[LCN] TGIF! This Week in Dev and Community June 23 - 27

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

Player Bans June 14 - June 20

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

FB: 7
Kong/Armor: 4

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:



Long Weekend!

Next Tuesday is Canada Day and as such some of the Kano team (like myself) are taking Monday off as well, which means that staff presence will be light until about Wednesday. Don’t worry, we still have people on the job! Smack will be poking in around the forums here on Monday, so be nice!

Punch Button on Fight Screen

A small change went out today that you probably already noticed: we (Smack to be specific) added a Punch button to the Fight response screen so when you beat an opponent into submission the prompt to Punch them will show up right where the attack button is if you have not done so already in the last hour.



New Crates!

New crates are out, with three new Legendary items! Why not pick one up and try your luck?



A Word About Monday’s Server Outage

Early Monday morning and again in the afternoon around 3 PM PDT, we experienced a “cache server outage” across all four games. As a side effect of this, gifts sent, punching/whipping/axe slapping and game history feed logs were not being saved and were constantly reset. We replaced the failing server with a new one, however some lingering effects were felt until Tuesday morning. As is always the case if you are still seeing anything weird, please contact Support.

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

Hey players!

Going to keep things pretty brief this week, so here are a few quick notes:

No we don't rig the lottery or any other chance-base mechanics to make people lose. These systems are governed entirely by the omnipotent force to which we at Kano are all supplicant, math, and work exactly the same way normal lotteries and chance-based games do. If you're interested, in learning more about how probabilities in lottery games are calculated, you can find more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_mathematics

Also, as you may be aware the coming Tuesday is a holiday up here in Canadaland! I will be taking the Monday off as well to help take care of some family commitments, so things will be a little slow next week, however Glitch(Annick) will be available on Monday to help people out.

Cheers,

Aardvark
who knows the difference between i.e. and e.g. and can use both correctly in a sentence

Terrible Joke of the Week

Here's your lame joke of the week!

What is it called when an antarctic bird takes first prize?

Spoiler

A peng-win.

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/la_cosa_nostra/?fb_source=appcenter&fb_appcenter=1
Facebook Connect: http://www.kanoplay.com/la_cosa_nostra?game_server=server_1
Kano Play Server 2: http://www.kanoplay.com/la_cosa_nostra?game_server=server_2
Kongregate: http://www.kongregate.com/games/kanoapps/mob-wars-la-cosa-nostra
Armor Games: http://armorgames.com/play/14870/mob-wars-la-cosa-nostra

 

Just a quick update on the Punch button. We have received some pretty unanimous and negative feedback about this change, namely around the button position. As such this has been disabled for now but stay tuned for a discussion post next week where we can all talk through how to best make this work for everyone.

 

I have a question about the lotto....can you make sure that players who are inactive do not win the jackpot? make it a requirement that they've logged in within the last week or 2?

Also, another suggestion. For NY properties, can you add 50, 100, 250 and/or 500 to purchase them by for us higher levels? Don't need em for any other city I think.

 

Not sure how I ended up on this thread...but in regards to the lottery...you have to be active to buy/get a free tickets

 

u dont have to buy tickets just win the lottery on what they told me before it is random which in my opinion it shouldnt be random they should give out the ones who has been on the longest an then the middle the the lower players in my book...since i never once won the lottery not on none of my game apps i played on...ever since they came out with it not none only but xp an a tiny tiny bit of cash which it is no good to me lol...

 

To get a free ticket, you have to be logged in a day before.