've now officially secured the services of Vulcan to assist me with the admin functions of this game.
I'll be setting him up with admin access tonight.
In my absence, his word is law.

Sounds good, will we have a way to get a hold of him? Or will he just be checking this forum? Just wondering in case there is a problem that needs to be addressed.

I'm hoping he'll check over the discussion here, and he's aware of the start date, and will be monitoring the game start.
Not sure how he wants to make himself available, but we have a bit of time to work it out yet.

Headed into the north country. Check in tonight or from the road as I can.

You'll have a great trip, light rain today, sun shining the rest of the week, Light snow on Thursday.

(I just checked with weather.com)

I crossed the Big Mac 8 times in one year, in a Yugo and never fell off once! LOL

Crossed the 45th Parallel, and have crossed Big Mac. What a sight. I love it up here. Do I have to return?
I did however manage to blow up my wifi router. Not sure how, but it smells smoked. Gonna have to wait for stops

I haven't read all that is in this thread but can give this info, I knew Zoobar and Maverick personally, as I have played with them a long time ago, Mav Comet and I along with Undertaker used to be on a team together, with my little brother, Incubus, and knew when they made the Battle Of The Elite game, also on the 2005 BOTE I hosted that one.

Also for all to know the spirit of the teams from the servers weren't that the teams played exclusively on that server, that wasn't the case, the servers in question, were asked to be the sponsors of the teams playing in the BOTE, but on the same note the servers had to prove they were legal servers by proving they had valid and verifiable codes for those servers. I still have my codes, but haven't had an active server in a while, That may change sometime soon though.

I will be assisting RP on the Game Op duties for the BOTE this year, he came to me and asked if I would help, and I said yes I would.

So if there are no objections from anyone on this I will be there as a game op as well on the BOTE. But whether there are any objections or not, I will still be there, and will have fair judgement on the game.

Vulcan

On the BOTE sorry I hosted in 2006, man my memory is getting bad.

Vulcan

Okay for all BOTE Players, I have opened up a BOTE Practice game on my TWGS for you all to get some practice in before the BOTE begins, it should be set to the settings that RP had set for the BOTE. When you all log in notify me on PM and when everyone for the BOTE is logged in I will close the game, and delete anyone who doesn't belong, by verifying names to the current BOTE teams list. Unless we have a new team or to joining the BOTE then they need to contact me and/ or RP prior to logging into the practice game.

Vulcan

Okay any BOTE player that needs to get ahold of me for anything here is my Email addy:

vulcan219@comcast.net

If you have questions I am sure I may be able to answer them and the BOTE practice game is up on my TWGS set the same as RP has it set up on his TWGS, well it should be the same as I am running the v2 TWGS at the moment, until I can get the virtual machine installed then will add the v1 to the computer.

Vulcan

RP - I was wanting to test a few things in the practice game, but it looks as if Kraaken has the game full. Can you rebang it and set a rule so they can't block everyone else out of the game. Others might like to test some settings on your server as well. 1 Login should be sufficient for testing, if not can you take it down completely as there is no reason others can't get in on your public server
If they need a locked game I believe Vid has a server they could test on?

RP is still on the road and may be out there for a while and I will see if I have access to the practice game he has running, and if I do have access to that game I will see what I can do, if I don't have access to the practice game then I do have one running on my TWGS that should be identical to the BOTE that will be opening up on the first. If you need the addy to the TWGS it is:

telnet://vulcansforge.homeip.net:23

I will try to resolve the issue you are having.

Vulcan