SMG: How to improve RISK

I'm writing this as my own personal wish list for what it would take to improve RISK, especially for tournament games.

Allow for true anonymous lobbies/games
You don't know who you played against until the match is over. This is hopefully something SMG will be able to look into when the network overhaul is finally completed

Get rid of all the cheating
As everything you do in the game is only validated client-side, hackers are able to trick the game into suddnely spawning extra troops, extra capitals or even better dice odds. This will more or less solve itself when the network overhaul is finally completed

Fix the balanced blitz dice code
This is something we are supposed to be beta testing already the next upcoming weeks

Add the fortify by % tool to make longer/slower (but probably more strategic) cap games more enjoyable
We know SMG have ideas to solve this, but there are no official news from SMG on this one, yet

Actually working dynamic turn timer
The new dynamic turn timer was inspired by a community feature request, but it was poorly implemented. Please make it so that everyone gets a fixed amount of back time for each successfull attack.

Add a toggle for turning bonuses off on any map
This will create a huge possibility for great and skilled progressive games and add a whole new dynamic to the game

Adjustable speed blitz round limit
Let us choose how long a speed blitz game should run for, not only 5 turns max. This will add a lot of new ways to play the game.

Friends of Risk is now Ad-free for 12 months

No ads, no tracking code, no annoyance - for EVERYONE

Thanks to some very special people we have raised enough donations to keep FoR completely ad-free again for 12 months.

Any additional donations will just keep extending the ad-free period of course.

Get ad-free for $5/month with donations

After keeping Friends of Risk running for 2 years with minimum donations from the community I have been forced to enable Google Ads to try to cover the about $100 monthly running costs of hosting the website, databases, rankingsystem, eventmanager, Riskbot, zombie pathings and other resources you find on friendsofrisk.com.

For those of you who find ads annoying, I have made a tool to disable the ads for 1 month pr. $5 you donate (minimum $15 pr. donation to keep workload at a minimum)

Just send me (eirik) an DM on Discord after donation, and I will disable ads for you asap.

11 new zombie pathing maps added

Thanks to our great community of Zombie pathing creators we have added 11 new pathing maps to the maps database.

- Ottoman Empire
- The Skeld
- Pangea
- Arctic
- Dino World
- Draculas Castle
- Brazil
- Castle
- Forsaken Lands
- United States Advanced
- Arkeanos

53 maps are still missing their Zombie pathing, if you want to get involved and try to create some yourself, please head over to the Zombie Discord server and get a guide on how to get started!

Try the RISK match simulator

Dive into a dynamic, fully-simulated RISK match, capturing every twist of randomness and chaos you love: escalating card trades, unpredictable zombie outbreaks, insane dice rolls, strategic alliances, and brutal betrayals. Friendships will be tested—who will conquer the chaos and dominate the infinite board?

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Small changes to Eventmanager

Players are no longer marked as new if they have played at least ONE tournament game before. Earlier this mark was only removed when you recieved your first Sabr ranking points after a tournament was done.

RISK Betting is now offline

Turns out that SMG have recently been affected by some new Australian anti-gambling laws that are making them put up a lot of red tape, and denying in-game promotion of any tournament hosted on Friends of Risk, because FoR is now considered a gambling webpage.

So for the better good of the RISK tournament community, the betting system is no longer promoted on this webpage.

Please don't blame SMG for this, they have to obey to whatever laws that exists in their country, and try as best as they can to interpret those laws for their application. But I hope its just the SMG lawyers going overboard and being super protective in the beginning with this new law, and after some time they will conclude otherwise.

FFA Tournament ELO is here!

We are so happy to release the first version of Risk FFA Tournament ELO system to the public. Its been 5 months in the making and a lot of effort has been put into this.

In your profile you can now see detailed ELO information from every match you have played, and we have our very own ELO leaderboard.

Read more about how the ELO system works and se the current leaderboard here: FFA Tournament ELO leaderboard

Congratulations to the award winners

These are the winners of The Risk Community Awards 2024:

Best new tournament: 2v2 World Championship
Content creator: Kylted
Staff: Marcellus Fuse
Community resource: eirik / Friends of Risk
New player: Brilliant Frog of White Meadow
Tournament: Kill Pete Open 2
Moment: Bart 19v24 winning roll in GM Finals
Player of the year: IamMomba

Come watch the award show