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[RiverSong]

Piker.

[MistyTheCow]

The nerve of this guy showing up the the lead dev’s thread and posting proof of HACKING.

SMH.

SMCH. Moo.

edit: I am joking

[Whiskeyjack]

@Sirrian

When is it back?

NEXT WEEK!

YES!

@Sirrian

we’re going to try a reduction from 25% to 10%, so they’re not quite as punishing to face.

Interesting. It will certainly help with beast and Daemon events, but hopefully still enough to incentivise weekly defence changes.

@Sirrian

Altering the scoring system…I’m not going to give you the EXACT details

Boo!

@Sirrian

but I AM going to describe all the parts for you.

Yay!

@Sirrian

Colored score bonuses WILL remain the same btw.

Yay!

@Sirrian

just giving points for a win would leave too many people tied on points at the end of the week, so we introduce one extra thing… you get a few less points for each troop you lose. That ONE extra rule tells our best players: “Hey! If you want to maximize your results, you should use the most efficient methods of killing enemy troops AND making sure yours are NOT killed. So Devourers & Summoners enter the meta for defense & offense respectively. There was a clear optimal strategy, and we can’t blame players for following it.

Agreed. It created a meta defence.

@Sirrian

Now since we can’t simplify the rule, we only really have one option left and that is to add some more

This is great. It gives people more room to play around with different strategies.

@Sirrian

The rules we’ve chosen are based around 4 facts:

Good players lose less troops (that’s the one we already have!)
Good players win their game in less moves
Good players have far higher mana efficiency (i.e. their mana collected, in proportion to their opponent’s mana is far higher)
Good players have far higher damage efficiency (i.e. their damage dealt, in proportion to their opponent’s damage is far higher)

Now we have 4 things contributing to a score in such a way that they each push a different type of troop into the meta… Do we go for cheap kills? Slow games? Large AoE damage outputs? Or board control?

Hmm interesting. My concern is that people will figure out the formula eventually, but it will be fun to try different strategies to get maximum points.

@Sirrian

Change #1: Battles are now ALL worth 300 points

I think this is a good move, and one that will limit frustration at losing. This addresses a key concern of many players.

@Sirrian

And finally… OTHER STUFF!

First one is a graphic refresh to the UI.

I agree that the GoW design is really dated and fully support your efforts to update it.

@Sirrian

Next is the crafting system - the Soulforge.

OMG I can’t wait!!

@Sirrian

The Dungeon System

This is better than I could have hoped for. I really really can’t wait for this!

Overall, thanks for the communication and the heads up. I’m so pleased to see that the game continues to move ina direction that tries to suit all players

[XLS78]

Do we get unlimited tries at the daily boss battles or is it “one and done” for each? Hoping it’s the former, even if there is some cost to retry…

[efh313]

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I need to lie down now and recover…

[Eika]

[Vangor]

@efh313

I need to lie down now and recover

Take it easy brudda… Relax, put your feet up, kick back in the cut wit a 40! @DonBoba would be mad if you explode or somethin lol

[Eika]

[Rickygervais]

@Vangor since you can only win 3 fight per day for a jewel and will probably need thousand to craft a mythic card, it mean you could need 5-6 months just to be able to craft it. I don’t like it cause it make me think about every other game that use a energy system when you need to wait to be able to play again and that suck imo

[Eika]

Wait a little, did you expect that crafting a mythic would be easier? You cant blame others for your own expectations mate. I expected it to be difficulty to craft mythic troops, this was no shocker for me.

[DEMONorANGEL]

What ever do you mean Eika ? I want it all now with no work and free

[Rickygervais]

I expected you need lot of ressources of course. But what i mean is for end gamer like me, i was expecting something i could play more then 3x in a day cause everything else is done and when your 5 GW fight of the day are done, you are back to the boring pvp where you need to fight the same person and team over and over.

[Vangor]

@Rickygervais

since you can only win 3 fight per day for a jewel

Looks to me likethe first fight pays 25 ruby jewels 100 jewel shards (?) and 10 colorless jewels (?) and the last fight pays double those… And its pointless to speculate about costs without considerimg the possibility that you may need to be a certain crafting level to even craft mythics

[DEMONorANGEL]

like maybe fighting the three battles again for ruduced rewards or someting.
or
jewls in regular pvp like traitstones

[Eika]

So with other words you expected something like Explore mode where one could farm for jewels and then craft a choosen mythic from it after some hours? Since many endgame players already have the other resources stacked more or less, there wouldnt be much of a waiting for you.

[DEMONorANGEL]

Was hoping Crafting would include traitstones. I have Thousands and everything is traited.

[Strat]

1. Sirrian said the numbers WILL change a few times in his post.
2. We don’t even have the Mythic crafting numbers from the screenshots.

Of course its going to take a while, I doubt you can craft a Mythic from one day of play. But there may be other avenues to collect them, they haven’t posted very much information yet…

[Vangor]

Well it seems there will be a leveling system involved so even end gamers must work for what they want… Im almost an end gamer and im cool wit that

[Rickygervais]

Well after 2 years of game play i was expecting something that will keep me in the game and this is certainly not 3 fight per day who will make the game more fun.

[Rickygervais]

@Strat

But there may be other avenues to collect them, they haven’t posted very much information yet…

Agree with this, i hope there is something else

Edit: i just realise we can now remove like if you missclicked and like someone, this is cool