Talk:Dope Wars

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=453076280

according to CA Spyware Information Center, above, the security issue relating to 'dope wars' was in regards to a malicious bit of third-party programming called 'Gator' which was bundled with the dopewars download. not only did 'Gator' collect user information and send that collected data off to third party's in order to spam users, but it also apparently 'silently connects to the internet after reboot without user awareness or consent'.

pretty nasty stuff, back in the day.

does anyone else have any other information on this, however? or an update? the last date at the CA site is 2004, if i'm reading it correctly.

21:18, 2 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Game history

I'm slightly confused by this article -- in the first part, it appears to be based on a game called Chronic 2005 (Dope Wars has been around since well before 2005, though I'm not assuming Chronic 2005 came out in 2005). Further down in the article, it states the multi-player version spawned Chronic 2005 (Which appears to be more accurate). Was this simply an error, and should the beginning have stated the reverse, that Chronic 2005 was based on Dope Wars? Callcentermonkey 16:08, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * To me, this game seems to be at least partly based on Taipan!. That game came out in the early 80's, but was much more simplistic in its trade options, with fewer variables in game-play. --161.88.255.139 17:16, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

DopeWars Online
DopeWars Online (www.treadon.us) is a modern remake and very popular, deserving it's place on this page as much, if not more than any other.

Googling "DopeWars" or "Dope Wars" will yeild this site in the top 2 positions every time. With this re-invention of Dope Wars onto a mordern day platform, we'd be cheating wikipedia and its users by not having this link, and the detailed write up (as was here once upon a time). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.238.42.174 (talk • contribs)


 * Doing the recommended Google search lists treadon.us on the third page of results, obviously excluding the sponsored results (as anyone can pay to have their link there). I'm not saying that it's the only link in the external links section which is undeserving (hence why I put a cleanup template there, which you also removed). As we tend to recommend in situations like this, feel free to submit it to the Open Directory Project, and we can use Template:Dmoz to link to that page. It must be remembered that Wikipedia is not a repository of links, and there are already too many. Another reason that made me consider your addition as spam was that your original addition blatantly went against the second point on our external links guidelines. Anyway, as I see that your link is already on the Open Directory Project, I'll clean up the external links, and link to dmoz instead. :) Dreaded Walrus t c 19:39, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

By not having a link to these websites, a user who comes here cannot get a complete understanding of what exactly Dope Wars is. The only way for a visitor to properly understand what Dope Wars has evolved into is to see what products are currently out there. These links are also a valuable addition and tribute to the sites who work hard to build Dope Wars related projects.

As per your google search, what was your exact query. In my personal expiriementation, I found the result the be second in both cases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.201.162 (talk) 20:19, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:11, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Drugwars
The article says Drugwars is a TI port of Dope Wars, but I'm pretty sure Drugwars is older, originally made for DOS, and Dopewars came after, anyone wanna verify? JordanZed (talk) 19:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)