Hi, been a while since I have been in the discussion, but thought I would post something related to the latest game changes.

The first week after the fork, I played 3 or 4 days but have not since then due to lack of time mostly. I share most of the feelings that have already been stated by others.

I like the random generation of the player and the effects it has on making human domination harder. There is a certain feeling of gambling and uniqueness at that moment when creating a player. I found myself creating players just to hope they would generate in a favorable spot for PVP or coin gathering. If they generated in a poor spot,t I would send them to gather 5+ HUC and bank/die.

Alarms are necessary and the only way to be able to play without having to watch every block making sure nobody spawned on top of me.

The random bank locations are nice also. I think a parameter of not having them generate within 50 blocks of each other would be nice. I noticed sometimes you might get 5-10 banks pretty much in the same spot. If you had some rules for minimum space, you might not need to increase the number of banks.

Regarding PVP, I think the idea of tokens/life steal does work. However, I did not have nearly the success with PVP as Snail said he has had. Maybe it is a timezone issue based on my opponents. I never found anybody that was AFK. So this meant I traded a lot of destructs burning 20HUC multiple times. I never killed a single opponent during any PVP attempts. I found myself at the end just turning away when the opponent was clearly there as to not waste HUC or time. I think everybody I tried to attack was watching name_pending also (just a note since it is more fair since I watch it.)

If my motivation was higher, I would probably start running bots again since the current environment I think turns the advantage back to 24/7 bots. I could see running 1000 bots easily again since there really isn't any risk, especially if you can get them paired up. Unless some really unfortunate network badluck occurred, you could not kill a bot, and you would lose with 2 on 1.

The chatter around armor, attack, destruct patterns, etc... are all great and added gameplay features. The trapping and invisibility doesn't do much for me, and I think would be even more problematic to the novice player.

I only skimmed the posts since I was so far behind, but there seemed to be posts from new players struggling with PVP. After pruning, I think providing a way for the novice/gatherer to get introduced into the game is important so they can grow some experience and fun with the game instead of throwing them into the fire with wira, mithral, snail, myself, etc... to get defeated, lose the HUC they just purchased, and have a poor taste in their mouth.

Game play has been better. if you wanted to play, you are missing out right now. Next disaster will have to be in the next couple days, will have to see what happens after that. With so little volume, not sure it makes sense to spend a lot of time trying to control the whole game when you can't sell the coins.

Hopefully that annoying humming singing warmup sound goes away soon.

you can also try

addnode=67.225.171.185

which is my server, but its almost at max connections... i'll have to increase it

It does...

Balance: 100089.01 HUC
Transactions in: 14
Received: 100100 HUC
Transactions out: 1
Sent: 10.99 HUC

The simple block chain explorer has been ready for a few days, I just haven't made it public yet. Probably be tomorrow when I can get back into my office.

Great... if you need anything I usually try to watch the chat out of the corner of my eye during daylight hours US time.

can you share some screen shots of your appdata/roaming/huntercoin and the QT exe you clicked on after install?

Just wanted to give a quick update on this. My dedicated server is at the end of its lease and I have decided to get some new hardware. So I am in the middle of moving sites to a the new server. Huntercoin.info is currently not up because I was upgrading to version .13 and it was taking a long time, so I thought I would move that site first but ran out of time before the weekend hit. Should get this back up and running on Monday and then get some block explorer loading blocks on Monday also.

This again right now is false perception to a certain degree.

1) 90%+ of all generals are NOT bots currently
2) There are NO aggressive bots that I am aware of
3) There are three tools currently available to everyone to have auto pilot to gather hearts or coins.
4) There are only about 4-5 individuals using the above tools, far less than what could be its current use.

The only valid bot complaint you can have right now is the disaster bots. There is a current discussion about this on the huntercoin forum. Please also use threads there to discuss future gameplay and ideas.

Sorry to be blunt, but unless you complain about the block chain size for setup (which Domob is trying to get a handle on) you should be playing.

I would recommend using Mithral's client, then get on the real time chat to know what is going on.

After poking around with ABE etc... I think to do justice for the game I will probably be adding quite a bit of custom stuff. I already had some of the 'gaming' stuff started back in March so I have something to start with. Also I have an array of daemons that I query in order to build out the videos in just a few days for the entire chain, so I am setup to extract data fairly quickly.

Thanks for the pointer about ABE. I am working with it now... running into some (probably expected) python errors I am trying to work through...

If there isn't somebody that wants to do this, then I'll add it to my website. I already started on it, so if somebody wants it and the bounty, please let me know and I'll stop.

Unless somebody really wants this, I'll pick it up and you can keep the bounty. I swore I had one of these started already but can't find it...

Disaster isn't much of a play with the current status. I have more than 50% of the disaster bots turned off right now.

If you are looking to play for the first time, the mandatory cleansing is approaching.

The majority of the complaints before where about bots, mostly now its about certain humans taking over. If the coins aren't falling out of the sky I guess its something to complain about for most people. For all those people that didn't want bots, now is your chance to play as a human.

Ironically, without a mass of people coming in, it will take bots to combat the current game state. We have been pushing back yellow invasions in Blue for a few days now. A goal would be to resist any foreign color in the 5 closest spawn areas to each base as a starting point. Started a little late in the disaster cycle so feel a little shorthanded on hearts. Wira(?) is sending a lot of yellow into the blue this morning, so should be a fun morning. If you have a couple extra Blue guys, turn and fight instead of running this morning.

Looking forward to the reset in a few days.

And under 700 generals which is the lowest I think I have seen except right before a mandatory disaster.

You can only have 20 characters max. The ".number" always increments. So when .1 gets killed, .21 player can be added. (number might be off not sure without looking at code if its 20 hearts with general or 20 hearts + 1 general, but i think that helps). If you have reached the max, the heart will remain on the tile as you pass over it.

I don't have much of an opinion on the max number. 20 actually can be hard to work with regarding bots because if you are gathering or attacking as a group, 1 needed move ties up all the rest in pending for a block or two. Which is something to consider if you are being attacked by a group of hearted players... if you can possibly stagger your attack/defense just right you might be able to catch some of their pendings.

The crown should still be unlimited to increase its value. If the crown isn't being banked and instead destructed you'll need "x" players to bring them back based on the amount.

The other element to this is its been a while for a disaster so characters have had a lot of time to really build up. I have has a few that are maxed out also by just picking them up on the outskirts. Some of it is luck. So at least in a few days everything will reset again, but I imagine the end result will be the same for this disaster cycle again... Hopefully things will change.

I still think the best change mentioned right now is limiting the number of coins per player to 100 or 200. This greatly influences into trying to seize large number of coins, ambushing, and the disaster rush.

After losing their big chunks to the last couple of disasters, I suspect the "group" will be waiting to move a lot of coins during the 1 day safe disaster period coming up. Maybe there will be 100s of players waiting to ambush them!!

A couple botters have these and are functioning in the game.