Here are a few question regarding today news about the combat.

If I have no deck and get attacked, a random deck will be setup, so

- what happens to the cost of setting up that deck?
- what happens to the cards in that deck? Are they lost? Can they still be sold in the market?
- what happens if I have no cards? I frequently sell ALL the cards I have, so where does the random take the deck from?

And then there's a more general question:
You must be aware that if you set a max of "the same player can get attacked only 5 times a day" that automatically sets the average of attacks a player can do to 5 as well, meaning for every player who does 6 attacks in a day there must be a player who can attack only 4 times in that day.
On start active players can attack inactive ones, so no problem findind someone to attack, but once the inactive ones run out of cards it will balance out to an average of not only getting attacked 5 times a day but also doing 5 attacks a day.
Is this intended?

Thanks for that.

Another question:
I noticed the amount of game tokens I have is rapidly shrinking and if I saw that right that's because there are no more game tokens to find in chests, you get them only from the map and there they are rarer than trade tokens.
Did I get that right and is it ment like that?

A minor bug, easily fixed.
When previous mining ends, just refresh the page before using boosters and it will work.


Wondering about that one myself, even though I have a slightly different experience.
Once in a while when clicking a crate to open it, it just disappears, but I never remembered how much stuff I had before, so I cannot tell whether or not it paid anyway.


Nope.
Once a crate opens all of it's content is credited to your account instantly, so even if you do not click through the whole list, you still got it all paid.
Problem is only in #2, where it disappears without actually opening.

Seems to be a rounding error, 1 minute less will work.

This evening I came to an area where there were 14 avatars in a 20x20 area.
I thought something like "wow, crowded here", until I noticed, all 14 were clones of the same user.
Not sure if that user is still active and moving, but right now while I'm writing this, have a look at 2162 - 1636.

Today I cannot claim the result of a job, always comes up with "internal server error".

Update: It's a bug in combination with the DDOS checking.
If that check comes up before accessing the jobs page one cannot claim a job, even refreshing the page still doesn't work.
Only when after that check accessing some other page within CMG and then returning to the jobs page without the DDOS check, one can claim a job.

Of course it was not all futile, i.e. I was the one suggesting long ago to give users the choice of which shortlink they want to use so the site wouldn't get stuck when the default shortlink went down, jamboom implemented that within a few days and it has worked nicely ever since.
But that holds true only when jamboom doesn't have an idea of his own, bringing an idea to him he never even thought of that sounds nice to him on first view.
Whenever he has an idea himself, theres nothing that can prevent him from doing that, no matter how many users tell him they don't like the idea and this site is full of examples where he utterly failed, i.e. the very first version of CMW he wanted to make, that was terminated due to complete failure before it even launched.

Anyway, I'm not here to change the plans of jamboom, if I can contribute a suggestion that gets implemented, like the one I mentioned above, cool, but primarily I'm here because I like discussing, no matter what result comes out of that.
In fact my favorite topics to discuss are politics and economy, where 99.9% of all discussions never change anyones mind, because opinions are preset and fixed and the discussion is done just for the sake of discussing.
You wouldn't believe in how many forums I'm active, in how many forums I'm one of the top posters, how many posts I write per day for all kind of topics, in fact I've once exceeded the limits of a forum by so much that I ended up literally publishing a book with the content that was just way too much for the economy forum where that topic got started.

Don't you think you're giving me far too much credit here?
Do you honestly believe I would have an influence on jamboom?
If I had that influence there would be an entirely different game on this server right now, still PvP but VERY different.
In fact I had offered that game to jamboom about 2 years ago, he got in touch with me at Skype, said he was VERY interested, just had to do some bug fixing on the old site and then he'd get back to me to talk about this game, yet he never did.
Apparently he rather invested 2 years of his own time to code his own game, before taking a ready made game from someone else, even though I was offering him my game for free.
Does that sound like me having influence?

Yes I was and I wouldn't know why that should be a bad thing.
If you like it, fine, I'm not saying you shouldn't play it, I just don't like it and you shouldn't try telling me what I shall like.

You got that wrong.
I have been paying for using CMG from day 1 on, simply because I have a big computer with a 65" 4K TV for monitor, where the monitor alone consumes so much electricity that (at Italian prices) my electricity bill for the time I'm using CMG BY FAR exceeds the few cryptos I'm getting from CMG.
For me doing this is plain fun where I accept the price it costs me, I do this for fun only and combatting other users is no fun for me.
I'm having fun finding stuff in the world map and exchanging it in the market, I'm having fun figuring out that doing missions for crystals and cards plus selling them in the market gives far more sat than doing BTC missions, but in the end I'm just funneling money from CMG to my electricity provider.

You believe there are users who buy stuff in the shop at current prices?
Ok, I don't know and since the shop has existed for a long time one should assume there are users who buy things there, but then it requires a real bloody newbie to accept these prices.

I  fully understand why all HP above 1,000 was moved to CGT, I don't even mind this.
What I do mind is how far off the supposed value CGT is to the value one can get out of it.

The solution is quite simple and doesn't cost CMG anything, because the problem is nothing more than that the prices in the shop are way far off reality.
1,000 crystals in the market are worth about 100 sat, not 6,000 as the shop charges, therefore the solution to give CGT a higher value is as simple as selling crystals (and other stuff) in the shop for way less CGT.
By my calculation and at current mining rates it should be about 1,000 crystals for 0.001 CGT.

Ermmmm, it DID happen with the option to buy stuff in the shop for CGT.
The detour through shop and market is not really practical, but it does provide a value to CGT including an option to exchange, which at current prices is roughly 200 sat for 1 CGT.

So now we have a first indication of how much CGT is supposed to be worth.
In the shop 1,000 crystals costs 6,800 sat or 0.5 CGT which means, 1 CGT would be worth a bit over 13,000 sat.
Unfortunately there's no way of exchanging that directly and through the detour of buying crystals or cards for CGT and then sell that for sat one can get only 2,000 crystals for 1 CGT where selling 2,000 crystals in the market will fetch no more than 200 sat or in other words 1 CGT has an actual value of only 200 sat.

Considered the fact that the first 1,000 HP plus 18% from cards will mine roughly 200 sat per day while another 2,400 HP (3,400 HP in total) plus 18% from cards will mine only 0.6 CGT per MONTH, there's something wayyyyyyyyyyyyy off in the calculations either way.
Either 1 CGT is worth 13,000 sat, then 2.4 times the HP that mines 200 sat per day should mine 480 sat per day which would correspond to 1 CGT per 27 days mining not per 50 days as it is.
Or 1 CGT is worth 200 sat, then 2.4 times the HP that mines 200 sat per day should mine 480 sat per day which would correspond to 2.4 CGT per day mining not 0.02 CGT per day as it is.

Either way, I'd highly appreciate an option for direct exchange of CGT to sat, because this detour through buying crystals for CGT just to then sell crystals for sat loses just too much value (as far as you consider CGT any valuable at all).

I see it like this:
If the only way to get any real value for CGT is through the shop and the market, then you're setting the value of CGT indirectly yourself to 200 sat for 1 CGT and then mining CGT or doing missions for CGT is entirely useless because the electricity to run a regular computer for the few seconds clicking and later on claiming a mission BY FAR exceeds the value you get.
If you want the value of CGT to be higher, you have to provide an option to exchange CGT for sat directly, where adding it to the market won't do, simply because nobody would pay more than 200 sat for 1 CGT or at least you have to make crystals and cards WAY cheaper in the market.

Now this might be a rare question, because not many users will have a screen as big as mine, anyway, let me ask.
No matter how big I make the browser window, even in full screen view at resolution 3840x2160 I can't see the whole map, the subwindow of the map remains too small and I have to scroll around the map.
It even looks weird, because below the bottom of the map there remains a large part of the page blank, where there would be plenty of space to display the whole map.

On the other hand there's still the mobile issue, kinda the opposite of the above.
I've tried again today just out of curiosity logging in with my mobile and I can tell you, even IFFFFF this was working as it should, moving around in the map on a 6" screen would still be next to impossible, because if you enlarge the map to a size where you can see something, that's already so big that when you tap on a field the display of the blue mission subwindow exceeds the screen on all 4 sides and an attempt to scroll that subwindow doesn't scroll anything but closes it.

If all it takes is not staying in the world map when leaving I can live with that.
Thanks for the info.

Went to bed around 5am this morning, came back just now around 1pm and found my energy at 192/210.
How can my energy not be full after 8 hours?
The job time I had left was 192 minutes ..... coincidence?

Here is another suggestion:
Users on higher levels should have ways to get more energy, not just in total but per 10 minutes.
I mean if you can get max 10 energy per 10 minutes from the automatic plus 10 from a shortlink, on level 20 that means you can do max. 1 level 20 mission every 10 minutes and there's just no way doing that 100 times a day, because there aren't 100x 10 minutes in a day, unless you don't need sleep.

One possible solution would be, if the auto refill every 10 minutes wouldn't stop at 10x level.
With the stop one has to do whatever mission one can get hold of twice a day, once at midnight and once after filling the 15 daily tasks, because otherwise the bonus energy you get there goes to waste due to missing the automatic refills until one has done enough missions to get below level x 10.

Thanks, looks good.

Here's a suggestion:
Why don't you do like FH did, meaning fees adjusted to amount, the higher the amount the lower the fee.
Makes sense to me to let users who always withdraw the minimum pay higher fees while users who accumulate longer and give you less work when withdrawing larger amounts in once pay less.

Ermmmmmmmmm ...... how could that be?
How could someone else have completed the mission if it is still there after my first attempt failed?
I did the mission TWICE, once by moving there, said "nothing there", then moving away and sending a drone to the same mission with success clearly means nobody else has done this mission.