Aug 8, 2013

Clash of Clans - Simple guide



This is a multiplayer Iphone war game where you build troops to attack other players to loot their resources and build defences protecting own loot and town hall.

1. Town Hall
- Determines amount of building that you can build and upgrade level available for each building and consequentially, affecting troops that you can train and level of upgrade available for the troops. So, this building needs to be upgraded to the max to max all other buildings.

2. Resources building
- Best to keep on upgrading to the highest upgrade you can attain for long term benefits. Don't forget to increase the capacity of storage.

3. Clans
- Join clans and take advantage of other players support in the clan. In a clan, you can ask for troops from other players which you can use in event of attack.
- It will never be a bad idea to join a clan.

4. Gems
- This is precious. Don't use it on speeding building time. Best way to use it is to keep and accumulate for more builder hut.
- You can get it from achievement or clearing the bushes or trees. No worry, the tree will regrow every 8 hours.

5. Attack
- It costs very little to find opponents so I would suggests to find weak opponent before attack them.
- You can get trophies and resources from attack. Trophies are part of achievements where you can get substantial amount of gems or you can get from being top 3 ranked clan which is almost impossible task.
- Looting resources is important because generating own resources is slow and has huge risk being looted by others. If you keep attack until you had desired amount of resources and spent away instantly, we don't need afraid the possibility of being looted by others.

6. Defend
- Building a strong defence is important to keep all resources intact or maintain trophies amount.

It is a simple mechanism. Just enjoy the game. But, beware that a lot of people out there were waiting for next victim.

Top Eleven Be a Football Manager - How to start building team



Top Eleven Be a Football Manager is a Facebook game and playable on Iphone or Android. You can login into Facebook on the phone to manage your team anytime anywhere as long you are free. This game revolves building a team and fighting against other Facebook users. At lower levels, it is easy to win if you are active because most of the times, people will just create and then ignore the game. So, this guide is more for players who are looking to play longer term.

At lower level, new players tend to keep buying 20 years old at price that doubles or triples price of that of 25 years old. But, when you do this for several seasons, you will run out of money. The best for me is to buy developed players which is above 25 years old. It costs less than young star. This mechanic part of the game is totally opposite to the real life football or even football manager game. Every season, the player price will drop significantly as he ages. Even though the progress or ability increase capability is higher, the increase would still be at lower rate than the price decrease. If you only buy 25-27 years old like me, you can change your players every season without any problem. If you concern about limited token, you can just bid several players of similar position, you will certainly get to buy one among them. And always remember to avoid those with special abilities because normally, everyone will fight for them and you will lose all your tokens to those that spent real money on tokens. So play safe and spend according to your means. To further increase your cash regeneration, spend money on stadium expansion. Investment in youth facilities is important too. Normally it will generate two youth players and one of them, you can sign for free which you can resell for big amount even though it is a poor players because it is 18 years old. Take advantage of the stupid mechanic of the game and build your legacy.

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May 21, 2013

Marvel Avengers Alliance set up

Since I started late, I only able to get my hand on common weapon. This is what I recommend for your agent.

1. Wear tactician armor. Your agent would serve as supportive/ defensive character so having tactician which only will trigger counterattack and also having 2 move against blaster is ideal.
2. Use target painter / dark sigil for 100% accuracy. Target painter is 4 rounds against a single enemy and can easily obtained in deploys while dark sigil is only 2 rounds but it's against all enemies and has 100% critical. You can get Dark Sigil in Premium Mission Chapter 9. You will just need to recruit Dr.Strange which is merely 23 Command Points.
3. Magnetic Field Generator. This gear makes shield on all allies but the key is that it will give everyone extra turn when the shield is removed. It can be obtained in Mission 4.4 Epic Boss. Epic boss will appear after you clean up all the enemies an deploys in the map. In 4.4, you will need to deploy a scrapper and also Storm (48CP).
4. Only for Killing. This weapon is annoying to anyone. Why? Its effect is Mental Anguish and Migraine. Mental Anguish will -50% target's HP if they make any offensive action. Normally, will just kill of that enemy unless the enemy possess Mental Resilience which reduced it to 25% HP effect. Phoenix and Cable have Mental Resilience skill while Magneto's Mental Shield makes him immune to psychic attack and Psylocke L6 move will create Mental Shield too. However, it is obtained from Epic Boss 9.4. You can get Custom one from Challenge mode. 9.4 deploys include Rogue (90CP), Thing (33CP) and Invisible Woman.
5. Curative reach to heal everyone. You can get it from research and buy it in store or gets from 3.5 or 4.3 mission rewards.
6. The above is just recommendation, it is still up to you to set up other weapon to aid your other 2 heroes.

To prepare for battle, we need to prepare for the worst and ready to win.
1. What we can control: Agent, gears, uniforms and which 2 heroes to deploy.
2. We need to prepare that opponent will get 3 turns first. That's the worst scenario. The advantage lies with first mover. Thus, my idea is we need to get a protector. Best would be a scrapper and tactician. Why? Scrapper will grant enraged to bruisers after they attack while tactician will grant counter attack reflexes to Infiltrators. If we had chosen a bruiser, there is a risk of getting pawned by a blaster. Blaster naturally possess high damage and also with critical strike against bruisers, bruisers protector will die in a moment. Choosing a protector is what we can control. The more things that we can control, the better we can plan. Less uncertainties means less risk that we will lose. So, which heroes can protect:
a. Captain America - Protect with counter
- Taking advantage of the counter, we can put him together with Union Jack. Union Jack capable of join in counter attack.
b. Nightcrawler - Protect with chance to evade
- He is an unarmed melee hero with all attacks to bleed opponent with alternative uniform so for synergy, it is best to use a hero that also using unarmed attack or exploits bleed. Since, it is again possess skill to follow up coupled with combo setup. Union Jack could be useful since he is unarmed and will follow in follow up.
c. Spiderman - Protect with natural high evasion
- Can be coupled with Fantomex or Scarlet Witch for evasion build.
d. Wolverine - Protect with chance to counter attack and possibly get extra turn when protect/ counter.
- His buff is good with alternative uniforms. Healing, chance for extra turn if protect or counter. It is good to get heroes that exploits bleeds or tenderised with him like X-23, Tigra or Sif. Ideal one would be X-23 but it is said that she is weak in defence.
e. Colossus - Protect with less damage taken
- You can make him into a wall of steel with proper ISO of HP and defence or evasion. You can mix him with anyone.

- You can put in Fantomex to any heroes that you want. He will provide evasion buff to your party.

Dragon City: Battleground

The strongest dragon for me is pure dragon. It is said to be the hardest to breed. It requires 2 legendary/wind/crystal/mirror dragon. The chances are low but during that period, you probably will fill up your dragon book.



The main reason is simple. It have 3 pure moves. Pure fire, pure and pure metal moves. It doesn't possess any weakness to any moves nor advantage. The other move would be fire skill, lava balls. Lava balls damage is low but it won't be your main skill since pure damage (any one of the 3 skills) against neutral is highest in the game. With these 4 skills, fire possess advantage above ice and water dragon, pure fire above fire dragon, pure metal above metal dragon and against other elements just use pure metal moves since its animation time is short, saves your time fighting. Pure metal skill is weak against pure metal dragon and laval balls and pure fire skill is weak/immune against pure fire dragon. So, always beware of pure fire and pure metal dragon. Train them to level 30 and 3 stars and you will be totally invincible.

Mar 20, 2013

Candy Crush Expert level 200+

At higher levels, there will be a lot of new special candies and obstacles.

i) Fish and frozen obstacle








The fish will randomly hit 3 candies but in case where the challenge is breaking jellies, the fish will aim for jelly. But, note that metal obstacle will prevent fish from making jelly.
Jelly fish if mix with striped candies, the candies hit by the fish will turn into striped candies. If mix with bomb candies, it will turn affected candy into bomb candies. If mix with colour bomb candy, it will create 9 fish instead general 3 fish.
Frozen candies appear quite frequently at higher levels. You can break the ice by mix next to it just like chocolate or you can just mix it with other candy. For example above, you can mix using a purple to left or right to break the ice. The fish on the right will not be activated but will activate in the next mix using it.

ii) Wheel










It will make 3 striped candies if you mix it with normal candy. If you mix it to the right or left, you will have 3 vertical candies on your right or left and in case mixing to up or down, you will have 3 horizontal candies.
It will make 2x 3 striped candies if you mix wheel with striped candies.
If mix with bomb candy, you will have a line of bomb candies.
If mix two wheel together, you get 2x full line of striped candies.

iii) Mystery candy




It can turn into any obstacles and any special candies. In some round, it can also turn into lucky candy.

iv) Lucky candy (rarely given though)












v) Rainbow candy








Isn't it looks pretty? It can change between two colors. It will change color even if frozen.

(New Obstacle: Time bomb maker) Candy Crush 275 


















The bomb maker makes a lane of time bomb. It is a very dangerous maker compared to chocolate maker.
This level is one of the hardest time bomb level since it making 3 moves time bomb.
The only way to clear this round is clearing all other jellies except the jellies near the bomb maker. In above picture, it would be the top left orange and green jelly area and top right purple and orange jelly area. My way to clearing is to clear the fish at the bottom first because the fish might break the chocolate at top and resulting your death in 3 moves and so, you can save your playing time.

Candy Crush 269 (Black metal candy + time bomb maker).


















This round is a headache. My way of clearing is rely on mostly on luck.
First, I make the fish ready to be used first by breaking the ice. Then, I make striped candies and break the black candy hoping to get matching time bomb candies and normal candy. The rest depends on the fish. It will take you a lot of tries.

Candy Crush 285












There is 3 double jelly on the bottom. The only way to solve this is use the fish. Fish able to hit jelly through the wall.
Double Jelly means we need to break two times. 
So, one of the way is mix fish with colour bomb after you clear all other jellies. Mixing fish with colour bomb, you will get the effect of 3 fishes + 6 fishes. Actually, you need just 6 fishes to break the bottom 3 double jellies.

At higher level, most of the time, you need lucky set of starting and subsequent candies to clear. But, then knowing how to use latest special candies are needed to clear the rounds as well. 

Criminal Case #9# Burned to the Bone - Studio Bonus


Mar 13, 2013

War Commander 7 days important tips



Not a game for busy people since you will eventually get crushed by opponent. Some players play by coalition of friends. Ask your friend to play and relocate their base nearby so everyone can help each other and destroy anyone else. At start, you will be given 7 days protection from other player's attack unless you tried to attack others (not NPC). By the moment you attack others, you will lost your protection. During this 7 days period, it is a vital period because you will need to keep attack NPC enemy to gather resources to beef up your defence and by the time you reach level 20+ you no longer able to loot resources from lvl 3-5 NPC enemy which is a piece of cake.

Goal in 7 days:
1. Upgrade your command centre.
2. Attack lvl 3 using soldier.
3. Build defensive protector: Mortar and Machine guns and bars.
4. Upgrade your storage facilities. (Note: You can surpass the limit from looting proceeds)
5. Diversify your base troop. Mix them up.
6. Upgrade airport for higher air capacity.
7. Upgrade aircraft.
8. Build aircraft.

By 7 days, attack NPC using aircraft and gather even more loots.

Dragon City tips and goals



This game is more of free time game like Farmville or Chefville.
1. Food system where you set what's the time for harvest. You will need food to level up your dragon. Note: The longer the duration, the more it cost / minute, the more food/ minute. So, to save golds (in case you don't have enough), choose lower duration plant.



2. Habitat system. You will place your dragons in habitat. Each dragon will generate different amount of golds per minute and each habitat will have different max golds accumulation. Electric and earth habitat have low max golds accumulation. It's best not to place your dragons there. You can increase 20% golds/minute generation using respective elemental crystal according to dragon element. You can change name of your dragon by clicking your dragon in habitat.


3. Breeding system. The fun and tedious part is breeding. It's more fun if you don't spend real money because breeding will serve as a challenge. You will only be able get the most basic elemental dragon using golds. To buy better dragons, you will need gem i.e. real money. So, for free user like me, breeding would be the challenge. A better dragon is needed for combat.



4. Combat system. There is league and stadium. League is where you will fight 3v3 against other players. Stadium is where you will fight 3v3 with NPC dragon. In event, they normally includes 1v1 and 3v3 fights with NPC. During fighting, you will began to gather stars for combat ability and your dragon attack moves will get stronger i.e. more damage. You will earn gem if you complete a league and stadium fights.

5. Training system. This training center will gives any level 15 dragons new move. Note: you need Magic Temple to surpass limit of level 10. The training moves are stronger compared to common moves and the learning moves process takes up to 48 hours. It's not necessary to replace all moves but just replace similar element of attacks with trained moves e.g. replace earth attacks with earth attacks in training moves list and also remember which attack is strongest. When you choosing the moves, it would written how much % increase in damage so always attack in combat using highest damage % attack in case you doesn't remember  what's the weakness of your opponent's dragon.


Objective:
1. Collect gems and buy ultra breeding tree. Even though being a free user, we can't buy gems. However, every time you level up (not dragon), the game gives you gem and try ignore the quests that asking you to speed up harvesting or breeding process. Winning league also grants you gems. Finish a collection of dragons in dragon book, you can claim gems as well. Ultra breeding tree will make you reach the following goals faster. Remember to upgrade hatchery to enable hatching of two eggs simultaneously.
2. Legendary and pure dragons. Aim for these dragons. Legendary includes legendary, mirror, wind. and crystal. There is pure dragon for each element. You will need to breed rare dragons with rare dragons to get legendary dragons. Rare dragons are Gummy, Petroleum, Pirate, Poo, Cool Fire, Soccer and Armadillo. The hatching will take 48 hours I believe. This dragons will generate much more golds per minute than normal dragons. To get hybrid rare dragons, you will need to look at their respective elements. For example, pirate is dark water elements. Dark dragon and water dragon cannot breed directly. So, we use dark hybrid e.g. dark electric with water hybrid e.g. water fire and breed together. It will takes a lot of try so get ultra breeding tree is important. Pure dragon obtained by breeding two legendary dragon.
3. Get all dragons in dragon book.



Feb 27, 2013

Candy Crush Saga - Intermediate tips

First, let's talk about making special candies (4-5 candies combination):
i) Striped Candies/ Horizontal/Vertical Candies
a) Vertical Candies
























b) Horizontal Candies
-Using dropping method to make horizontal candies are not recommended because it is better used to make colour candy.














-Notice the difference of stripe. If it was combined, the pink line shows the clearance path. The orange striped will clear horizontal line so let's call it horizontal striped candy. Purple one is vertical striped candy.
-The set-up above, you can also make tactical combination, move the purple candy to the right and it will clear orange candy and orange candy will altogether clear top horizontal line.
-Normal candies destroyed = 60 points per candy

ii) Wrapped Candies/ Bomb Candies































-The pink area is the explosion area. It will be explode with 540 points.
- It will explode two times which differs from other alike game. First, it explodes the shown area and drop to above that bottom middle blue and explode the light blue area.












iii) Colour Bomb











-Colour Bomb can be paired with any colour candy. It will then destroy all candy of that colour over the board.
-At 0 moves Candy Crush, it randomly hits candies.

Next, we will talk about combination of special candies (can combine regardless of colours):
i) Striped Candies with Striped Candies











- Pay attention to the difference between two pairing.
- The clearance path will be determined by the meeting point of the two candies.
- Regarded as least useful combination for me.

ii) Striped Candies with Bomb Candies


















- The 3-lines clearance path is determined by the vocal point just like previous combination.
- Very effective combination. Can clear a lot of candies depending on how big is the map.

iii) Striped Candies with Colour Bombs




































- Super effective combination if there is a lot of similar colored candies in the map to the one you are going to pair with.

iv) Bomb candy with bomb candy
-Hits a bigger area (5x5) than a bomb candy (3x3).

v) Colour candy with colour candy





- All candies would be cleaned up.

Possible added difficulties:
i) Walls - as level higher, the wall will get thicker.
- You would need to combine candies beside the walls to break/ decompose them away.
- In challenges that have walls, it would always best to break the walls to get more space to make more special candies.
- In higher level, bomb candies is quite effective against walls because of double detonation effect.
ii) Net
- You can easily remove the net using striped candies or just by normal combinations.
iii) Chocolate
- This chocolate will expand every move you take. The common misconception is that you have to be fast if not, your whole map will be filled with chocolate. That's wrong. Don't rush and take your time. You don't move, it won't expand. You can break the chocolate by combine candies beside the chocolate or using striped candies. Striped candies effect tend to break chocolate as the effect expands into 3 lines.
- You can stop the chocolate from expanding when you actually break all the chocolates. But, at higher level, it is impossible to stop chocolate completely because there is a chocolate making machine.
iv) Time bombs
- Similar to chocolate, the time bomb's time will reduced by 1 every time you move. However, time bomb is a very dangerous obstacle because when it booms, you are straight away 'Game over'. So, always give priority to clearing bomb first but don't forget about the challenge objective and always aware of bomb timing.

Possible scenarios criteria and basic tips:
i) Time given - Very little challenge based on this
- Rush all the way and look out for bomb candies or color candies and combination with striped candies
ii) Moves given - Most of the challenge
- Always think before move.
iii) Get certain amount of points - All challenge
iv) Get ingredients down
- Use vertical candies or combined with bomb candies to easily get pass this type of challenge.
v) Break all the jelly
- To do well, you need to have special candies or combinations to break the jelly.
vi) Complete orders - Certain amount of particular colored candies, special candies and combination of special candies.
- Always pay attention to the orders. For example, there is no use of making a lot of colour bomb when the order wanted 3 combination of bomb and striped candies.

In short, to do well in Candy Crush, know the special candies and their combinations and pay attention to objective and time bombs would be the key of clearing the challenge.





Jan 22, 2013

Criminal Case #2 Corpse in a Garden - Mini-market Bonus


I have recently played this game and I wanted to share this guide on 2nd case items.