"You see Marty, Dallas will be a great opportunity for everyone but only one person can go." the boss smiled deviously as he took a cigarette out of his pocket
"Can I be that person, boss?" Marty asked as he rushed to light the cigarette for his boss
We keep setting that bar higher and higher. As soon as we reach it, we pull it up some more. What is the point of progress if not stepping out of your comfort zone and pushing yourself to be better. We can always be better. With that in mind, welcome to the new era of Drugwars. Welcome to mass adoption.
After planning it, announcing it and working hard on it through many many many days and nights, we made history. Drugwars is now open to more players than ever and is ready for a new era. We are happy to announce that players no longer need steem account to log in.
You can now login with your Facebook account, Google, and Vkontakte. You can still use your steem account by signing it via steemconnect. We are accepting more and more players to join and are excited about the mass adoption of the game. You can now tell your friends and welcome them in. For many people, this will be the first encounter with playing a game and being able to earn from it. Just think about how many hours are spent on playing various games on Facebook and how little people get out of it. With Drugwars, while the drugs are virtual, the money is very much real and instead of pooping those colorful candy bubbles in her spare time, your girlfriend can now become a part of your gang in Drugwars. Social logins will provide easy access to the crypto world and bring more people to steem platform as well. We are proud to be the most accessible game on the blockchain and we will continue to grow.
And what does this mean for you, a player who has been playing the game for some time now? More players means more people for you to attack and steal their resources and it also means bigger rewards because you can be sure that many of them will be buying those upgrades to get ahead faster. Say hi to the new ones in discord and welcome them to the game. Open your gang doors to them and teach them how things are done.
Have you noticed how fast the game is? We have removed the customjson and are using the same validators to sign transaction directly to our database. What does this mean? We are an independent platform.
With removing custom JSON operations from the database protocol, players no longer have to wait for a certain operation to be completed. From 3 to 10 seconds before it is almost instant now. This came as a lovely little bonus of adding more sign in options and our way of removing the clutter from the blockchain. Are you enjoying the speed and loving how everything happens as soon as you click on a certain button? We sure are.
Speaking of "removing the clutter from the blockchain", there will be no more sharing of your battles on steemit. While you as a player consider it fine, we all need to realize how putting one photo in a steemit post is not really adding value to the platform. It is adding value to our game, of course, and we appreciate it. That is why we are not removing the share, only moving it to our forum. Your battles will still receive our upvotes just like before but they will be in another place. We are looking forward to seeing your battles and the amounts you stole. Show us what you've got!
You no longer have to worry about missing those resources because you can use Paypal to buy Future tokens and use them instead. Soon, you will even have an option to use Paypal to buy upgrades directly but until then, enjoy the option of buying and using Future tokens all in one place, the game itself.
The price of Future is rising and we are very happy to see its value has increased independently of the steem price. We know it would happen and are enjoying every moment of its growth. Have you noticed how rewards are getting bigger all the time? We are giving more and more Future tokens day by day and will continue to do so. Our talks with exchanges are continuing and we are satisfied with how they are going so far. Future token will soon be listed in different exchanges and you will have even more options of acquiring it.
Four is the magic number here. Your units now have 4 elements of offense and 4 elements of resistance. In offense, there are attack, health, carry, and speed while you have resistance from physical, chemical, fire, and bullet. Once you build a research center, you can train your units to become better and better in their skills and the higher the level of that building is, the faster they will be trained. This means that your Rowdy and a Rowdy from your enemy no longer mean the same thing. The same goes for all the other units and is adding more complexity to the game and complicating it in just the right amount to make it even more interesting. Have you trained your units yet?
"Well Marty, it all depends on whether you have what it takes or not. I am paying for it after all so I expect the person to promote my business. Can you talk in front of other people Marty?" the boss knew Marty was not the right man for the job but appreciated his enthusiasm. The kid can always dream.
"Can I at least help with picking the person?"
"We'll see Marty, we'll see." There was a lot at stake and the boss knew the right person would be hard to find.
In other words, officially drugwars is no longer a steem app. It doesn't contribute to increase demand for steem nor to spread awareness for it. It was "fun" while it lasted.
The only link it has to the blockchain is when users post on the forum. Good luck with your project, sincerely.
Edit: just to be clear, I don't have anything against your project. Drugwars is now a business that has some connection to steem...which is not a bad thing. I can't complain because I did gain something from the game. But as a stakeholder of steem I don't see how it's going to contribute in a meaningful way to help my stake grow in value. I think that @maxblaschke has expressed my thoughts in a much better way. Feelings aside I whish you good luck.
While I appreciate that the game is much faster now... I wonder why you not simple kind of cached the players interactions and simply wrote them into the BC a few seconds later.. and then verifying again with your cached games status... then the game would have been quicker and could still be fully on steem..
I believe you should at least print the important assets: upgrades and future token balance into the blockchain. Then even when you are hacked or a bad developer of yours wants to destroy the game by erasing or altering those information.. you can always reset with the imprinted status in the blockchain..
hey @onthewayout,
Since you can login to our game with a steem account and can pay and widthraw with Steem directly, it's definitely a steem app... without unnecessary bloat and surcharge for our blockchain.
If that logic is correct, then its equally a facebook app now too, you fucking moron
!dramatoken
#sbi-skip
You're upping the drama to new levels! Have a DRAMA.
To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.No, it's not. A steem app relies on the steem blockchain to store its data. By your incorrect definition, if coinbase were to allow you to send and receive Steem it would be a Steem app. As for logging in using steem... that is only relying on Steem credentials for verification. This verification process is merely a way for you to be identified, there is no genuine Steem interaction, just a simple hash decryption.
I guess It comes down to how we define a blockchain app. Thank you for your reply.
Am I understanding this correctly?
You've removed pretty much any connection to the blockchain (besides your own tokens), converting it essentially from a hybrid dApp to a standard centralised browser game?
And you've added an automatic custom-JSON for all users, even those who haven't even played your game in months (including myself), which is faking activity for your game.
https://steemd.com/tx/dd8e18236cef82128317a3b99a0fc7d413b168c5
If no more playing the game, you should remove drugwars.app posting authority. Don't leave a backdoor to your account open ;)
That was obviously a misstake from our side, we wanted to track weekly actives users, and we unfortunately noticed that even inactive accounts were updated in our database when they receive attacks. This should not happen anymore and only daily active users will send one custom json per day.
It's still an hybrid dApp, and we are working on other ways to use the blockchain (not only for rewards) to take the best of each technology and continue to provide a smooth user experience to our players.
Liar, your a cheat and a fraud.
Another dApp milked out STEEM users and leaving the blockchain...
Using infrastructure and giving zero back to platform... Nice move DrugWars...
Should've seen it coming when they introduced the FUTURE token, dammit!
When i feel transactions are getting smoother I wondered why other dapps doesn't have it this way. Turns out connection to the blockchain is severed 😂
!dramatoken
#sbi-skip
There's not enough
DRAMAto go around.To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.actually, we saw that coming... But we gave them a second chance... and they done it again... :(
Why would anyone new even want to play this flawed game?
See this example of the current battle system.
Old player with a big army:
New player:
Results?
The old player lost 300k resources and obliterated 3M resources army which means the old player lost pretty much nothing in comparison to a new player that was not doing anything else than building some army to survive the small resources looters. Imagine the new player buying this army and instantly being destroyed by a bigger guy! Money well spent!
There is a reason why the browser games have "seasons" and "resets". It's so that every player can actually enjoy the first days before the P2W players start knocking on the door.
resets ? lol, don't even think about it, what we need is a way to dodge. certainly not an internal script destroying all you got after a certain period of time.
They don't even have to reset the current "season" that would not be right for all the people that already spent so much time playing.
It's possible though to just create a new "season" and people would be able to switch between these two. DrugWars went through so many changes that it is a very different game now so actually trying this current version from the start would be very nice.
Scum
All is going great!!! You all are doing a wonderful job. Thanks for the update and constant improvement. As a holder of about 100,000 Future, I have definitely noticed the price increase. AWESOME!!! I do have a question though. When i try to share my fights on the DW site, I always get an error saying something about having a wrong header or something. Any ideas?
Hey @johndoer123 and thanks for your encouragements,
Do you use brave? if yes you have to lower the shield, some issue with the forum login and brave I presume.
Best regards,
No, chrome dear friend. It says " could not post at this time. Authorization header missing or invalid."
Also meant to say, the speed now is great!
And is the game still running on the Steem chain?
You have login to the forum first and it will ask for you post authorization key. Then all goes smoothly
That completely fixed it my friend. Thank you so much for your help! If i can help, I have one more question. Do you know why @mentalhealthguru flagged me at 100% above when i asked for help? I also saw he flagged my friend @davemccoy, and I'm not sure why. I asked him but then i got a message on discord saying he blocked me, so I doubt if he will be helping me figure out what's up. So i figured I would ask around here. Anyway, thanks again for your help and i hope you're enjoying your weekend!
!bookkeeping drugwars
Hi @johndoer123!
drugwars
Received:
Spent:
Total:
First transfer was before 96.54 days.
Your ROI per day is 0.46 % and you are earning approx. 2.13 STEEM per day.
Break even in approx. 121.7 days.
ROI when taking only the last 5 days into account
Your ROI per day is 0.00 % and you are earning approx. 0.00 STEEM per day.
Because you are defending a Ponzi scheme like nothing ever happened. Not sure if you like to get f*cked in your *ss or are just naive.
Okay. Thank you for that friend. Not sure what a Ponzi scheme is. I just know that this game allows me to collect 3 to 5 liquid steem a week and I give it away to help those in my project reach minnowhood. I guess I will just quit commenting on these posts so i don't get flagged any more. I apologise to you and to everyone else i am angering. But i do hope you have a good day and that your week goes great for you.
How about you provide a 1 month shield for new players who join so as to help them build. Or implement an algorithm to check age of players and prevent too high ranked players to attack newbies. Clash of clans had an algorithm to find equally powered enemies. That helps balance the game for newbies and oldies.
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for @drugwars peeps
I agree with the above..
I would add that since you have a 'rating' for each player, I am assuming on what levels all their building are, you can easily set up a deal like with other PvP where only certain 'levels' can attach each other..
Or really throw your ninja-dev work into having a mini-game for the battles so there's some actual human interaction and the possibility of actually challenging and fighting each other..
or simply frequently log into the game and build your resource save first, before building an army! there are always ways to grow, even when being new and small. it may take a bit more effort in terms of time and the frequency of login the game multiple times a day to do something with your gained resources (easy with the mobile friendly version of the game); thought of joining a gang? that helps also with (less) users coming to you and try to steal resources.
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On one hand fine to see progress and open doors for 7 Billion people resp. ~ 4 billion www users...
Lots of potential new DW-players out there...
Also nice, there is still a connection to Steem but on the other hand the main principle of a Blockchain game is lost when gameactions are not longer on Blockchain - good for speed, bad for cheat but as I trust in DW-team it might work out fine...
Anyway it would be a fine thing not just to store data in DW-own-Database but also to write it to the blockchain like every week or so...
Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying the changes... but with dropping the custom JSON, is there really any substantive connection left to the Steem blockchain? Is any of the data archived to Steem periodically to create that verifiable asset ownership or does linking your Steem account simply enable a sort of funds withdrawal route if desired?
Was gonna ask pretty much the same questions... hopefully we get an answer.
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Fuck this game, I'm out. I will no longer be up-voting any drugwars post.
Fixed it for you bro:
We keep setting that bar lower and lower. As soon as we reach it, we let everyone down some more. What is the point of scamming if not stepping out of your comfort zone and pushing yourself to be scummier. Its hard to be much worse. With that in mind, welcome to the new era of Drugwars. Welcome to mass disappointment.
Also, this:
Lol
!dramatoken
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Here's your
DRAMA. Don't spend it all in one place!To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.Steemit was betting on the wrong people and wrong projects.
Those were not able to get any attention.
Once DrugWars started and wiped out the competition, what have they got?
Exactly, nothing. If that's the case, why would they keep using seem/it?
Aannnd this is how Drugwars died...
The best thing about this announcement is that you are killing off the annoying sharing of random battles on steem.
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Not sure I understand how we will still get a vote if the share is on your forum? Are you going to upvote a different post of ours? Will that no longer is a steem post that our upvotes like SBI and others vote for? Also, does that mean you won't get a cut to help grow the game anymore? This is a big bad thing for the game IMO.
The posts are published on the forum that uses the blockchain steem, instead of having a post now you will find your sharing in your comments, and they will be clearly visible on the DW forum.
I have tried that am I am getting an error about not having a authorized header is there a guide to this?
You have login to the forum first and it will ask for you post authorization key. Then all goes smoothly
Nope, i am dealing with the same issue. Unable to share.
Very positive changes :) It's really smooth to play now which is a big +
I like the new sharing feature, so much better than the old one. Best part is that theres a confirmation screen that lets you add in more info when you want to.
good job guys!!
Didn't know girls poop colorful candy bubbles, I was always told Girls Don't Poop 💩
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But what is even left to adopt on your site, if you basically removed the complete blockchain integration?
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In the future could you please consider adding a building that would be like a storage for the army? something that would protect part of the army.
Long live Drugwars!
I am having a problem when I try to share fights in your forum. I login to your forum and click share button but fight is not shared. Yesterday it worked well.
Playing this game on Steem didnt work very well. All the Steem whales prolly didnt notice how much RC you need.
So im quite happy i can play now without being limited by crappy RC
Investing 20$ that you might get back in year just to play a game doesnt make any sense.
I agree its not a dapp anymore now. Cant be decentralised on a centralised server.... thats a bit of a downside imo, but will open the game for a bunch of new player...
Battle system needs some upgrades. I pledge for a limit of troops you can attack with. Lets say you can only attack with 50% more ressource worth troops... would make it much more interesting to figure out how to destroy the other player
If you are not using the blockchain anymore with the drop of the custom json and get your own currency with the 'future' to become an independent game. Doesn't that means you should be removed from the Dapp's... Since now you are just another game website like hundreds more?
Why you are still indexed as being a blockchain game ?
Already removed!!! =D
I still see it on Dapp.. https://dapp.review/dapp/11032/Drug-Wars
Where did you see it being removed from?
hey @kreesher,
Can you link me some games like this? Where you can login with Steem and get rewarded with steem or other crypto?
Thanks!
Hey @hightouch, sure. You can go to this link: https://dapp.review/explore/steem?category=1
You have a category there called games that you can see all the apps using the blockchain and reward in steem like steem monsters, magic dice and other games you can have fun and get more steem while playing.
Hope this help and have fun.
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Would be nice if the Future token had some value... Doesn’t really feel like it’s earning money anymore.
We got an infestation on our hands! Quick everybody! Break out the Raid!!!
I love the speed of the new upgrades... thanks. And when you get time could you explain what all the different trainings affect? There isn't a good explanation of exactly what upgrades affect which soldier (and also which of those 8 numbers get affected).
From the source code on Github, it seems that all trainings do what it says on the description, for ex. the Close Combat one gives 1% boost to the Attack stat with no upper limit.
The Fire training benefits the Bazooka and Gunman, Chemical training benefits the Mercenary and Knifer.
The only training apparently not being used is the Speed boost.
cool... that is very helpful... thanks... I didn't know the fire training and chemical training benefited those troops!
And do you know if the melee bump will affect all the melee from the hobo to the ninja? likewise with the range bump?
Yes to both answers.
Adding that the Weapon training benefits the Rowdy, Sniper and Hitman.
And each level of the Coordination training gives 0.1% power, up to 100% of course. Power is calculated based on your total units supply, and as soon as you get to 253 your power goes down to 99%, but it goes down slowly, at 1000 supply your power is 98%
wow, very interesting on both answers... thank you very much for your informative answers @cfpg!