All nighter

No I am not talking about a rave. I have not pulled an all-nighter in GEWar since near the end of the last reset. And the one other time when I was in Incognito. The reason for this one is that NA have been active and luckily for me no work tomorrow!

Near the end of the session, as I was getting tired, I managed to pm the opposition instead of my leader pitoh, lol. Luckily for me it was not a crucial pm, rather innocuous. The opposition guy pmed me back highly amused.

So might as well add that I was hugely disappointed not to win the blog competition. Boo hoo hoo. Congratulations to helo though and I echo his wish that at least some of the blogs keep going. And a big shout to all who did a blog even those who only did one entry, you know who you are you slackers!

Not much news wise in the game features though a post by fluteflute alerted me to some possible changes Luke is planning. Essentially making nuke shields more flexible and bringing a welcome addition to strategy in the game. Which I think is sorely lacking. Credit of course to pitoh for these ideas, though not sure if they had been raised before?

Now I am off to bed even though it is now morning. Good night!

It's only a game...

Bill Shankly, the celebrated Liverpool manager from the sixties, famously said one time :

Some people believe football is a matter of life and death.
I'm very disappointed with that attitude.
I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.

Substitute GEWar for football and that is the way I suspect a lot of players feel about GEWar! I too admit to being somewhat obsessed by this game. But when this passion leads one to cheat then you know it is time to quit and take up knitting instead! An old, well-known player has recently been caught doing this and some probably celebrated in private whilst others perhaps were forced to reflect on what this game means to them.

In any sphere of life you will have people trying to gain some advantage from "bending the rules" to outright cheating. In other words it is inevitable, but that does not of course mean that it is right. Very early on in this reset some players from an alliance that Ronin were fighting were caught using scripts, and again more recently another alliance was using an illegal script.

Thanks to the efforts of the GEWar team this sort of thing is being tackled. Another consequence of the passion from playing this game can sometimes be seen in the forum posts. Where players easily fall into personal abuse, again thanks to the moderators culprits are swiftly dealt with. Perhaps a delay could be initiated when posting to force people to give some more thought to their words?

Anyway, this post has been a bit rambling but I guess the point is that please think twice before you get up to any shenanigans, please remember it is only a game, life and death is much more important.

PS3 vs Wii

Lol, okay this post is somewhat related to gaming and hence to GEWar. You see the connection and agree with my reasoning don't you? I can't seem to resist posts which contain scantily clothed women recently. I think it is because the weather has turned very fine here recently, and the smell of summer is around the corner!

Again hat tip to Virtual Illusion for the video.

Howzat! Rabban bowled out!

In a series of one day matches at Wuhan and Basco, on dry arid wickets the opening batsman of Team Bot Alliance was dealt a thumping blow by the superb pace bowling of GDTV. The decisive game came at Wuhan.





The crowd seemed to be settling in to watch a long innings by the mighty willow whacker 'Banny, as he is know affectionately by his GEWar fans. But GDTV from Team Tiger blasted down the pitch and clean bowled the City Terroriser.

The tailender WarPeace_Clone, unaffectionately known as the Git, is making a stand at Cairo.


Wuhan scorecard:




Some post match commentary by Luke.

Sports is another crucial example of the indoctrination system . . . It offers people something to pay attention to that is of no importance . . . It keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have an idea of something about . . . People have the most exotic information and understanding about all sorts of arcane issues . . . It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority, and group cohesion behind leadership elements, in fact its training in irrational jingoism . . . That's why energy is devoted to supporting them . . . and advertisers are willing to pay for them.

Chomsky on sport.

GEWar Confidential

This feature is about salacious and not so salacious gossip that is currently doing the rounds in the GEWar community. All names will be anonymous to protect the guilty.

So the current buzz round the GEWar cooler is that one well known player from the past, lets call him, totally randomly of course, PB, has re-appeared under a new guise. Said character was well known, loved and hated in equal measure.

The newly reincarnated player, let's abbreviate, again totally randomly to the letter G, has already been muted, a characteristic shared by the former incarnation.

Onto new machinations: a noob S, sent out a pm asking three players help in attacking a city. Now most observers would say that this is somewhat peculiar. Fine, ask for advice but help in attacking a city on the day you join? Unless one is totally tactless this is really far-fetched.

The cynical amongst you may be thinking that it was a ploy by another alliance to cause mischief? NO surely not. And you perceptive people may well be right!

Remember dear readers, you heard it here first, off the record, on the QT and very hush hush.

Should you hear of any rumours/slander/gossip and all things speculative please get in touch. Confidentiality assured.

Are you GEWar experienced? Angel

So another installment of what will be occasional chats with various GEWar players. Today we talk with Angel, another GEWar Grrl gamer.

How did you first get into GEWar?

My brother played it some months and told me about GEwar. I created an account and was addicted ;-)

How long have you been playing it for?

I really begun to play 2 resets ago..

What newbie mistake(s) do you remember making?

None.. My bro advised me and so there were no bigger problems.

What are the good things about GEWar, what are the bad things?

Good things: Travel the world, meet people, kill em.. I like the Idea of gewar, and you really get to know nice people and absolute idiots..

Bad things: I think Luke is sitting on the wrong horse called "new version". With some improvements this version would be more than enough..There are tons of good suggestions in the forums, but nearly nothing is implemented..

What were the memorable moments for you in GEWar?

I remember every time my honourable alliance saved my ass..

Do you think you will be playing GEWar in 2 years time?

maybe .. but maybe tomorrow a spaceship appears and bombs us back to stoneage...Or I get hit by a bus..

Many thanks to Angel.

Blowing your own trumpet

'nuff said ;)

Separated at birth?

Boss Hogg that cheeky, money grabbing, over-eating County Commissioner from the Dukes Of Hazard and Rabban the city hungry, attention-seeking megolomaniac from GEWar, surely twin brothers separated at birth by some unfortunate/fortunate series of events? You don't agree? Witness the eerily similar cheeky yet deranged smile; imagine Rabban in white holding a fat ciger shouting "I'm gonna git me those Dukes!". You agree now don't you? I hazard a guess that Rabban's true mission is to be re-united with his long lost sibling. Luke, we must be told the truth!

And stay tuned for "Sheriff Rosco P Co's Boss Hogg files"...

++Update++

So we have a new player "WarPeace_Clone" who is Rabban's accomplice. Hmm...sounds like maybe the long lost brothers are now re-united? I shall be monitoring to see if the price of cotton goes up due to a sudden demand for white linen suits with matching ten-gallon hats!

April 1st

So the mysterious 'flu' caught by our armies was a very well done April Fools joke. Well done Luke and the team.

Furthermore, I think that there is some merit there for having this or something similar as a permanent feature. That is, armies out of cities or homebases would have a limited life-time. It would encourage more thoughtful use of spare armies. This may well encourage more fighting and also would reduce unnecessary load on the server.

By the way, I managed to fall twice for the disguised "secret admirer" post, once by the wily jester Luke and once by Suicidal, that brings my tally to six! Damn! I is truely a fool.