November 20, 2008 vDream Raceway Opens!

10:09am by Cheechoo (Site)

The vDream World has been constructing an all-new racetrack called the vDream Raceway! This is a place where you can race three types of races: 1/4 Mile, Track, and Endurance.

1/4 Mile: This is what we’ve been doing for the past few months. All about your power-to-weight ratio! 15 challenges per day max.

Track: In the in-field of vDream Raceway, it’s a very tight and technical track. Your brakes, suspension, and balance are the big factors here. This is where the lighter and stiffer cars will excel. 5 challenges per day max.

Endurance: The Oval. Power comes into play a lot more here than in the in-field. Also, it depends on how many friends you have on vDream. Essentially, you’re doing a 100-lap race against someone, with all your friends there. If I have 100 friends, that means we’re each doing 1 lap each, no need for pit stops. If I have no friends, then I’m doing all 100 laps, and I have to do pit stops to change tires, fill up on gas, and eat In-n-Out, all which takes time. Max 1 per day.

With these new race-types, you can now tailor your races for each car that you own! It’s up to you to learn which cars are best at which races!

Big props and huge thank you’s go out to Anas and Anna for helping us with the track picture that they did for free. =D

Update: It’s been noted that you can no longer challenge someone from their profile (broken). We will fix this tomorrow, but for now, all you Leaderboard Poachers will have to take a day off from poaching. =)

November 18, 2008 Weekly Awards, and Poll Announcement

07:33am by Cheechoo (Site)

This week’s poll winners! And check out the bottom of this post for teasers on tonight’s poll!

Most Active: Keegan Tague with a whopping 713 activity points. Keep it up, Keegan you’re moving up the ranks quickly! I also want to give an honorable mention to one of the vDream Mod/Beta Tester team, Daniel Leas, with an earth-shattering 1184 activity points. Unfortunately, Daniel, you can’t win this award, but props for putting up such a huge number, we’ve never seen it get so high! I’m positive it’s because you’re getting poached on the leaderboard, haha.

Most Losses: Jayson Ballantine, with 189 losses. This $5k vDollars should help you, but I think you’re up there in the VDI rankings too, so you’re probably making plenty of money!

Car of the Week: Muttaqun mo’min dos Malê, with a very eclectic and unique looking M3. I dig the domo-kun and Jake’s girlfriend’s garter! Unfortunately, he moved to an S5 very recently, so this sweet M3 will be lost in the servers forever. But still, props!

A dual-poll is coming out within the next few hours, I added a couple teaser pics at the bottom to show you what they’re going to be. Personally, I’m excited about the bottom one.

Happy vDreaming!

November 16, 2008 Saturday Night Work Session at Cheechoo's

07:07am by Cheechoo (Team)

Team vDream gets together to spec out some UI and other features on a Saturday night at Cheechoo’s pad. Charles and Cheechoo have been working on an India Pale Ale that’s been brewing for the past three weeks, which is now ready to be bottled, so they take a break to bottle the beer.

Here’s the dicey part: we realized there wasn’t enough empty beer bottles from the last batch (hefeweizen) because we gave them to people. So we had to find some bottles and other paraphernalia, to put the rest of the brew in. So we ended up having to chug some beer that was in Cheechoo’s fridge, some wine, a couple frappuccino’s, and found an empty jar of jalapenos to put the rest of the beer in. Trust us, we’ve used the jar of jalapenos before, and while yes, the taste does leech into the beer even after washing it, but it gives it a unique and spicy taste.

In two weeks the IPA will be complete and drinkable. We’ll let you know how it comes out!

November 14, 2008 Grand Opening: Atlas Parking Structure

12:46pm by Cheechoo (Site)

vDream opens up the first ever garage: The Atlas Parking Structure! For $50,000 vDollars, or $2.50 USD, you can have your very own spot in this brand new garage.

Here are some things you need to know: before you switch cars, you need to clear all pending received challenges with your current car. Either accept or reject them. Then you’ll be able to drive your second car. Also, check your Parts Shed if you’re an owner of a spot, there is a parking placard for you that represents the Atlas structure.

Happy vDreaming!

November 12, 2008 A Euro Supermodel on the Catwalk!

01:39pm by Cheechoo (Site)

Squeak Squeak, looks like you squeaky wheels got the oil! Introducing the brand new Audi S5! Should go great with the new garage space opening up in a day or two (wink wink, nudge nudge).

The car is brand new, so it won’t have all that much power until more companies do the R&D. But it’ll look great in the Atlas Parking Structure.

Tomorrow a new poll will be released, for more EURO cars! Be sure to check in tomorrow!

Anas and Cheechoo burned the midnight oil in order to release this bad boy today. Give them your thanks by challenging them!

Have fun with the S5. Happy vDreaming!

November 11, 2008 vDream Call to Action! You're not done voting yet!

08:53pm by Lijen (Site)

We know many of you voted in last week’s presidential election, and on a bunch of propositions and for state officials. But wait! You’re not done yet! The fbFund is offering $225,000 to 5 Facebook apps, and we want to be one of them!

If we win, we will be able to bring our original vDream hopes and ideas into fruition, and faster than originally planned. Show vDream your support by voting for us!

The competition runs from today until November 30th, and users are allowed to vote once a day, so get out there and Rock the vote and tell your friends to do the same!

To vote, you must first install the fbFund Facebook Application. We encourage you to do so and check out all the other amazing apps! Vote on your favorites! We hope that one of them will be vDream!

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November 10, 2008 Awards of the Week!

11:19am by Cheechoo (Site)

Hello vDreamers! I’m here to post the Awards of the Week – an easy way to make money! If you ever are the most active user, have the most losses, or have a unique car, all in the past week, you have a chance to win $5000 vDollars! Here goes:

Most Active: Ryan Forsyth, with 535 activity points. Go Ryan! You must be winning like crazy!

Biggest Loser: Ryan Forsyth, with 203 losses. Hmm… I guess scratch that last comment about you winning like crazy. Congratulations, though, you’re our first double-winner on vDream!

Car of the Week: Vijay Sarathy, with a ‘Vette that I chuckled at when I saw. Reminds me of the clown-car Mini Cooper from back in the day. Although I do like how you had a color scheme going with the blue/red. The white hood just throws it all out the window though. Hah!

Happy vDreaming, and congrats to our winners!

November 05, 2008 A New Hope

05:38am by Cheechoo (Cars)

Also the title of the first in the epic series: Star Wars. Coincidence? I THINK NOT.

Just kidding. I just wanted to congratulate Barack Obama, and even if you’re not an Obama supporter, I wanted to congratulate America, and the world, for that matter. Even getting handed a half-recession, I think it’s good news that America is going to change.

I know a guy named Anas. He wants me to mention that he voted for Colbert. I just wanted to say that Stephen Colbert, according to his views and according to his satire, he is very left-leaning, but South Carolina ended up a Red State. So, sorry, Anas, but your man didn’t make any impact (lol).

The presidential bobbleheads resulted in: 309 Barack Obamas, 132 John McCains, 40 Joe Bidens, and 82 Sarah Palins. This comes out to: 349 for Obama/Biden, and 214 for McCain/Palin. Good job vDream, you are a true example of the rest of America. =)

Either way… Drink up, fellow vDreamers. Some features are coming, cars are coming, let’s at the very least praise the new leader of the free world.

goddamnit california, really? no on prop 7? goddamnit. TESLA FTW, screw you guys, I’m goin home (cartman).