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Probably Swadia, but I think any of them are good for a start.
Probably Swadia, but I think any of them are good for a start.
As far as I know, Swadians are more about two handed swords, Rhodoks are your crossbowman/shielder hybrid.
For a new guy it's probably best to go Shielder, so Rhodok would be good.
Swadia gets three-wayed throughout the entire game, I'd suggest Vaegir or Nords
Goddamn singleplayer is hard...
Haha, I only played M&M and now NW.
And yes, correct. :)
Nords are probably the best to start off with, solid infantry and decent archers. Their Huscarls are probably the best footsoldiers in the game and are good at assaulting settlements because of their large shields. They only thing they fall down on is cavalry, but you can easily hire some mercenaries or get them from Swadia.
I love starting with the Vaegers, they are in the center of the map and have pretty good access to everything.
I started with Nords, I love Viking types.
Ugh... Always when I start the game, I get raped, raped, raped and raped...
I have tried everything.
Nords", Rhodoks, Swads/Sarranid*, Vaegers'
"most nord huscarls( final tier) carry throwing weapons
*anything under the final tier of sarranid infantry uses padded armor, although their top tier uses mail.
'Vaeger guards (final tier) have not shields, but they have high damage with their two handed axes and have good armor
As far as i'm concerned everything else is 'meh'
Rhodoks have highers strength than other ranged troops so they can hold their own better if they get locked down. Their Siege Crossbows can 1-2 shot most things under the final tier, but they shoot slower than the Vaeger marksman
I'm not quite sure what the second best are to those two are, but an army completely made of Swadian knights/ mamalukes is literally unbeatable in the field
Also with the neutral bandits i think it goes:
forest bandits
mountain bandits
sea raiders
Sea raiders give nice armor and weapons and are great for transitioning early to mid game, but they're the equivalent to nordic warriors (looking at their armor) Once I get a decent amount of men I grind these guys to level up my army. They have a few archers dispersed throughout them but they're usually no big deal. I just kite them around while on my horse and it's usually not that hard to take out a group of 12~ solo
As for the forest/ mountain bandits I don't really bother since all of them are ranged and it's more trouble than it's really worth.
Ignore steppe and desert bandits. They're all mounted and are just a headache.
Help out villages as much as possible. The more they like you the more men join you and the higher tier they are. An indifferent village (0) might give you 3 nord recruits, but my loyal village (80~) will give me 12 nord warriors.
Set up velvet private enterprises. They'll make a ton of money anywhere that's not Rivacheg most of the time.
If a skill is listed as "party" save it for heroes you can bring on unless it's super important. Level personal skills (riding, leadership, etc)
Party skills i personally level up are path finding and training.
Jeremus is a great medic, i suggest finding him quickly
Lezalit is a great trainer, I suggest finding him also
Nord huscarls for sieges, swadian knights/sarranid mamalukes for the field, couple of rhodok/vaeger archers as you see fit
Oh yeah, you can also kinda cheat the system by buying salt in Wercheg (50-100) and selling it in Rivacheg (200-3000. Profits are usually 200~ per unit
This is all i can think of in terms of general starting information. Hope it helps
Oh FUCK
Just installed Blood and Steel
Loving it so far
Undead Army... Never again
It depends. If swadia gets off to a good start they generally steamroll people with their heavy cavalry.
Statistically speaking though, Nords are likely to do best. The majority of Nord troops are level 25-28 so they always tend to win field battles that you aren't around for. And siege battles. And siege defenses.
Nords are OP as fuck, actually.
Swadians are always at war though so if you always want to be fighting people, Swadian is probably your best bet. Lots of battle opportunities.
I capture a castle as a rebel on Fire and Sword and then instantly after 6 leaders with like 100+ guys attack me and besiege... Almost impossible for me to take castles by myself; any suggestions?
So is the Floris mod pack a really ~wacky~ piece of shit with all sorts of imbalances, or is it just warband with tonnes of new content?
On my raider asshole character build I took Minsk from the swedes (they left 23 soldiers in the garrison so I basically just told them to GTFO and they left) and instilled a garrison of about 400 tavern mercenaries. I only make about 700 coins a month from it between the garrison and the taxes; but nobody has come knocking yet.
The trick is just to put such a superfluous volume of troops in it that most kingdoms simply wont bother trying to take it... they'll just look for easier targets.
Also if you've pissed off every kingdom, that's why. It's always good to have only 1-2 enemy kingdoms at any time.
Installed the basic/game play version of Floris, but I haven't noticed any changes.
I fancy playing some multiplayer for the first time despite having played warband for months.
Any recommended mods?
Dude Undead Army is the fucking best. You level up like 7 times in one battle early on. Plus you get like 500k from them which lets you buy mercanaries which lets you take a castle which lets you draft an infinite amount of units for a low price which lets you take over all of Calderia in a year or two.
Pro-tip: Horse charges do like 50 damage instead of 5 like in Native. Swadians and Khanate own it the fuck up in Blood and Steel.
As if Swadian knights needed to be made more effective...
I picked up a jousting lance for taking prisoners before I went into my first battle against an enemy that isn't bandits.
Holy shit, I'm like a dermatologist lancing boyars every day!
Even better you can hire them directly from villages. Blood and Steel is Warband easy-easy-easy-easy mode
The latter!
mother of fucking god. I became a Jarl after I helped take over the city of Curfaw. Well, I was defending my city after I heard reports of enemies in the area - and I look to see the entire army of Vageirs - including their King. I began to shit myself, as it was nearly 600 on my measly 250.
After a week (in game, lol) and many losses, I repelled their forces for good. It only cost me my entire personal army, 50% of my city's garrison and my own sanity.
After their fourth and final siege wave, the rest of my fucking Jarls and King came a riding through and scared them off. I was so pissed.
Nope, only one enemy. It was the Cossacks that were my enemy.
Also, I don't get enough time after taking the castle to go hire troops; a short while after they come knocking the front door down with groups of 4-5 leaders with 100 men+ men in each group.
Oh fuck.
This guy gives 0 fucks.
My people (human beings) have a saying.
"Don't piss off the Cossacks."
How do I get it so I can have a bigger army, I know your renown and leadership increases it, but I can have about 85 people, and some people have 150 - 250. How the hell do you get that many?
can you actually have undead armies?
I dont know, but I had a troop of 14 men vs an Undead Army that was roaming around added by that mod Blood and Steel and then bam
240 vs 14
I killed 2
Thinking of reinstalling Warband, what are some good mods? I'd love a good fantasy mod or just one that improves the campaign.
Looking through the mod forums is a pain, also because there isn't always an easily accessible thread that states what the mod is about.
No, but you if you get lucky, you can get a skeleton horse as a part of the loot. It's one of the worst horses, but it's a goddamn skeleton horse, so I kept it.
So I'm trying to do a sort of "Knights of Ye Olde Fuckshitup" by hiring every companion and was wondering if any option is best when a companion whines about another companion. So far I've been choosing the first one for everybody to make sure the pent up rage is evenly distributed.
What's a good year? I'm at 1967 Warband hours played on Steam and need to decide when to stop playing forever so that I stop having these horrible dreams where I can't manual block the spiders and I have to go to the bathroom but there's archers in the hallway. Horrible nightmares every night, someone help!
I have prisoners on Warband, what do I do with them?
Hire them, sell them to a Ransom Broker, or sell them to Ramun at Tihr.
I got With Fire and Sword, and I have to say, holding onto a city in a war-torn area with battles raging between 3 nations while you have 25 people in your garrison and you are a level 3 is pretty dang hard, especially when there are 400+ troops outside who want to murder you and make your head their new flag.
How should I go about owning a city, fortress, castle, anything
The only options I have are to talk and disband. If I talk I tell them not to escape. Where are Ransom brokers? Are there prisoner caravans or somesuch I ought to find?
You have to go into the camp tab and select "Take an action". Ransom Brokers move around among cities. You can find them in Taverns.
The easiest way that I've seen is wait for a castle to be sieged, after the attack and all the troops go away simply take the town who probably have ~30 people in their garrison.
Also, go for the towns they give you the most amount of money in taxes IIRC.
it's probably best to sell them to Ransom Broker over hiring them in your army since having troops from different faction can dismoral your troops, but overall having prisoners isn't such a big income in the game.


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"If you are of the establishment persuasion (and I am), reading Krugman makes you uneasy. You hope he's wrong, and you sense he's being a little harsh (especially about Geithner), but you have a creeping feeling that he knows something that others cannot, or will not, see. By definition, establishments believe in propping up the existing order. Members of the ruling class have a vested interest in keeping things pretty much the way they are. Safeguarding the status quo, protecting traditional institutions, can be healthy and useful, stabilizing and reassuring. But sometimes, beneath the pleasant murmur and tinkle of cocktails, the old guard cannot hear the sound of ice cracking. The in crowd of any age can be deceived by self-confidence, as Liaquat Ahamed has shown in "Lords of Finance," his new book about the folly of central bankers before the Great Depression, and David Halberstam revealed in his Vietnam War classic, "The Best and the Brightest." Krugman may be exaggerating the decay of the financial system or the devotion of Obama's team to preserving it. But what if he's right, or part right? What if President Obama is squandering his only chance to step in and nationalize—well, maybe not nationalize, that loaded word—but restructure the banks before they collapse altogether."
Evan Thomas, Newsweek April 6, 2009
Putting aside the psychophantic stench of the quote, it appears there is some part of "the establishment," presumably some faction of the media, political or corporate elite, that is starting to get nervous. Jodi Dean, among others, has made the point that Obama must clearly be weded to neoliberalism - otherwise what could explain an approach that seems so out of step with mainstream economic opinion?
I believe there may be a clue in an unusual comment Obama made back in March, during a town hall meeting in California. He was discussing why the Federal government had to step in to save the larger banks, and said something that sounds like black mail:
"When you've got big big banks -- Citicorp or Bank of America or Wells Fargo -- that control 70% of the banking system and all of them are weakening, you can't afford to have all those banks going under, even though the deposits might be guaranteed. We had to step in, it was the right thing to do, even though it's infuriating. ..." "Same thing with AIG," Obama said. "It was the right thing to do to step in. Like they've got a bomb strapped to them and they've got their hand on the trigger, you don't want them to blow up, but you've got to ease them off the trigger." I actually watched this surreal moment on the news. As he was using the suicide bomber image, the president held out his arm and simulated a hand on a trigger. What could the President mean by such an image? It was used in the context of a response to a question from the audience - so perhaps it doesn't mean all the much. Or, President Obama, in an unusual moment of candor, just told the American people that their financial system is being held hostage by a small group of suicidal/homocidal maniacs.

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Gegard got 2K? WTF Certainly there has to be some kind of behind the scenes pay for him, that wouldn't even cover flights to get there. |
And Gina makes 5x as much as Cyborg in a losing effort!:laugh: |
Gegard probably receives his pay via M-1.
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WAR the two thousand dollar man with no win bonus! :laugh:
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Because of the global economic turmoil, nowadays a lot of companies are adopting a "deal of the day" business model, some of them with great success. Generally, they try to attract and retain customers through discount coupons and gift cards, using, generally, traditional distribution media. This paper describes a framework, which integrates intelligent environments by using NFC, oriented to the full management of this kind of businesses. The system is responsible for diffusion, distribution, sourcing, validation, redemption and managing of vouchers, loyalty cards and all kind of mobile coupons using NFC, as well as QR codes. WingBonus can be fully adapted to the requirements of marketing campaigns, voucher providers, shop or retailer infrastructures and mobile devices and purchasing habits. Security of the voucher is granted by the system by synchronizing procedures using secure encriptation algorithms. The WingBonus website and mobile applications can be adapted to any requirement of the system actors.
The ambient intelligence paradigm (AmI) aims to develop environments able to interact with the user in an autonomous way in order to make life easier for people in different fields [
Another important aspect that favors the development of intelligent environments is the current and future evolution of mobile devices and the number of terminals around the world [
In addition to the obvious payment and security applications [
Besides this, the current global turmoil is forcing citizens to save money and to seek cheaper prices when they purchase products and services. Thus, marketing and loyalty techniques are changing, helped by the overwhelming power of smart phones over traditional mobile phones, creating the concept of m-coupons or mobile coupons.
In the market, we can find some applications that already work with m-coupons. Chen
Dominikus and Aigner [
Other applications such as Groupon [
Although some existing systems are oriented to the elimination of the traditional paper voucher using new technologies and mobile devices, some challenges are as yet unsolved. Valuable aspects required to pervasive systems, such as mobile applications, are not considered, as in the following:
Security: vouchers are managed in mobile devices as tangible coupons. Once the voucher is bought from the provider website, security can only be checked by the PoS (point of sale) system. Aspects regarding the loss of vouchers, error in the redemption process, error in the manipulation process by the user or device, fraudulent copying, Voucher type: most of the current systems usually consider a restricted type of vouchers: discount coupons; that users must pay in advance and vouchers can be later redeemed at a specific establishment. However, the providers and shops/retailers would need a wider type of voucher, depending on the characteristics of the product or service, voucher price, the desired targets or user characteristics, Architecture: websites are in charge of the voucher publicity, provision and payment, and the commerce infrastructure, if it exists, is in charge of the checking and exchange. Thus, current proposals are not open to the requirements of the voucher providers, where providers systems' can be involved in the process. The voucher provider is the company that provides the marketing campaign, which can be the same shop in which the coupons will be redeemed or a manufacturer that trades the product considered in the voucher. Loyalty cards: consideration of the loyalty cards corresponding to providers and/or commerces have not been taken into account. Although some existing applications manage loyalty cards, these applications do not integrate in a unique solution all type of vouchers and loyalty products. Adaptive vouchers: current systems show shortcomings in the management of user preferences in order to offer and supply vouchers. Because of the above mentioned paradigm "deal-of-the-day", they are offering just a few vouchers each day that do not adjust to the user preferences but only to the city selected for the redeem process. Getting vouchers: current systems supply vouchers mainly through the website. This does not adjust to a pervasive system. Thus, the process of getting vouchers should be distributed by getting them anywhere easily with a smart phone.
This paper presents a framework aimed to solve all the aforementioned problems. The framework, called WingBonus [
WingBonus supports any type of vouchers, including the ones oriented to attract user loyalty through discounts on each purchase of a product or service. This kind of voucher is called a chit and its management is very similar to loyalty cards management that is also considered by WingBonus, thus integrating in a unique system all type of vouchers.
Moreover, the WingBonus Mobile Application is fully adapted to providers and users' requirements. Providers' campaigns are automatically displayed in the mobile and web applications. The system can even be personalized to providers in the same way as the systems that are owned by providers.
Finally, WingBonus integrates QR and NFC technologies, allowing the sourcing and redemption of any kind of vouchers using the available technology: smart posters, NFC readers and QR readers for retailers, environment and user devices.
The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 describes the system and environment infrastructures. Section 3 presents the architecture of the system, describing the main components and the processes between the actors, showing how the solution can be tailored for different levels of security and different characteristics of retailer infrastructure. The WingBonus website is described in Section 4 and the WingBonus mobile application in Section 5. Finally, in Section 6 we discuss the results obtained and we show the advantages of WingBonus compared to classical marketing campaigns based on paper vouchers and other existing systems where NFC technology is not considered.
In this paper, we propose an ecosystem called
WingBonus is composed of two main systems: the WingBonus website and the WingBonus mobile application. WingBonus website has been developed using as HTML5 [
The WingBonus mobile application communicates with the server side through web services. In this proposal, we have implemented RESTful web services [
In order to provide security to the information stored on both the server and the mobile device, we have decided to encrypt the information using a symmetric cipher called Blowfish [
The WingBonus mobile application currently runs on the Android [
Thus, a driver and an API have been developed in Java. This API implements the communication between a mobile device and a reader at the point of sale (PoS). This communication allows: (a) redemption of vouchers, (b) distribution of vouchers, and (c) transactions with loyalty cards. Furthermore, this API enables communication processes using NFC and QR codes. This communication process is carried out as follows:
NFC communication: the user touches the NFC reader located at the PoS with his/her mobile device equipped with NFC to redeem a voucher. At this time, the communication process is carried out. The PoS reads the information from the mobile phone and sends it to the server to verify the validity of the voucher. Then, the PoS sends the user the answer through the reader. This process is similar for distributing vouchers at the PoS and transactions with a loyalty card. Non-NFC communication: the user shows the QR-code of the voucher at the PoS and the communication process is carried out. PoS reads the information through QR-reader and it sends the information to the server to verify and validate the voucher. This process is similar to transactions with a loyalty card.
Our pervasive system is open to a wide range of infrastructures in order to manage the full voucher processing chain. Different actors are considered by the systems: (a) providers, any manufacturer promoting a product or service, (b) retailers, any shop or commerce that either promotes a product and/or participates as PoS (point of sale) in any of the voucher processes, and (c) users, any user selecting and redemption of any kind of vouchers and managing loyalty cards.
All vouchers and loyalty card processes are related to these actors and their characteristics depend on the existing environment infrastructure. WingBonus permits voucher advertising and sourcing to be performed from provider and retailer infrastructure, if existing. Thus, provider and retailer websites can be used for promoting and sourcing vouchers to users as if the process is performed from the WingBonus website. In addition, vouchers can be sourced to users from NFC readers or any Smart Poster including RFID Tags or QR codes distributed by providers or retailers. The mobile application is in charge of the selection and sourcing of the voucher and sending this information to the server to be validated.
In addition, the WingBonus website manages all kind of vouchers as well as providers' and retailers campaigns. Users connect to the web portal, selecting and downloading the desired vouchers or loyalty cards. Moreover, WingBonus website validates the voucher sourcing carried out by providers, retailers and smart posters.
Moreover, in the voucher redemption and validation processes and card operations different actors are also involved depending on the actors involved in the sourcing process. Vouchers are always redeemed in the PoS using the retailer infrastructure, this process being controlled and validated by the WingBonus server. In addition, provider and retailer website may participate if they are in charge of the voucher sourcing. Depending on PoS infrastructure the validation and redemption of vouchers can be carried out using different security levels. As we describe below in the paper, the security level in the voucher management is related to characteristics of the advertising campaign, type of voucher, use or not of NFC reader in the PoS,
Coupons: a coupon allows the end customer to acquire a product or a service with a certain discount. Current solutions require printed coupons, or, in the best-case scenario, the need to install several apps in the mobile device. WingBonus gathers and stores all kind of coupons that the user can use when and where he/she wants, in a simple and safe way. Bonds: a bond is a set of coupons. The user can take advantage of a bulk purchase of coupons obtaining a notable discount because WingBonus offers capabilities for bonds management. Chits: If retailers and providers want to attract customers to purchase the same product or service more than once, customer loyalty and savings are encouraged. WingBonus creates the concept of "chit". A "chit" is a small reward for the purchase of a product or service. WingBonus manages user chits and it allows users to exchange them at will for new products or services or even discounts.
Offers and providers' promotional campaigns are managed through
In addition, WingBonus functionality includes the management of electronic loyalty cards. The user can manage any number of loyalty cards in his/her mobile phone. Furthermore, a loyalty card is managed like a folder, restricted to storing only chits. When a user buys any product or service corresponding to a specific provider or retailer he/she receives economic or symbolic rewards that are accumulated in the loyalty card corresponding to the retailer or provider. Afterwards, the user can exchange those rewards wherever he/she wants for other products or services, always following the requirements of the loyalty card.
Properties defined in containers and folders allow for use of different icons, images,
Users can select vouchers, these vouchers being assigned unequivocally to each user to be later sourced to the mobile application. These vouchers are exchanged in retailers or shops, any point of sale (PoS), defined and accepted previously when a voucher is created. Retailers and providers can be the same actors, for example in the case of a shop offering a loyalty card to its customers.
Security of the vouchers is defined by the providers depending on the characteristics of the marketing and business campaigns of the vouchers. Voucher security is managed depending on the user activity and the voucher characteristics. Thus, voucher security is defined for:
Voucher selection: when a user chooses a voucher in order to be downloaded afterwards in his/her mobile phone. Voucher sourcing: in this process the marked voucher is downloaded to the mobile phone. Voucher redemption: the voucher is exchanged in an accepted retailer. Voucher transfer: the voucher is transferred from one user to another.
For each of these functionalities the system considers security properties about:
User identification: the user must be identified in the system. When the process is being carried out, the system will check the user granting or rejecting the request. Voucher properties: the properties of each voucher, defined individually for each one of these processes. Environment/scenario: vouchers can be allocated, as will be described below, and therefore sourced from different media or infrastructures. Thus, a voucher can be sourced from smart posters, store readers, as well as WingBonus or provider websites. Besides, users' mobile phone or environment can determine the communication infrastructure (feasibility of WiFi and GPRS communication, for instance). These characteristics can be defined in the security properties of the vouchers in order to adjust the security level for each of the processes.
Vouchers are defined at different status depending on the process performed on them by the actors participating in the system.
First of all, vouchers are defined and set at the disposal of the users for their selection. Characteristics of the vouchers such as due date, total number of sourcings, total selection number by user, number of sourcings by user and time, deadline for the exchange,
When a user marks a voucher, it goes to the "Marked voucher" status and a unique identification is given for it, considering the user and voucher identification. Thus, users can mark any quantity of voucher at anytime and those vouchers are stored in the system, waiting to be provisioned to the user device.
The sourcing of a voucher can be performed automatically or on user demand. When a voucher is sourced to the user mobile, the voucher passes to the "Sourced voucher" status. The voucher sourcing is performed through a synchronization process in the WingBonus mobile application.
Finally, the voucher passes to the "Redeemed voucher" status when the user redeems the voucher in one of the accepted stores or locations. The synchronization during the redemption process can be carried out in several ways depending on user and shop infrastructure.
WingBonus's database stores information about the whole voucher lifecycle. Vouchers have a unique identification in each status and all voucher statuses are related to each other. The synchronization process validates the mobile and server databases, maintaining one unique and congruent information flow over vouchers in their different status.
Depending on voucher security properties, mobile and server databases can store a different image of user vouchers. For instance, users can source a voucher with low security requirements (
It can be observed that the system considers three types of actors: providers of vouchers, retailers or shops and users or customers. Providers are companies having marketing or promotional vouchers or loyalty card campaigns. Retailers are the stores or shops where customers earn and redeem vouchers and can play the role of providers in some cases, and users are the customers using the application.
WingBonus is currently open to any provider infrastructure as well as shops' business policies. Therefore, the system allows any infrastructure to be used for any of the process involved in the voucher management.
Vouchers can be selected and sourced from: (a) the WingBonus website, (b) the provider's website, (c) shops' readers, and (d) smart posters.
The user can select and source vouchers from the WingBonus website from a laptop or mobile application. In this case, the system has full control of the information and the process. Besides this, providers can publish vouchers on their own websites and users can select and source those vouchers with or without using the WingBonus system at that moment. The providers define how these vouchers operate through the vouchers' security properties, taking into account the infrastructure of the PoS where the vouchers may be redeemed.
Furthermore, vouchers can be selected and sourced from shop readers, for instance when a loyalty card is used, or from any smart poster displayed anywhere. In this case, vouchers' security is defined by the provider, it being in the low-high range depending on the provider campaign. The security level affects different voucher and infrastructure characteristics that are defined by the provider when an advertising campaign is trade. Thus, providers define how a voucher can be sourced (from WingBonus website, provider website, smart poster and/or NFC reader at the shop), how many vouchers can be sourced (total number of vouchers, total number of vouchers per day, total number of vouchers issued to each user, number of voucher per day for each user,
User infrastructure is also open. Although WingBonus is a system conceived for using NFC technology, due to the fact that currently some users do not own NFC devices, the system also allows the use of QR codes for the selection of the vouchers. The sourcing also can be performed using any communication media: Wi-Fi, GPRS, Bluetooth, MMS or connecting the phone to the computer.
Depending of the security properties of the vouchers, the redemption process also can be performed using different infrastructures. Thus, retailers can use Tags, NFC or QR readers as media control, and voucher validation can be performed by the retailers, providers and/or WingBonus in real time. In any case, as described below in this paper, full control of vouchers is managed by WingBonus during the whole life of the voucher.
Security, infrastructure, actors and voucher's lifecycle are fully related in WingBonus in order to offer an open system. Indeed, WingBonus is not properly a system but rather a framework allowing any provider or retailer to develop their own publicity, marketing, loyalty and marketing campaigns using a fully tailored mobile application and considering any voucher characteristics and security requirements.
Management of vouchers (see
The security level defined by a process determines the security of the later process in the voucher lifecycle. Security level takes into account user identification as well as the grants to perform a process by the user. Furthermore, security level determines in what step of the voucher lifecycle the system grants the voucher authentication and therefore the system stores all the information about the voucher, process and participating actors.
Vouchers can be defined as unsecure for sourcing (see
Smart posters can store full or partial information of the vouchers depending on the source security property (see
If the voucher is unsecure for sourcing, the mobile application generates a unique voucher identification, which is temporary until the next synchronization is performed. Stores are considered as smart posters although reading infrastructure was used.
Before the later process vouchers always have to be validated by means of a synchronization process. Hence, vouchers are not previously synchronized (flows 1 and 2) and vouchers not previously validated are sent to WingBonus server being validated (or not) and a synchronization process is performed.
Redemption process also can be performed by identified and unidentified users. In this process the user shows the voucher in the store to be exchanged for a product or service. If a high security is not defined for redemption, the user can exchange a source voucher in the allowed shop (see
If any security level is defined for redemption, the voucher must be validated prior to being redeemed. In this process, validation codes are sent to the mobile application in order to generate the QR code or NFC keys corresponding to the voucher. The validation process can be performed by different means: (a) the user touches the store's NFC reader connected to the store's computer that communicates with WingBonus's website using a specific service, (b) the user reads a specific Tag (QR or NFC) with his/her mobile phone and use Wi-Fi or GPRS to communicate with the WingBonus system. Finally, the redemption of the voucher is confirmed and communicated to all the involved actors. Retailers will receive information about the vouchers managed by WingBonus at any time depending on the established business agreements.
The most secure way to redeem vouchers is through NFC. This technology is safe because the small distance range in which it operates makes it very difficult to sniff part of the communication by third parties. We assume then that special security protocols are not required; however, an algorithm that verifies consistency and integrity of vouchers has been used to improve the strength of the system.
The method is similar to the one used in certificates and digital signatures. When a user downloads a voucher, the server sends all the information of the voucher and also a digest codified as a byte array. The contents of the digest are hidden by the encryption with a symmetric key algorithm. The algorithm used is Blowfish [
When the user wants to perform voucher redemption with NFC, the mobile application transmits all the voucher data to the controller installed on the store. This requires sending the server all the received data with the purpose of verifying the authenticity of the voucher. Once the data, originally sent by the store, is in the server, it decrypts the digest and verifies that the digest corresponds exactly to the provisioned voucher data. The server also checks the identification of the user involved in the process testing if he/she is the voucher owner. If integrity is maintained and the voucher is valid, the server sends a confirmation message to the controller; otherwise it sends an error message.
When the redemption is made using QR codes, the procedure is similar because the code has enough storage capacity to store the voucher data and the encrypted digest. The redemption of vouchers with bar codes does not support this verifying method, and therefore its use is not recommended.
Finally, transference of vouchers between users can only be performed with secure vouchers and indentified users. This process is always validated by WingBonus server checking the user and vouchers authenticity and the rules defined for those vouchers in the marketing campaign.
Synchronization is a process performed by the mobile application automatically or on user's demand. This process is in charge of several important actions (see Updating the mobile database with information corresponding to the selected voucher from the WingBonus and provider's websites, sourcing the vouchers and updating the server database. Sending the server partial information of vouchers gathered in the selection process from smart posters or shops. Vouchers are updated with information, stored in the server database and sent back to the mobile device in order to update the mobile database. Matching information corresponding to mobile and server databases is analyzed in order to detect errors, lacks, inconsistencies or counterfeits. In this process, entries in the mobile database are sent to the server to be validated and send back to the mobile. Vouchers accidentally lost by the user are then recovered.
Sending and receiving information between the mobile and server sides has been implemented by encapsulating information in JSON objects. Unlike the usual format, web services have been used in both directions: to initiate and to finish the communication.
Synchronization process requires identification of the user. Although anonymous users can select, source and even redeem unsecure vouchers, during the synchronization, the user must be authenticated through a login process.
The WingBonus server subsystem is composed of several functional components: (a) the website responsible for the web interaction with the user and the administrators, (b) the database storing all the information involving users, vouchers, clients, establishments,
The WingBonus server has been built using the one-page paradigm, using Backbone.js that supports Model-View-Controller (MVC) [
The WingBonus website constitutes an access platform for users and system administrators. From the main page, shown in
Users can view offers classified in different items: coupons, bonds and chits. In addition, offers can be sorted by companies and marketing, simply by selecting the desired option in the upper selection bar. In addition, the voucher view can be filtered by categories selected from the right side selector.
Once a voucher has been selected, a detailed view is shown as in
The full user activity is stored in the database. Thus, security of marked and provisioned vouchers can be checked before the exchange process. In addition, the server system provides information about the user activity. As
Moreover, the WingBonus server provides a complete administration tool for the management of the information. Thus,
As mentioned previously, neither the mobile application nor the JavaScript part of the website should access the database directly. For this purpose, we have developed an API for performing any operation needed for the database; giving in addition facilities for logging, registration and user activation, as well as voucher retrieving. Thus, the information is protected as a layer over the database, normalizing the access and allowing the adaptation of the input/output to each scenario. The API acts on the server side and has been developed using PHP and giving outputs formatted as a JSON object.
The web services provided by the API also agglomerate the operations for the synchronization. Generally, this kind of system gives an output based on a few inputs. WingBonus implements a complete system that receives all the data to be updated from the mobile application and operates over the database. Later, the services give a JSON response with the data requested by the mobile application, letting the device updated and fixing the date of the synchronization process.
The WingBonus mobile application allows checking and downloading vouchers anywhere at any time, with the purpose of carrying them in the phone and solving the problem of paper coupons or loyalty cards (forgetting them or loss). Besides this, the mobile application allows getting vouchers by means of smart posters and using it with the advantages that NFC technology provides, or QR codes in case NFC is not supported by the phone device. The mobile application has been developed for the Android 2.3 (or later) and RIM 7.1 operating systems.
The first time the user runs the application, the screen of
Once the user is identified (being registered or anonymous), the mobile application shows the main menu (
WingBonus mobile allows storing an unlimited number of electronic vouchers. As
By default, the application installs the WingBonus container. This container can never be deleted. Installation of any other container or folder is automatically performed during the synchronization process when a voucher belonging to the container or folder is provisioned. Loyalty cards also are stored and shown to the users in the folders (see
Mobile application permits the user to view the existing voucher offers that fits the user preferences (see
Although in some synchronizations the amount of transferred information between mobile and server applications may be small (few number of vouchers), usually the synchronization process will require the exchanged of new preferences, download and upload of vouchers,
In addition, vouchers can also be acquired through smart posters. The storage capacity of an RFID tag is enough to store a complete electronic voucher. Two types of supplying are possible using smart posters:
The smart poster has a tag storing a "mark record". When the user touches the tag, the record is transferred via NFC and stored in the mobile database. Then, the record is used to download the voucher as if it had been marked directly from the Website, The tag stores the provisioned voucher, so the user will receive the full voucher information without a further synchronization against the server. This last type of voucher is only implemented for unsecured vouchers or in case the provider wants the broadcasting of an offer without control.
How offers are shown is completely dependent on user preferences. User can view a summary of stored vouchers with the possibility to access the detailed information, as shown in
The most important feature of WingBonus is the secure exchange of coupons using NFC ( The SNEP Specification (NFC Simple NDEF Exchange Protocol) [ Although the ideal exchange method is NFC, redemption can be performed through QR codes and traditional barcodes. WingBonus uses the ZXing [
WingBonus mobile also supports traditional barcode formats like EAN13. These codes can save thirteen characters, some of which are reserved for convention, allowing a minimum storage capacity. The store can read the barcode and redeem the voucher, but the server cannot verify the integrity. This procedure is maintained to facilitate the integration of the application on the market but is strongly discouraged.
The combination of NFC with the growing success of mobile technology will allow, in the near future, the development of "ideally" smart environments, which were conceived decades ago. The application of NFC to marketing models of companies offers several advantages over existing systems. There are several and important companies that provide discount and offer services, however, getting and using coupons is not always easy. The main weak point is the client's interaction with the coupon and the company or system that serves the product or service. The use of NFC and its application in mobile devices provides users with an easy way to acquire, store, manage and use vouchers. Besides, these features make the process fast, secure, efficient and transparent.
The system described in this paper has the advantage of the consideration of any type of vouchers: discount coupons, bonds and chits. In addition, loyalty cards are also considered and the card operations such as chit operations are managed. Managing marketing campaigns in containers and folders, WingBonus provides a powerful diffusion tool for companies and their marketing activities, as well as an easy way for the users to manage offers.
In addition, WingBonus can be fully tailored to different marketing strategies. Thus, each campaign and type of voucher can be adapted to a different security level, source of distribution and retailer infrastructure. This versatility allows its application for companies of different size and commercial sector.
WingBonus allows consumers to take advantage of all offers made by companies. This guarantees a huge savings on the purchase of consumer products. Vouchers and loyalty cards are carried on the mobile phone without any possibility of fraud, loss or forgetting.
For partner companies, WingBonus offers great advantages: cost reductions, elimination of paper and/or plastic supports, reaching more customers, elimination of forgeries, real time tracking, market analysis, study of trends, capability to build customer loyalty,
Currently, we are working on the improvement of the system described in this paper in order to add new features and also allow the storage of the offers in the secure element of the NFC phone. In addition, we are combining the marketing based on vouchers and loyalty cards with marketing based on gaming, thus offering new models for attracting loyal customers to companies.
This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (MICINN): Project: TIN2011-24312.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Class diagram corresponding to voucher information.
Sequence diagram showing the voucher lifecycle.
Flow of information between the system actors for secure and unsecure vouchers.
Some snapshots of the WingBonus website.
Some WingBonus mobile application snapshots.


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Indeed, I stand corrected. But still you can get the Classic for 1200 notes, feed your netbook into it... and not being too far off what we heard in that room.
My point is HIFI has to be affordable, or at least APPROCHABLE. We don't all have premiership salaries... and manufacturers should maybe cater for the lower part of the scale a bit more...
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Got a day pass to go this on Saturday and wasn't expecting much, as the exhibitor list was not that extensive. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I enjoyed this more than
Whittlebury last year. There didn't appear to be that many people attending, which made it easier to hang around in rooms and have a good listen. Most rooms were also a decent size. The hotel layout also made it a breeze to find your way around.
I was initially impressed with the Voxativ black 'squares on wheels'. Really stonkingly good with uncluttered recordings but sounded really awful when someone put on a Bowie live CD.... maybe it was that CD.
Another single driver speaker that really impressed was the Bodnar Audio speakers.They were playing AC/DC when I walked in the room and that sounded just right to my ears and I was amazed at the price...I was expecting them to cost so much more.
Audion/Revolver was disappointing, as was the Cary Audio room with speakers that must have been about 9feet tall!! The Hart bronze speakers produced an enormous amount of bass for their size, but they didn't sound right...the treble sounded very muted (and the speakers easily took the 'ugliest hifi of the year' award).
The DCS/VTL/Focal room was better than a similar setup I heard at Whittlesbury, but considering the cost, I was not bowled over. Even less impressive was some new wooden equipment support the DCS stuff was sitting on. According to the brochure, it utilizes stealth radar-absorbing material...hmmmm, ok dokey then.
The High End Cable room were demo'ing Raidho speakers that had really impressive treble quality and mid-range, but then disappointed with a rather one-note bass...
Zen Sati was entertaining...both for the music, pleasant banter and hosepipe sized cables. Rammstein never sounded so controlled and aggressive through Gamut speakers driven by Viola electronics..not that you could see the amps through the jungle of cables facing you.
Audio Note had impressive sound as always at these shows but best sounds of the day though had to be the Music First Audio room with a setup that included their new baby reference preamp and a Quad 405 amp driving rogers ls3/5as. I've never heard these speakers sound so impressive before. The system sound was one that i could listen to for ages.
Totally, but none was on show in Weybridge...
Unless I missed it completely, which s always a possibility after too many G&Ts...
I guess what I am hinting at is that these shows are a great opportunity for loads of people to experience around 20 odd systems in fairly realistic environment (no bass traps etc...) without having to book x amount of listening sessions at dealers around the country..
So seeing in a commercial show a MFA and Quad driving LS3/5A was very refreshing...
It certainly got me thinking about my system, and I hope to be able soon enough to afford a piece of MFA...
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Not exactly pictures from the Show, but still you can realize the sheer size of those pipes...
The Bronze Toads weren't playing when I was in the Hart room. They seem to have Tannoy DC drivers (cheapo plastic ones from the lower end of the range) AND soft-dome tweeters - odd! Whatever was playing - big square things - was sounding mushy and vague.
I had a feeling those Voxativs were one trick ponies, as every time I went in they were playing smooth jazz - nice! I wanted to play my Stranglers track, but the guy with the controls seemed to speak no English.
Got back from this show today also - really enjoyed the venue and music. Anyway, my views:
Hart audio: big soundstage but muddled image - just not coherent at all
Jo sound: ok but image had no height. Bass a little flabby for me.
Burmester: quite enjoyable although room felt too small for me. Same with the other 15 audio room. That Boulder gear looked gorgeous though. The boulder was playing through triangle speakers and sounded really good. Room was too small to really enjoy the system for me.
Inspire: got to see the Monarch - lovely tt - sounded extremely dynamic and very stable image indeed. I think they could do with better speakers but overall I enjoyed this room a lot. The Monarch is on my shopping list I think ;)
Voxativ: I enjoyed the sounds in this room although I died the image depth a little shallow for my liking. The reproduction of some jazz pieces was awesome in tone though - I remember hearing a muted trumpet with extreme realism - very cool. I quite like the design of those big black slabs.
Analogue alchemy: I just can't get ,y head around how much tt you get for your money with this company. They win the bling kit award. Sound from the room was okay but not great.
Townshend: enjoyed spending 30 mins in here on my own at the end with the man himself. We were blasting organ music at some monster volumes and it put a large smile on my face. The wall of sound pounding down the room was pretty awesome.
Focal / vtl: I enjoyed this room - listened to classical violin concerto and some jazz. Big, deep image with ferocious dynamic swings.
Focal / vitus: good sounds again from this room. Smooth and great imaging.
That was my Range Rover and David and I were demonstrating to Tim Jung of My Audio Design what a healthy Rover V8 sounds like as he's after a Range Rover himself but has seen a few rough ones, apparently.
Even better, at least four people told me this was the best sound they'd heard at the show....
Whenever I write a letter to anyone, I always add a footnote explaining Ohm's law. It's my P.S. de resistance.
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My Dad had an SD1 3.5 V8 manual while I was a teenager/learning to drive. I used to volunteer to wash it because that gave me the opportunity to drive it in and out of the garage. At 17 I was dead set on a motorbike but he persuaded me not to and bought me a Fiat 600. When I passed my test we traded it in against my first Beetle. He said "drive it (the 600) to the dealer and I'll follow you in the Rover". I hesitated and he then said "I'll drive it and......" He got no further because I was already in the Rover starting it up! I adored that car!
Let me get this straight. You take a perfectly good CD and put it in a DVD player??!!
Townshend room was great. Sat there for about an hour of Bach which sounded brill. No flicking from track to track he just let people sit and enjoy the music.
Focal/dCS/VTL sounded good too in smallish room. Had a demo track which was an acapella version of 'the boxer' which was great. The usual 'Right Note' talk about Vertex was a bit boring though!
MFA with the LS3/5a's sounded great, rally nice.


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let´s talk about the games I made!
Well. I like the gfx, sound and especially some animations are nice. But I it does not run properly under XP, and not in Full-Screen. Also, the game-Feeling isn´t the best, it´s a bit too hectic and the scrolling isn´t the best. You just still feel it´s a Click-n-Play (or similar) game.
Most of the game are made in 320*200(the white IED logo intros only) so yes, They will work on full-screen(even 320*240), if I change my option for the game. But I got an old 300 p2 with 64mmram and my monitor sucks! It can´t get any higher than 800*600:-(. Im afraid what your computers should get when It runs on full-screen so thats why I didn´t change the games at full-screen, it may work on yours.
but if you want to play at full screen-change your desktop to 256colors, maybe that work but the result should get slower, I think?


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Date of Entry into Force: | March 6, 2006 |
Date of Text (Enacted): | March 6, 2006 |
Type of Text: | IP-related Laws: enacted by the Legislature |
Subject Matter: | Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) |
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The purpose of this law is to facilitate the impartial and prompt resolution of commercial disputes as to a trade transaction for the supply or exchange of goods or services in accordance with the wishes of the parties, to safeguard the legal rights and interests of the parties.
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In addition to Google's roster of business apps, including Google Docs, Google Drive and Google Vault, Sprint will provide information technology support and sell its own mobile service and phones, the company said Wednesday.
The appeal is to an important customer base as Sprint battles its larger rivals AT&T and Verizon, which have a stronger foothold in the business customer market.
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These dudes are currently on tour so, if there is a show near you........... GET TO IT !!
I love this record. seems I have posted this pic alot lately ;) and another well written review from Thomas. |
I do prefer the WTP record over this one. Still pretty solid, though.
Guess I'll go check these dudes out!
What would you compare them to? I haven't listened to anything by them besides whatever was played in the Warped Tour doc. |
This is a lot better to me than the With The Punches and I Call Fives. It's weird though, I'm going to review the I Call Fives and it's kind of the same deal as this album, where a lot of the songs sound the same, I just think this album is much better.
This is a great review. I'm stoked to see how far these guys have come. Can't wait to give it a spin!
I wouldn't say it's your typical poppy pop-punk album since this album is better than 90-95% of the genre out there
"Contender is your typical poppy pop-punk album, its 10 songs only managing to run the course of 24 minutes ... While bringing nothing new to the table in terms of creativity, Contender is a better execution of this style than any record in at least a couple of years; and with the way this genre works, you can't ask for more than that." |
i love this album. it leaked yesterday and i had to get it as soon as i could. probably gonna purchase within the week of official release. great review, i love your reviews, always check in on here to see if you praise something extremely highly or an album im anticipating.
Really really stoked on this record. Best dudes, fantastic record.
Just gave this a first spin, really liking it. I think the short songs work really well for their style. Also I love the re-recorded Front Porch Sunrise so much more than the split version.
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Written by Thomas SowellEconomists are the real "party of No." They keep saying that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and politicians keep on getting elected by promising free lunches.
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