16.04.2025 - 08:26
The only part i agree with is 'would be very time consuming'. I never denied that, I always emphasize that it's enormous effort compared to the fact that we have the tutorial coming soon for years. But have you ever played a strategy game other than atwar? I'll just leave this here...
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16.04.2025 - 10:17
Dave is helping ya'll kick out atWar addiction and you're blasting him for it, lol, be more grateful to the guy ![]()
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16.04.2025 - 11:25
Are you programmer? If you are, then help Dave implement AI in game if is it that simple. If you are not, than better shut up about things you know nothing.. Adding Ai features is maybe easy, but adding it to existing code that is already bad and messed up is headache.. As Dave already said, sometimes is easier to create whole game from scratch than updating it with new features.
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16.04.2025 - 12:00 ![]() This is in addition to yesterday's game I played with Lev (also trolled cuz someone dc'ed). I'm not really motivated to join quick scenarios when this happens ![]() And Lion Sin Escanor is the only one that I believe truly deserves a chance from the 5 or so permabanned players. Before the ban he was on a supporting role, helping beginner get onboard and contributing to the game. Those of us who played with him knew he was a gentle, cool and chill fellow. In the heat of the moment, a mistake was made. After that, he acknowledged his mistake and apologized for what he did. Even after being told that he won't be unbanned, he acknowledged the response and remained cool and comprensible about it. I'm in many discord servers. I've never seen lion bicker the same way other people do. History may have been (irrecoverably) lost but he's someone who did and can still do good for the game. If only he was given a realistic way to redeem himself...
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16.04.2025 - 14:24
Okay, I've let this go on long enough. There is apparently an alternate reality existing within the AW community built on lies and misunderstandings, and I'm blaming Waffel for spreading it. It's predictable, every time I tell him "here are the facts, X, Y, and Z", he twists it to mean the opposite and throws it back with a bunch of lies and other bullshit. atWar has enough problems already, we really don't need a guy like that "poisoning the well" deliberately. I'm pretty sure he's doing it just for the sake of the drama. He cannot possibly be serious or believe his own BS. So I've gone ahead and deleted and device-banned Waffel's alt. Since his main acc had an existing ban in place, he should not have been here posting on an alt, and I should not have allowed him to do it for so long. I'm going to follow AW policy on this one moving forward. For those of you who may believe Waffel's warped reality and/or don't like what I'm doing, I invite you to delete your accounts yourselves. Here's how to do it: 1) go to your user profile, click Edit Profile: ![]() 2) scroll to the bottom and click "Delete Account": ![]() If anyone else wants to actually discuss this topic with me please feel free to do so -- as long as you keep it respectful and factual you can disagree with me all you want. I don't ban people over differences of opinion. I will however ban rude/disrespectful behavior, and especially any significant efforts to lie to the AW community as was the case here.
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16.04.2025 - 14:27
Don't listen to waffel, you did nothing wrong dave
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16.04.2025 - 14:45
Despite me not agreeing with you on many facts, I would never delete my account because of an issue like this, doesnt matter how active or inactive i am. I love atWar and its community and its the reason some of us are angry (and rude aswell) but that is because we care about the game
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16.04.2025 - 14:56
We all love AW, but the problem remains the same as I pointed out in my previous post: lack of content, improvements, quality of gameplay, and of course, a dying community. Very little time is invested in developing meaningful changes, and instead, the players gets punished (what!?)
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16.04.2025 - 14:58
Message deleted by Dave. Reason: banned player evading on alts, not allowed to post
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16.04.2025 - 14:59
Message deleted by Dave. Reason: banned player evading on alts, not allowed to post
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16.04.2025 - 15:01
Thank you a lot, will use those steps briefly
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16.04.2025 - 15:04
Message deleted by Dave. Reason: banned player evading on alts, not allowed to post
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16.04.2025 - 15:30
I'm leaving this one here just so everyone can see the level of intelligent argument we have to deal with
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16.04.2025 - 15:47
Good work, Dave, you made a huge, meaningful step forward. Now it's time to ban Croat, or unban others, or preferably both, but pick something.
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16.04.2025 - 16:03
It's not my fight to fight, so this will probably be my last contribution but I would like to just say that nobody here (except for some retards you know who...) wants to see atwar die, we all like atwar and want to see it very active. We care a lot about this game and so we have a lot of emotions which has been misguided (refer to my previous posts). I also wish to add that if the people are given stuff they will give back. I hope everyone who has the chance to contact dave about being unbanned does in fact do that. If the game seems some rise in clan war activity i think ill finally release my collection of videos and release some tutorials, I promise that i am very enthusiastic about the tutorials and helping the game just as many others are, I just hope some chances are given and if you want to discuss this dave I don't mind helping anywhere if it means some more of my friends and the community being helped, and i understand youre busy, however most people here are and they still log on, even the banned friends that i'd like to see come back still enjoy this game and so i hope this reaches the right place
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16.04.2025 - 17:49
Bro thats puchao, probably the only player I have banned from my games and I have on blacklist. What do you want me to say? He always trolled, always will, just dont allow him to play the maps, if everyone bann him from their games he won't ruin anything anymore (tho still not a good reason to perma bann or IP bann or sorta from atwar in general).
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17.04.2025 - 04:04
Doesn't matter if one is a programmer, the owner is responsible for the handling of whatever software, and also as the owner chooses or not to hire/trust someone to work on whatever, atWar isn't some open source project where "hur dur if you want it, just do it yourself" is a valid counter-argument. Based on what Dave has said, and knowing about web development history, I can believe there is less effort in starting from scratch, for an improved experience. Not entirely related, but look at what just happened to 4chan, they were using very unsafe, old libraries and subsequently, finally got "nuked"
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17.04.2025 - 07:01
I am just saying that its not easy as people think.. They see 50minute tutorial on youtube and they think they can became programmers in 1h or they can create a game with 1h youtube video.. Dave said many times that code of this game is whole mess. If he created that mess, he could've implement new features much easier, but changing someone else's code is just pain in ass..
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17.04.2025 - 09:03
The amount of time and effort that was spent on this topic,wish it was spent on improvement on the game called atwar. Seems like its fate is to die slowly. Wish you guys all the best.
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17.04.2025 - 10:50
Wow, I didn't expect such a hostile response. I'll break it down into parts to make sure I get my point across this time. One last try. The thread is going to die now anyways, judging by Dave's last comment. "Are you a programmer?" Yes, I'm a software engineer and a business owner, like Dave, actually. I never claimed to be anything else. Learning about history and playing strategy games just happens to be my hobby since I was a teen. So we both like atwar... one fewer reason to hate each other. "If you are (a programmer), then help Dave implement AI in game..." Definitely not helping Dave (the game, rather) out of spite, although I would be open for it, that's up to him, not me (...) and I highly doubt he couldn't find someone for the job if he wanted to. Additionally, that's not the appropriate format to approach this anyway - there's no API or a modding toolkit, atwar is a makeshift game in the browser with clearly outdated tech, you know. "...if is it that simple. (adding AI to the game)" I never said it is simple. I always emphasize that it is difficult, I just tend to bring it up as an example because I genuinely believe it would vastly improve the game and it's something I - personally - want to see. Basically if you read my very first comment in this thread, I also claimed there that I'm aware of the difficulties. "If you are not, than better shut up about things you know nothing.." -> I already clarified that I am, so the conditional is false... you may or may not read this paragraph I will not comment on the shut up part, however, my knowledge in game development is OK. It's neither expert nor rookie level. All I know derives from my years of experience playing strategy games and what I know about programming in general. In other words, I never tried to sit down and create a game myself, but I have a deep understanding of the technical background, if that makes sense. As an analogy: like an auto mechanic who specializes in repairing Porsche vehicles, but he could also look into a BMW's issues, given he's exercising a little caution and studies the specifics beforehand (...) the result won't be perfect, but he can deliver results consistently at the least. "Adding Ai features is maybe easy, but adding it to existing code that is already bad and messed up is headache.." I would say it is the opposite; creating a complex AI bot for a task is much harder than integrating it into a pre-existing ecosystem (the game in our case). In terms of programming, it could be compared to the difficulties of hosting/operating a website vs making a blank html website for your IT teacher in school, or turning a singleplayer game into online multiplayer. If you specifically referred to the optimization part though and you are also speculating that the game's code is this messy, then both aspects are difficult indeed. "As Dave already said, sometimes is easier to create whole game from scratch than updating it with new features." I have no idea what Dave did or didn't say in this regard, but I can fortunately tell you again, this is precisely what I said in my first comment in this thread: 'Implement some of the suggestions that people keep pushing in a feedback format for years. Adding bots for instance - I know it is a huge challenge programming wise.' As I explained earlier, this is something that I genuinely believe to be an incredibly good addition and I have a subjective bias for it. If you read this carefully, you will notice that you could replace this sentence with 'add custom strategies in the map editor' for instance, and my point would be the same - to make updates to the game at ANY scale because it has been stalling for years. It was Sphinx who derailed my original message because I made the mistake of quoting him. It's also very likely that he doesn't even know about my first msg, he just jumped on me without prior knowledge. I also said the following: 'Alternatively, you could keep the existing IP and make atWar 2. That way, the core legacy playerbase (veterans) could stay here and enjoy the game until they (or you) see fit.' I think this clarifies to you that I'm aware it might be easier to do. But then do it, stop sitting still. Don't let it stagnate until there's no players left. A videogame is not a Disney movie that you can remake in live adaptation to refresh the copyright ownership 60 years later. That was my whole point with this. Lecturing you, Sphinx or Dave about programming was not on my bucket list. I'm also pretty sure Dave could do it better than me - he knows much more about the game's code and his experience with game development is surely higher than mine (which is nearly zero, quite easy to beat).
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17.04.2025 - 11:51
A sum up of this thread. Nero brings back up waffles old thank you letter and starts asking for players to be unbanned. Waffel writes up his thesis on why he should be unbanned Dave ignores it all because he didn't want to read it. Dave says he'd be willing to review the cases on banned players waffle reach's out and Dave blocks him on discord. Waffle continues his thesis and still gets ignored. Dave then claims that waffle is a troublemaker and making up drama(when waffle didn't start the unban thing nero did as I said before) waffle gets mad about being ignored and tells Dave to kill himself and that is the only thing Dave gleaned from this entire thing.(Dave was referring to f u waffles so he really cant act innocent) am I right Dave can correct, or me if I'm wrong.
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17.04.2025 - 12:31
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18.04.2025 - 01:58
Tengri is a freak and a retard but this comment gives a perfect conclusion to this topic IMO Altough many people believe that i was supportive of the bans (mostly because of waffel paranoïa and drama Queen personality enflammed by lao mistreatment), ive never voted for them. As ive been saying many times, my position was always to perma mute for the worst people (like 006 for exemple). Ive never abused m'y powers as it has been mentioned, and i believe most of the staff team was in the same situation. It's easy to cry and play thé victim card when you dont wheel the hammer and call to the community which dont know shit. As that retarded comment by tempest underline, being a mod is taking a lot of crap, not necessarily being able to défend yourself, and see some random people turning you into something or someone you're not. Thats fair and i dont really care tbh. About Dave, again, hats down to tengri. Hes not thé villain or thé asshole that some prétend he is, hé just see the game from another perspective, overall is a nice dude with a lot of interesting things to Say and a great background. If it wasnt for him, that cunt xbugs would still bé ddosing the game with no réaction whatsoever from amok, like it was before Dave bought atwar. Some remember how bad it was... AT least Dave keeps the game running. That being said Dave, i cannot sugarcoat the reality : tengri is right, again, with thé massive purge, Sid and you (i strongly believe sid was a bad choice and the CC events confirmed he was not fit for the job) overreacted and made a séries of bad décision regarding toxicity, and consequently have destroyed the soul or atwar : it's tiny community of nerds that pushed the games to it's limits, inventing new tactics, new ways within the matrix etc... As tengri mentionned despite thé toxicity it was passionnate and warm, a little bit liké a family, we knew each other, fought each other, trashed each other... at the end of thé day we all came back for more, and now it's gone, empty, with no skilled players to make the game interesting. Even the staff team is gone and ni games are being played, partly because that little community that was either banned or driven away was creating the quick game activity, or was able to train some new people to do it (try understand some scénarios without skilled players to explain you what to do. Some jewels have not been player for years like 30 years wars and its frezking sad). Now most of us ask you to at least let some friends or dear person comr back and you refuse for reasons i dont understand and with a frivolity that i dont really agree with. Sorry to say this bro, but this is disappointing : youve changed the face of a game weve played and loved together, but zt thé same Time you didn't improve it. If u had, you could claim to bé legit with your "business perspective" but atm youve killed the community that kept this game alive and dont have thé Time to code (not blaming you for that, just stating a fact that underline m'y point that your shouldnt have ban all thèse people : permamute is the key) As 4nic said, you should unban all, not because you like them but because theyre making the activity. You should stay up in the sky coding and improving the games (i'll bé dead before thé tutorials are done) and not bother yourself with thé retards and the nerds, permamute them on all but pr (they'll make alts otherwise) This is m'y final 2cents, you know i mean well and that im right as usual, i Hope you find the lucidity to aknowledge and do thé right things ![]()
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18.04.2025 - 06:55
Same ![]() I hope Dave can find the courage to do the right thing... banning all those bastards once for all ![]()
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18.04.2025 - 07:32
I do appreciate your advice, even though I'm not following it in this specific case. I still respect the fact that you have always been able to tell me when you think I'm wrong, in a way that's rational and well-intentioned. I guess we'll see what the future brings. ![]()
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18.04.2025 - 16:15
If kaska insults me publicly again i will gut the neck out of his spine
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19.04.2025 - 07:51
Nice one buddy, calling people dogs, retards in forums is a nice way to go, guees you can do whatever if you on daves side. Always have considered you a retard to be honest!
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19.04.2025 - 08:07
Kaska humbled by grand inquisitor. im reporting you to my cousin wd (tyrone)
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