Monthly Archives: March 2010

Zero Online: What is New in March?

Zero Online: What is New in March?

 

Attention, cool pilots! The TQ team has prepared a string of fun events for you: 1 daily Boss Mission, 5 routine Weekend Events, 5 Daily Missions and 6 new Spacecraft Missions as well as new Cosmos Apocalypse! Let us see what will happen in ZO and what TQ will bring to us this month!
 
1. Weekend Event – Legend of Lost Treasure (March 6 – 7)
Good news! Our alliance has recovered part of the treasure finally! We will sell 4 kinds of treasure boxes at 10/50/100/1000 ZPs! Don’t hesitate to join this event from March 6 to 7, and you will be rewarded with different kinds of amazing rewards! Pilots, have you ever dreamt about becoming rich and powerful? Well, the treasure boxes will let your dreams take flight! Good luck to you!

Treasure Zero Online Event

 

 

 

2. Weekend Event – Hero’s Archives (March 13 – 14)
The Alliance has planned a raid against the Othello to retrieve the Archives of Spartan. The pilots who succeed in retrieving the archives will be greatly rewarded. There are 15 pages in the archive. You can collect your reward when you bring back each page. If you can answer a question about Spartan’s history, you will receive an additional reward. You will be given the full reward if you collect all 15 pages!

 

Hero Archives Event Zero Online

 

 

 

3. Boss Mission – Specter Squad
The members of the Specter Squad were poisoned by the Othello! One of them may fly into an uncontrollable rage at any time! Any pilot who can find the Specter who is in a fit and rage and manages to calm down the veteran will receive nice rewards, such as: lots of EXP, gold and maybe Red Star scraps!

 

Spectre Squad Zero Online Event

 

 

 

4. 5 New Daily Missions – Collection/Warfare/Contact/Seven Envoys/Assistance
The battle between the Alliance and the Othello continues and the situation becomes more and more severe! The information officers in each area are in need of your help to fight against the Othello! You can accomplish these missions once a day in each area and will be rewarded with lots of EXP, gold and Hero Badges! Besides, you can get an extra bonus from Walter (Steel Warship 461,778) when you have collected 50 Hero Badges.  
5. 6 new Spacecraft Missions – Solomon Fort/Sky City/Storm City/Leave Archimonde/Live or Die/Aero Fortress
Have you ever tried the Spacecraft Missions? As we known, they are very popular for their fabulous rewards and intense challenges. Many brave and powerful pilots have earned themselves lots of gold, EXP, and Genetic Resource Packs (not to mention fame and fortune)! So we will add 6 new spacecraft missions into the ZO world again, and you will be rewarded with a Genetic Resource Pack, a Lottery Pack, 2 Military Badges and 500 ZPs (bound) when you finish these missions first time! Don’t forget to join in and win these amazing rewards

Space Craft Mission Zero Online Event

 

 

 

6. Cosmos Apocalypse 61 – 70
In the world of ZO, we offer you the precious chance to explore the mysterious cosmos. By joining the Cosmos Apocalypse, your pilot and unit will test your limits. Upon completion, you won’t just claim rewards, but also an honorable title! You will be rewarded with Amethysts and the Chomsky Atom by finishing the Cosmos Apocalypse Stages 61–70.

 

Cosmos Apocalypse Event Zero Online

 

 

 

7. Routine Weekend Event – Othello’s Kr/Carry the Ores/The More The Merrier/Attack the Phantom/Dark Crystals
Emergency! The recent solar storm has caused severe damage to the Alliance’s energy system. If not enough energy ores are collected by the end of the month, the entire Alliance will grind to a halt due to power shortages. So we will hold these routine weekend events every Saturday and Sunday. You can exchange Kr Ores for lots of ZPs (bound). Good luck!

 

Weekend Routine Zero Online Event

 

 

 

Does it sound too good to be true? Come online and check it out by yourself then! Don’t hesitate to try ZO and don’t miss out on these fun events to win something good! Good luck and have fun!

 

BTO: Times Square Settles in Liberty City on March, 1st

BTO: Times Square Settles in Liberty City on March, 1st

 

Since its Open Beta is released, Business Tycoon Online has won great amount of favours and supports from worldwide players. To meet their desires, DOVOGAME will launch the fifth server ‘Times Square’ at 8:00 am, March, 1st. Enter this business world and hold absolute right in your world!
 
As one top business simulation browser game, Business Tycoon Online has attracted millions of players to swarm into Liberty City and start their businesses. At the same time, DOVOGAME accepted players’ suggestions and a new version of Business Tycoon Online official site is available now!
 
More guides for new players have been added into this new version. Besides, for players’ convenience, top players and top guilds on each server have been listed on the homepage of this new official site. In the future, DOVOGAME will go on improving the gaming environment according to players’ suggestions.
 
To show our gratitude to players’ support and enthusiasm, DOVOGAME also prepares 7 activities for all new players in Times Square. Rewards will be available in every step from registering to establishing a store. The rewards may be a VIP package, a Company Upgrade Package and even 1,000 Gold. Go play and get the start-up funds to keep ahead of all players!

Business Tycoon Online Time Square Opening Event

Vanilla Gate Review: Left With Questions

Vanilla Gate Review: Left With Questions
By Eline Stiekema, OnRPG Journalist

 

It’s hard to explain what Vanilla Gate is about. I’m afraid the exact storyline of this game is a secret which is well kept by the developers, because I haven’t been able to find it anywhere. The website isn’t very helpful either. The only clue we can derive from the site is the following: “Main character gets into the planet Vanilla by chance. He has to go back home along with losts that he meets there and there are ancient cultural stuff that is needed to explore and get potal to go home.” Okay, we’ll see.

 

Getting started

Downloading and installing the game is easy, and creating a character isn’t much of a problem. There’s not a lot of choice in hairstyles, clothes and attributes, but the stuff you can pick looks nice and there’s enough room for variation. But then, you are going to want to find out how to play, who you are going to fight, what problem must be solved, and why. This turns out to be a bit of a problem. Reading the information on the website is usually a good start, but it seems like the developers haven’t been able to put the game info into comprehensible English.

 

 

Ingame Vanilla Gate

 

You can also do the tutorial, which is more helpful, but also kind of boring and repetitive. You learn the most important controls, but the orders the ‘drill instructor’ gives are often a little unclear, and you have to repeat certain moves until you get them right. When you can’t make it because you don’t understand what it is exactly that you have to do, your time just runs out and you have to start again. At one point I got so frustrated that I quit the tutorial and just started playing the game.

 

Gameplay

There are three modes of gameplay: single, team and quest. Each mode has its own rooms. Unfortunately, often the rooms are either full or busy. There are many rooms that seem to have been created for one person, which I found very surprising, because I didn’t manage to create a room myself. Neither the Help topic, nor the game manual provided a solution for this problem, so it’s still a mystery to me.

 

If there isn’t a room you can join but you want to play, creating your own room seems the only way. Sadly, playing is still not an option once you have created your own room. There you are, in your own cute little room, which you have restricted to two players… waiting. Yes, now you have to wait until player two joins in. This can take quite a while, because Vanilla Gate doesn’t seem to have that many players. To kill the time, you get to solve math assignments for extra points. Yes, seriously: math. They call it a quiz but it’s only doing randomly generated sums. For hours, if you aren’t lucky enough to find a partner. 52-60=? 43-39=? 134+55=? Boring!

 

I tried to find a solution for this, so I looked on the forum, which was full of complaints from players dealing with the same issues. I didn’t see anyone providing a solution, except begging for friends on the board so they could play together. In the chat I asked if there were other players waiting to join a room, but half of my message was cut off and I didn’t get a response. So I created a new ‘single’ room and just waited. Eventually, someone joined in and we could finally start.

 

Smash Bored Vanilla

Smashing Heads for Fun

 

We didn’t have any idea what was expected from us, so we just started beating each other up and that proved to be the right thing to do. It was fun, but it wasn’t anything special.

 

I also tried doing a quest. At first this was fun, but it soon got repetitive because I was stuck on the first level, although I did everything right and scored the highest possible amount of points. The same level just started over and over again. I also couldn’t find a solution for this problem. I played the first level from each of the three quests that are available, but didn’t get further. Very weird.

 

Beaten

Beaten by the game

 

 

General Recommendation

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything that makes Vanilla Gate stand apart from other games. It’s just a bunch of stuff that has been done many times before, wrapped in an obscure storyline. Nothing seems to be new or original. And the questions concerning what the game is about remain unanswered, just like a number of questions about problems that arise when playing. Vanilla Gate is quite fun to pass the time, but it’s likely to get boring really quickly, because it has a lot of repetitive elements. Graphics and sounds are also disappointing. Although I’ve had moments when I really enjoyed this game, I would not recommend it.

 

The Good:
– Simply fun to pass the time.
– Styling of character is simple, but looks nice.

 

The Bad:
– No clear information about the game or solutions to arising problems.
– Takes a long time before game starts, with boring sums to pass the time.
– Sounds and graphics are overall kind of disappointing.
– A lot of repetitive elements.

Hero:108 Online

In Hero: 108 Online, humans and animals lived together in harmony until High Roller, a mischievous guy, was unceremoniously banished from the Eastern capital. High Roller grudgingly wandered the Hidden Lands and developed a deep hatred for the people who cast him out.
 
Fate, often a playful catalyst, intervened and High Roller was struck by lightning, gaining the amazing ability to speak to animals. With his new powers, High Roller brainwashed his new furry friends into believing that humans are evil and began his plans to avenge those who exiled him.
 
High Roller’s massive Animal Army now rages war on all humans, attempting to drive them out of neighboring kingdoms.  So, just when you thought woodland creatures were harmless they descend maniacally on your world causing havoc and unrest.  As part of the squad of heroes, overcome the chaos and bring peace to the Animal Kingdom!