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Chat => Entertainment & Technology => Topic started by: DEViANCE on September 25, 2008, 17:23:02 PM
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Anyone remember this?
Its back anyway, just login in with your old user and pass if you can remember it.
http://www.mechwars.net
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what....the...hell?
I was googling it and everything about 2 weeks ago, sorely missing it.
Am I dreaming or what?
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I think they made it free again.
They are into round 219345389 or something like that.
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Just dug out my old account detauls from Hotmail. Crikey it let me in.
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Huh?
Mechwars never went Pay to play, it just went offline before it got out of beta. Im trying to figure out what the deal is with the current round, I think hes basically restored the last round from 2006, and reset everyone to 0, so people that were in the last round can pick it up again.
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Ah wait, Im thinking of Planet Arion.
That is free again.
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Its one minute ticks folks..
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Aye, Im just about to hit someone with 3x as many kes as me but no ws, and is in QQQ, I bet tomorrow morning Ill have been totally wiped out haha
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Aye, Im just about to hit someone with 3x as many kes as me but no ws, and is in QQQ, I bet tomorrow morning Ill have been totally wiped out haha
ZPYDDDEEERR!!! YOU BASTARDO!
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Look on the plus side. Said target somehow managed to amass an army about 10x as big as mine within the 9 minutes of time it took my guys to get to his base. My 10 looters didnt stand a chance. This doesnt bode well for me tonight, Im awaiting the first incoming troops message ><
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I think instead of fighting each other we may need to consider working together. Unfortunately Iggy is the owner of the tekheads org... which means we cant accept new applications at all. :(
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The 1 minute ticks in this closed beta I feel pretty much make it mad. Its too easy for you to walk away from the comp for half an hour and find out youve been wiped out, no chance for defensive action, so just enjoy the madness and figure out which unit combos are the best?
"Id rather fight you guys than a bunch of strangers"
(And the guy I attacked did send his forces, seems he was waiting for me to log off!)
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other than youve ive yet to be attacked :) Think staying low and slowly building war strength is the key :D I love how you disappear off of the ranked players list if you have no loyalty points. :D Just helps hide some more :D
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Well, sort of. The top player list doesnt give coords. Im finding targets by going through the country lists and finding people with low-ish scores. The problem is that people with 0 score basically have just started and have nothing. People with a little score seem to have uber armies. Its hard finding targets, Ive found another with like loads of KEs and No ws, my forces are about to hit him in a few mins.
Im thinking I might just attack some randoms and lose my troops, my upkeep is half my income so 48 hours with no upkeep and I could have an uber army in an hour or something stupid haha
I occupied cyphers base with my 1 goliath hehe. You just had to kill that one I sent to you. He was a peaceful envoy, honest!
Ohh, this target hasnt suddenly built an army, so either hes asleep, or my looters will have a field day in a minute, I hope...
Awesome, 10 KEs!
3:4:20 if anyone wants to try their luck.
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I am just about to hit 1:1:11 as he seems to have a fair few Kes and only 1/4 my WS :D
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care to co-ordinate a gang banging? :)
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i have a score of zero... :)
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Deviance is sending a force to me heh. Shame, as my troops are now on their way to 1:1:11 so he might get a couple of KEs, whereas I intend to get 10+ mwhahaha. I will let you know if I clear out his troops, in which case you should be good to just send some looters in!
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Deviance is sending a force to me heh. Shame, as my troops are now on their way to 1:1:11 so he might get a couple of KEs, whereas I intend to get 10+ mwhahaha. I will let you know if I clear out his troops, in which case you should be good to just send some looters in!
lol worth a try
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Hey, you got 1 ke, which cost you about 10x as much had you just built it hehe!
Attacking 1:1:11...not a good idea. He wiped out my entire army in 1 tick. At least now my income has doubled hehe.
6550 vs. 33859 units
Says it all really.
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Its probably worth you guys farming that first KE target, hopefully he wont wake up before you hit. I pmd 1:1:11 to find out the deal, turns out I attacked him just after he put a huge order in anyway, and he also had help.
I guess these people must be on IRC or something and getting help sent that way...
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3.4.20 has 0 war strength, and over 100 KEs... GET IM BOYS!
Im sending in about 250 looters :D Hopefully Ill get something back.
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ALLLRIIIGGHHTTYYY THEN!
TIME TO KICK SOME ARSE! Suck on my 2500 Umbrae you 100% shade country!
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Hell yes. Wiped out his defence completely and stole 12 KEs.
6.9.7 if any of you newbies are interested. Appears to have been offline for quite a while though so he could come online any moment. Do a scan first :)
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After 57mil credits saved all day, Im getting itchy trigger fingers... :(
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Heh, 6:9:7 is the guy I hit but got wiped out the first time!
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then get some payback :)
Sadly im now 18th in the rankings which has provided some visibility to people... im not going to be able to sleep easy tonight.
Just hoping my investing in base turrets saves the day. OVERLOOOORRRDDDSSS goodness :D
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Well, someone just sent a huge force to take out my piddly defences, so now my uptakes gone from about 10k to 0. I am now enjoying 154k income every minute. I think I just might end up building an uber army tomorrow and getting some vengeance if I outnumber him!
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Turns out that the credit limit is 100 000 000 so anyone wanting to stockpile overnight, make sure you dont end up wasting several hours like I did!
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omg... i just logged in, and it worked :o
Im apparently the op of hi-tek ?
if you guys want to come on over Ill turn the op over to one of you ?
iirc, we made this guild last time the 1 min ticks were running.... :-)
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accept my damn application then :P
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Turns out that the credit limit is 100 000 000 so anyone wanting to stockpile overnight, make sure you dont end up wasting several hours like I did!
I read that in the "whats new" thing. Made it to 97 million overnight before actually giving in and spending it all :D
got pretty much at least 1000 of every unit... some several thousand :D
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"Contact the leader, Sergeant Clesm." Knighty unless youre clesm... you arent the leader.
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Woo... I now have every tech possible :)
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Anyone around now?
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Ooooh Base defences are bastards! right royal bastards. I attacked, won but bloody hell that hurt.
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Hehe, Ive been wiped out twice today :(
I have a feeling its going to be a case of the big guys get bigger and the small ones stay small :(
100 000 000 credits gets me enough WS that my upkeep is halved, and about 180k WS, meaning before I can hit any of the juicy targets, I need about 300-400kWS, which means Ive got to save for 24 hours, buy stuff, and then either slowly build KEs or gank a smaller player perhaps, as Id be getting negative income?
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Hehe, Ive been wiped out twice today :(
I have a feeling its going to be a case of the big guys get bigger and the small ones stay small :(
100 000 000 credits gets me enough WS that my upkeep is halved, and about 180k WS, meaning before I can hit any of the juicy targets, I need about 300-400kWS, which means Ive got to save for 24 hours, buy stuff, and then either slowly build KEs or gank a smaller player perhaps, as Id be getting negative income?
It rewards more active players. You get 5% and 10% bonuses. Im just hitting people close to my WS at the moment using tactics to match my offensive forces to their defensive forces.
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WOAH!!! I NEED ME SOME KES!Credits
Credits generated 173,800 cr (+5.0% bonus)
Unit upkeep 127,464 cr
Net credits generated 46,336 cr
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Indeed. one of the people that wiped me out apologised afterwards saying he was hitting small targets to maintain his +15% bonus ><
So What Im getting at, is no matter how good your army is, the people with 500+ KEs and 700k WS might at some point decide to wipe you out, just to keep their score up ;)
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I hit your country mate :) lol Bastard thought he could outdo me with 2000 screamers :D lol They all blew up and took out like 20 goliaths... shame I was still packing about 1100 more :D
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Haha. I ended up voting for him (I had voted for myself in the hopes that having 100% of votes when I was the only player would make me CC) just so that one of us was CC, and we could name our country. But the tosser is like totally inactive so Hes now CC and we are still un-named :(
Turns out that you can only steal something like 25% of the number of KEs youve built, FYI.
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one of you should setup a new org for us ?
Ill only play a bit (while Im waiting for stuff to download).... but I have fond memoris of the 1 min ticks :-)
also... if you guys give me a target Ill crash my 100million worth of fleet into it so you can rape it for KEs ;)
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New season starts on Friday. Everythings getting wiped to 0 and ticks will be 10 mins. New signups will also be accepted, so those of you who have been left in the dark, having missed it back in 2005/2006, can now join in!
I guess it also hopefully means all the orgs will go and we can rebuild Tek? I say we, Ill do my usual of jumping ship to one of the huge orgs at first op!
I also think that we should stockpile our forces till Thursday this week and make a combined effort to stomp on a huge player. Would take a bit of coordination as we will all want to hit within the same minute!
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Ive gone back to my stupid ways again. I got attacked earlier by your country mate. Went from 0 WS to 180,000 WS though in 4 hours when I got the alerts ;) yes thats right... 70,000 Striders :D
I lost like 15,000 striders but he was hurting by the end of it. :D
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Someone attacked me with a similar sized force during the night. This, as usual, resulted in heavy losses on both sides. Having looked at his country this morning, he has a fair few KEs. And his WS history suggests not many troops left. Then I do a unit count etc, and hes defenceless! so 25 beholders on their way to him now heh.
8:2:8 if you want to join in the piss take.
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I need targets. It appears that both Deviance and M3 have been left behind in the Tek arms race ><
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Well Im back on, cant remember how do to anything or what I should research 1st... this is going to hurt :P
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It will once I find ya ;)
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New season has started, though new signups dont appear to have been enabled yet.
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Well it would appear the account management pages are now live so new signups are available.
http://www.mechwars.net
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Got owned last night, bastard destroyed everything.
If anyone wants a target go for:
2:3:12 - pennywise
2:6:13 - Gorthaur
2:4:11 - FistOFun (scavenger only sent looters)
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Ohhh, dooms is in...mwhahaha
Shame Im going away tomorrow so wont be able to send my troops to say "hi" till I get back.
On another note I have a feeling when I get back I wont have any troops. Someone keeps chipping away at my forces, which is gutting as they have less KEs than me. When my defence is gone its gonna be a KE free for all ><
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holy poo!!!! my accounts still live. Hi-Tek lives again lol
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So whats it all about then?? Ive just registered, but atm it looks pretty boring!!
Im building a research centre now, but thats it.....
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Chris its a perfect thing to kill time at work, check it every couple of hours and que things up. Its not quite an instant action game :P
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Yeah, doesnt look like its going to be a quick game!! lol
At the moment, Im just building random things, but just got this message recently:
You have 0 unread private messages, and 0 unread military messages. You have 20 mobile units in your army, and your mobile war strength is 60. You have 5 base defences in your army, and your base defence war strength is 85. In total, your army has 25 units with a war strength of 145.
Which is probably poo ^^
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Also, in the Enemy Intelligence Centre section, Ive got: Agent Buri and Agent Ymir which I can make now.....but it needs a location.....WTF do I get locations for things from? Cheers
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Look in Country overview. You can browse between countries and continents for targets.
The beauty of MW is the realtime-ness. When its running in full the "ticks" are an hour apart and so when you are sending an attack to someone 9 hours away, it takes 9 hours. That gives them 9 hours to log on, see they have incoming, and get others to send help etc. I guess in that sense its a little like the EVE research etc.
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Look in Country overview. You can browse between countries and continents for targets.
I see a list of other players there, and myself. But no options other than make them a pal?
Also, should I just be building things at the moment.....and lots of KEs?
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Under your country name are 2 text boxes a "go" button, and both a << and >> button. Use those to navigate countries.
Building wise, your priority should always be resources at the begininng, building KEs whenever you can. Research wise you should prioritise to be able to get resources as well as basic defence, and then work on things like intel and black market. Be aware though that some units like the beholders, appear to need some random tech like recon or something.
Generally, with a bit of luck, you should be "safe" until you attack someone. Once you start attacking people you score goes up, which shows youre active and probably have KEs, leading to people scouting you out and attacking, as well as the risk of retaliation.
Id have been fine (probably) had I not attacked these players. Id still have been fine, had those players not then gone and cried to a bigger player who proceeded to beat me into the ground.
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Cool, cheers. Im building KEs and Solar things now when I can, and researching defence and laser technology etc.......
Whats the aim really? Wait until all the ticks go down? Then what? Or do I keep building things until I attack/get attacked?
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The aim is to have the highest score, and be in the Organisation with the highest score.
Score (LP (Loyalty Points)) is calculated based on kills I think so the resources are simply a means of getting more units to attack and get more score with.
You can play however you want, save up a small army and attack other small armies, save up huge forces to attack huge players, or wait until someone needs help with attacking someone, or needs defence (you can send your army to defend another player as well as attacking them)
The game is still going through its beta after being resurrected, and so this is a pretty short round. Its due to end on Saturday at tick 2000, so Id suggest just fiddling with things and definitely attacking someone before the end to get the idea of how things work, before the new round starts.
Id also suggest joining an organisation (Im in DOM) as they will support you when they can, as well acting as a deterrent to people looking for targets, for fear of retaliations.
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Is it still online? Im havin trouble loading the page.
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It is but its not at the mo! ><
It happened last week when the server its on went down due to a power failure. Im sure itll come back up soon.
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It is but its not at the mo! ><
It happened last week when the server its on went down due to a power failure. Im sure itll come back up soon.
Cheers, I havent been able to access mech wars since yesterday morning :(
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I dont have any irc clients instaleld, and cba, but I think the #mechwars channel on quakenet still exists/works and you could find out what the deal is there.
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To quote the MW website:
Mech Wars
Yes, its coming back. Please stay tuned.
The stay tuned text links to twitter (http://twitter.com/mechwars)
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Its back up! Woo!
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Current season has now ended. New season will start soon (as in a day or two) with 10 min ticks, ending at tick 2000.
Site is accessible though for people wanting to get back in.
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missed this game so much
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I was number 2 in the game for a few fays last week :D
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lol zpyder i was thinking of hitting you last night until i saw your ws ;)
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Tbh if you did, youd end up with org mates jumping on your base in a flash :D Were at war with JW at the mo so any outside attacks are frowned upon :D
I do need the score though so please do send some units to be slaughtered :D
DOM is the best org Ive been in yet, they have an intel database which parses the EI reports and updates each countries info when a newer report is entered. Tis awesome for keeping tabs on the whole games worth of players, and in war its cheaper and quicker to find a good target!
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Many thanks for your visit zpyder :D
down to the last 500 ticks now :(
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Got sh*t loads of score from that massacre hehe.
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Its back online... Yay.