[VC] TGIF! This Week in Dev and Community June 9 - 13

TGIF! What happened this past week in Dev and Community? Mario x9

Player Bans May 31 - June 6

As a reminder, the following numbers are permanently frozen accounts, and don't count temporary freezes.

FB: 2

The majority of permanently frozen accounts are frozen for being a shared or alternate account. This is something we actively investigate, and we appreciate players reporting suspicious accounts to us.

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New Limited Items!

A new week means new Limited Items! Here’s what’s up for grabs:



A Reminder About Our 24/7 Bot Detection Tools

This is a quick public service announcement to remind everyone that our bot detection programs run twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. We don’t turn them off every night with the lights, they continue monitoring the games for suspicious activity which the developers review when they come in in the morning.

“What suspicious activity are you monitoring” I hear you ask? Well you’re in luck, our Updates on Manual Freezes and Tracking post contains updates in our ongoing effort in the war against bots. Remember to check back regularly for updates. If you have anything you want to report to us, whether it’s a suspected bot user or third-party tools available on the Internet, please contact Support.

Father’s Day Weekend Calendar!

The Father’s Day Weekend Calendar started this morning at 10:00 am PDT and ends June 16 at 10:00 am PDT.



Support Report with your favorite burrowing nocturnal mammal and Answerpreneur, Aardvark!

Happy Friday, players!

As always, lots of behind the scenes and under the hood work has been going on to improve the games overall, however a few minor tweaks have also been made that you might see some effects from.

For example, War teams who join with the same names will now be distinguished with a number. Also, an update to the Attack/Defense item lists should apply a fixed order to items with the same stats to stop them arbitrarily swapping places.

We've been getting some tickets from players who have been frustrated by "chaining" - namely repetitive battle actions from a particular person. Because our games are based on competitive combat, this type thing isn't against the rules. There are some limitations in the game to help keep things fun and fair, but if you feel these are insufficient you may want to try pitching your ideas on the forums.

Adding limitations to a battle game is a pretty big deal and not something we would do lightly, so we would want to be clear that this was something the majority of our players wanted before we could commit to developing a restricting game mechanic.

Cheers,

Aardvark,

who has a thing about nice new office supplies. They just look so tidy and organized and useful... ¬_¬
*hordes books of sticky notes*


Terrible Joke of the Week

Here's your lame joke of the week!

Where does the Viking Santa Claus live?

Spoiler

The Norse Pole!

Reveal for hilarity!

That's it for TGIF this week, everybody! Thanks for reading, and have an excellent weekend!

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Not sure who made these changes, but got a couple tiffs about it.

Example


I can't upgrade any of the 64/64 warriors here except the Elite Clerics or (Legend Time Keepers but at certain level of 8250) it's more beneficial to upgrade.. The order of the list is skewed for crafting. I don't mind it, as good with math but if going to fix arbitrarily swapping at least make it easiest for others as well on crafting. Anything elite should be at the bottom with same stats=(Elite time keepers), followed by anything that can elite=(Healer Clerics)

Here's another example a friend pointed out

She was making Elite Snake Eye Gem's and got confused of saying not to make yet, after the reorder of the list. The Hammer Shields, Soulcrier Staffs, Definately not Legendary Broadhew's upgradeable, or the Stalactite Blades. So In theory the order should have Snake Eye Gems at the very bottom of this list, correct?

Basically if able to Legend with same stat that should be farthest down own list, followed by able to Elite, then the rest of the drops..

 

The new consideration forced on the list by the developers was Inventory ID so the list would stop shifting around arbitrarily by using the ID as a tiebreaker.

Sorting the list by crafting was considered but performing that check on every single PVP action was unfortunately a bit too inefficient to be implemented to the games.

 

quick question on limited time items should both weapons ment to be def or is it a mistake

 

I think those are the correct #s but I can certainly double-check.

 

Probably they are random generated, and a random generator doesn't make mistakes
Usually in VC the weapons have high attack and the armors high defense

 

The numbers are correct, just checked that with the devs.