Clan stats, 5/31/16

Hello Outliers! Mixed results today with 9 up, 7 down and 27 no change.

The clan gained 16 cups; Academy gained 21 and broke the 10,000 cup score; JA rose 10, DP fell 19, UA up 23.

Winners include Payamduduk (110, amazing); Mehrobh3 (33, very good); Gourd (20, good);

Zubzubzub4000 (14); Zatzat_411 (13); Cowbow29 (8); Quoin2 (3);

Redwood23Spooky and Restcase (1 ea).

Thanks everybody. We made the best of a rough day.

Clan stats, 5/30/16

Hello Outliers! Great day today. We had 11 players gain, 4 lose, 26 no change and 1 new.

A top player wen to Academy which cost us 553 cups. Academy gained 811, JA lost 20, DP gained 50; UA lost 25.

Our winners included Shilohelijah (17); Microwave1 (14); Massimone1 (13); Blasophemia (12); Gourd (10); Blake (9); Cowbow29 (8); Shadowsliver (5); Restcase (4); Cmdr0 (2); Darkholme1906 (1).

Very nice! More of the same, please.

Jungle Wars: Freeze spell

Bidircan1977 and I were experimenting with freeze spells today and they seem a huge waste of resources: tiny spell area and at Level 1 good for 3 seconds or less.

Anyone got an alibi for this feature? Please use comments feature if so.

Clan stats, 5/29/16

Hello Outliers! Another tough day: 9 players up, 9 down, 25 no change.

Outliers gained 531 cups (returning strong player); JA lost 12; DP lost 10; UA gained 8.

Winners included Ash05 (58 cups since last here); Massimone1 and Blasophemia (16 ea); Microwave1 (14); Nogeenkip (10); Gourd (8); Chanonry (6); Restcase (4); Arissa1009 (2).

Let us see what tomorrow brings.

Clan stats, 5/28/15

Hello Outliers, tough day: 8 players gained, 9 lost, 24 saw no change, 1 new player joined, 1 left for academy, 1 returned from academy.

Outliers cups dropped by 7, JA also fell 7, DP fell 64 and UA dropped 56.

Winners included Quoin2 (62, wow!); Mehrobh3 (17); JKL3022 (8); Zatzat_411 and Chanonry (7 ea); Pyroman62 (4); Restcase (3); Gourd (2).

We'll do better tomorrow.

Clan stats, 5/27/16

Hello Outliers! Good day today. 12 players gained, 3 lost, 27 saw no change.

Outliers gained 37 cups, JA lost 6, DP lost 30, UA gained 1.

Winners included Ash05 (28 cups, very good); Bidirik (19); Microwave1 (15);

Gourd (11); BlakeG22 (9); Quoin2 (8); Tiptop1222 (7);

Camprest (5); Zatzat_411 (4); Restcase (2); Darkholme1906 and Zubzubzub4000 (1 ea.).

Very nice! And for Ash05, special hat tip.

Clan stats, 5/26/16

Hello Outliers! Interesting day. 12 players up, 7 down, 22 no change, and 1 transferred in.

Outliers rose 60 cups, JA saw no change, DP lost 13, UA gained 337.

Winners included: Bidirik (52, wow); Mehrobh3 and Darkholme1906 (18 ea);

BenjaminL238 (16); Gourd (14); Shadowsliver (12); Freak76 (8);

JKL3022 (4); SolisGaming, BlakeG22, Quoin2 and Restcase (1 ea).

Great stuff, everybody!

Clan stats, 5/25/16

Hello Outliers! Tough day: 6 won, 8 lost, 28 saw no change.

The clan went down 8, JA went down 8, DP rose 25, UA rose 8.

Winners included Bidirik (41, excellent); Cowbow29 (16); Microwave1 (14);

Problemo (8); Darkholme1906 and Restcase (1 ea).

The good news is that our combined clan scores exceed those of #1 UA.

Keep pushing!

Clan stats, 5/24/16

Hello Outliers! Mixed results today: 8 players up, 6 down, 28 no change.

One player went to Academy which took our score down 350 cups, however Academy is now number 5.

Winners included Bidirik (80, amazing); Problemo (14); BlakeG22 (12);

Ash05 (9); Janatik (7); Gourd (3); Darkholme1906 and Restcase (1 ea).

We have JA in a "sandwich." Let's keep going!

Clan stats, 5/23/16

Hello Outliers! Good day with 12 up, 4 down. 27 with no change.

The clan gained 30 cups; JA was down 10, DP up 7, UA up 16.

Winners included Bidirik (78, wow); BlakeG22 (24, good); Zubzubzub4000 (16);

Tiptop1222 (11); BenjaminL238 and Cowbow29 (8 ea); Shadowsliver and Ashclone1 (6 ea);

Restcase (4); Ash05, Darkholme1906 and Quoin2 (3 ea).

Thanks for keeping it moving!

Clan stats, 5/22/16

Hello Outliers! Pretty good day: 10 up, 6 down, 26 no change, 1 new. We gained a new player.

With switchouts to Academy and my losses, clan lost 48 cups. JA was down 9, DP up 81, UA up 4.

Winners included Bidirik (35, very good); BlakeG22 (25, good); Problemo (20, good); Microwave1 (15); Janatik (5); Tiptop1222 (4); Gourd (3); Quoin2 (2); Ashclone1 and Ash05 (1 ea).

Thanks everyone. This is a good pace.

Hat tip to Outliers Academy, now in 6th place. Ash05 did a great job with this clan and Bidircan1977 has taken the reins.

Clan stats, 5/21/16

Hello Outliers, good day. We had 9 players up, 1 down, two transfers out, two transfers in.

With the moves to and from Academy, the clan was down 92 cups.

JA was down 13, DP down 7, UA up 3.

Our winners included Tiptop1222 (221 awesome cups!);

JKL3022 (8); Ash05, Zatzat_411 and Quoin2 (7 ea); Gourd and Chanonry (3 ea);

Restcase (2); Darkholme1906 (1).

Welcome to the top ten, Tiptop. Let's all keep it going.

Jungle Wars: Magic hut vs. Totem 11

Which is worse for an attacker, magic hut number 5 or Totem 11? We went into this today in Kongregate and I give you the results here.

Clan stats, 5/20/16

Hello Outliers! Tough one today. Seven up, seven down, 29 no change.

With a player going to Academy, we lost 258 cups. JA lost 9, DP was up 1, UA was up 3.

Winners included Microwave1 (41, wow); Problemo (35, very good);

Bidircan (34, very good); Blake (15); BenjaminL238 (8);

Chanonry (3); DH (1).

Let's see what the weekend brings.

I am noticing many new players in daytime. School is out. Time to recruit.

Here is my confession: down 25 cups. Was down 38 but made back 13. Sorry!

Clan stats, 5/19/16

Hello Outliers! Fine day today. The clan gained 47 cups. JA saw no change, DP lost 3, UA gained 17.

We had 12 win, 2 lose and 30 with no change.

Winners included Zatzat_411 (31, very good); Bidircan (25, good); BlakeG22 (18);

Shadowsliver (14); Miimario123 (11); Gourd (6);

Quoin1 (3); and 2 each for Redwood23Spooky, LovelyH3, Darkholme1906; Restcase, Cmdr0.

Congratulations and thank you!

Clan stats, 5/18/16

Hello Outliers! Interesting results during the last seven days.

Outliers gained 335 cups, JA lost 10, DP lost 23 and UA lost 358.

We had 17 players gain cups, 10 lose, 16 with no change and Bidircan rejoined in a top spot.

Winners included LovelyH3 (81, gasp); Tiptop1222 (46, wow);

Darkholme1906 (39, excellent); Zatzat_411 (31, very good);

Questingraven (28, good); Gourd (26, good); Ashclone (21, good);

BlakeG22 (18); Freak 76 (17); Janatik (15); JKL3022 and Blasophemia (14 ea);

Zubzubzub4000 (10); Stu75 (9); BenjaminL238 (8); Nogeenkip (2); InAFlash (1).

Thanks everyone! Glad to be back.

On vacation - back 5/18/16

No updates until then. See you soon!

Clan stats, 5/11/16

Hello Outliers! Mixed result today: 6 players up, 7 down, 31 no change, and one rejoined from Academy.

With our rejoiner, we were up 299 cups; JA was down 1, DP rose 16; UA saw no change.

Winners included Zubzubzub4000 (15); Darkholme1906 (8); JKL3022, Janatik and Nogeenkip (7 ea); and InAFlash (4).

Take care everyone. I will return in 7 days.

Clan stats, 5/10/16

Hello Outliers! Good results today: 12 players up, 4 down, 25 no change, and 3 returnees.

With the rotation of players, we gained 821 cups; JA losy 17, DP gained 6, UA lost 1.

Winners included Problemo (72, wow!); Pyroman62 (19); Zubzubzub4000 (15); Gourd (14); Cowbow29 and JKL3022 (8 ea); Cmdr0 (7); Microwave1 (6); Zatzat_411 (5); Darkholme1906 and Quoin2 (2 ea); Restcase (1).

Please keep this going!

Clan stats, 5/9/16

Hello Outliers! Hard day today: 7 won, 7 lost, 28 no change.

Outliers lost 6 cups; JA lost 5; DP gained 18; UA lost 8.

Our winners included Nogeenkip (7); TrueTheGuru (6); MattIsSwag and InAFlash (4 ea); Grenadier235 and Zatzat_411 (3 ea); and Darkholme1906 (2).

Thanks, we'll do better tomorrow.

Jungle Wars: Adventures on Armor

I wondered about life in a Jungle Wars instance where most accounts were inactive and in the last 24 hours I have been living it, no longer wondering. It has been remarkable.

I was able to take my 250-cup player to 928 between now and yesterday. Part of the effect is dead accounts do not retaliate. The cups you win, you keep.

The other part of it is a widespread blunder among Armor players. As long as I have enough food and keep clicking "Next," with patience I will find the player at my level who has placed the Totem outside the walls or behind just one layer of wall.

Here is an example.

Can you guess where the totem was located?

Using this simple trick, my crummy army wins one crummy victory after another:

And when I say crummy army, hear me out: 70 units, level 1 warriors, slingers, gorillas and bombers with a golem thrown in for heavier work.

Why does this trick work? Well I am currently in a clan at Armor made up of people who started off at more or less the same level. The top guy has 1,132 cups. What does he know? Everything is experimentation. He can help the guy with 800 cups (a little bit) but no one can help him.

I look at the clans and I see bunches of people who joined together at the same level.

I think these young clans with cohorts of equal experience are more likely to get stuck, frustrated, bored and then drop out.

If you join an active clan, you need players in it that are way ahead of your own level.

My crummy army will still win cups but not as many and not as fast as before since I have gotten a new target list. But in that target group, I see more mistakes made by players who abandoned the game. A few upgrades on my end and it's back to the races.

Clan stats, 5/8/16

Hello Outliers, okay day: 10 up, six down, 26 no change.

Outliers gained 28 cups, JA lost 6, DP gained 3 and UA gained 80.

Our winners included Zatzat_411 (18); Pyroman62 (15); Gourd (11); Freak76 (8); Quoin2 (6); Cowbow29 (5); Chanonry and TruetheGuru (3); Restcase (2_; Darkholme1906 (1).

Thanks everyone.

Clan stats, 5/7/16

Hello Outliers! Quiet day today. We had 9 gain cups, 2 lose, 31 with no change.

We retired a player, costing us 28 cups. JA gained 1, DP lost 10, UA gained 14.

Winners included Problemo (15); Microwave1 (14); Quoin2 (8); Cmdr0 (7); Tiptop (3); Darkholme1906, TruetheGuru, Quoin1 and Restcase (1 ea).

Keep up the good work.

Clan stats, 5/6/16

Hello Outliers! Hard day today: 6 players up, 7 down, 1 rejoined and 29 saw no change.

The clan was up 128 cups, much from the personnel change: JA lost 7, DP lost 1, UA gained 14.

Winners included Tiptop1222 (18); Freak76 and Blasophemia (12 ea); Darkholme1906 (5); Zatzat_411 (4); Restcase (2).

Let's try again tomorrow!

Clan stats, 5/5/16

Hello Outliers! Mixed bag today.

Clan up 12 cups, JA down 7, DP down 191, UA up 10. (DP cut many players)

We had 9 up, 7 down, 26 with no change.

Winners included LovelyH3 (36, very good); Microwave1 (14); Zatzat_411 (8); Shadowsliver and Kevo5096 (7 ea); Grenadier235 (4); Gourd and TruetheGuru (3 ea); Restcase (2).

Thanks everyone. More to come.

Jungle Wars: Golem versus Necromancer

Here's a surprise: if it's down to golem vs. necromancer, the golem will not attack the necrom.

It will wipe out the skeletons raised by the necrom without attacking the necrom itself.

In this screenshot, necrom has run out of corpses to raise up and the golem has run out of targets. Both are standing around, waiting for the clock to run out.

Clan stats, 5/4/16

Hello Outliers! Record setting day today.

Clan score is down slightly with transfer of a player to camp BUT...

We had 13 win, 1 lose, 28 no change.

Of the 13 winners, 11 scored in double digits:

TrueTheGuru (17); Microwave1 (16); Zubzubzub4000, Gourd and Darkholme1906  (15 ea); Problemo (14); Tiptop1222 (13); BlakeG22 (12); LovelyH3 (11); Redwood23Spooky (7); Restcase (3).

Sister clans are now ranked 11th and 12th.

Excellent work, thank you!

Clan stats, 5/3/16

Hello, Outliers! Strange day. Clan is down 5 cups. JA down 8, DP down 3, UA up 101.

We had 6 players win cups, 11 lost and 26 with no change.

Are we under attack? By which clan? Or are these revenge attacks hitting home?

Our winners included Tiptop1222 (16); Gourd (6); Cdr0 (5); Chanonry (4); Darkholme1906 (2); Restcase (1).

Do let me know what's going on if you were hit.

Clan stats, 5/2/16

Hello Outliers! An okay day with 7 up, 5 down and 31 no change.

We had a couple of transfers to sister clans so clan score is down.

JA saw no change, DP lost 5, UA lost 138.

Our winners included Quoin2 (24, good); Gourd (15); Darkholme1906 (14); Nogeenkip (7); LovelyH3 and TruetheGuru (5 ea); Questingraven (1).

We'll pick up the pace tomorrow.

Please see the clan chat for a private message.

Jungle Wars: Wana altar upgrade

Complaint from the Dread Pirate in Chief:

He's referring to the Wana altar and it is a weird upgrade indeed.

Clan stats, 5/1/16

Hello, Outliers! We had a good turnout and good results today.

The clan gained 24 cups, JA lost 3, DP lost 1, and UA gained 2.

We had 13 players gain, 5 lose, 26 with no change and 1 transferred in.

Winners included Microwave1 (90, wow!); Pyroman76 (28, very good); Gourd (10); LovelyH3 (9); Zatzat_411 (8); Darkholme1906 (7); Chanonry (6); AstraIwyrm (5); Arissa1009 (4); Janatik (3); Miimario123, Questingraven and Restcase (1).

Very nice! Many thanks.