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Muckraker
Posts: 239
Joined: 5 Nov 2008

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Ryuzaki:

Internet Kraken:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=12588

You need to modify the victory conditions.

It's not just a game of killing the most troops, but also of strategy. Attacking and fielding the right units is all part of the game.
However a victory can be quite picric if you don't get enough money to counter balance your loss in troops, I think that you can call it a moral (and financial) victory if you come out with more money than you lost in troops.
I think that the battle result was a fair one; he had a better strategy in the end. Perhaps you should change your strategy to combat players like this. (Like dropping any bait units you have- cannon fodder doesn't work in this game.)

So you're saying everyone should exploit the game and opt for only one army, thereby removing all actual strategy? Sounds way better than just fixing the issue.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=14917

I wipe out half his army, he wipes out a third of mine. He wins. But at least I can pay for my restocking of troops.

Well his victory is entirely pyrrhic then. His army size would have decreased yours would have increased.
Also I am not suggesting anything like that. I'm saying don't put cheep cannon fodder troops in your army if you want to win in the higher levels. I know that Internet Kraken is in the higher tier because he is in the standings.
The reason you include such a unit is because you want to save money in battles when people attack your bad unit, but you won't win many battle with that strategy.

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 1782
Joined: 13 Sep 2008

Just as a question - Is the fact that I can only see people several times stronger than me in the Warzone a bug or a feature?

Copy Clerk
Posts: 108
Joined: 25 Feb 2009

I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem before, but every once in a while, the Command tab won't load. Everything else works just fine.

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If you need some more information, I usually use FireFox 3.0.8, and have also tried using Internet Explorer 6.0 (because I never update something I don't want to use). I've tried logging out and back in, closing and reopening the browser window...basically everything but rebooting my computer, and the Command tab just won't load for a few minutes. It eventually returns, but this random cutting out is kind of frustrating.

<( - . -#)>

Fun game, though. I haven't been this involved with a browser game for a while.

<( ^ . ^ )>

Paperboy
Posts: 45
Joined: 1 Mar 2009

Using Safari. There's no background card for the units so I have to highlight all the text to be able to read the numbers.

Web Developer
Posts: 2696
Joined: 12 Nov 2002

GenHellspawn:

Firefox version 3.0.1, and no, I do not.

Hmm well 1st if you are on Windows you should upgrade to v3.0.8. If you are another platform can you let me know so we can check. As I developed the entire game using FF then making sure that IE styled correctly, I can't see why it would work for you.

Combined:
Just as a question - Is the fact that I can only see people several times stronger than me in the Warzone a bug or a feature?

Feature in that you should only see people higher than you in skill. You can't go after the little guys, but they can come after you.

Sort of what Blizzard should have done with World PvP in WoW ;p

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2126
Joined: 30 Dec 2008

My e-mail isn't working so I'll address this here.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=22846
Stuff like that happening.

Web Developer
Posts: 2696
Joined: 12 Nov 2002

zifnabxar:
Using Safari. There's no background card for the units so I have to highlight all the text to be able to read the numbers.

Testing on both PC and MAC everything seems ok. Maybe do a force refresh to make sure you are grabbing all of the images.

Pulitzer Laureate
Posts: 737
Joined: 23 Jan 2008

My troops haven't been updating for 10 minutes. I keep trying to attack people and it's showing my ridiculously overpowered army. Whenever I try to switch to weaker units and then try to save them, they get reset.

I'm a bit afraid to play some more, though, if I'm just going to keep losing money everytime I win.

Paperboy
Posts: 12
Joined: 15 Apr 2009

I'm unable to do... anything!!! It asked if I wanted to go to the warzone and I said yes. When I click command nothing shows up even when the page is finished loading. I reset my browser, but it still wont work!

Pulitzer Laureate
Posts: 737
Joined: 23 Jan 2008

I hate to be one to complain about luxuries, but to avoid people accusing me of hacking/cheating...

Really, really appreciate whoever bumped my cash back up. However, I hadn't lost 600k in fights, just 182k. I have, like, 9XXk in cash now. If you guys don't mind, I'll gladly keep it, but I don't want to be seen as a cheater, so if you have to remove some of it I guess I understand.

Press Junketeer
Posts: 408
Joined: 18 Nov 2007

I fought someone and after selecting all the attacks, waiting for them to respond, and then I was told I had lost the battle. On the battle report it says "chimmers's ordered to attack but nothing happens!" for every one.
No units destroyed, I gain nothing. Found this to be odd

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=23629

Press Junketeer
Posts: 408
Joined: 18 Nov 2007

I fought someone and after selecting all the attacks, waiting for them to respond, and then I was told I had lost the battle. On the battle report it says "chimmers's ordered to attack but nothing happens!" for every one.
No units destroyed, I gain nothing. Found this to be odd

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=23629

Anonymous Source
Posts: 4
Joined: 23 Mar 2009

NinjaKirby1322:
I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem before, but every once in a while, the Command tab won't load. Everything else works just fine.

<( ' - ' )>

If you need some more information, I usually use FireFox 3.0.8, and have also tried using Internet Explorer 6.0 (because I never update something I don't want to use). I've tried logging out and back in, closing and reopening the browser window...basically everything but rebooting my computer, and the Command tab just won't load for a few minutes. It eventually returns, but this random cutting out is kind of frustrating.

<( - . -#)>

Fun game, though. I haven't been this involved with a browser game for a while.

<( ^ . ^ )>

I have this exact problem.

EDIT: Actually mine is worse... my Command is partially displaying in my Profile, and I cannot respond to any challenges.

Anonymous Source
Posts: 5
Joined: 15 Apr 2009

Yeah, here's a bug. I'm logged in, have an army, and yet I can't do anything with it. I went into the battlezone or whatever, but I cannot see any other armies anywhere. I have alot of blank tabs within genre wars that display... nothing.

Anonymous Source
Posts: 4
Joined: 9 Feb 2009

Okay...I give up. LoL

Gone Gonzo
Posts: 2593
Joined: 19 Jan 2009

I can't seem to access the Genre Wars when I'm at my college computer. I get the background, and I can go to my profile, but that's it. Can't accept challenges or make any.

On the Record
Posts: 6209
Joined: 10 Mar 2008

I've been having a bug where it completely resets my status twice now. It just randomly resets everything and puts me back in the "choose your faction!" screen when I had a good sum of money and nothing going wrong (besides me losing of course ;P)

Pulitzer Laureate
Posts: 889
Joined: 24 Feb 2009

I'm able to log in now, but it keeps kicking me out. It tells me to log in after I already was and then won't let me do it.

When I close the browser and log back in, the command tab does nothing. I don't recall it ever doing anything for me.

If I try to enter the warzone from the profile page, it kicks me out again as soon as I close the popup. I am still getting in the warzone though because when I try to log back in again, I have a message saying someone has challenged me.

But when I click on the link to accept the challenge, it brings me to the blue box screen and nothing happens. When I go to the profile page, the "Your army is under attack" message is located all the way to the left, BEHIND the "your army" tab so I can't click on it. I can only see that for a split second before the page finishes loading and the "your army" tab is put on top of it.

Eventually the challenger will give up and the profile page will reset. I can see that I am still in the warzone. I can go back to the home base and everything is fine, but when I go back to the warzone, the whole process starts again.

-> Ok, I have been using Mozilla. I just tried it in IE and it works ok now.

Anonymous Source
Posts: 4
Joined: 23 Mar 2009

kawligia:
I'm able to log in now, but it keeps kicking me out. It tells me to log in after I already was and then won't let me do it.

Also, when I get caught up in this login mess and someone is/has challenged me, when I try to log back in and accept the challenge from the PM, the page loads up with just the blue box and nothing happens. When I go to the profile page, the "your army is under attack" message is located all the way on the left side and I can't click on it because it's behind the "your army" tab. I can only even see it for a split second before the page finishes loading and the "your army" tab gets put on top of it.

Been locked in this for a whiiiiile now... I have tried everything short of restarting my comp and haven't gotten anywhere..

Pulitzer Laureate
Posts: 798
Joined: 15 Apr 2009

Everytime I follow the "issue a challenge link" from the pop up that comes up after you enter the warzone, it just keeps asking me to login, even when my information is still sitting in the box they provided to enter it in (firefox remembers what I put in there and sticks it in again). Also if anyone could tell me where I'm supposed to go to see opponents, that would really help me, I can only find where my stuff is >.>

Pulitzer Laureate
Posts: 798
Joined: 15 Apr 2009

kawligia:
I'm able to log in now, but it keeps kicking me out. It tells me to log in after I already was and then won't let me do it.

When I close the browser and log back in, the command tab does nothing. I don't recall it ever doing anything for me.

If I try to enter the warzone from the profile page, it kicks me out again as soon as I close the popup. I am still getting in the warzone though because when I try to log back in again, I have a message saying someone has challenged me.

But when I click on the link to accept the challenge, it brings me to the blue box screen and nothing happens. When I go to the profile page, the "Your army is under attack" message is located all the way to the left, BEHIND the "your army" tab so I can't click on it. I can only see that for a split second before the page finishes loading and the "your army" tab is put on top of it.

Eventually the challenger will give up and the profile page will reset. I can see that I am still in the warzone. I can go back to the home base and everything is fine, but when I go back to the warzone, the whole process starts again.

-> Ok, I have been using Mozilla. I just tried it in IE and it works ok now.

I guess I should try that, the same thing happens to me when I accept a challenge.

(Also if this turns up as a double post, I am truly sorry. Really)

Edit: I opened it up in IE and it still put the your army is under attack text under the your army tab. *sigh*

On the Record
Posts: 5193
Joined: 18 Mar 2009

I think I'm missing some of the badges. Isn't there one for winning more than one battle consecutively?

Beat Writer
Posts: 212
Joined: 19 Mar 2009

It just shows a brown screen when i go to command...
It has all the things around it, but the main genre wars thing (such as hiring troops, going in the warzone) it's not there..please answer.

EDIT: I guess I'm not the only one with the problem...
(Being a little more specific)
The command button won't work.
The profile button works...i guess you can say fine, the button to go into the warzone is missing..
Basically, all the buttons work except the command.

EDIT:K it works xD

Copy Clerk
Posts: 122
Joined: 3 Apr 2008

OMG WTF >:O

Command center comes up as blank, there is nothing there

The button to switch from battlefield and home base is hiding behind the picture of my army.

REALLY FRUSTURATED RIGHT NOW >:(

EDIT: Tried IE... same problem >.<

Muckraker
Posts: 239
Joined: 5 Nov 2008

Here is something odd that judging from the posts above has happened before.
Neither side's army doing anything, leading to an automatic win for the defender because everything is tied.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=26272

Paperboy
Posts: 18
Joined: 11 Jan 2009

Every once in a while, I'll engage myself in a battle. The report says that, on all five turns, nobody attacked anyone. Apparently, orders were given for units to attack one another, but "nothing happened." I'll earn no money for the fight, and I'll have lost a couple of units from each of my stacks for some reason.

Beat Writer
Posts: 132
Joined: 25 Mar 2009

it won't load properly for me it just shows like top of page instead of the whole screen.

Infamous Scribbler
Posts: 544
Joined: 30 Jan 2009

Command under the Genre Wars tab keeps coming up blank.

On the Record
Posts: 5762
Joined: 9 Jul 2008
Infamous Scribbler
Posts: 517
Joined: 31 Mar 2009

Well, I just lost a battle:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=26888

But only by 6k.

However, my bank has decreased by nearly 200k after said battle, though I have an army similar to what I had there:

Oni (50)
x50 @ $2800 = $140000

Water Dragon (50)
x50 @ $2850 = $142500

Ninja Master (47)
x47 @ $1200 = $56400

Your Bank: $126193
Cash on Hand: $-212707
Army Cost: $338900
Rating: 484143

What's going on? :(

Anonymous Source
Posts: 2
Joined: 15 Apr 2009

Nazrel eliminated 1 unit without a loss.
Decisive Victory! Nazrel earns a bonus of $3258 in cash.
HunterC8 gains $84780 in cash, Nazrel gains $25658 in cash

Nazrel wins!

Nice. Also, tool-tips need to stop being repeated.

Muckraker
Posts: 231
Joined: 7 Mar 2008

Aside from the command tab never having anything in it, my profile says that I joined on Dec 31, 1969 or something.

Edit: Date fixed itself, but the text that was originally next to the icon for entering the warzone or returning to home base is now behind the area where my troops are displayed and I can't click on it.

Edit 2: Text fixed itself, still nothing in the command tab.

Paperboy
Posts: 21
Joined: 19 Feb 2009

... weeell i attacked for the first time... and it ended with
vs Yayaplives's are ordered to attack, but nothing happens!
vs philosophicalbastard's are ordered to attack, but nothing happens!
vs Yayaplives's are ordered to attack, but nothing happens!
vs philosophicalbastard's are ordered to attack, but nothing happens!
vs Yayaplives's are ordered to attack, but nothing happens!
vs philosophicalbastard's are ordered to attack, but nothing happens!
vs Yayaplives's are ordered to attack, but nothing happens!
vs philosophicalbastard's are ordered to attack, but nothing happens!
vs Yayaplives's are ordered to attack, but nothing happens!
vs philosophicalbastard's are ordered to attack, but nothing happens!

there was no trooplose... but philosophicalbastard won and got 1400$!!!
also, all the little images in the results page didn't work

EDIT: next battle i lost, but recieved 2000$, went to hire troops, but i had no more money...

Anonymous Source
Posts: 1
Joined: 15 Apr 2009

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=28022
same issue as above poster. I attacked, nothing occured, no casualties, then I lost with $0 and Matey got ~$6100. Not quite functional combat...

Copy Clerk
Posts: 84
Joined: 25 Jun 2008

Well. i had me a odd bug..
i guess the site was lagging a bit. i had a crappy army i used just to try out something.
anyways. won that battle. decided instead of a 10k army to put together 255k army. so i did. (my bank was 500k+)
then it was lagging and such... i saw a guy with a 280k army. so i challenged him. and found that i had my 10k army... so i sent them in and was gonna hit retreat... i got a weird half loaded screen. i hit command. it said i was attacking the guy. so i retreated.
went to my base to put together the army i had intended to make. and guess what?! my bank is 250k. so i cant afford that army any more. so i lost half my bank. very confusing.

went from... Approx... Matey Pirates $501499 130 71 $469264 17
to Your Bank: $246873Cash on Hand: $241173Army Cost: $5700

and checking my recent fights you can see i havent lost any large army anytime recently.

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