[AMA] Ask The Developer Anything - January 22nd

Please join us Thursday, January 22nd, at 2:00pm PST for our next Developer Ask Me Anything!

Please be prepared to ask questions about current features, future feature development, and more. The Development Team is especially interested to hear feedback from you about all aspects of the game. We would like to hear what you like, dislike, what you would like to see more of, and of course why! They may even ask you, the players, some questions! Please be detailed in your questions and feedback!

We will once again be joined by:

Derez: Lead Game Designer
WaffleKing: Producer

This thread will be unlocked Wednesday at 5pm PST so that you may post your questions in advance. The Developers will arrive Thursday at 4:00pm sharp and will be answering questions here for 1.5 hours! The thread will then be locked at at the conclusion of the AMA. We'll answer as many questions as possible.

Remember any posts that violate the Forum Code of Conduct will be removed. Furthermore, any post that attacks, insults, implies insults, harasses the Development Team will result in an immediate and permanent ban. Please keep everything on topic and constructive.

UPDATE (01/22 at 1:15pm PST) - Derez and WaffleKing have been scheduled for a very important meeting which will run until 4:30pm PST. As a result they will begin answering questions at 4:30pm and continuing doing so until 6:00pm PST. Our apologies for the last minute schedule change.

The AMA thread is now open! Please post your questions, thoughts, and feedback for the Kingdom Age Development Team. They will be here at 4:00pm PST tomorrow!

Glad to see you guys doing this again, thank you!!

As I mentioned last AMA and many others have as well, bout the need for increasing the stats for individual war rewards. Is there any plan on doing so? There is not one player that is happy with these rewards, and are really a insult to what a lot of players spend during that event. These rewards need to be better then what we already have equipped.

Second question, it has been a long time rumor in conquest when two or more players are attacking the same player they get less cp, then when attacking that player alone. Is this true or false?

And a suggestion to please consider making the top 3 guild conquest rewards a strong weapon/armor/item with a bonus with it. Instead just a bonus. Lately most of these bonuses that you have been giving out for top 3 have been fairly lousy, and these are your best costumers! Feel this would be good way to reward your top players better and put more meaning to those top spots.

Also the +40 EB damage bonus from top 1 spot last conquest is not working. This was a pretty bad bonus to start but to not even work is awesome. Please fix that bonus. Thanks

How do you explain increasing the EB L100 boss health by almost 1k? You have not given out but only a couple of items to increase are EB damage and that is only by 10-50 points at most of damage. Which I see as the biggest flaw of this new EB design. You can't keep increasing the bosses health without giving out better equipment.

Please could you give us a update if your still going to give us a skill point reset this January if so could state when.

Please could you tell us when we be able to upgrade the craft shop to level ten.

You have increase the health on EB bosses but my gold attack has only gone up by 4 to 704 since last EB.please could you increase the hero equipment stats not had one since before last EB that has increase my stats.only level increase has enabled me too increase my hero attack.

The drop rate for stones is terrible luckily if I get one every three weeks.As result there hardly any walls during war please could you fix this.

At its heart this game has been about developing our individual accounts during a war cycle in order to help our guilds achieve the best results possible during wars ...has the development team forgotten some of the basics along the way ??? the winners list has not been updated since the "cursed graveyard" war at which point you had already missed out 3 or 4 wars ...despite numerous tickets to support this has never been sorted??

Also the delays in announcing the war rewards is getting ridiculous ...it used to be the case that when war finished you could immediately check what the rewards were for the next war ...currently we are lucky to have them announced more than 24/48 hours before the war starts..can this also be resolved??

Many Thanks
Grant@RK1 (Semi-retired) :p

I have an issue with the change in gem policy. It isn't balanced anymore, gems used to be means of getting stuff easier, faster and make your game progress in general happen a lot swifter. Now since the crafting begun you are giving more and more items that can only be purchased by gems, and not just few gems but a lot of gems. I know this is a business and you want to make a profit but by asking ridiculous amount of gems for 1 item you stop more people from buying gems then you gain.

For example with crafting you have implemented the chance of getting an epic item when crafting something which also unlocks another epic item to be crafted but only, this item can only be crafted by gems.. For example you craft the monk robe, it turns into an epic monk robe. Now you get the chance to craft an epic wizard robe, but at the small cost of around 650 gems... Same for epic caster's staff and so on. Better would be to make more rare materials available with gem cost, the harder to get the material, the higher the cost. So gemmers would still have the advantage and gain more faster but you don't laugh in most your gaming community's face => Result would be more people be tempted to buy small amount of gems to get few pieces of materials they are in dire need of, and more profit to you.

So my question is really, do you plan to continue with the destructive gem policy you are currently using and that is slowly killing your game. Or will you show some sense and implement a gem policy that the will stimulate gaming community to buy gems and will be beneficial for your game?

can u give us a list of the dates that events start and finish next to the the list of events. This seems such a simple thing that would help guilds organise better.

When are you getting rid of chests as the primary source of quest reward?

Developers: How many new players have joined and are actively playing since the onset of many changes made to the game in the past 4-5 months? Explain the math of how "wins" are calculated in pvp battles, raids, and during conquest battle, and how damage is applied across the various events in a concise and understandable fashion, as previous attempts didn't seem to make much sense/don't account for what we see as outcomes in some cases. Also, what's on the horizon for changes to expect in the game? New events? Tossing any old and tired events? Lastly, can you give an idea of realistically how much longer this game is going to be in the GREE lineup?

(And, day 33 of missing an account, so anything to help that move along would be great. See my other posts)

P.S. It is rather insulting to players when they receive a random and thoughtless prize like a chest or common item or low stat item for high level events and/ or high gem expenditures. Let's nix that, eh?

I like the chest idea it not really chests that the problem it what in them the low value items since you brought them out.this has changed in the latest EB which is most welcome thanks for that.Also when Gree decides too let us upgrade cart shop to level ten all theses useless items we been getting for crafting will start to hold some value.But really don't like the idea of not letting upgrade building to level ten from the start very bad idea this has caused much upset within the Community.

When can we get the splash screens for final prizes of events to show up again? It is nice to see what we are working towards. Legendary EB prize, final RB prize for normal/heroic, 40 CoK wins, top level individual CoK wins, etc.

How dose Pve damage work for both epic boss and in general on maps?
What is involved with the calculations?
How does hero stregth, gear and players level work into the calculations?

1) More often than not, it is unclear whether the bonus on an prize is permanent or temporary. What can Gree do to make this crystal-freaking-clear? What you have been doing lately hasn't been working. How about a different color background based on whether it is a temp or permanent bonus? Or different color font?

2) Whenever I log into War of Nations, I am bombarded by 6 different splash screens - typically for items to purchase and to link my account to facebook. It is incredibly annoying, and I log in less often because of it. Please do NOT bring this to KA.

3) Can Gree be more clear about drop rates in box events, particularly those where you need to collect 10 of one item? We all know that as you collect more items the likelihood of successful open decreases. I'd like to know the actual rates. I know far too many people who pour several mountains into such events and never receive the 10th prize (I have done this myself).

4) Why do you continue to offer chests as prizes? This is a damn-near universally hated piece of the game.

5) It was mentioned earlier, but I just want to reiterate that lately the individual CP prizes have been utter garbage. And I can assure you that your top spenders will start cutting back if things don't change.

6) Can you confirm that we will not have any more 2-week war cycles? This is also universally hated by players. Honestly, I think a lot of players would agree that a 4-week cycle with 3 large events (EB, RB, and a new event) between wars would be ideal.

One more:

7) In PVP, why does a defender's army attack strength matter? What is the point of having two separate army stats (attack/defense) when they seemingly do the same thing? Why does the battle result screen not display all 6 (Army/Hero/equipment attack and defense) stats if they are relevant? Honestly, many players find this overly complicated and confusing - especially when it is not displayed in the battle results.

New position to the guild ranks, someone just under founder but over officer, a position that can promote people to officer but not remove people from the guild. A 2nd in command.
This was asked about a long time ago,
Also when might we see a collect all button?

I would love collect all button as well.

I posted a long reply that appears to be deleted.

Why was epic boss strength raised when players were not given equipment to improve their attack?


Please consider using percentage o army attack in calculation p this would be a win win for all.

Multi buy option for store items.

Hi, ive been playing for about 3 months now and unfortunately i wasnt around when the game started but it would be great if you offered the LTB for gold or a reasonable gem price. It is very overpriced in my opinion and you should try to lure new player in not run them away with overpriced buildings. Or even offered them as regular buildings we have nothing to gain as we cannot get the units associated with the quests. I love this game and very dissapointed with the price of the buildings. Thank you

Guild chat refresh button.

The Developers are working through all the questions and getting some answers for you ASAP! Thank you for your patience.

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Originally Posted by Totalwar

Please could you give us a update if your still going to give us a skill point reset this January if so could state when.

Please could you tell us when we be able to upgrade the craft shop to level ten.

You have increase the health on EB bosses but my gold attack has only gone up by 4 to 704 since last EB.please could you increase the hero equipment stats not had one since before last EB that has increase my stats.only level increase has enabled me too increase my hero attack.

The drop rate for stones is terrible luckily if I get one every three weeks.As result there hardly any walls during war please could you fix this.

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Hello Totalwar

We are putting the final touches on our 3.2 client build. We wanted to make sure this was fully tested and would not generate bugs for our end users. This build contains

Shake to collect
Skill reset item: yes you will still get a free one and yes these will be sold in the store for HC.
Divisional leaderboards for Conquest. This will give the players new tiers of competition making it easier to reach a higher position in the leaderboards.
Minimum participation in Conquest. Initiate 12 attacks to be eligible for guild rewards

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Originally Posted by Baela3

Developers: How many new players have joined and are actively playing since the onset of many changes made to the game in the past 4-5 months? Explain the math of how "wins" are calculated in pvp battles, raids, and during conquest battle, and how damage is applied across the various events in a concise and understandable fashion, as previous attempts didn't seem to make much sense/don't account for what we see as outcomes in some cases. Also, what's on the horizon for changes to expect in the game? New events? Tossing any old and tired events? Lastly, can you give an idea of realistically how much longer this game is going to be in the GREE lineup?

(And, day 33 of missing an account, so anything to help that move along would be great. See my other posts)

P.S. It is rather insulting to players when they receive a random and thoughtless prize like a chest or common item or low stat item for high level events and/ or high gem expenditures. Let's nix that, eh?

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We will get your missing account resolved. Passing this ticket on to CS as we speak. So sorry you have waited for this long to retrieve that account.

We are also looking at brand new events and revamping old ones. Our plan is to support this game and its players for years to come. There is no plan to stop supporting this game anytime soon.

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Originally Posted by Fromm

When can we get the splash screens for final prizes of events to show up again? It is nice to see what we are working towards. Legendary EB prize, final RB prize for normal/heroic, 40 CoK wins, top level individual CoK wins, etc.

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Hello Fromm

Sorry this was a bug in our client and this will be resolved in the new 3.2 build coming out.

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Originally Posted by the_bob

Multi buy option for store items.

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We will look to get this into the game. It is a great idea and we will update you on its progress as soon as we have time to develop the feature.

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Originally Posted by the_bob

Guild chat refresh button.

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Hey The_bob

We will look into this feature for you. I will give an update when the team has had a chance to review the idea.

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Originally Posted by Cloud22

Glad to see you guys doing this again, thank you!!

As I mentioned last AMA and many others have as well, bout the need for increasing the stats for individual war rewards. Is there any plan on doing so? There is not one player that is happy with these rewards, and are really a insult to what a lot of players spend during that event. These rewards need to be better then what we already have equipped.

Second question, it has been a long time rumor in conquest when two or more players are attacking the same player they get less cp, then when attacking that player alone. Is this true or false?

And a suggestion to please consider making the top 3 guild conquest rewards a strong weapon/armor/item with a bonus with it. Instead just a bonus. Lately most of these bonuses that you have been giving out for top 3 have been fairly lousy, and these are your best costumers! Feel this would be good way to reward your top players better and put more meaning to those top spots.

Also the +40 EB damage bonus from top 1 spot last conquest is not working. This was a pretty bad bonus to start but to not even work is awesome. Please fix that bonus. Thanks

How do you explain increasing the EB L100 boss health by almost 1k? You have not given out but only a couple of items to increase are EB damage and that is only by 10-50 points at most of damage. Which I see as the biggest flaw of this new EB design. You can't keep increasing the bosses health without giving out better equipment.

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Cloud

We apologize for the bonus not working. We have fixed this and the bonus is now active and working correctly.

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Originally Posted by E-I

1) More often than not, it is unclear whether the bonus on an prize is permanent or temporary. What can Gree do to make this crystal-freaking-clear? What you have been doing lately hasn't been working. How about a different color background based on whether it is a temp or permanent bonus? Or different color font?

2) Whenever I log into War of Nations, I am bombarded by 6 different splash screens - typically for items to purchase and to link my account to facebook. It is incredibly annoying, and I log in less often because of it. Please do NOT bring this to KA.

3) Can Gree be more clear about drop rates in box events, particularly those where you need to collect 10 of one item? We all know that as you collect more items the likelihood of successful open decreases. I'd like to know the actual rates. I know far too many people who pour several mountains into such events and never receive the 10th prize (I have done this myself).

4) Why do you continue to offer chests as prizes? This is a damn-near universally hated piece of the game.

5) It was mentioned earlier, but I just want to reiterate that lately the individual CP prizes have been utter garbage. And I can assure you that your top spenders will start cutting back if things don't change.

6) Can you confirm that we will not have any more 2-week war cycles? This is also universally hated by players. Honestly, I think a lot of players would agree that a 4-week cycle with 3 large events (EB, RB, and a new event) between wars would be ideal.

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Hello E-I

The temporary bonus idea is great. We will work on a better solution such as colored text or change the backround so it will be very clear as to what is a temp bonus and what is permanent. Really like your idea and thank you for taking the time to post them for us. We will fix this issue.

CRAFTING UPDATE

In response to making the crafting building go to level 10, while other buildings are currently maxing out at level 10 the crafting building has only been designed up to level 5.

Unfortunately we don't feel that we have optimized the existing design and implementation of this feature and are spending time looking into fixing that rather than spending that time just adding additional levels for the sake of having it "max out at 10". We feel that will offer a better value and experience for everyone.

As for the comment about Epic crafts costing Gems, we agree and this is one of the things that we are looking to change.


EPIC BOSS HEALTH

In reference to the Epic Boss health increase and items not being given out that can allow players to compete, this is not accurate. We are still balancing within the item powers that are given out in the current levels of crafting. Additionally we have given out top reward items that are slightly better that top level crafting items.


PVE ATTACK

Hero Equipment ATK + Hero Strength Skill = ATK, this is the same for the Epic Boss event.

Per the comments about this current Epic Boss, we agree that the display of this information is not being done well and are looking into how we can improve it.


BATTLE OUTCOME

Per my last comment, there were proposed changes to the battle outcome screen when we were working on the changes / additions in the battle calculations. Unfortunately these did not make it into the release. We are looking at how to fix this as fast as possible, both in calculation and display.


CHESTS

There has been a lot of negative feedback directed at chests as rewards. I understand that they have not been optimized to the best of their ability which has lead to a negative view of them. The rewards that we have replaced with the chests were generally low level rewards that players had also complained about.

The common reward items within the chests have been balanced to take the place of those items, giving players a chance to get something even better. Additionally we are looking at how we can give out those items in events as well as trials rewards so players have multiple ways to collect all 21 within a conquest cycle.

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Originally Posted by Valid or

New position to the guild ranks, someone just under founder but over officer, a position that can promote people to officer but not remove people from the guild. A 2nd in command.
This was asked about a long time ago,
Also when might we see a collect all button?

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We will look into this feature for guild management.

PVE ATTACK

Hero Equipment ATK + Hero Strength Skill = ATK, this is the same for the Epic Boss event.

Per the comments about this current Epic Boss, we agree that the display of this information is not being done well and are looking into how we can improve it.





Sorry but that formula isnt right. Only HALF OF HERO SKILL STRENGTH is used. Should it be the whole amount??

WAR REWARDS

I know that the changes to the individual rewards are very different from what they used to be. The reason for this is that those items were simply breaking the game.

In an effort to get things back on track with the intent to extend the lifetime of this game and increase the longevity of the players investments, we had to change these rewards and scale back the number of bonuses that were being given out.

Because these items are for the individual contribution to the event we felt that it was best to feed into Hero Equipment which enhances the individual play experiences in PVE and Epic Boss (while still adding to PVP). Additionally these rewards are increasingly balanced to be the best in the game.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and asked questions!

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Originally Posted by Flounder669

PVE ATTACK

Hero Equipment ATK + Hero Strength Skill = ATK, this is the same for the Epic Boss event.

Per the comments about this current Epic Boss, we agree that the display of this information is not being done well and are looking into how we can improve it.





Sorry but that formula isnt right. Only HALF OF HERO SKILL STRENGTH is used. Should it be the whole amount??

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Sorry about that, you are correct. Half of the Hero Skill + Equipment Atk.

I have been looking at the skills and it is something we are considering updating in the future.