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Gauntlet Feb. 9th & Working Help Button

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Rise Against has scheduled a Gauntlet for Saturday February 9th! Tell everyone you can about it and be there yourself! Read more about the Gauntlet here .

Congrats to Kaboom! and the others who finished on the Monthly Top 20 for January. All 20 of these players have won a 1 month city-rental for any city they’d like (Admin Inn and Balkh excluded). If you’re one of the Top 20 winners, send Weebo a private message with the city you would like access to!

If you haven’t seen the full list yet, check out the Overall Top 5 of 2007. The final results crowned Merloch as Top Orber, cseow as Top Mayor, JetLi as Top Defender and Deceth as Top Awesome. The High Definition Orbers were also crowned as the Top Clan of 2007.

In order to get some players back onto the battlefield, a giant email list has been created, presently containing 16,138 addresses taken from the games database. We’ve begun contacting these people with the hopes that some will re-join the grand battle for control and dominance of BattleCity. If you have a chance, check out our one-month sponsor at http://www.winfreestuff.us/. Win Free Stuff has paid one month of server costs for us in-exchange for an advertisement placed in the 16,138 outgoing emails.

We also have a few other sponsors who have contributed to BattleCity in exchange for text-links or banners placed on the website. Here are the links to their websites if you’re interested in checking them out:

http://seostuff.betdigest.com/
http://arg.com/
http://www.easy-hide-ip.com/
http://bingo.betdigest.com/

I’d also like to take a moment to recognize and thank all those players who have donated to this version of BattleCity. Your generous contributions have helped keep BattleCity alive and have given us the opportunity to grow this game into something successful. I will do my best not to disappoint. Check out the Roadmap to see what is planned next and be sure to post any Suggestions or Ideas you may have that could help make BattleCity more fun and enjoyable for everyone.

Many people have been sending me kind messages thanking me for my efforts but nothing I have done would be possible without the following people (be sure to thank them as well next time you see them online!): wdouglas, Ender, Vindkast, Gangster, Jizohn, Surge, OldSchool. Others have contributed as well, however I do not have their BC names and I am hesitant to post their full names. If you’ve donated, send me a private message and I’ll add your name! While I do not have a list of all those who donated to ReMoTe, we definitely thank you as well since, regardless of what inevitably happened, you helped get the game to where it is today.

That being said, where is the game today? Check out what’s new in version 3.4.6! That’s right… there is now a working Help button!

See you on the battlefield.

Flash Orbs Sunday Night Gauntlet!

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Rise wasn’t around for tonights Gauntlet, so I did one. It started a bit late and wasn’t quite as big as some of the previous ones, but I think people had fun.

In the beginning, only Huambo was attacking, but by the time they got about halfway through, Dorra and Beng jumped into the action. They made steady progress until they reached the room with the CC. After 5-10 minutes of everyone unsuccessfully trying to shoot the turrets, nemises (from Dorra) made several attempts to rush the CC only to fall just short.

Meanwhile, Beng got orbed by Clientel from Huambo. It looked like they were out of the running, but they rebuilt quickly and Flash grabbed the orb. He succeeded where nemisis failed…rushing the cc with about 5 turrets shooting at him.

Flash got the orb…Beng got the 150 points. Great event with over 20 people online and 3 full cities participating!

Winners: Benguela
Flash (Orb)
cseow
tooshorttony
nemisis

Sunday Night Gauntlet Orbed by Clientel

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Hosted by: rise against and wdgoulas

Another huge gauntlet was built this Sunday with wdouglas doing about 60% of the work. I let him go crazy on the south side, and he made it into a beast. He placed 600+ turrets which made up half the gauntlet. The gauntlet itself had 3 starting cities, each of which had to go through 140 plasma turrets before reaching the middle command center.

Lahij made the fastest progress to the middle, but they couldn’t shoot all the turrets in the middle without the help of the other 2 cities.

Once the three teams finally met up, rather than working together, they decided to go to war and began killing eachother. They noticed this prevented them from making any real progress and made them have to constantly drive a long way, so they eventually stopped. They still killed each other from time to time, but they at least made the effort to make it look like an accident… 🙂

After the middle point, Benguala found the quickest route to the command center while annaba and Lahij announced a new declaration of war and bega killing eachother again! I tried to help Annaba out by telling them they were on the longer path, but Sanders said he would rather have fun, than watching someone else shoot turrets. Wise words we all should follow(seriously).

Eventually Sanders cleared the longer way while the other teams were clearing the command center. After 2 hours of the gauntlet, Clientel rushed the cc for the orb. Benguela recieved 500 points. Below is a list of the teams. If your name is missing, please post about it in the forums so we can add you!

Annaba:
Sanders
korn

Lahij:
nemisis
Lunatic
Iggy
Nemises

Benguala:
clientel
Cseow
(Gunman)
Jamie
Zeike

Here are some great screenshots! Thank you so much for them!

Map View from Annaba

Annaba Teamwork

Map view from Benguela

Benguela Teamwork

Map view from Lahij

Lahij at their Command Center

Map view from target Command Center

The Target Command Center

Crazy Gauntlet the size of 16 Cities!

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Hosted by: Rise Against, -IGGY-, Vindkast, Finn, Jizohn

I’m not sure of the names of everyone who took part since the event lasted well over 2 hours and many people came and went throughout it. If you remember anybody who participated who is not on the list, please post a comment below!

Armidale: (Late starter)
Luminost
Batcho

Santiago:
Deceth
Cseow
Kyoto
Turbo42
TylerDurden

Resistencia:
Nemisis
Iggy
Summerall
Nemises

Harbin:
Papa Smurf
Gunner11

This gauntlet was huge. It covered 16 Command Centers and had many branches from it’s 5 main paths. We had started building it around 5 and didn’t get finished till 7:30. It was filled with plasmas, sleepers, and mines. There were a couple of dead-ends and tons of trails, but only one path led to the cc. Half way through Resistencia got lost and was at the total opposite end of where the goal was. Santiago had also went down the wrong path wich wasted some of their time. After about 2 hours, they made there way to the cc area, and I had to summon them because it would of took forever for them to finish if I didn’t.

It was crazy, I remember telling Batcho(I think) to rush the CC, but he didn’t. He died and Deceth from Santiago rushed the cc and got the orb while I was summoning people. I would like to thank iggy, vindkast, finn, and jizohn for their help building the gauntlet.

Controversial Gauntlet Orbed by Huambo!

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Hosted by: Rise Against

This controversial Gauntlet has spawned a whole series of separate debates on the forums! Should Gauntlets be worth 500 points? How can they be made more fair? Should the point prize vary depending on the number of participants? Is there a way to satisfy everyone, or will the same people complain regardless? What do you think! Discuss the controversy here!

Results:

Huambo:
Tankinator
Cseow
Scile
Bobbob222

Bahia Blanca:
Batcho
Nemises

Weebo was awesome and let me build a gauntlet tonight, so I built what I think was a pretty damn big gauntlet. However, the only 2 cities weren’t cooperating in the beginning. Huambo orbed Bengula, then Benguela came back and orbed Huambo. After that they finally started working on the gauntlet, but Benguela was once again orbed by Pirate causing almost their entire team to leave except cseow who joined Huambo.

I gave Huambo plasmas so they could focus on the gauntlet seeing as how they were the only team interested. I’m pretty sure nobody else made one like this. It had 3 paths, one led to the cc, and the other 2 led to deadends. The CC path was guarded by 2 turrets at impossible angles, and the only way to shoot them was to use both dead ends to distract them. Scile however, managed to shoot them with only one person distracting. In the cc area every square had a plasma turret on it, so it took them a while to clear it all out. In the end Scile orbed it and Huambo was awarded 500 points.