Recent posts by saneiac on Kongregate

Topic: Legacy of Heroes / Biggest hits and scores of LoH!

I11 Young Zeroth hits me for 2108.

Topic: Remnants of Skystone / RoS Tournament [CONCLUDED]

We’ve had trouble being online at the same time this week. This is probably our final score.

Topic: Remnants of Skystone / RoS Tournament [CONCLUDED]

Topic: Kongregate / Thousand Dollar Soul challenge

Originally posted by Ketchupyoshi:

You mean that after all of my years of stalking Greg, I can finally win a date with him? Even if my chances are 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000

You’re this guy?

Topic: Kongregate / Epic Battle Fantasy 4 Premium Pack

EBF4 definitely saves your premium content status somewhere other than your computer. I purchased the premium content, then accidentally set my local storage to 0 MB for the game. This erased my save files and medals, but I still had the premium items when I restarted.

Topic: Remnants of Skystone / RoS Tournament [CONCLUDED]

Topic: Remnants of Skystone / RoS Tournament [CONCLUDED]

Originally posted by plokkey:

Edit By updating your scores periodically, I might just stick to one post and edit instead of spamming it every time. And maybe with the rounds opening post instead of the bottom of the page… :p

Or make a google spreadsheet, like every other tournament organizer. Anyway, here’s a screenshot.

Topic: Kongregate / Absolute worst (and I guess best) Kongregate badges

Originally posted by stairwalker:

PvP badges, especially those involving winning x times, are the worst ones because:
1. The community will be dead eventually, no matter how popular it is at first.
2. It says nothing about your playing skills, you can run into noobs and win easily, or get beaten by high-levels despite being quite good.
3. It encourages rigged matches, which annoys those who genuinely like to play the game.

This is almost my answer, with the exception of this part

Originally posted by stairwalker:

those involving winning x times, are the worst

The worst badges are those like the Kongai hard badge, where not only do you have to win a lot, but losing actually decreases your points and takes you farther away from getting the badge. I haven’t been in Kongai for a long time, but if it’s as dead as the other PvP games that came out around that time (hi, Dinowaurz!), the badge is not even possible anymore without mass collusion or alt abuse. That should not have happened.

I understand why multiplayer games get badges. They have high ratings, they earn revenue for the site, and some of them are actually pretty great games. However, I think there needs to be a hard rule for badges on these games.

Starfighter: Disputed Galaxy (when it was still functional) was a multiplayer game, but you could get all the badges without involving yourself in multiplayer at all. The Remnants of Skystone badges can be obtained by yourself, although it is slow and painful. That 100,000,000 raid damage badge on Dawn of the Dragons can be obtained by yourself, although it is even slower and much more painful. But the point is, a few years from now, when the player base is all but gone except for a few hardcore devotees, the badge can still be obtained. This isn’t the case for Kongai, or Dinowaurz, or Swords & Potions, where you’re relying on an active community for the badges to function as designed.

Topic: Kongregate / Remnants of Skystone Reunion Weekend NOW ON!!

I won’t be able to be there on Saturday. Full work day, then straight to the airport and flying through the night. Hope to see you all on Sunday.

Topic: Remnants of Skystone / RoS Tournament [CONCLUDED]

Originally posted by plokkey:
Now waiting for confirmation from sane.

Confirmed

Topic: Kongregate / Broken badges

Originally posted by y0ttabyte:

Originally posted by JimmyCarlos:

DDTank has been removed. The fact no-one noticed says testament as to just how bad the game was.

I don’t even remember this game? :S

It was an artillery game (ie Scorched Earth) where, instead of always fighting the other player’s tanks, you could team up to fight monsters. I thought it was a good concept, but I didn’t like the big, bright, cutesy graphics at all. Or the pay to win structure, either, obviously.

Topic: Kongregate / Major Gates

I wouldn’t play them because my laptop can’t run Unity.

Topic: Remnants of Skystone / RoS Tournament [CONCLUDED]

Does anyone have NG membership anymore?

Topic: Kongregate / Is it POSSIBLE for someone to get 44 Impossible badges in one (ONE!) day?

I almost want to play through and make save files for all the impossibles on my main account, then make an alt and get all of them in one day, just so I can say I did it (sort of) legitimately.

Topic: Kongregate / Backyard Monsters

Originally posted by Fricknmaniac:

3) Kixeye didn’t like people playing an non-updated version of the game, so in an effort to draw people back to Facebook, they’re shutting down the game on Kongregate.

I’m not sure about that. The Kongregate version has had a lot of game-wrecking bugs. Kixeye kept promising a solution was coming soon. It appears that, instead of actually fixing the bugs, his solution is to shut down the game. Unless you think he introduced the bugs on purpose.

Originally posted by bobby71983:

4) KIXEYE is a terrible dev.

That point I completely agree with.

Topic: Kongregate / Mechanical Commando Impossible Badge

It’s been a long time since I got this badge, but I did it by mostly circling the outside (and without lagging myself). I recall the levels which filled the perimeter with double strength guns to be a lot more problematic than the 4 tank levels, and I think I frequently had more than 4 tanks on the screen all the time. (That can happen, right? Or do they kinda queue up in memory, and when you destroy one, the next one in line appears? Whichever. I just ignored the tanks, and let them bunch up in the middle.) I think that homing rockets didn’t work for me at all, like, I couldn’t get past about wave 12 with them. The important thing was to not miss shots, so I could destroy at least half the outside guns on each pass.

Topic: Kongregate / When are we going to start removing badges from broken games?

Originally posted by Kyriva:

A better option would be to avoid badging games that Kong doesn’t host and hence can’t guarantee the continued existence of ;)

I fully support this idea.

Topic: Kongregate / New badge discussion

Originally posted by HULKSMASHEDU:

its actually easy the DotD badge with decent gear (tag Z9 raids after this WR), get a guild get BB (or the next homepage legion) fill it et 7LSI focusing in stamina and

Could you repeat that in English? I’d like to spend as little time as possible on this badge, and I don’t understand anything you said after “gear”.

Topic: Kongregate / Remnants of Skystone Reunion Weekend NOW ON!!

I mostly missed it last year. I’ll try not to let that happen again.

Topic: Kongregate / New badge discussion

Originally posted by Blizzard2000:

This DotD hard badge is… terrible. To say the least. Why are you doing this to us?

Indeed. This seems like another Backyard Monsters “if you log on every day, this badge will still take more than a month” badge, only this one is on a worse game.

Topic: Kongregate / Vote for the Best of 2012 Quest!

Originally posted by Blizzard2000:

Originally posted by Bilious:

If I could just choose the whole lot from this list + a close runner someone mentioned it would be:

- Bloons TD 5
- Knightmare Tower
- Incursion
- SCGMD4
- Decision 2
- Strike Force Heroes
- Several Journeys of Reemus Chapter 4 Beastly Blackhole of Bureaucracy
- Musaic Box
- Fancy Pants Adventure: World 3
- Jacksmith

Replace Reemus with Monsters’ Den: Chronicles and Jasksmith with FPA3 and that would be perfect, in my opinion.

If you replace Jacksmith with FPA3, would you have to earn the FPA3 badge twice?

Anyway, Zeebarf is totally under-represented in the Best Of quests (pretty sure he isn’t represented at all, in fact), and needs to be on this one. Go Reemus!

Topic: Backyard Monsters / "Oops, something broke!" - Cell for base "0" not found issues

I have Oops since yesterday, after my MR2 finished. No mention of base 0 in the error message.

Topic: Kongregate / Vote for the Best of 2012 Quest!

Originally posted by UZZBUZZ:

I find it ironic that the top games locked in are pretty much all ones I dislike whereas all the ones to choose from I like. I can’t say I dislike any of the choices.

Same here. The second list is much more appealing to me. I hated infectinator 2 (and, really, the entire -inator line of games) and new star soccer, and while I liked the original Burrito Bison quite a bit, neither of these launch games improved anything over it.

Topic: Kongregate / Introducing...the 1st ANNUAL RAGE QUIT GAME AWARDS!!!!

Realm of the Mad God
I enjoy the game, but it’s so damn unforgiving.

Topic: Kongregate / i am already thinking about best of 2012 set of badges coming out

Originally posted by Thorock:

those are all great selections imo.

My gripe is that the two best games on that list (Bloons TD and Monster’s Den) are sequels to games that have already been on Best Of quests. Paladog and Decision are pretty good, but go on much too long for how repetitive they get. New Star Soccer is poo.

The four games with the * that haven’t been badged yet, well, I haven’t played any of them, but if past history is a good indicator, I’m going to hate Infectonator 2.

Some other games I really liked this year:
Arzea
Talesworth Adventure: The Lost Artifacts
Fancy Pants Adventure World 3 (another sequel!)
Stealth Hunter 2
Jelly Escape
Psychout
Hanna in a Choppa 2
There were 2 hotel simulators. I liked the one with the different types of guests.