Clash of Clans is DEAD!

I deeply regret to say this again! Clash of Clans is dead. It made me wonder how a top grossing game on Android Google Play Store is as good as dead. May be I got to raid some dead villages. But to my surprise, I found all them abandoned so long ago. For a game, which flourished well in the market, it is so mean.

The effect of the abandoned village is that all I try to get the Town Hall down and get one star. Else skip those village where I do not find Town Hall kept outside the city walls and repeat the demolishing Town Halls. Totally, the raids have turned to be star hunts. No more resources found in storages. No point of raiding the villages.

The effect would be that I may have abandoned the game for approximately 6 months. I just relogged into the game after a brief break and found so many updates, still the villages I raided are as good as dead. For me it was pointless to create troops more than Barbarian. It would be fit to linger on our own collectors for resources than to waste much on the army and the raids. I really doubt no low level player sustains this game. At one point or another, they abandoned their villages for good. For Clash of Clans, it is the worst part.

One thing which really surprised me is my clan was still active and they were accepting and rejecting members into the clan. But for my inactive period they didn't kick me out of the clan. Thanks to them! But the level of resources available in the villages are so pathetic. I think the game shall be more simple than complicating it with more updates. The updates have brought few guards and troops which seems more costlier than ever before.

There may be one more reason for people quitting is rhetoric gameplay. It is open secret how to plan city defense and how to safeguard the resources by keeping them in mid of mortars and towers. With much resources and blogs regarding the town planning in internet, the game spoiled on it own. The frustrated players are tend to abandon it and look for some good time waster. Better, some innovation is needed to kindle fire in Clash Of Clans.

Please leave your comments and feedbacks in the below. Both positive and negative comments are welcomed.

How to install Proprietary Driver in Ubuntu?

For those who are searching for Proprietary drivers For AMD Graphics card in Ubuntu, here is the solution. Follow them, the very purpose of this blog is to DIY solution to problem. As an interest, I myself make entry as such for future reference. Instead of copy and pasting something, having it on blog is good. Next time, I will try bookmarking services to keep tab on interest areas.

How to Boost Cell Phone Signal?

Hi all,
This is not a blog post about boosting signal! I am actually trying to find DIY solution to boost my cell phone signal without any commercial Signal Booster(s) in the market. All I am trying is find out solution with tools and products which are usually available at any home.
Most of my work was to use a thin copper rod/cable believing it would receive Electromagnetic radiations from streets. But it is not easy as I believed. My 4 years of work in IT has never exposed me to antenna technology. I am suffocating much with amateur idea of boosting signal with copper wire. All I know far now is I can boost signal, bend signal using antenna which I gained through books which imparted some kind of basic mobile computing during my undergraduate programme on communication. But in reality, it is not as easy as something stated in the book. It mock me with difficulties. My idea is if I can pick up signal which I usually get in my smartphone when I am in street, then sure, I could bend or make it available in my office room which is not even 10 feet from the street. To be frank, I can see the street and house built in opposite plot. So It must be simple, expect for some practical knowledge which I lack due to no exposure in the field of communication.

IDEA FOR BOOSTER

Simple solutions:
It might work of most people out their searching for DIY solutions who like me, don't want to spent on those market boosted cell phone repeaters and boosters.

• Know where you service provider tower resides in your local area. Know where it is present from your house. In my case it is on north side of my house, but far away.
• Move near a glass window, preferably on the street side because we usually would not have any problem with cell phone signal if we step out of our house.
• Open the glass window which would face against the cell phone tower, make the window open until it is 45 degree so that you get atleast one or two bar boost in your phone.

It helped me a little when their is no signal at all in my phone. But it is just a trick where you can get boost only by a bar or two. Still it will lack signal quality. So it not dependable as we could depend on commercial signal boosters. So still I am trying to figure out how to make those copper cable act as a Passive Signal Repeaters. If it gonna work then it would save some serious bucks from those after market signal boosters. Yet, some people cry that boosting signal is against standards. But what could we do if you do not get due care from our service providers? 

BTW, I plan on trying to install a Radio Transmitter antenna to check it reception when it comes to mobile signals. If it would work. Then soon DIY simple passive repeater could be assembled at ease.

But all my efforts were fruitless. It ended up in vain. I miss something is very essential in the mobile phone signal processing. Like some electro magnetic absorption in the copper wire. I can't get it passed. Still my cell phone shows dumb zero bar signal.

One good thing about the cell phone tower signals is that old Nokia which was lying unattended in my room bailed me out of the zero bar situation. I wonder what made it pick up signal. It is a basic model phone nothing but a message and call function. Nothing more was added by the Nokia in its device. Surprising it worked better and picked up signal even in the dark corners where my Asus smartphone failed to pick up signal. Even a call made on availability of 'single bar mobile tower' worked perfect without any issues. The voice clarity was so good that I did not feel I was talking when single bar of the mobile tower showing up. With my limited technical knowledge, I cannot figure out what made my unattended Nokia phone to pick up signal so strong and what made my costly Asus zenfone to have zero bar and poor call quality if I drop from 4 bar to 3 bars tower! Only a technically sound guy could clarify the issue. 

I will come back when I find a way to boost signal using those copper wire. Please feel free to express any idea to boost signal with copper conductors alone.

Kabam: This Means War

Hello all, this is my second day on This Means War by Kabam. At first day review, I felt it similar to Clash of Clans game play. With same system implements it looked identical. But today, I tried attacking few bases through multiplayer battle. I was surprised that Kabam has decided to make the warfare to the another level. While I attack bases, even my base is exposed to opponent attack. The It drew some imaginary battle line from which we could deploy our forces for attack. The moment when the forces reach the opponent base. A wave of enemy attackers launch attack over my base. Wow! It risk my resources to be plundered by the opponents. It looks like war between neighbors. Still, it is a war game.

One big difference when it comes to raiding opponent bases is that, we can redeploy forces fallen in the battle. So we get unlimited supply of troops but limited by same set of units. Example, if you have one rocket trooper in your whole attack unit. You can deploy back only one rocket trooper for the whole battle. Well, lets see how this game play go after each upgrade.

With Command center upgraded to level 3, I was able to join alliance. The difference is not a big deal. As usual, we can send or request reinforcements from our alliance member. Also some parts could be requested from your alliance. But for now, I been raiding enemy bases like mad.

Unfortunately, I found my base attacked and a shield protects my base right now. Let see what happens next.

Kabam: This Means War

This is my first day playing 'This Means War' by Kabam. Google Play recommended to install this game. Out of curiosity I installed it. Basically, it is action strategy based game. So far, the tutorial were based on Single player mission. Nothing much on the part of Multiplayer as I had in Clash of Clans, Invasion, Royal Revolt...

Basic Terminology:

The intro part has exposed towards the basics of the gameplay. And for the purpose of this post, I will list few of them.

Power Cells: These are the elements which could be bought for some real money. Like I would be diamonds or gems for real money in other games. No surprise, you have to make deal with Kaboom for the speed ups.

Engineer's Tent: Though it may spell and pronounce as Engineers, it would simply call them builders employed in your base. At first, you would be kept incharge of a war base as usual. Nothing new on this part. Number of Engineer Tent decide how many constructions could be made simultaneously.

Command center: It is the heart of the base. It decide how many building and types of such building shall be present in your war base.

Supply collector and Storages: To be frank, I really wonder who send supply 24x7 in this game. But you will receive supply relentlessly. In this place, you could collect all your supply that have reached your base.

Red Mercury Collector: This is the vital resource of your base. Sorry, this is want the intro said about the resource. So I hope it will be the vital resource to reckon with.

Army Camps: It is the base where your units stay all day. The units must be produced from a separate barracks.

Gameplay:

Basically, I started the game under a shield. I lose shield if I enter multiplayer battle. Once I lose my base to an attack, then I gain back the shield. Feels similar to Clash of Clans where people farm with TownHall outside the walls. But for now, I would not make a flat assessment.

There are three types of game who can play. Single player mission where you fight against a Major ranked officer, one against friends and last one is multiplayer battle.

Gameplay is all about building troops and fill the army camps. Then launch attack! You end up looting resources from other bases if you win the fight. 

Overall, my first day at 'This Means War' feels like I am in another replica of Clash of Clans. The setup seems similar to that. Lets wait some time, to know more about the multiplayer feature of this game. If my base could be attack even if I am offline then it would be exact replica of Clash of Clans. So stay tuned to know more about this game.