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Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord
So a bunch of goons are enquiring about android emulators, in some cases they tried but gave up. Bluestacks is slow, while Genymotion is a full speed emulator.

This works on Windows/Mac/Linux, perhaps even freeBSD :monocle:

Hardware Requirements
VT-x or AMD-V capable CPU (My 2009 MacBookPro works for reference)
2GB of RAM
8GB+ Disk Space

Software Required
VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Genymotion https://cloud.genymotion.com/page/launchpad/download/
x86 to ARM Translations see Patch http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2528952
Play Store Patch see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2528952

Instructions
1. Install VirtualBox First, Next Next Next Next.
2. Genymotion requires an account but is free, sign up and download the software
3. Run Genymotion, Sign in to get a list of virtual devices
4. Now we pick a device to emulate, I’ve had issues with 4.4 so lets use 4.3. Pick your favourite device and resolution, name it and push next.
5. Now start the android vm, wait for it to load and I mean wait.

Even though we have the VM we aren’t done. This emulator will be slow without the emulation patch, and doesn’t have the google play store. So it’s basically crap all for us so let’s continue with more steps.

6. Download the ARM translations .zip file, this will speed up the emulator
7. With the Android window on the home screen, drag and drop the .zip archive we downloaded into the android window. You should see a file transfer dialog, which then will say it is a flash able archive. When it asks just say Yes. Once you are done, close the android window, and in the Genymotion app start the window again.

Ok great, we have a faster emulator, lets add Google Play

8. Ok we need the GApps download now, theres a bunch of mirrors so pick one for the right version of android 4.3 or whatever you chose earlier. Make sure to click the right download link, half the page will be clickable download here links that will send you to porn or something
9. We will again drag and drop the zip file into the Running Android window. The same rules apply, it will say flash able archive, you will say Yes please. Once it finishes, close the window and reopen the VM in Genymotion.

If it says fails, it might be lying so restart the vm and see what happens, if it works it works and we're happy. If your vm complains about google play services can't run the solution is to update google play services from the google play store. Update whatever Google Play wants and things should be gravy.

Ok we should have a usable Android emulator now. Sign into Google Play, download the games/apps you want. Get used to the keyboard commands and there you go.

10. Crack open a beer and it's time to play on your laptop/desktop/Surface Pro :laugh:
11. You need to link the devices, you get 1 minute to enter some code on the new device.

Risky Bisquick fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Oct 29, 2014

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psychicattack
Mar 22, 2003

Ask me why I don't punctuate the last sentence of my post

Brosnan posted:

He said it was a design meeting, nerd, not a developer meeting. :c00l:

CONSULTANTS

There's a horrible population of humans that believe that ppt is the only way to communicate anything.

see also: visio

TraderStav
May 19, 2006

It feels like I was standing my entire life and I just sat down

psychicattack posted:

CONSULTANTS

There's a horrible population of humans that believe that ppt is the only way to communicate anything.

see also: visio

We also get paid a lot to do so

psychicattack
Mar 22, 2003

Ask me why I don't punctuate the last sentence of my post
Isn't there somewhere you should be adding value or something you should be Gantt charting instead of posting on SA

padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0F4MnhWIwh8

After getting spooped by a few and seeing this video, GTC is doing a limited test run of a few valks mixed with wizards and archers, with more going in the lower level CCs where they're less expected and air attacks are less common

RVT
Nov 5, 2003

jm20 posted:

So much.

Bluestacks is a little funky, but works fine and installs really easy. What do you mean it's slow?

I really liked playing on it for a bit, but then I bought a tablet and learned to double drop and quit using it.

What are the benefits of Genymotion that makes it worth all that?


vvvvv fair enough.

RVT fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Oct 29, 2014

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord

RVT posted:

Bluestacks is a little funky, but works fine and installs really easy. What do you mean it's slow?

I really liked playing on it for a bit, but then I bought a tablet and learned to double drop and quit using it.

What are the benefits of Genymotion that makes it worth all that?


You must have a good machine, Bluestacks is widely known for being slow. It's just a faster emulator that runs better on worse hardware.

waffles beyond waffles
Jun 22, 2008

Oh, what a day...
What a lovely day!
Bluestacks is adware, Genymotion is a developer app that is totally free for individuals.

Hagop
May 14, 2012

First one out of the Ranger gets a prize!
AndyOS is what I most of my work clan uses at home. They all seem to like it.

LAY-ZX
Nov 10, 2009

So, my buddy who got me into clashing needed to borrow my phone to get his fix, but when he went to switch to his google+ profile it said it would delete my village. Just to be absolutely certain, that means it'll delete the local version stored on my phone, but the version tied to my profile will remain intact, right?

Fushigi Yuugi fansub
Jan 20, 2007

BUTT STUFF

jm20 posted:

So a bunch of goons are enquiring about android emulators, in some cases they tried but gave up. Bluestacks is slow, while Genymotion is a full speed emulator.

This works on Windows/Mac/Linux, perhaps even freeBSD :monocle:

Hardware Requirements
VT-x or AMD-V capable CPU (My 2009 MacBookPro works for reference)
2GB of RAM
8GB+ Disk Space

Software Required
VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Genymotion https://cloud.genymotion.com/page/launchpad/download/
x86 to ARM Translations see Patch http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2528952
Play Store Patch see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2528952

Instructions
1. Install VirtualBox First, Next Next Next Next.
2. Genymotion requires an account but is free, sign up and download the software
3. Run Genymotion, Sign in to get a list of virtual devices
4. Now we pick a device to emulate, I’ve had issues with 4.4 so lets use 4.3. Pick your favourite device and resolution, name it and push next.
5. Now start the android vm, wait for it to load and I mean wait.

Even though we have the VM we aren’t done. This emulator will be slow without the emulation patch, and doesn’t have the google play store. So it’s basically crap all for us so let’s continue with more steps.

6. Download the ARM translations .zip file, this will speed up the emulator
7. With the Android window on the home screen, drag and drop the .zip archive we downloaded into the android window. You should see a file transfer dialog, which then will say it is a flash able archive. When it asks just say Yes. Once you are done, close the android window, and in the Genymotion app start the window again.

Ok great, we have a faster emulator, lets add Google Play

8. Ok we need the GApps download now, theres a bunch of mirrors so pick one for the right version of android 4.3 or whatever you chose earlier. Make sure to click the right download link, half the page will be clickable download here links that will send you to porn or something
9. We will again drag and drop the zip file into the Running Android window. The same rules apply, it will say flash able archive, you will say Yes please. Once it finishes, close the window and reopen the VM in Genymotion.

If it says fails, it might be lying so restart the vm and see what happens, if it works it works and we're happy. If your vm complains about google play services can't run the solution is to update google play services from the google play store. Update whatever Google Play wants and things should be gravy.

Ok we should have a usable Android emulator now. Sign into Google Play, download the games/apps you want. Get used to the keyboard commands and there you go.

10. Crack open a beer and it's time to play on your laptop/desktop/Surface Pro :laugh:
11. You need to link the devices, you get 1 minute to enter some code on the new device.

that's a whole lot of effort to play a shitter game on a pc. jesus

Fake James
Aug 18, 2005

Y'all got any more of that plastic?
Buglord
Yeah goddamn. Just download this: http://www.andyroid.net/

Instructions
1. Download Andy
2. Run Andy
3. Download Clash of Clans
4. Sync account
5. Barch

Seditiar
Aug 5, 2012

That's a lot of :10bux::



Don't mind the weird army comp, donating stuff for wars while farming.

McSpankWich
Aug 31, 2005

Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center. Sounds charming.

Geoff Zahn posted:

Yeah goddamn. Just download this: http://www.andyroid.net/

Instructions
1. Download Andy
2. Run Andy
3. Download Clash of Clans
4. Sync account
5. Barch

So I just set this up, it runs extremely slowly. The emulator itself is super choppy, not even running CoC, just navigating around the android desktop is laggy as hell. Bluestacks is completely smooth, despite being annoying with the downloading random apps. They're easy enough to remove though, you just pop through the list real quick and clear it out.

McSpankWich fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Oct 29, 2014

hitchensgoespop
Oct 22, 2008
Question for any barchers - have you ever tried barching at around 1700 trophies? I'm there at the moment and the loot seems severely lacking. I find myself attacking bases with 6th of loot just to get an attack in.

TraderStav
May 19, 2006

It feels like I was standing my entire life and I just sat down

hitchensgoespop posted:

Question for any barchers - have you ever tried barching at around 1700 trophies? I'm there at the moment and the loot seems severely lacking. I find myself attacking bases with 6th of loot just to get an attack in.

There's barching available all the way up into Masters. Just keep hitting next and you'll find the 200k+ soon enough. I regularly find that in Crystal III and II within 40 nexts. Sometimes it seems like it goes longer than that but the payoff is worth it.

hitchensgoespop
Oct 22, 2008
Cheers ill keep plugging away

TraderStav
May 19, 2006

It feels like I was standing my entire life and I just sat down

hitchensgoespop posted:

Cheers ill keep plugging away

This does assume you're farming for gold/lix. If you need DE you should be doing balloonion up in Crystal. That gets expensive though as to really do it right you need some rage/heals to push to the core.

Fake James
Aug 18, 2005

Y'all got any more of that plastic?
Buglord

McSpankWich posted:

So I just set this up, it runs extremely slowly. The emulator itself is super choppy, not even running CoC, just navigating around the android desktop is laggy as hell. Bluestacks is completely smooth, despite being annoying with the downloading random apps. They're easy enough to remove though, you just pop through the list real quick and clear it out.

Weird, it runs really smooth for me. I don't know enough about emulators to even guess at what the issue could be, though.

McSpankWich
Aug 31, 2005

Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center. Sounds charming.
I just realized I'm still running the developer preview of Windows10 on this computer for work. That is probably whats happening, since the graphics drivers are shoehorned in from windows 8 and far from optimized. I'll try it out on my desktop when I get home and see if it's any better.

morning wood
Oct 2, 2013

psychicattack posted:

CONSULTANTS

There's a horrible population of humans that believe that ppt is the only way to communicate anything.

see also: visio

Sounds like the Air Force. Facts and information aren't real if they aren't in a PowerPoint. :v:

SalTheBard
Jan 26, 2005

I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!

Fallen Rib

morning wood posted:

Sounds like the Air Force. Facts and information aren't real if they aren't in a PowerPoint. :v:

O God the flashbacks......

BrightGreenLine
Sep 2, 2004
oh :gonk:
Just applied to Lazygoons. BGL.

WonderfulWino
Sep 26, 2004

The grape wont cut me loose.
I dropped my tablet last week and have been using Bluestacks. It is pretty slow and dropping 185 goblins crushes the FPS to about 1 fps.

But it does work and was incredibly easy to set up.

Major Dickason
May 17, 2011
Don't ever let anyone tell you you can't accomplish anything. You're special. 2 Wizard Towers are more than enough.

waffles beyond waffles
Jun 22, 2008

Oh, what a day...
What a lovely day!

Major Dickason posted:

Don't ever let anyone tell you you can't accomplish anything. You're special. 2 Wizard Towers are more than enough.



I bet people like this think that there base is amazing, because they never get attacked for resources since they gem everything.

khy
Aug 15, 2005

420 blaze it.

padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever
Stop base shaming me you son of a bitch

Booties
Apr 4, 2006

forever and ever

Major Dickason posted:

Don't ever let anyone tell you you can't accomplish anything. You're special. 2 Wizard Towers are more than enough.



Don't hate, having 1 of every defense maxed out is a good idea.

LAY-ZX
Nov 10, 2009

I just gotta share this gem from 2poor's current war




:allears:

You can't see it but there's a mortar outside the base just off the top of the screenshot. I'm assuming it's the new one and he just put it out there to level it up, but it's already a level 4 compared to the two level 3's inside the base so I have no idea.

I'm a th6 and I'm more confident in my ability to get a star from this than from either of the th7's below it.

Chubbs
Feb 13, 2008

In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved, and what can't be avoided will be.
Grimey Drawer
Maybe it's all a ruse designed to lure you into their maxed traps?






Or not.

High House Death
Jun 18, 2011
They also had a TH8 (I think) that left his TH outside the walls, so I got to snipe that as a TH5. :smug:

ClumsyThief
Sep 11, 2001

Trip Report: Goon Tang Clan was forced to submit for the second time by Canadians with different punctuation. However, the TH8 poo poo Twister remained true, giving up only one star, and hockey is still underfunded in the States and not really covered by ESPN.

Our next matchup seemed reasonable, until I saw it. A twister. Of poo poo.

http://imgur.com/rCrNTls

padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever

ClumsyThief posted:

Trip Report: Goon Tang Clan was forced to submit for the second time by Canadians with different punctuation. However, the TH8 poo poo Twister remained true, giving up only one star, and hockey is still underfunded in the States and not really covered by ESPN.

Our next matchup seemed reasonable, until I saw it. A twister. Of poo poo.

http://imgur.com/rCrNTls

Drop two dragons, one near the builder hut, one near the spell pan, drop the bk between them, let them clear the trash, then drop the rest of the dragons next to the left camp. 4-5 of them should hit the core then it's pretty much over.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
Spergs: Koa here, I assume you guys kicked me but if not you should because they have a "no phones" policy down here on the ice. So I'm out of luck for CoC since I can't get bluestacks to work and don't care enough to try.

See ya'll in a few months!

ExtraFox
May 22, 2003

~all of these candy~
GTC is the only clan that seems to have luck with the poo poo Sipper Twister.

If you'd like an alternative, this worked really well for me in our latest war:

xjohnson posted:

Posting this for the homies in UGA

TH8 war base Pre-4th Mortar

http://clashofclansbuilder.com/plan/569663

It has been updated to include the fourth mortar.

SalTheBard
Jan 26, 2005

I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!

Fallen Rib
How has the experimenting with Valks in CC's going? I'm really interested to hear more about that.

mephology
Jan 14, 2012

Not so well when your highest th7 is 22 (me) and their 40 is th9. In addition their 50 is th8 and they have 2k trophies on you. Will report back after this war.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



ExtraFox posted:

GTC is the only clan that seems to have luck with the poo poo Sipper Twister.

If you'd like an alternative, this worked really well for me in our latest war:


It has been updated to include the fourth mortar.

I got 1-starred in 2LEGIT's current war using ye old Poop Tangler. It held off 8 L2 dragons, 12 hogs ('cause why not, I guess?) with 2 rages, a heal, and a barb king to go with it.

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padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever
Is there a solid th8 farming base that includes the 4th mortar yet?

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