Recent posts by askon on Kongregate

Topic: Technical Support / Rate Game tab-screen, bug

Bug: If you get the Tab screen asking you to rate the game (in the box with the chat and highscrores) and you rate the game, it doesn’t update the stars in the “Game” tab, nor at the top of the game view window. and not under the game view either.

Let me know if that was clear, or if I should make a screenshot to show what I mean.

Topic: Kongregate / Badge of the Day 2013 (BotD) Archives - February 24th: Dungeon Defender "Jailbreak"

Guys – this is too much!

How many MMO’s can one play at a time? It takes hours to learn one, and you want us to do one every day?

If you must promote them, space them out a little – every 3rd day maybe.

Topic: Kongregate / Badge of the Day 2013 (BotD) Archives - February 24th: Dungeon Defender "Jailbreak"

Looks like it really might be MMO week – two MMO’s in a row, plus one before that.

Topic: Sacred Seasons 2 MMORPG / Is SS2 down?

Originally posted by Korra15:

Nah your internet sucks probably

Nice, posting 3 days later. It’s back up for me too.

Topic: Kongregate / Badge of the Day 2013 (BotD) Archives - February 24th: Dungeon Defender "Jailbreak"

Originally posted by Blackdrazon:

MMO Week.

I will never miss as many BotDs as I will now.

Really MMO week? Did they announce that? And it’s quite unfair if I can’t get the BOTD because I can’t connect to the game.

Topic: Sacred Seasons 2 MMORPG / Is SS2 down?

Is SS2 down? I haven’t been able to connect for a day so far. Either it won’t load at all, or will load to 10% and that’s it.

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: New achievement checkboxes and pod changes

Bug: If you get the Tab screen asking you to rate the game (in the box with the chat and highscrores) and you rate the game, it doesn’t update the stars in the “Game” tab, nor at the top of the game view window. (And probably not under the game view either, although i didn’t pay attention. There are 4 places on the screen with stars? Seems a little excessive.)

Let me know if that was clear, or if I should make a screenshot to show what I mean.

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Forum Search and More Game Info Hovers

If you use noscript, or other javascript blockers, you have to add kongcdn.com to the whitelist or the site won’t work.

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

I hate badges where you basically finished the game, but didn’t do it “xx” enough. Fast enough, few enough deaths, things like that.

Puzzle games where the badge wants you to do it fast. The puzzle is the game. Doing it fast is just memorization – memorization is not part of the game, yet the badge insists on it. Example: Open Doors 2 – just because the game tracks time doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

An example is the hard badge of Qoosh – I finished the game, I don’t really want to play it again just to minimize my warps.

Where it’s not actually a game. A pixel hunt is the best example: for example the game Pyro or Gravitee Gravitee is a game, but the impossible badge is not – it’s a pixel hunt.

Then you have horrible “games” like Mardi Gras Mayhem – it’s not actually a game. I “played” the entire thing by putting something on my space bar and walking away. Homerun In Berzerk Land: Berzerk Ball is the same type – you “play” the game by making your mouse click every 2 seconds and walking away.

That’s not an example of a bad badge exactly (so maybe I shouldn’t have included it), but of course if the game is bad the badge doesn’t help.

And the final thing is overdoing it: When the badge wants you to finish absolutely everything. Just because it’s a hard badge doesn’t mean it should mean completion. (At least that’s what I think, perhaps you disagree.) Games tend to “over like” themself – they think if having a few levels is fun, then lots is way more fun. It’s not so. For the game designer to do that is excusable, but the badges should not go along with that.

Topic: Kongregate / End of Kong as we know it ?

Originally posted by MadJedi:

As long as downloadable games don’t ever become badge of the day and/or limited challenge material, I am completely okay with this addon.

That is exactly what they did at first with unity games: No BOTD or Challenges. And now Unity games can get those. So even if downloaded games are at first excluded from that, there is no guarantee it will stay that way.

Topic: Kongregate / Newest games now save to a new folder (including newly badged games)

Originally posted by PoeticAkuma:

I can’t seem to find the folder. Before the question is asked, yes, I am looking in the correct folder to find it. But it isn’t showing up. I also have the “show hidden folders” applied.

You won’t have the folder unless you play a game that uses it.

Topic: Kongregate / New badge discussion

Bubble Sky is a terrible game, but the badge took less than 10 minutes, so <shrug>.

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

Phoenix00017 can you at least post a list of what we should expect in each game at each package level? So I/we can at least tell if we got the items? I’ve never played these games before, I have no idea what I would normally get vs via the package.

Topic: Kongregate / Unfair Kreds

Originally posted by saybox:

10 Kreds isn’t much, and you can’t trade them between accounts.

You can buy credits (or whatever the name in some game is for them) in a game that allows transferring them. Make a bunch of alts, buy credits in a game and send them all to your main player.

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

I don’t seem to have gotten anything in Galaxy Life. How can I tell? I should have gotten the silver package.

Can anyone post what items I should expect in each game?

Topic: Kongregate / Anniversary Giveaway

I’ve had an account since Sep 2008, but I’ve played here longer than that.

When I first started I had no idea what the chat and achievements window was for and always got irritated with it since I just wanted the game. Then I registered and it made more sense.

Topic: Kongregate / Badge Hunters Anonymous

Originally posted by BadgeHuntersAnon:

Originally posted by askon:

If you want to save yourself a lot of time, just use the tip from Titandrake in the comments.

Yes, I know all about that this time, but I prefer to go through games without codes/special names/glitches/etc.

Speaking as someone who played the game properly, with no shortcuts – not even LouWeed’s suggestion. You will live to regret this decision :)

Topic: Kongregate / Badge Hunters Anonymous

Originally posted by BadgeHuntersAnon:

So I’ve started Papa’s Pizzeria. I don’t have much time so I’ll try to do 5 days a day, so It will be around a 25 part series…

If you want to save yourself a lot of time, just use the tip from Titandrake in the comments.

Topic: Kongregate / Badge Suggestions!

Band Of Heroes (Current Rating: 4.20)

(hard – 30 points)
[] 9 Missions completed
[] Max character level to 15 (The game does not report completion of level 10, so use this as a proxy)

(medium – 15 points)
[] ### Max team damage

(easy – 5 points)
[] ### Gold collected

I’m not sure what good medium/easy badges are since I didn’t note what my stats were at reasonable points in the game.

Topic: Kongregate / When are we going to start removing badges from broken games?

They’ve already removed badges before. Specifically for Caesary. See: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/3/topics/265694 for a list of some other games.

Topic: General Gaming / demons in fairyland i need help with level 11,12 on very hard

For level 12 start your build like this:

One you get some more money add additional towers like this (sorry I can’t show all towers at once):

Note: You must build the Totems last, and you must press shift while placing all 4! Otherwise you will only be able to place 3 of them.

Also: The start is a bit hard, you will need some spells. But once things get going it’s trivially easy, so don’t worry about using up your mana at the start.

Buld the 3rd tower as soon as you have cash for it. Then upgrade the camp, then upgrade the 3 towers. Once you’ve done the second to last upgrade (i.e. not venom or frost), start building and upgrading the last 2 towers.

Topic: Kongregate / How to get Sola Rola working. (Was: How to almost get Sola Rola to work - very close.)

Originally posted by feoa:

I don’t think I edited the Host file right There was no file called Host

Originally posted by Kaizus:

So I think I’m just illiterate or something…But I’ve tried multiple things and I can’t get it to work. :(

I’m on Windows 7 and use Google Chrome. I’ve edited the hosts file but I have no idea if I did it right…So if anyone could help, it’d be much appreciated. :)

See if the instruction here help: http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/windows-7-hosts-file/ by default the hosts file is hidden so you might not be able to find it.

Topic: Kongregate / Badge of the Day 2013 (BotD) Archives - February 24th: Dungeon Defender "Jailbreak"

Originally posted by uzzbuzz:

Everyone, start promoting that script/fix that I can’t find right now since I’m going to sleep!

It’s here: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/261015

And they are on a roll with problematic stuff – the API for yesterdays game was broken.

Topic: Kongregate / How to get Sola Rola working. (Was: How to almost get Sola Rola to work - very close.)

Bump for BOTD.

Topic: Kongregate / [Contest] Aliens vs. Colonial Marines Quest (Colonial Marines Win!)

Originally posted by Zshadow:

Sorry guys, it should have only been one medal for one quest. That’s the point of the competition, Aliens vs. Marines. :)

Except I didn’t actually pick – I simply clicked the first one in the list, which auto-awarded me Aliens. And a lot of people are going to automatically get Marines because of the two new badges you just added – people will click to play it and automatically get Marines.

Picking a side should be more of an active choice.