[AMA] Ask The Developer Anything - December 4th

[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

[HellRaizer]

Plists

So i assume that long ago, dev moved from plists to a more secure encrypted db file to stop people from hacking, but by doing this it broke 3 party tools that extracted the info.

Now I fully understand that you don't wish to allow for hacking.. but would it either be possible to push out the plists as additional info, or create a web service where they can be accessed..

The reasoning for this is that it allows people with the right skill sets, to :
- list all buildings and there details
- identify all map targets with their details (not for LTQ but for loot)
- Store items and purchase prices

These sort of things allow the community to share information and feel as though we are being helpful, which in turn creates a more pleasant atmosphere

[HellRaizer]

During Beta testing the screen could be rotated from Landscape to Portrait and visa-versa. I raised this as a bug.

Reason being that in a portrait mode, you can long see the full screen.. Top and Bottom are white bars and the left and right hand side disappear..

It can be somewhat annoying when it flips if you tilt the screen too much..

Is this still an issue?

[superman007]

Can we get the winners list posted on the forum without requesting for it?

[HellRaizer]

Stat inflation ..

Could you give a timeline of the progression of the average stat of awarded units

People have gone from 10k units costing Ks of gold to 100k units to now 10m stat units.
Is the game going to continue at this rate or are we hitting a stable plateau

[HellRaizer]

Will double strike and tripple strike rewards be stackable..

will the calc be

Prize 1 +5% Triple, Prize 2 +5% :::

either 10% or 9.75% ( 1-(0.95*0.95) )


ie if you have 20 +5% rewards can be be guaranteed a double strike

[CJ88]

Wish list

1. I hope you can have a feature where one high IPH account can donate cash to another low IPH account so that low IPH account can grow faster;

2. high level account(e.g. level 300) can score higher WD points than low level account (e.g. level 200). As the account increased their level, they are being penalised for playing longer and more loyal to the game by getting lesser and lesser WD points. Those with lower level accounts are having better advantage in scoring WD point than higher level accounts. Can't understand the logic.

3. Attack and Defense skill points are useless in my opinion, may be you can make them useful. if not, these skill points should be able to be redistributed.

4. WD event should have a way to see our health bar status like Raid Boss so that we know when it is full.

5. May be can increase space units for attack and defence?

6. Building defense should be made useful for defending the base. Now defense building is useless.

7. A limited time buildng will generate valors.

[HellRaizer]

value units and cash units have become outdated again. will they be refactored?

[HellRaizer]

Are there any plans to allow people the see all base objects in a rivals base (IOS)?

Also, will you be increasing the allowed expansion size of the base?

[HellRaizer]

Will there ever be android Beta testing?

[HellRaizer]

Could we have a global chat feature. Somewhere the community within the game can globally talk.

This would allow for in game communications/guidance (maybe even dev could post to it)
Maybe also add a visit base option from it

[HellRaizer]

Are their any plans to bring back some of the older type of events:

eg PvP ..

This has been asked a few times.. People seemed to like the PvP tournament (just not the prizes)
-- Only thing that would need to be thought of now, is categorizing players. As it wouldn't be fair for one person who can get 20k per hit compared to someone who can get 2k per hit

Crate collection. Awarding prizes for collection X amount of crates while the crate event is on

LTQs that involve original map targets (allows risky prestaging)

trying to remember some of the original events but that was about 2.5 years ago

[HellRaizer]

What new events ideas are you thinking of in future releases..

so major addtions so far have been:
Crate Event
WD
Epic Boss
PvP
Frontal Assault
Raid Boss
Fronltine
Soldier equip (5.0 which also change the computation on PvP)


So whats coming up for 6.0 .. 7.0 .. Any golden nuggets of info?

[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

[HellRaizer]

One of the new features will be to recycle units for Cash/Valor.

Could this be extended to recycle units that cost gold.. Maybe get back 75% of the gold spent. A lot of old timers bought a lot of golden armies that within 12 months have become completely useless.. Maybe if we could trade that back in to get some gold back again, this would appease some of the begrudged community