Tribalwars Blog

I am continuing to fight on W28 and the world has not changed since my last post. However, I would like to point out that the map site I use is in need of a new computer, and would like some money for that. If you are willing, just go to map.k-io.com and donate a few dollars. On that site, I am also now the map updater for the world, so if you have any issues with the map, just contact me and I will make the necessary changes to the map. Until next time, wars continue, people die, and border agreements do not change…and PWO eats K53, nom nom.

Top 15

Recently (on the 28th) OTD Death Awaits declared that his family (=D-N= and =D.N=) would war DNS, DNSPC, and ~DNS~. This war now has fallen into anarchy pretty much. DNS is fighting RAW and DN, DN is fighting RAW and DNS, and RAW is fighting DNS and DN. We also have seen the arrival of FC in the top 5  from the last blog post two months ago and the formation of SETO, a new tribe in the SETO Family only three weeks ago.

Here’s the blog, the fullscreen will probably not work, but I made a new puzzler that people may like.

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs50/f/2009/304/6/f/Blog_no__8_by_Lord_Samulis.swf

(If you use Firefox, it will download to a temp folder, then open automatically. The fullscreen worked then when I tried it, but it won’t when it opens inside of IE. I have not tested it with Opera or Google Chrome…)

Much in W28 has changed.  In short,  Apox is now Sith, doubling their physical size and MTS has engulfed EON. The South is cutting the slack and coming down to only a few tribes. With EON part of MTS, now Panda? will start to feel a squeeze. I don’t expect Panda to last until next year. MTS is gaining ground quickly, but by personal experience, it is difficult to run a large family.

Rage is still losing points to KK, PWO, and Drink!. A lot of major changes are happening and I don’t know how many mid-size tribes will last the storm. The top 5 seem to be ready to take over the world and leave little for anyone else.

Due to my lack of time to formulate blogs, I will now release Monthlies, starting next weekend. These will be (hopefully) as good as the old weeklies and should hold us till summer, when the blog will hopefully expand again. I have been working on a large animation with a friend, so Adobe Flash has been cluttered with that among other things. My dayly schedule is thrown into chaos and I can’t find the four hours of straight work (or the focus) to formulate a good blog.

HOWEVER…

This does not mean i’m quitting, it just means i’m going to work at a gear that is more approachable with my wacky schedule. If someone with either skills in animation, time to gather information and resorces, or someone who is willing to take on a column for the blog approaches me, I may be able to produce bi-weeklies. Hopefully winter = more time on my hands, but you can never be too sure…

Over and out!

-Samulis

I’m back and ready to blog, hopefully we wiill get things back on track here and will be giving weekly blogs!

October is a busy month for most people. It is a time when people are going back to school, college, jobs, and other elements of what many refer to as “Real Life”. These things are seriously beginning to conflict with our abilities to play the game. In this conflict, we must remember that we as players, play the game, rather than the game playing us. Over the past few weeks, many great players, staff members and bloggers have left us, moving on to bigger and better things in their RL adventures.

But every member of the Staff is committed to the continuation and advancement of the game as a whole. This includes our blog department, so I have refined and expanded the Blog Application, and will be hiring new bloggers for the open worlds.

World 42

In other news, world 42 opened today, accumulating over 17′000 players before the #1 ranked player reached 100 points. Nothing shows the general enthusiasm of the tribal wars community like the opening of a new server. Here are the top 10 tribes out of the gate:

I wish good luck to the players of W42 as they lead their village and tribe to glory and power in a world full of new opportunities.

The alleged FxF/PTT merger remains on the back burner for now. PTT tried hard to jumpstart an all out East vs. West war by sending some key players over to the fledgling tribe -EE- (eastern empire), which was created to combat -WE- (western empire). Not many FxF players seemed to be willing to move with them and join in the war vs -WE- aside from a few non-warzone simmers. -WE- had a bit of a scandal of its own though, seeing a couple players break off to reform ARES in a bit of a disgruntled movement. Gotta love it when players get nostalgic for old tags, heh.

-WE- vs PTT: Seeing as its been quite a while since the last update, warstats for the past month seem prudent. Now I should have included TATEC on PTT’s side since the revelation that they share forums with PTT, support them, are at peace with them, and war -WE-. This would have added another +100 or so to the -WE- side, but I figured I’d keep the stats simple again; no nonsense, no booted PTT players, no other tribes, no excuses:

On the FxF Front: FxF vs. PTT stats for the first time in a long time are looking promising as well, with FxF carrying a +66 rating vs them this month. Oddly enough though, TATEC is a +73 over FxF somehow, which makes the overall villages changing hands on the FxF front still looking rather neutral.

Recent War Operations: On a plus-side for the PTT family, -WE- had a major offensive vs. Benjiebyro stymied pretty well by a hefty PTT/TATEC defensive effort, which loaded him with ~7 full D’s in nearly all villages targeted. Of the 100+ villages targeted, -WE- still ended up breaking through and nobling over 50 of them, but then lost all but a dozen or so of these to Benjie’s sitter(s) and other PTT players sniping them back.  Hats off to the PTT members involved!

So, its a new day, new week and I’m back to school. Today… I hit the rank of 1,000. I find the climb from here to be slow and steady.

So, the news today is that ~L~ merged with PWO.

It also seems that Rage is losing ground to a few tribes.

In the south, it is difficult to see what is happening, it is all a big melting pot and I do not know who will emerge victorious.

Sorry for the short post, but that is all I can offer for this week.

This week we are met again with our several great wars. The video blog has some great new features, and we have a winner from last week’s contest! Please enter this week’s contest. I hope some of the previous problems brought forward by watchers have been fixed, if not, that’s a different problem.

Thanks,

-Samulis

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs50/f/2009/263/1/2/blog_no__7_by_Lord_Samulis.swf

Hello fellow citizens of Tribalwarsland!

Well, it’s not the beginning of the end, it’s more of the end of the beginning of this war.  Now it will enter a more subtle phase, with scattered mass OPs and such spread throughout the durration. This is when the real test of strength and endurance begins and several world superpowers collide and come apart in a sort of dance of death.

Anyway, Flash practically drove me insane in the process of making this, so I will probably make a SECOND HALF of the film instead of just one part. Edit: I found the high-quality sound was making flash go crazy, so I changed it to high quality mp3 files, which flash LOVES. This week is John Williams week, featuring some of his most known compositions. If you can name all four pieces and/or which movies they are from and either mail the list to me or post it in the W9 Blog discussion forum, your name will be featured in next week’s blog. I also added some fun side-features and such so you don’t all get bored to death. The War Stats are MISSING. I will add them tomorrow. There are a few un-removable glitches that pop in and out, so don’t panic if it freezes on a blank page that says ‘nobling map’ in the top corner, just refresh the page.

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs50/f/2009/257/4/6/blog_no__6_by_Lord_Samulis.swf

In other news:

Half-Priced coins are to be implemented in the upcomming weeks (according to King Wenseslesas Shugarpuff of Tribalwarsland in a recent mass message to the world).

[IB] has sprung back and holds a fair-sized harvest on the nobling map.

DNS is continuing to run over RAW, however, according to the numbers, ~DNS~ has mysteriously lost over half their points in the last several weeks.

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Roger, Roger!

-Samulis