MiriamRowan's BC Live Report - 10th October, 2018

Presenters: Wrkshp Warrior and Masta Don

Next event: Crystal Siege then Sanctiflyer. The Halloween raid event will hopefully follow, but this requires an update to come out first and there's a chance it could be delayed a week.

BC is trying to stick to a regular schedule of events as much as possible. That's how players were able to guess that Crystal Siege would be next.

Event announcements on Tuesday?  In general, Masta Don will think about it. He doesn't like event announcements in general as some players take advantage of this. He doesn't think one day would make much difference though.

PvP during BC Live may return soon, but may need to wait until Pao's return. Wrkshp Warrior isn't ready to play us yet.

Wrkshp Warrior wears a mask to give him an edge.

The event monsters for the raid have not been decided as yet. The Darking Mad set will definitely be used, but there will be more than those. In general, Masta Don like to reuse holiday monsters, so there's a chance there could be a lot of Halloween monsters reused that event. No guarantees though, as other monsters could be used..

Troop Wars? There was little participation last TW aside from the top 500 players. Masta Don is still considering it. November would be the earliest it would happen, but this has not been finalized.  Coliseum is a maybe.

Benchmarks during TB?  Masta Don will consider them, but for those with event monsters these were really easy to achieve.

Merging, monster trader and gold trader will be active during CS.

Legendary eggs from salvaging epics?  BC doesn't have the time for this currently, but they have a general plan for how they can better use essences as a side currency in the future.

Not getting epics as often?  Epic spin odds are increased on all spins. For the featured spins, the odds are about 10% better due to the balancing.  It can seem to be spread between the 5 reward epics because you're not winning the spin epic as often. 

Event monsters from PvP wars? These monsters are occasionally being reused in other raid events now. BC likes to have them as they add diversity to the monster ecosystem.

Troop Tournament to determine the best troop?  Bombard Ricky Hanson about that.

Stones for Dominion instead of specials?  Masta Don will speak to server, and it's possible that either Dom or Dom FFA may get stones instead of specials dropping.

Improving in the game? Increase power rating. Be very active (opens opportunities for farmers).  Start winning some ultras and some crystals to evolve them. Grab a set of repeatable event monsters. Then you'll get lots of benchmarks and get better. Trading is the best way to move up.

Next update has two new monsters and a bunch of second evolutions. Magmascourge may possibly be one of these?  BC has actively been looking for the monsters that have missed second evolutions.

More content? Currently there is too much background stuff and bugs to be solved.  In order to expand, BC has to go back and change the fundamentals programmed into the game to be able to grow.

10e per ultimate spin? This would probably happen around a holiday .

Variety grab? Usually returns for all holiday events.

Leader boards were shown.

Why are codes usually energy?  Energy tends to have the widest appeal to players.

All events will continue to run from Thursday to Tuesday.

Cool Luke to allow stacking? This won't be happening. It's an overall design flaw in the game, in Masta Don's opinion, that the game allows energy to be stacked beyond a maximum level.

Usefulness of reward monsters?   Wrkshp Warrior will work on his translations from Spanish.

PE reward monsters may possible return in the rewards over Christmas, but won't otherwise generally be awarded.

Can we un-sevo monsters? Not at this time. They may allow us to trade a sevo monster back into an evo monster, but this could open a door to hacking. BC is hesitant to allow players to go backwards. If they were to do it, it wouldn't happen for a very long time. BC doesn't have the resources at this time.

Alts?  Even back during the conference calls days, Masta Don has gone on record that having alts isn't bannable. However, Masta Don doesn't appreciate those who create 40 alts and then abuse stuff, but usually these players get caught and banned for doing other stuff anyway.

Higher than level 70?  Masta Don doesn't want to make them for no reason. He'd need a story expansion first.  Server is focusing on hackers and removing hackable bugs currently, and banning players who are hacking. BC has to make the game more stable first before they can expand.  Most veteran players who have played for over 1000 days are at level 70.  Masta Don hasn't reached level 70 himself as yet and he's been playing for 4 years.

Coliseum?  BC is considering both TW and Coliseum for November and December. We may see both or only one. It's uncertain at this time.

Next BC Live in 2 weeks.