Estoc Trials - Development Update

Discussion in 'Past Announcements' started by admin, Dec 10, 2012.

  1. Hey everyone,

    First of all, Thank You for all of your participation so far in the wars. We've received a ton of feedback both via our feedback channels and on this forum. A lot of which was very well thought out and does bring to our attention what issues our players are facing in every war. We are actively working on improving the system, and would like to give everyone an update on where things are.

    Match-ups

    The quality of match-ups being produced by the system is not up to our standards and creates too many mismatches. We are currently re-doing the way clans are matched up and also communicating each clan's strength in the matchup messages. This way, you can see how the system has "measured" your clan and you can quickly see how close the matchup actually was. While the quality of the match-ups are ultimately bound by the number of signups, we feel that there are still large improvements we can make in this process. We want to have this ready for this weekend, and will provide an update closer to Friday's wars.

    Black/Blank Screens

    We have submitted a new version of the client to Apple which should address this issue. As soon as it is approved, we will be releasing it. We anticipate it will between 1-2 weeks for Apple to approve the latest version.

    Response time coming out of KO

    We are going to improve the response times for players coming out of KO such that they will have a higher chance of performing actions.

    Mithril Purchases

    We are going to, in the near future, re-enable Mithril purchases. The purchase will be capped at 6, and will only be available for players with 0 Mithril. This will enable players without Mithril to cast most of the Mithril spells before a war.

    Estoc Trial's - General Help

    If you have clan members that need a primer on how Estoc Trials work, please direct them to the "Help" section in the game. We have now added a new section for this.

    Additional Questions or Concerns?

    Reply to this thread, I'll be responding to any questions throughout the day.
     
  2. Solid updates. Will respond in greater detail once I'm out of chem
     
  3. Thank you for the update
     
  4. :shock:

     yay!
     
  5. Will estocs edge be capped at 5 levels indefinitely?
     
  6. Awesome great job devs :) doing well
     
  7. Sound good Devs. I think Mith purchase should be 14
     
  8. Ty, last war it was 75 vs 41, and also, are we getting beta testing badges? If so, when?
     
  9. Thank you kaw_admin, I look forward to another update Friday. 
     
  10. still think that you must remove the resets from enchantig red paladin equipment. Many people mentioned that so pls look also into that problem.
     
  11. Ty for the update.
    For the ko time, will you be putting a timer to each person ? So we know the second were comming out of ko?
     
  12. Still doesn't help those of us that suffered the loss of mith, pots, gold, and crystals do to ur mismatch ups this past weekend!!! Do you plan on any kind of compensation for them? Or is this just an oops we are sorry type thing!!! Why bother warning if we are going to continue to lose our hard earned stuff to ur improvements. Think fair is fair!!
     
  13. you see, many things to do devs. Please make the stats of war equip also better ( forgot that on my first post) . they are very low for that big amount of mith you must spend for them
     
  14. I don't like the only 6 mith when at 0 it really dosent help
     
  15. Again, in your information regarding match ups, you have put an emphasize on matching strength. This is not the issue. The issue is matching numbers, regardless of strength. 80 people against 40 people, with matching strength, is not fair! The 80 members will simply have more attacks than the 40 members which will result in a slaughter. Are you addressing the numbers factor?

    Also, with the matchup system, there will come a time when we are matched with the same opponent several times (it has already happened with us and clan a this week, which was fun but it won't be if its constant all the time fighting same clan). Is there any way to make a structured matching system with out the need of a bloody algorithm! (apologies Mr Turing :-D )
     
  16. The stats of the war equipment is balanced with the equipment you currently get from Epic Battles. They offer an increase in offensive stats while sacrificing some defensive numbers.

    As for the Mithril Cost, we are not looking to change this. However, we can tuning Mithril payouts in war and players will experience an increase in payouts this weekend. We will be posting an update about this closer to the war times.
     
  17. We are looking into giving players a countdown timer when they perform actions, such that they have a better idea of how much time is left before they are out of KO.
     
  18. My opinion (for what it's worth) about mith only being available to winners in a war AND the new equipment only being available via purchase with mith ... The strongest players in the strongest clans get the most mith and therefore get the new equipment ... Therefore get stronger.

     Do we see a pattern here? 

    Would be nice if there were mith drops from the ebs OR if the losing side in wars got a bit of mith in order to make it worthwhile to war. While I agree the winners should get the lions share of mith plunder there needs to be some compensation for warring at all. And I also second the motion that if you want to let players with 0 mith buy some in order to compete with mith rich players in a war then it's gotta be more than 6

     TheLady
     
  19. Let me clarify :) We are trying very hard to eliminate all size mis matchups! 30 members should not be matched up with 100 members. We are looking to eliminate this from the system.