I decided to test custom scenarioing with the commander to find anything interesting. These are my notes:

You can add Commanders to slots, in the territory you want them, while making custom scenarios...



...But you cannot cheat the game by giving you a Commander without giving your enemies one.



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I also tried giving Neutrals a commander. The game allows you to...



...But you can only assign it, not play it.



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As you saw from above pictures, I also tried to add multiple commanders to the same slot.

But once again, it's a no go. :(



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No loopholes this time around. Good job, Fizzer! But it sure as heck would be fun to play games with special rules without this binding.

I'm wondering what's so great about removing permanent membership. I was thinking of buying that after getting paid this month, but now the option is gone. I guess it will never happen.

And to the person celebrating the free trial, why?

"Trial automatically converts to a monthly membership after one month if not cancelled. Cancel at any time. Membership payments are non-refundable."
This means if you leave warlight and forget about the membership trial after a month, you start getting charged. horrible method of getting money if you ask me.

By removing lifetime membership, Fizzer is getting two to three times more money (minimum), because of having to pay yearly, not one-off.

^depends. Or like most people, they will realize membership does not really add much and they will not renew it. In that scenario, Fizzer will get half the membership money then he would have.

I still hold out hope we'll get something useful for being a member. I don't regret it, but it was completely ruined by the level system.

think the monthly membership cost is too high. makes sense to have it monthly, but would need to be lower to get more people actually using it.

sad there were no ladder updates:
- attack only on 3v3
- poll for template changes on realtime ladder
- another starting pick for 2v2

Commander icon looks like a gay anime model, not a military leader.

Edited 1/5/2016 02:07:01

I'm all for supporting this site, but not in this way

The commander is a pilot. He ravages flight attendants in his off time.

To help combat spam, to post on the forum, players must now have a validated email address or be signing in through Facebook.

This one was really funny.

The commander looks like the kind of pilot who ravages the Navigator's d*** and gives flight attendants fashion advice.

It gives the game a bit of a "chess" feel. Like, you want to take your opponent's stuff, but protect the king at all costs.

Yeah, a value of 7 matters in small beginnings, but mostly you just want to protect him.

Castle, that is also possible. Either way, he is not a military commander.

Fizzer listened to one of my suggestions.

Ayyy lmao get rekt [rest of warlight community] your lives are meaningless I have ascended into the Astral Plane with Fizzer, Anthony and the rest.

One minor bug:

When you use an 'Emergency Blockade', and have entered your orders but are still waiting for other players, it shows up as "Abandon" on the map, but as "Blockade" in the Orders window. (Neither being entirely correct, of course...)

HI,

I think the commander option is intriguing, however I think WL should stay 2d, rather that with a goofy looking commander.. the lure of WL is the low graphics that don't distract from the strategy.

Edited 1/5/2016 07:18:29

Having bought a lifetime membership for myself (and about 6 of my friends), I am rather disappointed to see it go away. On the other side of the coin, I guess that gives those of us with lifetime memberships some resale value on our accounts when we retire. Seriously though, I wonder what kind of a price an account with lifetime membership would fetch...

Also, I don't think that anyone has mentioned it, but you can now find the territories for local deployment a lot easier.

Yeah, the Local Deployment upgrade is pretty much the only update I'm happy about.

Welsh Knight, it's not "2D" graphics, rather "Vector" graphics, which the commander is not. He's a "pixel" style and it really doesn't fit. It's quite jaring in fact.

Edited 1/5/2016 08:38:26

LOCAL DEPLOYMENT WW2 DIPLO INCOMING!!!!