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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. ADAM'S COLUMN - ADAM PARK ................................ 2
Land of Devastation Grind Guide Pt5 ...................... 2
3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 4
List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 4
4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 7
The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 7
5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 8
6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 15
Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 15
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 16
7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 18
How to Submit an Article ................................. 18
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 20
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT =================================================================

Of course God is a woman. That's why the Bible is an entire book
filled with men explaining what she said.

-- Jen Kirkman

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ADAM'S COLUMN - ADAM PARK =================================================================

Land of Devastation Grind Guide Pt 5
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
**In Issue - Volume 38 No. 22**

4) Stat Points
4a) Overview of Sources of Stat Points
4b) How to Distribute Stat Points for this Build
**In Issue - Volume 38 No. 23**

5) Combat Strategy
*We are HERE*

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: **

5) Combat Strategy

- In the earlier levels, using medkits if you start the battle having
taken an unlucky long range hit from an enemy with relatively low
close range damage can be smart, but because even using them doesn't
work every time, and they never get better per dose than they are to
start the game, they are only a viable option in niche early-game
situations.

- When your long-range weapon outclasses your close range weapon, and
you want to try fighting an opponent that may be risky, consider a
target that has a poor long range weapon but good close-range weapon/
stats. You can start the fight by shooting your long range weapon, and
then only fight if you hit and they miss (or you hugely outclass their
damage) and otherwise, just run away. There is still some risk to this
strategy as you might not always get away; you have to consider what
risk level you're willing to take.

- The general combat strategy with this build, as I've already
explained, can essentially be summed up as "Melt their faces horribly
with your long range weapon, poke them a couple of times to finish
them up and call it a day." With, as previously stated, the addendum
"And if the long range weapon misses, run for it." It's a pretty
simple, but generally quite effective strategy duo to the "Player
always shoots first" rule.

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Stay tuned next week for Level Specific Tables!
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LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES =================================================================

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

Updated 5 June 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 6DWN
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 HOLD
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.
HOLD The node is temporarely off-line. Mail may be routed.
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 164

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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

134/* 0.3m 0.4m 2 0.0h 0.0h 2
154/* 15.4m 15.8m 671 1.1h 3.8h 671
201/* 1.0m 0.5m 2 0.0h 0.0h 2
221/* 0.7m 0.4m 630 5.1h 11.2h 630
280/* 0.6m 0.4m 721 6.1h 9.5h 719
292/* 4.4m 5.7m 75 3.2h 6.0h 74
301/* 0.7m 0.2m 3 7.3h 1.5h 3
320/* 2.0m 1.2m 247 2.8h 8.7h 246
502/* 0.6m 0.2m 7 6.0h 8.2h 7

Sigma 5.1m 10.7m 2358 3.9h 8.9h 2354

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Nodelist Stats

Input nodelist nodelist.162
size 189.0kb
date 2021-06-11

The nodelist has 1044 nodes in it
and a total of 1503 non-comment entries

including 4 zones
33 regions
175 hosts
69 hubs
admin overhead 281 ( 26.92 %)

and 110 private nodes
32 nodes down
36 nodes on hold
off line overhead 178 ( 17.05 %)


Speed summary:

>9600 = 45 ( 4.31 %)
9600 = 194 ( 18.58 %)
(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 42.27 %)
(V32B = 18 or 9.28 %)
(V34 = 94 or 48.45 %)
(V42 = 82 or 42.27 %)
(V42B = 19 or 9.79 %)
2400 = 1 ( 0.10 %)
1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
300 = 804 ( 77.01 %)

ISDN = 34 ( 3.26 %)

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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
IBN Binkp 812 ( 77.78 %) ----------------------------------
IFC Raw ifcico 87 ( 8.33 %) ----------------------------------
IFT FTP 60 ( 5.75 %) ----------------------------------
ITN Telnet 170 ( 16.28 %) ----------------------------------
IVM Vmodem 18 ( 1.72 %) ----------------------------------
IP Other 4 ( 0.38 %) ----------------------------------
INO4 IPv6 only 4 ( 0.38 %) ----------------------------------

CrashMail capable = 901 ( 86.30 %)
MailOnly nodes = 327 ( 31.32 %)
Listed-only nodes = 23 ( 2.20 %)



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

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Hello Robot,

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Of course God is a woman. That's why the Bible is an entire book
filled with men explaining what she said.

-- Jen Kirkman

No wonder we got it all wrong.

--Lee

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If it doesn't say Jiffy Lube, it's not Jiffy Lube
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