We have just rolled out the ability to search for maps onto the live server, so you can now find maps to your liking out of our amazing collection of 6000+ user-generated maps! Looking for the most popular large 2-player maps? Or maybe a small, low-income map to play with three of your friends? Finding one is now as easy as pie. Check it out on the maps page. Enjoy!
Hello Weewarriors. Based on past community feedback and recent data gathered on what you are building, we have decided to change the current unit stats to make units and strategies more balanced and gameplay more diverse and interesting. Rebalancing units is no easy task and we do not expect to get it right the first time around, so we ask for your help in testing out our planned changes on the test server at http://test.weewar.com.
Our main concerns with current gameplay are:
We also want each unit to be about equally useful. We’ve been gathering data on what units you all like to build. Here is a graph of the total number of credits spent on each unit (count*cost per unit) over a one week span.
[Update 7/16: Here is the same graph using builds from players who have been with us for more than a year.]
The Destroyer and DFA are used way more than all other units, with the exception of units that can capture. Ideally, what we want to see is a roughly flat distribution in the graph above, without major peaks and troughs, where each unit is useful in many different situations.
To address all of our above concerns, we are:
We expect these changes to alter gameplay massively, in both expected and unexpected ways. They will also break a number of current maps. Thus, we ask that you try out the changes on the test server and let us know what you think and of any bugs you find, either as a reply here or via the contact form. We definitely look forward to your feedback.
To test these new changes, go to http://test.weewar.com, make a new account, and just start playing! Please keep in mind that none of your games or points on the test server will transfer over to the live server. This test will end in two weeks (Thursday, July 29), or before then if we feel particular stats need to be changed sooner to allow for more time testing good stats. After the playtest ends, we’ll make changes based on your feedback and launch the test server again.
If you’d like to read about the changes in more detail, check out the forums.
It’s Tuesday again, which means scheduled maintenance at 5pm PST as we roll out some minor infrastructure improvements to the game. There will be more interesting news (hopefully) in the weeks to come though!
[Update 5:13pm: And we're back!]
Weekly downtime for maintenance starts now! We’ll be back in about five to ten minutes.
[Update 5:30pm: make that 20 minutes.]
[Update 5:42pm: And we're back!]
We’re having some technical difficulties and trying to resolve them quickly. Weewar will be back up in a bit.
[Update 3:25pm PST - And we're back. Terribly sorry about that.]
We have weekly scheduled downtime today at 5pm PST to roll out some updates to our internal tracking system. Please be patient, we’ll be back shortly.
[5:02pm: We're back.]
Weewar will go down briefly today at 5pm PST (UTC-7) to address a bug with kicking players.
Have you noticed any major lag on Weewar recently? Our last update on Tuesday should have fixed it, but if you still experience any slowdowns, please let us know!
[Update 6/24/10 5:14pm - We're back!]
[Update 6/25/10 - Yesterday's update introduced a bug in player's signing in after registering. This is pretty crucial so we're releasing a fix for it today at 5:30pm PST. We'll only be down very briefly.]
[Update 6/25/10 5:40pm - A bit longer than expected, but we're back now!]
Weewar will be down for a brief update at 5pm PST (UTC-7). Please bear with us. The update should reduce the lag so you are not sometimes sitting at your computer for a minute waiting for an attack to finish.
[Update 6/22/10, 5:38pm - We started a bit late, but we're back now! Thanks for your patience.]
[Update 6/22/10, 5:55pm - We broke something and will be back in 5 minutes.]
[Update 6/22/10, 6:01pm - Back. Sorry about that.]
As we continue to make improvements to Weewar, we decided it would be best to have updates and server downtime at a regular date and time so that there is less confusion about when it will happen. Thus, starting tomorrow, every Tuesday at 5pm PST (UTC-7), unless otherwise stated, we’ll shut down the server for about half an hour to push out bug fixes and add some new features for you all. We’ll post an announcement at the top of the main Weewar pages to remind you beforehand of the downtime.
This Tuesday, we’ll be rolling out some internal improvements that will help us measure user activity so that we can see where the game needs improvement and how our future changes affect user numbers and activity levels on the site. There won’t really be any noticeable changes for you all.
We are also thinking of starting up the test server again and testing re-balanced unit specs there. Sound off on which units you think need the most rebalancing in this forum thread!
Let us know how we’re doing too! As always, your feedback is very much appreciated. :)
[Update 6/15/10, 5:35pm: we're having some technical difficulties and will be back as soon as we can]
[Update 6/15/10, 6:10pm: we're back! sorry about the delay]
We’re rolling out a quick bug fix to address problems with players challenging other players. We’ll be back in several minutes.
[Update 2:34pm, 6/10/2010: And we're back! Down for only three minutes.]
