I took questions from everyone who wanted to ask them and asked Ben. Here is what he has to say.
Profile
Name: Ben
Age: 24
Location: Wellington, NZ
In my spare time I spend it working/building my car and hitting the gym as of late.
I live with my partner and dog (Charlie) in the suburbs.
I
work an average full time job just like everyone else, I don't own my
own home and I am not rich despite what everyone will tell you.
The
reason this game is & continues to run is because I have and always
will love this project, the support of the donations past & present
are the only reason it can continue.
Q. What car are you building?
I am building a Nissan Sil80 (180sx with an S13 front).
Runs an S15 SR20DET motor, it does go but the motor has a leak so I am pulling it back out.
Q. How much can you bench?
Just over 80KG so not much unfortunately.
Q. Adam asks how your brother is?
My brother is good. We live in the same city now and play indoor cricket once a week.
Q. What's your favorite food/colour/hobby?
Authentic Asian, Green, My Car.
Q. How do you like your eggs in the morning?
Boiled or Poached on toast.
Q: A few people always complain that you don't do enough for the game,
don't spend enough time/have enough admins. Most of us understand why
but obviously their are people who don't know you, could you explain a
little about yourself and maybe a little history of how this game came
to be?
In my opinion after having worked on this project for 9 years is that
you cannot please everyone, it has been a life lesson if you will
because believe me over the years I have tried.
What people don't
understand is how much time everything takes, people tend to complain
about slow development which is what is needed to get things done
properly. Yet they complain if they don't think things are moving
quickly enough, it is a pretty fine line.
You have to remember
not only do I have to worry about game development, looking after the
game itself but there is also the server administration side of things
which can be just as much of a challenge at time.
As for hiring
staff, we have had some pretty bad luck with this over the past as some
of you are well aware. I can understand it from both sides however,
moderating is a very time internsive job and from it you basically just
get player abuse because we cannot afford to pay anyone.
That
being said we have had a handful of great staff members over the years
and I have probably not ever thanked them enough for their support.
We started this project when I was about 15 years old, I am now 24.
I
have a full time job aside from this, I have a partner, dog etc all
which also need time so juggling life is probably the most difficult
task.
Many people have this perception that I make a
living from donations here and don't give back to the community. If I
added up all the hours spent on this project in the last 10 years and
gave myself a McDonald's wage out of the donations we would have been
broke from the start.
That is not to say I am ungrateful for the
support we have and will hopefully continue to receive as this is the
only reason why the game can survive.
But to make people clear I
don't live in a mansion playing games all day forgetting about this
project (infact I don't even own a house at all).
When I am
working hard to get something done my day can consist of 12 working
hours easily. 8 Hours for my normal job and then 4 hours here (4 hours
is nothing in terms of time it takes to get things done properly) and
this doesn't even start on the full weekends worth of time it has
received.
I remember in the past doing this for weeks and weeks
on end to get new layouts rolled out etc only to get a pretty average
response from the comunnity later (We can't always get things perfect).
In
the end even if people believe me or not I love this project, at times
it has consumed my life but the people I have met, friends made and just
the general feedback I get occasionally from players is what keeps me
going.
Q: Are you happy with the outcome of recent updates/is the game improving as you intend?
Yes personally I am happy with the outcome of the latest updates.
Development
is never as fast as anyone would like it, when it has been rushed in
the past that is where we have had most of our issues.
Am I happy with the number of players it has brought to the game? Not yet but it is working slowly at this stage.
Q: Do you have any updates that you are working on at the moment or that will be released in the near future?
I
am always working on something! The next thing to cross off my list is
to fix the stats bar panel/timers as well as adding a couple of timers
to the bottom for travel & operations. The other thing I am working
on is the ability to add ranks to operations requests, and the
possibility of an MIA bot of sorts.
Q. What inspired you to create the game and why a war based game?
I was playing another game similar at the time, Adrian and I were
whitewater kayaking together at the time and it all just stemmed from
there.
Why war? Simply because there was nothing else on the market
at the time and everything else was Gangster based, which I loved but we
had to be different.
Q. Are there any plans for a reset? How long will you keep the round going?
No plans yet, I think this round will go longer than the last at this stage. I can't really put a timeframe on it.
Q.
Have you ever played as a regular player? As you have the best view of
the game in a sense, who do you think have been the greatest
squads/players?
Yes within reason, I have ranked a normal account
in previous rounds to see how things go together. It has caused change
of many features, I should do it more often for testing, things are
always good as ideas but when you actually play and use the features
sometimes they don't work as you intended.
Q. Are there any plans to make bar brawling a bigger part of the game, i.e getting normal XP from it?
It has been considered, it would/does really need an overhaul. Is this something people want to see?
Q. How many hours did you spend getting the game back up this week?
This week 21 hours as a minimum. That is ontop of working 40+ hours for
my actual job. I have probably spent 4 hours in the gym this week and
other than working that is every minute of spare time.
What people
don't realize is how long everything takes and the better you do
something the longer it takes. I think in the 3 days of downtime I had
roughly 12-13 hours of sleep.
Q. Is the game now what you pictured it would be when you started it all them years ago?
Yes and no. Did I ever think the project would take off like it did?
No. Is the what I would like as a final stage? Absolutely not I have and
always will have larger expectations.
Thank you for your time.
Saturday, 26 October 2013
Friday, 25 October 2013
Bye Bye PN
It has been an eventful evening. Not long after the kills page was brought back up it has been put to good use.
Firstly Hayabusa(Daz) shot Oasis for Bayamo Racetrack, it had a 4billion maxbet and the till was 730mill when it was picked up. Daz still holds the racetrack.
Courvoisier(Lee) wiped Propane Nightmares which was supplied by himself, Abdul(Koenigsegg) and ESO but was cut short when he was shot by Overload for Darkside of the Moon.
Lee managed to take out 7 members of PN before he was shot although he had a lot more on the list and found to shoot, he only lost 20k when he was shot.
Darkside of the Moon are denying killing him but screenshots of the WS have come to light.
Will we see any retaliation for the kills?
RIP
Firstly Hayabusa(Daz) shot Oasis for Bayamo Racetrack, it had a 4billion maxbet and the till was 730mill when it was picked up. Daz still holds the racetrack.
Courvoisier(Lee) wiped Propane Nightmares which was supplied by himself, Abdul(Koenigsegg) and ESO but was cut short when he was shot by Overload for Darkside of the Moon.
Lee managed to take out 7 members of PN before he was shot although he had a lot more on the list and found to shoot, he only lost 20k when he was shot.
Darkside of the Moon are denying killing him but screenshots of the WS have come to light.
Will we see any retaliation for the kills?
RIP
| Courvoisier | Veteran | 8:14:56 pm 24 Oct 2013 |
| Soraka | Colonel | 8:14:47 pm 24 Oct 2013 |
| camdogg | Veteran | 8:14:04 pm 24 Oct 2013 |
| Nordeast | General | 8:13:17 pm 24 Oct 2013 |
| Lois Lane | General | 8:00:37 pm 24 Oct 2013 |
| Zach | Veteran | 8:00:27 pm 24 Oct 2013 |
| Fila | Veteran | 8:00:16 pm 24 Oct 2013 |
| Poetictry | General | 8:00:14 pm 24 Oct 2013 |
| Oasis | General | 6:41:11 pm 24 Oct 2013 |
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Friday, 18 October 2013
OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING
This may not be in perfect order but someone can correct me on what I miss + the facts if they wish.
Danny(Aventure) shot Cornwall(Agnes) because ESO have shot Danny before, Agnes had a racetrack which was sent to Shane(SkyForge). ESO retaliated by shooting Aventure and Skyforge.
Lunatik(Leader of Creative Diversion) was shot by DSOTM(The squad Darkside of the Moon) for his bullet factories, the shooter Blink then got banned for using a proxy(I have been informed it was a shared dupe) NightLife had sent the BF's he was holding to Dell and NightLife was shot soon after, he still had a bank which ESO picked up and Lee(Courvoisier) still holds.
CD lost upwards of 1.3million bullets when DSOTM shot loads of random people from their squad so we won't be seeing any retaliation from them anytime soon.
ESO also shot Super Charged(Propane Nightmares member) for his bullet factory. Courvoisier was the hitman and he holds the BF in ESO's squad bunker.
Someone then shot Sharpness(DSOTM member). Not sure why (No one is owning up)
Propane Nightmares shot back at ESO and took out all of their newly ranked members(after DSOTM took them all out before) along with their potential hitmen SilverSoldier and Frenzied(Who had previously survived shooting 3million bullets)
SilverSoldier was holding CD's last 100k bullets when he died
I think that's about that..So currently we have Dell bunkered with all bar one BF, Lee bunkered with the other which is keeping ESO's squad alive.
Rip All
NightLife General 8:12:31 pm 15 Oct 2013
Super Charged 95,000 8:27:19 pm 15 Oct 2013
Skyforge Warrant Officer 10:35:51 pm 10 Oct 2013
Aventure 94,000 10:35:16 pm 10 Oct 2013
HogS 500 2:07:10 am 16 Oct 2013
hello 2,000 2:02:06 am 16 Oct 2013
SonOfABitch 10,000 2:03:12 am 16 Oct 2013
Fangs 10,000 2:02:46 am 16 Oct 2013
J Spades 10,000 2:02:06 am 16 Oct 2013
nut 35,000 2:01:30 am 16 Oct 2013
Cornwall Veteran 8:42:43 am 10 Oct 2013
Danny(Aventure) shot Cornwall(Agnes) because ESO have shot Danny before, Agnes had a racetrack which was sent to Shane(SkyForge). ESO retaliated by shooting Aventure and Skyforge.
Lunatik(Leader of Creative Diversion) was shot by DSOTM(The squad Darkside of the Moon) for his bullet factories, the shooter Blink then got banned for using a proxy(I have been informed it was a shared dupe) NightLife had sent the BF's he was holding to Dell and NightLife was shot soon after, he still had a bank which ESO picked up and Lee(Courvoisier) still holds.
CD lost upwards of 1.3million bullets when DSOTM shot loads of random people from their squad so we won't be seeing any retaliation from them anytime soon.
ESO also shot Super Charged(Propane Nightmares member) for his bullet factory. Courvoisier was the hitman and he holds the BF in ESO's squad bunker.
Someone then shot Sharpness(DSOTM member). Not sure why (No one is owning up)
Propane Nightmares shot back at ESO and took out all of their newly ranked members(after DSOTM took them all out before) along with their potential hitmen SilverSoldier and Frenzied(Who had previously survived shooting 3million bullets)
SilverSoldier was holding CD's last 100k bullets when he died
I think that's about that..So currently we have Dell bunkered with all bar one BF, Lee bunkered with the other which is keeping ESO's squad alive.
Rip All
| Sharpness | Commander | 2:40:53 am 16 Oct 2013 |
Super Charged 95,000 8:27:19 pm 15 Oct 2013
Skyforge Warrant Officer 10:35:51 pm 10 Oct 2013
Aventure 94,000 10:35:16 pm 10 Oct 2013
HogS 500 2:07:10 am 16 Oct 2013
hello 2,000 2:02:06 am 16 Oct 2013
SonOfABitch 10,000 2:03:12 am 16 Oct 2013
Fangs 10,000 2:02:46 am 16 Oct 2013
J Spades 10,000 2:02:06 am 16 Oct 2013
nut 35,000 2:01:30 am 16 Oct 2013
Cornwall Veteran 8:42:43 am 10 Oct 2013
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Update
Darkside of the Moon decided it was time to shoot their load, ESO have history with them and after some debatable banter on the forums carnage commenced. It started with ESO being shot at, all of their members being killed apart from Josh(Zeitgeist) and Lee(Courvoisier). Then DSOTM's sights turned to a lot of random players with props and Creative Diversion took a massive hit as they lost a lot of members.
In the later half of the shootings Innovation were wiped and Chris said 'I don't have a clue why we just all agreed to it'
How long until we see retaliation? How much retaliation will we see?
RIP
Soldier Number Of Bullets Time of Death
Sailor 70,000 7:20:30 am 13 Oct 2013
oglegend 20,000 7:18:02 am 13 Oct 2013
adamkiksass 52,000 7:17:59 am 13 Oct 2013
Ozil 1,000 7:14:06 am 13 Oct 2013
accept 1,000 7:12:56 am 13 Oct 2013
Treacherous 1,000 7:12:28 am 13 Oct 2013
Uki 5,000 7:11:52 am 13 Oct 2013
Ataraxia 86,000 7:10:09 am 13 Oct 2013
gooey 90,000 7:10:07 am 13 Oct 2013
The Great Empire Machine 20,000 7:08:00 am 13 Oct 2013
NOOB 70,000 7:07:12 am 13 Oct 2013
Ryder 52,000 7:05:28 am 13 Oct 2013
Legaia 20,000 7:02:29 am 13 Oct 2013
Lincoln 35,000 6:53:06 am 13 Oct 2013
Hellscream 90,000 6:53:04 am 13 Oct 2013
Metallica 10,000 6:53:02 am 13 Oct 2013
El Presidente 70,000 6:53:00 am 13 Oct 2013
Superproxy 101,000 7:43:33 pm 12 Oct 2013
Poseidon 101,000 7:37:41 pm 12 Oct 2013
Rache 101,000 7:35:32 pm 12 Oct 2013
ItaliaN 121,000 7:31:20 pm 12 Oct 2013
DSOL 101,000 7:30:44 pm 12 Oct 2013
Temporary Closed 101,000 7:27:02 pm 12 Oct 2013
Dane 35,000 7:25:52 pm 12 Oct 2013
Tiger 70,000 7:25:28 pm 12 Oct 2013
KUYAKIM 101,000 7:23:27 pm 12 Oct 2013
atretochoana 86,000 12:13:35 pm 12 Oct 2013
Mihawk 52,000 12:11:28 pm 12 Oct 2013
Aaron 82,000 12:09:17 pm 12 Oct 2013
Cronwell 52,000 12:09:15 pm 12 Oct 2013
marz 86,000 12:03:59 pm 12 Oct 2013
email 70,000 9:56:33 am 12 Oct 2013
Utopia 35,000 9:56:03 am 12 Oct 2013
Abduction 5,000 9:55:21 am 12 Oct 2013
Sasuke95 70,000 9:52:44 am 12 Oct 2013
Euphoric 90,000 9:52:20 am 12 Oct 2013
Killua 82,000 9:50:33 am 12 Oct 2013
Krupe 52,000 9:49:24 am 12 Oct 2013
Zero 86,000 9:48:48 am 12 Oct 2013
Brutus 5,000 9:48:16 am 12 Oct 2013
Sneakbo 82,000 9:48:02 am 12 Oct 2013
In Vas Por 101,000 9:46:28 am 12 Oct 2013
Anabolic 86,000 9:46:14 am 12 Oct 2013
Dark Wizard 101,000 9:46:12 am 12 Oct 2013
HellRazor 95,000 9:46:08 am 12 Oct 2013
Beetle 21,500 9:45:58 am 12 Oct 2013
I asked a few people for comments, but apparently I asked the wrong ones...
In the later half of the shootings Innovation were wiped and Chris said 'I don't have a clue why we just all agreed to it'
How long until we see retaliation? How much retaliation will we see?
RIP
Soldier Number Of Bullets Time of Death
Sailor 70,000 7:20:30 am 13 Oct 2013
oglegend 20,000 7:18:02 am 13 Oct 2013
adamkiksass 52,000 7:17:59 am 13 Oct 2013
Ozil 1,000 7:14:06 am 13 Oct 2013
accept 1,000 7:12:56 am 13 Oct 2013
Treacherous 1,000 7:12:28 am 13 Oct 2013
Uki 5,000 7:11:52 am 13 Oct 2013
Ataraxia 86,000 7:10:09 am 13 Oct 2013
gooey 90,000 7:10:07 am 13 Oct 2013
The Great Empire Machine 20,000 7:08:00 am 13 Oct 2013
NOOB 70,000 7:07:12 am 13 Oct 2013
Ryder 52,000 7:05:28 am 13 Oct 2013
Legaia 20,000 7:02:29 am 13 Oct 2013
Lincoln 35,000 6:53:06 am 13 Oct 2013
Hellscream 90,000 6:53:04 am 13 Oct 2013
Metallica 10,000 6:53:02 am 13 Oct 2013
El Presidente 70,000 6:53:00 am 13 Oct 2013
Superproxy 101,000 7:43:33 pm 12 Oct 2013
Poseidon 101,000 7:37:41 pm 12 Oct 2013
Rache 101,000 7:35:32 pm 12 Oct 2013
ItaliaN 121,000 7:31:20 pm 12 Oct 2013
DSOL 101,000 7:30:44 pm 12 Oct 2013
Temporary Closed 101,000 7:27:02 pm 12 Oct 2013
Dane 35,000 7:25:52 pm 12 Oct 2013
Tiger 70,000 7:25:28 pm 12 Oct 2013
KUYAKIM 101,000 7:23:27 pm 12 Oct 2013
atretochoana 86,000 12:13:35 pm 12 Oct 2013
Mihawk 52,000 12:11:28 pm 12 Oct 2013
Aaron 82,000 12:09:17 pm 12 Oct 2013
Cronwell 52,000 12:09:15 pm 12 Oct 2013
marz 86,000 12:03:59 pm 12 Oct 2013
email 70,000 9:56:33 am 12 Oct 2013
Utopia 35,000 9:56:03 am 12 Oct 2013
Abduction 5,000 9:55:21 am 12 Oct 2013
Sasuke95 70,000 9:52:44 am 12 Oct 2013
Euphoric 90,000 9:52:20 am 12 Oct 2013
Killua 82,000 9:50:33 am 12 Oct 2013
Krupe 52,000 9:49:24 am 12 Oct 2013
Zero 86,000 9:48:48 am 12 Oct 2013
Brutus 5,000 9:48:16 am 12 Oct 2013
Sneakbo 82,000 9:48:02 am 12 Oct 2013
In Vas Por 101,000 9:46:28 am 12 Oct 2013
Anabolic 86,000 9:46:14 am 12 Oct 2013
Dark Wizard 101,000 9:46:12 am 12 Oct 2013
HellRazor 95,000 9:46:08 am 12 Oct 2013
Beetle 21,500 9:45:58 am 12 Oct 2013
I asked a few people for comments, but apparently I asked the wrong ones...
| From: nut | At: 8:55:35 am 13 Oct 2013 |
| Reply : Delete | |
| haaahahahaaaaaa lol RE: Do you have anything outrageous to say for the paper in conjunction with the recent shootings? |
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| From: NightLife | At: 8:53:22 am 13 Oct 2013 |
| Reply : Delete | |
No comment  RE: Do you have anything outrageous to say for the paper in conjunction with the recent shootings? |
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| From: NightLife | At: 9:01:52 am 13 Oct 2013 |
| Reply : Delete | |
| Was fed up with Josh expecting us to shoot so we just did it considering he said he was going to shoot Sharpness. Cant be arsed picking out people but ESO was shot for obvious reasons then we decided to shoot random props/suspicious accounts/cunts of the game | |
| From: Violation | At: 9:46:36 am 13 Oct 2013 |
| Reply : Delete | |
| Mga pre pahunt naman yung structure ng dark side of the moon when we shot into cd Alvin sent that to every squad members that's why we shot more |
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| From: Zeitgeist | At: 9:38:04 am 13 Oct 2013 |
| Reply : Delete | |
| I'll shoot you with my semi-automatic sterilized spoon launcher. | |
| From: Sharpness | At: 10:04:31 am 13 Oct 2013 |
| Reply : Delete | |
| Was fun shooting ESO and a few people wasn't any real reasons to why we shot the others. But ESO was shot for a few reasons, one being that they wanted to shoot me again. |
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| From: Fangs | At: 10:04:08 am 13 Oct 2013 |
| Reply : Delete | |
I was 97% to Vet  (In Vas Por)RE: Do you have anything outrageous to say for the paper in conjunction with the recent shootings? |
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Monday, 7 October 2013
Quick Update
I don't have time to do a Ronald update so this is just what I know whilst I remember it.
Hullabaloo(Alex) and Soderstrom(Ben) were shot by what is left of Incognito. Reason they were shot was Dillon thought it would annoy them.....Nothing was gained from the shootings.
Rip
Soderstrom Colonel 10:30:30 am 05 Oct 2013
Frenzied decided it was time more of Incognito died and shot the hitman that shot Ben and Alex, Dillon and some random Incognito account who I have no idea is.
Rip
Agnes(Cornwall) then shot Discarda because Magda asked her too, something to do with him being a prick.
Rip
Brad was shot for a racetrack he had with a 4bill maxbet by Hayabusa. Till on pick up was over 800million.
Rip
Agnes then took out 3 Veterans to place herself on the top10 Alive soldiers list.
Rip
Hullabaloo(Alex) and Soderstrom(Ben) were shot by what is left of Incognito. Reason they were shot was Dillon thought it would annoy them.....Nothing was gained from the shootings.
Rip
| Hullabaloo | Lieutenant | 11:04:39 am 05 Oct 2013 |
Frenzied decided it was time more of Incognito died and shot the hitman that shot Ben and Alex, Dillon and some random Incognito account who I have no idea is.
Rip
| igothackedffs | Sergeant Major | 2:19:30 am 06 Oct 2013 |
| Pleiadian | Gunnery Sergeant | 1:56:55 am 06 Oct 2013 |
| Ichimaru Gin | General | 1:56:53 am 06 Oct 2013 |
Agnes(Cornwall) then shot Discarda because Magda asked her too, something to do with him being a prick.
Rip
| Discarda | Lieutenant | 8:26:10 am 06 Oct 2013 |
Brad was shot for a racetrack he had with a 4bill maxbet by Hayabusa. Till on pick up was over 800million.
Rip
| Dart | Gunnery Sergeant | 5:16:34 am 07 Oct 2013 |
Agnes then took out 3 Veterans to place herself on the top10 Alive soldiers list.
Rip
| Cheddar Bob | Veteran | 6:21:45 am 07 Oct 2013 |
| Bail-Out | Veteran | 6:20:31 am 07 Oct 2013 |
| Hype | Veteran | 6:20:01 am 07 Oct 2013 |
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