TGIF! Here’s your development news round-up for the past week! Player Bans June 21 - June 27 As a reminder, the following numbers are permanently frozen accounts, and don't count temporary freezes. FB: 13 KPs2: 10 Kong/Armor: 5 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. If you have any questions or comments about a frozen account, please direct them through Support as the Forums are not the place to discuss account freezes, because of the sensitive account information involved. New Limited Items! A new week means new Limited Items! Here’s what’s up for grabs: Happy Independence Day to our American players! July Monthly Calendar! Let’s say “hi” to July with the July Monthly Calendar! It started on July 1 and runs until July 31. New Elite/Legendary Crafting Items Inbound! You’ve been asking for a while and I’m happy to say that we have some new Elite/Legendary crafting recipies for higher level location Boss Drops on the way! Numbers and art assets are being finalized so we should have these out to you very soon. Support Report with your favorite burrowing nocturnal mammal and Answerpreneur, Aardvark! Happy Friday everyone, and a happy Independence Day as well to our throngs of American players down south! And possibly to the northwest as well, if any of you Alaskan players are out there! On a more sobering note, we would like to remind people to please do not make casual comments about suicide or self-harm in our games, to Support, or anywhere else online. Yes, we know some people will make reference to these topics as a means of emphasis, but plenty of all-too-real tragedies have occurred after a person has made online posts about this kind of thing and it is worth taking seriously. If you or anyone you know is thinking seriously about self harm, we strongly urge you seek help. Resources for suicide prevention, awareness, and support from all over the world can be found at www.suicide.org. Wishing you a happy and safe weekend, Aardvark Terrible Joke of the Week Here's your lame joke of the week! Who's the most spoiled superhero? Spoiler Brat-man! Reveal for hilarity! That's it for TGIF this week, everybody! Thanks for reading, and have an excellent weekend! Play Now! Facebook Canvas: https://apps.facebook.com/vikingclan/?fb_source=appcenter&fb_appcenter=1 Facebook Connect: http://www.kanoplay.com/vikingclan?game_server=server_1 Kano Play Server 2: http://www.kanoplay.com/vikingclan?game_server=server_2 Kongregate: http://www.kongregate.com/games/kanoapps/viking-clan Armor Games: http://armorgames.com/viking-clan-game/15774
Sometimes, I can't help but to think that you're the only one ACTUALLY working at Kano, Mitch. Cheers!
The Elite/Legendary crafting items are progressing well; the plan is to have them out by Friday, although this is subject to change (however unlikely that change may be). We'll be holding back a couple of the more recent higher level location upgrades for gameplay balancing reasons, however we'll be getting the numbers and artwork together with the ones we have planned for the Friday release so the wait will not be nearly as long as it has been previously.
so hold back on higher level drops for balancing reasons so if crafting no good for high level players why hold us back why should low levels benifit from this if they want to be as strong as high level players they should work on it not be given it to them on a plate, plus we earned it and deserve to be rewarded with the drops we are intitled to so we can use them while we can
I agree with this, besides the fact lower levels would not be able to upgrade any drops they get from the higher Bosses until they reach a higher level! "We'll be holding back a couple of the more recent higher level location upgrades for gameplay balancing reasons" The fact is while you are holding back on some of the Bosses, you are actually making it OUT of balance for Higher Levels! It's not like we are "equal" in Battle Strength with lower levels anyway, they can't beat us even without the upgrades! LOL What you are doing though is making it out of balance because there are a lot more higher levels now than before! It's not just the 2 top players anymore! Higher levels need to be able to Battle each other & compete against each other!
I don't know which higher level locations drops are being held back in this release. It might be one, could be two. We are aware that Elite/Legendary items are requested by higher levels to help them in Battling, but the fact of the matter is that if we release them hastily it might not go as well for everyone as you think. Yes, we are currently behind on E/L crafting which is why I asked the developers on a weekly basis to get them out. They're incoming this week for most of the higher level locations, with the other ones to follow soon. I understand that waiting is tough, but as I said it will not be nearly as long between releases.
I really hope it won't be too long! Right now it seems you cater to the lower levels & we higher levels just have to twiddle our thumbs most of the time! We like to battle & kick some patootie too you know! LOL
I'm assuming the new gift "Cougar Klaw" is going to be used in high level crafting? If not, what's the point of making a new gift with stats of 4/4?
If players choose to contact us in these circumstances, we always try to do what we can to accommodate their requests.
