AIM Conv With PresBMK July 25th, 2002

AIM Interview with PresBMK (aka Bryan M. Krause)  July 25th, 2002 who was one of the greatest players with House Forsaken in Solar Empire.who went on  to create his very own Browser-Based Game, Quest for Yap at http://www.yapquest.com .

CharlesRector: Correct me if I'm wrong,, but didn't 
youlead a HF allaiace in SM Newbie Game #6? 
AnarchyOfCaz: Perhaps. 
AnarchyOfCaz: why? 
CharlesRector: well, I have to write a history about 
HF's involvement in SM for the new BBG Realm website. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yeah 
AnarchyOfCaz: Well you know, I have no idea what games 
I played in SM. 
AnarchyOfCaz: if you remember something, then you are 
probably right :) 
CharlesRector: How well did you guys do in that game? 
I seem to remember that it was you, Hammes & Yoden 
with you getting 10 kills & Hammes getting 9 kills. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Man 
AnarchyOfCaz: You seriously remember that?!? 
AnarchyOfCaz: I have no clue 
AnarchyOfCaz: It's been a LONG long time 
CharlesRector: from the HF Forum & I was in that game 
too, though as an independent palyer & later with the 
BHMG. 
AnarchyOfCaz: yeah 
AnarchyOfCaz: But I mean.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: This is MY stats lol 
CharlesRector: Take it that you've played in so many 
games, that you can't keep track of all them? 
AnarchyOfCaz: And you know them a lot better than I do 
:) 
AnarchyOfCaz: heh, yeah I guess... 
AnarchyOfCaz: 2 years of Yap has cleared my brain. :) 
AnarchyOfCaz: I actually dont remember any of my SM 
games really.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: I mean, vaguely, yes 
AnarchyOfCaz: But I dont remember any stats 
CharlesRector: Not even being President of the Thevian 
Council in NG #10? 
AnarchyOfCaz: Wouldnt have remembered if you didnt 
mention it :) 
AnarchyOfCaz: Now that you mention it.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yes, I recall being president. 
AnarchyOfCaz: I wouldnt have known what game it was in 
though. 
CharlesRector: I have notebooks still from playing SM 
way back in the early newbie games. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yeah 
AnarchyOfCaz: I recently deleted my SM files.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: I kept word files of everything... 
CharlesRector: did they help in the creation of Yap? 
AnarchyOfCaz: My SM files?? 
CharlesRector: yes 
AnarchyOfCaz: No.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: All I meant by my SM files was like 
locations of ports and stuff 
CharlesRector: ok 
AnarchyOfCaz: I had every good port, every route I 
used, every shop, every warp 
CharlesRector: I can imagine. 
CharlesRector: What happened to Hammes? 
AnarchyOfCaz: dunno 
AnarchyOfCaz: He kinda faded away 
AnarchyOfCaz: I still see him once in a while 
CharlesRector: Didn't you say once that he was a 
cousin who was in in some kind of foster care 
situation? 
AnarchyOfCaz: And the weapons, in no real order.. 
A=Alskant, C=Creonti, H=Human, etc, MH-MiniHill, 
Ho=Homestead. 

Land of Lasers: 145(W), 93(W) 
Adv. Missile Concepts: 109(W), 429(T), 1203(C) 
Adv. Missile Concepts 2: 1744(MH) 
One-Stop 1: 111(W) 
One-Stop 2: 8(W), 307(T), 386(T), 3106(Ho) 
One-Stop 3: 114(W), 1193(C) 
General Store WD1: 146(W) 
General Store WD2: 167(W), 1846(MH) 
General Store WD3: 218(W), 301(T), 1717(MH) 
General Store WD4: 45(W), 349(T) 
Shotgun Shack: 67(W), 1765(MH) 
No Shields #1: 372(T), 3040(Ho) 
No Shields #2: 444(T) 
Creonti Weapons 1: 1739(MH) 
Monastary of the Iron Maiden: 2889(Ho) 
Cannon-O-Rama: 2899(Ho) 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yeah 
AnarchyOfCaz: He's moved on to a more permanent 
situation. 
AnarchyOfCaz: But he's living down south, so we dont 
see him much. 
CharlesRector: what game wias that from? 
AnarchyOfCaz: No idea 
AnarchyOfCaz: Its not labled :( 
AnarchyOfCaz: Probably one of my first 
AnarchyOfCaz: Thats a pretty incomplete weapons list 
CharlesRector: is he still a gamer? 
AnarchyOfCaz: No 
AnarchyOfCaz: "ATTENTION: NEWBIES AND OLDBIES(but 
mostly newbies)... House Forsaken is now recruiting 
again, finally.. House Forsaken is probably the most 
mature clan on the net. We have over 100 members, 
probably close to 150, and we play a variety of games, 
from Starcraft to Tribes to Diablo II to Solar Empire. 
At one time, House Forsaken was the dominating force 
in SE. We had multiple Original victories and ousted 
Talk House many times. However, our Solar Empire 
section has been dwindling lately, mainly because a 
lot of the SE players have devoted their time to 
DiabloII and other games. If you'd like to check out 
our website, it's at www.clan-forsaken.com. Don't try 
the Solar Empire link, it's a crappy page many months 
old that has no purpose. Instead, check out the 
Forsaken Forums at www.clan-forsaken.com/forum. The 
BrowserBasedGames section is where you'd find SE. If 
you want to join, message me or post on our forum. 
Thank you, -PresBMK, Head of Recruiting BBG Section" 
AnarchyOfCaz: Just digging up some old stuff for you 
:) 
AnarchyOfCaz: Port 2323 Sells Luxury Port 2247 Buys 
Luxury If those are used, try: 2346 Sells Luxury 2408 
Buys Luxury 
AnarchyOfCaz: That is my trade route from NG11 
CharlesRector: I thought that back then HF had over 
400 members. there, you say 100-150 
AnarchyOfCaz: No 
AnarchyOfCaz: I dont think HF ever had 400... 
AnarchyOfCaz: 400 total maybe 
AnarchyOfCaz: Not 400 active. 
CharlesRector: why were you kicked out of HF? I seem 
to rember a dispute with Pinkus over HF's involvement 
in Yap or something like that. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Nah 
AnarchyOfCaz: Me and pinkus just got pissed at each 
other. 
AnarchyOfCaz: he felt that something I said was 
immature. I disagreed, and let him know that. 
AnarchyOfCaz: He didn't like that because I questioned 
his authority, so he kicked me out. 
CharlesRector: seems kind of immature on his part. 
AnarchyOfCaz: By that time, I was barely even doing 
anything in HF 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yeah.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Well 
AnarchyOfCaz: I regret what I said 
AnarchyOfCaz: And he later expressed regret to kicking 
me out. 
AnarchyOfCaz: And actually, I am now on the HF 
forums.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Because the forums changed sometime, and 
somehow I got an account created for myself(I didnt 
make one, it was just there) 
CharlesRector: you are? under what name? 
AnarchyOfCaz: PresBMK 
AnarchyOfCaz: Search for posts by me. 
AnarchyOfCaz: I havent been there recently.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: But, like a couple months ago. 
AnarchyOfCaz: maybe more. 
CharlesRector: The only ones I found were from last 
year. When they set up the new forum setup, they lost 
a lot of the BBG Relam's msg's. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yeah 
AnarchyOfCaz: The ones from last year were prob the 
ones I'm thinking of 
AnarchyOfCaz: Time goes so fast 
CharlesRector: How is Yap coming? About how many 
palyers? 


AnarchyOfCaz: well.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: We've passed up SE's old highs in 
traffic.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Hang on I'll find you a stats link 
AnarchyOfCaz: We recently changed servers, I dont know 
if you were aware of that or not 
CharlesRector: even without a CoolText link? 
AnarchyOfCaz: What do you mean? 
CharlesRector: I was aware, that there was a problem 
switching over to a new server. 
AnarchyOfCaz: ... 
AnarchyOfCaz: There was no problem at all ? 
AnarchyOfCaz: The game was down for a short time.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: But, I mean, that is to be expected. 
CharlesRector: Remmber, a lot of SE's players came 
from the CoolText link. 
AnarchyOfCaz: It was all up within a day of when I got 
the new server signed up for 
CharlesRector: the link from CioolText to SE. 
AnarchyOfCaz: oh, yeah. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yap doesnt have something like that. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Most of yap's players come from 
referrals from friends and such and from free stuff 
sites. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Mostly the same things you submitted to 
2 years ago for me. Thank you again, by the way 
CharlesRector: Something interesting: 
CharlesRector: http://www.sudftw.com/paintcam.htm 
AnarchyOfCaz: http://www.yapquest.com/webstat/ 
AnarchyOfCaz: The June statistics are irrelevant btw 
AnarchyOfCaz: because that was the first month the 
server was up 
CharlesRector: ok it was that the server was causing 
the game problems & the hosts were refusing to fix 
them. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yeah 
AnarchyOfCaz: So we switched servers. Simple as that. 
AnarchyOfCaz: New server seems to be much better, 
too... 
AnarchyOfCaz: We've only had a database error once, or 
maybe twice.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: And I can fix them easily now, I dont 
have to wait for tech guys to do it, I have access on 
my server to do it myself(which makes sense) 
CharlesRector: great. 
CharlesRector: How amny p;a;yers came from MPOGD? 
AnarchyOfCaz: not sure 
AnarchyOfCaz: I dont keep track anymore. 
AnarchyOfCaz: A decent amount. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Little compared to other sources of 
traffic though. 
AnarchyOfCaz: btw that paint peeling site is 
hillarious 
CharlesRector: YOu knew that DF deep-sixed Poseidon 
didn't you? 
AnarchyOfCaz: um 
AnarchyOfCaz: no actually 
CharlesRector: well,, that was a messed up game 
project anyways. didn't keep it running and fixing 
problems along the way & he also tried to impose a 
Earth type game on an underwater scenario. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yeah 
AnarchyOfCaz: I saw that it went up and down a lot.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Seemed like it was always down to be 
revamped. 
CharlesRector: didn't help it keep players any. 
AnarchyOfCaz: no 
AnarchyOfCaz: I dont see how somebody could stay 
interested 
AnarchyOfCaz: ah well 
AnarchyOfCaz: maybe I'll recruit him for my new 
project 
AnarchyOfCaz: I'm going to work on making a program in 
DirectX. 
CharlesRector: a new game? 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yeah 
AnarchyOfCaz: Quest for Yap: Ground Wars 
AnarchyOfCaz: I was originally going to do it in PHP, 
it was really weird... 
AnarchyOfCaz: But I decided that it'd be better to 
learn something new. 
AnarchyOfCaz: It probably wont be as cool as it has 
the potential to be.. 
CharlesRector: a download game? 
AnarchyOfCaz: Mostly because I have no clue how I'll 
get good graphics for it, I cant do graphics myself at 
all. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yeah. 
AnarchyOfCaz: It'll be mainly a Peer to Peer game. 
AnarchyOfCaz: But someday I'll set up a super server 
for it and run massively multiplayer games. 
CharlesRector: How has this Melee game gone over? 
AnarchyOfCaz: Very well. 
AnarchyOfCaz: It isnt as popular as original, and its 
a bit tougher to learn 
CharlesRector: about how many players in it> 
AnarchyOfCaz: But the people who know how to play it 
love it. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Um... 
AnarchyOfCaz: Not sure. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Last game about 15-20 people played 
seriously. 
CharlesRector: About how many sectors in the game? 
AnarchyOfCaz: Um 
AnarchyOfCaz: 200 I think 
CharlesRector: pretty good size. Have you noticed how 
in SE, its been made a lot easier for major clans & 
early starters to enegage in risk-free killing? 
AnarchyOfCaz: No. 
AnarchyOfCaz: lol 
AnarchyOfCaz: I havent been to SE for a long time :) 
CharlesRector: Somethig I recently posted: 
CharlesRector: Krioni: This is a game where there are 
75 turns & 100 shields generated per hour. You 
basically have pain-free, risk-free killing here. 
These stats, plus a ship called the Transversor, 
guarantees that if you have entered the game early 
and/or have a strong, experienced clan behind you, 
that you will have pain-free, risk-free killing sprees 
here. No more chance of being stuck high & dry without 
turns or having your ship's shields being so whittled 
down for hours on end after the attack that they would 
be vulnerable to attack. And no more having to make 
the long haul to Earth aka Sector #1, subject to 
attack along the way there & back either. SE has lost 
a lot of what challenge it had & with it, the suspense 
& need for careful planning & strategizing that once 
made it one of the most interesting, not to mention 
fun games around. 
AnarchyOfCaz: yeah 
AnarchyOfCaz: I keep yap interesting by consistantly 
adding new features 
AnarchyOfCaz: And trying to balance the old ones. 
AnarchyOfCaz: One of my latest victories is making 
Port Trading worth it again. 
AnarchyOfCaz: For a long time, the only way to trade 
was to trade Yap. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Now you can trade other goods and make 
as much or more profit 
CharlesRector: great. 
AnarchyOfCaz: My next challenge is planets 
CharlesRector: about how many sectors in Origianl> 
AnarchyOfCaz: They used to be all powerful. Now they 
suck. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Um 
AnarchyOfCaz: Not sure 
AnarchyOfCaz: 125 maybe? 
AnarchyOfCaz: Thats just in the main galaxy though.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yap and Evil galaxies have another 75 
sectors each or so. 
CharlesRector: decent....the latest Modern SE game has 
600 sectos but only 60 players. Bad idea. 
AnarchyOfCaz: The size of the Original game hasnt 
changed much in a while. 
AnarchyOfCaz: I like it the size it is. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Yeah 
AnarchyOfCaz: In Yap, except for in Melee, most of the 
space is wasted anyways. 
AnarchyOfCaz: But its ok. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Because a sneaky player can still use it 
AnarchyOfCaz: its good that way 
CharlesRector: yes 
CharlesRector: What did you eman earlier by a Peer to 
Peer game? 
CharlesRector: mean 
AnarchyOfCaz: um 
AnarchyOfCaz: Like.. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Person A connects to Person B and they 
play. 
CharlesRector: ok 
AnarchyOfCaz: Its Peer to Peer, because there is no 
server in between.. 
CharlesRector: your verson of Infantry? 
AnarchyOfCaz: One guy sets up to "answer" a call, and 
the other person connects to their IP 
AnarchyOfCaz: Um 
AnarchyOfCaz: Sorta. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Think Infantry meets a RTS game like C&C 
or AoE 
AnarchyOfCaz: Well, I'm going to bed now. 
AnarchyOfCaz: It's been a long day lol. 
AnarchyOfCaz: Hope to talk to you sometime soon. 
CharlesRector: ok...same here. 
CharlesRector: bye