Good news. After some investigation, I think I can get a functional version of Offline Play working in a reasonable amount of time. We sort of have to redo each feature a bit to work either offline or online, so we’ll start with the important ones: being able to complete the tutorials, customizing your rival guaranteed cards, playing vs. the computer, and earning coins (that you can spend when you get back online). I’d like to release that feature set first.
Over time, we can extend more aspects of the game to Offline mode (missions, campaigns, and buying card packs). Some features (alliances, monthly tournament, multiplayer games) will never come to Offline mode because they don’t make as much sense offline.
The store says it doesn’t even support third generation iPads, which is what I’ve got. That’s kind of weird. It doesn’t seem like a technically ambitious game.
Well, it seems to run okay on my third generation iPad. So when they say they “don’t support it”, I guess that just means they can tell me “sucks to be you” if it starts crashing or whatever.
-Tom
P.S. There are a bunch of randos queued up as empire requests. I’m assuming none of them is you guys, so I’m just going to delete the requests. But since amandachen has defected, we have an opening if anyone wants in!
I’d like in the Alliance if the slot is still open. Same name as my QT3 account: Vormithrax
The alliance list only shows 10 entries with no way i can find to scroll/refresh/change which ones are shown.
Being in an empires means you can earn a reward on any given day if any of the ten members has won a multiplayer match. It’s a pittance, really, but it’s cool to login in and be, all, like, “ooh, tgb123 won a multiplayer game, so I get 50 gold!”
It also makes you feel guilty for not winning multiplayer games, so be prepared to deal with that.
While I might go back to this at some point, feel free to eject me from the qt3 alliance as I haven’t played in quite a while. Just got sidetracked onto other things. I’m JoshL on there.
