Dignfight Strategies

There isn't much to do tonight, so I'm going to talk a little about game theory in DignFight.

Just like chess, there's an opening, mid-game, and end game.

The opening in DignFight is difficult because:

• You probably don't know how to play the game and you might quit before it get's interesting
• The forums and websites are probably a little too complicated for you to understand
• When you look at the Top 50 players, you think it's impossible to get that high

Things to remember about the opening:

• Look around you when you first start, there are tons of other low-level Keepers
• The most important thing in the game is GOLD. It can be profitable to attack, but it is much easier to dig for gold
• Exploring is fun, recruit different kinds of creatures, research spells and traps, tinker doors and traps when you can

Once you get into the single-digit thousands (rank 9000 and higher) you're in the midgame (this number varies on different servers). The mid-game sucks because:

• You are going to run into Devilers, Dark Elves, and Black Riders here
• You will probably attack a Keeper and they will make it their goal in life to get revenge, even if they steal nothing and have to constantly heal their own creatures

The mid-game also rocks because:

• Now you understand most of the forum posts (and this blog)
• This is the area when you will find the richest Keepers with the worst defense
• If you take your time and train your creatures, you can build a strong army and stay low in the High Score List

The end-game is from about rank 300 and up. It can suck here because:

• All of the Keepers here are the same, you can't run from the bullies anymore
• To climb higher, you MUST deal with high-level Black Riders (lvl 12+)
• If you haven't trained your creatures to at least level 8, you're not going anywhere. Level 10+ is preferable, and a HIGH coverage helps too
• You need to wait forever for your creatures to level up (3 days or more)
• Black Riders will cost at least 10k gold to train without using any premiums
• Most Keepers don't attack much in the Top 100

The end-game is cool because:

• Being in the Top 100 of anything rocks!
• Other than that...I dunno

It's a bit obvious that I've been taking an extended break. Things in real life have been piling up and my computers at home have been giving me trouble.

I haven't even logged on to any of my DignFight accounts in at least 2 weeks.

There isn't much about the game to write about right now, so I'll just ramble about RL for a few minutes.

It all started when I picked up some malware from a website. I swear it was a pop-up ad from Veoh, I could be wrong. Things went from bad to worse when I decided to try and fix it myself by deleting a few infected files. My WinXP machine was so screwed up, I couldn't even open up My Computer.

Then my Network Attached Storage box died. It's an Infrant Ready NAS NV (Infrant is now owned by Netgear). There's a known issue with a specific range of serial numbers that causes the power supply to die prematurely. Lucky me, I got one of those lemon serial numbers. If Netgear would just send my the replacement power supply, I would be in great shape. Naturally, their customer service is lousy. The customer service rep very politely said that the part would be replaced for free and shipping would be covered. That was on February 15. The power supplies still haven't arrived at Netgear's warehouse and they can't tell me when they expect the part to come in.