If you’re like me and like your good old nes game, this game is definitely a must try. It’s a mix of mario and portal and the result is amazing.

You can download it here.

Related : Super Mario Crossover

Since I’m getting a lot of request these days I decided to do a weekly update.

Clash of Kingdoms

There a new server up since yesterday for clash of kingdoms

New Server: S39 Rebel Fury
Launch Time: March 5th 6:00 PM (PST)
Server Link: http://s39.ck.koramgame.com/
Map: Shao, Tao, Jiao, Meng, Dong, Ma

And there a new update called The Might of the Sages that’s coming up that look really interesting, here a extract from the mail I received :

Duel System
The Hero Duel System is a new PVP feature, it can be launched in any Arena or World battles, and displays as a duel between two heroes. The closer the attributes are the better chance of a dual happening.
In the Duel System, heroes can release the newly added ability – Skills. The effects are similar to abilities, can be sorted as Active, Passive, Attack, Defensive and Buff etc.
Corresponding to the Duel System, there are new Gears and Abilities which will be pushed out in this new version, players will gain more experience from this new game feature!

Terrain System
There are 7 terrains added to Battlefield which can give players a brand new experience. Each terrain offers buffs to different types of troops. It can affect attack, defense, critical strike damage and rates, and dodge.
The 7 terrains are Grassland, Solid Ground, Desert, Tundra, Forest, Mud, Hills.

School System
The School is a place where players can teach and study new abilities autonomously. Players’ heroes can learn all abilities besides the exclusive hero abilities, and will be able to learn the new types of abilities including: Increasing exclusive troops’ attack and defense, Increasing strike, Increasing dodge, Decreasing abilities damage, additional terrain bonuses and Reducing food consumption etc.
Players with 10,000 or more development and a little silver can create their own Schools in the Academy on the City interface, players can also apply to join others’ School, but every player can only join in one school at the same time.
Players who created the school can select any of his/her heroes enter the school to become the teacher. When school reaches to level 3 or above, players who are students can also select any of their heroes enter the school to study.
Teachers can get Insight by teaching, and students can get Insight by studying. When their Insight reaches a certain level, players can select a specialty for their heroes to learn.
Literary Talent: Can increase the success rate of insight specialty. Can increase the daily limit of Advice. Can increase the success rate in Challenge.
Military Genius: Can choose more skills if a hero have more Military Genius. Can increase the daily limit of Challenge. Can increase the success rate in Challenge.
A school’s level depends on teaching and studying activities in the school.
Players are able to drop out of a school. Players can be removed from the school if 3 or more players choose to banish them, and their heroes will be also removed

Call of gods

They had a 7th server on march 1st more info in my previous post : Press Release : Ready to Answer the Call of Gods?

Desktop Dungeons Beta Free All This Week

Desktop dungeon is free this week so grab a free copy here.

New 1000 ad

1000 ad server finish this Saturday (March,10 2012) Be ready if you want to try a new server. I was to late in the last server so I stopped playing to restart once the server reopen…

Has I was searching a  good hockey manager and I stumble upon Cyber puck.
Cyber puck is a hockey manager game, where you can take care of a team or manage the career of up to 5 players.

The goal of cyberpuck is simple, if you don’t pay money all you need to do is to take care of 5 player, you have to find them a team where to play, train team, instruct them tactic to do in the game, buy them equipment etc.

Creating a player.

You can create up to 5 player, with cyberpoint you can create more player or buy inactive player so you can have a bigger pool of player to manage.
It’s really up to you to create what position you player will play and what it’s speciality (wrist shot, slqp shot etc) however keep in mind that a team usually have 3-4 line so they need around 9 forward (3 of each) and 6 defenseman and only 2 goaler. So don’t over create goalers, one or even 0 is enough.
Once your player is created assign him to a team to earn money.
Don’t forget to go in the tactic to setup your player tactic in game.

Training and buying you player stuff

Contrary to SHL training is done on a player level and you need to hire a personal trainer to each player. Each trainer boost different ability, pick a trainer that boosts the primary or secondary attribute that your player need. 

You can buy equipment to boost your player attribute has well, there 3 kind of equipment you can equip stick, skate and helmet. What funny is that equipment can give you bonus unrelated to the equipment like a helmet can increase your wrists shoot ability…

Having a team

I haven’t been able to have a team yet since you need to pay 1000 cyberpoint to buy a team and only have 200 for now.
Once I get there I’ll make a post about it

Cyberpoint : what it give and how to get them

With cyber point you can do a bunch of stuff like the following.

Buy a team

The only way to have a team is to buy a team with point, so keep your point to get your team 🙂

Boost your player

Increase you player ability by using cyberpoint it accelerates the player development.

Create new player and increase player limit

If you want to hire more player and create them you need cyberpoint for that too.

Create equipment

If you want to boost specific ability use, you can create an equipment that boost those exact abilities for your player by using some cyberpoint.

Buy a inactive player

when people stop playing you can buy their player, someone actually did that to me, I wasn’t very happy to rebuild from scratch my players.

How to get Cyberpoint ?

You can get cyberpoint by logging everyday, referring the game to your friend, making blog post about the game and by buying them.

Overall cyberpuck has some really good idea but the site it self is kind of clumsy Flow of the game Is not really intuitive and I was somewhat lost when started playing.
Like, for some reason sometime the game sent you back to your player list when all you want it to continue what you’re doing (like buying equipment)
Or when you buy equipment, you need to buy then click back (which do not work on chrome) then go to inventory then equip it. Instead of equipping the item directly…

Even if the navigation is hard, you will probably like cyberpuck anyway if you a hockey fan. However I’m not sure you will like it if you don’t know squat about hockey.

Here my referall link to the game : http://www.cyberpuck.com/?ref=121294

I don’t get money but I get cyberpoint… 🙂

Give it a try and leave a comment on how you liked/hated this game.

YooGame sent me a press release for the new Call of the god server, I just got started at this game so I’ll write a formal review in the next following week

Yoogames will release its 7th server “Wonderland” of COG (Call of Gods) on PST 7:00 Mar 1st. Get ready to conquer the new land and enjoy the new adventure.

Call of Gods is a free-to-play browser game of MMORPG & SLG genre with a
background story of wars among the Gods. In this game, players will play a warrior of human, elf or undead and develop their armies to fight against each other.

Particular and detailed Game Guide will help you master playing quickly.

With particular and detailed guide of quests in game and prompt of daily quests in Call of Gods (COG), players who have never played any game will be familiar with this game. Players will know what quests they should complete per day with the particular prompt which includes many kinds
of unique systems in COG. With the help of this Game Guide, players not only will upgrade their characters’ level, but also know very well about all these systems as soon as possible.

Strategy System with various options

In Call of Gods, player will recruit hero in Tavern, choose series of advanced equipments and obtain your legendary heroes with highest attributes by leveling up your hero and study kinds of skills.

Then choose the best formation of hero arranging to assign different units. With special hero
formation, you will even defeat more powerful enemy than troops of yours.

Breathtaking alliance war will give you intensive PVP with passion

Different from other web-game, COG will provide a powerful alliance to help your explore the new world. After creating or joining an alliance, you will build your alliance to be a powerful one with your mates and create the sovereign supremacy on the fantastic land. Strategies will be adopted when you fight against your enemies with your friends in the alliance war. The order of your alliance member, your choice of defences or attack will influence the result of the alliance war which is composed of benefits and glory.

Powerful castle will be your solid backing of your exploration

In the castle, player will build various buildings which have different functions of providing abundant resources, supporting enough troops, increasing fighting capacity with leveling up tech, etc.

Hurry up to experience these awesome features and enjoy the amazing COG on here.

COG on Yoogames: http://www.yoogames.com/cog/

We finally had our servers merge recently, one year of waiting Finally paid off or so I though….

For a bit of history I’m from server 14, we got wacked on our first merge and then we waited 1 year and 3 month before being merged again. I almost stop playing but the idea of a merge brought me back to life, I was prepared, I even reread my guide and Koram guide.

It might took us more than a year before being merged, but It took 3 fucking days for the server to be finish and now we are back to sim city for another year. We’re still in the adjustment period and the server is over….

This is my troop while watching my league mate getting attack

I couldn’t even attack to help because I moved my troop too late, so I could only send support and watch my brother lose there capital in agony.
Sure they’re the multi-server that make sense to keep playing but I don’t want to wait another year…

I think the servers merge seriously need to be rethink, the idea is good but they’re too much stuff that kind of get in the way and it’s kind of boring that we waited a year for that and it took like 3 days.
At least our initial Tiamat S14 vs KE s20 (not sure the server no) took around a week but that was pretty fast too.
I’ll try to think of something that could be done to have a decent merge and post it in the suggestion forum.

Let me know what you think, here or in the forum thread

Related post and link :
Preparing for a server merge on a ultimate server

My Story from the merge of server U5 (S14 & S20)

Koram guide

King of the Hill is series of battles between leagues to occupy and hold different locations for a specified period of time. It is the only way to receive the kingdom tax (regional and national) and other prize.
From the beginner guide: (http://forum.koramgame.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3771)

• King of the Hill lasts for 30 minutes for both regional and national wars.
• Regional War: Starts every Saturday at 10:00-10:30 (PST)
• National War: Starts every Sunday at 19:00-19:30 (PST)
• The first attack may be sent out at exactly 10:00 and 19:00 respectively
• NPCs will defend the city first. When the NPCs are destroyed, players will defend the city.
• Players from opposing leagues will attack each other.  (Does not matter if the league is a "sister league")
• Players from the same league will help defend each other.
• King of the Hill is where players can receive a tax license.
• Capitals are defended with units that have the high defence.  Units that have a lower defence rating than your main defence unit already defending the capital will be sent back to your city.

Other thing they forgot :

– The time provided here is not always true, they sometime change the time to accommodate players who cannot play in those hours.

– Troop deployed to a King of the Hill target (KoTH) will take the same amount of to reach the city, you troop speed, heroes ability and upgrade have no influence on the time. However you state location have an influence on how much time it will take to arrive at destination. It for minute if you are in the same region (north, east, west, south) than the capital and 8 if you are outside.  here how north, east, west, south is separated :

– Regional KOTH targets can hold up to 2,000 player defending units. National KOTH targets can hold up to 5,000 Player defending units.
– They are 6 prizes per city in the regional and 9 for the national war.
note that only the following player that achieves the following goal will receives a revenue license (tax) (among other prize).

Master of Marching: Player who occupies the target city for the longest time.
Lord of Slayer: Player who have the most Kill
Lord of War: Given randomly to any player who occupied the KOTH city during the event.

On revenue license (tax permit) : Regional war give the tax permission for your region and national war give it to the whole server. When you have it you need to chose a league to tax.
You get a lot of resources when you use it , it always depends on which league your tax but it always a decent amount my lowest was around 150k of each resources and highest 500K-600k.

Tips and tactical note:

I noticed player knock out the troop then leave to prevent lost, so that mean you can always try to send from you sub and you might be able to grab a city (this happen specially in the regional)
Just by occupying the city you can get the lord of war so it might worth it.
I haven’t really try any fancy tactic, most of the time there not much players that are doing it any way since for some of us its during office hour or in the middle of the night.
Most of the time if you’re in the top league you’ll end up hitting your own sister league or supporting your league member if you arrive late, so try not to be late.

However if you have a huge force it can help you get kill and become Lord of slayer, then withdraw your troop to prevent lost.

Hope it help and check those guide with image and stuff for more info on King of the hill.

Original post on KOTH on koram main site

Beginner guide to KOTH

Gehrshi On King of the Hill

I’ve been suggested to look at a new game call DDTank. I seem pretty recent since most review date from the end of 2011.

DDTank is  kind of Worms like game with mmo element to, where to aim you give the angle you throw and how much power you put behind it. I might not have the nifty weaponry of worm but have a lot of element to it. They’re a weird thing with the name, there no tank in the game which is misleading.

When you start the game, you much first create a character and then you start with a basic weapon, a Hammer.

After a quick tutorial where they explain how to shoot, equip weapon, do mission and how to play vs other player you get a good sense of the game.

You can fight up with 3 others player, bigger fight would probably be a lot of fun too but it currently only support 4 player fight.
From what I played getting the physic right is really hard. In my first fight it took about 10 shoot before me or my opponent to hit each other.  That probably due to the only 10 second to aim which is not a lot. Another things that weird it’s it can by your turn twice or your opponent cans go twice before you, it prevents some kind of abuse like oh no he’s next so better hide but it remove at the same time the sense of what should you really be doing. Oh and once you shoot it seems you can move, maybe that only me but I would like to use my whole 10 seconds.

Balance
One thing I found from the few game I played the fact that there leveling and pay for advantage might be a great idea but in the game sense it feel unfair. On my first game my opponent was using a better weapon and boost and did 2-3 time the damage I did. Lucky for me he seems to have no clue how to aim when we are close so I was able to win anyway. In even if you both have the same weapon and number of worm, the map and who started the turn could do the whole difference between victory and defeat, with DDTank you have the same element but other can have a weapon advantages which increase the feeling of unfairness.
What to do
If you’re not playing the city provide you with a lot of stuff to do, from training to mission and shopping for new gear. You can even have a wedding with your other DDTank friend.

Overall
The idea behind DDTank are great but not exploited to its fullest. Since it’s new, they probably have a lot of good stuff coming so let keep a good eye on the game.

I’m currently trying a new game called 1000ad. I a turn based game were instead of playing real-time like tribal war or TKO you accumulate turn and can play them when you have time.

However there a twist, the number of turn you can have is caped so once your at 320 your cannot accumulate turn again.

Here a screen shot of how it look like:

I’ve played some game like that in the past like King of chaos, but this game seem to be more strategic than King of chaos though.

I’m currently playing my first round of the game, the last 28 days then the server restart.

I’m still trying to figure stuff out but they seem to already have a good community around the game, A youtube channel with tutorial and a beginner guide.

Give it a try, click on there link or the image at the beginning of the article.

I’ll probably bring a full review later this week, but hope you like trying out the game.

Last entry we got how the training work, how to manage your team and how to set you up for the game.

How to Build your team

1- Getting player :

The only way to get new players is through the Waiver Market.
The waiver market is where you can bid credits for players. If you bid a amount that you have and that you are the highest bidders, the player will be added to your team roster and have the amount of credits that were bid will be deducted from your account.

Not that you have to have a player that have been place on the waiver market so the new player will take is place. If you don’t have any player that are place on the market, you wont get any player even if you win the bid.

Remember only way to be a winning bidders is to have the highest bid and to have the credits your their account. There is no cost to place a bid.

What happens to the player that I put on waivers?

He go in the minor and you pays half is salary… no wait that the nhl. In order to bid on a player, you have to make room for him on your roster by putting a player on waivers. When a new player join he replace the player on the waivers and that player is then gone … forever.

In player management click on the player you want to put on the market. In the player information screen you can place him on the waiver market by clicking on the exit sign that say Put on waiver market.

if you change your mind, You can take the player off waivers, by clicking the TAKE OFF WAIVER MARKET button.
A player that is replaced by a winning bid is retired from the game. The manager receives 0 Credits for the player! You are buying a new player from the Waiver Market.

How many players should I put on waivers?
Place as many as you like. It probably better to start slow, putting one or 2 player on the market. The player are replaced when you win a bid, since there no limit to bid you might end up wining a lot of them. So what I did in the past is to put on the market a group of the same player (2-3 defence or winger) and bid only on the type of player I want to replace.

The players that you bid on may be with your team for 6 seasons or longer, so make sure that they are a good fit for your team.

When does the bidding process take place?
All bids are processed in the morning a 3h00 am GMT. Players immediately join their new teams and replace the player(s) on waivers. Any players on waivers who were not replaced remain with their teams.

How much should I bid?
I tend to bid really low and somehow tend to still get decent player. If you want a star player you need to be more aggressive but I noticed that if your team is in a lower division you seem to get player even if you have low bid.

Check the number of bidder near the player you want, 23 probably mean the minimum wont get it but sometime you’ll be surprise there might 22 that all bid 500 credit and you can go and bid 750 and win.

Let take this example, today there to player that are interesting and you really like to get them on the team.
So if you want them both you need at least two of you players on the waivers. If both bid are successful you will get both if only one win the first player in you list will be replaced (the one with the lowest roster no). So, if the waived players Roster Numbers are 3 and 6, the number 3 slot will be the first one filled.
Remember, a winning bid is a new player. If you waive a goalie and a center, and have 5 bids out on goalies and 3 bids out on center, if you win 2 bids on the goalies, then you will get 2 goalies added to your roster. CAUTION: When trying to acquire players at different positions with more than 1 bid per position, you can get more players at a position than you really wanted.

How are bids resolved? (from the shl forum)
Bids are resolved by position: goalies, defensemen, wingers, centers respectively. All goalie bids are resolved, then defensemen, then wingers and finally centers. Within each position, your highest bid of the highest overall rated player is considered first. Tie bids go to the manager with the lowest manager rating number. Recommendation: don’t try to bid on 2 players at different positions unless you only place 1 bid on each of those players. You’re probably going to have to pay a premium to get them, too. It’s better to place several lower bids on players at one position to get the best deal. Don’t forget to check Waiver Market History the next day if you didn’t win a bid, to see what the player went for. You can also check to see what team acquired the player by clicking on his name; this will let you know who is active in the market.

How much should I bid for one of these Star players? (from the shl forum)
When a star player is available, usually there are many more bidders that are interested and the player will go for the maximum possible bid. Since this means there will be several tie bidders, the manager with the lowest manager ranking will be awarded the player. The auction process becomes a kind of lottery. The question is, is this player worth the 10,000 credit price? If a manager is patient, he can usually acquire a very good player for even the minimum bid of 500 credits. Training a team for one season costs approximately 1500 credits. That’s 75 credits per player per season. Over the course of 6 seasons, that’s 450 credits in training per player. So, for 950 credits you will have an almost star player for several seasons. Is it really worth 9,000 more credits to have that “star” player right now? To some managers, the answer is yes. But if you’re just starting to build a team, probably not.

How should I build my team?
Plan for the future. Start with a good goaler, then go for a defenseman, and a scoring forward or a center. Remember, like we said before, players attributes will decline in their 7th season with a team. For some reason even training won’t help these veteran players, no matter what their age is. Taking that in consideration it’s probably better to split acquisitions over the course of several seasons, so after 6 seasons, you don’t have to replace all 20 players in one shot. And during any given year, each position has some veterans and some rookies. Bid only on the best players available. Players that are second or third rate will not catch up to the others, even with training. Many managers only have 2 goalers on their roster, it’s probably better that way since they don’t tend to get injured. After that it’s more up to you, I still recommend defence over offence at first but if you have 4 strong Def and 2 good line you can do pretty well specially in most division.

Is there a better time during the season to bid on players?
At the start of each season, winning managers get credits from SLH, so there are many managers bidding on players. At the end of the season, the bidding seems to fall off. If you can wait, the best the deals are probably to be had at the end of a season.

How to know if a player is good does the overall is enough ?

When buying players do not go by their Overall rating. Like we say before, this isn’t worth shit.

You need to check the other Players Attributes to decide on the best buy, these are different between position.

Here what attribute is the best to look at :
Goalkeepers – Goaltending, Puck Control, Speed, Passing
Defender – Hitting, Strength, Stamina, Puck Control
Wingers – Speed, Passing, Shooting, Puck Control
Centers – Shooting, Speed, Passing, Puck Control
Stamina is an attribute that you should look at before every player bid. Try to always bid on players with a minimum of 70 stamina.

Other things to check when bidding
Don’t forget to check how many bids the Player has. If it is lots then you may have to put a good bid in but if it is only one or two then you may be able to get a bargain. Not that defensemen tend to have a lot of bid, it’s because computer controlled players will bid on these but put in minimum bids the defensemen.
If a bid is tied then the team with the lowest manager rating gets the Player. If you don’t get the player then go into waiver Market History and look at your unsuccessful bids. Here you can see how much he cost and then click on him to see where he went.

Note that new need credit to bid so here how to get credits.
Top ten way to get money in shl

Extra information :

Players Age
Should I just bid on younger players? I did notice major difference between young player than older player. Some say that younger players progress faster during training. But other say they can be a little irresponsible and tend to have more AWOL. Older players can be more reliable, but they may not respond to training like a young talented player would. Then again, some older players respond very well to training because they have never had a good manager before.

Promotion and Relegation/ Changing Divisions

If your team is really shit and your division is to strong, it can be a good idea to switch for a lower division and build a team from the lower end by wining playoff and division title. You have the option to switch during the first 5 game weeks to Join a Division. If you select that option, it costs 500 credits and the Manager leaves his old team and players and takes over a new team, in the Division chosen, with players that are already on the new team’s roster.

That all for the guide hope you’ve enjoyed it.

I was feeling old school and I decided to bring out my old nes and play a game that really loved then Destiny of an Emperor.

Destiny of an Emperor is old NES RPG game (made in 1989) that is based on the Romance of three kingdoms novel.

It’s not the actual story of the Luo Guanzhong’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel since you control Liu Bei and is general and you can actually take down the Wu and wei Kingdom.

So for you fan of Clash of Kingdom and Three kingdom online, I think you will love that game. You will see all the good old general from the Three kingdom Area.

I don’t know if I’m going to write about it but if you want to check some walkthrough you can check lord Yuan Shu site for there review and walkthrough of the game :

Lord yuan shu site:http://www.lordyuanshu.com/category/destiny-of-an-emperor

You can find the game and walkthrough on Kongming site:http://kongming.net/doae/