Hey er, any news on kong yet?
 

i take it since the map navigation system is being rewriten the game can't be played

Alright, I've been giving this a go for a bit now, and got to lvl 10... Then I decided to evac everything and roll for a new spot. The first one I got was too bland, the second was right next to Area 11 and I suicided, and the third... Next to some abandoned place, so I left. The fourth, however, was one quadrant away from an orb. I started snaking over to the orb, my hope growing with every tile captured... This was it! I was finally going to stop being a lurker! I successfully captured the orb and here I am. Hooray for point generators!

well youre lucky that lolwut shielded you, but i would have left you with one tile on the orb if he didn't, just to farm you, also I was disadvantaged that I was on my tablet. Everything was laggy...
Edit: I can't connect to chat from my college but I suppose you called him for help.

There's nothing fun about the early game.  

I literally just spent 15 minutes clicking and waiting 5 seconds then clicking the next tile without knowing why I was doing what I was doing and for what end.   Every once in a while, I get a level up, and get to pick a technology, with no information about  what technology is good or bad and / or how it benefits me.  But whatever, I'll still click because why not.  The problem is that I have no idea why I'm clicking.  Here are some of the questions that were floating in my mind as I was playing this: 

What does leveling up give me?  Why should I care?
Where can I find other people to attack?  There's no attack tab is there?  Am I blind? 
What's the difference between the colors of tiles?  
Do I want a big empire or small one?  
What do weapons give me if I can just attack any land and win it with the first weapon I get?  
Is there some other way to level other than land?  According to the high scores, "blob" has 4470 land but is only level 17, while CreamyVille has 51 land but is level 24, what the heck is going on there?  That means that blob has spend almost 4 hours farming land, while CreamyVille spent only a few minutes farming land, but is nearly 3x his level.  Something doesn't add up. 

This game doesn't have a new user experience yet, and that new user experience is arguably the most important thing that any game needs. I'd encourage you to add a section that hooks / compels a new player to understand what they're doing, why and keep them in the game before working too hard on other sections.  Bloons Monkey City might give you great inspiration on how to do that.

Please don't ban me from konghack for giving this advice.  It comes from a place of constructive criticism, not maliciousness.  

am i the only one getting lag? guess it's time for a new pc then

It's not down...  You have to actually go play it before you can play it... I guess?

Just WTF...

Awesome Game +9999