[PC] TGIF...This Week in Dev and Community November 11 - 15

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

Player Bans November 1 - November 7

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.

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:



New Battle Drops!

We released some new Battle Drops to the game this past week. These drops are for levels 20,000+.



Manual Freeze Progress Update!

To follow up on the announcement of manual freezes last week, I thought I would share an update on what progress we’re making with it. We’re currently collecting a vast amount of data on players of interest (and other parties) and we will be throwing in additional parameters to collect data. We want to be sure to collect as much information as possible before taking action to be one hundred percent certain that we’re catching the right folks.

Additionally, we’re looking at adding in some different punishments for people who are caught cheating such as taking away access to the Bounty/Hitlist, the Battle Arena or even limit aggressive action against another player. This second part is still in the planning stages and it ties in to the increased investigation parameters.

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

Happy Friday, players! The long weekend set us back day in tickets, but we should be back on track now.

Some of you who use the sidechat may have noticed a bit of odd behavior this week. We've been dealing with a bug that has occasionally caused old messages from a player to flood out the window. This has happened a few times in different games and we're still not quite sure what the trigger is, but we've released some fixes that should prevent it from happening again. That being said, please send me a ticket if you see anything that resembles this bug in any of our chat systems!

In other news, there appears to be a rumor circulating that Kano/Apps is planning to discontinue development on our Pirate Clan game. I have no idea how these things get started, but allow me to go on recording saying this is definitely NOT the case. PC currently has a smaller player base than some of our other games which influences the rate at which we release new content, but we have no plans to drop it and are actually looking into expand it by making the game available on other social networks.

Onwards and upwards,

Aardvark,
a chocolate beer enthusiast.

Terrible Joke of the Week

Here's your lame joke of the week!

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop! ← Highlight for hilarity!

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

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Cheaters might just be punished?? it is bad enough they get frozen as a warning,,usually more than once and then allow them back into the game but to allow them to play at all is not cool. If you are gonna punish them then take away the levels and everything that they gained using their scripts and bots

 

Hear hear! Allowing them to continue playing with some weak restrictions is no solution. There's no BITE there! We all know of that one certain person who was banned for using a script/bot, so why let others get away with it and receive a slap on the wrist?

 

Agree 1,000%

 

Wait, where did you get that they might be punished, or that we wouldn't take away their ill-gotten gains? All I said is that we're exploring various avenues of additional punishment. We're not ruling anything out.

 

From here,( post below) no mention,just not allowing them to be in arena or armada wars, big whoop limiting aggressive behavior against a player( we have that already the protection thingy)???another pfffft how about limiting the leveling partner syndrome . hopefully when kano sees the leveling done with bots that might make a difference, if anyone thinks "some"of these players are sitting there hour after hour hitting heal while their leveling partners attacks, then I have a bridge to sell that person.



Additionally, we’re looking at adding in some different punishments for people who are caught cheating such as taking away access to the Bounty/Hitlist, the Battle Arena or even limit aggressive action against another player. This second part is still in the planning stages and it ties in to the increased investigation parameters.