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@Elmnt: Go

I didn't look at the words. The map now gets random words from a 32,000 words database. I took out the starting gas per wins and the "jump tutorial" just to see if this is the cause of desync replays.

NEW VERSION!

You might like this new version. There are replays!!! And a way more words!

@RodrigoAlves: Go

A lot of the new "words" aren't English words.

I played a game perhaps with a particularly egregious opening, but here are some of the "words" MY TEAM had to type IN THE FIRST MINUTE of play:

lipscomb (had to look it up... it's a surname and the name of a Christian college, would NEVER be lowercase)

mum (pretty obscure english word, I've only heard it in "mum's the word" and british for mom)

chachka (Yiddish)

gane (Scottish)

aix (a species of duck)

bregma (actually a word, but nobody had heard of it... it's some medical term)

lld (looks EXACTLY like "lid" by the way, and would never be lowercase (stands for Doctor of Laws, and isn't really used in the US)

llyr (some god in Welsh mythology, not lowercase in English)

scnt (an initialism for Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer)

It's cool that we're getting new words, but these aren't words. These are obscure references or words from other languages. Without the internet, nobody would know what these words are.

Also, Ultralisks became really easy to type with these changes while the regular enemies became much, much harder (since you can't read the words or anything). "Mind-numbingly" is very easy to type, but "lld" is very hard to type (since you'll think you're typing "lid" 99% of the time and for sure enter it wrong twice.

@Forbiddian: Go

Forbiddian, I will send this to UntitledQ (who is letting me use his words database). Hopefully, next version there will be only english words. :)

I'll agree with Forbiddian, a lot of the players that have been playing a while (48 wins, 55 wins, etc...) find the new words to be distracting.

There should at least be a good chance of recognizing the word especially when they're stacked up.

If nothing else, I'd be happy to grab a dictionary and start creating a word list and can even separate it based on easy/medium/hard etc...

I agree with the above as well. Hope to get those weird words out!

@Elmnt: Go @Kaeryed: Go

Important:

Some of the new words are indeed "weird." This will be changed in the next version. I already got the new database, so I will soon replace the 5,000 words for better ones. Hopefully, the new version will be released this week.

@RodrigoAlves: Go

Nice, sounds good!

Hey, have you thought about doing anything in regards to leavers? I've noticed a recent trend of people leaving the game right before they know they're about to lose, I'm assuming this doesn't reflect a loss on their part?

Quote from Kaeryed: Go

Hey, have you thought about doing anything in regards to leavers? I've noticed a recent trend of people leaving the game right before they know they're about to lose, I'm assuming this doesn't reflect a loss on their part?

The loss is counted when the teams are made. Anyone that leaves in the middle of the game gets +1 to "games lost"

The popularity of this game has died completely! Lets bring it back up!! :(

Edited as requested. The word dictionary is very big. That is all.

Quote from K18782: Go

I made an account just to post this. I've stopped playing this since I found out about weird exploits in this game. I don't know if it was released under a spoofed Rodrigo handle (which allowed the creator to inject their own functions, not necessarily Rodrigo's map but a derivative of it), but the Nexus Word Wars I played has 2 technically infinite mineral bugs. I have confirmed one which is building turrets add minerals and another one which I have not found out the cause, but have witnessed people using after reviewing my replays. The opponents had obtained an amount of minerals that topped the max minerals obtained possible. Which is mineral production + unit kills + mineral items + etc. In detail, I noticed that my opponents had brief moments of pauses when adding mineral counts (in small amounts 10-100 minerals). I have not confirmed if it is a keyword that is mapped onto the functions of the custom map or it is an external hacking problem via memory/packet manipulation. I would guess it is a function of the map or a memory hack, since the people I was playing with probably are too stupid to packet hack. Whatever it is, fix it please.

Theres no keywords or ways to get extra minerals. What bug with the turrets did you see? If this bug is real, I need to know how the players are abusing it. But the mineral income has a limit (10).

Quote from zeldarules28: Go

OH MY GOSH!!!!!

I'm on US server and NWW is down to page 3 :( Too bad.....Rodriogo, do you have a plan for a third map? If possible, don't make it short just cuz you want it to be popular.

Blizzard resets are evil. It's like reseting the WoW accounts of map makers. If this last reset kills NWW as it killed Platform Defense and Debates, don't expect another map so soon. :P

Edited as request by Rodrigo.

OMG THIS GAME ROCKS! Keep up the good work Rodrigo.

@K18782: Go

The mineral problem, it this is true, it can be easily fixed. However, my laptop is being repaired, so I cant fix right now :( (I have to wait my laptop to be fixed). If this is really true, don't spread this, and I will fix as soon as I get my laptop back.

However, about the gas thing, it doesn't make any sense. The gas might be the gas income or gas item, because there's nothing in my code that rewards gas like that. If you identify the bug, please, tell me. The mineral bug I will fix in the next version. Don't spread this (and maybe you can edit the post) :P

Thanks to the Creep Podcast for talking about Nexus Word Wars (frogpants.com/thecreep). You can hear the NWW podcast on the file attached. :)

I cant even find NWW on the game list anymore... what happened?! :(

Its removed from the server i assume