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With the UMD discussion going on, I'm just curious to see what the tallies are.

Post any interesting topics guests are reading at the moment. This is actually a pretty interesting way to look back at RWL history. :)

From News/Updates, 2003:
http://www.redwallwarlords.com/forums/index.php?topic=3577.0

Since people are coming back and nostalgia is in the air, I thought I'd bring up the link to our entry on the Redwall wiki:

http://redwall.wikia.com/wiki/Redwall:_Warlords

It's a little outdated, too lazy to update it though.

Anyone else watching the Olympics? Favorite sports to watch?

Just randomly started browsing the forums, and came across a post about the old Pearls of Lutra theme. Wow, that brought back memories. That was one of my absolute favorite themes. Runner-up is probably the storehouse theme. Both of them were fun to make and way more fun to watch. :)

Which themes were the most fun for you guys?

I'm doing some major code refactoring in the RWL baseline (it's over 12 years old...it's way overdue). It's going pretty okay but I'm doing it little by little to make sure stuff doesn't get horribly broken.

Speaking of horribly broken, I just refactored a file that could cause some horrible breakage (the file that handles actions on a timer, like giving out turns, updating networth, emp tracking, etc). It's a lot of stuff and I did some preliminary testing to make sure that the file completes, but it'll take me a while to verify that everything being done was successful. So I will need everyone's help with this. If you see anything that is broken, please let me know immediately.

Thanks for your patience. =)

So my boyfriend proposed to me a couple nights ago. :) Wanted to share with you guys because I've shared many things on these forums in the past decade.

Storytime: So, I was on vacation with my family in California, and I was coming back home by myself (wish I had more vacation hours) Tuesday night. I had asked my boyfriend to pick me up and of course he agreed.

He had been texting me the whole day, which wasn't really too unusual, but it made me think "Wow, he must really miss me". Later he told me he just couldn't contain his excitement. :)

I got off the plane in my hometown, walked out to the main area and saw him waiting at the bottom of the ramp with a sign that had my name on it. I thought "Awwww, that's cute. Cheesy but really cute." Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my roommate and her boyfriend with cameras but before I could process that, my boyfriend flipped his sign over, which then read "Will you marry me?". I was so surprised, definitely wasn't expecting it. But of course I was really happy. :) And then he did the whole kneeling down, presenting the ring and popped the question. And of course I said yes. :D

A few pictures:



Vincent looking for me as people start coming down


Me after he flipped the sign over and I realized what was going on


Silly grins :)


Putting the gorgeous ring on my finger


We met on a dating website, and we've been together for just a little over a year. No wedding date set yet, though we'll probably shoot for sometime next year. :)

Hey everyone. I was thinking about RWL the other day and thought "I should pop in just to see how they're doing." I spoke to a class of 9th graders about programming and showed them RWL, saying it was one of the most educational programming experiences for me. And it made me miss it.

How's everything going? Anything crazy happen in the year or so I've been totally MIA?

I've learned so much about coding and software at work, I would love to put it back in RWL. Finding time would be the hard part. Although my class ends next week, so I'll have a little bit more free time over the summer.

Happy 10th Birthday RWL!!

Hard to believe that RWL has been around for a decade...in some ways so much has changed, and in others it has remained very much the same. ^.^

Do you remember when you first started at RWL? What have been your favorite memories?

Also, extra points to anyone who can bring back old members...

Hey guys, long time no see. :) Sorry I've been so MIA...I've been so busy with work and barely enough time to keep up with life after that. I have a promotion to show for it now though (yay! more moneys!), and I've been learning a TON of new stuff at work that I can't wait to put to use for RWL. So you might actually see me a little more in the next couple weeks as I try to experiment with my little side project.

In the meantime, I'd like to share this funny and inspiring video I came across. It's only 12 minutes long but very thought-provoking. Hope you guys find it as stimulating and informative as I did. :)

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html

Redwall: Warlords Turbo

28 of the 56 Warlords in the game are considered active.

36 Warlords have been destroyed, and 5 Warlords have been abandoned.
3 accounts have been disabled by Administration.
There are 6 active Clans.

1. Sevz (#8)
$2,290,528,307 with 49,468 Acres

2. Uiblis (#6)
$1,428,288,552 with 7,338 Acres

3. Sharptooth (#24)
$1,368,264,368 with 6,387 Acres

4. Hidden Fox (#16)
$653,301,554 with 17,445 Acres

5. Ungatt Trunn II (#10)
$447,097,847 with 12,124 Acres

6. 1-800-Try-Hard (#30)
$444,881,685 with 3,132 Acres

7. Alazar is Back....Again! (#41)
$364,476,671 with 18,949 Acres

8. Revelation (#26)
$339,828,229 with 102,030 Acres

9. Norbanus (#21)
$283,888,925 with 4,103 Acres

10. Steel Reign (#12)
$276,250,162 with 24,465 Acres

11. The Villian (#11)
$195,141,193 with 7,184 Acres

12. Redan Dash (#17)
$181,052,752 with 48,214 Acres

13. Maniacal Laugh (#14)
$165,912,025 with 12,680 Acres

14. Blood Wake (#13)
$161,572,234 with 56,563 Acres

15. Aarak (#18)
$132,020,448 with 20,763 Acres

Most Rats
Sevz (#8)
320,182,138 Rats

Most Weasels
Sevz (#8)
204,213,392 Weasels

Most Stoats
Sevz (#8)
127,154,212 Stoats

Most Skiffs
Sevz (#8)
63,772,231 Skiffs

Most Food
Hidden Fox (#16)
33,048,362,355 Food

Most Cash
Sevz (#8)
342,772,856,772 Cash

Most Leaders
Sharptooth (#24)
12,372,417 Leaders

Most Loyalty
Aarak (#18)
91,978,898 Loyalty

Most Land
Revelation (#26)
102,030 Land

Most Total Offenses
Revelation (#26)
3,003 Total Offenses

Most Total Defenses
AustralianButtSpiders (#7)
2,264 Total Defenses

[Race Roulette]

Hey all,

The last round of changes (and probably more to come) are focused on making the market an active place that is important for all strategies in the game. The ideas is to increase player interaction and make strategies more interdependent even for solo play. The last changes we made introduced autosell on mercs as a way to get the market moving, but I feel that this is contrary to the plan - the market is certainly more active, but it is artificially so.

This round, we have removed the autosell and instead replaced it with a button which allows you to sell any of your shipments on the public market directly to mercs. You still cannot remove public market goods, but instead of automatically selling, you can choose if and when to sell them at merc prices, or wait as long as you please for a real buyer to come along.

This means that indy players now have almost no reason to have less than max troops on the market. You rarely need all of the cash you generate, and if you put the extra troops on the public market at reasonable prices, best case scenario someone buys them and you make a tidy profit, and worst case, you can sell them at merc prices when you need a cash injection, which is that you would have done anyway.

This takes care of the sellers side of the market (in theory). To motivate the buyer's side, we have rebalanced the quantities of troops that are available in merceneries. Instead of having the same amounts of all four troops types, they are now reduced, and are available in the same ratios as barracks production: the ratio is rats:weasels:stoats:skiffs = 6:4:2:1. This means that there is now approximately 1/3 of the net that was once in mercs available at any given time.

This means that cash storing will be a riskier strategy. Since it will now take significantly longer to spend all your cash in mercs (though not impossible) players are motivated to turn to the public market as an end-of-round cash dump. Of course, because indiers could always jack their prices around that time, it means that cashers are motivated to spend cash throughout the round to avoid being stuck with tons of unspendable cash at the end.

The net result, we hope, is that the public market will be a much more active place, and that interaction between leader players and indies will put some power back in the hands of the indies.

Some other, smaller changes, and a summary of the above:

You can now only put a max of 25% of your food on the public market. This is to force food storers to interact with the rest of the game a bit more.
Rebalanced merc amounts so that rats:weasels:stoats:skiffs = 6:4:2:1.
Food sell price on mercs reduced to $7. This is in response to many people saying that it is too high (agreed).
Instead of autosell, you can now sell public market troops to mercs at any time you choose

Finally, we tweaked the aid system a little bit: you now can get 24 credits, and the costs are 1-2-4 for clan-ally-other, with +2 aid credits added to your account per hour. This should make clan play a little more flexible while keeping upkeep free indy strategies suppressed.

Please note that the balances are all early testing - if you find that they are too much, please give us feedback throughout the round

Enjoy,
~RWL Staff



TL;DR:

These are the changes:
-no more autosell, replaced with a merc sell button so you can sell your troops from the public market to mercs at anytime
-max 25% of food on market
-food sell price on mercs reduced to $7 (from $9)
-24 total aid credits; costs are 1-2-4 for clan-ally-other; +2 aid credits each hour


Some of the market changes are still being worked on, so bear with us. :) I will post updates here when they are working as expected.

Also the theme is Race Roulette! This means you can change you race for free every three days. Good luck!

To everyone in America, Happy Thanksgiving!! Be thankful, eat food. =D

I'm thankful for all of you and that you all make this site a fun place to be. :)

So this is based off of a forum game I saw on the RedwallAbbey.com forums...I didn't want to put it in Spa because it's a little serious and I'd like to see the vets who don't roam in Spa to participate in this too to get some well-rounded input.

Each race starts off with 10 points. Each post, take away a point from one race that you don't like, and give it to a race that you do like. If a race reaches 0 points, cross it off like this, and after that eliminate it from the list.

You aren't allowed to post twice in a row.

Here are the starting values:

Rat - 10
Painted One - 10
Stoat - 10
Fox - 10
Wildcat - 10
Lizard - 10
Wolf - 10
Marten - 10
Magpie - 10
Ferret - 10


So I'll start:

Rat - 10
Painted One - 9 (-1)
Stoat - 10
Fox - 10
Wildcat - 10
Lizard - 10
Wolf - 10
Marten - 10
Magpie - 10
Ferret - 11 (+1)


Voted off (in order)
10. Painted One
9. Wolf
8. Wildcat
7. Marten
6. Stoat
5. Rat
4. Magpie
3. Ferret
2. Fox
1. Lizard

Okay guys...sorry I've been MIA for a while. I think I'll finally start being a little more active around here again.


Starting with the market fix! Cash should be flowing to that bank account now on the auto-sell. Let me know if there's any other issues.

My sister and I are sharing the same costume this year since our Halloween parties are on different days, and it was just a really awesome costume.

Me as Chell from the video game Portal (with a cameo of my friend Mr. Post-it man):
http://i.imgur.com/KDHjz.jpg


My portal gun (made it an hour before the party out of a nerf gun and duct tape):
http://i.imgur.com/HBH2e.jpg


My dog, the Companion Cube:
http://i.imgur.com/k2Mjw.jpg


None of that will probably make sense unless you've played Portal (which is an awesome game).


So what are you guys gonna be for Halloween this year? :)

Wolf brought up an interesting point in the birthday thread and I was just curious.

Happy 9th Birthday, RWL!


Honestly sometimes I can't believe it's been 9 years....just one year short of a decade.

Every year I post the birthday topic, not sure if maybe it's the last time I do. Many people didn't even expect RWL to last beyond one year, yet here we are. :) This odd little community has defied all odds and keeps chugging along, bringing us not just entertainment, but also friendship and personal growth. I think our resolve to keep this place going has become a little stronger... before it was for our own benefit. Now we try recreate the good experiences and friendships we had for a younger generation. And personally, to me the greatest reward is seeing you guys having fun. :) I'll be here as long as I can see that happening.



Okay, enough mushy stuff. Who wants cake??

Sorry these are so late guys! I also have to apologize for not being able to keep up much with the events of last round....the first time I did these awards I kept up with everything every day but I wasn't able to do that this time. It's also been a while since the round ended.....so what I do remember I think I've forgotten already. >.< So these awards are based off of the events from last Turbo but also a little bit of what I've seen around RWL in general (which is kinda better....right?).

Also sorry I didn't write out a couple sentences for each person like I did last time, I just wanted to get these posted to give the recognitions. If I feel like it, I may edit this and add a couple words.


Please also remember these awards are based off of these definitions.



Outstanding Newbie - Rakefur

Runner-up - Shadow Assassin

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Emerging Veteran - Uiblis

Runner-up - Ryu

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Legendary Veteran - General Volkov

Runner-up - Firetooth

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Best Team Player - Krowdon

Runner-up - Rakefur

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Most Skilled Player - Sevz

Runner-up - White Fang

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Admin's Award (tie) - Preussen, and Pippin

Runner-up - Aarak/Durza

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Worst Team Player - Sevz



If you didn't get one this time, don't worry, there will be more opportunities. :)

So my laptop finally died last night, from all the abuse it's taken from me over the past two years. "Abuse" meaning, never turning it off, leaving it on in my bed, dropping it on the floor, etc, etc.

It turns on but the screen is black and the caps and scroll lights blink periodically. I looked up the error code on the HP website and if I'm interpreting it correctly it means the CPU is not working. Which makes sense (my laptop could fry an egg).

I think I'm heading to Best Buy today to see if it can be resuscitated or at least if I can save all my files. If you guys have a cheaper suggestion I'd be glad to hear it.