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Announcements
Friendly Fire Applied to Orb to add more Strategy!
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A new update has been released today which now makes the Orb work against your own team. Seeing as how all other items can be used to attack both the enemy and your own team, it only made sense to also allow the Orb to be used to Orb your own city if dropped on your Command Center.
This adds a whole new level of strategy to the game and will help prevent stacked teams. Only the player who drops the orb on his/her own Command Center will receive the points. If a city is dominating, one team member will likely turn on the team and orb the base! The mayor will need to pay vey close attention to all commando's to make sure one doesn't succeed in doing this!
The update will also help prevent turret rushing because it will be very dangerous for the mayor to leave base, as a commando from within the city could easily orb the base while the maoyr is gone!
Happy Orbing!
BattleCity Back up Soon
This past weekend BattleCity was moved to a new server. ReMoTe has tested these servers with some other projects of his with great results, so it was decided to move BattleCity as well. Also, many players had recently been having trouble with lag spikes, which could possibly have been related to connection issues with the other server due to its location.
For those who got to play on the new server, you likely noticed your ping was incredibly low. My ping was 61, instead of 150 🙂
However, since the move, there has been some issues with the server just stopping to accept connections, leaving people stuck at the login screen. This was due to the server reaching it's TCP limits. I'm not really sure how this would be possible yet, unless connections are not closed after players log-off, though in all honesty I'm not really sure what the company defines as TCP limits. Anyways, ReMoTe had the same problem on another server for a different game, at which point the limits were increased and the problem went away.
The limits were increased for the BattleCity server as well, but the same problem occurred again. ReMoTe has ordered a new server, so right now, the game is down until this new server is ready for him to setup. This should be done sometime today. BattleCity will be back up soon!
Please bare with us through these changes. While it is unfortunate to have downtime during the transition, the improvements it will bring once running will be well worth it.
Outdated Version = Download Latest Version!
A new version of BattleCity was released last night which includes a new updater, meaning you will need to re-download and install the game.
Click Here to Download the Latest Version of BattleCity
The update also includes a change which may or may not solve the lag spike problem that many players were experiencing. Please post in the Lag Issues Affecting BattleCity thread in the forums to let us know if the problem has been solved.
Beta Test on Website Block Feature Begins
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The Community Builder component of this BattleCity Classic website is what allows us all to have wonderfull profiles about ourselves which we can share with the community! This component comes with a block feature which has never been tested before. Seeing as how the community is growing, I decided it important to begin a beta test on this feature now, to ensure it works should it ever be needed in the future.
After reading the forums, I saw how Clientel felt left out because he believed he was not receiving special favors. I saw the passion in his posts, as he posted profanities in multiple places outside of the flames forum. I realized he may have a point, so I decided to give him exclusive access to the beta testing of this website feature. Hopefully, by extending him this special favor, he will no longer need to spam the forums with insults and swear words outside of the flames board in the future.
We hope you make the best of this opportunity we have given you Clientel. You worked really hard for it, and we didn't want to let you down by exluding you from this beta test.
