[AMA] Ask The Developer Anything - December 4th

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Originally Posted by I Will Merc You

Will there be any consideration ('I apologize Tank', energy packs, etc..) given to players who have been locked out of their game for the past 2-4 weeks?

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Those particular items through the popup will still be available once our new fixes go live. We're continuing to investigate what else we can do to improve things. We know that this has been a really trying time for a lot of players, and we really do understand why you're upset.

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Originally Posted by AdamInToronto

The descriptions of the new Battle Calculation and the new Soldier Equipment features make many references to ones 'Army' and 'Soldiers'. Does this mean only Infantry units benefit from the new equipment?
Also, PvP Equipment Hints states:

Each ally you add allows you to bring 4 extra units to battle
Each army unit can bring 6 unused equipment items to battle

Could you clarify how units will be chosen from one's inventory of Air, Sea, Ground and Infantry to form each battle, and, in particular, if 'Soldier Equipment' is applied before or after determining which units are chosen?

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Quick run down of the definitions and what they mean regarding soldier equip:

Your Army: These units are all of the items you have collected so far. This includes the ground, sea, air, and infantry units.
Your Solider: This is your current avatar in game. We are adding the ability to equip 6 items to your avatar. The unit types are Head, Weapon 1, Weapon 2, Armor, Feet, and Accessory.
Your Army Equipment: All army units that you bring into battle automatically equip up to 6 items (if you have extra items to equip)

As you can see, all units in the army benefit from the new equipment.

In regards to the PvP help text, the text is updated to reflect the new 5.0 changes. Overall it works the same way, except all of the army units you bring into battle can now have up to 6 items equipped.

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Originally Posted by HellRaizer

How to management currently decide what to introduce next.. bit of a leading question here..

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Rather than the Admin picking Mods, could the community not pick the mods (those whosubmit an application).. What we need are a few players who can relay information directly back to yourselves.. What we don't need is "yes (wo)men" who think that everything is wonderful and because of that they are made mods.. eg someone responding "heck yeah" when asked about a 7 day WD.

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When evaluating what features to put in next, we consider both the development cost of the feature and the likelihood that the players will actually want to use it. Much-requested features like chat are really expensive in terms of development cost -- we have to build a back-end system to support synchronous communications, then build a chat system on top of that, then QA it across a number of different platforms, network connections, and on-device keyboards. So that’s much less likely than, say, a gold confirmation popup, which is much less difficult, requiring only one engineer, some UI designer time, and a whole lot of QA to make sure it shows up everywhere.

Our community managers are actually paid GREE employees, and they do relay information back from you guys to the devs. Seriously, all the time, every day. But every time a dev comes on the forums, that’s time that they could be spending working on fixing bugs and building features, and we think you’d really rather they did those things?

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Originally Posted by MW Flake

Will all current broken things be fixed before more things are added to bog down an already overtaxed game engine

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We appreciate your frustration and want to let you know that the stability, performance and correct behavior is our top priority for future releases.

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Originally Posted by HellRaizer

With people being locked out of the game so often, or people simply not being able to participate at times. Could we please have a CO Leader option. This is something that has been asked for for a long time. Having one person in charge of a faction creates a problem should something happen to the leader, which in turns raises more tickets

Alternatively have a new function within the faction.. Maybe a level that has all the features of the leader... Kick, purchases boosts , build walls (essential), promote/demote (officers)... but can't kick the leader

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These are great ideas. Adding this functionality is definitely something we'd like to do. We can't give you a timeline at this time, but just wanted to let you know that we do think these are good ideas.

Will the current system still be in place regarding one ally=6 units/soldiers into battle?
Meaning with 500 allies we take 3,000 soldiers which would means 3,000 x 6 items (18.006) including your avatar.
Will we win equipment items in events?will we have a building to "manufacture" items or do we just buy from store with cash/valour?

Why is epic boss being changed from using army stats? Everything people have spent a lot of time and working towards you are now making useless

Are you thinking of adding new faction bonus?

Why can't our stat bonuses count during the raid boss?

Can we please fix the problem with NPC spawning in on top of each other? I have to reload the map many times to spread them. This can't be "random" because it happens all to often.

Also, would it kill you to give us events we can finish with little or no money. Less than 100 a cycle and still improve our game? The money you demand would allow us all to buy game systems WITH games and extra controller.

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Originally Posted by HellRaizer

Splash screen when first logging in.

Two fold here

1. New LE units, this screen appears in invariably has a purchase option. IOt is possible to click the purchase button before the screen as even fully loaded from booting up the game. Therefore can this be removed (see for alternative suggestion below)

New events. A number of new events come out together.. eg .. normal, prestige, masters, maybe crate or raid boss.. but only one splash screen appears, for what seems to be one of the events randomly. What decides which events will be show on the splash screen?

2. Rewards since the last log in time.. I think that if your faction does a lot while you are not logged on, the game actually crashes when building up a list of all the splash screens.. just a hunch but it feels like it..


Possible solutions

Add an additional tab to the news feed. In here provide a link to every splash screen that is currently applicable. Therefore when people log in:
1. they can see the final prize for each event and
2. they can also see what they have been awarded since their last log in..

I hope this shouldn't be too difficult

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Thanks for the suggestions.
1. I am guessing you are on iOS because Android has most of the functionality you are talking about. We are looking into porting it over to iOS, but other development priorities have come up. This is on our radar to port over to iOS.

2. This is something we can look into. Please write into CS with more detailed information like your device model and issues you are experiencing and CS will pass it on to the developers.

Possible Solutions Section: We know this is an issue and we have started brainstorming ways to present this information per event.

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Originally Posted by HellRaizer

Will there ever be android Beta testing?

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There already is Android beta testing. We ran a very successful Android beta for 5.0 over the week of Thanksgiving. (Thank you so much to all our testers who really came through for us before the holiday!)

As part of our changes to the beta program, we'll probably be looking for new beta testers soon, and we'll post here when we're ready for that.

I would be interested in beta testing

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Originally Posted by HellRaizer

Are the Modern War developers the same developers that work on Kingdom age and Crime City. My reasoning behind this is. Do the games still use the same underlying code and evolve in the same way. Something that we notice a lot is that features get rolled out in other games first and quite often they aren't appreciated. This then gives a negative vibe in our community because we know that same change could be coming

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The games are actually three separate teams, but we do often work together on really big features and put them into all three games. Although we can’t always roll out every feature to all the games simultaneously, we do listen to feedback from the players who see it first and try to improve it for the ones rolling out later if we have time.

Many players have reached lvl 300. It would be nice if you raise this max lvl till 400 or 500