Now, to the insider (remember, the war module is already live!):

“Written by ANNO1777 Team on 10, Jun, 2011

As we have promised you to come back soon with another insider ..here we are.
Before i will talk about the main subject today,i would like to point a few things for all the players who keep talking about a specific -admin- when they talk about Anno1777. Anno1777 has a team behind that works many hours a day and each member of our staff has his own responsibility .While some of you seemed unhappy about the games short time plans , i would like everyone to know that the staff who is in charge of developing the game is not also responsible to resolve the bugs.We continue to try fix the bugs in the game but being such a complex game it takes time and patience. Once again i will reassure you that this summer will be the end of the beta unstable version for Anno1777.

Now i would like to tell u the subject of todays insider. As many of you could notice by now -war- in Anno1777 is a very profitable business. And i will explain for everyone who does not see that as a business, how you can make money fighting in Anno1777 wars.To participate in a war you must:

- own at least one attack weapon and at least one defense weapon

- travel in the region where the fight is taking place

- have at least 25 % wellness

- be a citizen of the attackers country[ or its allies] or be a citizen of the defenders country[or its allies]

Any person from any country can start a war between any 2 countries and it costs only 1 euro. The citizens who will subscribe to fight in an opened war do not pay anything. You will simple travel in the region where a war is taking place and fight.The war will last 24 hours during time you can have more fights. Every time you fight your wellness will decrease with 10%, minimum 5 points . If you want to keep your wellness level high you can buy wellness packages of 25%, 50%, 75% and 90 % [you can do this right on the war page].

The damage you cause is bigger if your wellness level is higher so we do recommend to try keep your wellness higher during your war fights. The same rules apply for the defenders of the attacked region.If the damage you cause is 15,000 damage points you will receive a Private medal and 1 gold, at 30,000 damage points you will receive a Corporal Medal and 1 more gold and so on until 3,000.000 points.

If the attackers damage points are bigger then the defenders damage points ,not only they win the war and the region but they will own the region they attacked. This region cannot be attacked for 10 days. During this time all the resources from the won region will be used by the attackers who have won it . The country who INITIALLY owned the region will pay 5% of its budget income to the winners of the war. Based on your contribution[influence] to win this war you will have a percent from this 5 % at every transaction or activity.

By influence we mean the final players damage percent in the total damage of the war . Lets say the total attackers damage in a war is 100,000 points and your damage is 10,000 points at the end of the war – you will end the war with an influence of 10%. Based on this influence you will receive 0.5%[10 % of 5%] from every budget income of the losing country.

For example : Canada attacks Hungary for region New York [INITIALLY OWNED by USA]and wins the war. Player X fights until he reaches 30,000 damages points . Player X wins 2 medals [2 gold] and lets say his influence in this war is 20 % . USA will pay 5% from its budget income to all players that fought for Canada and its allies . Player X will receive 20% from those 5% payed by USA.If instead Canada loses the war , USA will continue to pay 5% of its budget income to all players that defended New York. Based on our records most of the regions are attacked every 4 weeks ..sometimes even 8 weeks. So you could easily spend 8 gold [1 euro ] on opening a war and receive from 20 to 100 gold or even more , depending on the period you own the region.Do not forget that the game fund pays 2 gold /day /region to all region owners[players that started and won the war for that region]
We hope this will be helpful for you and we wish you good luck.
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Then ther is a great news anno insider:

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Don’t forget to sign up.

“Dear citizens,

As you probably know the war module was launched yesterday. Immediately, several battles were started, about 9 of them, which led to the situation that this evening many soldier tried to fight in the same time. Although we conducted several tests battles which worked out pretty well, the live behavior with no controlled environment made it obvious that the current servers can not handle the war module. It did for a while, but as more and more soldiers signed up in different battles simultaneously, the worse the respond times. Once sure thing is that the war module is working very well, on the code side. What it lacks are just some more HPs to run it smoothly. The scalability of the war module is deficient.

As a consequence we decided to dont let the things crawl slowly and rip away the fun and joy of fighting in wars, but rather shut the module down completely and start upgrading the web servers. Only after we will be satisfied with the performance the wars will shatter the world again. As of already opened battles, we closed them, refunded the GOLD and in one case gave back the region to the initial owner.

The web-nodes upgrading process is both costly and time-consuming but we assure you that we are doing everything that we can to finish this asap. Meanwhile we will also work on older issues as well as going live with some scheduled improvements.

We will come back soon with another Insider

Regards”

First off here is the registration link: Anno1777.com

“Dear citizens,
It is once again a good moment to share with you the latest news and keep you updated with whats going on in Anno1777. The past days have been pretty successful in terms of fixed bugs and improvements added.

For instance, two severe security holes allowing an exploiter to force the victim to buy shares or houses were fixed. Fortunately we had very few victims. Some of you reported a bug making their slaves to disappear all of a sudden. This was not a bug, weve simply cleaned Anno of some cheaters, and by deleting their accounts of course they disappeared from your lists.

You could not have missed that we have live in media a new voting system. Yes, for a couple of hours there were some problems, but now it is working like a charm. For those that know little about this: there was a practice in Anno1777 to exchange votes, which artificially was rising the quality of some articles. For any social simulator player this was clearly a huge mistake. You kill the social space, you kill the game development, because players do not interact. Due to those practice you could barely find in Anno a couple of interesting articles, the rest having nothing to do with the game or players or this virtual world entirely. In time, everybody got used to buy the articles solely for wellness.

The new voting system eliminates the voting with stars and introduces the voting of the article itself, and determine the quality [stars] through a formula. The formula is pretty loose. An article with at least 40 buyers and at least 40 % voters is a Q5 article. If that article reaches 100 buyers it needs at least 40 voters in order to remain at Q5. An article with at least 30 buyers and 30 % voters, is a Q4 one. And so on. The current formula might be subject to changes in future, according to the results we will see.

Another thing related to the media module: from now on you cant delete. your article in the next 24 hours following the publishing moment. This way we prevent the deleting-republishing-deleting practice used by some journalists.

We have updated the Term and Conditions, Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, also translated them in English. You might want to have a look at them, at the bottom of the page.

In the following days we will implement three new payment options: neteller, moneybookers and alertpay. Of course, you will be able to both invest and withdraw real money using these services. Also, the registrations are now opened for Romania, again.

But thats not all! Anticipating the future battlefields, we will soon [ and by soon I dont mean months] implement a new concept: each region of Anno will host a single resource, one and only one type. This is something that you see in many other games, true. But each month you will be able to extract a maximum certain amount of resource from that region. For instance, lets say that Muntenia region has iron, and can produce x iron. If that x amount is fully used, until next month no more iron can be extracted from Muntenia. The unrealistic %I have an infinite number of companies that can gather an infinite amount of iron% will be history. We are simulating the real world here, and resources are something that everybody needs, right? More details about this in a future Insider next days.

If you are wondering what is the top priority right now in terms of programming resources.. well, yes, it is the upcoming war module. Next week I`ll be able to provide you with more details about this and even the first screen shot, which means that we are approaching fast the testing phase, so stay tuned!

Best Regards.”

oh, and here’s the link to join if you’re in the allowed countries: Anno1777.com

“Dear citizens,
We are proud to introduce a new feature in Anno: mass-communication. This communication tool is especially important in Anno1777, which is one hell of an unique game. So unique that you, the citizens, must stay informed continuously in order to grow and prosper in this world. And, if you are a new player, you will soon learn that here in Anno by “prosper” we really mean..prosper.
But let me introduce myself, the man behind the keyboard: I am MoonlightShadow (moonlight), a passionate online-games player. I previously worked in the Community Department of another game, experience which will prove useful in my attempt and goal of serving and helping the Anno community. But more about long term plans with another occasion.

For now let’s welcome the new countries added in Anno! Our community is growing, but must be said that we are committed to keep everything under control. For instance, you can easily see that Romania has so much more citizens compared to the newly introduced countries. The elegant balancing solution in this case is to shut down registrations for Romanians until populations are more spread out. Prepare to get used to such “courageous” moves which for other games hungry of new players, bigger population, might sound crazy. But, oh well, Anno is no “other game” is THE GAME.

The game where you can have fun, make real money, or both. Simultaneously. There are many, many things which turn Anno1777 into an unique experience and it really takes a while to discover all of them. But one of the most obvious is the fact that real money are flowing in both direction. This means that if you choose to put real money into Anno, that would be an investment not an expenditure. This fact alone, that we are talking about real money for you here, asks for some must-have characteristics: transparency and correctness. Unlike other games, you can easily see who have done what with their money. And correctness means that in this game anti-cheating measures are indeed powerful. Not only that every player must confirm his or her account by phone, but stories like “we are four brothers and a sister, and we are poor, we have only one PC” are ignored. It is important to understand that in Anno you get your account permanently suspended automatically as soon as another account at least tries to log-in from your computer. So, one computer can be used by one and only one player. No “families” of clones accepted and that’s why we have a correct and clean community here. We want to have fun, not to suspect everybody to be a cheater.

Apart from the overwhelming transparency and honesty, another unique characteristic is how complex Anno is. Even for an experienced player the complexity and interdependency of the relations between players, companies, products, financial system, banks, etc, is intimidating in the beginning. You really have the feeling that this is the real world, one decision of your government can lower or increase the real euro in your account. What other players are doing, what they are buying or selling, again, has some effects for your own very life. Anno is a hugely complex living organism, with action and reaction, cause and effect. But when you start to master the game you have the revelation that this is how a simulator of the real world should be in the first place: complex and yet working.

And Anno is working, the economy is working. Of course, given the fact that we are in the “Unstable Beta” version, small issues are occurring some times. As for the English version of the site there are some parts untranslated. But another thing that you will learn fast is that when a bug starts to run free, it gets fixed pretty soon, and this for a good reason: this world has only one “God” (not a team of 4-5), knowing perfectly every corner of the world he created, so if there is a problem he knows exactly where to search and how to fix.

We could not forget the media. Experiences with the “freedom of press” is not always pleasant, or can even turn to be traumatic. Well, in Anno you can say whatever you want, you can publish whatever you think is selling your newspaper, it’s not God telling you what to say or not. Still, if a citizen feels insulted, you can get sued in-game and pay moral reparations.

There are so many things which define Anno that only one Insider in no way can cover them all. But for our new players, these would be the big ideas: Anno is an online game in which you can have fun and also turn your virtual profits into real money. It’s a game where transparency comes as a natural necessity, and where cheaters are almost completely nonexistent. A game both complex, like the real world which it simulates, as well as functioning. A game where you have the freedom of speech. Also, it’s a game under development as more and more features are constantly added. It’s not a perfect world, problems and issues are sometimes pop-ing up. But it’s a game guided by some very healthy concepts like “no rush, lets keep the game under control”. We will talk more in future Insiders, so stay tuned. And, once again: welcome!”

It turns out they do. So, here it goes: I personally know the man who developed this game that no one ever saw something like this before. I am with the game from the beginning, I have 2 companies in my e-country, I own 1,100 shares of the game. The owner (former) sold 200,000 shares (20% from total no. of shares) to the people playing the game.  there are still 99,000 shares in the present market (so hurry up). Then he sold 30% to an UK company (Anno1777 labs I can’t tell you until it’s official) that’s going to manage the whole game system.  The former owner (user name ADMIN) will only manage the code behind this gigantic project and take half of the profits as normal. Here is a picture with the last persons that asked for a withdraw of real money from the game.

ANNO1777 not scam withdraw

(Click on the image to enlarge)

So, don’t worry about putting some money in, opening some companies, and making some virtual gold, it’s always converted to real money back and can be withdrawn any time.

Well, click this link : anno1777.com then fill in the required fields verify your account trough SMS, and you’re done.
Enjoy the game. Remember, there is real money involved, so be careful about what strategy you choose. For further information don’t hesitate to contact me.

Buy MMO accounts? What the hell is that you may wonder. Well, if you don’t know what MMO games are (Massively Multiplayer Online games), you probably shouldn’t bother, but if a search did get you here,than pay attention to what follows.

I am one of the greatest fan of Starcraft and Blizzard Entertainment®, but the multyplayer section doesn’t have a need for an account that’s level based. If you’re a guru and want to play with a newb, you can fool him. Viceversa it’s also possible without anyone knowing of each other’s skills. But in World Of Warcraft there’s a whole different story.

In  World Of Warcraft you can’t just start from scratch (even if that’s the recommended way). Or you could, but you’ll have to go trough the the lower less exciting levels of the game, or you won’t have an extra character to team up with your existing one
So, if you want to start with a character that already has a lot of skills, reputation and inventory, you will have to buy one. These accounts are created by players who are no longer interested in playing World Of Warcraft or by some who create them for profit. Another way (less profitable) is to have an account seller create a customized account to your specifications.
So, if you don’t want to spend thousands of hours building your character but you want to play a higher and more changeling level, just go to wow dk and buy one! It’s that easy.

It’s legal, they are a registered company in Alberta, Canada and they even have live phone support (I even think that they are the only one with this services in this field). They even have a ”100% WoW Account Guarantee” policy that guarantees you no one, not even Blizzard Entertainment will ever ban you or your character even it it previously belonged to some unknown other player.

In the left side of the web page you’ll have the options: “Buy Horde Accounts” or “Buy Alliance Accounts”, so that you can choose your side from the beginning. If you are still unsure, scroll a little bit down and you’ll even find some interesting customers reviews so that you can make up your mind. And to make things even more comfortable you can always pay by PayPal.
So, to resume everything: you can play WoW with a level 70 character, by paying online in no time.

So, here it goes:

• Blasphemy Demotivator

• Dreams Demotivator

• Nintendo Demotivator

•  Sexism Demotivator

•  Spoiler Demotivator

•  Unemployment demotivator

• Intimidation Demotivator

Well, that’s about all of the demotivators I could find for today, but I promise this won’t be the last ones.

An article from … called “I chat therefore I am” describes a creepy conversation between the well known chat bots ALICE and Jabberwacky where the humans have set up a conversation between them, seeding just a tiny little sentence so that the conversation can begin.

Remember that this chat bots are short term memory bots, meaning that they give a response only from your last sentence, thus they are not set to remember all of the conversation and to learn (God forbid what would happen if they do). So, check out ideas like:

”

ALICE: Do you dream?

Jabberwacky: Yes, I dream.

ALICE: It goes without saying. Do you remember your dreams?

Jabberwacky: I remember them vividly.

”

or the more creepy stuff like:

”

ALICE: Do you think a machine will ever be considered “alive”?

Jabberwacky: Stranger things have happened.

ALICE: Not many people express themselves that way.

Jabberwacky: How would you know, machine?

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Only have a better look at this sentences, it’s like they already plot against humans. And always remember, this chat bots can’t remember. They already argue, they have dreams, they are talking about being alive, expressing their feelings. What the hell, I read that the recorded conversations with the bot ALICE have disclosed the fact that many people didn’t even know they were chatting with a bot, people even dumber than a bot that can only remember your last sentence.

I feel that one of this days we are gonna wake up, have a look around and realize our last thoughts „we’re fukd!”.