Conquer Club

------1st I hope things are going well for you TeeGee in the land down under.
------2nd I am glad Conquer Club turned 10.
------Lastly WHY, OH WHY can't THE HIGH COMMAND(not you Duk) do something simple for once. IT IS BIG ENOUGH TO BE TURNING TEN. Why can't you just make a simple EVENT that lots of people can enjoy. I know...I know I already said time and time again. How I loved Gilligan's 70th ann. Pearl Harbor Event. It was short. Join 2 games of different settings. BOOM,if you win one, you win a medal. Why do you keep making these marathon events? There are people saying that they don't fill. SURPRISE. When C.C. can't even get regular games to fill.
------Why can't you just make an EVENT that all you need to do is join a couple head to head games. Start battling, If you win ,you get a medal. THAT SIMPLE!
------Normally I could careless about medals. But a simple special event might sway me. Now, why did that Pearl Harbor medal mean so much to me. I kind of know what TeeGee is going through. Back in early Dec.2011 my daughter and 2 of her friends were in a car crash. It took 6 months for her to recover. We waited a few months to tell her one of her friends didn't make it. While I was waiting the first night in the Hospital(freaking out),I almost quit the games I was in. When I found out she was going to pull through. I had to go back and tell everyone in my games that I can play. Playing those 2011 December weeks and that Pearl Harbor Event on Conquer Club. Really help me get through those quite nights sitting next to her. While we waited to take her home.
------But a complex scavenger hunt to celebrate an Event like C.C.'s 10th birthday. Join this, collect that. Play this...if "this" ever fills. Just isn't worth it. Think about,that it can be small and still fun, next time. ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion).

i have to agree

The whac a mod piece of it in itself is actually pretty simple. You just have to join 7 games and win at least 2 to get a medal. At least a few mods have posted accepting direct game requests, so even though there aren't always games on the banner you should be able to get the 7 you need with no trouble.

I can understand the rest being kind of overwhelming, but there are people that want the big stuff. I think there's something for everyone with this.

Swifte wrote:The whac a mod piece of it in itself is actually pretty simple. You just have to join 7 games and win at least 2 to get a medal. At least a few mods have posted accepting direct game requests, so even though there aren't always games on the banner you should be able to get the 7 you need with no trouble.

I can understand the rest being kind of overwhelming, but there are people that want the big stuff. I think there's something for everyone with this.

-----In Announcements...You were one of the people making a point about games filling up. Other events such as Monthly and The Great War maybe. The High Command wants to make money...Selling Tokens in the store...Yes,I get that.
-----BUT THIS IS A 10 YEAR TRIBUTE TO CONQUER CLUB and our COMMUNITY...The High Command will try and fit Freemium tourneys in those other events. BUT THIS ONE SHOULD REFLECT ALL OF OUR C.C. MEMBERS. WHERE I AM SURE THE FREEMIUMS(who can only play 4 games at once) ARE THE MAJORITY. THIS TIME THEY SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF EVERYBODY WHO LOVES TO PLAY. NOT THOSE WHO LIKE THE MIND NUMBING COLLECT STUFF CRAP... NO THIS IS JUST ANOTHER SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE COMMUNITY BY THE HIGH COMMAND.
-----If they would of kept it simple. EVERYONE could play. With no problems. There wouldn't be games waiting to fill. But that would have been to obvious for THE HIGH COMMAND TO SEE!!!!!!! ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion).

I wanted to join a game, but I can't because I don't have some token that I have no clue what it is. Tried to do some trading in thing for the token, got annoyed... eventually, no longer interested in playing the game.

ch0rn wrote:I wanted to join a game, but I can't because I don't have some tolken that I have no clue what it is.

hey!! here is some little known TOLKEN!!! good luck!!! the black jesus loves you!!-Jésus noir

2nd only to Tolken inspired Led Zeppelin jams!

How many decade in a review tournaments? Plus a monthly challenge, whac a mod (which is always bullshit anyway), battle royales, the great war.. f*ck that. Too much going on just coming out of the festive period, along with clan events. I'm not event trying to keep track of what's going on and won't be participating in any of it, which is quite a big change from my normal stance.

I cant be bothered to play the matches, but am glad that this event does seem to have livened the forums up so I can only conclude that this is one of the better events they have run in my time here.

ConfederateSS wrote:-----BUT THIS IS A 10 YEAR TRIBUTE TO CONQUER CLUB and our COMMUNITY...The High Command will try and fit Freemium tourneys in those other events. BUT THIS ONE SHOULD REFLECT ALL OF OUR C.C. MEMBERS. WHERE I AM SURE THE FREEMIUMS(who can only play 4 games at once) ARE THE MAJORITY. THIS TIME THEY SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF EVERYBODY WHO LOVES TO PLAY.

All the BRs are open to freemiums, all the Decade in Review tournaments are open to freemiums.

All the forum challenges and the chatroom events and the scavenger hunt are open to freemiums.

What more do you think should be open to them?

Dukasaur wrote:

ConfederateSS wrote:-----BUT THIS IS A 10 YEAR TRIBUTE TO CONQUER CLUB and our COMMUNITY...The High Command will try and fit Freemium tourneys in those other events. BUT THIS ONE SHOULD REFLECT ALL OF OUR C.C. MEMBERS. WHERE I AM SURE THE FREEMIUMS(who can only play 4 games at once) ARE THE MAJORITY. THIS TIME THEY SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF EVERYBODY WHO LOVES TO PLAY.

All the BRs are open to freemiums, all the Decade in Review tournaments are open to freemiums.

All the forum challenges and the chatroom events and the scavenger hunt are open to freemiums.

What more do you think should be open to them?

------Like I said up top...Play 2 or 3 games(maybe head to head) ,win one, win a 10th ann. medal...Something simple that the whole community could get into the fun. Freemiums can't get bogged down in long games. They don't have the space. Most new players would be over whelmed by most things you have mentioned. It looks like some things are having a hard time filling up. I'm shocked. ....We can't fill regular games. I can't understand why,long event games are not filling up.
------ But a simple event. That ALL people could enjoy and have a KOOL MEDAL to Honor C.C.'s history for themselves. The current 10th hoopla takes a lot of useless time. You have to get this. Then play that. Then join this. The prizes are regulated. To maybe 50 or 80 people. The simple way ,maybe 200,300,500 or even 700 or even more people could win a 10th ann. medal.
------WE ARE CELEBRATING OUR COMMUNITY. NOT JUST A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE. I KNOW, WHY MAKE THINGS FUN AND SIMPLE FOR THE COMMUNITY? Now that we are having a little upward flux in membership. Way to show ...HEY,welcome to the chaos site, ENJOY THIS IS HOW WE CELEBRATE . ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)......MAYBE THE STORE COULD JUST SELL US A MEDAL FOR 2,000 Conquer Credits. Or maybe we could subscribe to a medal of the month club. ONLY $29.99 a month. WE CAN ALL SEE THE HIGH COMMAND'S VIEW OF THE COMMUNITY

Dukasaur wrote:

ConfederateSS wrote:-----BUT THIS IS A 10 YEAR TRIBUTE TO CONQUER CLUB and our COMMUNITY...The High Command will try and fit Freemium tourneys in those other events. BUT THIS ONE SHOULD REFLECT ALL OF OUR C.C. MEMBERS. WHERE I AM SURE THE FREEMIUMS(who can only play 4 games at once) ARE THE MAJORITY. THIS TIME THEY SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF EVERYBODY WHO LOVES TO PLAY.

All the BRs are open to freemiums, all the Decade in Review tournaments are open to freemiums.

All the forum challenges and the chatroom events and the scavenger hunt are open to freemiums.

What more do you think should be open to them?

i say f*ck em, nothing should be open to them.

Dukasaur wrote:

ConfederateSS wrote:-----BUT THIS IS A 10 YEAR TRIBUTE TO CONQUER CLUB and our COMMUNITY...The High Command will try and fit Freemium tourneys in those other events. BUT THIS ONE SHOULD REFLECT ALL OF OUR C.C. MEMBERS. WHERE I AM SURE THE FREEMIUMS(who can only play 4 games at once) ARE THE MAJORITY. THIS TIME THEY SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF EVERYBODY WHO LOVES TO PLAY.

All the BRs are open to freemiums, all the Decade in Review tournaments are open to freemiums.

All the forum challenges and the chatroom events and the scavenger hunt are open to freemiums.

What more do you think should be open to them?

Confed has a point. I have four large slow games open at the moment so wont be able to join any new games regardless of how open they are. Not helped by the tournament being announced as it started.

(I also have more than enough credits to buy premium, but thats beside the point)

WingCmdr Ginkapo wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

ConfederateSS wrote:-----BUT THIS IS A 10 YEAR TRIBUTE TO CONQUER CLUB and our COMMUNITY...The High Command will try and fit Freemium tourneys in those other events. BUT THIS ONE SHOULD REFLECT ALL OF OUR C.C. MEMBERS. WHERE I AM SURE THE FREEMIUMS(who can only play 4 games at once) ARE THE MAJORITY. THIS TIME THEY SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF EVERYBODY WHO LOVES TO PLAY.

All the BRs are open to freemiums, all the Decade in Review tournaments are open to freemiums.

All the forum challenges and the chatroom events and the scavenger hunt are open to freemiums.

What more do you think should be open to them?

Confed has a point. I have four large slow games open at the moment so wont be able to join any new games regardless of how open they are. Not helped by the tournament being announced as it started.

(I also have more than enough credits to buy premium, but thats beside the point)

Okay, you have enough creds to go premium, but you don't want to. No problemo. I won't nitpick.

The initial announcement of the CC10 festivities was on December 19th, not "as it started." There were follow-up announcements on December 31st, yes, but the thread was up on December 19th and the first announcement was made then. I won't nitpick about that, either.

The Decade in Review tournaments are all freemium-exemption tournaments, which means you can join them even if you don't have the available slots. The tournament will put you into games over your 4-limit, although you won't be able to join non-tournament games until some end and your total load gets down below 4 again.

I don't know if the Speed BRs are full freemium-exemption or not. I suspect they might be, but I won't swear to it. Still, try to join one and see what happens. Certainly worth a shot, and it's the one time in a year when freemies can join speed games for free, so if it will let you or if you can free up a slot, I would.

You can't join the Whac-A-Mod games without slots, that's true, but you can join participate in all the forum events and chatroom events and the scavenger hunt.

So, no Whac-a-Mod unless you free up a slot, but you definitely can play in the Decade in Review tourneys and maybe in the speed BRs, as well as all the non-game events. Overall, the bulk of the Celebration is open to you. We're only half-way through Day 7, so you still have time to get involved...

ConfederateSS wrote:Play 2 or 3 games(maybe head to head) ,win one, win a 10th ann. medal.

I like small, simple events like that. In fact, the only time that I got to write one of the Monthly Challenges (this past November) it was an ultra-simple event like that: https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=786&t=215570#p4745640 Win 3 different games, get the Challenge Achievement medal for November. It was great fun. I even played in it myself...

I liked Gilligan's old really small events. Just as you mention the Pearl Harbour event, I have really fond memories of the 2011 Summer Bash. That was a pretty simple event overall, but it still had four components: the Trivia contest, the "Share the Warmth" event, the Speed tournament, and the Official games.

I'm certainly not opposed to running small events like that from time to time. Still, this is the 10th Anniversary fer chrissakes! I think we would be very negligent if we didn't do everything in our power to make it bigger and grander and more comprehensive than anything which has gone before.

Battle Royales are a traditional element of the Anniversary celebrations. There's no way we would be forgiven if we didn't have those. The Year-in-Review Challenges are a relatively recent tradition, but they are nonetheless the high point of many members' year, and it seemed like a natural transition to make it Decade-in-Review instead of Year-in-Review and include it as part of CC10. We haven't had a Whac-a-Mod in something like 18 months, so it was long overdue, and it just made sense when building the biggest and grandest event ever to include one of those as well.

ConfederateSS wrote:Freemiums can't get bogged down in long games.

Actually, I see tons of freemiums playing shit like No Spoils Trench on Hive with no round limit, so definitely many freemiums love long games. However, that's irrelevant, since most of the CC10 games are really quick. The speed BRs are usually over in a matter of minutes. The Decade in Review tournaments all have games with 20-round limits, and more than half are 1v1, so they should play out quite quickly. The majority of Whac-a-Mod games are 1v1 and will be over quickly too.

ConfederateSS wrote:It looks like some things are having a hard time filling up. I'm shocked. ....We can't fill regular games. I can't understand why,long event games are not filling up.

Define "trouble". I don't know anything that's not filling. Obviously, larger games take longer to fill than smaller games, but there's nothing that isn't filling. This is just the typical bullshit whine of people who want instant gratification. Obviously a 64-player tournament might not fill in one day. All of them have filled within 3 or 4 days, tops.

ConfederateSS wrote:WHY MAKE THINGS FUN AND SIMPLE FOR THE COMMUNITY?

We do make things that are fun and simple, sometimes. But a steady diet of simple things gets boring very, very quickly. The human mind demands ever-expanding complexity to remain amused. And certainly for an event of this importance, I would not insult people by tossing off something that could be completed in 10 minutes.

-----TO MUCH....SOMETIMES ...TO MUCH IS NOT A GOOD THING. THAT SEEMS TO BE THE THEME OF THE DAY..Jan.7th,2016..........I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS SO...RE-READ...RE-READ......There are others who hate all the clutter as.................... well. Some people just want to join a game,and get to fighting. Not go through the BORING MIND NUMBING CRAP THROWN AT US TIME AND TIME AGAIN. RE-READ RE-READ...THE HIGH COMMAND GOT RID OF THE BORING QUICK FREESTYLE OLD WAY THAT EVERYONE LOVED! CHANGED SPEED GAMES ..SO PEOPLE COULD PLAY FASTER AND FASTER! OR BORING AND INSULTING AS YOU PUT IT DUK!!!!!!!!!! TALK TO THEM..SOME PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO PLAY THE SAME GAME FOR A YEAR ....ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion).

ConfederateSS wrote:-----TO MUCH....SOMETIMES ...TO MUCH IS NOT A GOOD THING. THAT SEEMS TO BE THE THEME OF THE DAY..Jan.7th,2016..........I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS SO...RE-READ...RE-READ......There are others who hate all the clutter as.................... well. Some people just want to join a game,and get to fighting. Not go through the BORING MIND NUMBING CRAP THROWN AT US TIME AND TIME AGAIN. RE-READ RE-READ...THE HIGH COMMAND GOT RID OF THE BORING QUICK FREESTYLE OLD WAY THAT EVERYONE LOVED! CHANGED SPEED GAMES ..SO PEOPLE COULD PLAY FASTER AND FASTER! OR BORING AND INSULTING AS YOU PUT IT DUK!!!!!!!!!! TALK TO THEM..SOME PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO PLAY THE SAME GAME FOR A YEAR ....ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion).

If you just want to play a game, go play a game.

You are not harmed by the fact that those members who want something more complex are given it.

Dukasaur wrote:
The Decade in Review tournaments are all freemium-exemption tournaments, which means you can join them even if you don't have the available slots. The tournament will put you into games over your 4-limit, although you won't be able to join non-tournament games until some end and your total load gets down below 4 again.

This isnt quite how it works. Tournaments allow you to break the limit if they are more than one game per round. They dony allow you just to take on extra games.

I just tried joining a cc10 non-royale game to check. I could not join.

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------Lets see...8,000 plus active members. So a chance at say 2 maybe 3,000 medals handed out in a simple event(250/500 more likely). Not a tourney format. Or a win this to get this to play this. Where only 50 will get medals. For a 10 year celebration. I see you are 94th on the scoreboard. You have some Extreme climbing to do if you want a medal.
------A regular game event would have been better anyway. A couple games to win one. Would have been more whole community friendly. Most people in the public pool. Never venture to Tourney/Clan town. ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion).......THE 10th ANN. SHOULD NOT HAVE MIRRORED THE OTHER EVENTS/TOURNEYS THAT ARE ONGOING AT THE MOMENT. THE 10th ANN. EVENT SHOULD HAVE MIRRORED THE CONQUER CLUB COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. Premium/Freemium playing the game of RISK in regular style format...!!!!!!!!PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not agreeing with the tone, but to quite some extent, I concur with the contents
Just want to share my two cents' worth - I have always loved speed games, and especially so when they are battle royale speed games. I'd literally stay up for them. That is why I've been trying so hard during this period to sign up for:
1) CC 10 battle royale speed games
2) CC 10 battle royale tournies (can't tell the diff between decade in review and the day # tournies, but that's another matter).
With (1) I guess I'm just living in the wrong time zone - can never get a game filled up
With (2) I understand I need CC 10 tokens. Hence, I go on a crazy search all round for those specific tokens; forums, tournies, chats, whack a mod.....I end up with like 3 Day six tokens and 8 day ten tokens. Try as I might, I just canNOT get the other eight tokens. Then I get hit with an epiphany....I am trying very very hard to get something that will get me into something else, which may not be that big a deal after all, considering there are so many of them out there. Maybe I should just stand at the side and look at all of these festivities going on
So yeah, in a nutshell, I love medals and I love playing games, but CC10 events have been very frustrating for me. Sorry, but they really are. Just saying.

Leverpuller wrote:Not agreeing with the tone, but to quite some extent, I concur with the contents
Just want to share my two cents' worth - I have always loved speed games, and especially so when they are battle royale speed games. I'd literally stay up for them. That is why I've been trying so hard during this period to sign up for:
1) CC 10 battle royale speed games
2) CC 10 battle royale tournies (can't tell the diff between decade in review and the day # tournies, but that's another matter).
With (1) I guess I'm just living in the wrong time zone - can never get a game filled up
With (2) I understand I need CC 10 tokens. Hence, I go on a crazy search all round for those specific tokens; forums, tournies, chats, whack a mod.....I end up with like 3 Day six tokens and 8 day ten tokens. Try as I might, I just canNOT get the other eight tokens. Then I get hit with an epiphany....I am trying very very hard to get something that will get me into something else, which may not be that big a deal after all, considering there are so many of them out there. Maybe I should just stand at the side and look at all of these festivities going on
So yeah, in a nutshell, I love medals and I love playing games, but CC10 events have been very frustrating for me. Sorry, but they really are. Just saying.

I can definitely appreciate & understand this perspective, I remember multiple times in the past where I felt the same way which limited my participation. While not ideal, I just knew not every event was going to "be for me" and stuff I would prefer comedown the pipeline in the future.
I'm sure nobody would argue the CC10 events weren't massive / a lot etc etc because they were, but that's pretty much what they were going for.
I don't expect the anniversary stuff to be "that big" every time, just that it was a big milestone year and wanted to go big / biggest ever.
I didn't get to participate much due to RL stuff this year, but even if I had I probobably only would have increased my whac a mod games and not done the rest of it still anyway. But an event like this lets people choose what they like / want to participate in, and can focus on that or dabble in it all.

---- The High Command ..Blew It,messed up.. Bit off more than they could chew. If this was to be so BIG,maybe they should of asked/polled the community. Our thoughts on how to make this the BEST EVER CELEBRATION. There are freemiums that couldn't join. There were MODS that kept events open after they were supposed to have ended. They didn't know. Come on. How do people running things not know? There are complaints from players about the battle royal winners. Not being able to join the CC10 final. When they have their cake.
----ALL THAT THE HIGH COMMAND DID. THROW THEIR TOKEN CRAP AT US. JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER EVENT. NOTHING NEW. THIS ONE (10th ann.) SHOULD HAVE LEFT OUT THE YOU HAVE TO GET THIS TO PLAY THAT TO ENTER THIS CRAP.
----WELL THEY DIDN'T WANT TO INSULT US. JUST BREAK OUR 10th ann. SPIRIT. WELL THE HIGH COMMAND PULLED OFF WHAT THEY SET OUT TO DO. ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion).

-------KARMA...It is a field day in announcements. THE 10th ANN. FINAL a complete bust. 1)The High Command flew to close to The Sun. Should of kept it simple. 2)They tried playing Battle Royals outside of The Colosseum. You know...The reason the Battle Royal Map was made in the first place. HIVE WELL DONE...WELL DONE... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion). At least when they tried it to honor the 10th million game. That took 5 plus years to complete. They did it on a world map. No battle royal map had been invented yet. You know CONQUER CLUB...Risk...Conquer the World..."Hive"...now that is insulting us.

ConfederateSS wrote:lue and Silver Rebellion). At least when they tried it to honor the 10th million game. That took 5 plus years to complete. They did it on a world map. No battle royal map had been invented yet.

Totally wrong.

The battle royale had been invented. The game was played on Colosseum, not on some crappy world map. It did not take 5 years to complete, but less than two months. Not even close.

The game: https://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=10000000
The announcement: http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=634&t=156274

I know all about Game 10000000. I was in it, and I wrote about it extensively for the Dispatch.