I stumbled upon Plurk from a guildmate of mine, she had it being displayed on her signature in our forum for a couple of days without me thinking, what's this? When it was time where a lot of my friends started Plurking around, I decided to join in to see what fun they were having. First I registered at plurk.com. Then I saw a timeline where I could input whatever I wanted on it, just like a diary in chronological order. Neat, right? Well, it would not become a diary unless you specify it that only you can see it. Other than that, others, friends or someone from the other side of the world can see your entries and comment on them.
So here I am, wandering around the site and then stumbled on this "Karma" pointing system. So the more Karma you have, the more features you could add to your plurking capabilities. Achieve a certain Karma point, the features are unlocked at your disposal. You may think that bringing up your karma up is easy, think again.
Karma rises whenever you update your profile, add friends, comment on others plurks, invite others to join you in plurk, and other things that you wish to do may increase your karma. However, overdoing the plurking post and commenting with spams may decrease your karma points. How? I don't know. Posting 30 plurks in one day does decrease karma, so just plurk about quality things such as a significant event that just happened or probably plurk about your thoughts that can reel in those comments.
My two day experience with plurk was a great one and I'm looking forward to continuing using it for as long as it is up. Great site, good way to converse with others, and above all, it's really fun.
Try it @ www.plurk.com
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Tribal Wars: Three Ways To Be Successful
Everyone wants to win in any video game and to achieve that, they need to do know the basics and use their instinct to survive and win.
For tribalwars, here are what I believe that may give me that road to victory.
Use Common Sense. You may think that nobling everything on sight would be beneficial to you. You may think that attacking someone with your proud troops are enough to gain respect and remove another potential enemy. You may even think that having high points scare the heck out of other people. If you have this mindset, then probably you'd be seeing your villages drop like rain and go into the start over land due to a tribe attacking you in a full scale assault like in Call of Duty.
Sure, barbarian and bonus villages are there for the taking of anyone but you don't really need to noble all of it near your main village unless it is beneficial to you, such as expanding since you're main village is overflowing with resources or need more farm space. Also think about other players in nearby abandoned villages. Check their profile first and see if they have those "if you noble any village near me, you are in for a beating" type warnings, then probably you need to stay clear away from them and choose another village to noble. Keep in mind, you'd probably want neutral or friendly neighbors rather than lethal ones who can punch you out of your game.
Join a tribe. Sure, you can take on the world with your egoistic attitude but then again, wouldn't you like to have some company and help when the time comes? Yeah, joining a tribe is just like joining a group of people with the common goal in the game. Of course, you can't just join the biggest and dominating tribe at the very start. You need to find a tribe that is near you, have the same goals, is friendly and lively, and an active leader.
Yes, you need to join a tribe, it is somewhat advisable to be in one rather than being alone in the harsh world of tribalwars. You can be picky but you have to be quick with which tribe you want to be with and stick to that unless certain things come up such us, the tribe disbands or another tribe offers a larger protection and help. It may seem that you've become a traitor to your tribe but then again, you don't really know them that much unless your tribe are people who are your neighbors who may beat the crap out of you when all of them get wiped out by the tribe you switched to in order to survive. But hey, this is a practice of politics on the safe side.
Build, build, expand. This is what I follow to make my villages as strong as they should be. I'm relying on my theoretical plans on this strategy where I build up buildings to raise points for my village. With that ongoing, I also build up my army in each village, depending on what type of village they are, troops are being trained and soon I have at least a couple thousand troops stationed. I would like to go into detail for each type of village but I'd probably spend more time making another post dedicated for that. But a summary of my plan would be to make my main village to have mixed troops, the next two villages as defense villages, and lastly the following would become an offensive village.
Why would I do that? The main village is your only village at the start of the game. You need to build defense first before building up your offense troops. When you're almost ready to get another village, I make that into a defensive village after nobling it. I build up defensive troops only in that second village. Then I find and get my third village and do the same thing with the second village. More defensive troops would protect your three villages and then when you get your fourth village, then you dedicate that for offensive troops. What about defense for that village? Well, that's when your two defensive villages come into play. They support your offensive village when there's someone attacking the fourth village. With supporting defensive troops, your offensive village can attack your attacker.
Well that's the three things I keep in mind when I play tribalwars. Looking at my achievements in the game, I'm still going strong and trying to keep improving and expanding to be ready for the ultimate battle when the time comes to eradicate another large tribe against my tribe. =)
For tribalwars, here are what I believe that may give me that road to victory.
Use Common Sense. You may think that nobling everything on sight would be beneficial to you. You may think that attacking someone with your proud troops are enough to gain respect and remove another potential enemy. You may even think that having high points scare the heck out of other people. If you have this mindset, then probably you'd be seeing your villages drop like rain and go into the start over land due to a tribe attacking you in a full scale assault like in Call of Duty.
Sure, barbarian and bonus villages are there for the taking of anyone but you don't really need to noble all of it near your main village unless it is beneficial to you, such as expanding since you're main village is overflowing with resources or need more farm space. Also think about other players in nearby abandoned villages. Check their profile first and see if they have those "if you noble any village near me, you are in for a beating" type warnings, then probably you need to stay clear away from them and choose another village to noble. Keep in mind, you'd probably want neutral or friendly neighbors rather than lethal ones who can punch you out of your game.
Join a tribe. Sure, you can take on the world with your egoistic attitude but then again, wouldn't you like to have some company and help when the time comes? Yeah, joining a tribe is just like joining a group of people with the common goal in the game. Of course, you can't just join the biggest and dominating tribe at the very start. You need to find a tribe that is near you, have the same goals, is friendly and lively, and an active leader.
Yes, you need to join a tribe, it is somewhat advisable to be in one rather than being alone in the harsh world of tribalwars. You can be picky but you have to be quick with which tribe you want to be with and stick to that unless certain things come up such us, the tribe disbands or another tribe offers a larger protection and help. It may seem that you've become a traitor to your tribe but then again, you don't really know them that much unless your tribe are people who are your neighbors who may beat the crap out of you when all of them get wiped out by the tribe you switched to in order to survive. But hey, this is a practice of politics on the safe side.
Build, build, expand. This is what I follow to make my villages as strong as they should be. I'm relying on my theoretical plans on this strategy where I build up buildings to raise points for my village. With that ongoing, I also build up my army in each village, depending on what type of village they are, troops are being trained and soon I have at least a couple thousand troops stationed. I would like to go into detail for each type of village but I'd probably spend more time making another post dedicated for that. But a summary of my plan would be to make my main village to have mixed troops, the next two villages as defense villages, and lastly the following would become an offensive village.
Why would I do that? The main village is your only village at the start of the game. You need to build defense first before building up your offense troops. When you're almost ready to get another village, I make that into a defensive village after nobling it. I build up defensive troops only in that second village. Then I find and get my third village and do the same thing with the second village. More defensive troops would protect your three villages and then when you get your fourth village, then you dedicate that for offensive troops. What about defense for that village? Well, that's when your two defensive villages come into play. They support your offensive village when there's someone attacking the fourth village. With supporting defensive troops, your offensive village can attack your attacker.
Well that's the three things I keep in mind when I play tribalwars. Looking at my achievements in the game, I'm still going strong and trying to keep improving and expanding to be ready for the ultimate battle when the time comes to eradicate another large tribe against my tribe. =)
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Death Race
Prison. Convicts. Race. Mix them together, you got this movie to watch. Prisoners are put into a race where they could kill each other brutally by any means and claim victory in the race. It may be like a destruction derby with a lap circuit involved or you could probably associate this with the Twisted Metal game. But whatever I say, you'd be saying, cool action packed races. A definite watch for me.
Mirrors
Mirrors
Kiefer Sutherland stars in this movie as an ex-cop where an evil force is out to get his family by means of mirrors. By watching the trailer, I'm quite excited to see this movie since I know that the main actor also stars in a favorite show of mine called 24. I'm not expecting this to be action packed like 24 but I'm looking forward of how he'll outwit nature in this movie. Recommended movie to watch.
Kiefer Sutherland stars in this movie as an ex-cop where an evil force is out to get his family by means of mirrors. By watching the trailer, I'm quite excited to see this movie since I know that the main actor also stars in a favorite show of mine called 24. I'm not expecting this to be action packed like 24 but I'm looking forward of how he'll outwit nature in this movie. Recommended movie to watch.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Coming Soon
I've been in hiatus for a very long time in my own blog, pre-occupied with alot of things but here's a list of what you can expect in days to come.
Tribalwars
Yup, I've been busy here lately, doing my own share of politics, warfare strategies and commercial building my villages so that I could last till the world would end with my tribe being in the top ten. So far so good, I've managed to stay in the clear and be able to write up how to build your one village into a blooming city.
Time Management Games
I've also taken some of my time going through game websites and then found one particular gamesite that has me coming for more games daily. I'll reveal their identity and review their games based on the 1 hour trial full games. :)
Ragnarok Online
RPC 2008, Agit Lords has ended and now Valhalla is going to have its True Agit Lord Champion be crowned today. It was a big battle between three factions in Valhalla but was monopolized by one. I'd probably create my own insights and summary of what happened before, on, and post-RPC 2008.
Movies to Watch for September
I'll be including some movie trailers for September, not specifically showing in movie theaters near you, but all those movies that I have watched and/or going to watch.
Anime
Currently watching and waiting for the next episode of Code Geass R2, where I'm dying to know what will happen next and hope that the ending isn't like one of those "huh? that's all?" responses. I'm also watching Naruto Shippuden, and I'm guessing, there would be a battle between Naruto and Akatsuki. I've been planning to watch Afro Samurai and Bakuretsu Tenshi, but have not been able to squeeze some time for that. Hopefully I'd be able to have a anime marathon.
I guess that's all I could included that is on my mind.
Tribalwars
Yup, I've been busy here lately, doing my own share of politics, warfare strategies and commercial building my villages so that I could last till the world would end with my tribe being in the top ten. So far so good, I've managed to stay in the clear and be able to write up how to build your one village into a blooming city.
Time Management Games
I've also taken some of my time going through game websites and then found one particular gamesite that has me coming for more games daily. I'll reveal their identity and review their games based on the 1 hour trial full games. :)
Ragnarok Online
RPC 2008, Agit Lords has ended and now Valhalla is going to have its True Agit Lord Champion be crowned today. It was a big battle between three factions in Valhalla but was monopolized by one. I'd probably create my own insights and summary of what happened before, on, and post-RPC 2008.
Movies to Watch for September
I'll be including some movie trailers for September, not specifically showing in movie theaters near you, but all those movies that I have watched and/or going to watch.
Anime
Currently watching and waiting for the next episode of Code Geass R2, where I'm dying to know what will happen next and hope that the ending isn't like one of those "huh? that's all?" responses. I'm also watching Naruto Shippuden, and I'm guessing, there would be a battle between Naruto and Akatsuki. I've been planning to watch Afro Samurai and Bakuretsu Tenshi, but have not been able to squeeze some time for that. Hopefully I'd be able to have a anime marathon.
I guess that's all I could included that is on my mind.
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