Luke
08-10-2011, 10:00 PM
Happy 6th Anniversary GEWar!!! May seem like a long post, but some good info in here!
It has been 6 years already. Time goes by fast.
I want to congratulate the crew, the ex-crew, the players and the game itself! Hooooraayyy. :drinks
Now I didn't come here empty handed....
As a lot already suspected, I'm not raising the convertion rates this year. Not now, and not at Christmas. Don't start screaming...I never told anyone I would. Previous times was just a surprise, but that surprise has been long gone :). I knew I wasn't going to do this from the very beginning of this year.
Instead, I give you all 2,000 jewels. That would take you a long time to actually jewel I think. Those jewels are worth 6,000 geos.
Yet those jewels are just the bonus...
For the past days I've been working very hard in converting past features. I've got them all, but I couldn't fix 1 thing in time, and that is implementing them in the games layout. This because the old version was coded in a very different way than this one. That will cost me a bit more time(it would look awfull suddenly going to a white page with some text and a menu in it to intercept armies for example). But what I do already have for you is 3 features that didn't and don't need the gewar game layout to work.
1) The lottery! It's fully automated. You buy a ticket for 100 geos, and every day at 18:00pm servertime 3 lucky winners are drawn. First prize wins 55% of the pot(pot being all tickets bought per 100 geos), second prize wins 35% and third prize wins 10%.
2) GEWar slots! Every turn costs 5 geos. Every 5 geos goes into the jackpot. Every 3 characters except the skulls give you a percentage of that jackpot. But besides winning the jackpot, you can also win a NUKE!!! Get 3 nuke symbols to win yourself a nuke.
However if you get 3 skulls, the jackpot goes to good ol' me, and starts at only 200 geos again.
3) Deal Or No Deal(better known as DOND). Back on popular demand. When I first created it years ago it was one of the projects I had most fun with creating actually. It's DOND as you know it, or about like that. There are hints in game, there is a chat in game. You can play for fun or for geos(1000 geos). And you can win up to 10,000 geos! Choose your own case, and then every turn choose 3 to open and discard, or deal with the offer that will be offered by a computerbanker. This banker takes the average of the amounts and might go a little over it or under it(usually under it to make it harder on you).
These features will be updated too. I'm updating DOND so it takes less clicks(like when selecting cases, it won't use another page anymore). And ofcourse bugfixes when we find them(oh that means you might find a bug somewhere, even though we tested). And ofcourse DOND will eventually fit in the GEWar layout as well. Now has to do with his own layout.
So you see why it's these 3 features first. Converted them all, but now only need to 'convert' the layout issue to get them all working and not looking like a mess.
You can find the links to these new features in the top menu of the forum(DOND and Casino), and in the HOME menu inside the game. In both cases it's a temporary location as I need to sort them(done it now like this so they are noticed by all).
Next on my lists are:
Army splitting
Army interception
Industry
Natural Disasters (this one probably first as it's the easiest and was working on it before starting to write here).
Hope you all have fun with this. Last notice is that today we'll see a lot of games for geos!
And happy birthdayyyyyyyy GEWar!! ;88:friends;beer
It has been 6 years already. Time goes by fast.
I want to congratulate the crew, the ex-crew, the players and the game itself! Hooooraayyy. :drinks
Now I didn't come here empty handed....
As a lot already suspected, I'm not raising the convertion rates this year. Not now, and not at Christmas. Don't start screaming...I never told anyone I would. Previous times was just a surprise, but that surprise has been long gone :). I knew I wasn't going to do this from the very beginning of this year.
Instead, I give you all 2,000 jewels. That would take you a long time to actually jewel I think. Those jewels are worth 6,000 geos.
Yet those jewels are just the bonus...
For the past days I've been working very hard in converting past features. I've got them all, but I couldn't fix 1 thing in time, and that is implementing them in the games layout. This because the old version was coded in a very different way than this one. That will cost me a bit more time(it would look awfull suddenly going to a white page with some text and a menu in it to intercept armies for example). But what I do already have for you is 3 features that didn't and don't need the gewar game layout to work.
1) The lottery! It's fully automated. You buy a ticket for 100 geos, and every day at 18:00pm servertime 3 lucky winners are drawn. First prize wins 55% of the pot(pot being all tickets bought per 100 geos), second prize wins 35% and third prize wins 10%.
2) GEWar slots! Every turn costs 5 geos. Every 5 geos goes into the jackpot. Every 3 characters except the skulls give you a percentage of that jackpot. But besides winning the jackpot, you can also win a NUKE!!! Get 3 nuke symbols to win yourself a nuke.
However if you get 3 skulls, the jackpot goes to good ol' me, and starts at only 200 geos again.
3) Deal Or No Deal(better known as DOND). Back on popular demand. When I first created it years ago it was one of the projects I had most fun with creating actually. It's DOND as you know it, or about like that. There are hints in game, there is a chat in game. You can play for fun or for geos(1000 geos). And you can win up to 10,000 geos! Choose your own case, and then every turn choose 3 to open and discard, or deal with the offer that will be offered by a computerbanker. This banker takes the average of the amounts and might go a little over it or under it(usually under it to make it harder on you).
These features will be updated too. I'm updating DOND so it takes less clicks(like when selecting cases, it won't use another page anymore). And ofcourse bugfixes when we find them(oh that means you might find a bug somewhere, even though we tested). And ofcourse DOND will eventually fit in the GEWar layout as well. Now has to do with his own layout.
So you see why it's these 3 features first. Converted them all, but now only need to 'convert' the layout issue to get them all working and not looking like a mess.
You can find the links to these new features in the top menu of the forum(DOND and Casino), and in the HOME menu inside the game. In both cases it's a temporary location as I need to sort them(done it now like this so they are noticed by all).
Next on my lists are:
Army splitting
Army interception
Industry
Natural Disasters (this one probably first as it's the easiest and was working on it before starting to write here).
Hope you all have fun with this. Last notice is that today we'll see a lot of games for geos!
And happy birthdayyyyyyyy GEWar!! ;88:friends;beer