Recent posts by gjw666 on Kongregate

Topic: Tyrant / [SPOILER] New conquest battleground effect and event!

Originally posted by darkfang77:

Originally posted by Shadowhopeful:

Originally posted by Moraku:

Originally posted by Shadowhopeful:

Heracles.
Also, Metalworks and WF

I don’t think Heracles will be all that strong, since it has only 1-wait. However, I’m starting to think that Disease will be a huge thing. Slayer and Kilgore may come into play. (Or possibly even Scarab and Creeping Sluagh for all I know.)

Necrogeddon?

valefar?

I like the thought of lots of upgraded bulging mantii – Nasty…

Topic: Tyrant / [NEWS FLASH] Berzerkers disbanded/catfaced

Originally posted by anyrotmg:

Originally posted by OOHnirav:

Originally posted by anyrotmg:

using someone else’s account without their consent is unethical

doing one unethical thing to stop another unethical thing doesn’t make it less unethical

i support measures to stop account sharing, but at the same there should be max kick per day or cool down delay before kicking is triggered to prevent deliberated damage to a faction by unauthorized assess to someone else account

I’m not saying that it’s ethical to use someone else account without their consent. I’m saying that I don’t think it should be a priority to protect people who do something unethical by removing the only possible negative effect of them performing their unethical action. Setting a “max kick per day” feature would pretty much ONLY benefit people in factions that are cheating.

Again, if this terrible idea is implemented, there would literally be no possible negative consequence for account sharing factions. That sends an awful message to the userbase about tolerating account sharers, and it makes cheating even more appealing than it already is. Given that this benefits factions that are account sharing and no one else, I have no idea how this proposal could possibly receive any support from anyone who is in a faction that plays by the rules.

Sorry if I caused the perception that my response was directed at you, it wasn’t, I happened to be posting at about the same time as you.

I think we had a similar discussion before, and I agreed with you that if canvas can only be known from account sharing, then the information should be handed over to the dev, and the dev should follow up with the appropriate penalty. However, I don’t think one player should have the ability to penalize another player. The penalty should only be administered by the dev. Implementing max kick and kick delay will send the message to everyone that it is not ok to access another player’s account no matter what. But like you said, the message should not be one that we tolerate cheaters, so I think the dev should become more active with policing and bounty like you suggested.

There are a couple of reasons why I don’t think the current system of catfacing is right. First is that the players who catface would be breaking the rule themselves by using someone else’s account without authorization. Second is that the punishment might not fit the crime. I am of the opinion that a less drastic reprimand be given out first before permanently disbanding a faction. But what we see is that sometimes an offending faction was not only catfaced, but a player’s account is permanently sabotaged with card selling. Third is that it generates too much hostility in the forum. I understand this is a pvp game, but the amount of celebrating on other people’s misfortune is too much and it is detrimental to attracting new players. Having the dev administer punishment will give it more an air of legitimacy and less petty bickering between different factions.

Trouble is, Devs don’t care about this issue. Never have and never will. So any solution that involves the Dev’s will never happen.

Account sharing will go on. It cant be stopped in the game as there is not going to ever be an enforcement of any Terms of Service or any other virtual ‘law’.

As a community we need to accept that, move on and just laugh at the catfacings when they happen.

Even selling of cards from a Dev perspective is no big problem. If a player is that addicted they will buy those same cards over again, making more profit.

Topic: Tyrant / Lucky boxes? (random cards)

Originally posted by aquaquake:

Guys srsly, the 355 energy on Q was told just to express how useless the gold is atm… It’s a bit cringe here that I need to explain :/

Yeah I also dont have all the cards from these packs but I just dont really need them. Im lacking a lot of cards from Shard packs tho, and Id totally pay all my gold for a chance to get some.

Anyway I see you’re about to do the stuff they conduct you to no matter what, so nevermind. Ill just buy some more Fortified Extractors.

This has to be one of the stupidest posts I have ever seen (and I have seen a few).

Since components were withdrawn and all the upgrades have been brought in, gold is scarce. If anything a little too scarce (but not by much in my opinion).

If you are wasting money buying fortified extractors then I am sorry but you are an idiot! Buy energy upgrades, buy older packs to get some really cool upgrade cards, buy and upgrade Pyro Rigs and Tactical Infiltrators etc etc.

Right now there is always something good to spend gold on…

Topic: Tyrant / How often do new sets come out?

Originally posted by ManuelDevil:

Originally posted by stormcommando:

Originally posted by Malutor:

Originally posted by SeventhStory:

Originally posted by darkfang77:

Originally posted by masterluke:

Too often.

Topic: Tyrant / [Recruitment] [Level 16] Samurai Seal Squad - Competitive yet relaxed faction seeking new recruits!

We in the Samurai Seal Squad (SSS) are a bunch of competitive yet relaxed people who enjoy a friendly and fun environment and realise that real life always has to come first!.

The faction was originally set up in late October 2012 and was initially intended to be a semi-retirement and training faction; however we have now broken into the top 50 factions and are still doing ok!

We have a good group of officers who are always willing to help newer players learn and as such value in-game communication (I rarely kick a player who communicates well and is really trying!)

As we are an international faction (with members from UK, Holland, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Greece, France, USA, Hong Kong and South Korea to name but a few!) we always have some random and often bizarre conversation running, but if there isn’t one then any member is encouraged to start one!

So, if you want to be a part of a fun fairly relaxed but competitive faction we have a place for you. All we need is…

1. Log in regularly (preferably daily, but we have a Leave of Absence area on the forum for long breaks)

2. Keep your net points better than -500 a day or so

3. Keep your defense deck(s) up to date.

4. Follow instructions for Wars and especially Conquest. (If you can’t do this don’t bother applying)

5. Have a fan-site profile (preferred – over 97% of current members do!).

6. Be willing to use additional tools (such as the optimizer or mibbit IRC) when needed.

Benefits:

- Being in a chaotic but somehow well-structured organization

- Good support for deck & skills development

- Wars 24/7 (usually – shout if there isn’t one :) )

- Room #20 (Shared with Order of Death and Synergy)

- Good tourney players

- Some very strange but fun people

How to apply:

- Either through chat (room #20), PM, or apply ingame .

So send a PM to one of our management team:

From left to right – gjw666, medl12d, Piggyi Ben_Sisko, NickyMist, Volticscars, Yaminia or JimMorrison369.

We look forward to having you join us! So join today!

Topic: Tyrant / How do we fix the meta?

I may be being controversial; however this meta with about 6-8 viable deck types at least and another 10-15 that are ‘ok’ is probably the most open the meta has been in a long time.

There is no one deck that kills everything like in the days of iron maiden, ogres or syco’s on their launch.

Most of the time the game has been like rock paper scissors; however it is my feeling that now at least we have rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock which allows for at least some additional permutations!

Topic: Tyrant / [To Veterans] Do Any of You Remember Your First Faction

1st – Aksala
2nd – Samurai Seal Squad

Topic: Tyrant / What did you pull in Purity?

4 Hierophants
3 Credo Mechs
2 Abominable Horrors
1 Beetle Bomber
2 Empress
1 Deacon
4 Pantheon
1 Enclave Signal
3 Plasma Field

21 Packs no legendary.. The RNG just hates me..

Topic: Tyrant / [Last Guide] Auto Faction's Net DMG

Originally posted by artdz:

Originally posted by gjw666:

Originally posted by artdz:

I logged out and tried to run it and it didnt work.

Theres a few ways you can fix it.. you have the fact that client_code causes the issue..

• Read the code
• Work out where you need to make tweaks
• Change the code (there is quite a simple ‘bodge’ fix that you can do)
• Run it

thats absurd
what makes you think i know how to do any of that? If I did I would have done it already

You mean you run a piece of code, that you have no clue what it does on your computer?

You could be giving away any kind of details for your tyrant account….

I could give you a fixed piece of code, but how would you know i wasn’t just harvesting login credentials?

Topic: Tyrant / [Last Guide] Auto Faction's Net DMG

Originally posted by artdz:

I logged out and tried to run it and it didnt work.

Theres a few ways you can fix it.. you have the fact that client_code causes the issue..

• Read the code
• Work out where you need to make tweaks
• Change the code (there is quite a simple ‘bodge’ fix that you can do)
• Run it

Topic: Tyrant / [Last Guide] Auto Faction's Net DMG

Originally posted by inorix:

Recent changes to tyrant cause this. My suggestion is that you panic.

Good advice..

Topic: Tyrant / KnowingEyes's Book of Comments

Some additional suggestions:

How to get Credit fast by ECB
Through Adversity to the Stars by Ohio
Robotics for Beginners by Pescado
A compendium of studies of a faction as a commune edited by The Alliance
A pictorial history of cute animals by 20thgirl
How to trash talk in tournaments by Shian
Tart Making for beginners by supermooo
How to write bug free code by Dawayne33

Topic: Tyrant / [BUG] EARLY INVASIONS POSSIBLE AGAIN :P

Biggest laugh I have had at a QQ thread in ages!

Is anything in the OP actually remotely resembling reality?

Topic: Tyrant / Can somebody help me to play?

I would if I were you, in order:

Look at this thread and learn how to use the optimizer:

• http://www.kongregate.com/forums/65-tyrant/topics/257807-automatic-deck-optimization?page=28

Join the tyrant fansite by adding tyrant_fansite as a friend on kong and following the instructions:

• http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/tyrant_fansite

Find a low level faction with an experienced leader who will help you develop and join it.

Topic: Tyrant / [Dev] What is best in life?

Originally posted by 20thgirl:

Originally posted by synapticon:

a) remove shards, all packs available for gold.
b) balance changes to conquest.
c) lamentation of the etc.
d) major UI overhaul, make things prettier and fix UI bugs.

a) No. We are all lacking gold to get all packs and upgrades as it is already, unless you plan on increasing gold gain for players in all game expects. That means more gold from quests, missions, tournaments(all 100% to players) and raids (which are the weakest when it comes to gold payout, and a lot of players avoid them when they get few cards that are worth getting).
b) I think tyrant community already expressed about conquest getting balanced and improved since the start of conquest, there were too many posts about this (complaints, suggestions, ideas, ….). With this post you are just wasting time when we should already have another map reset with changes you suggested, some of which were accepted.
c) No comment.
d) We don’t need things to be prettier, we need it to work without bugs. If you can’t fix something you could at least tell us you won’t bother with some things and move on to what you can change and improve. Same as for b), there were so many posts about what to change, improve, revamp, ….. Everything was already discussed over and over again. We were promised conquest changes, they didn’t happen. We were promised raid changes, seeing how things go I doubt we will ever see that happen. We asked for things to change, we told you what we want changed. And here we have another pointless thread, while threads worth reading are being ignored.

+3427

Shame it is likely to be ignored however as it is far too much like common sense!

Topic: Tyrant / [Recruitment] Haven Sector (level 12)

Good faction in my opinion (for what thats worth). If you want to really learn the game this will be a great place to do it…

Topic: Tyrant / [Official Petition] Restore BAD BEAT NOW!!

Originally posted by darkfang77:

Merge all the Italian academies and call it Bad Beat :P

Oh… remove a few bots and add the BB humans.

Can you merge 20 factions that are all shared alts of the main faction together into 1? It wouldnt allow them to threaten smaller factions that all of these alt factions would attack you at once if they did that…

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Oh and I forgot. In answer to the thread title.. Hell No /Endthread

Topic: Tyrant / [Dev] Do not share accounts

Originally posted by OOHnirav:

Originally posted by lfiamoncini:

Originally posted by synapticon:

Accounts/Factions lost due to player account sharing will not be restored. Do not share accounts.

Actually, Devs need change this part of faction system, because is absolutely possible one player disband a faction because just wanted, and harm several players.

If the game allow this, the game is the guilty for the harm.

Share account is the problem feeding another problem.

But I will continue waiting (more) the Devs make the fixes to counter all the problems.

It’s only possible for a leader’s account to disband a faction.

The problem is bad leadership. It’s not a dev’s job to ensure that all factions are lead by competent leaders. It is the responsibility of players to find leaders that won’t screw them over by disbanding their own factions on a whim, cheating, or promoting other cheaters to the position of officer.

Reading through all 10 pages again, i firstly want to say thank-you to Synapticon for engaging in a serious discussion about something that has become a real problem over the last 6 months or so. It is something in the game that I have felt needed to be addressed for a while before it becomes something that would ruin the game that many of us are addicted to.

I think many who read the forums know my opinions on the matter as I tried quite forcefully to get some answers a while ago; however I think now with some of the suggestions and dialogue that has happened recently we have a good chance for the Devs to implement something that will stop account sharers having an edge.

Secondly I do agree with Nirav. Before joining a faction, check out the leader, check out what type of faction you are joining. In todays game:

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1. There are more factions around than people to fill them
2. You as a player have the power to join a faction whose philosophies match yours
3. Before you join a faction TALK to the officers or leaders
   • Ask them the difficult questions like what is their rule on alts/account sharing
4. After talking to a few factions YOU decide what faction to join
5. Take your time, consider your options and dont just jump to the first faction that you talk to

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If you join a faction that shares do it with your eyes open knowing the risk. I do feel sorry for those members of Bad Beat who didnt account share, but in a way if you close your eyes to something that is happening all around you and dont stand up to it, who is really at fault?

Topic: Tyrant / [Skipped a week, featured next week?] (n+1)th set of Upgraded cards

Just what I always wanted more useless content..

Topic: Tyrant / [Dev] Do not share accounts

Originally posted by catepillar:

Originally posted by synapticon:

We’re not saying BB shared accounts, but we will not reinstate the faction until we know for sure what happened, and that it’s a valid reason to reinstate it.

So what happened with Better World? They claimed hack, others said that they were probably account sharing. They were still restored. Proof came to light that they were indeed account sharing after that. Will there be an investigation period to prevent lapses like that?

Kinda my point earlier. Synapticon avoided replying to that one yet replied to the post following it. Need I say more? I have my suspicions that one of the Dev team has an alt in BW, which would explain a thing or 2…

Topic: Tyrant / [Dev] Do not share accounts

Originally posted by synapticon:

Accounts/Factions lost due to player account sharing will not be restored. Do not share accounts.

Thats a start. A good start. Does this include ALL factions or just factions that dont spend enough? I would like clarity here, as some factions have already been re-instated twice after being disbanded due to the sharing of the leaders account?

Topic: Tyrant / SSS (Some Simple Skills)

As leader of the true SSS (Samurai Seal Squad), I take exception to the allegation that I have some simple skills. Everyone knows I have no skills whatsoever…

Topic: Tyrant / [Dev] Should Factions be smaller?

Originally posted by c4bomb:

IF a change were to happen to faction size, and I’m not sure that is the best method… I would recommend going to 25.

Then, be able to have 1 feeder/sister faction where you can promote/demote players that are more/less active or get better. There would of course have to be a limit on how often, or just a stamina reset to 0 so it’s not just a swapping game during a faction war. And the key is that while in either of those factions, you keep your LP.
This will prevent top player burnout, give groups of players who can’t get 50 at a time more active, and have twice as many competitive factions instantly.

And this stops people who’ve played together for a while from having to be broken up.

Thoughts?

Its a suggestion that has been made a few times in the past before and with the right safeguards would be very beneficial (a senior officer who is less active could move to the feeder faction and REALLY help develop newer players for example) and could actually stop players leaving the game all together.

It also allows players who have outgrown a feeder faction to move up without penalty (again minimizing another potential point of player pain and a significant ‘churn’ point), making top level faction competition a bit more interesting and potentially reduce the number of alts that are used (as it seems that often alts/bots are used to fill out a roster).

Topic: Tyrant / [DEV] 3/13/2013 Worldship Pack 2 Announcement!

Originally posted by Shadowhopeful:

Could I seriously request a slowing of the new content?

We have all done that on multiple occasions.

They probably need to pay back some loans or venture capitalists or something and have regular deadlines. Only reason I can think of for the f**ked up release schedule is they are desperate for more cash.

Topic: Tyrant / [To devs] Instantly create new content

Great suggestion and just common sense to add new functionality to stop people getting bored with the game. It also has a clear payback as suggested by HH.

Unfortunately as it is plain common sense i cant see it ever happening!