Dev Notes: Week of January 12, 2015

[Annihilator2]

I would love to see an LTQ with the standard map targets. What has it been, a year since we had one? And even then it was only the map bosses, right?

This idea is bad, very bad! XP is huge in standard map targets!!!

[Kefa]

I would love to see an LTQ with the standard map targets. What has it been, a year since we had one? And even then it was only the map bosses, right?

Yeah, at least a year. Plus, using the standard map targets requires a player be a certain level in order to access the involved maps, and have his/her unit buildings at a certain level in order to possess the units needed to hit the listed targets. All around, LTQ was a far, far better event when it used standard map targets. Who cares if people can pre-stage? Lazy people won't, anyway.

[Annihilator2]

For Frontline, the classes could be better divided by team average IPH, or team total summed IPH, or some formula based on IPH since igc + activity is really the primary factor .

Why not segregate teams by strength for FL and WD?

You might have divisions - weight classes, like fighters or wrestlers do..

Disagree with both. Division MUST be per rank in previous event only. Top 10 teams shall be united in one division. 15 teams from top 25 in second devision. Etc. Such dividing will give more money to Gree and more live to divisions. Today division gives only more units to top-top faction; no other changes. Game is more and more boring with today divisions, equipment and similar changes.

[DEWIN NUTTIN]

Disagree with both. Division MUST be per rank in previous event only. Top 10 teams shall be united in one division. 15 teams from top 25 in second devision. Etc. Such dividing will give more money to Gree and more live to divisions. Today division gives only more units to top-top faction; no other changes. Game is more and more boring with today divisions, equipment and similar changes.

I know NOTHING will change, unless it enhances the bottom line of the GREEat provider and Our Overlord.
Most posters KNOW that, too.
Frankly, posting and reading the forum is far more enjoyable than incessant, useless, unrewarding tap, tap, tap, tapping hour after bloody hour, day after day after day, week after week after week, month after month after month, year in, year out, to achieve NOTHING BUT unfulfilled emptiness, more same-old-same-same, lots of NOTHING.

I stopped believing in GREEat Pumpkin, Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, loveable leprechauns, dancing kittens, and all those other kiddy stuff decades ago.

Besides, no one reads most (or even takes notice) of these musings, rants, and ramblings anyway (except our fellow musers, ranters, and ramblers).
If by some odd chance a post is taken note of, nothing changes for the better.

The GREEat Provider and Our Overlord has chosen to offer mere lip service while deciding to DEW everything in their "special and unique" way!

[Merc_mw]

When will you create an equal playing field between IOS & droid for free gold videos?

[Genen]

Question for developers. There are certain bonuses like health regen or double / triple strikes that benefit during WD, raid boss etc. But there are no bonuses now that would benefit players during FLs. Would you consider such bonuses and may be you can tide refills for deployments to the health % of individual players. Thx

[RhythmNBruise]

We're waiting on an update to the SDK that runs those videos, and are planning on integrating it into the Android build as soon as they have a new production-ready version. (It's a third party, so I don't have a timeline for that.)

[Oh oh Gree]

This idea is bad, very bad! XP is huge in standard map targets!!!

Scary XP!! Time to get over the avoiding leveling up path some of you are on. Just wait for the new rank based units to come out and then you can complain that you cannot buy them because you avoided events due to XP.

When Funzio ran this game they did a great job using the normal NPCs within the game. This allowed players to use some type of strategy like upgrading a unit building to unlock units, pre set the leader of a map or the whole map etc. Back then it was fun to try and be ready for an LTQ and disappointing at the same time when you realized you missed out on a 20% health Regen unit because you upgraded the wrong unit building.

It's been about a year since Gree used original NPCs in the Axis of Evil event. Just like defensive buildings, skill points set to Attack or defense, the original NPCs and maps have been made irrelevant in the game. All of these areas used to play key roles in the game and made the game more interesting.

[East Coast Bias]

We're waiting on an update to the SDK that runs those videos, and are planning on integrating it into the Android build as soon as they have a new production-ready version. (It's a third party, so I don't have a timeline for that.)

Please don't fix this glitch too quickly, or you'd be accused of being the Free Video Killing Machine.

[dan2407]

We're waiting on an update to the SDK that runs those videos, and are planning on integrating it into the Android build as soon as they have a new production-ready version. (It's a third party, so I don't have a timeline for that.)

Are iOS users gonna get some compensation? Considering you can get a vault for watching a few hours videos

[Mr Big C]

The boss event for me was one of the best ways to build stats, not so much anymore. But usually the faction goal wrapper/bonus unit is something that benefits everyone in my faction.

If you are looking at participation, have you looked at the amount of people that are participating and the completion of the goal? Our biggest problem is that goals 1-3 can usually be completed relatively fast and then you have to wait until the next goal is live to start hitting the boss again (that is if you wait and support your faction).

At 1 time the goals were set up back to back and that way you would work on the bosses at your own speed and your own time. I understand that some teams will finish in record time, but this will allow other teams to also finish. For my faction, this is what we hear the most as the biggest problem with the boss event.

[Annihilator2]

When will you create an equal playing field between IOS & droid for free gold videos?

And between countries! There is a lot of videos in US and much less in Europe.

[Kefa]

And between countries! There is a lot of videos in US and much less in Europe.

That'll be up to Tapjoy. There's not much point playing commercials for restaurants or movie trailers that aren't relevant in Europe, and we get allot of those here. The advertisers pay Tapjoy for packages of so many plays and filtered by local markets and other demographics. So Tapjoy needs to get busy selling ad space to companies in Europe.

[CC1]

I noticed we have have a 24hr FLTQ occurring at the same time that an individual one is in progress. Gree, please tell me this is an error or at least that it's a one time thing. As if constant LTQs wasn't enough your going to start running two at a time now? No thanks. That'll push me out the door.

[Shadow Demon]

Still can't change equipment, still missing equipment. Same BS response and closing of tickets. Your "fixes" suck