Recent posts by windancer on Kongregate

Topic: Battle Dawn / NEED blues

Try winning an era… lots of blues then.

Topic: Galaxy Online / Galaxy Championships Preview I

In order to make these sorts of events skill based over money based is to make the requirements somewhat rigid.

Have a Frigate, Cruiser, and Battleship event.

Limit weapons and equipment and hulls to i20 and lower.
Common Commanders only. No chips. No gems.

Now anyone can play in the event and it comes down to skill at ship building and less at how much loot you have raided.

Things that come back into play is layering armor since EOS is out of play. Without Divine CCs, you dont end up with DFA/DFA yawn fests. No special hulls… no uber-tanks. Fleet dynamics, do you go with a balanced 9, or stack the front with meat shields and then 6 sets of gunners..

IMHO, this would make the event more accessable to everyone and give everyone a chance to win.

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

WARNING!

I got both bronze and silver codes for Galaxy Online.

So I redeemed the bronze one first (just because it arrived first).
When the silver one showed up, I tried to redeem it and it said I could only redeem one code. =(

If you get more than one code, redeem the highest one first! Otherwise you might not be able to.

sad face

Topic: Battle Dawn / Championship Era

You are kidding, right?

This will be a yawn fest. 1 tic worlds are just crazy boring.

There will be the usual red boosters spending stupid money for some pretend title.

Pass.

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

Guess silver didn’t make it out on the 20th….. here is hoping for the 21st

Topic: Battle Dawn / 8 Man alliance Mars next era

Originally posted by DessertFox:

I think he meant BEERdozed….

Can I get an “Amen”?

Topic: The Last Stand: Dead Zone / BUG: One Man's Trash Book

Originally posted by Ermag:

I had to turn this book off, as junk is important income of wood for me.

Upgrade your Recycler and turn the book back on. 3 days of no junk is perfect when the recycler is offline.

Topic: The Last Stand: Dead Zone / BUG: One Man's Trash Book

Says reduces chance of junk drop by 14%.

Really, reduces junk drops to 0%. I have been playing for over a day with it, and have got zero junk drops. Everything else still drops, but not a single piece of junk.

This is good in that more weapons, resources, components, gear, food, water…. but sometimes those junk drops recycle well.

Topic: Galaxy Online / How long do you think this game will be around?

Oh the game will be around…… but beware the power creep

These sort of games lend themselves to that, offering a carrot +2 a month after carrot +1 was put out. That’s how they get money. And like with most games there will be the upper 5-10% that spend the $$ to stay the most powerful, and the rest of us who just enjoy the game. But then the regular player is turned off by the money players, but the devs wont care because they weren’t spending money anyways, and the game population drops to those so money committed to the game,they cannot bring themselves to leave it until the rock has squeezed for as much blood as it can, the devs quiet turn the switch off.

Oh, wait… sorry diverged there for a moment. =P

Yeah, it should be here.

Topic: Battle Dawn / Get rid of second place tokens

Huzzah!

1) Pretty sure we are all dead and this is just some afterlife dream because Routhy agreed with me… a true sign of the apocolypse.

2) Might actually play one of these worlds were people, you know… fight and stuff.

3) Maybe….. Just maybe…. Routhy will run another of the growing alliance size eras again (Starts at 1, at tic 250 goes to 2, tic 500 to 3, then at tic 1000 with the last relic release up to alliance 4.)

Topic: Battle Dawn / Get rid of second place tokens

Look at Fantasy right now…. barely tic 500 and its over because the top alliances are “allied” knowing that the #2 still gets rewarded. Kong has such a small player base, so the small alliances work well, but not when they just ally into a super-alliance that every still gets paid for.

Small alliance size, no second place tokens. Otherwise the game will just wither and falter, like it is now.

Topic: Battle Dawn / Get rid of second place tokens

Originally posted by Sharma600:

That is why the second place tokens are needed so that after a war between 2 big alliances a sub or minor friendly alliance with newbs in it could get tokens – however small.

And there in lies the fault…. there are no wars between the big alliances. #1 says to #2, gimme relics or fight. #2 tucks tail and turns over the relics. They have no incentive to fight.

Why not do this…..

Prize Pool of say 1500 tokens/player goes to the winning alliance. The leader can split that 1500 token/player award between one or two other alliances. The admin asks him/her at the end, he/she responds, (as an example) My alliance gets 1000/player and these two other alliances that helped get 250/player each.

Now you have the chance of getting tokens if you help the winning alliance, but being in second doesn’t mean diddly so they have an incentive to take arms and fight to get first to get tokens for their alliance

Topic: Battle Dawn / Get rid of second place tokens

Seriously.

Its killing BD. Era after era turns into a compromise where one alliance gets others to turn over relics and they agree because they still get tokens for giving up without a fight.

What happened to having to earn the wins?

Topic: Battle Dawn / New Fantasy Era

100 relics would completely render the HoF moot as the top alliance could end up with all its members well above 10000 score.

Topic: Battle Dawn / 12 tick world

A 12 tic will be a disaster.

It will be dominated by a few people who can stay on 24/7 and the casual player wont stand a chance. That seems counter productive to keeping the general gamer interested in this game.

Topic: Battle Dawn / M1 Betrayal - Tekka/Pink

Ahem, no Frank, you were not all that busy before you went inactive for 200 tics.

Pink and I came over and squashed AceE for you. I saved you from zulk, twice.
And while you were inactive, I squashed AceE for you again.

For all your activity, you never relocted zulk away.
Couldn’t handle AceE nor disabled their nuke capacity.

Yes, you did have a nice chunk of the lower left, but again, you never even made an op over with us as a bailout position and cost us resources cleaning up your area. It was pretty close to a wash as to your over all contributions to the alliance. Which is more than I can say for Pink… >.<

As for Tekka, say what you, will but BRED was carried by Tekka and myself. We led the charge against TAG, and took three of the final 5 relics. fox replaced the losses from Frank and the left side of the map. Pink…. umm.. yeah.
Anyways, you did it to yourself Frank. Own your mistake.

Topic: Battle Dawn / Battledawn Updated!

As someone that just got 4000 for the alliance and 1st place win, I agree. 4000 is a bit excessive.

And the winning alliance usually has all the relics, so they will top ranked as well.

Solution, reduce the token awards. Lets go back to simple, 1000 to the top alliance, every one else gets zero.

Topic: Battle Dawn / lol i wasn't even playing smartz, try harder

Originally posted by sMarTz1:

Shut up, Stan.

As predicted. Stan sucks.

Well done, sMarTz.

Topic: Battle Dawn / lol i wasn't even playing smartz, try harder

There is only one possible conclusion from all of this.

Stan still sucks.

Topic: Battle Dawn / MY Best current Player List

Any list of good players that includes Stan and/or Obi is #fail before the Post button is even pressed.

Just sayin’

Topic: Battle Dawn / Next Era on M1 With no Overheads.

Hmmm let see…. no overhead… so those that gain power early quickly build massive armies than no one else can overcome because the losses are not amplified for having a large army.

Um… let me think about that… No.
Oh wait… what if…. No
But if we get a baboon first then we…. No.

Never mind.

No.

Topic: Battle Dawn / BD is useless

And another Zaeem quit post.

I am going to miss those.

Topic: Battle Dawn / Special Idea for the next Mars Era

Too large of an alliance for the map.

Kong’s smaller active player base is better served with smaller alliance sizes.

Rewards way too high as well since the top alliance would likely hold all the top rank slots as well.

Topic: Battle Dawn / Admin Tom - Lazy or Corrupt?

Originally posted by saomir9:

Originally posted by Routhy:

Oh snap, I do also owe you guys a Journey song. I’ll deliver when I’m awake during daylight hours, it’s currently 5am here and I doubt my housemates would appreciate me singing.

So its been 2 days, implying that you’ve been awake for 2 sets of daylight hours. Please don’t tell me you’re a slacker…

I will add your vote to the “Lazy” tally, saomir9.

^.

Topic: Battle Dawn / Admins

Oh please. The idea of continental alliances was something I tossed around many thread ago (using the board game RISK as my inspiration). But his spin on it was still good, but execution lacking.

Tom’s idea for the Magnified Earth map turned out to be a disaster. The idea was good, execution lacking.

Banning is the one really weapon the admins have. And instead of using it delicately, they swing it around like some ’roid raging berzerker.

Is it an easy job? No.
Is it purely voluntary? Yes.

Give those two, I expect them to actually be impartial and effective. Some admins manage to fail on both.

I can hear the peanut gallery now, “Well why aren’t you an admin then, Wind?” Well, I don’t play .com, and thats a requirement for admin. So there. Otherwise, yes, I would love to admin if nothing more that to gain an appreciation for what it takes. But since it is not possibility, I stand by my assessment of the lackluster admins here on Kong BD.