Site-Updates

Our new moderator: SUX2BU We’ve decided to promote a new flamebate user to moderator status. SUX2BU is actually a troll alt of Escher, one of our forum’s most popular camwhores. There’s a thread here if you want to say hi! New Stuff Domination Teams no longer have “Team” in front of them, allowing for more hilarious team names. Bug Fixes Embedding images from imageshack works again in flamebate. We’ve fixed an exploit in Forumwarz Domination where you could get Domination cards without paying for them. See the drama-filled flamebate thread about it here. ...

New Stuff You can now rename any Domination Team for Brownie Points! See the Buy Stuff section for more info. If you played in a round of Forumwarz Domination, on the results page for the round it will have a link to your team, in case you weren’t paying attention and forgot it. Bug Fixes You can no longer put odd characters in your name. We had an Evil Trout posting today who wasn’t me :)

New Stuff Added the ability to change your name for 2 Brownie Points! Check out the Support Us! page for more information. Added Rules to ForumBuildr v2.0 Beta on submission pages. Make sure you follow them! Updated Stuff Streamlined the game introduction a little bit.

New Forum: God Hates Facts We’ve just launched this week’s ForumBuildr v2.0 Forum, God Hates Facts! Humans evolved from monkeys? The universe revolves around the sun? Being gay ISN’T a choice? Sure, if you want to believe a bunch of fucking liberals and their “textbooks”. For everyone else, God Hates Facts is a place to gather and discuss how things REALLY are - because when you know you’re right, you don’t need any “science” to prove it. [ALL THREATENING, CRITICIZING, OR OTHERWISE UNFAVORABLE EMAILS WILL BE FORWARDED TO THE FBI, CIA, AND PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH] ...

The Shield is Active! Added The Shield card to Forumwarz Domination. It will protect you against any offensive attack if you have it played. There is a new page, My Domination Card Settings on your Domination page, that will allow you to choose whether you want to auto-equip a new Shield when the old one is used or not. You can change the option at any time. Bug Fixes Fixed a bug in Flamebate that could take down the server with improper formatting, thanks Piglet!

Coming Tomorrow: The Shield During Tomorrow’s update, we’ll be adding a new Domination card called The Shield. The purpose of the card is to protect yourself from attacks against your scoops. If someone plays any offensive cards against you, the shield will block it and your scoops will stay safe. I’m giving notice because the card is being added mid-week, in case you were thinking of purchasing cards and want to hold out for the new one. Of course, once it goes live it will be announced on this blog. ...

New Stuff Domination Blackouts: Domination now has a 30 minute blackout following the end of a round while the server tabulates all the final scores. While this is happening no scoreboards or scoops can be earned. Also, ForumBuildr v2.0 Beta is disabled. There’s slightly more information in this thread. Bug Fixes If someone leaves your Klan after joining a raid, it no longer sabotages your efforts. Can no longer squeeze in images in IDC by pasting IMG links over and over.

New Stuff - Flamebate IDC Enhancements Names are now colored You can resize the viewing area by dragging the bottom right corner Images now have to be clicked on to be viewed. Images and links open in new windows (or tabs if your browser is configured) Spoiler tags work in chat [code], [quote] BBCode tags no longer works Message size is limited to 255 characters Can’t submit a message of only spaces

Flamebate IDC: Internet Delay Chat A few days ago I mentioned we’d be launching a new feature as a test. That feature is now live, and it’s called Flamebate IDC: Internet Delay Chat. Props to IrascibleRedoubt for coming up with the title. It’s a live chatroom open to all users. Please give it a shot and see how it works for you. We’re interested in how it affects the site performance and stuff like that before we roll it out on a larger scale. ...

Tonight we’ve nerfed the way vanilla scoops are given out to Klans in raids. The details are in this post on Flamebate. Here’s the thread where people are discussing it.