It Has Begun

KHWar is temporarily down.  Well, it's still there, and who knows if it's working properly.  The mapping system relies on an internal socket system which may or may not be functioning as intended.  We've changed a LOT during our migration to our new host, so it's very likely that the game isn't working properly, if at all.
 

..oh goodie!!

Interesting! It does not seem to do much by now but those features you implemented work. Every game has to start somewhere and i am curious to know where this is going. If you need help with the graphics i could help. It would be good to know which direction you are going with the graphics.

I very much encourage you to keep going!

Yay! Level 3... OMG this is already addicting.

The ultimate irony would be this game getting hacked.

Well, as long as all the calculations are done server sided it would be hard to hack this game. You can only request the server to do something and it then checks if you are able to and responds to that. If all the values are stored and checked on the server and the client just diplays them you are out of luck.

Everything is server sided.  Everything.

If you notice, there's ~5s delay between clicks.  Not only is this done in the javascript, I'm using memcached to keep track of that on the server as well.  So, if you go nuts and create a bot to click like mad, all of the clicks won't go through.  As we get more players, I'll reinforce this with auto-bans from the game for too many clicks outside of the timeframe. ;)

Yeah, i got an error yesterday that i can only do one action every 5 seconds. This only happened two times as you normally can't click as long as the loading bar is still going. An autoclicker could still work here if set to only click every 6 seconds or so, thats the only way of "cheating" here.

Man, i already wasted 2 hours on that game, just couldn't stop :D I am still not quite sure how "Geo Eff" is calculated but it seems to go down if you have to many fields unconnected to others. Also not sure if that affects your success rate, mine now is 653/39.

Got that 5 sec error, too.

I got to level 6 but nothing really happened (apart from picking a few "skills").

Also, I could not purchase tech.

Geo Eff seems to be based on land dimensions vs. land mass.
I.e. spread formation vs. tight formation: if you do long thin lines, it's going to decrease. However, if you make large squares, it will increase.

Your geo efficiency is based on how cohesive your land is.  A checkerboard pattern is the most inefficient, while a solid square is more efficient.

Purchaseable tech is not available.  Check the TODO List. :P

As your efficiency decreases, you will start to lose more and more attacks.  There is no minimum, so if you hit 0%, you have a 0% chance at expanding.  This will come into play more as I get PVP up and running, and will become crucial when you start defending prize orbs. :)

this might be fun.
i hope there isnt any real penalty for having a massive "nation" or bad lands like desert and shit.
currently building mine out to 50x50 75x75
will be interesting to see what happens when I hit water

It seems interesting so far. One suggestion I have is to balance server sided with client sided. There's always that fight between security and convinience, and I've generally been on the side of more convinience. But that's more my philosphy and a personal choice, having it fully server-sided will definitely stop pretty much all hacking except for those who hack into the servers. Heh, I can just imagine that there are going to be some noobs that are going to request hacks for this game on this site.

Also, as a name suggestion, I say "War of the Lands" Not very creative, but first thing to come to mind

You should call it "The Thunderlands"

It's based on a game called "War of Conquest"  I do plan on taking it a bit further than they did though.  They ran for nearly 10 years if I'm recalling correctly.  This has been in existence for less than a month, and really only had 2- weeks of development time put in on it.

Thanks!  We're working through PVP calcs at the moment.  Should be ready in the next few days.

Considering this has been public for less than a week and one guy is already at L30... I wouldn't worry about it.  The higher level you go, the less you'll earn from empty tiles.  I just got a basic PVP up and running that awards more XP. :)