[AMA] Ask The Developer Anything - December 18th - Accomplices

[Gr3g]

I know this really has nothing todo with the with the update but are there any plans to move crime city to the window's store and or its phones?

[CatDor]

Are the accomplices going to be available to only gold spenders in events? When I ask this I mean events have such extreme requirements that most can barely finish normal if that.

[&dra]

With such an apparently enormous change in the PvP piece of the game, why not get in front of the change and proactively educate your customers on the reasons behind the change and what changes gamers will expect to see?

There is a lot of venom and anger on this forum due to the lack of understanding of the accomplice addition. The developers and forum mods could have done a much better job of communicating PRIOR to the release. The existing developer notes were beyond insufficient.

We have been working to get as much information to our players about these new changes as we can. We added the in-game tutorial, help '?' screens, help text, FAQs, build notes, and various forum and FB posts. We understand that not everyone reads the forums, which is why we added information in as many places as possible.

[Vince Tempel]

where are you on FB. Nothing under Gree or Crime City.......

[Evan1000]

The plan is to distribute out Accomplices in various events, including LTQs, Battle for Empire City, Raid Boss, Lockbox Leaderboard events. We don't plan to do direct sales of the Accomplices in the store initially.

So this is your way pretty much to get people to do LTQ's? Smart.

And also, NOOO don't ruin raid bosses.. I'm closing In on 200m attack and now stats are being made worthless.

I'm sorry, not worthless.. half worthless, since stats went from counting 100% to only 50%, after all the gold we spent on making them.

And also, if you're going to make attack AND defense count in order to beat people.. either add them both together because it's pointless then to have separate attack and defense stats or start giving out more defense mods because I'm at 170m attack and still haven't hit 100m defense.. huge gap. I haven't been able to rob anyone for a few days and I hate it, that's how I made my money and built up my own IPH

[surfinguy369]

When will the manual transfers be available? I have been missing my character for almost 2 weeks now and yes I have submitted a ticket.

[Clementine]

where are you on FB. Nothing under Gree or Crime City.......

https://www.facebook.com/crimecity

[Clementine]

When will the manual transfers be available? I have been missing my character for almost 2 weeks now and yes I have submitted a ticket.

Please contact Customer Support by following up on the ticket you already submitted. This functionality will be available very very shortly!

[Pudgy Pumpkin]

Most of the player concerns seem to surround the uncertainty concerning the formula used to determine attack and rob wins. Can you give us the basic formula? We can handle a little math.

[Engram]

Are the accomplices going to be available to only gold spenders in events? When I ask this I mean events have such extreme requirements that most can barely finish normal if that.

It will totally depend on the player's abilities, but our plan is to provide access to Accomplice units to non-spenders. However, the stats of the units will be dependent on how well you can complete/compete in events.

We also have features on our roadmap that should allow players of different abilities to compete better. More on this in the New Year.

[CatDor]

Ability to spend gold then? So again you're catering to only the top teams? I find this very silly business practice. If it were possible to come closer to completing events don't you think more people would buy gold?

[TMI]

Most of the player concerns seem to surround the uncertainty concerning the formula used to determine attack and rob wins. Can you give us the basic formula? We can handle a little math.

This. This is the most important question that needs to be answered.

[Goodison]

Are the current attack/rob mechanics currently working how you planned?

For a long time we were told we got more attack stats/mods than defence to keep the game balanced and competitve. Now players can't rob/attack 95% of people on the rivals list. Is this change intentional?

[SilentAssassin]

Ability to spend gold then? So again you're catering to only the top teams? I find this very silly business practice. If it were possible to come closer to completing events don't you think more people would buy gold?

The general incentive to buy gold is because gold gets you further in the game and stronger
If free players were same level as heavy gold players then there would be no incentive to spend thousands

[jeets]

I got a good question for you that doesn't involve the update. Why is it that for the epic boss the higher level players such as myself have such a difficult time getting to level 100 but a level 15 can get to it with ease? Why are the loyal long time players punished?