Conquer Club

Greetings, comrades, to Issue 120!

In our Friendly Fire section, our epic Dispatch Trivia contest ends and our next contest begins! You think you know CC maps well? Check out the Guess the Map contest in Friendly Fire!

Our War Games section, as always, has excellent coverage of the tournament world.

In the Mess Hall, we see the Return of Mafia, as three excellent articles cover the mini-renaissance of mafia games on Conquer Club!

In the invisible Late-Breaking News section, we have coverage of today's UI update, that just went live less than half an hour ago! Help me make this section visible. I have a GA medal for the first person to post in this thread and accurately describe the most important features of today's update! (Fine print: this contest is closed to mods...)

Hello friends, and welcome to your favourite part of the Newsletter, "War Games", where you can find information about CC Tournaments, and other stuff in the Tournament scene!

In this edition of War Games we continue to deliver our news staples with [player]iAmCaffeine[/player]'s Tournament Winners Update: June '14 , [player]jdean1[/player]'s Join This? or Not! and my update of TPA happenings in TPA Wrap.

Have you a favourite tournament? Was there one that you enjoyed so much that you want it rerunning? If so, [player]jdean1[/player]'s Top Tourneys is a new series of articles in the next edition of the Newsletter to look forward to!

Good Reading and Good Luck!

[player]DaveH[/player]

Tournament Executive

Tournament Winners Update: June '14 by iAmCaffeine

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TPA Wrap by DaveH

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Join This? Or Not! by jdean1

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Dispatch Trivia - Complete! by iAmCaffeine

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Guess the Map -- Round 1 by dakky21

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The Mafia forum has always been a big part of what drives this section forward. After a brief period on inactivity, we are back in action with 3 Mafia articles.

At this time, I would also like to welcome [player]jak111[/player] and [player]StorrZerg[/player] to the Dispatch Team! Welcome aboard, both of you!

Mafia Trivia Round 1 by jak111

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Mafia Experiments by jak111

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The Scum Insider by: StorrZerg
[spoiler=You should click me]Newbie Help

Want to get into the Mafia scene, but don't know how to play or even what it is? Consult these threads: Mafia Information, Mafia and You, and Rules and Terms of Mafia.
Too much work? Too lazy to read through everything? No worries, you can always jump right into a game and ask for other players or the game runner to help guide you.
Feel Free to Contact [player]StorrZerg[/player] with any questions.

What is "Mafia"?
Mafia is an educated guessing game of epic proportions. The objective of the game is to lynch or kill all mafia members before they outnumber the rest of the town. It's much like a game of poker because mafia members are also part of the town during the day and may manipulate the vote to their liking. If the mafia at any time outnumber or equal the townspeople, they win. The town's goal is to lynch all the members of the mafia.

Mafia News
We have an up and coming Show match between GoN and TNC! These two clans will be pitting their best 12 against each other, yes I know this can't be a true match to the death. We will have a 3rd party mod host the game, as well as 3rd party judges to decided the Mvps of each faction for the game. Place your bets boys and girls, this is going to be magical.

A new series of games will be starting, and the aim is to help introduce newer players to the game of Mafia, as well as educating them with their Conquer Club peers. So please, if you have not played a game and have no idea what I am talking about join "Newbie Mafia"

Recently Finished Games

With the conclusion of Epic Mafia Corruption #1, the final three showdown could have not been any more exciting. Three people, each in a separate faction and only one person could win. I guess the joke is on everyone with the Fool taking home the win. viewtopic.php?f=213&t=204943

On Going Games
Currently we have 2 on going games Game of thrones Mafia: hosted by StorrZerg and Cyborgs Mafia: hosted by edocsil

At the moment we have a crazy game going on in the land of Westerros, some of you might know this place from Game of Thrones. No one really knows whats going on, the only conclusion is "Things are Going Down" Day 3 we find: Stannis Baratheon found dead with Margaery Tyrell, and at the end of day 3 we ask our selves "Where Do Whores Go? Can town figure out the mafia in time? How long can they last before the corruption in the 7 kingdoms overwhelms them? With Ned dead (spoilers I WAS NED HOW DID I DIE? seriously how does the mod die in his own game?)Who will rise above the filthy townies, and rule this great land? viewtopic.php?f=213&t=205178

Cyborgs Mafia is a smaller game, starting with 12 people, yet not much else is known. The town was pretty lame on day 1, no vengeance for blood or anything which resulted in no lynch! How will they ever recover from this day 1 catastrophe? viewtopic.php?f=213&t=204744

Mafia Sign-ups
Calling all players interested! Some mafia games need some filling:

Open Games

• Newbie Mafia by [player]StorrZerg[/player]
• Epic Mafia Corruption #2 by [player]jak111[/player]

Now get out there and investigate Mafia for yourself: viewforum.php?f=213[/spoiler]

Actual publication date: July 15th @1610.

The updates I've noticed so far:

• Highlight over all buttons
• New PM rolls
• Live Chat changed to Chat Rooms
• Are the quick links to My Games | Purchase | Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Rules new?
• Referral program has it's own tab?

That's all I've got for now.

Edit: The button highlight includes the ready/waiting/playing buttons next to a player's name in a game, just to clarify. Also, there is an in-game animation for rank changes. Not just New PM button rolling, but Post Reply, New Topic etc. all of that style.

Still missing the main one iirc

Are you referring to the text floating to the cursor on maps when attacking, reinforcing etc?

The players names no longer being beside the map? That is annoying.

the "rolling" of the buttons when passing over them with the mouse pointer.

I think caffeine got it. I notice it too with selecting ratings (seem to flash more than roll) too.

georgizhukov wrote:The players names no longer being beside the map? That is annoying.

You can fix that in your settings thingie btw! So that it will stay there even if you go to another game!

Urs

Koganosi

The champions Conquest Opens?

None of the above (tho some changes were made, still not the main item).

Multiplayer bot games?

Ffraid wrote:Multiplayer bot games?

Nope that was a previous update

A lot of bugs introduced? (just kidding)

I guess the biggest feature is - Global chat!

Would it be the visual effects that occur in many screens. In the rating screen when you click on 5 stars, the others lite up in sequence quickly. I just won a star and the graphics for that have changed and they roll up in video as opposed to one screen image to the next. Lame i know but desperate times call for desperate measures.

Also, Beta Bucks Introduced and/or Olympic medals Introduced.

Nope

you shrink down the broswer width-wise and it shows "club" instead of "community"?

Edit: and "Live Action" "Action Stream" under community?
I see Ats playing 2 speed games right now. impressive for poly(2) lol.

Still no, its a feature not just a small text adjustment.

Anyway, I would just like to thank [player]iAmCaffeine[/player] and [player]Dukasaur[/player] for running the Dispatch Trivia contest. It was definitely a marathon .

And one more stab at the new feature: Is it new "The Championships" Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals? I see that none have been issued yet, so I assume these are new.

Clans got tons of new stuff - All Clans, Clan Wars, Clan Leagues, Featured Games. Tournaments got Featured Games as well.
I don't rememebr if Maps were updated before or not but they have new UI as well.

A bit of a shot in the dark since I only started playing again recently; but the stats, snapshot (or maybe analyse in snapshot) when you are looking at Live Action games? (I only see it when I'm logged out though, is that a premium thing?)

The Continents Overview with its nifty bonus highlighting?