Recent posts by FlyingPachyderm on Kongregate

Topic: Tyrant / AWAKENING For Gold Is A Desperate Move By Devs trying save this game that is dying

When did they say awakening is going to be for gold?

Topic: Tyrant / did yugi kill tyrant?

It’s a familiar concept using familiar art, but it doesn’t really have anything that compares to tyrant’s faction wars or let alone conquest. And people are already complaining about how it gets dry in higher levels if you don’t pay2play.

Topic: Tyrant / (To DEVS) - reduce number of battles need to use full stamina bar

Originally posted by Muki13:

Stupid idea is stupid. It takes 10-20 minutes to drop it on manual and 2 minutes when autoing with my 5 year old laptop on a cheap connection. If it takes you longer than that, then you have bigger problems than tyrant to deal with.

And you speak of people emigrating to other games, which ones? To that game that requires you to put in 30 times as much time than tyrant to get anything done or the other game that requires 20 times as much time?

Your hyperbole is not appreciated. To finish auto in 2 minutes is literally 4 seconds per battle, something which I can’t do with a 2 year old laptop in a good connection…what kind of bot are you using? :)
And playing manual on your upgraded GS or Thule Hound decks must be nice but with discussions like these you have to keep in mind that very few of the player base actually has that.

Topic: Tyrant / (To DEVS) - reduce number of battles need to use full stamina bar

Originally posted by p4n1q:

It takes like two minutes to dump a full bar using autofight. If you don’t have two minutes, you shouldn’t be playing games.

If you think clicking 60 times and waiting two minutes is “very tiring,” then I don’t think you should be using the internet at all.

Even when I use a fast computer, it takes more than 10 minutes to empty stam on auto. To play competitively, I have to use manual. I would like to know what you are using, then and how you would say you represent someone who actually plays.

Topic: Tyrant / Egotistical List of Things He's Pretty Sure Have Been Suggested Before

Wow, really good suggestions here, stuff like this makes me forget why you’re not in the consortium. I especially like your newbie friendly approach as I’m always trying to help them in the chatroom while everyone else laughs at their low level…but I would like to improve on this suggestion:

Originally posted by Shadowhopeful:

Progressive Daily Rewards (Suggested “Oh so many” times)

• Day 0 – Nothing
• Day 1 – 20k Gold
• Day 2 – Energy Refill
• Day 3 – Random Card (Excludes WB-Only Cards)
• Day 4 – 5 WB
• Day 5 – Random Gold-Buyable Pack (Please do not skew it in favour on Enclave)
• Day 6 – 10 CQ Tokens
• Day 7 – 10 Shards → Day 0

I suggest having this as a substitute for quests for newbs (since they’re so friggin hard for them) and since I pretty much do quests every day.

Topic: Tyrant / (To DEVS) - make faction wars cost 30 stamina per fight

Originally posted by Aapje:

Originally posted by Vurp:

I’m surprised at the hostility towards this suggestion. I think it is a good suggestion.

+1

Originally posted by kartis:

I’m with Vurp on this one. There is clearly nothing inherently wrong with this suggestion.

Originally posted by Draconavin:

I agree, wholeheartedly.

+1 to all this.

Topic: Off-topic / The Touhou Thread

Originally posted by xProStar:

WHY YOU BUMP THIS!!!!!!

….because the newest game has been officially announced? Also, anyone play IaMP online?

Topic: Tyrant / [Suggestion] Energy Ratio

Personally, I prefer ways to not regenerate energy/stam faster, but use it up faster. Using up 300 stam in faction wars is such a chore, especially if you’re playing each match manually.

Topic: General Gaming / deleted topic

Nice! Thanks for sharing these, the pictures really helped!

Topic: Tyrant / [DEV] Small conquest suggestion for next week.

Suggestion 1: ALLIANCES!
So, what everyone seems to want is:

1. Conquest to be accessible to all factions.
2. Conquest to be in a constant state of movement and not just sitting on their butts.

…so why not implement something YOU suggested earlier?

Originally posted by synapticon:

Two giant alliances fighting is actually pretty awesome, and we’d love to see that :p

So instead of nudging players to make opposing alliances, why not forcibly make them? Heheheh. On the next map reset, let’s give those who are first on the map gain a bar that gives additional tokens for taking over a certain number of tiles, which we shall call Army 1.

Then once a certain amount of tiles are taken, every other faction leader who joins late are instantly given the choice to join Army 2. Army 2 does not have the rewards of Army 1 so instead of a bar, it shows that they get a little attack boost for attacking an opposing a faction on the other side. An attack bonus like 10+x, with x being the number of tiles the opposing faction has.

That way, the experienced factions have an incentive to take over tiles while less experienced also have the incentive to be in conquest in the first place!

Personally, I think factions should be able to attack those on their own side without having to switch loyalties but all their tiles should be locked into a certain design (ex. stripes) as a way of showing “infamy”.

Suggestion 2: Espionage!
Face it, you can’t make everyone happy, so people are always going to complain. But will they complain to the devs or to other players? To make it the former, I further suggest giving faction leaders the option to change sides, with a 24h cooldown of course. If anyone does not like what the leader is up to, they are welcome to do as what real dissenters do: they can quit, ahah.

My reasons for this suggestions are because:

1. More competition creates activity.
2. Greater incentive for factions to have actual loyalty, as opposed to just hiring strong people.

Support for previous suggestions: What am I fighting foooor?

Billmoor’s suggestion of having a natural map reset made me think of something else: if we have two armies, let’s use this to give them a reason to fight! Whether if it’s fighting for a natural resource in a crumbling land, a superweapon, or a mysterious large structure, it makes map resets as well as fighting for the center tiles so much more fun!

Support for previous suggestions: No rewards for couch potatoes!

I also support stormcommando’s and Dimondmilk’s suggestions that CONQUEST wars should only reward factions for CONQUERING and just not sitting on their territory. To prevent the obvious strategy of merely tileswapping, I really love Dimondmilk’s idea: just like in faction wars, have penalties for attacking the same faction!

Topic: Tyrant / Minor fixes in the update of Tyrant [5/7/13]

Originally posted by titan2009:

Originally posted by purei:

Originally posted by FlyingPachyderm:
NOOO…must get twincannon…

umm, the card in the mission will be replaced. not the reward.

Ninja’d, with visual aids!

Many thanks!

Topic: Tyrant / Minor fixes in the update of Tyrant [5/7/13]

Originally posted by DarkBlood1:

Typos:

• On Mission 275 Katana says: “The is reactor unstable.”

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Enemy deck changes:

• In Quest: Step 21: APC will be replaced by a Righteous legendary card.

• In Quest: Step 7: Abominable Raksha will be replaced by an Imperial rare card.

• In Quest: Step 19: Martyr will be replaced by a legendary card of any faction.

• In Mission 270: Twincannon Buoy will be replaced by an Imperial rare card.
  
  

What cards will be? Dont know but can be spoiled here:
http://dev.tyrantonline.com/assets/quests.xml
http://dev.tyrantonline.com/assets/missions.xml

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Achievement names:

• Inherited Skills (id 255) – Defeat Mission 253 or higher after activating Legion at least 10 times.
  WILL BE RENAMED TO: Stand Together.
  
  
• Speedy Hive 3 (id 259) – Beat Mission 276 by turn 9.
  WILL BE RENAMED TO: Speedy Hive.

NOOO…must get twincannon…

Topic: Off-topic / Life Explained

Originally posted by Rolby:

are u a real girl? cuz u talk like some nerd guy who is like 24.

Or the maturity of your future 24 year old self is the same as a teenage girl.

Life has now been explained to you.

But in all seriousness guys, it’s a joke. You know, something not to be taken seriously? Taking care of children is basically you raising up a new human life from the ground up, and nobody ever said that people should go out and only look for jobs that they can’t enjoy.

Topic: Tyrant / Best missions to farm gold and exp [MAY 2013 – Worldship Expansion]

Rigs.

Rigs everywhere.

Topic: Tyrant / Lucky boxes? (random cards)

You should spend your gold in buying packs and upgrading cards like the rest of us :)

Topic: Off-topic / Anime Addicts Anonymous (AAA)

Originally posted by Ninjitsu_Pirate:

Originally posted by KiNGDOMHEARST:

inferno cop is best anemi evr

Agreed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy0E-1MD0bw

Once you become a big name, even poor stuff gets big headlines, I guess.

Anyways, anyone play Valthirian Arc? It was the badge of the day yesterday, and I seem to be hooked on it.

Topic: Off-topic / I honestly think that only white people should have to pay tuition.

Originally posted by DMinor:

White people already pay more for tuition than non-white people, although most scholarships for minority students are for first-generation students.

Originally posted by FlyingPachyderm:

You should come to Canada. We literally have scholarships for every racial group except white people.

That’s not true. Academic and music scholarships are for white people.

If the Asians don’t beat them to it first. It’s sad how reverse racism is so strong here.

Topic: Off-topic / I honestly think that only white people should have to pay tuition.

You should come to Canada. We literally have scholarships for every racial group except white people.

Topic: Off-topic / How to be a liberal

Originally posted by LukeMann:

Originally posted by Hallucent:

Originally posted by LukeMann:
if I didn’t already know you’re a shitty liberal socialist.

Yeah, except I’m not

Prove it.

Show me your collection of automatic rifles and Bibles.

So does this mean that good liberal socialists own automatic rifles and Bibles?

Topic: Tyrant / <REPORT> ALT ACCOUNTS

It is a bit unnerving to find that there are 60 jindola accounts in kongregate right now, all of them only having tyrant badges.

http://www.kongregate.com/forums/65-tyrant/topics/328503-multi-report

Sadly, that is the state of things. Despite having made a thread, sending private messages to DaWayne, Synapticon and every kong mod that happened to be online at the time, these guys still exist today.

Topic: Off-topic / How to be a liberal

Originally posted by Rolby:

i see u americans have different views on liberalis. cuz liberals are people who want a small government and they also say people should be as free as possible. by giving as few rules as possible. and they also say that people born equal but that it changes eventually.

Where did you get that from? Because that sounds way more like a conservative. Liberals want greater control, conservatives are the ones who support personal independence.

Topic: Tyrant / $10 Gamestop Gift Card Raffle Thing (Free!) hunterhogan Accepted. We may do this again!

I would like a free kreds?

Topic: Tyrant / Post Active Raid Links Here

http://www.kongregate.com/games/synapticon/tyrant?kv_joinraid=268438

Behemoth raid, 14 hours remain.

Fansite link:
http://tyrant.40in.net/kg/raids.php?id=255860e9e940545

Topic: Off-topic / 6/2(1+2)= ?

Originally posted by Seesine:

Originally posted by IndomiPhoenix:

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Correct!

Originally posted by Mansmany:

Originally posted by racefan12:

The trick is that people are supposed to misunderstand PEMDAS, and think multiplication comes before division rather than them being on the same tier. When they do this they will multiply 2 by (1+2) to get 6 and then divide 6 by 6 resulting in the answer being 1.

That’s actually not the trick.

The ambiguity comes from the fact that, due to the lack of parentheses, some people will interpret the / as a fraction bar; in which case the expression will evaluate to 1.

that made no sense.

I agree with Mansmany here. If it was a fraction bar then it should be written as such. Or it should be written as 6/[2(1+2)]

Topic: Off-topic / Hard tasks or easy tasks first?

If you’re talking about homework, I do the hard tasks first while my mind is still fresh.