TGI(B)F! I hope anyone participating in Black Friday shenanigans today made it home safe and (with a) sound (system) . Last week was another involved week around here, so let's take a look and what went on! Player Bans Nov 10 - Nov 16 As a reminder, the following numbers are permanently frozen accounts, and don't count temporary freezes. FB: 8 MS: 0 As always, we are committed to keeping our games fun and fair for everyone, and will continue to ensure that players are playing fairly and within our Terms of Use by swinging the banhammer where it needs to be swung. 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! In the spirit of Black Friday, we've decided to have our own crazy sale! Available today only, these Limited Quantity items are Hot! Hot! HOT! I formally apologize if they're already sold out when you read this, but, as there's a possibility that they aren't, go get yours now! Facebook Offsite Game Policy Change Facebook snnounced a change to their policy regarding offsite versions of games on Facebook that will take effect December 5th, 2012. You can read more about it here. Running out of steam in the Battle Arena A few weeks ago, an exploit was uncovered in the Battle Arena because of player activity, which we remedied through a couple of fixes and a throttling feature introduced earlier on last week. The throttling feature is designed to prevent players from abusing exploits within the Battle Arena by limiting the number of actions a player can make over a given amount of time. Through testing and player feedback, we have tried to make these limits extremely difficult to hit normally while maintaining their ability to prevent exploitation of the feature. If you have run into the throttling feature in the arena without using an exploit or similar violation of our Terms of Use, please send a message in to Support to let us know. Community-Proposed Battle Arena Tweaks We ran into an issue in a recent Viking Clan Battle Arena that caused some of the rankings to be slightly messed up. The players in that arena have all received the appropriate rewards, and we have now fixed the glitch that caused this issue. We have also added a community-proposed change that should help prevent similar issues in the future. From now on, a player must have logged 100 attacks or more in order to collect a reward for an arena ranking. This change will also encourage gameplay in the arena, and reward participation. Negativity around Moderators The past few weeks I've noticed quite a bit of negativity being directed at our forum moderators for moderating the forums. While I can understand not always agreeing with moderation decisions, I would like to remind everyone that our Moderators are Community Volunteers who volunteer their time to ensure that the forums are a place players can have positive discussions and interactions. Without Moderators, our forums would be overrun with spammers and trolls and would be nothing but adult enhancement ads and flame-wars. It's also important to remember that our Moderators are also players, and do have opinions like any other player. While we do ask that they be as respectful as any other player, we don't censor them and we do allow and encourage them to post their own thoughts and opinions. That being said, we also recognize that our Moderators are people, and can occasionally make mistakes. As always, if you believe a post was moderated inappropriately, please read the forum Code of Conduct and let me know by either sending me a message in the forums or by emailing me at community@kanoapps.com. Please do not post complaints about Moderators on the forums, as it doesn't accomplish anything. If you genuinely believe a Moderator has done something wrong, contacting me is the most effective way to remedy the situation. The past few weeks have also made me realize that we need better transparency regarding Moderator policies, which is something I will be working on in the next few weeks. We are also looking to grow the Moderator team, so if you're interested in helping out in the community, let me know! Support Report Hey everyone! Due to the database issues over the last weekend Monday was a bit of a crazy day in Support and I ended up having to send out a batch of rather impersonal info emails to get caught up, but response times should be back to normal now. A number of people contacted us when they were working on their Challenges and got error messages, but fortunately everyone's actions seem to have been logged and rewarded correctly. Fun fact: Monthly Calendars disappear when they are completed, so if you can't find it on your Challenge page it's probably because you finished it! Each one has a unique Clear Bonus item, so just check your inventory for the item if you're worried about your missing Calendar and want to check that you got your rewards. Have a great weekend, and a happy Turkymas to all our American players! -Melanie Joke of the week! Joke of the week time! The following is from a friend of mine who also happens to be a teacher. I personally wish my teachers had jokes this awesome. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, "You stay here, I'll go on a head." Highlight for hilarious joke! Click here for the appropriate sound effect. In case any of you were wondering, Xavier Rudd was fantastic live, although the concert ended up going almost 4 hours long. He's a one-man band and end up doing a set that was over two hours long! It was crazy! On that note, I hope you all have a safe and fantastic weekend. Play Now! Facebook Canvas: http://bit.ly/pc_kaforum Facebook Connect: http://bit.ly/pc_forum_fc MySpace: http://mysp.ac/pc_forum
Won't dwell on it too much here as a thread specifically for this has been started but this was a terrible idea. It will have the opposite effect that you intend unless the intent truly is to kill it off. Myspace numbers are already low as it is,this will only cause it to drop even more. Fb usually runs about 1000 on average give or take. That might even start to drop a bit. Time will tell but it wasn't a good idea as now alot more won't join because of it. Less players joining,less amount of times players have to refill stamina
SInce I can't find the Battle arena discussions thread, I'll say it here. What's the point of increasing strength, once the BA is low a players, if everbody's strength is increased. I don't see the point. Maybe if only everyone's attack was increased and their defense remained the same, then perhaps it could make a difference.
