Jump to content

Admin's Blog

  • entries
    37
  • comments
    607
  • views
    111,661

About this blog

A blog by game admin.

Entries in this blog

April Fools

This morning around server update time there was a major security issue which mistakenly gave everyone access to the moderator's control panel in the game. There was a total of 3,129 moderator actions that took place throughout the night with most coming from the users Blacky performing 393 mod actions and TrotskysRevenge who performed 10 mod actions. We have patched up the security breaches and are preparing to file litigation against those responsible for the moderator actions and resulting da

admin

admin

Cyber Nations Logos: A brief history

So what's the deal with the logo changes in Cyber Nations? Well I was fiddling around with an image editor this weekend and I liked some of the effects that it was capable of producing. The biggest thing (for me) is that I was able to pretty closely replicate the current logo and save it as a true transparent image. The old CN logo was designed by a player way back in early 2006 but he sent it to me as a jpg image with a white background and so I've always had trouble putting it in front of anyt

admin

admin

Where the players are from

I was cruising Google Analytics this morning and took a peek at the Cyber Nations visitors map and thought I would share. This is broken down by city over the last month. To my surprise, a city in the USA is not top on the list. That honor goes to London. Here's the top 5 cities: London 7,855 New York 6,858 Chicago 4,046 Melbourne 3,989 Sydney 3,354

admin

admin

New Forums!

After somedowntime, during which I hope our players got some fresh air and sunlight, we're back! Cooler and better than ever before!The Senior Staff is however really upset at having to learn a "new" ACP after just getting used to the last one.

Atlas

Atlas

A Decade of Cyber Nations

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Cyber Nations. I always like to look back on history and it seems appropriate to do so today, so here we go. I registered the Cyber Nations domain name in 2003 with the hopes of creating a web based nation simulation game but I was unable to come up with a working model and I quickly abandoned the project. I let the domain name sit idle for a year and decided to let it go in 2004 since I couldn't find a use for it. In 2005 my interest was sparked again and

admin

admin

Most Destructive War In CN History?

I was looking at the game stats and as noted here Cyber Nations recently surpassed the highest global radiation level ever recorded in the game. The previous record on GRL, attained during the Karma War, was 47.47. Today the GRL is sitting at 55.93 and will rise again after update tonight. From the CN information index: I was wondering if this is really the most destructive war in CN history or if the smaller nation count in the game now, as compared to the nation count during the Karma war, h

admin

admin

What's on admin's mind

Since this is going to be a game development blog I'm going to try to frequent this as much as possible to let everyone know what I'm working on and what's to come for the game. This isn't to be taken as a place where I will make important announcements about the game, but rather just a friendly chat so don't hold me to what I post here. - I'm currently reviewing options for a change to the war declaration range. I agree with just about everyone else that the war range needs to be narrowed down

admin

admin

iPad - What is it good for?

So after my last entry here, which dealt with getting a new phone (I ended up getting a Droid), I am now thinking about getting an iPad. But is this thing really worth buying? What can I do on it that I can't do on my phone? Is it just another useless toy? It would be larger/better for, say, reading...but other than that?

Atlas

Atlas

Game Advertising and Referrals

In an effort to try to increase the player base in Cyber Nations I'm currently testing some new ad campaigns on Google and Facebook and a couple of other sites. Now, I've advertised heavily in the past, but over time I started to see fewer and fewer players actually stick around after clicking on an ad. I feel like the changes that I've made in the game over the past couple of months are exciting and I've even seen some long retired players say that the recent changes are worth them coming back

admin

admin

Do you Like it?

On April 21st Facebook released its widely publicized "Like" button feature for websites allowing developers to place like buttons on their content. I had heard about this a few days before they released it and I thought it would make for a good advertising tool so as soon as they made it available I went to work putting a couple of Like buttons around my sites. For a few days afterward I watched the little numbers beside the Like buttons, which indicates how many people have clicked on it, and

admin

admin

Witty Wars

I've been entertained while this big war is happening with all the witty war reasons that people use. I scanned over the past 24 hours of war declarations and here are some of the ones that made me lol. Why use the generic 'A General Dispute' war reason when you can start with a bang like these guys did: "You sure got a purdy mouth!" - Reddragoon "your a TOOL" - Reoga to a nation in the alliance The Order Of Light "Declare war, I must" - NearX "Improved Foreign Relations" - bioakky "1 2 3 4

admin

admin

I wonder if he regrets it?

With the new war details screen and the ability to see damage infliced by each side in a war, I came across this. Granted, stats for wars began on the 26th and there's still a few days remaning in this war, but I wonder if Momonishiki regrets declaring war on CubaQuerida at this point?

admin

admin

I need a new phone

I'm kidnapping the blog because I want the advice and wisdom of the community. I need a new mobilephone.. or maybe "want" is a better word. At any rate I believe that I want an android but I have no idea which one to get. I'm not looking for anything cheap, but don't need a "monster" either. Anyone got suggestions or knows a good site where I can find reviews?

Atlas

Atlas

Staff Awards

The CN staff are pretty hard workers. However, sometimes we do big staff audits to make sure everyone is doing a spectacular job. These audits can cause changes in teams and how we're organized, to make sure we are doing our job to the best of our ability. Not very much changes after this audit, because such a stellar job is being done by everyone. Without further ado, Spock and Allan a Dale have taken on more responsibility and become global mods. If you don't know what that means, you may

Philotheos

Philotheos

Questions for the mods

I know some other mod had a blog where they answered questions from the players, and because I can think of nothing else to say that the players would find particularly interesting, if any players have any questions for senior staff, feel free to ask. No promises you'll get an answer however. This blog will also give me the opportunity to do another thing I like to do - Bash the other senior staffers. I kid I kid, we all get along pretty great.

Philotheos

Philotheos

War Stories

The game has been collecting war destruction stats for about 3 weeks now and already some players have put up some massive damage totals. Cyber Nations as a whole has destroyed/lost 63,806,849 nation strength in just the past few weeks. What are some of your biggest losses in war going back before the war destruction stats were gathered?

admin

admin

Tournament Round 26

I've been hard at work the past couple of days making some updates for Cyber Nations Tournament Edition Round 26. One of the things that a lot of players have asked for is the ability to create alliance announcements, which has now been implemented. I included the ability for alliance members to post comments on an announcement as well as the ability for managers to lock down who can view an announcement and who can post comments. Another thing that was asked for were improvements to Navy. No

admin

admin

Tournament Reset

I was so exhausted last night. With it being Thanksgiving and all the to-do surrounding that it was also the reset night for Tournament Edition. As early as 9:00 PM I was so ready to go to bed but couldn’t because I needed to stay up to manage the reset. I made it until 10:00 PM and decided enough was enough, man invented alarm clocks for a reason so I set mine to 11:45 PM and sunk in to take a nap. Well my silly alarm clock didn’t go off but I somehow managed to wake up at 11:55 PM. The reset w

admin

admin

The Dreaded Pit of Information

I took a stroll through the Cyber Nations information index recently to see if I could clean it up a little bit. I was looking to see if I could make it more like the Cyber Citizens about screen where you click on individual links to pull up an article rather than have the whole confusing thing listed out all at once. But when I stopped and really looked over the CN index I realized that there is really a lot of stuff in there. Lots of numbers, percentages, dollar figures, and oh the dreaded mat

admin

admin

Upcoming Wonders?

In addition to the updates that I mentioned on 2/12 I'm also working on a couple of new wonders for the game for Missions/Mines/Colonies to the Moon and Mars. I'm still working out all of the details and I have started a suggestion box topic so that you can give your input. Below is a teaser image although keep in mind that the specifics may be very different from what you see below when everything finished.

admin

admin

Tour of Generals

For the past few months I’ve been working on a little side website project. The website is a browser based tactical war strategy game called Tour of Generals. The game is a Risk like strategy game that uses Google Maps and it involves creating, moving, and fighting armies and capturing territories on the map. The game has a wide variety of real world maps to play on including the United States, Europe, Asia, Germany, France, and lots more and many options to customize each game including the abi

admin

admin

Atlas is in need of a signature

I've decided that I want to have a fancy looking signature. But I'm awful at anything that has to do with graphics and wouldn't even be able to work with Modern Art (That doesn't look like anythinf and is hideous, no matter what other moderators claim ).Thus I turn to the community. Do we have any bright minds out there who would like to give it a shot and create me a signature? You won't win anything besides the honour and glory, but hey, at least that's something.Either post your suggestions

Atlas

Atlas

Twitter

So I found Twitter. Actually I've had the account there since September 2008 but at that time I was only going to use it for personal tweets but apparently my personal life isn't relevant enough to get anyone to follow me. It's either that or my tweets were just totally uninteresting that no one really cared to follow me. Actually it was probably a combination of both. Then on February 26th I was watching Rick Sanchez from CNN use Twitter live on-air and I realized two things 1) using such a s

admin

admin

What's on admin's mind II

I thought I'd take a moment write a quick blog update. As you may have noticed CN has received a bit of an influx of new players lately. I’ve been testing out some new methods for promoting CN and also trying to get those new users who join the game up to speed and involved by putting up the CN Demo video and things like that. Of course keeping the game fresh with new updates helps a lot too but I’ve been in and out lately because of a recent loss that my family and I are coping with right now.

admin

admin

Happy Birthday Cyber Nations

Today Cyber Nations is 3 years old. My where has the time gone? From it's humble beginnings as a very basic game that didn't include most of the bells and whistles that you see today (including trades, foreign aid, improvements, wonders, aircraft, navy, etc...) to where it is today it's all been a great ride and I hope it only gets better from here. Thanks to everyone who played the game during these 3 years especially all of those who've stuck around and played the entire time. A special thanks

admin

admin

×
×
  • Create New...