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Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on iPhone App Store

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Re: Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on iPhone App Store

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That's a lot of praise for a knockoff idea.

a) They were first to market with a great game of this type on the iPhone. b) The realtime mobile nature of this game transcends knockoff status. Try it.

Realtime meaning what? Meaning you can do stuff based on time? Because that's a concept that's been around for a little while, though never on a mobile.

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there are issues for sure. the bank seems like something we should look at. the forums are mentioning this too

Someone attacked me right as I was putting all my money into the bank, and now I have $-100,000. Then I turned around and deposited my -$100,000 into the bank, so now my bank balance reads $-184,000. update: I quit the app and opened it again and now my bank balance is positive. And somehow it has jumped to $171335824. Sweet. update 2: The fact that you can gain XP by winning a fight on defense seemingly makes the ga…

I attacked someone and it said I got some $70k and some odd change. But then the connection died and when I logged in I had magically lost $10k of my original :(

Re: Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on iPhone App Store

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Switch the art and call it Earth 2025 or Utopia or Oilwar.

Is it sad that I've played two of those games and recognized the names?

I think you're much younger than me so it makes me sadder.

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I don't get why you need an iPhone app for this. Wouldn't an iPhone-optimized site be enough? You'll also draw in more players, and it'd be easy to add a desktop frontend.

1. itunes store distribution 2. easy way to charge iphone users 3. it looks and plays way better than a iphone web app could

Re: Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on iPhone App Store

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"Invalid redemption code entered."

Try "Friend Code" instead of "Redeem". Btw, mine is 100448262.

Mines 100358785

I really suck at this game, I'm level 7 but I keep running out of money, and I loose most fights! Very addictive though, checking it every 5 mins now, hopefully I can break away else I'm not going to get anything done!!

Re: Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on iPhone App Store

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I think these text-based iPhone games could be a pretty good thing. I have a couple ideas bouncing around right now. I'll be following how much steam this app picks up...though I'm sure if this idea does become popular, the market will get flooded.
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