Be Excellent To Each Other

So, er, yeah. As some of you know, I've been ripping off Advance Wars on the DS creating a new turn-based wargame, But On The Internet. This (apart from a bit of tidying up) is pretty much in beta now, so anyone that wants to have a go on it can do.

When it works (which it seems to do at the moment), I'm quite obscenely proud of it.

I am giving it a go

Possible slight bug, I tried to register, and I just get taken to a screen like this:



It might be that i have already registered, but there is no option find out my password if that is the case.

Spelling error in the quickstart:

Hmm, maybe I turned registration off. I'll have a look if I ever get home.

Did you ever find out what the fake Grim... thing on Flickr was about?

No.

Oohh I love turn-based strategy games. (Naked War, for example, would be the best game in the world ever but for the few bugs that the Pickfords could never iron out.)

When I feel less like I'm dying of the flu, I'll take a proper look.

Is it turns by email or do both people have to be online or what?

I had the same problem as Bobby, but if you plug your details into the page the registration on the home page sends you to, it goes through fine.

Oh, I see what's happening now.

That's odd. How the Hell did I manage to do that?

I FEEX IT!

registered, and did my first move..

did gave me an error screen "you have to be logged in to see this screen" immediately after registering, but it did work..

@nativity tradion.. i havr a windows (part of my mac) pc now, so i always would like to try naked war.. in for a game, what your user name overthere?

I signed up what do I do now?

small remark: the mess ROOM is called mess HALL in the profile

oh, and nice work..!

posted about it on way of the rodent

Create a match, or play one against someone else.

All looks pretty cool so far - presentation is pretty swizzy and I love the space cow itself. I think "Space Morters" should be "Space Mortars" and I think I may have just gone into negative power in game 27 though.

Thanks!
You've got 1000 units of power left in match 27, according to the database.

I will look at this soon. I'm in mong time at the moment, which is traditional for me at this time of the year, where I literally switch off for a week and a half, so RTS is off the scale of "you expect me to think!"

"No, I expect you to die, but then have your unit baffling re-appear on your next turn!"

you do know about this one
http://awbw.amarriner.com/

That's the end of me worrying about Nintendo's IP

Took me a while to have a game, but I've had a go on that site now - it's much more "Advance Wars" than Space Cows.
It seems to work well, although it reloads the page every time you move.
CO powers though, the show-off

didn't want to discourage you or anything, just show a bit comparable project, just hoped it might give you even more ideas

Oh aye. I've been hunting around on the thief but I've not found anything I want yet

Oh well FUCK ME.
I was playing with a chum online and he said "this is pretty cool. Be even cooler if it was Space Hulk."

I don't think it will take me that long

This is pretty cool. Be even cooler if it was Laser Squad.

/kills everyone

I love the FAQ

Is anyone playing this getting emails about it being their turn even when they haven't checked the 'send me emails' box on their profile page?

Fucking Lady Gaga has done a song with someone called "Space Cowboy" and it's fucking up my "people talking about Space Cows" twitter feed

Ooh, Grim... got into the B3ta newsletter.

*cough* B&B *cough*

You'll put me up in a b&b for being the first to link it? Cheers!

Are you coming on to me?

Maybe later.

You'll have to buy me a drink first.

Thinking caps on, Beex.
I'm trying to figure out a scoring system. What I've got so far is that everyone starts off with 50 points, out of a maximum of 100.
If you beat someone else that has the same score as you, you get five points and they lose five.
If you beat someone with more points than you, you get half of the difference (minimum of five, max of twenty) and they lose the same number.
What if you beat someone worse than you, though?

2 points for beating someone equal, or with 5 points, 1 point if they are 6 points or more lower than you, 3 points if 6 points or more higher?

Lose 2 if equal, lose 3 if lower, lose 1 if higher.

I think the problem there is your using the smallest unit for your 'win against a level person'

So what you actually want is a smaller unit for beating someone lower than you (in your scoring numbers above i'd have chosen 2)

Any reason for sticking with 5 points as the minimum unit ?

Not really.
Mali's idea is simpler but doesn't have an large enough number of points for a 10 person beating a 90, I think.

In which case do this:

points = difference between rankings/3

so a 10 beating a 90 would get 27 points bringing him up to 37 and the 90 down to 63?

BUT if the 90 beat teh 10, then maybe he should get

(Winner score/loser score)/3

I dunno.

I'll have a think over this.

It's too volatile - you don't want to base it only on the last game.

You'd probably want something like the trueskill thing, but I believe that's patented.

Or, if you fancy fucking with the achievement whores, just have the game add or deduct and arbitary number of points for spurious reasons such as "Great opening!" or "Most units built" and then watch them go mentals trying to work it all out.

Also also: I'd not be sticking to ints, I'd be using floats and rounding to int to for display purposes. It'd sort out quite a few scaling issues.

make it so people can set up their own leagues.

Yeah, and tournaments. They're coming.

use this but stick a modifier of in, so the 10 beating a 90 would get 3 points modified by this, rounded UP to the neareast integer.

3x(90/10)=27

And if the 90 beats the 10 then

1x(10/90)=1

So

Points= Win point x (opponent score/your score)

And I dunno about lose scores.

Elo ratings? You could probably normalise it so it's out of 100 too. There's bound to be libraries that do it for you so you wouldn't have to work it all out yourself.

Would this work?
oldWinnerRating = X
oldLoserRating = Y
multiplier = 1/(oldWinnerRating/oldLoserRating)
newWinnerRating = oldWinnerRating + mulitplier
newLoserRating = oldLoserRating - multipler

EG: Equal player


Good player beats bad player



good player loser to bad player