Category: Games

I enjoy playing video games. I used to play PC games since early 1990’s. I played anything from real-time strategies like WarCraft, StarCraft, Age of Empires, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, etc; to first-person shooters like Half Life and Quake III.

In the recent years though I have completely moved to consoles. My favorite gaming device is Sony PlayStation 3. Now I play mostly first-person shooters (Kill Zone, Call of Duty series, and the like), driving simulations (Colin McRae’s Dirt), adventure quests (Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted), and sports (NHL09 ice hockey).

I don’t write much about games, but when I do, I publish my posts in this category.

DopeWars game gathers momentum

There were a lot of developments in the DopeWars game since yesterday.

First of all, my cartel is growing larger now. It has 6 people currently. Here are the members:

  • Leonid Mamchenkov (me, TVSET)
  • Olga Mamchenkova (ironic)
  • Alexander Mamchenkov (AlexM)
  • Lev Shuvalov (lev)
  • Nicos Christodoulou (nichri)
  • Andrey Shvachko (Jerry Thrillah)

Total worth of cartel at the moment of this writing is a bit over $2,000,000 (exactly: $2,331,138 ). All members of the cartel got themselves familiar with the game interface and strategies. There are few useful discussions in the cartel forum (via game interface).

Secondly, we do succed in coming up the food chain. Cartel “greekdruglords” has been pushed far down by mostly me and Olga. And there is a major cartel war coming up with “Young Bloodz”. They are pretty scattered across the ranking table and mostly have members above us. But we will use them as our practice material, to polish our teamwork and strategic skills.

Anyway, if you are interested, please do join – we have plenty of vacancies. The earlier you will come in, the easier our path to victory will be. DopeWars website, game A8, cartel “Crazy Cypriots” (#49). See you there…

DopeWars info

I realized that I haven’t given all the information that you might need to join me and Olga in DopeWars.

Game: A8
Cartel: Crazy Cypriots (cartel ID #49)
Cartel cabinet: TVSET (user ID #352), ironic (user ID #362)

Register for the game, than message either me Olga (ironic) using “Messaging–Inbox/Compse” menu. We will send you the cartel join-in password.

Update on DopeWars

DopeWars turned out to be a pretty addictive game. Olga is in for it two. We are now in the cartel Crazy Cyprtiots (ID #49). We’ve already robbed a couple of guys and are fighting with another one.

Few strategic hints, if you will suddenly decide to join:

  • Join cartel as soon as possible. This will benefit both you and the cartel, since you will still have a lot of tokens to spend.
  • Get a few junkies into training. By the time you will finish spending your initial tokens, you will have few junkies up the full speed working for you.
  • Build a drug lab and get yourself a better coat. This will ensure that you will never stay out of money.
  • Don’t go to the dealer very often. They only make 3 deals with you and than you will have to change the station, which will cost you tokens. But make sure that you go often enough, so that you coat does not fill up or you will lose drugs. Lots drugs = lost income.
  • Educate yourself in the University. Buy lots of books first. This will save you tokens later on.
  • Turn on ads. That will give you some extra cash, without any annoyance (mostly those are Google ads and at the bottom of the page). Also get free tokens following the link at the top of the page. You can get them with just three clicks, but… only 5 every 20 hours.

If you are planning to join the game later, than don’t. You don’t have to be always online to play. You receive tokens all the time (2 every 25 minutes). That means that you can play while you sleep. So join now. But remember that you cannot have more than 168 tokens at any time. So spend some before you go to sleep.

Anyway, join in. We need your help as we climb up the food chain. There are some pretty tough gangs out there.

Let’s play DopeWars

DopeWars is one of the most addictive games ever! I have seen many clones of this game on many platforms. I even have a version for my SonyEricsson P800. Today I came across an online version – DopeWars Online.

This version is excellent. It is free, fast and online to start with. It has a whole lot of options too. There are several ways to make money – producing drugs, producing weapons, trafficing drugs, etc. Players can join gangs (cartels). Cartel members have more efficient drug laboratories, weapon factories, etc. They are harder to rob, and they can attack others with better chances.

The game is nicely balanced too.

I’ve already moved to rank 221. I have my own drug lab and factory machines that produce weapons and vests. I’ve bought myself a better coat (for drug transportation) and a few thugs (assassins, killers).

Register, if you are interested. Let me know you player ID (mine is #352) in the comments. We can form a cartel of our own. :)