September 22, 2015

Building a wickedly powerful Cartel in Dopewars – A blast from the past

We won’t trifle over the details of how I got onto such a line of thinking, but I was triggered by the memory of the old game Dope Wars. For the uninitiated, Dopewars is a game about buying and selling drugs on the streets of New York. The goal is to buy low, sell high, avoid the cops, pay off the loan shark and buy a trenchcoat with more pockets. Simple, eh? It’s an old game that has it’s roots in DOS and through the years dozens of variations have come and gone. There has even been a truly watered down version for the iPhone. However, the game that sticks out in my mind is the old Windows version put together by the now completely defunct group of Beermat Software. Their version was pretty nice in that it extended the number of days you could play per session to 90. You also got big ass weapons that could completely annihilate […]

September 16, 2015

Greezio Bank Limited Time Building (LTB) – Building Payout and Upgrade Cost – Crime City

So here is another LTB and the promise of fabulous wealth and prizes. This time we have the Greezio Bank (I wonder where they got that name from?) which is at least a small footprint building. However, the overall income, like the last couple, are nothing to get excited over. Considering the 12 hour collect time, all you can really expect from is $40 million per day when you hit it correctly. This is nothing compared to the amount we see with the Grillz or Shamrock Pub. But hey, it’s something to spend money on. And spend money you shall. The total cost will be $31 Billion with $20 Million per 12 hours. The prize for the effort and expense is the Explosive Deposit Atk 403.8k/Def 100.9k with +1% Explosive Attack. Again, not a bad prize, but what the hell is the deal with all the low Defense stats? This has become a boring trend and everyone needs more Defense […]

September 2, 2015

New version of Freemake Video Downloader brings back YouTube Playlist downloads

Freemake Video Downloader is one of my favorite download tools because not only can it grab the highest available video file from YouTube as a single file, but it converts downloads to MP3, allows for a massive download queue, allows groups of files to go into separate directories and it works with dozens of sites. If it’s a "tube site" there is a good chance Freemake Video Download can get the file. Whenever I’m scanning along in YouTube I have it open just in case I want to grab the file for later. Many tools grab videos from YouTube, but they don’t work outside that realm which makes them kind of limited. Unfortunately, Freemake has gone through a slump as far as updates are concerned and for quite some time it hasn’t been able to parse a YouTube Playlist. This is a feature it was able to handle before, but YouTube changed, Freemake didn’t and I had to look elsewhere […]

August 27, 2015

Downloading Channels and Playlists with 4K Video Downloader

Downloading videos off YouTube is no major undertaking. There are more apps and plugins to grab videos than you can shake a stick at. However, things get a little more tricky when you want to download all the videos from a channel or in a playlist. My favorite tool for downloading videos is Freemake Video Downloader, but over the past few months and releases some of the features have fallen to the wayside, specifically it’s ability to download playlists. It used to have this feature, but it either no longer works or has been completely removed. Either way, feeding it a playlist URL won’t give you what you want. Strangely, getting an app to pull in a playlist is turning out to be more challenging that I thought. Most apps in fact can’t do it. They either see the URL as bad or will only grab the first item on the list and stop. Even the download managers don’t know […]

August 24, 2015

Wyndsor Airport Limited Time Building (LTB) – Building Payout and Upgrade Cost – Crime City

The Limited Buildings are coming fast and furious these days. We have the new Wyndsor Airport as well as several new gold buildings in the store. The Wyndsor Airport is a reasonable sized building with some decent stats. The initial cost is $123 million with $1.3 million every 24 hours. It’s another building that will cost over $30Billion to upgrade fully if you don’t have any mods. The reward for that heft cash investment is – Atrocious Explosive, ATK – 403,830 DEF – 100,958 with +1% Explosive Attack. Again, nice ATK, but come on, can we get some weapons with DEF mods that don’t suck dirty bath water? Yes, I have two of these silly things upgrading right now even though I started a bit late. I also see the Shamrock Pub got a huge boost in cash stats since it has now become a high value gold building. I have that at level 10 and it has jumped to […]

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