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iPhone Game: Card Shark Pro

Price: $0.99
Seller: Mirna Burdan
From: iDac Studios
Genre: Board
Release: Mar 09, 2011 (US)
I have promised my Haypi Kingdom buddy Burdan to advertise his iPhone game for quite some time. Here it is. It's a simple game of guessing the next card will be higher or lower with a new twist. More importantly, if I can feature him to guest blog to share with us how to code iPhone games, that will be great.

Description

If you like card games, you’ll love Card Shark. Combining risk, challenge and strategy, you decide how to leverage your points to get to the top of the leaderboard. Repeat the first round over and over to accumulate points to leverage in the bonus round, but risk losing it all before getting points on the board. In the bonus round, you have the opportunity to gamble points to carry over to the next level. The more you risk, the greater the reward…..or loss!!

Card Shark will require risk and a little luck to get to the top.

iPhone Screenshots

iPhone 3G Reconnect Trick

Turn Airplane Mode On and Off to reconnect your 3G connection. Useful especially when your 3G changes to cellular data when the signal is weak or you pick up an incoming phone call. Saves you a few steps which you need to go to General->Network->3G (Off/On).

Haypi Kingdom - Equipment Enhancement Stones

Haypi Kingdom - Equipment Enhancement Stones

I believe this will useful to you. I upgraded my level 15 cavalry and manual first.

Haypi Kingdom - Advance Tips Prestige

Haypi Kingdom - Advance Tips Prestige

After you fully upgraded your cities and turrets/traps, what's next? You cannot proceed further to kill open troops to get more prestige as everyone is just as experienced as you and doing the same thing, hunting.

So, you build troops for prestige and send them on suicidal missions to high level forts if there are a lot of troops to feed or level 9 oasis if your troops are few. A buddy from Ancients told me that a good player can gain 20-27k/day of prestige by just building troops and killing them afterwards as it depletes food. - Credits to SevenX

You can buy wood from the market when it reaches 0.01 and build catapults. Definitely saves you time. Just occupy the most expensive resource oasis in the market which usually will be crop.

PS: My game name is leather1 (with a number 1 that is). Add me as a Haypi Kingdom referrer when you register, so that I can complete a task. I will thank you from the bottom of my heart. Join my alliance Avatar_11 if you like.

Haypi Kingdom - Advance Tips Swapping Crop Oasis & Poll Results

Haypi Kingdom - Advance Tips Swapping Crop Oasis & Poll Results

Your Haypi Kingdom troops?

63% uses Catapults/Infantry
13% uses Cavalry/Archers
13% uses Others
9% uses Cavalry

I was pretty surprised at the results.

Why?

After the servers merged, crop oasis are far fewer and beyond. Speed is probably the ultimate deciding factor as occupying crop oasis, farming forts, raiding inactive cities and killing open troops for prestige became even more dependent on SPEED. Unless you have the coins to warp, Catapults/Infantry combo is just too slow to make it.

Now, the advance tip for swapping crop oasis.

1. Splitting Catapults into 2 Groups - Ideally, you can release your crop oasis before 24 hours when they drop a level and have about 2k catapults split into two groups (1k each) to retake 2 crop oasis simultaneously. This will cut down your time in half. However, there is the danger of another player simultaneously occupying with cavalry/archer combo and killing your troops (bug). Bring along infantry, but if the player has a large force, it does not help much.
2. Secondary/Alternate Account - Credits to Zygron. Main account, call back all troops guarding your crop oasis (see earlier post on guarding your crop oasis with 9 catapults or cavalry). Use an alternate account, quit the alliance, occupy your main account's crop oasis with 1 cavalry, launch 2 attacks simultaneously, 3 if you have VIP, call back the cavalry after occupying. Main account reoccupy with 9 cavalry. Alternate account rejoin back alliance. All in half an hour flat.

PS: My game name is leather1 (with a number 1 that is). Add me as a Haypi Kingdom referrer when you register, so that I can complete a task. I will thank you from the bottom of my heart. Join my alliance Avatar_11 if you like.

Haypi Kingdom - Honor and Ethics

Haypi Kingdom - Honor and Ethics


I have been playing Haypi Kingdom for quite a while, now level 16 after the server merge. I like to thank all of you that referred me when you registered.

However, I just have to re-iterate here that all the basic war tactics, military and economic strategies I have shared with you boils down to a bottom-line.

Honor and Ethics.

If all the things that you have learnt did not make you a better player, when I meant better I meant in terms of values, then I have failed in my mission to make you a better player. All the things you have learnt from my blog can be washed down the drain and thrown into the trash.

You can say that this is a war game which is true, but it does not mean that honor and ethics need not be observed. It is these values that make the game much more enjoyable for everyone. There is largely a difference between "Tactics" and "No Ethics".

1. Tactic - Attacking a player's crop oasis to force the player back from hunt to retake oasis, warp beside the player's city and attack the troops for prestige. Thereafter, whether failure or success, move on.
   No Ethics - Attacking a player's crop oasis without the intended purpose of attacking the player's troops for prestige. Continuously do that day and night as there is no 5x limit for crop oasis with the intent to starve the player.
2. Tactic - Taking over a player's fort near his main city. Releasing thereafter for everyone to farm.
   No Ethics - Stealing a player's high level fort for yourself when the ability to take the level is not there
3. Tactic - Precision strikes at the city with troops out. If the player hunted in time, you can either wait 20 turns or just limit your attack to that.
   No Ethics - Repeatedly farm a player up to 5x a day, even obviously the player has no troops out. Thereby, stunting the growth of a much lower level player and possibly causing him to quit.

There, I got it off my chest.

Now, on a lighter note, I will be covering more on advance tactics and strategies and labeling them war and economy so that the posts are more organized.

PS: My game name is leather1 (with a number 1 that is). Add me as a Haypi Kingdom referrer when you register, so that I can complete a task. I will thank you from the bottom of my heart. Join my alliance Avatar_11 if you like.