itch: Race Kings http://itch.com/index.php Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:27:23 -0500 5 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=16329
The new site will be at http://racekingsgame.com ... because for some reason, someone owns racekings.com and points it to an online casino. Doh!

The RK site will show some text and a link to the new site when the move starts.

Don't expect any actual gameplay changes on day 1 - simply trying to get the site up and running on the new server!]]> Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:35:18 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=16329 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=14847 http://rktourney.itch.com/]]> Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:06:12 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=14847 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=14488
Tournament server rounds will start on the 15th of every month and end on the 14th of the following month.

Nate and I are still working out the details of how the server will work, but I just thought I'd post this a quick heads up.

Important: This is IN ADDITION TO the current server - this is NOT replacing the current server.]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:10:26 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=14488 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=11958
We still think that the round based format has a lot to offer in terms of keeping the game fresh and allowing for more drastic changes and experimentation, so we are considering the possibility of introducing a second server that is round based.

We will be rolling out a survey tomorrow to gauge opinions on possible changes to the existing server and opinions about having a new server.]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:34:45 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=11958 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=11904
We've got changes we'd like to make, and we don't want to be limited by fitting them into the existing RK system and meshing them with the way the game currently works.

So, we'll be closing RK down from Dec 1st to Dec 5th and doing a complete wipe of the database. All players will begin RK on even footing come Dec 5th. Active Memberships and unused game credits will carry over.

In addition, we'll be planning on doing this full reset approximately every 6 months from now on to allow the game to evolve while still giving players a while to build up.

We haven't decided on all of the changes we're making, and we probably won't decide on all of them until the end of November. We will certainly check out the feedback forum during that time, but do not expect definite responses from Nate nor myself about whether a change will go in, because we won't be making the definite decisions in the immediate future.]]> Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:51:53 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=11904 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9698
The sabotage limited that was supposed to go in with the group of updates at

http://www.itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9446

has been implemented.


Finally, don't forget about the max car value update we mentioned at

http://www.itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9694]]> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:11:26 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9698 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9694 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:17:15 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9694 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9580
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2. Repo fund will change - have looked at the ideas in your thread, need to discuss this weekend with Nate]]> Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:52:34 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9446 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9121
Messages are treated more like forum threads, and you can ignore players, archive messages, and use HTML in your messages now.]]> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:51:04 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9121 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9101 After making the recent change to fix the sabotage formula, it became clear that security cameras needed higher levels, so they now go up to level 197 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:13:06 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9101 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9036

The dealership will open with ONE new stock car and a limited quantity of that car. Not announcing anything else regarding shipment frequency other than that ... again, part of the fun
]]> Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:54:06 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=9036 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=8948
Welcome to both!]]> Thu, 29 May 2008 19:13:05 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=8948 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=8893 Just wanted to give a heads up that a new dealership will be released next Tuesday, June 3 for players in tiers 2/3.

It will have new stock cars. The quantity of these cars will be limited, and when the dealership runs out of these cars nobody will be able to buy them. New shipments will come in sporadically (but unannounced). Just because a car is in the dealership once doesn't mean it will be in the dealership again, but some of the cars will make 'return appearances'.

As was the case before, you can only buy a stock car if it's not already in your garage.]]> Wed, 28 May 2008 15:07:22 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=8893 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=8436
Nate and I are still looking at how best to update car theft in the long run, but for now we've elected to revert to the old car theft system. All other 'new' parts of the game are going to remain the same, but until we think we have a better solution that still allows enough success while keeping the balance we're looking for, we decided it was best to put it back to the way people liked it.

]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 22:50:35 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=8436 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=8292
One of the aims of all the recent changes has been to make the gap between the top and mid-range players smaller, but we do also want to have a way for players who stay around to continue to increase their population when upgrading the crib gets too expensive, and we feel that this is a good solution.]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 12:29:58 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=8292 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=8003
All goons / lawyers/ loansharks will be automatically sold for their existing cash value. so ... you will receive 100 for each goon, 2000 for each lawyer, and the appropriate value for loan sharks. You can then elect to use the cash in the new system however you like. Your cash will be protected until either you elect to come out of cease fire OR Monday @ 5pm at the latest.

In addition, donators will receive:
75% of all credits purchased in last 2 weeks
50% of all credits purchased from March 1 til two weeks ago
25% of credits purchased January/February




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When the switchover occurs the game will be down for a few hours. All players will be put into a cease fire mode. You may elect to immediately take yourself out of cease fire. If you do not, all players will automatically come out of cease fire on Monday, April 21 @ 3:00PM EST]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:53:27 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=7993 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=7930
Nate and I liked this idea because it gives players who regularly complete all missions an incentive to keep money around on hand ... becomes a bit of a balancing act.

I'm opening a thread on the feedback forum ... if you think this is lame, or awesome, let us know.

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I've already started the coding and I expect that the new attack system will be launched for public consumption on Thursday, April 17.

On Monday we will post an announcement regarding how players' existing stats will be converted to new system.]]> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:46:19 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=7848 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=7520 No longer will you have to click over and over after resetting your skills. Just type how many points to use into the quicktrain tool, linked from the bottom of the regular training screen Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:46:54 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=7520 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=7396
Welcome tbone!]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:02:45 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=7396 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=7105
"Any attempt to harass (via chat or messaging) or trick a new player (e.g. 'press alt+f4') into leaving Race Kings will be treated as grounds for a permanent chat and/or game ban from all of itch.com"]]> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:50:33 -0400 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=7105 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=6995
Under 'messages' you will now see a link for 'Invite Friends, earn turns'.
On that page you enter your email info and it brings up your contacts so that you can easily send them an email to refer them to RK. Any new player you refer earns you 1 itch buck, which can be exchanged for 175 RK turns.

In a 30 day timespan you may earn up to 100 itchbucks. To prevent abuse, we track 'new players' by making sure that nobody has ever registered on itch with the IP address of the new player.

]]> Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:16:54 -0500 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=6995 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=6503 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:02:54 -0500 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=6503 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=6419 1. Custom cars now have a sell value. It starts at 10k. It goes up at the same rate for wins (10% per win) but has double the cap ($200,000,000 instead of $100,000,000)

2. The infamous 'Multiple Warehouse Upgrade' bug is gone

3. The page that lists all your custom cars is gone. Instead we show the status of custom cars in the garage.

4. Nonmembers can now lock 1 car and members may lock 2 cars. You can lock regular or custom cars. Locked cars may not be stolen. This does not affect sabotage.

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5. Driver Levels Increased to 140 [cough] Herbie [/cough]]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:10:36 -0500 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=6419 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=6338
Start by entering the year/make/model and uploading a pic of the car. Next, you'll allocate 50 'starter points' to the car...with up to 40 on one particular attribute.

Now you've got the base of your car and you can begin buying Suspensions, Tires, Brakes, and Transmissions. For each part type you can choose different versions.

Finally, you can use your 'auto shop' to upgrade a part once it's in your car. Upgrading a part amplifies all of its attributes - so if a tire is great at rally but poor at drag, upgrading the tires will make them even better at rally and even worse at drag. Upgrading a part takes 3 hours to raise it one level. The max level is 10 and the upgrade cost increases at each level.

A few key notes:
1. Custom cars can be stolen like any other car.
2. If you are not the original creator of a car, you cannot edit its picture, name, make, model or year
3. Members can make a new custom car every 10 hours, nonmembers 1 every 20
4. The intention is for the best custom cars to be much better than the best cars that you can buy at the dealership. Depending on how things pan out, we may change some of the values on the upgrades to make sure that happens.
5. We have plans to revamp the attack system. This will include methods to improve the protection on your custom cars. No ETA on when this will happen.
]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:02:39 -0500 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=6338 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=5805
Today and over the course of the next week RK will be getting more updates. Stay tuned!]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:11:57 -0500 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=5805 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4866 The skill reset will now put all skills back to 0, whereas before some of them were left at one. Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:34:19 -0500 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4866 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4828 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:43:17 -0500 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4828 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4740 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:31:54 -0500 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4740 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4654 1 . You may only steal one car per 24 hours against a particular player.
2. Defender losses are capped at attacker loss / 2


We expect to continue tweaking.]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:16:53 -0500 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4654 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4603
Brackets are now set up so that numBrackets is # racers / 20 and then players are dividely even between the brackets, ordered by driver exp]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:59:49 -0500 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4603 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4542
If you played the original version, the gameplay has been changed. The most significant change being that the game is no longer a round-based game that will be reset. There are many stats that will be reset monthly and all stats and leaderboards will be based on monthly performance.

The interface has undergone a significant redesign and the integration with itch was also pretty substantial.

So, there are undoubtedly going to be small speed bumps as we get the gme launched. 2bad4u will be around to hopefully smooth things out quickly. Please post bugs/issues on the forums or via forum PM directly to 2bad4u.

The game can be found here: http://racekings.itch.com/

Thanks!]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:20:15 -0500 http://itch.com/index.php?showtopic=4542