Mega Tank

Last call! I will be making the lobby tonight at 10 PM Eastern! Hoping to have the game up and running for people to take turns asap!

8 hours ago, ninjistar said:

My life is crazy right now, but I will consider this (now and in the future). I played a fair amount of RISK as a kid, but not since. I always enjoyed it. @Richardhead was asking about collaborating on some games. I don't think this is exactly what he had in mind, but tagging him because he may want to play!

Keep us in mind! Sometimes a good game like RISK can occupy your time and take your mind off things for a bit. Hopefully there will be other games after this one and see how it develops from there!

2 minutes ago, fox said:

Dibs on yellow

Classic map please

I am not sure how colors in this game will be chosen. We will find out once we fill up/close sign ups.

26 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Firstly, I LOVE the map of Canada:

Secondly, do you have to have played RISK before to have anything resembling a chance at this? I've never played RISK at all.

I have only played RISK in person. The RISK version I have played the most has mission cards that you need to complete the mission to win the game. Each mission card has a different mission, for example, Eliminate the green team, if there is no green team control 12 territories. So you have to strategize to mask your attacks and primary objective. In the example I gave, if another team eliminates green in the game, you win.

In this case, the default and only option on this website for right now is straight up world domination.

I was hoping to have a game going by this weekend. Maybe we can set a deadline to start up for Monday? If you know any other VGSers that play board games, let them know!

1 minute ago, Quest4Nes said:

Doesnt apply to gamestop per say but you might be ending peoples financial livelyhood. Local businesses have bills to pay to operate. If they have a way to reach customers and make money they should be allowed to. When its not you ots pretty easy ti say killing thousands of businesses is the way to go.

From what I have seen, several of my local video game stores, mom and pop shops are staying open by delivering games to customers or just transitioning to selling online. Unfortunately, sometimes businesses have to adapt to survive a time of financial crisis. Clearly the ones I go to are trying to do just that.

1 hour ago, Gloves said:

1 hour ago, Quest4Nes said:

Not about just gamestop. 

You mean to tell me threads on here have some sort of topic in order to keep things organized? Wow. Maybe you should throw an announcement to let everyone know the topic of the thread is listed at the top in case anyone should forget. 

52 minutes ago, B.A. said:

How does it work exactly? We all need to be online or we wait until someone logs in to take their turn?

As @0xDEAFC0DE explained above.

There are two playstyle from what I can tell.

1. Live -  you need to be present as the game is live.

2. Long Play - It is your turn once all the other players have made their move. Each player has a time limit for their move. 24 or 36 hours. I think 24 is enough, but just stating the two options. The die are rolled by the computer for each player. So if Player A (it is their turn) attacks Player B, the die for Player B are automatically rolled by the computer/site. 

The goal for us is Long Play to get more people involved. Live play would only work if we all set a date and time to hang out and play a game, which who knows how long that would last. When I have played RISK in person a game typically took at least 4 hours.

This is not spam, thought it might come off as it as first. So, a buddy i play on XBOX with informed me about this website that hosts a game that is basically identical to RISK online. Here is the link:  https://dominating12.com/   ** You NEED to create an account on their website in order to participate.

-Essentially the same as RISK except we can play a live match or a long term game, which is what we are going for here. The long term game game allows for 24 or 36 hour turns. The computer rolls the defense dice, so you are not required to be online for the defensive dice rolling.

Participants so far:

Game 1: Home Alone XMAS FFA

1. @Gloves

2. @Mega Tank

3. @Sumer

4.

5.

Game 2: Teams (Need even teams)

1. @Gloves

2. @Mega Tank

3. @FireHazard51

4. @Sumer

5. @B.A.

If you join the site for the first time, feel free to use my referral code  :  

https://dominating12.com?referrer=58586

The website has the rules set up and explained on there, but I created this to try to help clarify some stuff.

For the newer players or just a friendly reminder from the rules of RISK:

1. You must attack and gain control of one territory to earn one card. These cards, if you have one are listed on the bottom left below the map. You collect a minimum of 3 to turn t he cards in for extra units. In risk, I believe if you control a territory that is listed on the card, you gain some bonus troops if you control the territory during your turn. I believe you need 3 minimum to turn the cards in, but I am not sure if that number will increase as players turn in cards. I guess we will have to find out as we go.

2. If you control an entire continent at t he beginning of your turn, you will receive bonus troops to place across the map on your territories. On the bottom right of the map, there is a smaller map with numbers per territory. These are the numbers of bonus troops you would get at the start of your turn if you control the territories. If I recall correctly in RISK, if you gain control of an entire continent during your turn, tough cookies, you do not earn bonus troops at that time, you have to control the entire continent at the start of your next turn. If you eliminate a player during your turn, you can trade those cards in during your current turn.

3. The little dashes and arrows that connect certain territories on the map, Brazil ---- North Africa, means you can attack/move in this direction to the connecting territories.

I am apologize if this seems late, but I do not know for certain how some of these details will function on this site.

Here is a RISK tutorial video:  Remember, this is the board game version the YT video posted is for. There may be slight differences to Dominating 12's gameplay, but it seems to be very accurate and true to RISK's gameplay.

Rolling Dice in RISK - Note, you can only attack with a territory that has 2 troops MINIMUM. A territory with 1 troop cannot attack. The user that made this video posted it in the video notes as the end of the video shows the territory attacking with 1 troops, this is incorrect. The website does this process with the max number of dice rolls anyways, but this just clarifies how the "numbers" work.

1 hour ago, Californication said:

They are talking about Corona Virus payments and how they are getting processed.

Clearly, but things get easily derailed.

Come on, stop hiding the Nintendo recipes. We can at least try to make something assuming we have the ingredients during this time.

1 minute ago, arch_8ngel said:

So how about Gamestop trying to declare themselves "essential" so they can stay open in places that are closing all non-essential stores during the pandemic?

Seems like a self-declaration that they know they won't survive this downturn.

Essentially, they are screwed

1 hour ago, Astor Reinhardt said:

Not sure it's one of a kind since I assume every Nintendo employee (in the US at least) got this during the holidays back when but idk how many copies are floating around...but I think my Nintendo: Home for the Holidays cookbook from 1992 is the only thing that MIGHT be one of a kind. I've only ever seen one other copy online.

Are you ever going to post any of the recipes? Talk about being selfish...

The worse it gets the less likely people are to buy games. One would imagine prices would drop.

No poll?

4 minutes ago, Magus said:

Yeah i can imagine having young children will be tough man. But like Mr.Mark said it highly depends on your location and grade. I am not saying this is a blanket approach for every single school closing. Just that for Kansas i was reading they intend on doing at home learning with teachers operating virtual lessons from school after they are sanitized. The schools will be used as a hub for operating the home lessons and only a certain amount of teachers that are cleared can enter to do the virtual lessons.

I imagine each district will be handling things their own way, since each district will be differently equipped to handle this. It's honestly a nightmare for both parents and teachers and obviously none of this is ideal. 

Maybe this will show people just how important schools are and that they provide more services than just strictly educating.

Varies on where you work.

Thanks for the save @8bitdontquit I feel like there is usually a drop off below my score. Not that I am any good, but there is usually a gap lol

Those charms are legit! Great work as always!

5 minutes ago, LeatherRebel5150 said:

PA and NJ have issued their own restrictions and non-essential closings. The Advance Auto I work at out near my college in PA was told we're essential (by corporate) and staying open because we need to supply emergency personnel for their vehicle needs. Mind you in the nearly 10 years Ive worked for Advance on and off across half a dozen stores we've never once provided any parts to those emergency personnel. They have their own contracts to get what they need from specific people/places. 

I asked on the conference call what about for the general public, and was met with "yea of course we're open for them too!" I responded by locking the doors with a sign up saying we're open for emergency personnel only and had the other employees call up the local EMT/Police/Fire company and informed them as such. If my DM has a problem with it he can pound sand and come work here himself.

Would you get paid if you were to close down? 

1 minute ago, skinnygrinny said:

all good brother im just glad to see you here  

Yea man. I forgot about the contest last week. I got all busy lol. I barely put a score for the game last night

8 hours ago, skinnygrinny said:

tank! how are you doing?

I'm alright. I ran one game and scored 50. I wish it had been more lol I didn't have the patience to run another game as I was pressed for time.

1 hour ago, Lambda said:

You are THE MAN among men! THIS is why this community is so great... right here folks... @None can’t thank you enough for this post (just saw it) as well as the direct message to me to help point my best friend in the right direction! Guys like this are what make this place awesome!

Agreed

50

13 minutes ago, cartman said:

What items are those where it would be illegal?

Every state in the U.S. has different price gouging laws for different items. 

1 minute ago, Estil said:

I'm just grateful that the virus isn't much deadlier than it is.  I mean all of this stuff going on as it is, imagine how much worse it could be.

Seriously, the NHL is completely shuttered?  Will we even be able to have the NCAA Tournament on schedule?  Wow, I would've never imagined anything like this could really happen...

As for what Californication (he must be a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan) said about buying gold, I thought the idea of investing is to buy low, sell high?

Cancelled

I am in support of parking the Random Gaming Box @Mae247

Worrying about sending this box should be at the bottom of priorities right now. The fun can continue at a later time!