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Level 25, painted, and low res (mobile).
 
You'll want to replace this with a better one once you get it

Getting away with breaking an agreement does not make it alright - either morally or legally. If she did that that was her risk - the dozens of emails and kong pm's I can see of her denying it though, tells me that if she did, she was choosy about who, most likely to prevent Kong from finding out and acting on it. 
We will not break agreements or risk anything legal, final answer. If we get permission, any form of go-sign, we will happily proceed, if we do not get permission, we will not and you'll just have to accept it.
 
With due respect, if you buy a piece of bread and it lists an expiration date of 3 days, you do not complain when it expires. 
It wasn't a big secret that Flash was going away and nobody pretended there was a solution - to my knowledge Tacticsoft didn't state (anywhere) that they were even considering any change and Kongregate did not state (anywhere) that they'd even keep the platform open after. 
Your browser has been warning you for 3+ years now that Flash will be going away. You can not expect people to come with solutions they did not announce, if a game is stated to stop working in x time you cannot simply assume that it won't stop working... 
The world isn't roses and sunshine - for sure Tacticsoft could have solved it, Tacticsoft deemed (looking at statistics  - correctly) that it was not worth solving, and thus didn't announce anything (to my knowledge). Keeping SM functional on kong would be a long, expensive project about as expensive as re-creating the entire game (because, the entire game _would_ need to be re-created). 
Offering an external account option simply isn't allowed. If they broke that rule, good for them. We aren't generally in the business of breaking agreements, no matter how much some would like it. 
Kongregate paid for advertising - they essentially paid for you existing on their website. They paid for the infrastructure you played on, the chat you enjoyed, they essentially own your pressence (and paid for that). We (or well, TS) in turn paid for creating the game and offer it through their platform intrade of a reward. 
Simply taking their users without permission is nothing short of stealing their assets. Let alone while under an agreement not to do so. You were aware that unless either Kong or us do a radical change, as of 31 dec 2020, the game would stop functioning in modern browsers. The unannounced thing that I would personally be pissed off about is that it quit working for 3 weeks on old browsers after too - but we cant give a refund or anything for that even if we want to - that's all up to Kongregate. 
Kongregate also did not do this out of incompetence - they simply decided the effort to do a proper workaround isn't worth the potential payoff, probably years ago. 
I told the ones who contacted me (may have missed some - I get *a lot* - that we're asking for permission  but can't promise anything. 
 
We first got ownership of SuperMechs and *then* transferred the assets. Also, in such a loophole i'd be personally liable most likely. 
 
I told you our constraints. We will not risk legal action or the likes and we will do anything _reasonably_ possible beyond that. 
But yes, you will not just most likely lose your account, I can confirm 100% you will lose your account. If not because you won't play on an old browser, or that Kong decides in a few weeks to remove SuperMechs (who knows - it's within their rights), when Kong decides to close down their platform. If not because they close down their platform, you will when we decide to shut down SuperMechs, hopefully in 10-20 years but who knows. You will get a few months headsup if we ever get in a situation like that, but probably not 3 years. 😛 
 
 
 

Changing the date is not a good, permanent solution. Please do not rely on it - browsers will stop supporting that very very soon (this month, next at latest). Using an older browser (like a portable chrome version) or a browser like maxthon or puffin is a far superior solution.
I am going to leave this topic for now, as frankly, we have nothing else to say or do. We will investigate if there's a reasonable way to get SuperNova working, if there is, itll be a few days to a few weeks when it does. If not, it's old browsers. Sorry folks, wish I had better news, but you can't expect us to come in a _3 year upfront announced end of life_ and expect us to wave a wand and have a magical solution, and you also cannot expect us to break agreements and so on. Even if Tacticsoft did that for a few people, it's not something we (ever) want to get into. We'll do what we reasonably can with whatever Kongregate offers.
 
We will continue to support SuperMechs on Kongregate so long as Kongregate is willing to host us (they broke it, we didn't). If someone were to google "Chrome Portable 48" and post a new topic linking it as an option for kong, ideally on kong's forum, with a warning of potential security issues, boy, that would be mighty handy. 
 
https://community.gatogames.net/t/new-battledawn-not-working-out/2965 might or might not contain a link. Please do check it with an anti-virus - I have it installed but can't guarantee its safety.

Date changing won’t really help much, nor will new browser versions.
 
You can use Puffin Desktop or something like Maxthon (be warned: Maxthon has been controversial for leaking data to the Chinese government) or Portable Chrome 48, which you can find online, but I must warn you it may be virused and any website you use it on could potentially infect your computer. Do not use it unless you will only use it for Kong with SM and you trust both us and Kong with your safety.
 
I will not link it for that purpose, a player is allowed to but only if they give appropriate warning.
 
As for the future
We were indeed informed (Thank you!) that GetSupernova has concluded we need to re-program our kong integration for it to work with their desktop plugin. This is quite a bummer, especially considering Kong doesn’t have many of our players (the one who said 1-2% is exaggerating, it’s less than 0.5%, and that’s being incredibly generous and counting all the people who just click the game, all the bots and all the multis) nor enough income to pay for this itself (said kong players spend way less than the average SM player, we’re arguably already making a loss on it as is due the time we spent etc).
 
To put it bluntly, there’s not enough players or income for me to be able to justify putting a lot of resources into re-writing an integration, especially considering with Kongregate’s current radio silence and behavior, I would be totally unsurprised if tomorrow they just deleted it entirely. 
 
When we upload a new version, one requirement seems to be that we tick a checkbox promising there’s no external account systems present in SuperMechs. 
 
We’ve asked them for permission to manually transfer accounts on request a multitude of times - it has seemingly been done in secret in the past based on reports (on kong all requests seem to have been responded with a ‘sorry, not possible’, so pretty sure Kong didn’t give permission) and have been ignored on each of these. We’ve tried sending out 2 announcements offering to do it, as I was hoping for implicit permission from their news team. Both seem to have been rejected. It was an attempt at guerilla play.
 
So, we’ll look into the integration issue and see if there’s any quick fix that won’t get us into _too_ hot waters and meanwhile continue to hope for permission. You can use one of the workarounds to play SM for now via kong, but please be mindful that Kongregate owns your data there. I have no idea how much longer they’ll bother - it seems they really don’t care. Shame because their platform is awesome...
 
We will not risk potential legal issues and we have only N amount of time to spend on Kong, we’re willing to spend a bit more out of sympathy, but everyone knew Flash wasn’t going to last (browser has been warning for ages...) and kong only announced their solution on 31 december and that we’d need to do changes a day or so ago. 
 
We’ll do what we can to the degree that it’s reasonable, but we don’t have that many options.
 
 
 
 

You have a valid point, but if the reward was similar, what would be the point in winning clan wars and grinding to be the best?

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You have a valid point, but if the reward was similar, what would be the point in winning clan wars and grinding to be the best?

I don't know why you guys are still trying tbh. Yes, it is a shame this had to happen and that people's kongregate accounts could be lost. However, if you expect Alex to copy player's data onto a non-kongregate account (if that is even possible), you've got the wrong expectations. The amount of work that needs to be done on SM as a whole is monumental, and Alex has probably already shifted into the top gear AND turned on NOS. The team working on SM is incredibly small, it might even be just Alex. Yes there might be a workaround to flash not working, but installing a dodgy browser isn't one of them. Don't expect a new web version to be made either, as that takes years with a decent sized team, as the entire game has to be made from scratch pretty much in unity. 
Don't lose hope, but don't hope too much either

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Of course its your choice to choose what stats are more important, but from experience, I can tell you youd be better off sticking with a different drone

No, pretty much bad in every area. Sounds harsh but its true, nice try though
1) Very low health
2) Very low cooling and regen
3) Not a very good drone, its made for energy free builds
4) The ultrabright is not a very good weapon, there are much better alternatives
5) sword + hammer isn't that good of a combo, but can work if you have no range 2 weapons apart from the sword

It has only average damage, it doesnt drain the most energy, and it is only range 3-6, so if you end your turn and they are somehow in range 1 or 2, it wont fire

No, pretty much bad in every area. Sounds harsh but its true, nice try though
1) Very low health
2) Very low cooling and regen
3) Not a very good drone, its made for energy free builds
4) The ultrabright is not a very good weapon, there are much better alternatives
5) sword + hammer isn't that good of a combo, but can work if you have no range 2 weapons apart from the sword

Flash is dead, so short answer is you can't, download it and play it like that instead

thanks for that advice
 

It was around 5 hours per card if I remember correctly, as for the upgrade times for the base, probably 48 hours or around that. As for the price, I have no idea, but most likely over a million

I shall
 

I spent a while investigating the drop rates. It costs over 3 million per legendary.
This is because for a "chance of legendary" card, it costs over 300k. The drop rates for these are 10%. On an old hacked account when I was getting rid of tokens and fooding everything that gave me an advantage, I opened 300 as a test. I got 30 legendaries.
Obviously you cant get legendaries from sliver boxes, but I think it might be cheaper to fuse an epic up to legendary than to buy a legendary from base. And its best not to ignore the time it takes. I skipped 100 card's production times during this test, it cost over 5600 tokens per skip. I cant remember how long, but its a very long time.
Consider the cost of upgrading the base to level 20 too. You also have to upgrade the factories, so time is a massive factor there too.
You can produce kits with base, but they are "chance of rare" and are level 1

I spent a while investigating the drop rates. It costs over 3 million per legendary.
This is because for a "chance of legendary" card, it costs over 300k. The drop rates for these are 10%. On an old hacked account when I was getting rid of tokens and fooding everything that gave me an advantage, I opened 300 as a test. I got 30 legendaries.
Obviously you cant get legendaries from sliver boxes, but I think it might be cheaper to fuse an epic up to legendary than to buy a legendary from base. And its best not to ignore the time it takes. I skipped 100 card's production times during this test, it cost over 5600 tokens per skip. I cant remember how long, but its a very long time.
Consider the cost of upgrading the base to level 20 too. You also have to upgrade the factories, so time is a massive factor there too.
You can produce kits with base, but they are "chance of rare" and are level 1

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Lol funniest thing I've read for a while

Lol funniest thing I've read for a while