Battle City

New Battle City Staff Annoucement

Weebo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:47:57 -0400

Thank you everyone who has contributed to building a better Battle City over the last three months. All your efforts are greatly appreciated and will not be forgotten. In fact, May 31st turned out to be the busiest day we've seen on Battle City in the last three months thanks to contributions from both the players and staff.

Today I would like to take a moment to announce the new Battle City Staff that will help lead the game forward for the next three months.

Developers
Weebo
Vindkast

Administrator:
Nightwish

Moderators:
Alex2121
Darkluigi07
Jizohn

Guides
Click Here for the List of Guides

For more information about each of the positions or for a general idea regarding what the Battle City staff does, please visit the Battle City Staff page.

Want to get your hands on a free city rental or a free custom tank? Check out the May Monthly Top 20 for details about a fun new contest. Predict the Top 5 in June to win!

We've just released Battle City 3.5.5 which includes a new three-spread Flare. Check it out and leave us some flare feedback! Also, let us know if you like or dislike the new sound played when you orb a city.

Hope to see you online soon!

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Battle City is a free online tank wars game. Orb the enemy to win!
http://battlecity.looble.com

Free Custom Tanks for all my Friends

Weebo — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:54:33 -0400

Have you always wanted your very own Battle City Custom Tank? Maybe you'd like to drive around as a turret, a cool black tank, a snowman or even a UFO? Normally these special tanks are given exclusively as a gift to those who make a donation to Battle City, however right now, you can get one absolutely free!

This special offer is available only to my friends! That's right, if you're my friend, I'll hook you up with a Free Custom Tank!

How do you get your free Battle City Custom Tank? It's simple:

Add me as a friend on Facebook and then Join the Battle City Group. That's it!

Once you've done this, send me a message letting me know who you are and include the tank number of the free tank you would like. You can find the Battle City tank numbers here.

There is a catch. In order to qualify you must already have at least 10 Facebook friends and you must stay friends with me and stay in the Battle City group, even after you get your free tank

Don't have Facebook? Sign up for free here. Have Facebook? Add me as a friend and Join the Battle City Group!

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Battle City is a free online tank wars game. Orb the enemy to win!
http://battlecity.looble.com

Save and Load City Designs In-Game

Weebo — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:34:28 -0400

One common question new players often ask is, "What will happen to my city when I leave?" New players are often sad to hear that it will either vanish or be orbed by the time they return to play again and will thus be forced to rebuild it.

This is no longer the case! As of Battle City 3.5.2, if you take the time to build a great city, you can save the design! The next time you play, you can either load your saved design or build a new one.

To save your city design, type /save name. To load your city design type /load name (where name is whatever you want to save your design as!)

If you log on to play Battle City and nobody else is online, instead of signing off, stick around a little bit and build yourself some city designs that you can load in the future. Having a solid design for as many cities as possible will be your key to success and many orbs in your battles to come! With the ability to load a saved design, you can now get back into the action much quicker! If you want revenge against the team that orbed you, loading a design will help you get back to attacking your enemy within minutes...!

You can discuss instant cities and make additional suggestions regarding how this new feature should work by posting here.

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Battle City is a free online tank wars game. Orb the enemy to win!
http://battlecity.looble.com

New Cloak Item!

Weebo — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:40:14 -0400

Remember the good old days when you could always count on your radar to let you know when an attacker was incoming? Those days are gone thanks to the new cloak item. Never again will you be able to sit and relax in your base because by the time an attacker does show up on radar, it may already be too late for your city! Players must always be on high-alert while on defense; you never know when an attacker might sneak up on you!

Thankfully the great powers of the new cloaking item has one weakness... The cloaking process can be heard by all who are near. So... while you may not know where the incoming attacker is, if you listen carefully, you will know that someone is indeed sneaking around. Keep in mind, the cloak does not make you invisible, it only provides stealth abilities such that you cannot be detected by radar. If defenders are scouting the area surrounding their base well, they can indeed find the attacker.

Cloaking won't last long, but each city has 4 cloaking devices and therefore a single player could potentially cloak 4 times in a row to stay off radar a long time! To compensate, when under attack, your home arrow will now flash red! Even if an enemy is attacking you while cloaked, sensors will notify you as soon as a building is destroyed so that you can start looking for the evil culprit rather than twiddling your thumbs and thinking all is well in the world.

Re: Battlecity Rules & Guidelines

Incyte — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:42:23 -0500

Now that we have a team of moderators, I figured it would be a good idea to have something in writing so that the administration can be consistent and so that the players have an idea of what standards they will be held to.

Just so everyone knows, Weebo, Nightwish, and the moderators are not looking to crack down on anyone. Ideally, we'd like problems to be sorted out on the Battlefield, so enforcing the rules and kicking players really is a last resort. As long as everyone uses their common sense and plays fair, it won't ever come to that. The idea is just to keep the game fair and fun for everyone.

Battle City Rules & Guidelines

Incyte — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:15:11 -0500

Battle City Rules & Guidelines
A list of prohibited activities.

1) Attempting to gain an unfair advantage on the battlefield.
This includes the use of cheat programs and the exploitation of bugs in the game.
If you are cheating, you will be immediately banned from Battle City. If you are exploiting a bug, you will be warned then kicked if you continue to exploit the bug.

2) Attempting to accumulate points outside of normal game-play.
This includes playing "21" and turret rushing unresponsive players so that they are killed each time they re-spawn.
Points earned in this way will be removed from your account at a rate of 2x. (Ex: Orb ten 50 pointers playing 21 and you will be reset by 1000 points)

3) Preventing other players from participating in the game. ***
This includes attacking cities before they are orbable and blocking or turret rushing the town centers of empty cities.

4) Purposely interfering with Battle City events. ***
This includes destroying event arenas or trying to orb event cities.

5) Excessive use of offensive language. ***
This includes personal attacks on other players and the use of racial insults or excessive profanity.

6) Other behavior which is detrimental to the game or community. ***
This includes sabotaging, demoing, and any other behaviors which have a negative effect on Battle City. Use your common sense.

*** The participation in any of these activities or behaviors will initially result in a warning. Subsequent offenses will result in a 10 minute kick. Continued disregard for the games rules will lead to increasingly longer bans.

Be civil and use your common sense. Remember, you'll have the most fun when those around you are also having a good time!

New moderators appointed!

Nightwish — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:31:44 -0500

Please welcome our new moderators who have volunteered to help us make this game even better for the next three months.

Darkluigi07
Alex2121
Jizohn
Incyte
Mad_Orber
Rise Against
wdouglas

This means we now have moderators from all over the world so when the player base grows we can have events and cool stuff going on at any hour of the day.

For more information about the Battle City Staff, please visit the Staff page!

Join the Battle City Staff

Weebo — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:46:01 -0500

Battle City is a great game with a great community of players. In order to help make it even better, we're looking to recruit some new active staff members.

They key to building a better Battle City is teamwork. We need developers to listen to the community and code a better and better game. We need administrators to organize events and activities. We need moderators to help run the events and activities. We need Guides to teach and play with new players. We need players to play and enjoy the game!

If you'd like to join the staff, visit the new staff page for more information.

Remember though, you don't need to join the staff to help build a better Battle City. You can help simply by playing the game! The community is the most important part of the game, without the players the staff has nobody to serve!

Don't Miss the Gauntlet!

Weebo — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:41:25 -0500

Rise Against has scheduled a Gauntlet for Saturday February 9th! Tell everyone you can about it and be there yourself! Read more about the Gauntlet here.

Congrats to Kaboom! and the others who finished on the Monthly Top 20 for January. All 20 of these players have won a 1 month city-rental for any city they'd like (Admin Inn and Balkh excluded). If you're one of the Top 20 winners, send Weebo a private message with the city you would like access to!

If you haven't seen the full list yet, check out the Overall Top 5 of 2007. The final results crowned Merloch as Top Orber, cseow as Top Mayor, JetLi as Top Defender and Deceth as Top Awesome. The High Definition Orbers were also crowned as the Top Clan of 2007.

In order to get some players back onto the battlefield, a giant email list has been created, presently containing 16,138 addresses taken from the games database. We've begun contacting these people with the hopes that some will re-join the grand battle for control and dominance of BattleCity. If you have a chance, check out our one-month sponsor at http://www.winfreestuff.us/. Win Free Stuff has paid one month of server costs for us in-exchange for an advertisement placed in the 16,138 outgoing emails.

We also have a few other sponsors who have contributed to BattleCity in exchange for text-links or banners placed on the website. Here are the links to their websites if you're interested in checking them out:

http://seostuff.betdigest.com/
http://arg.com/
http://www.easy-hide-ip.com/
http://bingo.betdigest.com/

I'd also like to take a moment to recognize and thank all those players who have donated to this version of BattleCity. Your generous contributions have helped keep BattleCity alive and have given us the opportunity to grow this game into something successful. I will do my best not to disappoint. Check out the Roadmap to see what is planned next and be sure to post any Suggestions or Ideas you may have that could help make BattleCity more fun and enjoyable for everyone.

Many people have been sending me kind messages thanking me for my efforts but nothing I have done would be possible without the following people (be sure to thank them as well next time you see them online!): wdouglas, Ender, Vindkast, Gangster, Jizohn, Surge, OldSchool. Others have contributed as well, however I do not have their BC names and I am hesitant to post their full names. If you've donated, send me a private message and I'll add your name! While I do not have a list of all those who donated to ReMoTe, we definitely thank you as well since, regardless of what inevitably happened, you helped get the game to where it is today.

That being said, where is the game today? Check out what's new in version 3.4.6! That's right... there is now a working Help button!

See you on the battlefield.

Insider Updated

Weebo — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:12:59 -0500

The Insider has been updated after falling a bit behind in the last few months...

Please feel free to share your own Polls, Top Lists, Screenshots, Awards, etc in the Insider! The Insider is now meant to be community driven, meaning any player can contribute articles or post comments now that its contained within the forums.

Enjoy!

Skins and City Designer Now Available

Weebo — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:45:59 -0500

The Skins & Graphics forum now contains download links for the most popular BattleCity Skins. If anybody has any other skins not available on this website, please let us know about it so we can make it available to everyone.

Similarly, the City Designer Tool by Hanzie can be downloaded via the City Design Competition Forum.

Forum Posting Bug Fixed

Weebo — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:37:47 -0500

Last night the BattleCity website was officially moved to a new server and hosting platform.

As expected, this caused a few issues with the website which I have now fixed. The forums, which were installed in a MySQL 4 database on the old platform, were moved into a MySQL 5 database on the new platform which caused several errors when attempting to post new messages. Everything should be working fine now but if you run into any problems please post about it in the Errors & Bugs Forum.

Regarding the debate over, "Which Website do we Keep?", I have decided to keep both for the time being to see how that goes. Why keep both? You can see an explanation and demonstration here. Once every week or two, the most important news gathered from these forums will be combined into a nice news update on the green website for those who do not have the time to browse the forums but whom are still interested in knowing what's going on.

BattleCity Back Online

Weebo — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:33:05 -0500

I'm not certain at which point the game went down over the Holidays, but it's been back up since the early evening on December 26th. Vindkast also has access to restart the game, but unfortunately the whole computer locked up so that neither myself or him could even connect to the machine.

At this time I still have no idea what caused the problem. This is the first time that the whole machine has locked up and could be related to running BattleCity on Linux via WINE. Hopefully not, and if so, hopefully there will be a way to fix it

With respect to the website, I was scheduled to be migrated to the new hosting platform on December 17th, but have still not been moved. When the move does occur, we will likely experience problems yet again as was the case when the forums on the other BC website were cruelly executed If the website does go down or behave oddly, please bear with us and wave any angry fists at Ipower, the webhost responsible for the fiasco.

Again, I'd like to reiterate that this is not supposed to be the new website which is why it is not explicitly indicated on the other site. During the chaos that took out the other forums and broke several of my other websites, this site here, which was a testing-ground for the new phpBB 3.0 forum system, was not affected. It was also a prototype for a potential new BC website which I showed to a few people to see if they thought it was better, however I was not planning to switch until it was tested further and until there was feedback from the community that it would be a preferred new site. I still fully intend to restore the other website and fix the errors indicated once the the site is finally moved to the new platform by my webhost. In the mean-time, this site is available, and if the community does in fact prefer it, then we can definitely switch, however that means we will once again lose a whole bunch of forum posts which always sucks

I've received mixed responses thus far about this site. Lots of people like the green site and feel its a better fit for a game like BattleCity. Still, this is without a doubt a far better forum system. Keep in mind, that while the green site is currently messed up thanks to the random deletion of files and the changing of all my 777 chmod setting to 771, all errors should be repairable and the database with all the forum posts is still in perfect condition. I assume the same will likely occur the next time they try to unsuccessfully migrate my site to the new platform, but one of these days, once they do, I can repair the problem and we can get on with life

Also, while this site was not affected last time, it could potentially implode as well any minute whenever they try moving my site again

In a nutshell, the websites are currently stuck in a DFG beside a time-bomb and we're holding the down arrow praying we escape just before the explosion!