Dear sill Apes, Do you apes have a quality assurance department? I have a feeling that would be a wise investment if not. Just someone/people (even players) who try and exploit/find errors before New versions are released to the general public. I know you used to do beta testing but haven't seen any of that recently... Just thought it may be a good idea to look into.
The players are the QA. We don't like something we voice it. We want something improved or implemented we voice it. Perfect example new player/account growth and development. We voiced it they enacted it.
We do indeed have a QA phase for new game content and features. While we do our best to catch bugs before an update goes live there are some situations where an issue will only appear at the scale in which the live game takes place.
Not to hammer on you guys at ATA cuz you generally do great stuff, but you might wanna talk to the QA department about their job security. Not as much for the programming side and issues with copy/paste or stuff like that. Those things simply happen when you're programming a game to work with multiple operating systems/phones/etc. They should have a serious talk about more of the "how is this going to really work for the game" side. Doing things like releasing The Summoner that required Smoke Signals equipment to complete it....when only one person in all of Kaw had the equipment? Yay, new eb!!!! Oops, none of you can do it. Sorry. How about the part where they set the scroll drop rates at a level where it would take 1.5 years of constant bone dragon eb's to unlock all of the equip? See the math on this thread... viewtopic.php?f=6&t=170231 How about the release of Hoarfrost lvl's 4 and 5 that dropped plunder upon upgrading. (That one was fixed thankfully) There is an awfully long list of things that just haven't been well thought out before being implemented or released to the Kawmunity. Again, y'all are generally doing a great job and the game is fun....but a lot of these issues sure seemed too obvious to miss. PS. Please triple or quadruple the scroll drop rate and fix that issue. The bone dragon equip is already pretty blah...it shouldn't take years to get it too.