This Week's Updates -------------------------- Temporary Removal of System Wars and Upcoming changes to System War Payouts Effectively immediately, we will be temporarily removing the option to start System Wars. This will be re-enabled on Friday. From Friday onwards, the payouts will be adjusted the following way: * All war tax is removed, so you'll get more gold per action * There will be no payouts (neither Mithril or Gold) The reason for making this change is due to our data indicating that a significant amount of system wars were started purely with the intent to acquire Mithril, with no intent to actually war. Mithril, and the equipment that Mithril earns you, are rewards that only players who participate in a real war environment should receive. Players who use System wars as a means of settling a grudge, or creating practice sessions, are still able to do so with this change. Upcoming change to Matchmaking * IMPORTANT* We have tried various methods of tweaking the matchmaking system to provide the best overall solution. We've read your feedback, and tried to move forward with what the best ideas were. We are now going to propose another solution (which was suggested here). The clan with the lower roster sizes will be able to use more Health Crystals if the size difference iin the matchup significant enough. The rules: * We first calculate the difference between the 2 clans. ex: 60 vs 40 * We multiply this difference by 4. ex: 20 x 4 = 80 * We then take this number and divide by the smaller clan size. ex: 80 divided by 40 * Every member of the smaller clan will be able to use that many more Health Crystals (rounded up at 0.5). ex: So with a 60 vs 40, every member in the 40 member clan can use 2 more health crystals Before implementing this change, we would like to put this out to everyone here for a vote. We will close the votes at Midnight PST Tuesday. Have your voice heard, let us know if this is something you want! Further War Time Adjustments Looking at the signups last week, we found that there was only a small group of clans that exceeded a size of 60 (5%). In an effort to further streamline and optimize our matchups, we are going to only 30-45 and 30-60 member wars this week. Please see the adjustments below Red Paladin Equipment We will be pushing out 1 more piece of the Red Paladin set this Friday! Estoc Trial Season 1! We will be making a formal announcement regarding this next week! Estoc Trials Times -------------------------- Signup: 6 hours prior to War Start Time Duration: 4 hours Matchmaking: 2 hours prior to War Start Time (Must sign up before this, rosters lock at this point) Activity Lock: Approximately 1 hour prior to the earliest War Start Time Start Time: This can vary up to 15 minutes. This will be reflected in your war timer. War #1 - War Start Time Shown Roster Size: 30-45 PST - Wednesday - 4am-4:30am EST - Wednesday - 7am-7:30am GMT - Wednesday - 12pm-12:30pm SGT - Wednesday - 8pm-8:30pm War #2 - War Start Time Shown Roster Size: 30-45 PST - Thursday - 12pm-12:30pm EST - Thursday - 3pm-3:30pm GMT - Thursday - 8pm-8:30pm SGT - Friday - 4am-4:30am War #3 - War Start Time Shown Roster Size: 30-60 PST - Friday - 6pm-6:30pm EST - Friday - 9pm-9:30pm GMT - Saturday - 2am-2:30am SGT - Saturday - 10am-10:30am War #4 - War Start Time Shown Roster Size: 30-60 PST - Saturday - 1pm-1:30pm EST - Saturday - 4pm-4:30pm GMT - Saturday - 9pm-9:30pm SGT - Sunday - 5am-5:30am War #5 - War Start Time Shown Roster Size: 30-60 PST - Sunday - 6am-6:30am EST - Sunday - 9am-9:30am GMT - Sunday - 2pm-2:30pm SGT - Sunday - 10pm-10:30pm Estoc Trials FAQ -------------------------- Q: Matchups are not fair/balanced/equal! A: We try our best to create the best possible matchups, taking into account everyone that signs up. Due to the # of signups we have, it's impossible to create a perfect matchup for everyone. We are looking into some possible solutions for this, one of which is to adjust the minimum and maximum clan sizes. Q: The lag is horrible and it is causing us to lose the war! A: This is a complex issue, and hopefully this explanation will put to rest some of the questions that have been brought up. A common situation where a delay in processing actions happens when one player receives many incoming actions. The player that is receiving this action will most likely experience the "spinner" for several seconds when they try to do an action themselves. At the end of this, they will receive a notice that says that they were knocked out. This is a point of frustration for many as they feel that if the spinner had not come up, they would be knocked out. While our servers may take a few seconds to resolve all of the actions (it can be easily over 20 at once), we do record when we receive each action and the action that was triggered first will receive the Knock Out. Chances are, if you had 9 incoming actions and you tried to attack, you chances of being the first action is ~10%. To reiterate, while it may take our servers some time to determine the results, the results are fair and the first action that was performed will go through. Now, we are doing what we can to reduce the amount of waiting time players experience, and have been upgrading our hardware to accommodate for the number of actions that occur during Estoc Trials. Q: Will the war times change week to week? A: We will continue to examine and improve the wartimes, offering a larger variety of times and size restrictions to best suit our players. Next Week? -------------------------- * Have something you want to talk about? Reply to this thread and we may add it to next week's discussions!
After I just used 125b making to clans and dropping most pots to help my clan generate mithril. If I saw a developer in real life right now, I'd give them the finger. Then give them a horribly thought out verbal comment about how much this update sucks ass.
NO MITH?!?!? At least make every myth item 1-2 myth each so we small players can get them before you remove it! D: