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Luke
28 Apr 05, 10:38
Hey,

A friend and I are releasing an online game on Sunday Night May 1st.

MusicRivals

You: Talented lead singer trying to make it big.
Your plan: Assemble a quality band of talented musicians, high quality equipment and good marketing.
Your rivals: All the other bands who are trying to steal your CD sales and popularity.

Your arsenal: Quality CD recording, viscious rumour spreading, playing gigs to gain reputation and more.

Make sure you're there when we start taking signups at 12.01am Sunday morning. 24 hours later at 12.01am Monday morning, you will be granted full access to your account (All times are GMT)

In the mean time you can register at the forums - http://forums.musicrivals.com (http://forums.musicrivals.com/) and join what will be a huge community of gamers and music lovers. Surely that covers 95% of the world's population http://www.finalfantasyforum.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

So mark it in your diaries - MusicRivals.com is going to be big, and new features are already in development for game 2 that will have you drooling.

MusicRivals.com
Preregistration - Midnight Saturday night / sunday morning GMT
Game begins - Midnight Sunday night / monday morning GMT

Becky
28 Apr 05, 11:40
Awesome! I can't wait to play this!

Mark
28 Apr 05, 12:29
i have to say this is quite a good game, esspecily if yor winning :D

Jack
28 Apr 05, 12:43
Cool, can't wait to play it either.

Becky
28 Apr 05, 12:45
I've already thought up a name for my band. :p

DarkSora
28 Apr 05, 12:45
cool. Cant wait to play it. :D

Beat
28 Apr 05, 12:48
is there images or is it all text?

DarkSora
28 Apr 05, 12:50
Will it be java or something around those lines or will it be text based??
your already planning a sequel too?? cool.

Mark
28 Apr 05, 12:52
it's text based and no one can take the name "Townsfolk" :)

Beat
28 Apr 05, 12:54
What about Foo Fighters :P

Mark
28 Apr 05, 12:55
it's copyrighted :) you'll get sued.

don't know if thats true but you might lol

Luke
28 Apr 05, 12:59
I'm sure you can create real bands as it's only a game :)

It is text based, but there are images too. It doesn't look like a DOS program don't worry :p

great to see some good interest and positive comments from Mark :p

Becky
28 Apr 05, 13:00
Lmao, he seems rather chripy today. :p

Beat
28 Apr 05, 13:34
which one *pokes both* back off!!! we dont need you cherry fake hapiness!! lol

everyone list theyre band names here.

mine might be: Attempted Silence

Luke
28 Apr 05, 13:42
Mine will be Drag the Waters, the name of my real Prog Metal band :D

You can also name yourself (the lead singer of your band), your albums, and optionally song titles if you feel creative enough!

Beat
28 Apr 05, 14:08
after a few people post theirs ill make a poll of whos best and youll be able to see who voted for what so no votes for yourself

Becky
28 Apr 05, 14:17
Mine is Mcfly... J/k.

I think Luke would ban me if I attempted to re-release a ton of their tracks on his site, haha!

So far I've come up with The Disturbed.

Jack
28 Apr 05, 14:23
Cool name Becky, I'm still thinking mine.

Beat
28 Apr 05, 14:24
Too bad its already a band...well with out the "The" in front

Mark
28 Apr 05, 15:39
don't know why you get that impression of me today, am tired kind of moody lol

DarkSora
28 Apr 05, 15:56
ive thought of some..but i cant decide:
one winged angel
guilty rivals
guilty gear?
the necromancers

Mark
28 Apr 05, 16:01
one winged angel


sounds alright to me.

Jack
28 Apr 05, 16:03
yep thats a good name, i still can't think one for me though.

Becky
28 Apr 05, 16:05
Some cool names guys. ;)

DarkSora
28 Apr 05, 16:13
im getting really impatirnt now...lol. Sunday is too far away.lol :D
"one winged angel" it is then :D

whitenoise
28 Apr 05, 19:20
mmmmm...A rockstar ate my hamster......

I'll use "THE GLOSS DOGS", which happens to be the name of my band atm!! (there were originally 3 painters & decorators in the band to begin with, so it was very apt!) :D

We are playing with the idea of changing it to "Wicked Sensation", which was the name of our band a few years back.

Scottay
28 Apr 05, 21:35
I dunno about my band but my first album will be
Hansel And Grettel Gone Cannible

In stores May 1.

Beat
30 Apr 05, 14:20
5 Hours left!

Becky
30 Apr 05, 16:44
I can't wait!

DarkSora
30 Apr 05, 16:59
:D around 2 hours left. cant wait.

Beat
30 Apr 05, 17:37
1 hour 37mins left until we begin, im still struggaling for songs and single names >.<

Becky
30 Apr 05, 17:37
Ah, just use your inspiration.

If the Cheeky Girls can do it, so can you!

Beat
30 Apr 05, 17:41
lmao cheeky girls they were just.....i dont understand why they were published just crazy

Becky
30 Apr 05, 17:42
They tried to get as much money out of them as possiable. I mean, now the whole Popstars craze is over... look at them now.

Beat
30 Apr 05, 17:46
look at american popidol? thats still going dont know if its strong or not

Becky
30 Apr 05, 17:47
Oh, I know. I don't mean an end to the whole thing.

I just meant back then, when they were rejects from that show, the hype was still going. :p

Beat
30 Apr 05, 19:15
How do you earn money? im in debt >.>

Mark
30 Apr 05, 19:49
take out a loan

Becky
30 Apr 05, 19:51
Get a job. :p

Beat
30 Apr 05, 20:08
damn you can only take out one at a time

Mark
30 Apr 05, 20:14
for some reason there small when you need more and big when you don't need it. i was getting afford a loan in the millions when i had a few billion in my pocket didn't need it though because i had so much.

Luke
01 May 05, 16:10
We almost have 100 players in under 24 hours!

Come on guys, I wanna see all our members battling it out:p

Becky
01 May 05, 16:21
It says I have sold a total of 150 CD's right now... but its only coming up as 95 on the chart.

DarkSora
01 May 05, 16:23
same here...it says 91 but only comes up as 88.
i was trying to spread a rumour, even at 75% i failed and ended up losing £3000 and 3 rep. lmao.

Scottay
01 May 05, 17:27
I have 1 dollar. I owe the bank 537 dollars. I bought a Gibson guitar on the first day. I bought an expensive guitar player on the first day. I have 0 Reputation points. I have a gig in 8 days. WHAT THE HELL DO I DO? lol

Mark
01 May 05, 17:41
start again??

Scottay
01 May 05, 17:47
Nah. I'll just keep borrowing loans till my gig starts.

Heterodox
01 May 05, 17:50
lol Scottay, sounds like you're gonna be in trouble unless you pull magic out of the hat :p

Becky
01 May 05, 17:53
same here...it says 91 but only comes up as 88.
i was trying to spread a rumour, even at 75% i failed and ended up losing £3000 and 3 rep. lmao.

Least I'm not on my own then. :p

Sounds like you had a bit of bad luck with that rumour!

Scottay
01 May 05, 17:55
Becky your band is too good! Share the wealth wont ya:P

Becky
01 May 05, 17:58
Not good enough to be winning though, lol.

Beat
01 May 05, 18:04
yup im winning :D disturbed

Becky
01 May 05, 18:12
Great stuff, Beat. ;)

EDIT: Ok right now, I have sold a total of 289 CD's... and its only showing as 234 on the chart!

Beat
01 May 05, 18:18
Townsfolk beat me >< i shall catch up!

Becky
01 May 05, 18:26
The thrill of the chase!

Mark
01 May 05, 18:35
some people are just to good :D

Beat
01 May 05, 19:00
i have a set time until my next cd and gig ><

stupid hour updates! i want them at half hour intervals!!!! :D

Scottay
01 May 05, 20:37
The Anti-Pop has seen better days.

O ****e i think I made my CD cost 599 instead of 5.99. Can anybody check for me? Search the Anti-Pop

DarkSora
02 May 05, 04:16
finally got a rmour to work, got rid of 47 rep points.lol.

Beat
02 May 05, 06:49
i got lots of money now w00t!
i dont thinnk you maed a CD scottay cant find it ><

DarkSora
02 May 05, 11:40
man..i love this game.!!! the rumuor i can get at 100% is the reputation one with a 50% chance. lol...our cd's are so over priced...£100. :D

Beat
02 May 05, 11:56
damn it foiled again! i keep failing this losing money ><

Becky
02 May 05, 12:28
People keep buying them... £100 for a CD?!

The fools. :p

Beat
02 May 05, 13:01
lmao ive set my latest to 100 buy you dirty little fans!
strangely the leader is the programmer of the game

coincedence? I THINK NOT! :p

EDIT:

News Archive:

Xaphan has accused you of badmouthing your fans! You'd better try and make it up to them since you have lost reputaton! As a Result of this you lost 124 of your Reputation.
Monday 02nd of May 2005


Xaphan has set you up! The press are convinced that you have been cheating the tax man! The Income Tax Office has confiscated some of your funds! As a Result of this you lost £25,212
Monday 02nd of May 2005


Xaphan has set you up! The press are convinced that you have been cheating the tax man! The Income Tax Office has confiscated some of your funds! As a Result of this you lost £18,624
Monday 02nd of May 2005


Xaphan has told the press that you are going to split up! You're not are you?! This will have upset your fans can scarred your repuation. As a Result of this you lost 122 of your Reputation.
Monday 02nd of May 2005

help kill this guy!

DarkSora
02 May 05, 14:24
lol...he's really got a grudge against you.
lol...i like the idea of helping eachother :D
music allies and rivals. :D

whitenoise
02 May 05, 14:57
Im miffed :( I have resent the activation email several times and I'm just not getting it.

Im using a Freeserve address. I have checked junkmail box, (comes up as spam in the inbox first anyway). The address is correct. You know whats going on?

I wanna play. :confused:

Jack
02 May 05, 15:01
Im miffed :( I have resent the activation email several times and I'm just not getting it.

Im using a Freeserve address. I have checked junkmail box, (comes up as spam in the inbox first anyway). The address is correct. You know whats going on?

I wanna play. :confused:
Same here mate, just wait a couple of days and it will work.

DarkSora
02 May 05, 15:12
my brother had the same problem too. You should ask Luke or Dan(in music rivals forum).

Beat
02 May 05, 17:11
get a new Yahoo adress and send it there doesnt take long to set one up

Scottay
02 May 05, 17:16
I'd be willing to take Mr. Cheating Programmer out. We shall start an alliance. Hmmmmm what should it be called? Oh and no pop bands allowed :p

Beat
02 May 05, 17:18
lmao, it shall be called Anti Xaphen! :p

Scottay
02 May 05, 17:25
lmao nice! Yes Anti Xaphen on this day, May2, has formed to take out the evil Xaphen. Ironically my band is the Anti-pop

Beat
02 May 05, 17:28
what are you Metal or Pop?

Edit: Meant Rock :p ><

Scottay
02 May 05, 18:07
I went Rock. Thought about it for a while but I went rock. Not new rock. Old rock of course! :p

Beat
02 May 05, 18:12
can someone post the look of pop, rnb and metal please?

Scottay
03 May 05, 17:28
Ok just to clarify. My bands are The Anti-Pop, America's Most Wanted and 2 Cool.

Beat
04 May 05, 18:30
LMAO
i love this glitch!

Luke
04 May 05, 18:46
It's annoying, everything was running smoothly til dan make an error in code during the game. I think it lost us a ton of players.

Beat
04 May 05, 18:48
i know but, i had two accoutns, one was dieing so i decided to leave that, then i go on to artists and it won loads!! so im kinda happy :D

Scottay
04 May 05, 22:35
That's a glitch. Dan said to Report if you suddenly sell way more cds than suppose to and you'll get to start with 50 000 and like 150 reputation points. My band has a cd in 20th and 28th The one in 28th is a double album for 1 buck which costed me like 200 million to make lol

Becky
09 May 05, 13:28
i know but, i had two accoutns, one was dieing so i decided to leave that, then i go on to artists and it won loads!! so im kinda happy :D

But its obvious that you have been affected by the glitch in the CD-charts. :p

Luke, would there be any way to start a fresh game? I get the feeling there is no aim to the game anymore - especially with the accounts that havn't been deleted. On the other hand, its probably just better to wait until June 1st now. :p

Scottay
09 May 05, 17:15
Now I can't get onto Musicrivals. It asks me to either open or save something to my computer.

Beat
09 May 05, 17:18
same and the file keeps changing >< hope the game hasnt screwed up

Scottay
12 May 05, 21:44
It's back up and working finally!
I swear that guy controlling Bullied At Birth is manipulating some type of cheat. He sells every CD he makes by the bazillions.


Edit: You've chosen to spend £3810 in order to Leak to the Media that Bullied at Birth v2 lead vocalist cheated on thier loving partner! Their fans will not be very pleased with them at all!

By spending the extra £1810 you had a 95% chance of succeeding but it failed...
You have lost 2547 reputation as a result of this.

Beat
13 May 05, 15:50
Anyone still play this? i check out on it every few days but i dont like it that much now as when someone wins...he wins and you cant get back on top

Scottay
13 May 05, 17:23
I still do.
It needs more detail. Like you should first start off recruiting your band. Then you start writing some songs and playing some gigs hoping to get noticed by a Record Company. Send a demo or 2 to them You know. Then once you get the deal you should be able to start doing cds. Maybe even a little minigame when your recording a CD. Similar to DDR but with keys and the better you do the more likely your cd will sell lots. Maybe add some extra options and different types of marketing campaign and it would be awesome. I don't like the fact that when you make a new cd your old ones don't sell. They should still but the sales would significantly fall.

DarkSora
13 May 05, 18:31
i havent played for a while since i went in debt. :( theres no way you cna catch up with people like bullied at birth. is it still using those stats?? :(

Scottay
13 May 05, 22:26
My bands around 20th overall. Got 2 billion bucks. Doing good but im getting really bored with the repetitivity.

Beat
14 May 05, 09:11
????

Write some songs? how do you do that? you mean record a song? or can you write lyrics and stuff

DarkSora
14 May 05, 09:16
????

Write some songs? how do you do that? you mean record a song? or can you write lyrics and stuff

i think that was a suggestion for the game.

Luke
14 May 05, 09:25
The reason everyone is getting bored is because it's no longer a game. There is no competition or progression as most accounts have billions due to errors.

This will be rectified with more interesting features added soon.

Beat
14 May 05, 09:47
well thats nice to hear, when is it gonna be "redone"?

Scottay
15 May 05, 00:39
Keep working on it. Eventually it will be great. But make sure there's something to do other than watch your cds on the chart every hour.

Becky
15 May 05, 06:21
I kind of swayed away from it a little and my band split up. Ooops. :p

Scottay
15 May 05, 20:36
The Disturbed just couldn't cut it. :p
For my band that is broke I just fired all my musicians so I never lose money!

Becky
16 May 05, 11:23
Lmao!

I'm sure I'll give it another go next month. :p

Beat
03 Jun 05, 07:15
doesnt it start in like July? the shout box over there is really stupid ><;;; people just keep flaming and swearing

Scottay
11 Jul 05, 22:12
Does anybody still play this and has it changed any?

DarkSora
12 Jul 05, 02:53
Does anybody still play this and has it changed any?
it will be starting again and luke gave us a riddle.:D