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A Lunar Lander game for this century - http://www.crunchgear.com/2009...
Ian presented this at Dorkbot Bristol, great guy and lots of other cool projects on his site.
- John Bradford
10 Ways of using the Twitter Egosystem - http://broadstuff.com/archive...
Awesome ;)
- John Bradford
Carlos Ayala liked this
Apart from bragging rights - is there any difference between a 'Kill' assassination and a 'wounding' one?
- John Bradford
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- John Bradford
Seems too crazy to buy. Want to sell off a few Safe Houses, and get this instead?
Kol Tregaskes liked this
Not worth the price and you will lose it on the next attack
- zsafwan
the price per additional defence point for both cars is silly high (£3,478 & £9,273 against the Sentry Gun @ £286 per Defence point). Given the directorate's propensity for nerf'ing stuff I'd horde the cash, unless it's a required for higher tasks
- John Bradford
I agree with John - why would anyone buy this or the armored car now that the armored car has been nerfed down to +100 defense
- Wang Yip
the cars in this game are worthless. unless stolen or won and then immediately sold for a portion of the actual price.
- Carlos Ayala
With a 60% markdown now. Holy cow.
- Louis Gray
I bought 2 and then lost both in assassinations :-( Not worth it. Grumble.
- Seth Blank
@johnbradford and I forgot to bring my carpet to chew. Fab row happenin between Malcolm Corbett of CBN and George Williamson of BT Openreach
at least @malcolmcorbett is on twitter, can't find George anywhere except on some OFCOM pdf's
- John Bradford
At #technosummit; panel discussing value chain for #digitalbritain I'm only tweeter, wifi £8 for 4 hrs, mobile coverage poor so GPRS.....
they've obviously got a £ chain, less sure about the value chain #digitalbritain
- John Bradford
@johnbradford: sorry couldn't make it. Busy day.
no worries, hope to see you on 30 June @eOfficeBristol http://opencoffeedemo30june.eventbrite.com/
- John Bradford
@johnbradford nice choice for a location! must make it to one of your OpenCoffees.... have started working so there is potential before work
currently sat in their garden out back - great start to the day
- John Bradford
from fftogo
You guys would know better than anyone... so what's the deal with coalitions and "gangs" in SpyMaster? Are there any? Are you guys in any or thought about forming one?
Aram Zucker-Scharff and Kol Tregaskes liked this
Not really got into that, though I hear they exist as one of two on here say they've been ganged up on.
- Kol Tregaskes
I hear there's one called Unstoppable Brothers Coalition (something like that). I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of this activity surfacing since SpyMaster just went public
- Phillip Britton
Carlos mentioned a group, not sure if it was this. I'm sure I saw something on a Twitter account too on my travels.
- Kol Tregaskes
The first rule about fight club is... oh damn
- Sleep Deprivation Ninja
Some of them are huge but pretty loose alliances, others are more tightly knit. It's interesting to watch them form, there's been one merger as well. No one has gone to war yet, as far as I know. I think the smaller, high level, ones have a future, the large ones that are just to gain followers are quickly growing past their ability to coordinate operations.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
LAOS - @graphysics @golbin (heavy hitters) @rootsix @sky0311 @potocosmos @blueblus @purplna (lackys) [edit - I take that back, I just hit @graphysics 4 times in a row and killed him off]
- John Bradford
Kol Tregaskes liked this
I attacked someone in my spyring and they were a little annoying. I didn't think there was a rule? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
yer, I just pissed of the LAOS sub-ring - 3 dozen or so attacks in the last couple hours - finally killed me off - didn't seem to cost me much though might even have ended up +£ and at least one armoured car!! :D
- John Bradford
One thing you do get from wounding users is defence and attack points. So assassinations are not all bad. :-)
not always - I just retaliated on @ronin (I'm currently lvl14, he's lvl7) - my attack is x4 his defense - out of 4 assassination attempts I succeeded once. My failures cost me about 150 attack points & roughly 100 defense points (I didn't keep track of £ losses). When I did succeed I didn't gain *any* attack or defense.
- John Bradford
I'm finding that too now. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
it all seems pretty random. ive seen/heard of single level n00bs taking down staffers that ranked in the 20's with high spymaster counts.
- Carlos Ayala
Yeah the assassination thing seems rather random and I seem to have more luck vs people 5+ more levels above me than those that are the same or just a level or two above. Doesn't make much sense.
- ronin
ronin feel free to attack me man if you want to build up exp. i equate this with scrimming (or scrimmaging). so its all good. i am letting Kol build up and i am going after him next. ;)
- Carlos Ayala
Who is attacking me? (Internal log - starting Monday)
Alex Scoble, Brandon, Kol Tregaskes and Carlos Ayala liked this
@QueenofSpain attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £21.65K (4 minutes ago)
- Louis Gray
@zsafwan committed an assassination plot on your spy ring. You were wounded in action. You lost assets totaling £1435.20 (about 1 hour ago)
- Louis Gray
:-p ... LOL, Louis Gray attacked me and lost... @louisgray attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £6486.37 (about 1 hour ago)
- Brian Carter
@KeyWestNews attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £8026.08 (7 minutes ago)
- Louis Gray
@louisgray committed an assassination plot on your spy ring. You were wounded in action. You lost assets totaling £0.00 (1 minute ago)
- John Bradford
@ryankuder attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £15.16K (about 1 hour ago)
- Louis Gray
@AlgorithmFundFX committed an assassination plot on your spy ring. You were wounded in action. You lost assets totaling £962.69 (41 minutes ago)
- Louis Gray
@partridge attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £1024.67B (less than a minute ago)
- Louis Gray
I just tried to attack you too ... said I lost 1.59 Billion ... but I think that number is way off.
- Brandon
@tapps committed an assassination plot on your spy ring. You were wounded in action. You lost assets totaling £1643.25B (1 minute ago)
- Louis Gray
@tapps attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £24.01M (3 minutes ago)
- Louis Gray
@partridge committed an assassination plot on your spy ring. You were wounded in action. You lost assets totaling £828.20B (2 minutes ago) @partridge attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling £3952.88B (5 minutes ago) @partridge attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets...
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- Louis Gray
I like that the pattern here is the money going up and up and up. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
@Bwana committed an assassination plot on your spy ring. You were wounded in action. You lost assets totaling £134.59B (32 minutes ago) @Bwana committed an assassination plot on your spy ring. You were wounded in action. You lost assets totaling £196.28B (32 minutes ago) @Bwana attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling...
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- Louis Gray
@QthePirate attempted an assassination plot on your spy ring. The plot was unsuccessful. You gained assets totaling $50.01K (about 5 hours ago)
- Eric Logan
what is your current level and attack and defense sums? Mine is level 11 with an Attack Sum of 4382 ans Defense of 2121 - I really wish they made it easier to see everyone else's
Kol Tregaskes liked this
can i attack you and find out? ;)
- Carlos Ayala
i dont think it shows the full scope even after you attack but i may just not have paid close enough attention
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Level 10, Attack sum of 6,002 and Defense of 3,512
- Louis Gray
DAMN LG! luckily for me I had already committed to leaving you alone after your attack on queenofspain on my behalf - for now at least ; )
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
L14, A6319, D2829
- zsafwan
Attack is 10,064. Defence is 4,428.
- Kol Tregaskes
geez i gotta kick it into gear - apparently I have not been doing my math as well as some of you regarding the proper cost/benefit ratio in buying stuff - if i had the time (and skill hehe) I would build a quick and dirty app that let you plug in the current size of spymasters and spies in your network as well as how much money you had to spend and what weapons were avail to u and their costs so u could get back the most efficient allocation possible
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
maaaan! my A = 1000 odd and D = 600 odd. No wonder you guys assassinate the crap out of everyone else.
- vijay
Is there any point to buying more than one weapon/armor per spy in your ring?
- ronin
nope.
- vijay
if you have x spymasters, then buy x items. More than that and the multiplier doesn't work.
- vijay
ronin - there isn't but because of the cost/benefit gap of alot of the options I need to do a better job at allocating my resources more efficiently. I haven't been able to give the level of thought I would like but eventually I want to be able to determine the quantity at which the 500 dollar diff between, say, the Dragunov SVD and the G36C Assault Rifle creates an scenario where its actually more efficient to forgo the 4 point diff in attack power
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
not quite sure the point of Attack & Defense scores, assassination success/failure seems pretty random and the rewards are insignificant - especially since you gain experience & cash even if you fail at a task
- John Bradford
@John in regards to "rewards are insignificant" and just out of curiosity, what level are you?
- Carlos Ayala
the reason i ask is because, for me, both the rewards and the exp points have been very significant. but i do agree that there is some randomness to the success rate. i am pretty sure however that it leans towards follower count.
- Carlos Ayala
level 10 - my aggressor was lvl 16 - he attacked, I retaliated (and failed) tried again and succeeded - only awarded 200 XP and around £1k - I can make more than that 'failing' to steal military documents
- John Bradford
have you attacked much in the past? (i am learning here)
- Carlos Ayala
@Carlos - only a couple of times, usually successful but with low rewards (compared to tasks) - never attacked a lower level spymaster
- John Bradford
wanna do an experiment? attack me
- Carlos Ayala
@cma3 ? (need to regenerate a bit of energy first but ok
- John Bradford
yes sir,. get your strength up first and then hit....i just dropped to 0
- Carlos Ayala
@albertchoi (Russian FSB Director) is only lvl 13?
- John Bradford
prolly too busy with ilist.
- Carlos Ayala
that'd do it :) (brb) need to make a Skype call but will try an assassination soon (promise) :D
- John Bradford
@carlos well I succeeded but still only 200 xp £130, no gain to attack or defense sums? Think I'll stick to tasks for now.
- John Bradford
hit me again.
- Carlos Ayala
ok - 200xp £169 - no attack / defense gain
- John Bradford
what was your exp this time?
- Carlos Ayala
3rd time hit - 200xp £298 - pretty low returns for 45 energy
- John Bradford
you may be lacking in your task exp. are you doing the same task over and over again for exp to level up?
- Carlos Ayala
usually, sticking to the highest task available for my level (currently stealing military secrets = 5369 xp & £'000's)
- John Bradford
thats the problem.
- Carlos Ayala
you need to get to 100% in all your tasks. even the low ones.
- Carlos Ayala
even though it seems like i am losing the battle, its barely a dent on my end.
- Carlos Ayala
ahhhhh, smashing - will skill up :D
- John Bradford
actually i got some attack and defense points from it.
- Carlos Ayala
heheh
- John Bradford
Just hit level 16... at last!
- Kol Tregaskes
What is your best win? Who against and how much did you gain?
I could answer that if the records actually showed your own history. Wish they did.
- Louis Gray
Louis, yeah the history is a little poor. Perhaps a 'records' page would be cool. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I wounded a lvl 11 while I was lvl 4 - they got me back overnight but I didn't lose as much as I gained :)
- John Bradford
Cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Just got 75.2k from my last attempt.
- ronin
ronin! Share! who is this gold mine???
- vijay
groovysoup
- ronin
just hit @aureliusmaximus for $31k...not my best though... I got like 100k off somebody a while ago
- Bwana ☠
How are you growing your spyring?
Bluesun 2600, Morton Fox and zsafwan liked this
As I cleaned out my Twitter followers this weekend and dumped over 1,300 I can follow new users again (yippee!). So taking advice from Alex I'm following anyone who mentioned Spymaster. Particular I've selected to follow only people at level 8 or above. The rate they come in is pretty manageable. See here: http://search.twitter.com/search...
- Kol Tregaskes
it ain't growing at all for me : (
- vijay
I'm not thinking about it at all, so it's natural, I guess.
- Louis Gray
Con, see above. You need to find other users on Twitter who are playing Spymaster.
- Kol Tregaskes
i just started following LG on twitter so mine (and his) will grow by default!
- Carlos Ayala
:D that's ok Kol. Following people just for the sake of a game is not my style =P
- vijay
i am going to have to agree with Con. i rather use my actual social ring as a means to build the network.
- Carlos Ayala
Thanks for the invite a couple days ago. I haven't had a chance to really dig into it, but I will eventually.
- Richly N. Chheuy
Con, yeah for sure. But I don't really use Twitter much now so why not use it for this. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Louis, it's supposed to make your stronger but who knows I guess. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
can't argue with that :D
- vijay
Once I get bored with he game, I'll just so another a mass tidy. I know the users I interact with on Twitter so dumping these Spymaster users will be easy. I found the cull quite liberating yesterday anyway. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Other than doing a visual compare & contrast with your twitter follower list, and isn't available to be converted - is there anyway to see who is in your spy network? It'd be really good to know who the high levels are to coordinate attacks on other spy rings.
- John Bradford
John, yeah I'd like to see a list too.
- Kol Tregaskes
it would be nice if they show more stats about the spymaster you are trying to attack like their attack Sum & Defense Sum
- zsafwan
Nah, then that takes the risk (and the fun) out of it. The stats on view are fine but the results need to be less random. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
that's a secret!
- Adrian Chan
Twitter? Yes, Absolutely. But Not As a Robot, Please. - http://mashable.com/2009...
Would love to see this excellent example more widely applied - PC Plod in the UK perhaps? Makes a change from that awful Police Camera Action nonsense.
- John Bradford
using private groups to 'follow' twitter folk that aren't on friendfeed - is there a better way?
Pete Gilbert and Chris Loft liked this
Get them to move over? You also used to be able to create "imaginary friends" here on FF. Can you still do that?
- Pete Gilbert
I've just done a search for Imaginary Friends and hasn't turned up anything particularly helpful, slowly rebuilding my twitter groups from Tweetdeck in FF groups....
- John Bradford
Imaginary friends were dropped with the new UI.
- Pete Gilbert
Have you seen FriendDeck? http://www.frienddeck.com/
- Pete Gilbert
John, imaginary friends are back.
- Pete Gilbert
Norway economy 'set to contract' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
oops, bad timing for their Eurovision win - or will that be their own stimulus package?
- John Bradford
lolise, Mike Andric, Valentino Valdez and 19 other people liked this
shouldn't there be a #scoble category? :)
- John Bradford
was thinking the same thing John.
- michael sean wright
John: But then there would be random people with the surname Scoble acting all cool :P
- MλTT
We could have a theme song. "I'm a #scoble. You're a #scoble. Wouldn't you like to be a #scoble too?"
- Kevin Kuphal
Adding yourself under these terms only helps if you have tons of followers as it ranks by that metric, I understand. The question is, does this DB have value? I haven't put myself on there.
- Louis Gray
I added myselft awhile ago... I've noticed no difference. I think people go there and submit themselves but no one ever goes there to find someone to follow
- andy brudtkuhl
It takes a tough man to make a tender #scoble
- Mike Lewis
Louis exactly - I see a lot of people adding themselves, but I don't see anyone actually using it to find new people.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I bet you are correct. Moving the needle over on Twitter is tough. I'm never sure what gets people to follow or try someone out?
- Robert Scoble
We need a wefollow for friendfeed.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas: I'm concerned about anytime you create a list. That almost always leads to gaming behavior. But, on the other hand, I'd like a list too. What I really want is to be able to share my lists of people with you. That way I can be the curator of a tech news makers list, for instance. You could then keep a photography list. Etc Etc.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, sharing lists would be great. You could bulk follow that way as well. But I do highlight ten FriendFeeders every month on the blog.
- Louis Gray
Louis: I know, but I think something like Alltop would be great, only with multiple curators and bundles for each topic type.
- Robert Scoble
scoble the curator. more like scoble the librarian. oh wait... :P
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Robert, I'd bet at least 50% of the following is to try and get more followers back. The other 40-50% are trying to find interesting people.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I met someone last week who actually is only interested in following celebrities.
- Robert Scoble
Sometimes Robert, I am really talking to those who follow you and not really talking to you. :)
- Louis Gray
hehe, Louis.
- WorldofHiglet
Louis: funny. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Game behavior can make boring pointless things fun. Or it can make interesting activities irresisitable. Robert sharing and engaging is a form of game behavior. Well at least it looks fun to me. The scoble game consists of many parts. Search for new tech, new biz models, and more efficient/effective social connections Iphone app potential...
- Mark Essel
do you know if their is a complete up to date twitter directory out there? would be nice if twitter offered that with some filters for geo-location etc and even activity level (ie. show inactive users for last 6 months). dont think the api exposes global data like this though.
- sull
I haven't talked to you at all Robert, apart from yesterday's comment. But as soon as you followed me on FF (on which I am not very active, except for reading your discussions), 11 min later Steve Cadwell also followed. Hihi!
- Gunnar Engblom
I'd like a better way to find people on FriendFeed interested in photography and art. Especially new users. Right now that's not an easy way to do this.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas... you can join/create a group for photography and art, and follow people who post interesting content to that group.
- Blake
Blake, I'm a member of some of those groups. But, only a small percentage actually join them. If FF let us submit our interests a much more efficient directory could be created. Heck, even a wefollow for friendfeed could do a better job I think.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas, true. A searchable directory/wefollow clone would be great. Maybe I'll whip one up when I get some spare cycles :)
- Blake
@dmje We have a SharePoint list, w/ a workflow behind which emails us 2 tell us who is SLACKING w/ milk payments 2 the kitty. Usually me..
I knew SharePoint had a purpose ;)
- John Bradford
Also we are developing a Law Practice simulation system using SharePoint that allows tutors to run simulations of different case scenarios and monitor student's individual and group performance. Early pilot was successful, we intend to release it as a possibly commercial service once it is complete.
- Pete Gilbert
I must have missed something in the past week or so: why all of a sudden so many subs to my FriendFeed?
Yeah -- it's linking to FB, Twitter, email etc. -- so people can import those contacts. And I hear lots of people are leaving Twitter or something like that....
- Larissa Fair
that and the twitter @reply fiasco
- John Bradford
Seems Boy scouts can get a anti-terrorism badge now http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009...
John Bradford liked this
actually "terrified" but that's not a FF option :s
- John Bradford
Moved on a little from bob a job week. I must be getting old, but they look so young, but I guess I was playing laser quest that age
- Zoe
@johnbradford cool, thanks john. Brian?
Dorricott - ex-SWAIN manager, Angel investor, good bloke (phone & email following by dm)
- John Bradford
Half the world is saying Google properties are dead or slow. Seeing zero issues with any of Google's services here?
GMail & GCal working in Bristol, UK
- John Bradford
What’s the difference between an MBA and an entrepreneur? - http://blog.marsdd.com/2009...
MBA stands for "More Bullshit than Anyone else" I have one and its pointless. Entrepreneur has More Bollocks than Anyone else. The risk in starting a business is huge both financially, personally (family, reputation). MBA is training by reading and entrepreneur is a lesson learned at the school of hard knocks. An MBA never learns rule 101 in business - never run out of cash. etc
- sam sethi
agreed, the MBA's I've knowingly worked with haven't been anywhere near as exiting as the entrepreneurs (though the two aren't mutually exclusive anyone with "MBA" on their business card is off to a bad start with me)
- John Bradford
makes me wonder - can you teach entrepreneurship? I don't think you can - it's an attitude, a perspective on life, not a skill that can be learnt. Someone with sound commercial experience should be brought into a startup once it is running to ensure that it is managed right - I am not sure that the people who have the vision to start companies have he skills to keep them going. There's a need for both, is what I'm saying.
- Nigel
I did half an MBA and did it backwards. I learnt a lot, but perhaps not what was intended.
- Tim Penn
The role of universities in a Web 2.0 world? - http://efoundations.typepad.com/efounda...
Cameron Neylon liked this
Face to face tutor time? That's mostly for the Oxford/Cambs of this world, for the rest there are lots of web2.0 alternatives to University. How about all the blogs, twitter streams, FF conversations with real entrepreneurs & business leaders (rather than teaching academics), how about BarCamps, SkillSwaps, IRC, etc for software types, and if you *need* a piece of paper, how about the OpenUniversity? Sounds like quite a few alternatives. :)
- John Bradford
Hmmm...,. Microsoft Vine not capable of resolving (and saving) UK addresses. Not a good start. Come on MS.
Hi Nigel, got any invites for Vine?
- Pete Gilbert
when I tried you could only select "USA" from the list of countries
- John Bradford
and the (optional) address has to be * complete home address?!?! M$FAIL
- John Bradford
M$ = We are sorry but due to any number of reasons your web page failed to load
- John Bradford
Ahh, maybe I dont want an invite yet then....
- Pete Gilbert
email address validated, will now receive updates about my area and a handy PDF to print out so ppl can email on my behalf? WTF?
- John Bradford
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