Tribalwars Blog

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.

Hello Guys & Girls.

This isn’t anything to do with tribalwars, But my sister made this and it’s very sweet & lovely. Please watch, I know your going to flame me about it, But I dont care.

if the above/below doesnt work, please click  HERE

Thanks.

NML0089

Since my last post, I’ve been made an admin for the wiki. With the help of Lizy, I’ve placed an advertisement to lure decent people to help as system operators. My main goal was stressing that each applicant should take an adequate amount of time to fill in their application in order to be considered. Otherwise they were just wasting everyone’s time. A couple of days have passed since the advert reached the frontpage news and farrrrrrrrrrrrr out there were a lot of quality applications submitted—more and more falling into the inbox every day. I’ve taken the time to sort through each application and moved them into the appropriate folders. My (currently) final collection of possible candidates is a huge ~20 people! Towards the end, I threw away anyone who:

• Didn’t set out their application in an easy-to-read fashing.
• Had shockingly poor grammar and/or spelling e.g., forgetting to capitalise “I”; not inserting apostrophes where they should be.
• Anyone who wrote their whole life story, as it implies they expect me to read it and think greater of them but basically, I will hate you more.

Unfortunately, choosing the final candidates will only be separated by a miniscule difference and will probably come down to something stupid like which applicants respond the quickest. Whether or not the people selected will stick around for a substantial amount of time, there’s no way to find out now. I also have the feeling that a number of the applicants are under the impression it is a paid job. Not true! I must stress that

the position of a Wiki System Operator is purely on a volunteer basis.

The next step in the recruitment process will be to have the in-game and forum accounts of the shortlisted candidates checked. After they’ve been deemed not to be idiots, the team will be complete and we can get to work.

Overall, this process of selecting applicants has taught me a lot. I haven’t done anything like this since the death of the OptusNet gaming network. It’s shown me the ideal number of lines for each question is roughly three to four and as always,

the less words you write, the better you will sound.

Since it’s a written application, keep the language formal and save the casual verbal chat for the phone or the face-to-face interview.

This post will be the most overrated post in the history of the TribalWars Blog. First of all, I’m Jono. Hi. I’m a new wiki sysop and I’m determined to make a number of fat changes in order to turn it into a more used resource of the TribalWars collection of goodies. The changes that I’ll make will most likely piss a lot of people off—manily those who previously maintained the wiki—but trust me! It’ll be awesome and for the better of the community.

Aside from that, I’m just an average guy from Australia, working as a computing guy in astrophysics.

One of my recent awesome thoughts is I believe the world would be a much better place if vegetarianism were uninvented. I’m sure all you fellow meat-lovers would agree. How annoying is it when you’re buying food for a barbeque and you’re thinking, “OK, sausages, nice. Steak, yes we’ll buy a whole heap of them. Meat patties? Sure why not.” and then you realise that you have a friend or two who are veges? I seriously have no idea what they eat, so I panic and decide they can eat these meat-looking, “non-meat” things. Still… it’d be a much better place if everyone just ate meat.

Ever been stuck with the feeling of, “Arghh… I have to write her and email or she’ll get annoyed?”. Usually the ‘her’ that’s used in this sense is some girl who’s close to you. Or at least thinks she’s close to you. Let’s get one thing straight.

Girls like to hear from you.

They most likely do not care about the content of an email/love letter/snail mail etc. They simply notice a whole lot of words and think, “Awwww… he really likes me”.  I’m only 23 years old so I’m either very naive or very cynical. So in order to combat the mundane task of forming an email, I’ve decided that it’d be an awesome idea to write a program which simply generates the email. Don’t get me wrong. Girls are pretty awesome and talking to them is great fun but seriously, I’m now convinced that any email sent to a girl should be in point form. Leave the lovey dovey stuff to the phone, Skype or even the next time you see her.

Back to my sexy program… It wi’ll be a program that randomly generates an email. Prior to running the program, it’ll take a number of variables which are related to your life such as, Boss’ name, where you work, your favourite couple of hobbies, number of siblings etc. Basically anything you’d normally talk about. Once it has that info, it’ll fetch a pre-compiled chunks of a sentence and put them together, forming a number of sentences which in turn will fill the paragraph and thus, write the email. I believe if/when I pull this off, it’ll be a genius idea and I’ll make billions from it.

I’m actually not sexiest.

I may have some male chauvinistic character traits but I sincerely apologise to anyone who’s offended.

I also encourage anyone who reads this to jump on IRC for a chat—where all the cool people hang out and get banned—and also check out the wiki. I’m under the name ‘Booper’ on both. Who knows why I have such an effeminate name for a freaking war game but I’d love to hear any wiki-related feedback and your random ideas on how to improve the wiki.

2009 just has not been my year. I can count over 12 different things that have happened to me since January 1st of this year, that have made it a crazy, weird, hellish year! From a car accident to the sewage line bursting, things just seem to be going wrong.

One of the more recent happenings, is just not something you hear about in everyday conversation so I thought that I would share my unusual situation.

Lets go back about two weeks. I was going to take the trash out at 1 am in the morning, as the next morning was trash day. We live in a 3 story house, so to take the trash out I normally just go down the stairs off the back deck. Well when I came back up there was this loud noise and all I saw was our two male cats fighting this black thing. I had no idea whether it was another cat or some sort of other animal. My brother came downstairs out of his room and chased it away with a broom. The black animal escaped the fight by running upstairs, and finally being cornered in his bedroom.

So come to find out, this animal was actually a black cat, one that I had noticed around the neighborhood, escaping into the woods from time to time. We figured the reason he was around about once a month is due to our girl cat Molly. We adopted Molly from the pound and she was fixed, but it appears they did not get everything out of her. So every month we give her medicine from the Vet and keep her inside for a few days. Some months this works fine and she is okay, others she cries and acts very frantic. My best guess is that this black male cat was just brave enough to run into the house, as the backdoor was open. Normally he doesn’t get closer then the stairs leading off the deck though!

So back upstairs to the bedroom, we have this wildcat hissing and running around. Honestly he appeared to be so agitated that I was worried that he may have rabies, and could have bitten one of our other cats.  Well my bright idea was to take towel, wrap it around my hand, and then try to corner him and get him into a cat carrier. I cornered him alright, but instead of him running into the carrier he decided to try and climb the frame of the bathroom door that led off my brothers bedroom. When this happened, I tried grabbing the scruff of his neck and pushing him into the carrier…no such luck. He flipped around and sunk his entire mouth into my hand.

Well after that happened, I gave up. My hand was bleeding profusely and I had to go take care of it. I would say it took about 3 hours to finally stop bleeding.

This devil cat decided to trap himself behind the bed, and my brother was able to sweep him into the cage with a broom. Later on we did check our cats for bites, they were bite free, just a bit skitish as they could still smell this weird cat in their house, since we had him in a cat carrier in the garage.Animal control came and got him around 1pm the next day. Then my hand ended up getting infected and I had to go get antibiotics for it.

I wanted to write about this that very same day, but I decided that I should wait until I knew whether the devil cat had rabies or not. I had no idea who it belonged to, after scouring the neighborhood a bit, I’ve come to the decision it was simply a stray. Good news though! It appears the cat was just so eager to get to Molly that he had to come inside..it just added a bit of craziness to that day. He is definitely rabies free, so I won’t be dying from this little dramatic experience

Welcome to what is going to be quite possibly the biggest waste of time you’ll encounter today, I’m going to be writing about how fish breath

So have you ever wondered how fish breathe underwater? Do they have lungs like us humans? If so, why don’t they drown?

Fish and humans resemble each other in many ways. We have digestive, circulatory and nervous systems similar to those of other vertebrates. Naturally fish need oxygen as much as we do in order to live, so what do they do when swimming? Do they just hold their breath like we do?

What makes a fish stand out from other animals is it’s respiratory system, a fish’s respiratory system is mainly determined by the fact that it lives underwater.

As I’m sure you know, the chemical formula for water is H2O, in simple terms that means that for every 2 parts of hydrogen there is 1 part oxygen. So there IS oxygen in water. So fish just need a system that can extract that small amount of oxygen out of the water and into their bloodstream. They use their gills for this, these are found between the mouth and the pharynx.

In the interests of keeping this next bit simple I won’t go into all the details on the respiratory system, basically water flows into the mouth, through the gills, and out of the body through gill slits. As water flows through the gills, the oxygen it contains passes into the blood circulating through gill structures called filaments and lamellae. At the same time, carbon dioxide in the fish’s bloodstream passes into the water and is carried out of the body.

And that is basically how fish breath, told you it was going to be a waste of time

Techno52/Will

Tribalwars InGame Staff