Post by Isawa Okibi on Jul 16, 2012 15:12:10 GMT -5
I'm starting this thread for people who are still interested in playing EE on Facebook after the 'end'.
There are still people playing. I know since I still exchange gifts with a few survivors. The trick though is know HOW to play. Since Facebook pulled support some of the functionality is difficult to use.
I'm not a programmer, but there is a few simple hacks you can use to access the game. Please feel free to respond with your own solutions.
The main trick to playing is that the pages don't refresh after clicks. And some pages won't access without know their direct url.
HOW TO PLAY
Main
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/
The main page is still accessible. The links at the top can be opened by the right-click menu through "open link in new..." or "copy link location" and pasting.
Actions
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/actions.php
Unfortunately actions don't behave as well as travel. If you click on an action you'll end up with a blank error screen.
I've tried using IE and had no success with actions. However, in Firefox the following works:
Click action, get white screen.
Refresh screen (Ctrl-R, Reload icon)
You will then see the action screen with the results of your action.
Travel still works as you would expect (without refresh).
Interact
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/interact.php
The interact screen mostly works, in that you can see the final resting place for most characters. If you want to see another page you'll need to add "?filter=N" to the end of the url, where N = the number of the page minus one.
Character
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/character.php
For advancement you'll need this. The links at the top can be opened by the right-click menu through "open link in new..." or "copy link location" and pasting. Note: I haven't tried seppuku, but it likely functions like an action above.
Inventory
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/inventory.php
Outfits still work, as does equipping and unequipping. However moving between inventory pages requires opening with the right click trick above.
Sorting doesn't work at all. I haven't quite figured a way to bypass this unfortunately.
Dynasty
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/dynasty-view.php
The Dynasty page is mostly broken, since sorting doesn't work. The Send Gift function is still good however.
Gifts
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/gift.php
Gifts behave similarly to actions. In FF you can accept gifts and send them in response at the above link. However the Champions screen is mostly broken, so it can be hard to find active people to give gifts to. If you can find others still playing use the following style of link to gift their character:
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/gift.php?uid=XXXXX
Where "XXXXX" is a long series of numbers that is their character ID. For example, my link is: apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/profile.php?uid=100000459295837.
Please let me know if you have any other work-arounds or browsers that function better.
There are still people playing. I know since I still exchange gifts with a few survivors. The trick though is know HOW to play. Since Facebook pulled support some of the functionality is difficult to use.
I'm not a programmer, but there is a few simple hacks you can use to access the game. Please feel free to respond with your own solutions.
The main trick to playing is that the pages don't refresh after clicks. And some pages won't access without know their direct url.
HOW TO PLAY
Main
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/
The main page is still accessible. The links at the top can be opened by the right-click menu through "open link in new..." or "copy link location" and pasting.
Actions
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/actions.php
Unfortunately actions don't behave as well as travel. If you click on an action you'll end up with a blank error screen.
I've tried using IE and had no success with actions. However, in Firefox the following works:
Click action, get white screen.
Refresh screen (Ctrl-R, Reload icon)
You will then see the action screen with the results of your action.
Travel still works as you would expect (without refresh).
Interact
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/interact.php
The interact screen mostly works, in that you can see the final resting place for most characters. If you want to see another page you'll need to add "?filter=N" to the end of the url, where N = the number of the page minus one.
Character
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/character.php
For advancement you'll need this. The links at the top can be opened by the right-click menu through "open link in new..." or "copy link location" and pasting. Note: I haven't tried seppuku, but it likely functions like an action above.
Inventory
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/inventory.php
Outfits still work, as does equipping and unequipping. However moving between inventory pages requires opening with the right click trick above.
Sorting doesn't work at all. I haven't quite figured a way to bypass this unfortunately.
Dynasty
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/dynasty-view.php
The Dynasty page is mostly broken, since sorting doesn't work. The Send Gift function is still good however.
Gifts
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/gift.php
Gifts behave similarly to actions. In FF you can accept gifts and send them in response at the above link. However the Champions screen is mostly broken, so it can be hard to find active people to give gifts to. If you can find others still playing use the following style of link to gift their character:
apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/gift.php?uid=XXXXX
Where "XXXXX" is a long series of numbers that is their character ID. For example, my link is: apps.facebook.com/emeraldempire/profile.php?uid=100000459295837.
Please let me know if you have any other work-arounds or browsers that function better.