It depends on how long the update will take. If it's soon, then we should wait.

agreed

CCM thats the point of the tournament. should i hold one now for people who are already in it, and another one after the performance upgrades, or should we wait for the performance upgrades when the rest of the beta testers get in?

but it should be official
and you should get something... like a crown to say "I am number one"

you [dev team] should make a competition thing to boost game play and stuff
like first person with 100 wins gets a cookies or something

that way people would come to play... because who doesn't want a cookie?

That's kinda hard to say at this point.  We've done a lot of work trying to get the performance up, but the end result isn't as good as we hoped.  So it's going to take more work to get it better.  We need to decide whether we want to let in more people before getting the performance better or not.  In this case, I'm referring to performance as FPS.  What we have done is drastically improve the network performance, so the game requires a lot less bandwidth now to play.  But FPS is still low, and it'll be a little while before that gets better.

As a temporary solution, most people should be able to set everything on low and disable sounds, and they'll be able to play competitively.

Meanwhile, we're trying to finish up the major features of the game.  There should be an update pretty soon with quite a bit more stuff in it.  Once that happens, we'll be switching back to improving performance.

I think the best thing to do is wait for our update and to get the kinks out of that, then we can send out an e-mail letting people know about the update, and have the tournament.  Then after that, we'll shoot for another one and hope that by then we'll have let in more testers.  What do you think?

I think you guys should hold off on testers cuz what most of them are just going to do is "Lag, can't play!!!!!! Grrrr... 1/5" or something like that... you guys should get rid of the lag and improve FPS and preformance before letting more people in... And I've noticed you guys let people in with updates, well, i don't think thats a smart move. Because with the update comes lag... and with lag comes messages like above... so make sure preformance is good then let people in...

Ohhh.....

Credits would work good too.

 
HUH

 
So confused

Can't wait!!!!!!!!! Oooooooooo this is so exciting!
... wait... I thought it was going to be a full body.. if that's it though I'll take it with pleasure... 

[wrath]

Over the last few months, a lot of people have asked "where's the T-Rex?!"  Well, they're right.  Where is the T-Rex??  What happened to all the T-Rexes and all the other carnivores in DINOWAURS (©245,000,000 B.C. - 2008 A.D.)?  Are they hiding?  Are they s-s-s-scared or something?  Or are they just unable to survive the wrath of the superior heavy-weapon-clad herbivores!!!  We may never know.

I fell off my chair laughing...

i don't like it...

Well, if it goes into sudden death we'd just turn off the "lose if you have no villages and less than 200 monies" conditional.  We're considering this action, but it's gotta be done in a way that doesn't restrict players from doing late game strategies.  I'd be a little concerned about artificially restricting gameplay after a certain point, but we'll play around with the idea in a bit.

BTW: performance has more or less been fixed.  an update tonight or tomorrow is going to be give some really incredible boosts.  stay tuned

I would be concerned too but this is after 20 minutes so its pretty safe to say that the game is at a standstill... if a lot of people start saying that they were only starting their game and the deterioration started then you could always move the time a bit... but I think 20 minutes is more than enough...

OH yeah... ok that makes sense now...
now time to nag the developers until they do it...

So i've heard different dino's have different stats slightly, well to help customize those stats, because we love being able to customize... Accessories should increase stats, think about it... the helm increases health, the concept ninja increases speed, the bluetooth and top hat decrease item price, and so one.... i don't have a full list in front of me...

Ninja Dino's would be awesome!

i agree with this course of action, around the 10 minute mark. at 20 minutes i believe that all houses be destroyed, each player given $300, all villages destroyed and unbuildable, and each player be dealt a flamethrower, which is free to fire. SUDDEN DEATH YES!

That's a bit complicated though, so dunno if thats possible D:

whats the point of the $300 if everything is free? And I thnk sudden death at 20 min is a good idea... but no flamethrowers... just what ever weapon you have you get to use, and your money keeps growing as if you had 3 tiers

so there's less to fight for and now it's easier to win.

exactly.