Recent posts by Bob10110 on Kongregate

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate Explored Trophy?

As far as I recall, a list of the tasks:

• Upload a new avatar image
• Add a friend on Kongregate
• Earn any badge
• Favorite a game
• Rate a game
• Leave a game comment
• Finish a badge quest
• Reach level 5
• Link to Facebook
• Link to PowerUp Rewards

You only need to accomplish 6 of these 10 tasks to fill the progress bar.

Topic: Kongregate / [removed] Plan

It’s a request as far as I’m aware. I’m not prying into the reasons why — everybody needs their space.

Topic: Ederon Trading Card Game / Help us reach our goal!

Originally posted by godofwar245:

Originally posted by Mistermind:

I got some ideas :D

Easy (5 points): Broken Trust Badge
Finish the first Campaign chapter
Medium (15 points): You may call me Betty
Reach level 15.
Medium (15 points): The Immortal
Beat Halberdier
Hard (30 points): The Champion
Win first place in any tournament

>Beat Halberdier
>Medium

This does not work like this. Usually Easy badges are obtainable in the first moments of playing, Medium require a bit of time invested (but still casually) and Hard require some more skill. I’d place Halberdier at Hard or even Impossible.
Also, beating the tournament is a little bit unfair because there is such thing as high-level players.

Yeah, would have to agree with this.

I’d also really want to stay away from any badge ideas that encourage spending money on Kreds or colluding with friends/alts to do just to earn the badge, since the people that aren’t willing to do these things will complain to heck about the badge being unfair. So as much of an achievement winning first place in a tournament is, it’s not something many people will be able to do.

I usually don’t win even half my matches. Asking me to win all of them (the usual first place winner gets a perfect tournament) is too much to ask.

I also chose level 10 in my own suggestions for a Medium badge because that is when you unlock access to the specialization skills, which really lets you get into the game and see some real progress. Not only that, but it feels right to me in terms of time investment. Level 15 seems like it’s a bit much.

But I do want to say here that I’m only throwing out suggestions. I’m actually still a bit in the dark about whether there are plans to badge the game or not. XD

Topic: Ederon Trading Card Game / Help us reach our goal!

Originally posted by 92Garfield:

Originally posted by 0rac343:

OMG Pls add badges. This game is so good but would be better with badges. 1/5 until add badges.

You know badges are added by Kongregate and for Highly rated games?

This. The admins that badge games have some general requirement for a game’s rating and gameplays at the time of badging. I wouldn’t be surprised if this gets badges, but then, I’m not on the team that badges games. If there were badges, though, I’d certainly like to see something like these personally:

Note: These are just my ideas, as a player, as to what I’d like to see.

Easy (5 points): Broken Trust Badge
Finish the first Campaign chapter.

Medium (15 points): The Chosen One Badge
Reach level 10.
(Insert flavor text from Kung Pow here.)

Hard (30 points): ???
I honestly can’t think of a good one really. Having the Conquest Mode available would probably make this easier — I would prefer badges that don’t require direct player interaction (though sometimes it’s unavoidable), but still serve as a guide to progressing in the game.

Also the average rating is 3.98784 as of this post. Yes, that is accurate.

Topic: Ederon Trading Card Game / [Guide] Bob's Guide to Ederon TCG

Made a couple really small changes to the guide (mostly formatting, and adding Ancient Elixir to the suggested ways to get new cards since I feel that’s actually viable now). I’m considering adding in a section on strategies to show players how to adapt to situations, but I’d need more experience.

Also bumping this up so newer players can read this. =P

Topic: Ederon Trading Card Game / Tournament Schedules

Yeah, Demon’s right. People that want to compete will find ways to compete.

If I could offer my own suggestion, it seems the thing people want is a reasonable chance at some rewards when competing against people of similar level. So why not give people that and have small bonuses given out for the “Best of 1-20”, “Best of 21-30”, “Best of 31-40”, et cetera?

Topic: Technical Support / Google Chrome "SRC" Error

Well, this is disconcerting. I haven’t managed to reproduce the issue yet, but I did notice other people having the same issue.

As soon as we figure out what’s causing this we can get it fixed. In the meantime…

Possible solution: Did you change your DNS hosts file back in November when the site was having its DNS issues?

If so, see this.

If the above doesn’t apply, then it’s something we haven’t pinned down yet. Having some specs would help us find it — mostly the version number of Chrome and the operating system you’re using. As an example, here’s what I’m using:

Google Chrome Version 26.0.1410.64 m
Windows 7 64-bit operating system

Topic: Kongregate / Playing too much

Originally posted by bjjdude:

You can be hipster.

Being a hipster is too mainstream these days. =P

Topic: Clash of Olympus / Features in the game

Originally posted by charmuska:

P button, for those reading forums. You can’t upgrade the skills until you reach a certain level, although it doesn’t tell you so.

Level 46, specifically. You can find the feature’s existence by looking in the Game Guide menu.

Though the P hotkey probably shouldn’t be enabled until one reaches level 46. =P

Topic: Clash of Olympus / [Announcement]Notice on the End of Closed Beta Test and the Formal Release of COO

My username for both Beta and Release is Bob10110.

Topic: Kongregate / Synecdoche, Kongregate [Tournament] Fin. Winner is BestMte

Originally posted by LouWeed:

If you want to complain about the delay, forward these complaints to travman301, who apparently thinks that Super Duck Punch is an acceptable game to use in a tournament.

But it’s an awesome game! You punch ducks! And horses! And more horses!

Topic: Time World / Easter

Pricey gear is pricey. I’d have loved to grab some gear this year to complement my (2012) Bunny Armors, but I’m only going to be able to afford one of the lesser bodies. And it doesn’t come with War/Com like last year’s chestpiece did (but I’ll probably still grab the chestpiece anyways on the basis that it has Bunny in the name =P).

If it was available via other methods (mall auctions or lotteries perhaps), it’d probably appeal to more people as they would have a better chance at getting this limited-time item.

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Game Hover Split Test

To answer those other questions:

Playlists are managed by the user; they won’t get automatically cleared out. Some people might see this as a duplication of the Favorites list functionality, but others will see them as two different things. One main difference (and the thing that convinced me it was more of the latter) is that you’ll be able to add games to the Playlist from these hovers without ever loading the game up. So I could be browsing for new games on a /games page, find something that might be interesting but unable to get into the game due to lack of time or whatever, and I’d add it to my Playlist for later.

The “our rating for you” part is what Kong-Bot thinks you’ll rate the game based on your previous game ratings (similar to how it pulls recommended games on the front page). If you rated puzzle games highly in the past, it’ll probably think you’ll rate other puzzle games highly too.

Topic: Sword & Magic / Book & Instruction (Bob's guide to the game)

Originally posted by mcarthur:

I guess I just don’t understand what reputation is worth. Are there rewards? If so, are rewards based on reputation rank (like top 50 players) or specific reputation thresholds (100, 500, 1000, etc.)?

I heard there might be an individual leaderboard reset every month with Crystal rewards based on reaching thresholds of 100, 300, 500, and 1000, mostly to keep things competitive in the leaderboards. But that’s only what I’ve heard.

Other than that, Reputation points are used to rank players and alliances. Alliance Reputation is also needed to improve a guild to the next level, and I’m very sure that Alliance Reputation will persist through the (possible) individual Reputation resets.

Topic: Sword & Magic / Book & Instruction (Bob's guide to the game)

If I could figure out how tournaments give Reputation, I’d be sure to post that.

As for ponies, well…heh. People will get distracted from the text if they see a picture of Twilight Sparkle. Or did you mean some other kind of ponies? =P

These guides are just something I do in my free time to help the players. Thanks for reading! ^.^

Topic: Sword & Magic / Book & Instruction (Bob's guide to the game)

Sure, feel free to add what you want.

I’ll probably expand this guide further as I get more experience with the game (and as things change). The goal of this guide is to help newer players get started — once given that confident start, people will generally keep themselves going with their own new ideas, trying out new strategies and having fun.

Ideally, we’d know exactly what some of the secondary numbers do (for me it’d be Hit Rate, Avoid, Critical, and Block Rate) in terms of the actual formulas, but it is probably enough that we know that they affect the chances for these things happening somehow.

Topic: Sword & Magic / Book & Instruction (Bob's guide to the game)

Hey guys, welcome to my guide on Sword & Magic. The information in here may not necessarily be complete, but I’ll do what I can to help players gain a basic understanding of the game.

That being said, turn to page fifty-five and we will begin reading from the textbook there…

Basics of the game

In your travels, you have happened upon this interesting town. The inhabitants are in need of a hero to sing tales of glory about and, well…yeah. That’s about it, so go out there and make those townfolk proud!

Town Locations

Castle: This is where you go to view buildings in the town and to collect taxes. From here you can pay gold (if you meet the level requirement) to upgrade these buildings — doing so will net you higher taxes from these buildings, and special effects from a few of them.

You can collect a small amount of Gold from taxes every 2 hours.

Quest: This building is where you view your quests. You can finish completed quests here or check which quests you want to do.

Battle: This bridge leads you out of town to the world map, from where you can select stages to battle in. You can also form a party of mercenaries here from a list of other players (both your entire in-game friends list and a few random strangers around your level). Doing this will cost you gold for each mission you take the mercenaries on — the gold does not go to the other players, it just disappears into the ether. Below is a quick glance at how much you could expect to pay for a mercenary (note: the cost does keep adjusting further but there’s rarely a time you’d want to grab anybody that far away from your level):

• 10-14 levels below: 50*level
• 5-9 levels below: 80*level
• Within 4 levels below or above: 100*level
• 5-9 levels above: 200*level
• 10-14 levels above: 300*level

Arena: Here you can fight other players, either via single battles against players within 4 levels of you, or through level-based tournaments every 4 hours. There are many rewards to be had here, including Reputation. Crystals are also up for grabs to whoever takes the title of Champion in the tournaments (though it’s not a guarantee). You can take part in as many battles and tournaments each day as you want.

Only the first 20 wins of the day for Arena Battles will award you Reputation and loot. In tournaments, you’ll get a reward for each player you knock out before being eliminated, and the champion will get an extra bunch of items.

Training: Here you can train your skills to be more effective, and assign the skills you want to take with you into battles. As you level up, you’ll be able to buy more slots for your active and passive skills for Gold — but if you want these slots early, you can pay premium currency. Each active skill is either physical or magical, so make sure you know which type of damage the skill does before investing gold and books into training them up. Upgrading the Training building allows you to train your skills to higher levels.

As an aside, you’ll be looking for two of the four colors of books. The Novice skills along with some passives will require White books. For everything else:

Fighters will want to gather Red books.
Mages will want to gather Blue books.
Rogues will want to gather Yellow books.

Shop: Here you can buy crafting materials and potions for Gold. For premium currency, you’ll be able to buy books to train your skills with and upgrade tokens for your equipment. Levelling up this building will increase the maximum potential level of items that will appear here every 60 minutes.

Pub: Here you can see your friends list and friend requests.

Workshop: Here you can craft new equipment and upgrade existing ones, as well as break down items you no longer want (and don’t want to sell from the inventory menu) into crafting components. You’ll always be able to unlock another type of craft for Gold, though this cost rises each time. Crafting itself is an arduous and expensive task, but as you gain crafting experience you’ll improve your crafting skills unlocking more items to be crafted and giving more potential stats to the already unlocked crafts.

For what it’s worth: You gain 1 crafting experience per 100 gold spent. Use this knowledge to find the most efficient crafts to train up on.

A few other things of note:

There are four primary stats:

• Strength: Typically deals with physical strength
• Dexterity: Typically deals with accuracy
• Intelligence: Typically deals with magical power
• Luck: Affects your critical rates as well as a small increase to your attack damage

At level 10 you will be presented with your first choice between three classes:

• Fighter
• Mage
• Rogue

Each class does different things with the four primary stats, but these stats are never useless to have. Strength stat on a Mage? Yeah, that’ll give +2 Physical Defense and +1 Magical Defense.

At level 40 you’ll have another class choice to make, though I hope with these lessons you will have learned enough to decide upon the path you wish to take. In the future I may add more notes here about the 6 classes available at that point.

You can gain quite a few nice rewards from winning fights in the Arena. Ideally, take a break to do this after you’ve spent some Mana in the battles on the world map — it is possible to earn some Mana back as an Arena reward. Once you are not receiving rewards anymore for the day, there’s not much point to keep fighting aside from amusement, so come back tomorrow. =P

Feel free to leave any comments, suggestions, etc. below. =)

Topic: Sword & Magic / [Poll] Reset or not at open this game - this was closed :)

The early levels are already fast enough to level up in even with the energy system. =P

I’d probably create some sort of exp gain ticket that provides a temporary boost (1.5x? 2x?) to one’s exp gain, good for a few hours (some number among 2, 4, 8, or 24 hours probably). That way people can use their bonuses when they wish, just like with all the other tickets given to us at the start.

Not sure if I want a reset or not personally. I’ve had quite a nice amount of luck thus far.

Topic: Technical Support / Can no longer see who likes items on your profile

We’re aware of the issue, hopefully we can get it fixed soon.

Topic: Technical Support / Profile bar missing!

Although it’s a bit of a longshot, do you happen to have any sort of third-party scripts such as adblockers or browser addons running?

If it’s not that, then I might poke the team tomorrow to take a look at it and hopefully find the issue. =)

Topic: Kongregate / Question about game ratings

I’d say it’s something like what resterman has said: If there’s enough of an audience that loves what a developer’s done before, this audience will be among the first to rate this dev’s newly published games. Usually (but not always!) this leads to these new games also reaching a certain degree of fame and popularity.

And as V’s mentioned, everybody’s got a pretty decent chance, provided the game has a certain quality to it that attracts people. Quite a few new names make it to the front page every so often.

Topic: Kongregate / What is the highest level possible?

Yep, seems legit, despite the fact I could have sworn there was a level cap of 65. Or am I thinking of Realm of the Mad God ranks pre-Ninja release?

Topic: Time World / What does the hourglass do?

I’m guessing it’ll be something similar to the “Legendary Weapon and Armor” from earlier chapters. Basically, plot elements. But that’s just my suspicion.

Topic: Time World / Feedback and Suggestions

Originally posted by stalliga888:

Wondered if someone could solve a puzzling issue. The friends bar at the bottom everyone has a set ranking number. What does this rank mean? What is it a measure of?

It’s very likely a rank of your Power among your friends.

Originally posted by n0aX:

Build help is actually revealing planet’s buildings to public, you do not need to be a friend of player – tested. I am not happy with that.

Has to be a downside to the feature, I guess. But at least it’s not revealing your heroes, which is honestly where the true power lies. =D

Topic: Kongregate / I'm still waiting for that next awesome Kong game.

I’m sorta looking forward to some of Pseudolonewolf’s projects, personally.

But I do think there needs to be a fresh new game out there regardless. Or maybe I’ll have a dig through some ridiculously old games since I’m feeling nostalgic all of a sudden…