Recent posts by Crystaliss on Kongregate

Topic: Backyard Monsters / === BYM Compensation Packages on Kongregate ===

I just noticed that I was never actually given the hard mode badge (didn’t care at the time since it wasn’t going to get me anything), though I assume it’s a little late to fix that fact to get the silver package?

Topic: Kongregate / Suggestions

Originally posted by uuu2:

Originally posted by Crystaliss:

More specific genre tags for different kinds of games, most specifically, give “shooter” and “bullet hell” tags more diversity, “shooter” is far to broad to find anything specific, and half the games under “bullet hell” aren’t really bullet hell, “shoot’em up”s maybe, but not bullet hell, there are even First Person Shooter games under it…

Use this to suggest tags.

And tags are user added, so blame the general public for that.

Ah, thanks for that, I’l see about making a list there. And yeah, game tagging is user voted, but if there’s not a good selection of existing ones than it’s hardly their fault, not that I meant to blame a specific party or anything.

Topic: Kongregate / Suggestions

More specific genre tags for different kinds of games, most specifically, give “shooter” and “bullet hell” tags more diversity, “shooter” is far to broad to find anything specific, and half the games under “bullet hell” aren’t really bullet hell, “shoot’em up”s maybe, but not bullet hell, there are even First Person Shooter games under it…

Maybe AG or NG already has this down, guess I’l check those sites, find the games there, and check if they are also here… or I’l just play them there, it would be fairer.

Topic: Tyrant / Suggestions

I noticed they now implemented that if you press “do again” within 5 or so seconds of a skipped auto battle, it pops up a window saying [please wait], instead, why not just grey out the “do again” button until enough time has passed?

I think any limited time cards, such as event cards with alternate arts or just cards that cannot be obtained anymore, should have their own set, them being in the reward set implies they are obtainable/unlockable.

Also, for card selling, it would be nice if I could sort by quantity, and if there was a “unique” filter (could put it in the skills search imo), it would make selling unneeded copies much quicker.

Lastly, and also in regards to selling, I think the more expensive pack’s cards should sell for more, 1k for a legendary from a pack that costs 5k is… acceptable, but 1k for a legendary from a pack that costs 10k+ is not.

Topic: Wartune / [Announcement] New West Coast Server - S6

I’ve never really been bothered by the power difference between payers and non-payers, there will always be people who cash in for nonstandard advantages when offered, new server or not. I figure that you’d run into less of them too if you join an old server, since many will move to new servers, and it’s more likely that the existing payers are already such a higher level, that you’d avoid most of them in the matchmaking (obviously not the case for the cross server portion of PvP though).

Previously though I was referring to solely new players, which I am pretty sure don’t constantly check in for new servers to open (at the very least I wouldn’t think they’d check for timezones that already exist), not to say that there aren’t, but I can’t imagine anyone actually doing so every day and not trying out one of the pre-existing servers, then again, I can’t imagine spending some of the cash that some people do either…

But if you meant new characters, counting existing players (even from such other timezones) waiting for new servers in the same timezones (or new timezones for the other timezone players) than yeah, I imagine there are quite a lot of such people, most of which I assume are payers or waiting to become one on a fresh server.

I wouldn’t know much about population density statistics, but this is the internet after all, so I bet you’d be able to find something, maybe global internet access per person per timezone percentages, or some sort of global activity graph (I remember seeing one way back when), who knows, maybe even kongregate gathers such data.

By the way, I noticed that R2G has over 90 servers, do you know the average number of player’s per server over there vs here? With that many servers, I imagine there must be a rather huge number of total players, or, maybe you’re just juggling the payers around for fun and profit.

Topic: Wartune / [Announcement] New West Coast Server - S6

@NoPlace4U: I don’t see a reason to play on newer servers vs older servers, there are server promotion’s which if you come to a new server within the first 3-5 days after release will give a some short term boosts for devoted players, but you’re wrong if you think it helps [growth], although they certainly promote it, the only way you will ever make [growth] easier is by spending money, by being devoted/attentive/tactical/casual (casual has the most progress/time btw), by joining a high level guild, and by having high level farm friends, in fact, you should have an easier time on older servers since people will already have high farm levels for you to leach from, and there will be plenty of higher level guilds with lower requirements, I’d also assume there would be less pay2winners/f2players on older servers, but I’m not too sure of that.
I could see finding players for multiplayer dungeons being a little difficult on older servers, but that should only happen if they release a bunch of servers all in the same timezone, effectively dividing out the player population, least that’s how I see it.

@KnowingEyes: You say that “The cycle is to release servers for new players”, but I would think releasing multiple servers in the same timezones would only accomplish enticing similar timezone players with the opportunity to pay2win at a lower cost early on, because I doubt people are going to sit around waiting and checking each day for a new server to open up in their timezone to begin playing, or so is my understanding.
If you truly want new players on kongregate, I would advise adding new servers for new timezones.

I’m Server 1 US west btw, I was lucky that the first server was my timezone, but there are a lot of people who don’t have that luxury, so next time you add a server, consider cutting them a break.

Topic: Wartune / Christmas event

Thanks for explaining mounts, but now I have to ask why this isn’t explained in-game, there’s absolutely no indication for it, and you’d probably only find out once you got a second mount.

And I meant what I said by “no turning back for me at this point”, thankfully I play MMOs casually, so I don’t give much, if any care for perfection, if I did, I’d feel compelled by things like this:

“Underworld Steed

How to get: On newer servers (s71 and up), you get this mount when purchasing over $300 of balens in the first week."

Assuming that info is correct, devoted veteran players on older servers have no access, and add the 300USD price tag, and you get a idea about the developers’ focus, it’s things like this that put me off from such games in the first place, but that’s off topic.

Thanks again for the information, I’ll be ready next time, in fact, knowing mounts stack, I think I will start hoarding all my whips (and various other items) for such events in the future.

Topic: Wartune / Christmas event

Originally posted by dajaney:

Mounts stack and the chance to get anything other than a lvl 3 in that gem exchange is very slim.

Mounts stack? You must be joking…

I mean, such an important thing would surely be explained in the mount help window…

Although there’s no turning back for me at this point, I’d like to know all the same.

Topic: Wartune / Christmas event

Originally posted by chairmansteve:

Originally posted by Crystaliss:

Personally, I don’t think I’d classify 60 whips over 7 days (over 8.5 a day) as a “decent” amount of whips, and in combination with perfect attendance/time consumption I wouldn’t call the mount “easily” attainable.

And you mention [begging] your way into one of the top guilds, as if it was a valid requirement to obtaining enough whips. Then again, maybe I’m just over-analyzing that, maybe I’m just misinterpreting it, or maybe I’m just old fashioned in thinking that such entry should be earned and also should not be partially necessary for events.

Thankfully, if you miss out on the mount, well, you’re not really missing out on much at all, it’s not very good stat-wise compared to other mounts, so you might as well get gem packs regardless, as a more permanent, and greater stat impact.

Also, with this event, I assume some people are now going to hoard items such as whips, out of fear of such events, I won’t, since I don’t much care for this game’s events so far, but I know the feeling, and it’s not fun to have such things looming over you.

I think youre being childish. The mount isnt meant for everyone to have. Its meant only for people who are willing to work for it. If they wanted everyone to have it, they would just give it to you.

I have 200 snowflakes or whatver they are and Ive not spent 1 penny to get them. My advice for you is to quit begging for handouts you lazy shit.

Actually knowing KnowingEyes was right, I assumed the # of days, and assumed wrongly, there is actually 18 days, so about 10 every 3 days is all that is needed for enough shards, and you can in fact amass more than that quite easily, even not being in a top level guild, even guild level 6’s should be more than enough.

I don’t appreciate the slander chairmansteve, I never said the mount should be handed to everyone, and I didn’t [beg] anyone for anything, but I won’t argue with the “childish” remark, as I did fail to do one of the 1st things for any situation, and that is to understand.

If you want to continue though, stick to PMs, no sense continuing here now.

And thanks KnowingEyes for clearing that up, I appreciate it, I’m still going to go with the gems, but it is fully possible, and not overly difficult to obtain that mount as a free player.

Topic: Wartune / VIP daily

I’d say try refreshing 1st, but I figure by now you’ve done that.
In fact, you may have already fixed it too, but in the event that you haven’t…
The quest says to reach 20 devotion, but you say you have 50, so it is a bug.
In which case, take some screenshots and post it in the bug section or as a ticket, whichever “they” advise.

Topic: Wartune / Christmas event

Originally posted by KnowingEyes:

This is what I posted in the Christmas event sticky. :)

Upon performing some simpler math, the mount is easily attainable for free players – assuming perfect attendance in the aforementioned events, scavenging/saving for a decent amount of whips and the events’ dates being held true.

‘Heart of a Gladiator’ – 10 shards x 7 days = 70 shards.
‘Pillage and Plunder’ – 10 shards x 7 days = 70 shards.
‘Dungeon Slayer!’ – 10 shards x 7 days = 70 shards.
Subtotal: 210 shards.

Reindeer requires 300 total shards. We need 90 more.

‘Mount Trainer’ (repeatable): 90 required shards / 3 ‘shards-per-quest’ x 2 ‘whips-per-quest’ = 60 whips.

That’s it. If you’re a player who cannot get the required whips, beg to get into a top 16 guild.

Personally, I don’t think I’d classify 60 whips over 7 days (over 8.5 a day) as a “decent” amount of whips, and in combination with perfect attendance/time consumption I wouldn’t call the mount “easily” attainable.

And you mention [begging] your way into one of the top guilds, as if it was a valid requirement to obtaining enough whips. Then again, maybe I’m just over-analyzing that, maybe I’m just misinterpreting it, or maybe I’m just old fashioned in thinking that such entry should be earned and also should not be partially necessary for events.

Thankfully, if you miss out on the mount, well, you’re not really missing out on much at all, it’s not very good stat-wise compared to other mounts, so you might as well get gem packs regardless, as a more permanent, and greater stat impact.

Also, with this event, I assume some people are now going to hoard items such as whips, out of fear of such events, I won’t, since I don’t much care for this game’s events so far, but I know the feeling, and it’s not fun to have such things looming over you.

Topic: Wartune / [Info] Suggestions

Originally posted by TarkaBear:

Originally posted by qsawde:

Ok let’s be honest here, no-one likes green astrals, so please put a button to sell all at the same time.

+1

or give us an option with tickboxes for each level of astral we can tick to be sold with the sell all button

Why not just have the sell all button sell all of the lowest astral tier, though, if implemented, it should have a confirmation after greys.

Topic: Legacy of a Thousand Suns / Infested Colony 24hr Rare Raid Oct 24-25

Originally posted by TarkaBear:

Originally posted by megatiger1:

maybe you should be checking the actual forum instead of kong’s….little link at the top of the gamepage named erm “forum”.
ps read the in-game chat more as well since that was all anybody talked about for 24 hours…

with 18hrs left on it i stayed in room 1 for 30mins and only saw the link dropped at the end of said 30mins, so i disagree. Also we play on the kong platform so devs should copy/paste it here and not need us to go elsewhere (twitter or ‘main’ forums) to find out information when we have a forum right here that gets updated with patch notes etc.

Had i not seen the links at end of the chat i would’ve probably missed it too.

I Can personally attest that it was in chat almost non-stop (along with the above chart (although they linked to lots froum rather than this one)) at 14-16 hours remaining, and even when it wasn’t, whenever someone asked for it, about half a dozen people or so would post it as fast as they could and then gloat over posting it first (…). I should note though that I initially learned of it through my alliance.

However, that raid appeared seemingly out of nowhere, where this upcoming one has had “10/29/12” on the game’s “home” tab for a week, though I’d much prefer they just release links there, rather than lead us around from game to forum/twitter/facebook/etc and back to game (I assume they do it for “publicity”)…

Topic: Anti-Idle: The Game / Suggestions!

I meant for things like new BA locations, Triangle Count, PSoD, DoW, etc, also to re-balance them.
I don’t really like business, but I have to admit, it does help idle certain achievements…
But, “Blame those triangles”? Meme or not, that sounds like an excuse…
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Has he seriously said that?

Topic: Anti-Idle: The Game / Suggestions!

1: Re-spec achievements for recent additions/implementations (unless you plan to just use quests).
2: Less radical changes/re-balancing other than new feature additions
3: Make more things idle-able
4: The max bonus for fighter career should not affect your rewards, but your ability to fight. I’d recommend raising stat cap (similar to adventure career) by 5-10%, skill points, or flat bonus(es).
5: Make the perma unobtainium pickaxe have equal stats to the limited one (or vice versa), it’s hard enough to hoard/gather that much unobtainium, so imo there’s no (valid) reason for it to be weaker, especially since you’re nerfing unob drop rates…

Topic: Anti-Idle: The Game / [Guide] Business

Just want to say thanks to Majildian and Rellian and anyone else who helped for researching/posting this, now I can (somewhat) competently make use of this feature…

Topic: Anti-Idle: The Game / Game Bugs

Battle Arena Holy Glory armor pixel bonus is bugged

I have a full set of temporary HG armor equipped. 3 have pixel bonus +36% on them, the other 2 have reward +9.something%. The bug is that I the pixel bonuses are only adding 24% in my stats screen. I noticed this because in ye old tavern my pixel rate was 200% and my armor alone should add over 100%. Each pixel bonus piece is bugged and only add 24% regardless of other equipment, all other bonuses are working fine though. Thanks for your time and help.

Crystaliss | 7,032 / 1,158,943,900,762 | [d1]–2,370 | F0 | v1,498 | WIN 11,3,31,230

Topic: Anti-Idle: The Game / Frequently Asked Questions & Ask stupid questions here!

has anyone else had problems after updating their flash player?
Things like input lag, memory leaks (memory use just keeps increasing), or keyboard not working?
I can fix it without much trouble, but I was just wondering if it’s just me or not…

Also, does BA rank/AI level affect anything in BA besides equip/area requirements and exp gain?

Topic: Anti-Idle: The Game / MEGATHREAD: Battle Arena

Originally posted by toadvine:

fusion

item levelling [scroll down]

Awesome, maybe with this I can take down BoD/Chaos/Chuck Norris, and finally make new progress in BA, thanks a ton!
Now to calculate stuffs :3

Topic: Anti-Idle: The Game / MEGATHREAD: Battle Arena

Does anyone know the exact formulas for fusion and equipment level stat growth?
I checked the “user made guides” thread, but I didn’t find what I was looking for…

Topic: Backyard Monsters / Question Thread - Ask Here! All other threads will be locked.

Originally posted by Dragonalx:

Originally posted by Crystaliss:

I just got attacked (about time), but the report looks a little, odd.
It shows that my bunkers got destroyed, but never released a single monster, and I wasn’t catapulted…
Any thoughts on how this is possible?

When bunkers are destroyed, the destruction of the bunker overwrites the release of monsters from that bunker in the attack log. The monsters were released.

ah, thanks for that. (yet another discrepancy the developers have yet to fix I guess)

Topic: Backyard Monsters / Question Thread - Ask Here! All other threads will be locked.

I just got attacked (about time), but the report looks a little, odd.
It shows that my bunkers got destroyed, but never released a single monster, and I wasn’t catapulted…
Any thoughts on how this is possible?

Topic: Backyard Monsters / Base Creation Help - Check First Page For Screenshot Instructions And Please Zoom Out When Taking Screenies!

Originally posted by dvdwen:

Oh, I see… Didn’t scroll up :P

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Not too bad for your level, but the pathing needs to be +1.5 blocks wide. Also, I might be able to hit all four of the bunkers with one cata, but it needs testing. The SDT is entered way to easily, and you can clear some of the NEC with pokeys. And aren’t the sides the same? :P

I had the right side earlier, but I edited the left. Things I changed are inverted the silos, changed the pathing so that each silo has similar length pathing (and spread the entrances for each apart from eachother). I also moved a tesla towards the lower half of my base, moved a magma more towards the top, moved a sniper into one of the silo paths, and closed off the upper quake (the chance someone would tunnel in and bypass all the mines scared me).

Thanks for the advice though, move SDT closer to silos, bring NEC withing range of towers, and cataproof (or at least spread out) bunkers. (I guess a TH alone isn’t enough to deter catapults?)

What do you mean by 1.5 block wide pathing though? do you mean paths have to be 6 spaces wide?

Topic: Backyard Monsters / Base Creation Help - Check First Page For Screenshot Instructions And Please Zoom Out When Taking Screenies!

Originally posted by dvdwen:

Originally posted by Crystaliss:

Originally posted by dvdwen:

I’d swear that those two bases are the same… But for level 40, it really is horrible.

you mean my base?

Oh wait, you cropped it. Whoops. And you didn’t post a base…

it’s around the middle of page 249, I assume it got swamped out cause *someone*triple posted… I’ll attach it here though.

Just want to know which side is better really, but anything is appreciated.

Topic: Backyard Monsters / Base Creation Help - Check First Page For Screenshot Instructions And Please Zoom Out When Taking Screenies!

Originally posted by dvdwen:

I’d swear that those two bases are the same… But for level 40, it really is horrible.

you mean my base?