Recent posts by TheSilenT on Kongregate

Topic: Kongregate / why no tourney?

Tournament was closed due to AIDS.

(and lack of participation)

4 people do not a tournament make, that’s a semifinals and a finals. Some games just aren’t popular enough to draw in loads of people like Kongai was, that’s why my other bunch were successful (up until the third qualifier in July, which was the beginning of the end).

And thanks greg, I knew it was probably a poor troll, but I still wanted to check.

If a few (8 minimum) people want, though, I can set one like a week from now, because I guess it wasn’t a good idea to try to set it up and hold it on the same day.

Topic: Kongregate / Argue Beta Testers

I’m very interested. I’ll test.

Topic: Kongregate / Sweeet! Level 5 And I've only been playing four days!

Congrats.

However, yeah, it’s not that big of a deal. If you make the daily leaderboard on your first day, that would be something else entirely. I just barely placed on my first day, getting to level 12 in a few hours. Not really that hard if you ask me, but then again, it’s harder nowadays with tons of people who get hundreds daily from referals.

Topic: Kongregate / Contest: Highest damage in Kongai?

Here is the ULTIMATE max damage.

http://www.sirlin.net/forums/showthread.php?t=415

Cain/Gem of Souls,Ubuntu,xxxx,xxxx,xxxx
vs.
Zina, Vanessa Voss, Anex, Marquis Le Morte, xxxxx

-Cain Eats Zina’s innate with intercept kills
-Cain Eats VV’s innate with intercept kills after VV reduces Cain’s life with a RB and RoL
-Cain intercepts Anex once, then switches to Ubuntu.
-Ubuntu rain dances 7 times. On the 7th, Anex power tosses to kill him.
-Anex moves close, Cain Eats Anex’s innate with intercept kills.
-Cain dark magic tantrums (due to Zina’s innate) twice vs. a resting MLM
-MLM moves far, allowing Cain access to RoB at a grand total 91×5 damage.

With a crit, it’s 638.5, which rounds down to 638 by default.

Yes, that’s right, 638 damage. It’s a shame they changed it so you can’t see the full damage anymore, only what’s required to kill your opponent.

No matter what you think of, nothing in the game right now (or probably ever) can top this.

Topic: Kongregate / The Popo is male thread.

Untill further confrimation Popo is to be refered to as an neither a he nor a she but an it.

In modern English, when it’s an vessel (especially a ship), it can and usually is referred to as a she. People, however, despite actual gender, can be addressed as male. A group of girls is still addressed as “guys”, Goddesses are still Gods, when addressing someone in the third person, him can be used, etc. Therefore, you can use he until it is confirmed.

Topic: Kongregate / The Popo is male thread.

PEDO

Oh boy, just figured that out? Everyone on the internet is a pedo, even you. You just haven’t come to terms with it.

Topic: Kongregate / The Popo is male thread.

Eww, why do you want to know?

Probably for reference as to the awkward feelings you get whenever he/she appears. Kongai is supposed to have a back story, they just got lazy and left it up to the players. No matter, I’d hit it either way.

Topic: Kongregate / The Popo is male thread.

Because the prospect of a reverse-trap loli the artist refuses to specify in a field of amazingly healthy women is better than just a kid with a slingshot.

Topic: Kongregate / suggestion to admins to stop card farmers

19/28 are from wonned matches… well you are member since july 17

wat

I’ve been playing since 1.3 beta (they started giving cards out at 1.7, 2% chance instead of the current 3%) and I barely have half that many won cards. Even for a card farmer, that’s quite a lot.

Topic: Games / Kongai Tournament! (Unofficial)

I’m seeing a lot of ambition lately to try out tournaments. I wish the best for you, but let me just say, it’s a bumpier road than it seems at first. I had a lot of hosting experience before I held mine, and it still turned up over a dozen unexpected issues that eventually led to their death, a lot of players disappointed and a massive migraine for me.

I’ll give you the same help I gave the other person on Sirlin’s forums:

-First, here is some good freeware tournament managing software. If you think you can run it out of Excel, Access or something, you’ll find yourself overwhelmed by even the smallest tournament.

http://www.tourneyman.com/download/ntm_setup.exe

-Second, make sure you iron out fair and balanced rules, make them concrete, and stick to them. A large portion of the time I tried to change or fix something, it only caused bigger problems, and they were even passable at first by Sirlin standards.

-Third, I recommend you have some reserve members ready to take over missing spots in the first round, since I can guarantee almost half the field or worse won’t show up.

-Fourth, and I can’t stress this enough, make a single date and time to have the tournament, preferably with GMT times that can be friendly to everyone. Having it all in one sitting is infinitly better than over a stretch, believe me. Even a single match played on a different date (see: garcia and De_Jean in the first July qualifier) makes reporting and synchronizing times online a huge headache.

-Fifth, there will be people who dislike that level minimum. I know it’s almost necessary now that Kongai is live, but you might want to consider that again.

-And finally, have fun, and again, best of luck.

Topic: Kongregate / Chain Comments: Are the admins doing anything about them and morons who litter them?

After seeing Death’s great list, I think I’ll add my hand in this. It’ll make it easier for greg, I hope. I just hope you can swing your b& hammer as fast as they can make multis.

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/proness1029

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/kira01

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/punker1234567

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/w3r3w0lf

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/Romans2

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/accended

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/jordonmyers

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/Interstellar

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/ilookgood99

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/traidawg217

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/ryan75

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/bloddyhell

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/MC_DRUGY

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/mad_mike

Topic: Kongregate / Kongai bug

There are tons of host disadvantages right now. The Cain/Anex innate not registering on coinciding attacks and over-vamp for the host are also big problems. Check Sirlin’s forum for a more detailed explanation.

Basically, as it is, it’s a minor but noticeable disadvantage to host.

Topic: Games / Pandemic 2 Combos

If you have every country infected up to a good amount, don’t worry about visibility, just get everything you can that increases infectivity and lethality. The organ failure symptoms, necrosis and the last one (I forget what it’s called) all work great.

But again, the game is only going to “let” you win around 5% of the time IF you play perfectly. So if you’re too close to the 100 day mark, you’re better off starting again, rather than go through the torture of finishing on day 102.

Topic: Kongregate / Why make impossible badges for luck-driven games?

Actually, depending on whether a tie counted against your win streak, you could have worse odds than that. But thank you for proving the math – I think it’s rather applicable to the Pandemic 2 situation as well. At approximately 20 minutes a game, you have to infect Madagascar with one of the four boats that might land there within the first 40 days, and still reserve approximately 60 days to make your disease totally fatal while dealing with diminishing returns on the death rate, I could see it taking the same average amount of time to “earn” the impossible badge for Pandemic 2 as “earning” an impossible badge on some random RoShamBo game.

No problem, I think I know what you were getting at now. Kong is such a mixed pot, I don’t know if I’m addressing an underage b& who just picked up a keyboard 3 seconds ago, a 40 year-old housewife or even another former anon with nothing better to do. Basically, it’s hard to pick up sarcasm, trolling, immaturity, a genuine attack, a subliminal attack or the like when you could be just about anything.

Topic: Kongregate / Why make impossible badges for luck-driven games?

Rock-Paper-Scissors

beat the computer 100 times consecutively

I really hope you were just joking. If not…

Enjoy cheaters being the only ones to ever get it. Winning a 50% chance 100 strait times is nothing short of impossible to complete in a human lifetime. Lets say it takes 20 minutes to play 100 games. You’ll have a 0.000000000000000000000000000007888% chance of winning each time (.5^100 = 7.88860905 × 10(-31)). Do the math. To have a 50% chance of winning legitimately, you would spend well over 300 years playing.

I have so much RoShamBo skillz

This is Kong, but god dammit if you don’t look like a troll.

Topic: Games / whats the best game on kong?

There is no one best game, but if we’re talking about personal opinions, I STRONGLY disagree with Platform Racing 2. Terrible servers, players are unsynchronized (a HUGE deal for a multiplayer only game), full of hackers, ranks just create an unnecessary and tiresome grind, and not a big improvement over the first one.

My personal favorites have to include the Protector games for strategy, the MARDEK series for RPG, Portal for puzzle or action, the Boxhead series for overhead shooters, Luminara and Gamma Bros tie for arcade shooter, and for multiplayer… even if we weren’t on Kongregate, I’d still say Kongai.

Topic: Kongregate / Locked Topics?

1: Either they’re garbage topics or no longer of use.

2: Mods

3: Mods

And this is soon to be one as well.

Topic: Kongregate / Why make impossible badges for luck-driven games?

Because you infect too quickly. Theres a sweet spot – you need to have enough people infected to have a reasonable chance of spreading to other countries, but you dont want to infect so many people that the world begins to panic. Being very infective will get you into a few countries quickly, being more patient will get you into all, or almost all of them before the panic begins.

I understand. It’s how I got the badge. But what I’m saying is, no matter how well you play, the game is only going to give you around a 5% chance of winning, since unless you had godly luck with airports and seaports, you won’t have most of the world infected by the time everyone starts going “OH NOES, CLOSE EVERYTHING”, when it just becomes a battle to infect everything before they close their respective infection points. If you have HORRIBLE luck (like me), expect to sit there for over 3 hours doing the same damn thing until the game finally lets you win.

Hopefully, in the next version of the game, madagascar will get an airport.

That’s not the problem. I’ve infected Madagascar more than once and not won the game. The problem is that a disease with ZERO viability and NO symptoms can alert the whole world into action simply because a certain % of people were infected. That itself is a flawed formula.

Topic: Kongregate / Why make impossible badges for luck-driven games?

You could have 0 viability, maximum resistances, no lethality and every other positive thing you can think of and still get screwed over LONG before you infect every country. The governments react to how many people are infected in total in the world, the visibility stat only sets that OH GOD SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING mark a bit lower.

Topic: Kongregate / Why make impossible badges for luck-driven games?

Thats why it’s an immpossible [sīc] badge.

The impossible badges aren’t suppose to be easy…

The point is that they’re luck based, not too hard. You could be the best in the world at that game and never get the badge simply because you didn’t load it up in the less than 5% of the time it’ll let you win. That just shouldn’t happen. You should be playing the game, not having it play you. (not Soviet Russia, game plays you, etc.)

Don´t say how long you spent on those, becouse you spendig time obsessively is exactly what Greg wants. Just say you scoff at the badge and all of Kong, that will make them change their ways.

I can’t help it, too much ZnT must have made me a masochist on top of already being a perfectionist.

Topic: Kongregate / Why make impossible badges for luck-driven games?

Speaking from experience, the Pandemic II and Max Mesiria Battle Mode impossible badges and are just plain stupid and almost completely luck based. Sorry greg, but god damn man, do you know how long I spent on those? Less for Pandemic, but dammit, it was an epic struggle against all things probability to beat the Max Mesiria Battle mode.

There are other hard badges like this as well.

Topic: Kongregate / Who is the Youngest on Kong?

Just be warned: there is a 13 year old minimum here. If you say you’re an underage b&, even jokingly, that’s all anyone needs as proof for a perma-ban. Outside of mailing your birth certificate to Kong, you cannot prove anything.

Why don’t you have a seat right over there.

Chris Hansen? What, Dateline isn’t on right now and the chans are being DDoS’d, so you come here? No pedos here, no sir.

Excuse me as I go 80-repetition overwrite my hard drive. I really need a magnetic drive scrambler.

Topic: Kongregate / Kongai Card issue (not what you think)

There are crap cards. Don’t be fooled by the pseudo-balance system set up. Try winning a game, or rather, just any encounter with Anex. Try using Amaya for anything else but countering Corny, miss stalling or a bench blaster (these do not a card make). Try finding any time when Caltrops is the best item for a ninja. And now find me a single use for the super-nerfed Sharpening Stone.

There are crap cards, just like there are ridiculously powerful ones (Corny, I’m looking at you). However, all powerful cards will win you few games against a competent opponent, you need balance, buffing and utility spots. Also, if everyone used the same deck, someone would just use the deck with people that counter them. There are strong and weak cards, and a few completely useless ones. But having a better deck isn’t even half the game, you need to outplay your opponent.

Topic: Kongregate / July Kongai Tournament - Qualifier 3 - RESULTS

Whoops, meant to type GMT. It’s just a habit to type EST.

Topic: Kongregate / July Kongai Tournament - Qualifier 3 - RESULTS

Sign up for the fourth one goes up tomorrow around 5:00 PM GMT.

I still need to talk to Bruce about what time he wants to hold it.