Recent posts by jim_vierling on Kongregate

Topic: Kongregate / How do I get 50 kreds without paying?

Originally posted by BTrenary:

Originally posted by jim_vierling:

I think GameStop is running a promotion on their website now that you get 50 kreds if you buy something off the site. Not worth it unless you were going to buy anyways.

They have done it in the past, but I don’t see a current promotion going on.

Not sure if this offer is over or not: http://www.gamestop.com/gs/landing/KongregatePtsPromo/

Topic: General Gaming / best game for...

He/she is probably just looking for something to play instead of just watching timers count down on an RTS.

Topic: Kongregate / How do I get 50 kreds without paying?

I think GameStop is running a promotion on their website now that you get 50 kreds if you buy something off the site. Not worth it unless you were going to buy anyways.

Topic: Kongregate / How do I get 50 kreds without paying?

Originally posted by SonicOkami:

Originally posted by 123aaa789:

Originally posted by Zshadow:

Originally posted by jim_vierling:

Go to Gamestop and register for the power-up reward thingy and tie it to your Kong account. It says in the brochure that you will get 50 Kreds for doing so.

That doesn’t sound right. Where are you seeing this?

They might be thinking about Kong+ giving 50 Kreds, but that costs money. Or maybe how linking a PowerUp Rewards Pro account will get you Kong+ then, but that also costs money, and I think the Kreds aren’t a part of it (anymore). Or maybe it’s the 250 PowerUp Rewards points that you get when linking your accounts, but those aren’t Kreds (not sure if those points can be used to get Kreds or whatever, since I can’t earn them).

The promotion was for the Pro card, which is cheaper if you are going for K+ but more expensive if you’re going just for kreds. (As the card costs $15.) As for the 50 kreds for the promotion, they did give that out (at least for me) on February 5th.

My bad, I forgot that it was with the Pro purchase.

Topic: Kongregate / How do I get 50 kreds without paying?

Go to Gamestop and register for the power-up reward thingy and tie it to your Kong account. It says in the brochure that you will get 50 Kreds for doing so.

Topic: Technical Support / Kingdom Rush Bug Information

Don’t know if this will help solve the bug or not. When I load the game all the badges are lit up like they should be for getting them, but none of the badge descriptions show that I already got them.

Topic: Technical Support / Some recent change is causing Flash to repeatedly crash/lock up my browser

What does it list the cause as in Event Viewer? If you are using Windows.

On XP, the path to Event Viewer is Control Panel – Administrative Tools – Event Viewer.

In Event Viewer click on Applications and check the Error message that corresponds to the time that your problem happened. You may or may not get any help from the link that it gives you to check the problem.

I realize as a dev you probably already know that, but I am somewhat curious as to what may be causing your problem.

You can also try msconfig to identify the problem. These links are for itunes problems, but you can probably figure out how to use it.

XP http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1275

Vista or 7 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2292

Topic: Kongregate / Is there a reward for reaching certain levels?

On the Kongregate homepage when you are logged in, you get a message that they salute you for getting every level that you get. That must be your reward.

Topic: Kongregate / New badge discussion

When I opened the game pages of both of the newly badged games, I got a warning at the top of the browser stating “This website (uploads.ungrounded.net) is asking to store data on your computer for offline use.”. I will not let them under any circumstances.

Topic: General Gaming / Is RuneScape Fun?

If you like to grind, go for it.

Just beware of the level curve trap. The amount of points that it takes to go from level 98 to level 99 is the same as it takes to go from level 1 to level 70ish.

The community on Runescape is horrible. The CEO circle of Jagex is just as bad as the community if not worse.

Personally, I liked the actual game and would still be playing it if it were a single player game instead of a mmo.

Topic: Technical Support / Hands of War (the first one)

I was going to go back and check the previous versions of Hands of War to get any badges that I did not get. I loaded Hands of War 3 and opened the other games by this developer section.

I clicked on Hands of War and when the page loaded it had me signed out of Kongregate. The chat window had the become a member set up. I was still logged into Kongregate when I opened the home page in a new tab?

Hands of War 2 loaded fine without showing me as logged out.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Slavery is ok in the bible

Originally posted by vikaTae:

Originally posted by Benu01:

People are typically more educated now than then. Perhaps then, certain people could not be reasoned with like they might today.

We still have prisoners, even today. Also we have luxury appliances like washing machines, dishwashers, tumble driers, stoves that regulate their own heat. Even clean running water. The people living in the bible’s time didn’t have that, so it makes sense that they would choose to own ‘labor saving devices’ of a different sort. In return for basic sustenance and a roof over their head, the slave does all the nasty work the owner doesn’t wish to do, the same as we use electrical appliances for today.

Forcing someone else to do things that you simply do not want to do, makes sense? There are still maids today, but they are not slaves. Well at least they are not supposed to be, but from what appear in the news, some people still pretty much treat them as such especially with threats of deportation and the like hanging over them.

If someone in “olden” times was paying the person to do the work, even with room and board, it would not constitute slavery unless they were not free to leave. A “will work for food” sign does not make that person your slave if you hire them.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Slavery is ok in the bible

vikaTae quote: “Not at all. Voluntary slavery is an uncommon but ongoing practice in many countries. Involuntary slavery is too. Wage slavery, human trafficing, prostitution, all are forms of slavery. Can you honestly make the claim that most of humanity is not mentally competent?”

If someone is forced into slavery, I do not necessarily consider them to be mentally incompetent. There may be other factors that could contribute to that so I wouldn’t know one way or the other based solely on them being forced into slavery.

Someone willingly submitting to being enslaved, yes I would definitely say that they are not mentally competent. That doesn’t include “bedroom RPGs” where it is a fantasy and temporary.

Since most of the human race has a delusional belief in the supernatural, I guess that I would indeed say that most of the human race is at least somewhat mentally incompetent.

I am using the term mentally incompetent in place of, (crazy, lacking in reasoning ability, failure to use reasoning ability), and in no way am I trying to degrade anyone that has actual physical defects that hamper brain functions.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Slavery is ok in the bible

The site would be in agreement with the subject of the thread so how would it be off topic.

What would the times have to do with it. Are you saying that it was included in the bible because it was practiced at the time? So basically the people that made up the bible wanted to make sure that it continued under their religion.

It doesn’t matter when it occurred it was and is wrong.

Who in their right mind would give complete and utter control of their life and everything that they do to someone else? That would be taking advantage of someone that is not mentally competent.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Slavery is ok in the bible

Originally posted by vikaTae:

Originally posted by jim_vierling:

One of my favorite sites: http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

I don’t seem to be able to find where it disproves that the bible supports slavery. It is rather a long and hefty entire site you have linked to. Maybe you could point out the actual article where it shows the bible does not condone slavery?

It points out that the bible does condone slavery. If you click on any section under the highlights section you will see that there are no articles. The site takes actual quotes from the bible and points out what they mean in the context they are used. A lot of religious people tend to take a quote and say that it means one thing when if read with the surrounding text it means something quite different.

EDIT: At the bottom of the page there are two search functions. Use the top one and type in the word slavery. That should point to the various references in all three of the religious books that the site covers.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Slavery is ok in the bible

Originally posted by Benu01:

Originally posted by jim_vierling:

One of my favorite sites: http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

There are also links at the top to their versions of the Koran and the Book of Mormon.

For slavery references I would start in either the Injustice or the Cruelty and violence sections under highlights.

The writer of this website has very poor understanding of the Bible. He uses differing translations and misinterpreting vocabulary in order to “prove” the absurdity of the Bible. He makes assumptions based on unproven science, since no science is proven, only supported or unsupported. He also does not take into account the differences between people, places, and circumstances between now and then. Many annotations are far fetched in their poking and prodding at the Bible and frankly not very intelligently written. I found many grammatical and spelling mistakes.

Every point on the site is followed by a link to the actual book and verse if you want to check out how they got the interpretation.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Slavery is ok in the bible

One of my favorite sites: http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

There are also links at the top to their versions of the Koran and the Book of Mormon.

For slavery references I would start in either the Injustice or the Cruelty and violence sections under highlights.

Topic: Kongregate / New badge discussion

Originally posted by Thok:

Originally posted by jim_vierling:

Also, where is the explanation of what you need to do to get the stars?

Each level has 10 stars that you can pick up; touching a star in level gives it to you. Hovering over a level before you select it tells you how many stars out of 10 you’ve gotten for the level.

The actual mechanic for getting stars is fairly obvious to anybody with any amount of video game savvy after you play a single stage.

Your explanation includes one of the problems. There is at least one course that requires you to “pick up” things. If as you say, you can pick up the stars then it might make it seem like the stars within the course are just some sort of pick up item for points/boost or something else. A simple little tutorial explanation would be good.

Someone playing a single stage might not be counting the stars that they picked up during that stage and then notice that it matched up with the counter in the bottom left of the screen between stages. Especially if they have no idea what the stars are even in the stages for.

Topic: Kongregate / New badge discussion

I think that you got the badges in reverse order on Cyclomaniacs Epic. I have the hard badge but only have 187 stars, (200 needed for medium badge), and I do not have a bell unlocked (1 needed for easy badge).

Also, where is the explanation of what you need to do to get the stars?

Topic: Technical Support / Cyclomaniacs Epic badge description

I sent a missing badge report because after I unlocked Hadock mode I did not get the badge. I did however receive the badge after going into extras and clicking on the Haddock mode and then only after I started a race as the Haddock. You should add that into the badge description if you don’t want to get a bunch of missing badge reports.

I also now have the hard badge but neither the easy nor the medium badges.

Topic: Technical Support / Badges aren't being awarded.

Was playing Drift Runners and randomly got disconnected from the chat twice. Both times it reconnected on its own, but it did not award me the medium badge for completing all 6 tracks nor has it updated the best so far on the other medium or the hard badges. I am using Firefox 19.0.2.

Topic: Kongregate / New badge discussion

Epic Battle Fantasy 4 got badged. I am shocked, who would have ever thought that it would get badges?

By the way, nice move by the developer to allow players to switch difficulty level during gameplay without penalty. Kind of made it hard to require a certain difficulty for the badges.

Topic: Kongregate / Absolute worst (and I guess best) Kongregate badges

I don’t particularly care for giving a game a badge just because it corresponds to a current holiday.

Any badge on a MMO that requires interaction with other players is not a good thing as the vast majority of the MMOs die out in popularity is a bad badge.

Another type of bad badge is one that someone can earn much easier if they buy premium content. Paying should not decrease the difficulty level of the badge unless it also decreases the points the badge gives.

As mentioned above, the luck based badges SUCK.

I don’t mind endurance badges, as long as there is at least some progression in the game. By progression I mean things like new areas, maps, enemies, something to keep going. I don’t really care for endurance badges like the Papa’s pizzeria where you just have to concentrate on a couple of customers to a certain point then switch to other customers doing pretty much the exact same thing over and over and over until you get all the customers to the same point. ( I like the Papa’s games by the way.)

Another problem with endurance badges is the inconsistency of what qualifies as endurance. The Monsters Den impossible badge takes way less time than the Gemcraft: Labyrinth hard badge for beating the whole maze. (For the Gemcraft badge see above about buying premium content as it takes way less time if you unlock all giants and the other level selections.)

You should have an endurance badge badge level that gives 45 points.

Overall, the badge concept is a good one. No one is going to like all the badges even if they try to get them.

Topic: Kongregate / [UserScript] Kongregate Night Mode

OK. I installed Greasemonkey and the userscript, but I have no idea how to proceed from there to activate the night mode?

EDIT: It is working, I just didn’t know that it doesn’t work on the Kongregate homepage. Thanks for the script.

Topic: Kongregate / [UserScript] Kongregate Night Mode

I downloaded it, but where do I get it to work? By the way, It also downloads the AOL toolbar and some playbrite thing.