What I have to mention probably isnt a bug, more like a grievous error on the part of the programmer. Why is it that if I destroy one of the three units on my opponents field it is automatically counted as a victory, even if my opponent manages to deal far more damage and earn far more cash than me? I'm in the hole by a few thousand dollars and its a victory? This irks me.

Kajin:
What I have to mention probably isnt a bug, more like a grievous error on the part of the programmer. Why is it that if I destroy one of the three units on my opponents field it is automatically counted as a victory, even if my opponent manages to deal far more damage and earn far more cash than me? I'm in the hole by a few thousand dollars and its a victory? This irks me.

That, my friend, is called a Phyrric victory, named so after King Phyrrus, who "defeated" the Romans in 280 and 279 BC before being completely destroyed by Rome's much larger supply of soldiers. More of an interesting twist than an error.

<( ^ . ^ )>

DJPWest:

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..

Same here, sometimes it fixes it self though.

I might have missed this, but does anyone else dislike that you can only organize the standing by one thing at a time? What if I want to see who has the most bank AND organize them by faction?

Either this person is very, very persistent or there's some kind of programming bug, but I just got challenged by a Clefable three times in a row, every time upon pressing the Back button from viewing my potential opponent.

Sorry if it's been mentioned, there are too many pages to read: in the Hire Troops screen, in the Your Army box on the left hand side, the total cost per stack figure (to the right of the unit, next to the equals sign) runs over the edge of the box if it has more than five digits.

I'm in Firefox, OSX.

EDIT: I'm not sure if this one is a bug for the whole forum or just Genre Wars, but clicking on a player's name which has an apostrophe breaks the link and takes you to the profile search page. For example, clicking on Tarmon'gaidin takes you to http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/genrewars/stats/Tarmon. This might be true for other punctuation as well.

Has anyboody been experiencing problems with the command screen during the morning and not being able to go to battle and accept challenges?

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a "feature", but the badges for consecutive victories only show up when the player doesn't return to base to restock their army between battles. If it's meant to be that way, it should probably say so on the badge.

I just got the surrender monkey badge.

Problem is I have not retreated from any challenges, unless I was the one who initiated the challenge.

I can't acutally do anything when it comes to combat. I can't drag units to fight, so I'm forced to retreat every time.

I'm running on Internet Explorer 6, but since I've been going fine for quite a while I assume that's not the problem.

I know I've mentioned this before, but I'm bringing it up again.

Fix the Command screen.

Every time I've gone onto it today it hasn't been there, with the result that I can't play the bloody game. Other people have been having this problem as well, and it would be forgivable if it only happened once in a while, but it happens all the time. I know this is only in beta, but this has been pointed out a few times and ought to have been fixed.

Edit: it's back now. But this still really needs to be fixed.

I'm just nitpicking here, some of these guys are having way more serious issues, but is there a suggestions thread somewhere around here? It just seems odd to me that I can get "trapped" in a certain class. I've been sitting at a 150K army for awhile now. I'll attack someone in the red or yellow, lose a fight, downgrade. Fight my way back up to 150K and never have anyone green to play against.

I'm still at approximately -220k in cash.

I just downgraded my army considerably because of this bug, it's really annoying. My loot is still at $322,228, but my bank is at $126,193.

Only problem I have is that I've been challenged by someone, but they've not chosen their moves yet. It's been half and hour, and because I've been challenged but not had any moves done yet, I can't retreat, can't face anyone else, can't do anything.

EDIT: Ok, so the half hour may have been an exageration, and I just found out about the 10 minute rule.

Anachronism:
I know I've mentioned this before, but I'm bringing it up again.

Fix the Command screen.

Every time I've gone onto it today it hasn't been there, with the result that I can't play the bloody game. Other people have been having this problem as well, and it would be forgivable if it only happened once in a while, but it happens all the time. I know this is only in beta, but this has been pointed out a few times and ought to have been fixed.

Edit: it's back now. But this still really needs to be fixed.

This. Quite odd, since the other screens keep working.

okay this is really weird when I try to login on genre wars via my laptop I can do everything I want but when I go to the command section to fight it gives an error and shows just a black field. I can still watch my profil and the rankings but thats it.

bernthalbob616:
For some reason the input thingy for buying troops won't let me buy 9.
Other than that it seems pretty good.

Ya for some reason if I want to put in a single number, I have to hold down backspace while I press it.....

I think you guys need to readjust the war zone.

All the people I see have significantly stronger armies. I'm not just talking about red people, I'm talking about green people that have armies worth much more than mine. I can almost never find someone appropriate to challenge.

When I win, my loot doesn't increase at all but when I lose my loot drops a lot. I'm at -20,000 right now even though I keep winning. I'm making a profit, but it's not showing on my profile. Is this just me or is there something else wrong here?

Internet Kraken:

All the people I see have significantly stronger armies. I'm not just talking about red people, I'm talking about green people that have armies worth much more than mine. I can almost never find someone appropriate to challenge.

I agree entirely.

Also there seems to be little incentive towards winning sometimes, at least at the lower levels.

I wiped out two of the three groups my opponent had, killing 21 units, and netted a total of $3917, he wiped out none of my groups but killed 24 units, netting a total of $3450, so I had to replace 3 extra units at $150 each compared to him, meaning despite my convincing win (in which I had about 51 units left to his 13 or so) I actually made a mere $17 more.

Increase the monetary payout from wiping out entire groups, and have there be a negative to having more than one group of yours wiped out, so (in this example) instead of him losing two full groups and getting almost as much money, I would get $400 extra for wiping out the second group, and he would lose $200 for losing two groups.

This would make more sense, and encourage a better level of fighting.

I think some aspects of the game need to be rebalanced. Some people just use one group of strong units and still win via elimination. The game would be more interesting if you had to have diversity in your team.

Spudgun Man:
Been stuck on

'A person has challenged you! sit around sraching your head for a while during which time they are deciding what to do'

screen for an hour now.

i agree with you can you guys and gals set a faster time limit or what?

I won a battle with a decisive victory, but got my funds cut in half.

Battle is viewable at http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=40526

By viewing the battle, you can see that 1)I won 2)I had 27 of each troop. By viewing my profile, you can see I haven't fought another battle since and that my funds have been reduced by half.

Is this part of the game or did I just get ripped off?

I just had a similar experience, but I was on the losing side.
You can see the battle at
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=41009
I was supposed to have won 45K in cash, but when I got back to base, I had the same 318 cash I went into the battle with. I didn't get any of the cash from the battle, but I lost the troops

Err, I'm not quite sure this is the correct thread to report this in... But it's about a genre wars badge, so I guess so. You've misspelled the description of the "Unconquerable" badge. It says "Vini, vidi, vici". Should be "Veni, vidi, vici".

And again, won one, made some money, lost one,

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=41412

again, over 40K in cash won, back at the base, no cash whatsoever

Lost the Battle and the cash. I guess the lesson learned is don't loose the battle, (stupid)
but, since I reported the first one I did end up getting some of my earnings magically replenished a couple of battles after (thank you banking gurus of Genre Wars beta,
so I thought I'd post again
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=41929

I'd also like to report that when it is working I really enjoy playing. Thanx

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=30349

this

munx13:
I chose pirate, yet somehow I have a ninja army

Reset your army.

I can't help but wonder why I got a Resilient badge when I've lost one battle and won one battle.

It's consecutive wins, right?

There's still an issue of higher level people being able to attack noobs.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=42799

He's at ~150,000 and I'm at ~15,000 making him 10 times my greater.

Hmm... yeah, definite issue. He just challenged me again.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=42910

He's ~170,000 and I'm ~27,000. I wonder if I'm appearing a pinkish color to him?

Mounted Samurai Archer also cuts off the number count on the Command Screen during the waiting period.

edit: Liquid Metal Assassinator still does that also.

edit: this again....
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=43105
96,000 vs. 9,000

First night at this, only annoyance so far is when people challenge you and then decide to sit on it or time out. Can the time limit be reduced? Waiting 10 mins to continue is such a pain.

Now it seems every time I enter the WarZone I'm automaticly being challenged by phoenixbeast, the person 10 times more powerful than me. When I try to quickly click on someone else to challenge, I still end up being challenged by him. Can Genre Wars be botted?

edit: okay, I waited him out just to be rechallenged by him over and over again
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/genrewars/view_battle?b=43250
102,000 vs. 5,000

any way to stop botting in a game like this?