31/08/2019 Patchnote
Dear warlords, glad to meet again:
First of all, we were "faced". In the last developer log, we promised to follow a weekly maintenance plan to ensure that the version is updated in an orderly manner, and help warlords to plan their game time. However, after only two days, we have to conduct server maintenance to solve serious problems.
Now our review begins:
The first problem is: after the last update, the Dual Blade was too IMBA: after using the "new version" of Combat Dismount, it has been enhanced a lot. However, we found that we neglected an important setting that all attack/skills could not break the stealth, so DB could kill other players quickly and safely. If this problem was not fixed in time, the battlefield balance will be destroyed, so we judged that this bug must be fixed immediately.
The second question is: We had to reduce the loot rate of silver coins and equipment in Practice Mode. The main reason is that during data analysis in this two days we found a problem. Because we have reduced the difficulty of Practice Mode, it caused that some players could compress the game duration to about 4 minutes (or even shorter) in an abnormal way. This is twice as fast as the design time (7-8 minutes). We have found that some people and studios used this vulnerability to earn large amounts of silver coins and resell materials and to take advantage of offline transactions. This affected the value of money, equipments and materials in the normal trading market. If not adjusted in time, it may directly harm the game ecology and economic system.
Although it is very stressful to announce the adjustment data, we finally decided to report the details of our adjustment truthfully: in the Practice Mode, the loot rate of the silver coin bag was reduced to 1/4, and 1/3 for equipment. The reason is that in the product design structure, Practice Mode is not the main production of equipment and silver coins. The previous addition of loot is to add some surprises, but because of the mistakes in numerical calculations, it has become a vulnerability of economy system.
So, we will be conducting server maintenance during the period of 6 am to 8 am, 31, Aug (UTC+8).
Our goal is to do our best to maintain the balance on the battlefield and to protect the gaming experience. If a similar situation arises in the future, we will still solve it as quickly as possible.
First of all, we were "faced". In the last developer log, we promised to follow a weekly maintenance plan to ensure that the version is updated in an orderly manner, and help warlords to plan their game time. However, after only two days, we have to conduct server maintenance to solve serious problems.
Now our review begins:
The first problem is: after the last update, the Dual Blade was too IMBA: after using the "new version" of Combat Dismount, it has been enhanced a lot. However, we found that we neglected an important setting that all attack/skills could not break the stealth, so DB could kill other players quickly and safely. If this problem was not fixed in time, the battlefield balance will be destroyed, so we judged that this bug must be fixed immediately.
The second question is: We had to reduce the loot rate of silver coins and equipment in Practice Mode. The main reason is that during data analysis in this two days we found a problem. Because we have reduced the difficulty of Practice Mode, it caused that some players could compress the game duration to about 4 minutes (or even shorter) in an abnormal way. This is twice as fast as the design time (7-8 minutes). We have found that some people and studios used this vulnerability to earn large amounts of silver coins and resell materials and to take advantage of offline transactions. This affected the value of money, equipments and materials in the normal trading market. If not adjusted in time, it may directly harm the game ecology and economic system.
Although it is very stressful to announce the adjustment data, we finally decided to report the details of our adjustment truthfully: in the Practice Mode, the loot rate of the silver coin bag was reduced to 1/4, and 1/3 for equipment. The reason is that in the product design structure, Practice Mode is not the main production of equipment and silver coins. The previous addition of loot is to add some surprises, but because of the mistakes in numerical calculations, it has become a vulnerability of economy system.
So, we will be conducting server maintenance during the period of 6 am to 8 am, 31, Aug (UTC+8).
Our goal is to do our best to maintain the balance on the battlefield and to protect the gaming experience. If a similar situation arises in the future, we will still solve it as quickly as possible.