This week’s Forum Build is Obscure Phobia Support Boards! Are you deathly afraid of balloons, or the number 13? Are you so afraid of vomiting that it makes you sick to your stomach? Whether you’re Verbophobic, Coimetrophobic, Methyphobic, or any other sort of phobic, you don’t have to suffer alone. Here at the OPSB you will not be judged or made fun of for your fears, you will be accepted as one of the family. (disregard if you are afraid of families.) ...
It’s that time of week again! We’ve just launched Girls Advocating Sexual Purity: With all the temptations facing girls today, isn’t it good to know that at GASP, we provide a safe outlet for girls? All GASP girls must sign a virginity pledge to participate on our forums, so you know that when you’re chatting with a GASP girl, you’re really talking to a pure, inexperienced virgin. We discuss how difficult it can be to hold back when a boy holds you close, and all the things you can do to alleviate that tension. If you’re a virgin, we really want you at GASP! ...
I listened to your feedback about our embedded IDC client and made a bunch of fixes: I changed the color to look more like the rest of the site. You can see how many people are online, and click to get a pop up of all members in the channel. Resizing is less buggy. INCIT chat has been changed to the same interface, finally we can see who is online during an INCIT round! ...
Ever since we launched INCIT, our chat room (IDC) has been a little dead. Another reason for the lack of activity is that the only link to open IDC was quite buried in Flamebate. As an attempt to address these problems, and introduce more people to chat in the process, I have embedded IDC on every page on Flamebate. If you go to flamebate now you will see it at the bottom. ...
Up until just now there was a flat fee of 1 Brownie Point to transfer any amount of Brownie Points to another player. This fee was put in there to make up for the fact that Brownie Points are cheaper when bought in bulk, and we didn’t want people pooling their money together to get them at a cheaper rate. However, the disadvantage was it made it quite expensive when transfering only one or two to another player. When transfering one you’d have to pay double the price! ...
We’ve just published our latest build, Rage Against the Moderators: How many times has this happened to you: You are in the middle of a heated discussion defending your position on furry porn, and the forum moderator BANS YOU for posting a shitty thread! Are you tired of taking it in the ass from your favorite forum’s mods? Tired of constantly having to buy back your account? Share you horror stories with us and together we will STICK IT TO THE MODS. Fuck those guys… ...
We received a lot of complaints when Forumwarz launched about not supporting Opera. Unfortunately Opera had some problems with our game, and we didn’t have the resources to fix them for such a small segment of the browsing population. However, recently Opera 9.5 was released, and the game breaking issues are now missing! I have happily updated our code to allow Opera 9.5 users into the site. Unfortunately, it has some visual quirks, but the game should be completely playable! ...
This week we’re running a new theme in Forumwarz Domination called Five Finger Discount: It has two differences: If you Dominate 4 forums on your own, you will receive a reward of 5 vanilla scoops (it is normally 1). There are no shield cards in circulation. The first change is designed to encourage more people to try and solo domination, since the reward is so high. The second change makes it impossible to hoard shield cards, and should mean everyone is on an open playing field to get screwed over. ...
On Sunday night we launched our latest forum build, [b]Faux News[/b]. Tired of being spoonfed lies by the liberal media? Then come join Faux News, where we discuss the truth! The infallible truth, told to us by rich old men. After all, history is written by the victors! It’s our 36th forum in the game, so we’ve also added A new E-Peen(tm) to celebrate. The name for this one was actually suggested to us by Big Brother! Thanks for that. ...
Episode 2 of Forumwarz gives us a great opportunity to introduce changes to the gameplay balance. Since it’s a large content update we can piggyback on it with a bunch of adjustments to the balance between classes. We have been collecting feedback on the balance between classes forever, and we have a bunch of great ideas for where to start tweaking. The only problem is, tweaking even small stats on our classes means a lot of additional testing is required. When developing Episode 1, the best tool I had for this was my “Clone character” and “Reset character” tools. ...