Wargames

So its about time for a Wargames update. This update is sponsored by Tetsuya, who has appeared to me with a pretty sweet deal of hosting.

To the point, Wargames could find itself being updated more often than you've been used to in recent years. Part of this update today is to press on into new territory. The files are sadly almost twice the size of the previous, at the price of more variance in graphics. I also intend to do more for the next version, so it might end up jumping over a MB for the first time. I have loads of ideas for the next version, which I'll share at a later time, but for now lets focus on todays update.

There are 3 main features this time round. The first is the ability to set a national motto. This is kind of like a phrase, or a set of words you can set to strike fear in your enemy. Pure flavour. Secondly, I've added an "Infamy" column in the scores table on the hub page. Largely based on nuking but not completely, it is a form of gauging the bad boys from the good.

Finally, and most importantly is the new found choice of selecting your own terrain for your nation. Now you have a selection of "Plains" (the default and bog standard up till now) "Mountains" and "Arid". Both Mountains and Arid terrains come with alternate resource gains, sacrificing one for a strength in another (or two, in Arid's case). They also both come with a defence bonus in Full Out Attacks.

I also made some slight speed improvements, but knowing me, they will be very slight, and perhaps sidelined by some of the new features. For the full list of this versions updates, see below:

* Change: Slightly improved star icon for Warsaw Pact (Cold War gametype).
* Change: Changed the way hosts reboot, allowing for better results.
* Change: Some general improvements to the way turns work, should slightly reduce ticklag.
* New: National Motto now available. Create words or phrases out of English or Latin. Currently 8 Words and 12 phrases for each, to be expanded later to French, Arabic, more English.
* New: Choice at start of the game of your Nations Terrain. Along with the standard "Plains", there are Mountainous and Arid:
- Plains: Default, as before. x1 Defence, x1 all resources.
- Mountain: x1.1 Defence for Full Attack, half food for double metal.
- Arid: x1.2 Defence for Full Attack, half food, wood for double oil+uranium.
* New: 3 different star Flag designs available; 5 pointed star in middle. Required for new Burmese flag, Vietnam etc.
* New: Infamy, an extention of "nukes used" in the hub page, is a ranking of how good you are. 100 is the worst, -100 is being good.
- Infamy is obviously gained quickly by how many people you nuke. It will go up 1 per rounded Million deaths + 1 per nuke used.
- Infamy is also gained by 1 for completing the condition for Mean Android Attack (not limited to once ever/once per game, but each battle).
- Infamy is reduced by 5 for completing a game and fulfilling the Nuclear Proliferation requirement (note, you do get this every time, not just the first time).
- Infamy is reduced by 5 if you end up having to restart in-game, if its above 0.

Subscriber Features:

* Change: Changed Myammar/Burmese flag to the new one adopted in October 2010, and also Spain to look more natural.
* New: New flags, Jersey for North Europe and Vietnam for East Asia.