A while back, I posted a list of complaints about social games that basically force players to make a ridiculous amount of friends and deal with a ridiculous amount of spam. On top of that, some of them make far too many things exclusive and require people to fork over like $10 to make a single purchase that provides a game breaking item. In some games, that is up to $100.

1) Eliminate The Need to Make Permanent Friends

The idea is for you to just play with people. They can friend you if they want, but it should not be a requirement. Just have players able to help out other players that are on the same Wi-Fi network or have some sort of random generated list. There is no need to have everyone add each other as friends and confirm their statuses to carry this out. Doing so just makes it annoying to deal with social games. It would make the game more enjoyable for several reasons. You could have random match ups as few social games are actually competitive. Most social games just

First off, I am going to differentiate between what a Social Game and a Social Network Game is. A Social Game is a game that you play with your friends. Think of playing an MMO with a bunch of people online or playing a LAN game with your friends. It also includes multiplayer games including video games and board games like Monopoly. A Social Network Game is the stuff we get on Facebook where your overall progress is mostly determined by how many of your friends play the same game. Think Farmville and Mafia Wars.

1) You Must Recruit Friends To Accomplish Anything

This is probably the most significant problem with Social Network Games. They require you to have a certain number of friends who can play the game with you to be able to do anything. You must have your friends send you materials so you can craft your hammer and continue with the game. You might need to have a certain number of friends to unlock something. Without those friends, you literally cannot do anything. This makes

Hey players, today I was playing APB in the close beta and checking the developers blog and I notice something that for some reason manage to get my attention... I was in the Social district and then I heard some complaining, that is not really new in any pvp game at all, people complain all the time!!!! But... When I heard that the final release date have been delayed, I was a bit shocked, I dont know exactly the official release date, all I know is that the game is currently on its 3rd week in the close beta and that the preparations for the Open Beta are almost done...

Everything so far seems a bit smooth with little problems and almost no itches, so what I did was simply check the developers blog again and I notice something nasty!!!! Some critical components for the EU server

Alright guys listen up!
We have an MMOsite group hosted on FACEBOOK!!

It's a public group, so ANYONE & EVERYONE CAN JOIN!

We want you lot to join up.......
Why join?
It's another source of everyone to network, get to know eachother, and make friends! Just as we do on here, but able to reach even further, maybe even find people on there that you've made good friends with on MMOsite!

A few mods, and some normal members have already joined, so why not??
LINK TO JOIN:

MMOsite FACEBOOK GROUP
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7720503105&ref=ts

THANK YOU GUYS!!! HOPE TO SEE AS MANY AS POSSIBLE JOIN!
See you on there! Add me if you wish from the link below!

I do not know if you guys know this but there is a new social network starting.... take a look and tell me what you think..

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Knight Online

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Red Stone

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Info about how to find out what port an application is using.

Can download TCPView off http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx 
There are more information about the program on the page.

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Another method is to use the command "netstat" 
"netstat -nb" or "-nab" should give sufficient information.

Typing in Command Prompt, "netstat help" will tell you more functions. 

Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections.

NETSTAT [-a] [-b] [-e] [-f] [-n] [-o] [-p proto] [-r] [-s] [-t] [interval]

  -a            Displays all connections and listening ports.

  -b            Displays the executable involved in creating each connection or listening port. In some cases well-known executables host multiple independent components, and in these cases the sequence of components involved in creating the connection or listening port is displayed. In this case the executable name is in [ ] at the bottom, on top is the component it called, and so forth until TCP/