March 9th 2017 Update Discussion

[Hypnos]

Huh. Did daylight savings time push the daily refresh back to 5pm PST? Darn, the 4pm time worked quite well for me. That extra hour wait is going to suck.

Right? I'm in GMT zone so reset is midnight here. Gotta stay up till 1am for the reset any more. Gonna be tricky to hold my ground during the final minutes in the arena any more

[Sparton_LOTB]

Just gonna quote myself from the Bonus Battle Event thread here, hoping you see it, as I remain curious.

The total attacks you've done can be observed in the "My Arena Stats" popup (from the PVP screen, tap the bottom bar to show for those who don't know what I'm talking about). We're counting your total attacks, so the second number when looking at your current week's attack win rate.

For example, if under "CURRENT" and beside "Attack Wins" you see "87% (20/23)", you've done 23 battles in the current week.

1 - We want to watch the combats!
Give people some way to watch the Saturday madness, replay of the fights etc.

Some way to see replays (such as for your defenses or for top players) is definitely something we're interested in doing at some point, but I don't know when that will be added.

2 - Make it easier for newer players.
They have a hard time catching up and there is the snowball effect mentioned by Patrice and Slauki. (promotion this week is totally awesome and on the right direction on this issue by the way).

As new features are added and tuning is done, this naturally happens for newer players (remember how hard it used to be to evolve talismans?), but we are always looking for new event and feature ideas to help newer players get up to speed. There will always be an edge from a large, equipped roster, though, and that takes time, luck, and dedication. Definitely on our mind, though.

3 - Competitive Arena, no pay to win.
Spending money to play should not get into the equation for determining Arena weekly results. I know you need to monetize the game, but perhaps that makes the game too exclusive and leave people out.

As you and others have noted in your own exploits to climb the ranks, spending money to climb the ranks is not as direct a correlation as many people would like to believe. That said, we are interested in trying out different formats for competition in the future, so long as we find we can strike a good balance between accessible and rewarding.

Thanks again for interacting with us.

No worries

Huh. Did daylight savings time push the daily refresh back to 5pm PST? Darn, the 4pm time worked quite well for me. That extra hour wait is going to suck.

Yeah, technically speaking we have much of our game resetting at midnight UTC to ensure daylight savings doesn't cause weirdness for communication or functionality, so that means when daylight savings starts or ends, things "shift" slightly for the various places that respect it.

Will you guys eventually update the rewards for daily login and secret locations? Like maybe add some skill shards or something worth while to the mix.

We are looking internally at what changes we can do to revise or improve both of those things in a way that works well for new users but has more for long term players to look forward to, but we don't have any timelines right now.

Skill shards are a (very rare) reward from secret locations already, by the way, with a higher chance the longer a location takes to unlock.

[The Educated fool]

The total attacks you've done can be observed in the "My Arena Stats" popup (from the PVP screen, tap the bottom bar to show for those who don't know what I'm talking about). We're counting your total attacks, so the second number when looking at your current week's attack win rate.

For example, if under "CURRENT" and beside "Attack Wins" you see "87% (20/23)", you've done 23 battles in the current week.

Thanks Sparton, for the reply. I was definitely aware of this much though.

Given your answer, I'm going to assume that there is indeed no limited time display for this event, and that everything's a-ok being calculated in the same way as it previously has, in spite of it now leading also to new rewards. Cheers, and forever up the Irons!

[Patrice-1201]

Thanks for all the clear answers Sparton, one thought would be to limit the number of time a player can get attacked based on the number of time he is attacking.

[Dave-9385]

The total attacks you've done can be observed in the "My Arena Stats" popup (from the PVP screen, tap the bottom bar to show for those who don't know what I'm talking about). We're counting your total attacks, so the second number when looking at your current week's attack win rate.

For example, if under "CURRENT" and beside "Attack Wins" you see "87% (20/23)", you've done 23 battles in the current week.

Doesn't this contradict the news feed?

I've got the spiel in front of me and it says "Every battle gives a point, rare rewards are based on total battles played."

Shouldn't the stats from defense battles be included too? i.e. ATTACK WINS 87% (20/23) DEFENSE WINS 12% (3/25) Total battles 48 (23+25)

[RCarter]

Shouldn't the stats from defense battles be included too? i.e. ATTACK WINS 87% (20/23) DEFENSE WINS 12% (3/25) Total battles 48 (23+25)

Lol

If that is the case, I'm good to go...

Hell, prolly get the 300 some time Thursday...

[Hypnos]

Lol

If that is the case, I'm good to go...

Hell, prolly get the 300 some time Thursday...

Ha, get rewarded for people attacking you? That sounds much easier than what I thought!

[Dave-9385]

Ha, get rewarded for people attacking you? That sounds much easier than what I thought!

That's how it reads to me. It'd certainly make my life easier if it were the case.

[Liebhild]

And has something been done to energy talis? Don't seem to generate as much as they did, or am I in a wierd streak

Something is wrong since that miniupdate, but sparton ignored my post...

[Hypnos]

The news button doesn't work.