Dev Notes: Week of January 5, 2015

[RhythmNBruise]

Note: I'm sorry these are so late this week - as noted below, I've had a sinus infection of the sort that makes it feel like I've been sleeping on a concrete pillow, complete with toothache. Hope y'all had a nice winter-holiday-of-choice!

This Week

This week we're working on issues that came up over the holidays - including reports of disappearing items/stat drops, problems when equipping items and others. (It can be very hard to tell from CS tickets whether we're seeing delayed reactions to a one-time problem or an ongoing issue, especially if it's not really high volume, so please try to let us know as soon as you see a problem, and give us a rough time-frame of when you noticed and what you'd been doing.)

Coming Up

We're working on some interesting features building on Hero Equip, but those are going to be a while. In the near term, our top priorities getting events running smoothly and fixing issues.


How's It Work: Help Me Out

I'm sorry, y'all, I've had a sinus infection for a week and my brains are made of cottage cheese. What would you like to know about how things work around here?

[truthteller]

We would ALL like to know why the Epic Boss has been missing for two cycles now??
Are you guys working on an EB Revamp like it was done in KA???
and Please give us the hard truth.........example: EB not generating revenues, so we need to adjust to make revenues

Cheers

[RhythmNBruise]

We would ALL like to know why the Epic Boss has been missing for two cycles now??
Are you guys working on an EB Revamp like it was done in KA???
and Please give us the hard truth.........example: EB not generating revenues, so we need to adjust to make revenues

Cheers

The honest truth is that the EB health was set up in a way where it could only get so big on the back end. Now the EBs need to have more health to stay interesting and fun for top-level players, so we retired the event for a little bit to see if we needed to overhaul it or just make the numbers bigger. (Right now it looks like we're going to go with "make the numbers bigger and bring it back as-is for now, and continue to think about an overhaul for later.")

We're actually kind of surprised by how many people have said that they miss this event! It doesn't generally see a whole lot of participation, and it's a lot of work for us in terms of how much data it takes to make it run, so we were thinking about not bringing it back until we could overhaul it to make it simpler for us to set up, but we'll probably bring it back as-is if you guys want it.

[plavine]

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The honest truth is that the EB health was set up in a way where it could only get so big on the back end. Now the EBs need to have more health to stay interesting and fun for top-level players, so we retired the event for a little bit to see if we needed to overhaul it or just make the numbers bigger. (Right now it looks like we're going to go with "make the numbers bigger and bring it back as-is for now, and continue to think about an overhaul for later.")

We're actually kind of surprised by how many people have said that they miss this event! It doesn't generally see a whole lot of participation, and it's a lot of work for us in terms of how much data it takes to make it run, so we were thinking about not bringing it back until we could overhaul it to make it simpler for us to set up, but we'll probably bring it back as-is if you guys want it.

With all of the temp attack bonuses , I was actually starting to get half way through the epic boss event. Would you consider lowering the cost of the cash attack ?? This top players still can kill level 100 for free and maybe some lower players would have a chance too with out cleaning out their vault

[Ozymandias]

We're actually kind of surprised by how many people have said that they miss this event! It doesn't generally see a whole lot of participation

Really? How do you measure participation here? It's pretty much de rigour to participate in this from what I see, and requires much more activity than LTQs for example. And back In the day when it was hard to complete, you needed to log in every 20 mins or so. Obviously gold use will be v low now once odd health maxed out, but I would have though participation would be high

[Merc_mw]

The honest truth is that the EB health was set up in a way where it could only get so big on the back end. Now the EBs need to have more health to stay interesting and fun for top-level players, so we retired the event for a little bit to see if we needed to overhaul it or just make the numbers bigger.

What's wrong with having an event that doesn't interest top-level players? That's the perfect opportunity for LLPs to catch up and get more competitive. I say that as someone who does not add a single unit from epic boss. I participate to help the weaker players in the faction.

[Kefa]

We're actually kind of surprised by how many people have said that they miss this event! It doesn't generally see a whole lot of participation,

I'm actually surprised by that statement, because every one I know and every faction I know strives to finish this event. It's always been one of the highest "participation" events there is, actually, from what I've seen. Unless by "participation" you mean "gold sales"?

[Ozymandias]

I'm actually surprised by that statement, because every one I know and every faction I know strives to finish this event. It's always been one of the highest "participation" events there is, actually, from what I've seen. Unless by "participation" you mean "gold sales"?

Given that a boss pops up every time you do anything, and you may as well kill it, it's hard to imagine that people just ignore them

[xlt]

The honest truth is that the EB health was set up in a way where it could only get so big on the back end. Now the EBs need to have more health to stay interesting and fun for top-level players, so we retired the event for a little bit to see if we needed to overhaul it or just make the numbers bigger. (Right now it looks like we're going to go with "make the numbers bigger and bring it back as-is for now, and continue to think about an overhaul for later.")

We're actually kind of surprised by how many people have said that they miss this event! It doesn't generally see a whole lot of participation, and it's a lot of work for us in terms of how much data it takes to make it run, so we were thinking about not bringing it back until we could overhaul it to make it simpler for us to set up, but we'll probably bring it back as-is if you guys want it.

Wow, it finally got fun and reachable to be able to try to finish it and now it's gone. Epic Boss had become part of the game that I looked forward to play.

So when it comes back after the overhaul, it will again be impossible to finish...again.

[Jaguar69]

This week we're working on issues that came up ... so please try to let us know as soon as you see a problem, and give us a rough time-frame of when you noticed and what you'd been doing.)

If I were you, I'd try to tell to your CS to READ what players write, instead of giving them a no-sense answer, closing the ticket.

Also I'd like to know what is your team doing to reduce all the crashes that are afflicting a lot of users.

Thank you, Sir.

[Atego]

Note: I'm sorry these are so late this week - as noted below, I've had a sinus infection of the sort that makes it feel like I've been sleeping on a concrete pillow, complete with toothache. Hope y'all had a nice winter-holiday-of-choice!

This Week

This week we're working on issues that came up over the holidays - including reports of disappearing items/stat drops, problems when equipping items and others. (It can be very hard to tell from CS tickets whether we're seeing delayed reactions to a one-time problem or an ongoing issue, especially if it's not really high volume, so please try to let us know as soon as you see a problem, and give us a rough time-frame of when you noticed and what you'd been doing.)

Coming Up

We're working on some interesting features building on Hero Equip, but those are going to be a while. In the near term, our top priorities getting events running smoothly and fixing issues.


How's It Work: Help Me Out

I'm sorry, y'all, I've had a sinus infection for a week and my brains are made of cottage cheese. What would you like to know about how things work around here?

Get well soon!

Devs should read this Thread and C O M M U N I C A T E with us asap.

[andy2]

Get well soon!

Devs should read this Thread and C O M M U N I C A T E with us asap.

What he said! Please read that thread and give us an acknowledgement that you are aware of each issue and the status of the fix for it. This is about a month over due and very very much needed.

[Paisthecoolest]

Are there any plans to increase the rank above Apollo ops, the level beyond 300, or adding any new units for purchase with cash or valor?

[Kefa]

Coming Up

We're working on some interesting features building on Hero Equip, but those are going to be a while. In the near term, our top priorities getting events running smoothly and fixing issues.


How's It Work: Help Me Out

I'm sorry, y'all, I've had a sinus infection for a week and my brains are made of cottage cheese. What would you like to know about how things work around here?

Thanks for the updates. That sinus infection thing sucks - and seems to linger forever!

On to business.
On one hand, I sincerely hope you guys get the bugs worked out before you even start considering any more new features. We are losing teammates left and right here due to the various ongoing issues.
On the other hand, I sincerely hope you add equipment to the store soon. Having LTQs be the only way to acquire equipment, and having back to back to back to back LTQs running, while also making every piece of equipment basically an essential requisite to continued gameplay, we are losing teammates left and right to burnout.

[Pidgeot]

Where is epic boss. Would like the truth. Also, what are the percentages on the free and cash options on crate events?