ConwayLife.com

It's rather interesting browser-based game; it's what got me interested in Golly. I use Golly to run simulations of the upcoming battle, but yeah, it's cool.

The aim of the game is to have more of your units surving at the end. I've tried using Methuselahs, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

The link to it is here:
http://www.gameoflifetotalwar.com

I saw this on the subreddit, been considering checking it out maybe?

There is a similar game http://lifecompetes.com/

Pigeonbee wrote:I use Golly to run simulations of the upcoming battle, but yeah, it's cool.

You emulate the whole board? That must take ages! And I thought my setup took a long time.

I found that game from Reddit as well. Just broke top 5 with my indomitable pulsar army... muahahaha.

TheoSwartz wrote:

Pigeonbee wrote:I use Golly to run simulations of the upcoming battle, but yeah, it's cool.

You emulate the whole board? That must take ages! And I thought my setup took a long time.

I found that game from Reddit as well. Just broke top 5 with my indomitable pulsar army... muahahaha.

Wait wait wait.

You're the Britannian Rebels? Damn you!
I'm the Cathusian Forces, BTW.
I'm learning, but yeah. Damn I messed up that gosper glider gun.

TheoSwartz wrote:You emulate the whole board? That must take ages! And I thought my setup took a long time.

I found that game from Reddit as well. Just broke top 5 with my indomitable pulsar army... muahahaha.

not to be mean but you kinda ruined the game.

Pigeonbee wrote:Wait wait wait.

You're the Britannian Rebels? Damn you!
I'm the Cathusian Forces, BTW.
I'm learning, but yeah. Damn I messed up that gosper glider gun.

Yeah that's me. I like all the names of your various units, it's a fun way to learn the strange ways of this game - the goals are so different from anything else Life-related.

drc wrote:not to be mean but you kinda ruined the game.

Not to be flippant but isn't that a bit of an overreaction? I'm not playing quite as often as I was a couple weeks ago, and you can tell because I wasn't even on the "previous games played" list for the last 2 days until I played today. The games are singular and insular, so my wins on their own don't really DO anything... once I stop playing it'll be like I was never there.

But I think this argument is flawed anyway; What's wrong with winning? I simply found a tactic that worked well and quickly honed it into something strong. I noticed that many people's "random" patterns - lines, etc, deteriorate greatly the longer a game is played. So I aimed to create a lot of cells that would never die -- oscillators! And I protect them with still lives and other oscillators. I'm surprised no one's copied me, honestly.

In any case, if you don't want to ever play against me, just host wars in small spaces! I'm much more afraid of battling when I don't have room...

TheoSwartz wrote:=What's wrong with winning?

That's like saying "What's wrong with abusing flaws in an online game which other people are trying to play, but instead they give up?" because that's what happened to me.

I disagree that any flaws were abused, that implies a bug or something which is not the case, but I'm genuinely sorry I made your experience worse. I'm playing less often these days, but if you want to have a good time 100% of the time just tell me your army name or whatnot and I won't attack it.

TheoSwartz wrote:

Pigeonbee wrote:Wait wait wait.

You're the Britannian Rebels? Damn you!
I'm the Cathusian Forces, BTW.
I'm learning, but yeah. Damn I messed up that gosper glider gun.

Yeah that's me. I like all the names of your various units, it's a fun way to learn the strange ways of this game - the goals are so different from anything else Life-related.

I'd advise having a secondary army to test out new tactics and such, like me.
I found out that spark coils are very good that way. I now have a whole unit devoted to them.

I'm Beacontouch, and also Neaciulus, Amiablus, and the 17th Regime.

* BTW, I've finished my battles, but the site still says I'm in conflict. How do I fix this? I even purged the page cache.

** Who is this guy? I don't know what benefits his attacking strategy has.
http://www.gameoflifetotalwar.com/challenge/doNCKvO

http://www.gameoflifetotalwar.com/challenge/DnAXe
I forgot how big pulsars were. Stupid me.

Hdjensofjfnen wrote:BTW, I've finished my battles, but the site still says I'm in conflict. How do I fix this? I even purged the page cache.

I've heard of this bug in the past and thought it was fixed. If you contact Samuel Levy via the info at the bottom of the site, he might be able to fix the issue for you. His reddit handle is samlev if you prefer that method of communication.

Hdjensofjfnen wrote:Who is this guy? I don't know what benefits his attacking strategy has.
http://www.gameoflifetotalwar.com/challenge/doNCKvO

Must just be someone who stumbled upon the site by chance, maybe who doesn't know anything about GOL. I've seen those one-off armies with dots everywhere and thought it was just someone scumming wins for their own team on the other side, but I guess that's not always the case!

A for awesome wrote:http://www.gameoflifetotalwar.com/challenge/DnAXe
I forgot how big pulsars were. Stupid me.

It took me a few battles to get that stuff correct. You can fit 5 and a half pulsars vertically in a city block if you space them meticulously.

Note to self #2: Check to make sure the civillians actually decay into nothing instead of turning a protective block into a glider which goes back and disintegrates one of your pulsars.

That has just got to be the worst break in history. (Except for the fact that I still won.) Not to mention that it was also an allied glider. Sigh.

THE CLOSEST GAME i've ever had: http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/challenge/uHofkvecI0I0 ( i am blue)

drc wrote:THE CLOSEST GAME i've ever had: http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/challenge/uHofkvecI0I0 ( i am blue)

That was me you defeated at the last second, unfortunately. (Sigh...)

I have no clue who the hell this was, but they certainly were lucky!

http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/challenge/ZB7ONvGSUiN

My army (named Pi, I am Squid) just had a battle that seems to go on for ever (I have seen it several times but it never seems to end), how can I end it and use my army again (I won my first battle)?

Is it normal for one to wait several minutes for a battle to start?

Pigeonbee wrote:I have no clue who the hell this was, but they certainly were lucky!

http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/challenge/ZB7ONvGSUiN

Yeah, I'm Ytterbium Nation, and I failed at placing pulsars yet again.

A for awesome wrote:

Pigeonbee wrote:I have no clue who the hell this was, but they certainly were lucky!

http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/challenge/ZB7ONvGSUiN

Yeah, I'm Ytterbium Nation, and I failed at placing pulsars yet again.

Why not have a peace treaty?
We don't attack each other.

OK, OK...

It looks like the server is completely down after a lot of bugs about army problems.

Hi, all.

I'm the guy who made/occasionally maintains GoL:TW. I've had a number of database and performance issues on my server in the last few weeks, so I appreciate your patience while I try to deal with them.

One of the other sites that the server hosts was effectively getting DDOSed by spam bots, which made the database fall over pretty frequently, then the server decided to just leave the database down. That, in turn, managed to kill the background processing scripts which actually process the games, figure out who won/lost, and assign new troops.

Anyway, I think I've managed to lock this down, and get everything running again smoothly, so again - sorry for the inconvenience.

Let me know if you're still running into problems with it.

samlev wrote: Anyway, I think I've managed to lock this down, and get everything running again smoothly, so again - sorry for the inconvenience.

Thank you for fixing the problems! The site's fresh and running again.

Feel bad for the defender here:

http://www.gameoflifetotalwar.com/challenge/nsjVdKo