Recent posts by Alfarin on Kongregate

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / Third!!! (Discuss your favorite non-pure combos)

Originally posted by mrhelpfulman:

What’s the most anyone here’s gotten on the last level? I just got 40,608,945,300 & realized by about level 100 of a MUCH better strategy (not that I’m about to waste that kind of time again)snip

Originally posted by inthrees:

Well, my 283 billion point score got deleted, and today I finished a 4 day game (off and on, no overnight running) that went to wave 100 on map 78 which netted me over 1 trillion points. That averages out to 10 billion points per wave. =P I’m level 3700someodd now, but it doesn’t really matter since someone keeps deleting my scores from the lists.

Yes, they’re possible. Yes, they’re legit. =(

Originally posted by inthrees:

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/980/gc02284.jpg

beaten.

The second one looks like he’s got 2 more digits on you :p

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / trapped on level 58

Originally posted by thundercat_ninja:

ok thanks so i take it this never happened to anyone else then

I vaguely recall someone mentioned they’re not getting a level before the first arcane… But I dont know what happened of it later. There might actually be a bug with the level unlocking code some where, just very hard to trigger / replicate… who knows :p

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / trapped on level 58

Originally posted by Piggyy:

Try refreshing the page

It’s been days, I’m pretty sure she refreshed by now…

I’d say try to replay each mode of the last level you have available and then see if that works…

Also, try hitting the journey thus far or whatever button, see if that triggers the new level to be added…

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / how do you make a supergem in gemcraft 0?

@Torsomi
Welcome to the club :)

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / How to get LEVEL 4 to Appear

All 10 modes… not required.
Heroic only :)

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / lost my damn achievments and saved games. again.

Achievements can’t be lost through any usual mechanism, ever, as they’re saved on Kongregate servers, not local. The only logical way I can think of that they were removed would be because Kongregate staff deemed something was invalid and remove them… which frankly I don’t even think they can do.

Saves are usually lost because people thinks its wise idea to run junks like ccleaners or alike that goes and delete your flash save data to free up a few bytes of space. Make sure you keep your .sol files if you do not have administrative access to the computer and someone else runs it on your system. Don’t run stupid cleaners which frees up bytes of your space if you are the administrator.

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / Flash Player 10.1 beta

Adobe released a beta build of Flash Player 10.1 available here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

It is said that the new version of flash player offers hardware acceleration with video playback. I don’t know if they’ve also optimized a bit on what causes us lag here (cpu bottleneck dealing with massive amount of sprites when it can be dealt with much more efficiently through gpu). Have anyone tried it out yet? Does it help with making GC:C0 smoother?

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / Are Prismatic Gem really that useful?

Originally posted by Picciubau:

Originally posted by metalmadness:

if the specials order are yellow,orange,red,lime,blue,cyan,green,and purple, so the specials will have 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, and 10% strength, respectively.

Is it possible to decide the order of the special? For example, if I want a gem with 80, 70, 60% of orange, red and blue, wich gems should i combine first and how?

Step 1: Do whatever, doesn’t matter, get your prismatic gem, up its damage, etc.
Step 2: Click combine
Step 3: Drag desired 60% gem into prismatic gem → IE: Drag Blue into Prismatic
Step 4: Drag desired 70% gem into prismatic gem → IE: Drag Red into Prismatic
Step 5: Drag desired 80% gem into prismatic gem → IE: Drag Orange into Prismatic

Note: You should have all the said gems in your tray, not in a trap or in a tower… I vaguely recall someone mentioning the ordering causes funkyness in when the Prismatic is in tower / traps.
Note: Grade 6 gem is enough to make alignment of Grade 12 prismatic shift. I’m not sure about 13+, but I’d imagine it have similar effect.

Hope that helps.

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / how do you make a supergem in gemcraft 0?

Originally posted by explorers:

wait u can revive shrines ???? how? if if so how cum ive never seen it say revive shrine for a 20 grade gem?

Originally posted by ConnerC:

if gameinabottle allowed us to restore shrines….

Keyword there, “if”. :p

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / How to get LEVEL 4 to Appear

FYI, you need all levels before first arcane guardian, not just 1, 2, 3, and 5. I think its 1 through 13 or whatever (short the missing ones). You’ll know you hit the arcane guardian map when you get there.

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / PC randomly restarts when playing GC0 on any browser

Probably bad flash install, or bad video card driver, or bad ram/video memory hardware.
Try re-installing flash: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
If problem still occurs, try to re-install video card and motherboard chipset driver.
If problem still occurs (hopefully not), perform hardware tests to see if your hardware is bad (and finally getting noticed by a resource intensive flash game).

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / Low Lvl R/O Trap Not Showing Red. Bug?

Interesting finding… I wonder if we can get a slightly faster start by getting 3 grade 3 and 3 grade 4 R/O gems for traps at start? Probably not enough mana to deploy all of them in traps right off the bat, but it could help getting some extra traps…

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / Official Gemcraft 0: Strategy Thread

Originally posted by ConnerC:

fractal the new trend on armorgames is beyond corruption, people have already made it higher than 228 wves on there, i know for a fact i wont even reach any problems till wave 300+ and by problems i mean trying, i could still probably beat wave 400

I’m guessing this is done on the first level?
I started doing bc for the first one a while back but I got bored after getting it to around 80 waves or so as it gets so repetitive to bring up the wave counts…

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / Official Gemcraft 0: Strategy Thread

Yep, endurance levels (and final level when you just don’t want to quit) tends to do that to ya :)
For me, endurance mode:
level id #1 scored 1,103,538 exp
level id #18 scored 520,962 exp
level id #26 scored 761,169 exp

and final level, because I didn’t choose to dislodge the gem, I’ve scored as high as 1,555,406 exp before I got bored (or it crashed on me).

These aren’t really high scores either, most of them are from before I start to get better control of mana farming. I’m sure there are others who can chime in with even crazier exps, but really, its not a race — not anymore now that level 228 have been beat, lol — but just use these as a reference as to where you can consider to go to score yourself more exp :)

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / what we would like to see next in gemcraft

Actually, speaking of graphics…

I would like an option to completely disable trap animations. IE: no cloud of fire, no glowy lines, nothing. Just do the damage without the fancy animations.

That should help lower the lag significantly. Just a thought.

Topic: Kongregate / Questionable Ratings? (Resolved)

Originally posted by Traud:

Originally posted by predatorx687:

Who’s Elona Shooter?

No relation to Black Rock?

Whoosh! Way over most people’s head, lol! Black ★ Rock Shooter ♥ ♥ ♥

But yes, Elona Shooter needs some serious re-balancing, or make it lesser dependent on the luck factor. Currently, it feels like: Luck >> ((indescribable-interpenetratable-wall-of-difference)) >> Skill.

If you get lucky at first 2 days and get good weapons so you don’t need to worry about day 3 – 5, and score yourself more allies, then you’re set for the game; where as if you’re unlucky, then you might as well restart. Skill? Sure, maybe, but without the bonus boosts at beginning, you won’t even get to the point where skill matters.

I’d suspect a lot of the high voters either:
1) Got lucky, so they think its a good game
2) Found it challenging, so they think its a good game
3) Randomly voting games up for Kongregate points to level up

Anyone who really sat down and analyzed the game would know it needs serious rebalancing and readjustment so that it deserves no more than a 3…

…Well, that and blame the “Hate it” “Love it” rating suggestions… Games are no longer rated by how well it is made, but how lucky the player got so their affection level overrides all other rating values…

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / all 229 waves

Wow, that sucked… You didn’t dismantle GoE and release Forgotten (this time around) and you’re still cursed? Ouch!
Haha, now its just up for the rest of us to do it too!

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / all 229 waves

Originally posted by inthrees:

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/980/gc02284.jpg

beaten.

OMG Congrats!
What happens after that? Was I right about the standard victory screen?

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / how do you make a supergem in gemcraft 0?

Try to aim for 140K or so mana pool size as soon as possible; of course, it goes w/o saying, continuously upgrade your mana pool even after you hit this goal. The reason I say 140K or so mana pool size is so that you can have 140K mana in it, and do a full inventory of grade 6, which you can combine to 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 in a few quick clicks. This grade 11 gem is usually prismatic, and you can, from there, fill it with as many grade 6, or 7’s as you want… But for best effect, fill it grade 9’s. Also, always make sure red is at least 15, so you splash 5 targets. I personally suggest this:
First, get yourself a grade 11 super gem (you can do with 12 or 13’s but I don’t see too much difference, if you use 12 or 13, be sure that instead of 9, it is 10, or 11 for your support gems. Alignment gems can still be grade 6 if I remembered correctly).
Then, make a bunch of grade 9 gems for feeding, and find yourself grade 6’s of these colors: Orange, Red, Yellow, Lime.
Next, drag your grade 9 gems, and merge them into your grade 11 super gem.
Then, drag grade 6 orange into your grade 11 super gem, follow by red, then lime, then yellow.
Note: do NOT drag super gem into other gems, always drag support gems into super gem.

This will get you most damage boost possible from the gems, and also ensure that your gem have 50% mana leech, 60% splash, 70% double hit, and 80% extra fire speed & range… Or something similar to that… And generally have enough power to splash 5 targets.

Repeatedly doing this, and you’ll find your super gem becoming more and more powerful. When you have like 500k minimum damage (if it is in a tower) for the gem, you can consider to start making a second one. The goal is to have enough of these super gems so that you have around 2million or so minimum damage (preferably more) combined, so that you have a chance of beating level 228… of course, that is assuming if your computer doesn’t crash / decide to reboot / etc. on its own and destroying your game before you get there :p

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / Official Gemcraft 0: Strategy Thread

Originally posted by Piemonade:

I find it extremely shameful that i cant get past that early one where you have like seven elements, or that one next to it

The arcane right before final level? Mana farm it and you should be okay :)

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / all 229 waves

Originally posted by Conombnm:

can any1 link/tell me how to get epic gems like that?

Read the entire thread, there’s information on how to create supergems in this thread. Though, the general idea is just repeatedly combining gems into the same gem, so its damage gets boosted little by little. To get 1M dmg gems, you literally need to combine thousands and thousands of gems into it.

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / Was able to save games, not anymore.

Flash save file was probably deleted by your cleaner. Since Kongregate doesn’t allow the save string (so people can’t just use the save strings to get all badges automagically), you’d have to bring the save string to Armor Games and then restore it there. If you want to bring it back (for badges or what not), find the .sol file for your armorgames save, and replace your kongregate .sol file with the armorgames one.

Topic: Kongregate / Suggestions

Originally posted by SavageWolf:

Originally posted by Alfarin:

260++ pages, tl;dr…

I hope this was already discussed and shot down.

In the forum, some times, I start to write something in reply only to change my mind part way through. Instead of finding my mouse to go for the cancel button, I think it’d be easier if I can just hit esc twice to cancel it.

Isn’t esc reserved for the browser?

Nope. You can catch the key stroke via JavaScript. Here’s quick logic / code for the feature I’ve described:
lastIsEscape = false;

function keyPressHandler(e) {
var kC = (window.event) ? // MSIE or Firefox?
event.keyCode : e.keyCode;
var Esc = (window.event) ?
27 : e.DOM_VK_ESCAPE // MSIE : Firefox

if(kC==Esc && !lastIsEscape) lastIsEscape = true; if(kC==Esc && lastIsEscape) // cancel posting

}

Topic: GemCraft chapter 0 / Third!!! (Discuss your favorite non-pure combos)

Originally posted by mmchocolate:

thanks a lot, Alfarin. However, i dont understand this part “it should (for now) offer red and orange by default, so you don’t need to transmute as much or worry about using up the last available.” I know i can get 1 grade 2and3, orange and red, and i can use 1 gem to transmute 3 gems in my inventory, but i worry a lot about using the last one ><. Is there a way to get the gem i want or something o.o?

All there is to that comment is that before entering a level, you can see which gem(s) are offered in the level. When you’re first starting out to practice the technique, pick levels that offers red and orange, so you don’t have to worry about keeping one red and one orange, so that you can transmute the gems you create in the level.

Imagine, you’re at a level that gives you red/orange/yellow gems, you will always get more red / orange gems. So when you start, you can use all your available red/orange for mana leech gem. But, if the map offers only blue/cyan gems, you’d have to keep 1 red and 1 orange from your initial gems, so you can transmute more orange and red gems for the level.

As such, when you’re starting to practice mana farm technique, start with levels that gives you red/orange, so you don’t need to worry about not getting more down the road. That’s all :)

Topic: Kongregate / Suggestions

260++ pages, tl;dr…
I hope this was already discussed and shot down.

In the forum, some times, I start to write something in reply only to change my mind part way through. Instead of finding my mouse to go for the cancel button, I think it’d be easier if I can just hit esc twice to cancel it.