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    From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon May 31 00:37:48 2021
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    Table of Contents
    1. ADAM'S COLUMN - ADAM PARK ................................ 1
    Land of Devastation Grind Guide Pt3 ...................... 1
    2. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 3
    List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 3
    3. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 6
    The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 6
    4. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 7
    5. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 14
    Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 14
    Nodelist Stats ........................................... 15
    6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 17
    How to Submit an Article ................................. 17
    Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 19

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon May 31 00:37:48 2021
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    ADAM'S COLUMN - ADAM PARK =================================================================

    Land of Devastation Grind Guide Pt 3
    Adam Park 1:134/302

    ****
    Welcome to our continuing series examaning the epic door game from the
    90s, Land of Devastation. Check out previous issues of Fidonews for
    parts you may have missed!
    ****


    Coming/published sections:

    1) About
    **In Issue - Volume 38 No. 20**

    2) General Gameplay Guidelines
    **In Issue - Volume 38 No. 21**

    3) Shopping Recommendations
    *We are HERE*

    4) Stat Points
    4a) Overview of Sources of Stat Points
    4b) How to Distribute Stat Points for this Build

    5) Combat Strategy

    6) Tables
    6a) Leveling Order
    6b) Key Purchase Order

    7) Grind Guide
    7a) Zone 1
    7b) Zone 2
    7c) Drugs: Everything in Moderation
    7d) Zone 3
    7e) Zone 4
    7f) Zone 5
    7g) Shrine of Hercules
    7h) Zone 6
    7i) Endgame content

    8) Supplemental Information

    ** And now for this week's content: **

    3) Shopping Recommendations

    - The build I recommend will be based around you prioritizing your
    shopping purchases in the following order: Long range weapon, short
    range weapon, shield, armor. The one exception to this is that you
    will want to start thegame with a short-ranged weapon purchase, which
    I will detail in the main guide.

    - When compared to short range weapons that consume ammo (most of them
    worth buying past the start of the game), long range weapons do far
    more damage perunit of ammo used and, given the cost of ammo,
    particularly in the early game, are much more cost-effective. A good
    long range weapon paired with high dexterity will start most fights
    slanted heavily in your favour. As the gameprogresses, long-range
    weapons get features (3-burst mode, grenade launcher & stunner) that
    will often win you a fight without giving your opponent a chance to
    even take a shot. (This is because the game will always allow you to
    shoot your long range weapon before the opponent, meaning you will
    often start a fight with a stunned opponent who has taken more than
    half their life in damage and didn't even get a chance to fire their
    long-range weapon).

    - Short range weapons are still important as you will usually need
    them to finish off what your long range weapon starts. Shields and
    armor are important, but, compared to the ammunition most short and
    long range weapons consume, the cost of constantly replacing broken
    armor is very, very high. This means that getting a "good for your
    level" armor can actually turn out to be more of an expense than it's
    worth; this, however, becomes less of a factor in the mid-to-late
    game. (Shields, particularily early-game, are a more reasonable
    investment than armor because their high durability with low block %
    means they tend to last for a very long time before breaking, but
    still give you that extra edge in combat. By the time an early-game
    shield is ready to break, you're practically ready to upgrade it
    anyway).

    - The coming tables in section 6 contain recommended shopping order.

    *****************************************************
    Stay tuned next week for a Stat Point Guide!
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    LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES =================================================================

    List of IPv6 nodes
    By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555

    Updated 26 May 2021


    Node Nr. Sysop Type Provider Remark

    1 2:280/464 Wilfred van Velzen Native Xs4All f
    2 2:280/5003 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All f
    3 2:5019/40 Konstantin Kuzov T-6in4 he.net f
    4 2:280/5555 Michiel van der Vlist Native Ziggo f
    5 1:320/219 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
    6 2:221/1 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f
    7 2:221/6 Tommi Koivula Native OVH
    8 2:5053/54 Denis Mikhlevich Native TTK-Volga
    9 2:5030/257 Vova Uralsky Native PCextreme
    10 1:154/10 Nicholas Bo‰l Native Spectrum f
    11 2:203/0 Bj”rn Felten T-6in4 he.net
    12 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All f INO4
    13 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6in4 he.net f
    14 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov Native Hetzner f
    15 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
    16 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0
    17 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek T-6in4 he.net
    18 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
    19 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native AusNetServers f
    20 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native Nline f IO
    21 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
    22 3:770/1 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
    23 2:5053/58 Alexander Kruglikov Native TTK-Volga f
    24 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    25 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh Native Internode
    26 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter Native DE-NETCUP f
    27 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
    28 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel f
    29 2:246/1305 Emil Schuster Native TAL.DE
    30 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
    31 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
    32 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
    33 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native OVH
    34 2:5059/38 Andrey Mundirov T-6in4 he.net
    35 2:240/5853 Philipp Giebel Native Hetzner
    36 2:5083/444 Peter Khanin Native OVH
    37 2:2452/413 Ingo Juergensmann Native RRBONE-COLO f
    38 1:123/10 Wayne Smith T-6in4 he.net
    39 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
    40 1:135/300 Eric Renfro Native Amazon.com
    41 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    42 2:5020/1042 Michael Dukelsky Native FORPSI Ktis f
    43 2:5095/0 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    44 2:5095/20 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    45 4:902/26 Fernando Toledo T-6in4 he.net
    46 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
    47 2:467/239 Mykhailo Kapitanov Native Vultr f
    48 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
    49 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0 f
    50 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
    51 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native Xs4All
    52 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
    53 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
    54 1:135/367 Antonio Rivera Native RRSW-V6
    55 2:5020/2123 Anton Samsonov T-6in4 he.net
    56 2:5020/2332 Andrey Ignatov Native ru.rtk
    57 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net f
    58 2:5005/77 Valery Lutoshkin T-6in4 NTS f
    59 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f
    60 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko Native ER-Telecom f
    61 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native EkranTV f
    62 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus OO
    63 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny T-6in4 he.net f
    64 2:5053/400 Denis Mikhlevich Native TTK-Volga
    65 1:135/371 Eric Renfro Native Cox Cmmunctns
    66 2:421/21 Stepan Gabriel Native NETDATACOMM
    67 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
    68 1:220/70 Joseph Werle T-6in4 he.net
    69 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
    70 2:2452/502 Ludwig Bernhartzeder Native DTAG
    71 2:423/39 Karel Kral Native WEDOS
    72 2:5080/102 Stas Degteff T-6to4 NOVATOR
    73 2:280/1049 Simon Voortman Native Solcon
    74 1:102/127 Bradley Thornton Native Hetzner
    75 2:335/364 Fabio Bizzi Native IT-ALBACOM
    76 1:124/5016 Nigel Reed Native DAL1-US f
    77 2:5020/843 Peter Antonov Native BelCloud
    78 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin Native IHC-NET
    79 1:153/146 Erich Bublitz Native LINODE-US
    80 1:106/633 William Williams Native LINODE-US PM *1
    81 2:263/5 Martin List-Petersen Native TuxBox DOWN
    82 2:5030/1520 Andrey Geyko T-6in4 he.net f
    83 1:229/664 Jay Harris Native Rogers
    84 1:142/103 Brian Rogers T-6in4 he.net
    85 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead Native Hurricane El. f
    86 2:280/2030 Martien Korenblom Native Transip
    87 3:633/509 Deon George Native Telstra
    88 2:5020/4441 Yuri Myakotin Native SOVINTEL
    89 1:320/319 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
    90 2:240/5824 Anna Christina Nass T-6in4 he.net f
    91 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f INO4
    92 1:105/5 Michael Pierce Native Comcast
    93 1:218/401 James Downs Native ORG-TT1
    94 2:5030/3165 Serg Podtynnyi Native DIGITALOCEAN
    95 2:301/812 Benoit Panizon Native WOODYV6
    96 1:229/616 Vasily Losev Native GIGEPORT
    97 2:301/113 Alisha Manuela Stutz T-6in4 he.net
    98 2:5035/63 Vladimir Goncharov Native RFEIV6NET
    99 1:134/100 Kostie Muirhead Native Hurricane El. f
    100 1:134/102 Shelley Petersen Native Hurricane El. f INO4
    101 1:134/103 Gordon Muirhead Native Hurricane El. f
    102 1:134/302 Adam Park Native Hurricane El. f
    103 1:134/301 Brandon Moore Native Hurricane El. f INO4
    104 1:153/7715 Dallas Hinton Native Shaw Comms.


    T-6in4 Static 6in4
    T-AYIY Dynamic AYIYA
    T-6to4 6to4
    T-6RD 6RD

    Remarks:

    f Has a ::f1d0:<zone>:<net>:<node> style host address.
    (zone, net, node in decimal notation)
    IO Incoming only (Node can not make outgoing IPv6 calls)
    OO Outgoing only (Node can not accept incoming IPv6 calls).
    INO4 No IPv4 (Node can not accept incoming IPv4 calls).
    PO4 Prefers Out on 4 (Node can make outgoing IPv6 calls,
    but is configured to try IPv4 first)
    6DWN The IPv6 connectivity of this node is temporarely down.
    NO6 The node no longer presents an IPv6 address in the nodelist
    and will soon be removed from this list.
    DOWN This node is Down for both IPv4 and IPv6 and will be
    removed from this list if the condition pertains.
    PM Prospective Member. The node has demonstrated IPv6
    capability but is not listed or does not advertise an
    IPv6 address in the Fidonet nodelist yet.

    PM *1 [2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe2b:c319]


    Notes:

    To make an IPv6 connection to a node connected via 6to4 tunneling
    one may have to force the mailer into IPv6 (-6 option in binkd's
    node config for binkd up to 1.1a-96, -64 option for binkd 1.1a-97
    and up when compiled with AF_FORCE=1). If the destination address
    is a 6to4 tunnel address (2002::/16) many OSs default to IPv4 if
    an IPv4 address is present.


    Submitted on day 150

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    SPECIAL INTEREST =================================================================

    Last week's statistics from the Fidoweb
    By EchoTime, 2:203/0

    (Some nets may have lost their last
    digit for technical reasons)

    pkt (toss-toss) msg (write-toss)
    nodes mean dev no mean dev no

    154/* 3.7m 3.4m 594 1.2h 4.9h 594
    221/* 4.1m 13.8m 640 4.9h 7.5h 639
    230/* 4.4m 3.1m 2 29.4h 41.6h 2
    280/* 0.6m 0.4m 813 5.7h 6.8h 812
    292/* 3.5m 2.6m 28 2.6h 7.3h 27
    310/* 31.0m 21.5m 2 0.0h 0.0h 2
    320/* 2.2m 1.2m 201 3.7h 8.3h 199

    Sigma 2.6m 7.7m 2280 4.1h 7.1h 2275

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    Nodelist Stats

    Input nodelist nodelist.148
    size 187.5kb
    date 2021-05-28

    The nodelist has 1024 nodes in it
    and a total of 1488 non-comment entries

    including 4 zones
    33 regions
    174 hosts
    69 hubs
    admin overhead 280 ( 27.34 %)

    and 110 private nodes
    35 nodes down
    39 nodes on hold
    off line overhead 184 ( 17.97 %)


    Speed summary:

    >9600 = 45 ( 4.39 %)
    9600 = 193 ( 18.85 %)
    (HST = 3 or 1.55 %)
    (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V32 = 82 or 42.49 %)
    (V32B = 18 or 9.33 %)
    (V34 = 94 or 48.70 %)
    (V42 = 82 or 42.49 %)
    (V42B = 19 or 9.84 %)
    2400 = 1 ( 0.10 %)
    1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
    300 = 785 ( 76.66 %)

    ISDN = 33 ( 3.22 %)

    -----------------------------------------------------
    IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
    IBN Binkp 803 ( 78.42 %) ----------------------------------
    IFC Raw ifcico 85 ( 8.30 %) ----------------------------------
    IFT FTP 61 ( 5.96 %) ----------------------------------
    ITN Telnet 164 ( 16.02 %) ----------------------------------
    IVM Vmodem 15 ( 1.46 %) ----------------------------------
    IP Other 4 ( 0.39 %) ----------------------------------
    INO4 IPv6 only 4 ( 0.39 %) ----------------------------------

    CrashMail capable = 886 ( 86.52 %)
    MailOnly nodes = 323 ( 31.54 %)
    Listed-only nodes = 23 ( 2.25 %)



    [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
    [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/2]
    [ NetStats 3.8 2014-11-23]

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