Game Time: Agar.io – It's a cell eat cell world
14This is a competitive cell simulator (I guess?) where you start out as a tiny cell and absorb neutral cells to make yourself bigger, with the goal of being the biggest cell in the game for as long as you can. If you're bigger than another player's cell you can absorb them and make them start over.
As the start screen says 'W' ejects some of your mass and makes you faster, since the bigger you are the slower you move. 'Space' makes your cell split in half and shoots your new clone out a short distance which is a good way to absorb a player with a smaller cell, just make sure that you're still going to be bigger than them when you're split in half.
For some reason a bunch of the top players I've seen name themselves after various countries. Here I am running away from Japan:
I haven't figured out how to upload/change my skin so…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've been playing on the West Coast server but I don't think it matters too much. I wish there was an option for smaller servers or rooms so we could have an entire game full of Meh, but jump in and maybe we'll bump into each other.
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@JonT there is no skin uploading/changing, to get the special skins you have to pick a nickname that has a skin associated with it. E.G. Steam, Origin, 4chan, Nazi etc
@Saffer49 Erm, Nazi, eh…
@brhfl When I kept failing at Plague the other night I may have named it Hitler. Guess which plague finally won. Eek.
Can you evolve cilia or flagella?
When are we getting our first Meh themed game?
YES! Doge is a possible name. So custom. Very skin. Wow.
@Starblind I JUST ATE DOGE!!!!
@marklog wow much phagocytosis
amaze
So I'm not lasting very long at all...
@sohmageek I didn't either. There seemed to be some gravity that made my cell move toward larger cells.
Before playing, there is a warning that ad blockers may affect your chances of survival. I have an ad blocker and I suspect they purposely sabotaged me.
The spiky green cells are viruses. When you're small, you can safely pass through them, but once you reach about 150 mass you can eat them. Don't do this, though, since eating a virus makes you explode into a bunch of tiny cells, making you incredibly vulnerable for a while.
Secret tip: Eject mass into a virus to make it grow. Feed a virus seven times and a new virus will split off of it in the same direction from which you fed it (think of the virus you're feeding as a cannon, with you standing behind it). If someone huge is floating around a virus, use this to shoot a virus right into him and blow him into tiny, bite-sized pieces.
@lljk thanks for the pro tips! I know @MEHcus and I will be running around eating up cells today, come join us!
How are we not posting scores yet? Think I topped out around 596 last night. Then got cornered by a couple of giant USSRs.
I got up into the 5k's and topped the leader board for a few minutes before getting swallowed up after I split in two too many times.
On my first try I was Butts, and I got eaten by Dick at 658.
@Dweezle Got to 4257, and then my score stopped rising, no matter who I ate. :( Then some winky smiley face fed Japan until he could eat me. And ;) started out bigger than us both...
@Dweezle You know what they say, it's a dick-eat-butts world out there…
Throwing the brand name around. I actually got up to #2 before Hulk ripped me to shreds...
Seems to be some server problems going on...
@NigelF Just saw you (or someone else using meh.com as their name) a bit ago. Doge could not nom you as you were slightly too big.
@Starblind That was almost assuredly me, however shortly after that I was... um... distracted, and got splitkilled :(
Wanted to try but I am unable to connect
@tightwad I never managed to connect to US East, and US West either fails or takes a very, very long time to connect. But once connected, is fine. So possibly try another server or a lot of patience…
@tightwad I am behind a firewall it seems...played a bit using a hotspot, only got to 170 or so before I was cornered. How do you recombine after splitting?
@tightwad Someone better than me (still topped out around 600) will probably have a better answer, but it seems you need to grow one of your cells a bit, so it's large enough to eat the other, then the best luck I've had was just sort of cornering it, or getting the big one big enough that it's slower than the small one and the small one will run into it.
@brhfl @tightwad From what I can tell, once you split, it's just a matter of time before you recombine. There is no control to combine before the preset time.
@cengland0 Innnnteresting, thanks.
I like the Teams mode I saw last night. Not having every cell out to get me changes things, and teamwork is also possible. Being able to pump a teammate full of my mass makes it easier to walk away from the game - I don't feel like I have to stick around until death.
@darksaber99999 Pumping a teammate full of my mass. I get it.
Apparently the connection at work is blocked, and playing via a VPN isn't exactly ideal.
Been unable to connect for last couple days other than a brief period yesterday afternoon.
There was an update yesterday that added teams that went along with some server migration stuff so there were issues connecting. I think everything is back up now so give it another shot.
cc: @lichme @Saffer49 @tightwad
@JonT I was able to get on and play...got over 1,000 finally. This is not a site to be on during the work day...
@JonT I canz not connect . . . wanted to try it before I fly back out for a few weeks. Bummer. If you see a little speck that is named (if it will allow it) "Eat me bitch" - that'll probably be me.
@JonT Still unable to resolve host name. I'm sad because it was my filler game, I play that while I wait for queues in League of Legends, or Battlegrounds on WoW, or mining on eve.
@JonT Odd, I've played off and on all day and didn't have any troubles connecting..
Broke into the top 10, made it to #4. I saw a "Meh" on there.
@tightwad I've been playing as "Kadagan - Meh."
This game is destroying my productivity at work. I'm usually either "DISC" or DISCmeh
Server crashed and wiped me out otherwise I was unstoppable.
@DaveInSoCal I got up to about 12th I think (saw a guy who was 10, and he was a tad bigger than me) and then it reset me.. It gets frustrating!
@kadagan It's been resetting constantly. Today has not been my most productive day at the office...
@DaveInSoCal just got to #2 then i gave it up to #1.
Saw this mod for agar.io : http://agariomods.com/
@dashcloud what. the. fuck. was that video.
@dashcloud was playing around with this yesterday, it's awesome to be able to select your server so we can play together and the custom skins totally work and can be hilarious. We'll have to set up a time for a big Meh/Mediocre game soon!
@JonT I am in (after work hours I hope?)
Still playing...doing pretty well, made it to #1 and held it for awhile.
I've enjoyed this game. Been #1 on numerous time, but find it boring once I reach it. I think my favorite is getting around #10 or so and going on seek and destroy missions on the top two players. Mostly by shooting those green spike balls at them. I've been playing under the ¯_(ツ)_/¯ from @JonT 's first post
@MrMark You were on the other day when I was -- I was under either Michelle Obama or A Pirate
The team version is great. I teamed up with some guy named USA and we were controlling the board for the longest time... and then it was time for dinner. Not sure how that ended.
@capguncowboy The only time I tried teams it was by colors, three of them...how did you do it?
@tightwad Same -- we got in right after the server reset and were able to take control for our team early in the game. Once we massed about 2000 each (we would help one another trap enemies, then consume them and share their mass), we just went to the center of the board and cruised around taking everything
@capguncowboy I think you ate me a bunch of times that day. I'm always either DISC or DISCmeh
The US East and West servers have been horribly slow. I got a brazilian so I can play on the South American server. Much faster.
@marklog i just puked a little... but I'm still aroused
@marklog Where'd you get your Brazilian?
@darksaber99999
I had a good run last night, spent about 1/2 hour in first place..13,885 points at the max
@tightwad Wow, played this way more than I should, and never noticed there were points. Guess I have a new reason to play now.
Ran around for a bit in a team game in the West with a couple of people with Meh names this morning, any claimers? I was MEH.com running around trying to feed others.
@MEHcus Ha, I was definitely in there under the name 'meh'. I've been playing this game more than I'd like to admit the past few days. It's a constant adrenaline rush and is so satisfying to eat people. My max so far has been just over 20,000.
@agford460 most of us at the office have been getting at least a few games in every day since we started playing. It's addicting and so, so satisfying for such simple gameplay.
@JonT I hear ya, I'm hooked. It's a good way to burn some time while I wait for code to build or tests to run. Here's a screenshot of that 20,000 FFA run: http://imgur.com/WCo430E
@JonT
This game is like crack.
@PWiddy srsly.
@PWiddy It sure is, all too easy to look up and realize 45 minutes have gone by.
This game needs a boss button. Now.
@marklog Or a skin that makes it look like a big graph. There's always the "no colors" option to make it a bit less obvious.
@darksaber99999 It's just a big graph… that moves around… and eats the other graphs…
Holy shit a chrome extension.
https://goo.gl/EEXd9u
@marklog Think the extension is all brokeded now
@MEHcus yep. currently playing bareback.
Playing on 45.79.93.56:443 as "TIGHTWAD-meh". I will feed anyone with "-meh" after their name
Another bout with meh.com, this time dominating the east.
@NigelF Awesome. And a little free advertising doesn't hurt either :)
mehrklog just ate meh. I wasn't either one of them.
So spent about an hour or so this morning playing. Since discovering the score this is my highest: 23,270
I'll be playing on 45.79.107.12:443 for a bit. I'm Yawn Quixote. :)
@hollboll How do you get to that server? I went to spectate but couldn't figure it out. Is that an IP address? Can't access it directly.
@cengland0 https://meh.com/forum/topics/game-time-agar-io--its-a-cell-eat-cell-world#555a6671b54429540c4d8372 You need to install the mod which will give you a text box to fill in a server when you go to agar.io It can take a few tries to get to the right place but that's how we play together at work. Bonus: It allows you to use an imgur image as a skin that can be seen by other people with the mod installed.
@NigelF Ah, thanks for the info. No wonder I couldn't figure it out with the default site.
@NigelF ok, where's the mod?
@JerseyFrank If you're on Chrome, the extension @marklog posted will work as well. Once installed, just going to agar.io will give you all the other crazy options.
@JerseyFrank http://agariomods.com/, guess there's some goofiness with referencing other comments in the same thread. Original credit to @dashcloud
@JonT I found your ¯_(ツ)_/¯ shruggie being used by Senator Christopher Murphy.
Agar.io is having problems...can't get my fix this morning :(
This game is going to ruin my life. Can't. Stop.
Seriously, I hate loving this game.
@JerseyFrank i have two monitors and the one in which this game resides is to my left. I find that by the time it takes me to crack the top ten I cannot move my neck back to center.
@marklog I'm still playing. The extension I had stopped working and the whole site started crashing inconveniently when I use Chrome. That said, I've still had no problems getting on the leaderboard using the "regular" version of the game (browsing via FireFox). What's your typical username there? I've settled on "KneelBeforeZod!"
@JerseyFrank I pop in and out. I'm marklog sometimes, or dgfddv. Every once in a while i'll see a 'meh', or 'eatmeh', etc. I play on the east server(s).
@marklog I always play as DISC. This game is going to get me fired.
lol
I saw someone playing as "shia labeouf", so naturally I let him eat me an logged back in as "ActualCannibal". He obviously got the joke because we teamed up for an hour afterwards.
If you haven't seen it by now...
@JerseyFrank I was one the leaderboard as "DISC" with Shia today.
I just can't stop.... Must work...
Web filter policy at my office blocks this as a 'game' psh. This is no game, it is my life!
I like the team variant the best, it's fun to be a scavenger and pump up the big cell on your team.
@Bluedragon07 FFA is best played that way. You can really groove with someone and you wait it out to see who will betray whom first.
So last night I find myself in a bit of a rivalry with "V". My M.O. is to look for larger cells that are in the middle of a pursuit. As the smaller of the cells is doing the death spiral, I like to swoop in to pop the larger cell and the tables turn. I expect to be rewarded for this with mucho mass.
V was the benefactor of one of these attacks, yet he perceived it as a missed attack on him and instead of W'ing me to a larger size, he ate me. Bad move.
I then spend the rest of my time hunting him down and if not eating him myself, then feeding him to our rivals. He returns the favor, many times. This continues for hours.
At about 1am I realize that getting to 100 mass or so will get you on the leaderboard. This node/server is winding down. No new blood is entering the game. The Hunger Games have begun.
Alliances are formed, betrayed, renewed, and abandoned until only 2 remain - V and me. We spent a solid hour hunting each other down, risking the speed of multiple smaller cells, poaching each other with viruses and flirting with the corners. I was the underdog, but V was a little too free with his mass ejections. When he finally had me dead-to-rights, he split to consume me... but he was too small to eat me, and I too small to eat him.
It came down to a well timed virus shot that allowed me to eat his smaller cells and overtake him. I emerged victorious. I was alone on the leaderboard. V was defeated.
One small liberty was taken here. In truth, there were 3 remaining. V, me, and "Betsy." I'd never saw Betsy. After I defeated V, I searched far and wide for Betsy. I assumed she was hiding in one of the viruses. I started consuming every virus, but I never found her. I did several victory laps around the edges to see if she were hidden somewhere along there after abandoning her terminal. She was not. Interesting observation though - there's a maximum number of cells you can have. Once you are at that number, you can consume viruses without exploding, and they add to your mass.
@JerseyFrank great post that really captures the awesome stories that can be told in this super simple game. Great read and you make me want to get back in and play again :D
@JerseyFrank I JUST (about an hour ago) ended up on a broken server, all by myself. I ended up splitting and consuming virus, alone, for about an hour.
@JerseyFrank @marklog I think I determined that after a virus explodes you, you can consume future viruses until you recombine...then the next virus explodes you again. I tried using this as a means of growing but the vultures don't give a lot of time to playing around. Have ya'll tried the "experimental" mode? In that mode the viruses don't split, they move and there is a brown virus that expels dots and if you cross it when too small your game is over.
@tightwad love this mode, it helps out the little guy immensely when the viruses move. also i love watching folks kamikaze into the brown ones- a rainbow of sprinkles!
Wow, can't believe I've been playing this game for over a month now.
I've been experimenting with different names to see if there is a difference in peoples approach against you. It seems like using aggressive names causes people to try and attack you more.
Lately I've been using the names "I Attack top 10" and "I cause chaos". They seem to get me the most attention and people trying to attack me, which I enjoy.
However a question for those that also play this game. I've noticed a number of players are able to split or expel food/cells at a very rapid pace. Much faster than I can dream of. Are there special keys to do this? Or is there a special gaming keyboard that allows you to program such moves?
@MrMark There are keyboards with programmable macro keys. It's possible they've got a W turbo button setup.
@JerseyFrank Oh, wow, that brings back some NES memories…
@MrMark experiement with mouse placement when you split. i believe that the closer the mouse is to your cell, the slower the split. a mouse icon across the screen will get you more speed, as if it's trying to get to the icon faster.
@MrMark when you said a month, I take you to mean 'a month straight without stopping."
@brhfl
@JonT oh look, it's the Wii Balance Board v0.9
@marklog Close to a month straight it feels like :). Pretty much between 30-60 minutes a day during the week. Today I cleared out a room. Last one left standing.
That would be a work week. Haven't played at home or on the weekend yet.
I've finally accomplished the ultimate feat and become the last man standing in a room! I made a big move to move from completely off of the leaderboard to number 2 after about 5 minutes. A few minutes later I ended up in the top left corner with the numbers 1, 3, 4, and 5. After a suicide bomber swooped in to virus the number 1 I was able to eat the entire lot and knocked the leaderboard down to 6 foes. A few laps around the board and I was able to gobble up the remaining 5 players to emerge victorious!
I'm hoping this will be the new format for the game in that they will let a room fill up and then lock it so that no new players can enter and someone has to win the room.
@MEHcus as much fun as this is, I think it's a server issue.
@marklog Yeah I think you're right. I don't see anything in their logs about altering the game flow.
@MEHcus king of the hill/last person standing is a great mode idea.
@JonT Bobby Hill is ready to play
@JonT I saw this in the Experimental board...there were not a lot of people in the room and it was pretty easy to get into the top 10...couldn't stay long enough to see if the room cleared as people quit restarting.
hello
hey im a fan
PARTY MODE! PLAY WITH YOUR FRIENDS! The Meh code is oggy46sP
@marklog just saw and fed @mehcus
@marklog Thank ya sir, I had to feed myself to @Harrison to go get a Periscope session in so I couldn't stick around.
Whoo fifty points!
It is possible I am really, really bad at this game.
New party code - 4ACVvgky
@marklog Is this still active?
@agford460 no, i'm not sure what the timeout is on the codes. just post a new one every one in a while
@marklog agar.io/#2A92B
They now have match stats!
@MrMark And now I'll be even less productive than I was before. Thanks.
What server do you all play on. I'm usually Oceania because they're 40K+ on North America and the lag is terrible.
@DaveInSoCal i'm normally OK on north america... sounds like it's you.
@DaveInSoCal I play in North America..occasionally I did get a lag, but since they gave option to turn off skins I've done that and have not had an issue.
@MrMark @marklog Must be my work internet, which is slowwwww.
Gonna have a little Sunday afternoon Agar.io session. If anyone cares to join I'll be in this room as Meh.com MEHcus: agar.io/#L3SSG come feed me if you find me and we'll team up!
@MEHcus I'm on now, using that link. Username = KneelBeforeZod!
Man, I go on vacation for a week and all this agar.io excitement goes down. I'll join y'all one of these nights. Dealing with a lot of stuff at the moment that will likely keep me away for a bit.
I'm figuratively picking up the pieces of whatever went on in the office in my absence after literally picking up the pieces of my family's car that I plowed into the back of a minivan with last weekend, 600 miles from home, while returning from vacation. (No apparent injuries. Just damage to the car, bank account, and pride).
@JerseyFrank Ouch. Hopefully recovery on all things is swift.
@jaremelz Thanks. It's just money and time. We're secure enough to weather a storm like this, but it's still a pain in the ass.
Playing on agar.io/#UYQT2 currently. I am TIGHTWAD-meh. Come play and together we can rule the flatverse
Thought I'd give this thread a bump. Still love this game. I'll create a party room in a few minutes if anyone wants to come play for a bit.
If you decide to play, make your name your forum handle and meh so that we can identify you and team up. EX: meh MEHcus, meh hollboll, meh tightwad
Okay here we go, use this link to join the game. You'll need to go quickly though as these rooms tend to fill up quickly and then the link no longer redirects you to the correct game.
agar.io/#624ZB
@MEHcus already dead. :(
@MEHcus well, you ate me the first time and then I died again and quit.
@MEHcus I jumped in there but didn't see any of you :(
@DaveInSoCal Same here, and I saw this within just a few minutes of its posting.
@jaremelz @DaveInSoCal I'll create another one tomorrow and we'll have a little meet up.
I'll plan to set up a new game about 2pm CST for anyone that wants to play. cc @jaremelz @DaveInSoCal
Got busy and had to head home to take care of a sick pup so we'll push this to tomorrow.
Alright, anyone up for a game today? Sometime in the next 30 minutes or so.
@MEHcus yes!
@MEHcus @daveinsocal YUP.
@DaveInSoCal Getting ready to create it, I'll post it in about 5 minutes
@MEHcus
@MEHcus
@MrMark working on it. Decided we should Periscope this...if @hollboll would hurry up and get it set up than we'd be good to go.
agar.io/#5UVBE
@hollboll
@hollboll I didn't see any of you :(
@DaveInSoCal This room is super laggy for me
@hollboll was I the only one playing? Hit the leadboard briefly...
Periscope link: https://www.periscope.tv/w/aRZKpjM5NzUwfDF5cEpkVnptYlhSS1cOhG---lIi6-NK4AklhbzdKQQwkuVlTKi9POG6GrOQJA==
I did not see the name on guy, but from context clues (watching Periscope) figured he was around me so I didn't eat him. Meh is neat.
I may have been mehpoopsprinkle... Guess I need to read-up on what buttons do what... Seems like some of those blobs were doing all sorts of cool crap I didn't know how to do. I could shoot a small single ball out of me, but that's about it.
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