Recent posts by sotlat on Kongregate

Topic: Technical Support / Games Wont Load

It seems to me that this problem is fixed. I have not had any of these problems today. Thx.

Topic: Technical Support / Games Wont Load

Here’s more info I can provide for you:

Before

• I could reload any game (using chrome) including Epic War Saga and it would refresh fairly quickly, using the previous downloaded software.
• “Kong” data streams ended when the game finished downloading. I know this because I monitor either the LAN usage or the CPU Performance from my Task Manager to figure out web-related problems that come up, e.g. link disconnect.
• I would occasionally lose game versions due to unknown glitches but it wasn’t too big a deal.
• I did not make any changes to my browser settings in the last few weeks.

Now

• I cleared cookies and all that in chrome.
• Epic War Saga starts downloading itself from scratch EVERY time i try to play it from my main machine.
• I have tried using both regular and incognito modes and EWS still does this. It ignores what was previously downloaded.
• I have tried The Majesty of Colors (it was botd recently) and it seems to work properly for regular and incognito chrome. I don’t know if this game is too small to make a noticeable difference.
• I downloaded the latest version of Firefox and without adding any add-ons, etc, it does the same things.
• I tried accessing a machine that was using IE with a fast link and it behaved “properly”.
• Kong keeps sending me data even after the game is downloaded. It never did this before from what I observed in the link usage of the task manager.

So?

• I didn’t change anything, I highly suspect kong changed something somewhere that is causing this, probably in a very indirect way, and it probably is related to the extra data it keeps sending.
• I think it’s time for kong to revert to a previous version to see if this makes these new problems we are seeing go away.

Update: I don’t know if this matters, but on my home machine – where the problem persists, the ads at the bottom show up on the left. On this machine with IE and fast access, the ads show up on the right. How could the same site display two different versions like this? Why would it?

Update2: I just did a reload with IE and fast access, it too just started reloading the game without using what was already cached.

Topic: Technical Support / Copy and post?

Originally posted by darkonesofthe9:

for some reason I’m not able to paste anything into the chat rooms. Why is that?

Yeah, I have this problem too sometimes when I forget to click the chat box to make it active.

Topic: Technical Support / Games Wont Load

Hello, I have also had similar problems. I don’t know the exact day but I only noticed it sometime this past weekend. I play Epic War Saga regularly (except not last week) and it now “reloads” every time i try to play it without using the previously “loaded” copy of the game. I have also been playing Ghost Hacker2 and it only sometimes “reloads” but most times it just uses the previously loaded copy (but the desginer has also been making updates). My prime browser is chrome “Version 26.0.1410.64 m” and it says that it is up to date. I did try try testing the “reload” behaviour on IE on another computer that was “fresh” to kongregate and it seemed to “reload” properly.

I will do further tests after clearing everything on my chrome browser, to see what happens. Just to be clear: I did not change any browser settings at the time that this problem started showing up.

Update: I just read this post and it describes my issue much better than I did. I think maybe i should have added my post to that specific forum instead of this one.

Topic: Epic War Saga / [Guide] Math Strategies

Originally posted by czaka:

I decided to check it by myself

Cool. Can you tell me how you do that? I use chrome and all I want is the basic commands to go look but not if it’s overly complicated. I’m just curious but not terribly interested.

Yes, in games you can often find incorrect use of ‘%’

It seems I too was not aware of this “misuse”, I was blindly following the crowd on that one. Thanks for instructing us :)

Topic: Epic War Saga / Suggestion and Ideas

Version 1.57 is the last update for this game.
Artlogic is NOT EVER updating it again.

Topic: Epic War Saga / [Guide] Math Strategies

Originally posted by czaka:

So they’ve never corrected this? I wondered if this code was still actual

I would be very surprised if this code has been updated/fixed.

sotlat: it’s not an error, just another limitation. if only conditions were in right order, it wouldn’t be a problem

Yes, that’s the reason why we’re talking about this.

techical note: 5% + 5% + 1% = 5.3025% :) seems like some of you people never heard about ‘percentage points’ (pp)

Your statement applies to the percentage of a percentage, which is only one way to calculate bonuses in games. In many games, bonuses are stacked (next to each other and not on top of each other) so that in those cases .05 + .05 + .01 = .11 (and not .053025).

starting values for loc1/loc2 are .3/.05, not ‘between 0 and .3/.05’

Hmmm… I think you are mostly right about this. The starting value of loc1 & loc2 is convoluted. Even if you do not wear item(+) gear but have at least 1 star, the minimal values of loc1 & loc2 are .3/.06.

So the drop rate for common items is from 30% to 60% and drop rate for rare items is from 6% to 11%. This explains why people get stuff with no item(+) gear.

That’s what “bad code does for you”, makes it confusing to figure out what it actually does. I would fire this programmer, he’s too smart for his own good. Or maybe his day job is to write code for online casinos?

Topic: Epic War Saga / [Guide] Math Strategies

Originally posted by garutto:

Originally posted by sotlat:

The initial value for loc2 is between 0 and .05

Exactly.

garutto, you are correct! You made an excellent observation. It took a bit of effort to understand your point, but now I see it. That code segment has 2 errors in it! Wearing extra thief rings won’t fix this problem. I hope these guys never work on medical equipment.

To summarize:

• The maximum initial value for common items is .55 + .05 for any stars (1, 2, or 3).
  So the maximum drop rate for common items is 60% (not 70).

• The maximum initial value for rare items is .1 + .01 for any stars (1, 2, 3).
  So the maximum drop rates for rare items is 11% (not 12).

Topic: Epic War Saga / Epic War Saga walkthrough

Originally posted by psychonaught89:

i found this walkthrough helpful, http://epicwarsaga.wikia.com/wiki/Beginner’s_Guide
first time playing the game, and this made each level painless, im on 4-4 right now.

Excellent. I’m glad some people are finding ways to make their lives easier. Just for your information, the following link lists this and tons of other info: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/143/topics/323378#posts-6802941

Topic: Epic War Saga / [Guide] Math Strategies

Originally posted by garutto:

Originally posted by sotlat:

Originally posted by gust4v3:

Item Drop Rate: strategies

based on version 1.43

If you pay attention to line 153 of the code, the max drop rate boost for rares u can get from items is 5%. So equipping 6 thief rings would be pointless for rare drops, and the actual max drop rate for rares is then 11% :( I hope I’m wrong.

I didn’t want to look at that again, it’s quite convoluted… sigh… I did it just because I was asked to… There are some assumptions that I’m making with this. I’m confident but there’s obviously no guarantee.

The variables loc1 and loc2 represent the value for common and rare drops respectively.

The initial value for loc1 is between 0 and .3 depending on items being worn.
If the user obtained 1 star for mastery, the value is increased by .05
For 2 stars it’s .1
For 3 stars it’s .15
If the new new value for loc1 is more than .7 then the extra amount is removed.

The initial value for loc2 is between 0 and .05
For 1 star the increase is .01
For 2 stars it’s .02
For 3 stars it’s .03
If the new new value for loc2 is more than .12 then the extra amount is removed.

Your max value for common vs. rare items are therefore 70% and 12% respectively.
This is exactly what gust4v3 says.
QED

So, the precise value depends on what gear you are wearing and mission mastery.
Those values are also explained by gust4v3.

Topic: Epic War Saga / Questions? Ask here! ( game tips )

Originally posted by shiran90:

can you start a new game if you have already started playing and if you can how?

If you already started playing, you can just keep leveling up and fix any skill point issues with new points. After rebirth, your skills go back to zero so you can assign them properly. If you wasted too many crystals on junk, that cannot be fixed.

Originally posted by Epicwarsagafan:

I have a question: If someone destroys your tower (armor 0/x),do the tower dissapears and must I build another tower starting from level 1 or must I click only in repair buttom and I earn the level of the tower I had?

If your tower is destroyed, you can simply repair it and build the top level again. Relative to other items it’s actually quite cheap to do. It’s hard to completely destroy your tower unless maybe someone really hates you badly.

Topic: Epic War Saga / Quick Guides

Originally posted by Ax4m0k3razeProX:

These strategies require you to master a lot of missions and don’t require everything you said. Like for example, 1-6 equip all the consumables you start the game with then spam goblins using Viegraff and stand right in-front of him. Then heal if you think you will die. This is much more simple than your strategy.

There is more than one way to beat missions/cots. This is one of the great aspects of this game. If you have consumables to burn then by all means use them ;)

Topic: Epic War Saga / problem

Originally posted by sayfie:

i have the witch,and 6 crystals but i cant get the holy matriach

If you check the wiki (http://epicwarsaga.wikia.com/wiki/Holy_Matriarch) you will see that you need:
- Witch
- 6 Thunder Crystal
- 20,000 Gold
and that you have to have the Monster Lab at level 3.

When you have all these, click on the “Gold 20,000” button in monster lab.
You now have a Holy Matriarch.

Topic: Epic War Saga / Hacker Report [ II ]

Originally posted by Vegito_:

Originally posted by Kingdweeb1:

Originally posted by sotlat:

That doesn’t mean they should delete most of the front page.

If it gets locked, no more walls of names of suspicious players.

Agreed, this is probably the best thing to do with this forum.

Topic: Epic War Saga / Hacker Report [ II ]

Originally posted by Vegito_:

Originally posted by adv0catus:

Don’t publicly call out users. Report them from their profile and the administration will look into the situation and/or report them in-game so the developer can investigate.

I thought the developer made this forum for people to call out hackers … and I don’t understand what the point of deleting half the last page of this forum was while leaving every other page untouched. It just doesn’t make sense to me to delete people’s posts just cause they were on the newest page and not give everyone else the same treatment …. If you really want people to stop, you could delete all of the report posts and lock this topic if you wanted, right?

The reason that this forum exists is that hackers used to be a real problem. Hackers were able to pretty much steal anyone’s entire BP supply. This problem stopped being a big issue after the “Tower Attack” functionality was nerfed. The most serious damage “hackers” can do now is give you many losses – which is not what this forum was originally intended for. Finally, artlogicgames no longer updates or changes this game which makes a “hacker forum” simply useless. At one time, they did use it, but not anymore, ever, never again, forever.

Topic: Epic War Saga / Questions? Ask here! ( game tips )

Originally posted by megauser:

how i beat cot6?

The answer to your question can be yours if you follow the link in item #4 http://www.kongregate.com/forums/143/topics/323378#posts-6802941

Topic: Epic War Saga / Questions? Ask here! ( game tips )

Originally posted by Miketheammazing0:

i am wondering how do i get crystals faster then usaul

All the different ways you can get crystals are listed here (read item #3): http://www.kongregate.com/forums/143/topics/323378#posts-6802943

Topic: Epic War Saga / New unit ideas [2]

Originally posted by deathlord82:

Artlogic just abandoned the game. There will be no more updates like sotlat said. They are working on Epic War 6. So maybe these posts will effect the next game?

I seriously doubt that artlogic will ever look at this forum ever again.

Topic: Epic War Saga / Bug Report

Originally posted by MwisYuri:

I am stuck at a “connecting” screen for over 10 min… i have refreshed the web 4 times now..

Try reading item #2 in here: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/143/topics/323378#posts-6802946

Topic: Epic War Saga / can someone explain how to calculate it?

I don’t know if you obtained this from the Math Strategies Guide. I have never used the formulas but they seem to be fully described in there.

Topic: Epic War Saga / Strategy & Other Tips

There’s a very good reason why the very first item in Part II – Strategy is about mastering, grinding, and efficiency. It’s the most critical element of playing this game.

Topic: Epic War Saga / Strategy & Other Tips

I think you’ve touched on the answer without realizing it. When you say the walkthroughs have amazing equipment, that means you should get it too. These help posts are made by people just like you and they expect you to use your brain so they don’t spell out every single detail like your teachers would.

Topic: Epic War Saga / New unit ideas [2]

Version 1.57 is the last update for this game.
Artlogic is NOT EVER updating it again.

Topic: Epic War Saga / Strategy & Other Tips

Updated the Abbreviations section to include fast links to the corresponding wiki page.

Topic: Epic War Saga / Strategy & Other Tips

Added info on where to get crystals, thanks to hkstack.