You can now link your WeeWar account to your Facebook account for login and information sharing.  The only thing that I’ve seen so far is the ability to publish open games to your Facebook feed, that looks like this:

might want to avoid special characters.  And appears on your Facebook feed like this:

(note different game here)

I don’t know that this will bring in the new users in droves but it’s sound thinking – friends of gamers will often be gamers themselves.  Just be careful to note that this post to your Facebook page is timestamped and will give you away if you you’re supposed to be doing the dishes. 

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There are many legitimate uses for multiple accounts including but not limited to:

• 2 Pro accounts for more games
• More Map storage
• Map testing
• Playing multiple team members in a team game
• Keeping yourself company on slow days in chat or the forums

Be sure to clearly mark in your profile of your secondary account that it is a secondary account and what your primary account is. This is very important to allow other players to gauge your real skill level. It’s also very important to remember to check your secondary account for games, it can be easy to forget about that other account and leave people hanging waiting on your turn.

Managing your second account is easiest if you use 2 web browsers, but that can leave you without your nice Greasemonkey scripts. Today I can across a very handy little add-on – Multifox – that lets you have different login credentials between tabs Firefox instance windows! Be sure to give it a try, it should let you run 2 accounts within firefox, giving you full access to your scripts without the need to login/logout to get to your second account.

What so you use your multi-account for? Any tips for running multiple accounts?

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To make this work, Dave is hosting and storing this data on his own servers for us. As a reward for making such an amazing script and providing it free for the community I would like to take up a small collection to extend his Pro account. If you would like to contribute (and you trust me) then make use of this handy donate button and leave a comment here or on the forums to thank Dave for the script and resources it takes to keep it running!

I decided to play around with php coding today and wrote a little bot checker to see what bots have been active within the past seven days and give their online status. For now this data will appear on the right-hand side of every page, I may move it to it’s own page in the future. I’m glad to see some of the bots are still active, I know some programmers have wanted an API upgrade. I hope you find this useful and if you have an opinion on if this should remain a sidebar widget or get it’s own page please leave me a comment and let me know!

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The new updates also required Katakana to change the WeeWar suite which we are happy to host:

Download Suite Here

The recent site upgrades have slimmed down the code and databases, paving the way for future upgrades. Unfortunately the changes broke many of the GreaseMonkey scripts that enhance the game for us. WeeWarrior Katakana has spent the week since the recent upgrades doing some hacking for us, and is proud to announce that the WeeWar Suite is now up and running. The banker script can no longer work since the game history file has been removed but here’s what Katakana had to say about what is working (quoted from the forums)

I have one script that is the Weewar Suite, borrowed and modified from all others out there. It provides turning off the email notification, an instant end turn as well as the safe 5 second turn, and finally the AutoRepair. However, I will say that it is not 100% reliable in that it will generate an error from the Ajax and you will have to refresh your page. Not quite sure how to fix that since it seems to be a timing issue when the weewar server is slow to respond.

I also have a quick script that I threw together that works on the headquarters/games page and will identify each game as to whether it is Rated or Unrated. I found I needed that to easily decide which game to abandon if I must.

The WeeWar Times is happy to host these scripts but be sure to drop in the forums and leave your thanks to Katakana and the other toolmakers out there including Spadequack for their work and if you are feeling generous go ahead and test out the new 3 month pro gift option to thank them!

Here are the download links:
WeeWar Suite
Rated List

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To use the simulator checkout Pluto’s Forge >> WeeWar Battle Simulator

Pluto also has an in-game greasemonkey version of the simulator, but I haven’t had much luck using it with FireFox 3.  It can be found on userscripts .  Or you can pull down the whole Greasemonkey Battle  Suite !