The Firetop Mountain Servers

Notices

Saturday Aug. 14 2004 - there has been some data corruption after a server reboot. Janitors are looking into the cause of the problem. FM should be back up sometime in the next few days. The worst case for data would be that we rollback to a Thursday Aug. 12 backup.

Saturday Aug. 21 2004 - the server is up again. Games in progress are back to their Thursday Aug, 12 state.

Servers

The Main Server
This is the current server, where bug fixes and new ideas are supported. There are some significant differences between the rules here and the original "Waving Hands" game - the players suggested these changes to make the game better!
The Classic Server
The Classic Server no longer exists as a separate entity. Use the 'classic' SpellBook on the Main Server to play a game using the Classic spell gestures.
The Test Server
This server is where changes to the code are tested before being unleashed on the Main server. This is the place where the Janitor plays...

Strategy Discussions

Here are two articles written by one of the all time greats of Firetop Mountain, 'The Shadow' (Thomas Bress).

What Makes A Winning Game?
Probably the definitive discussion on general tactics.
Is Paralysis/Finger Of Death all powerful?
This article shows how even the most powerful looking combination always has a downfall. (This discussion shows about 10 ways to beat the fearsome Para/FoD). The details of this discussion are no longer completely relevant, since Paralysis is no longer quite as powerful as it was on the old Classic Server.

Here is another article on the uses of Invisibility by 'Nom' (Andrew White).

Invisibility or "What you can't see CAN hurt you"

Source Code

The Firetop Mountain Source Code is available.

Links

Firetop Mountain Unofficial Archives and Information is another FM website where you can look at many past games.

An up-to-date list of GAMES IN PROGRESS on the Main server is now available by using this link. The output should match that produced by the GAMES command in an e-mail submission to the server.

A list of CHALLENGES is also available. This page should mirror the information provided by a CHALLENGES command sent to the server.

Want to look up mage SCORES? The Duel Scores and Melee Scores scores are also available individually. The output matches that of the standard SCORES or STANDINGS commands.
Duel ELO scores are also available. New users start with a score of 1000. A difference of 100 in ELO scores indicates approximately a 2:1 advantage to the higher ranked player.