Presenters: Wrkshp Warrior & Masta Don
Next events: Celestial Towers then Dominion (with specials on
the drops, not stones)
CT boss last time was wind. This time it will be rock. Monsters with an active event bonus will be 3
subsets of raid monsters, all wind, plus the "knight looking one". Multi target boss, and Masta Don is checking
to make sure we don't experience that weird bug at the start again this time
(where the raids were initially single target).
Boss will be multi wave. Merging
and Traders will be back for CT.
Coliseum will never be run again. Masta Don had to write in
a variety grab in the middle of the event to keep things interesting. Very
little participation was recorded for energy use. Many people only hit like 5 times and then
decided that they were done for the event.
Masta Don doesn't understand why players asked for it.
Banning players? There
are lots of steps before players are banned. It takes four different phases of
double checks before players are banned. It is never for no reason. Sometimes
people end up in suspicious groups due to who they hang around with. For
instance, this one troop that invited all these shady players in, and BC
considered simply banning the troop as a whole.
More new events? New events are rough. Despite what players
say about old events, very few events get as much participation compared to the
older events like raid/WB events, Battle Royale, Dominion and Crystal Siege. BC could perhaps introduce more raid style
events. Masta Don doesn't feel that we need any more match based events because
it's a bit rough.
Stackable PvP Energy at the Trader? This wasn't meant to be
there. So many players spent a ton of tokens on it as fast as they could, stacking
up to around 8k energy. These
transactions will be undone - energy will be removed and tokens returned.
Things to spend PvP tokens on? From the glitch today, BC has become aware
that there aren't many things for players to spend their PvP tokens on, and
some players have earned a lot of them. Masta Don is considering adding wings and old
vanity items into the PvP trader as newer vanity items appear in the leader boards. Ideally BC would like to give us more things
to spend our PvP tokens on instead of us stockpiling them.
Why were these players accused of exploiting the PvP energy
when BC made it available for in game trading? "Exploiting" wasn't a
term Masta Don used and isn't accurate, but it was disappointing how quickly
some players decided to claim it. Masta Don is sorry that Yulun described it as
exploiting. The energy shouldn't have
been there and everyone knew that it shouldn't have been there. It's not exploiting in that sense, but there
aren't many words to describe someone who takes advantage of something they
know wasn't meant to be that way and does so as quickly as possible. It
wasn't meant in the way of players deliberately doing something wrong, but
players knew it would have been corrected. It wasn't meant to imply that
players did something wrong.
Christmas raid will be a normal length event. (24 days for the Christmas raid was only a
joke).
Dominion won't have deadshot in the prizes this time. It may
be crush for Dominion. Masta Don will take a look.
A bunch of players may have been banned from BCG for...
Masta Don will talk to support about it... if they felt that people were trying
to orchestrate some big thing with others
who feel the same way, then it's best that it's shut down because it can cause
a bigger problem. For a lot of players it's not orchestrating because they want
to do what is right but that they want to get people really riled up for their
own self interest. Back in the day, BC
had a lot of people who did this.
Several hackers, for example, as soon as they were banned would go onto Facebook
and try to get people riled up and create issues. Support might have been a bit
sensitive to that. BCG doesn't just ban people for no reason or for just asking
for a clarification or something. Masta Don is sorry if players felt that it
was undeserved, but it's the way they stop things from getting away from their
control. Wrkshp Warrior: "bans are
always deserving".
Bc won't bring back stackable energy for Pvp. The more ways
that players have to accumulate energy that is easily farmed, the more alt
accounts pop up. BC has recently done a lot of changes, especially in regards
to tracking players who are duplicating monsters or trading monsters or hacking
grabs and then trading monsters. BC is catching a lot more of these players now
since they're able to track them and what BC is finding is that these players
run 10-15 accounts and all they do is harvest energy on them, and trade monsters
between these accounts. One way that BC
can minimize this is to control how easy it is to get easily farmed energy on
alt accounts.
BC doesn't have any plans to produce sellable products
related to the game. They tried it a
couple of years ago. For the t-shirts,
they sold them for $10-$15, made about
90c in profit, and international players
were charged something like $60 for
shipping. Everyone was making money except BC, and players were being charged a
fortune that should have only cost them $20.
BC isn't a manufacturing company. For it to have been cost effective, BC
would have to buy 10000 shirts and then hope to sell them all.
Crystal Siege problems? Masta Don is making a note to have QA
will look into it. Masta Don didn't know there was an issue with losing
guardian bonuses or no trophies. He does
know that at the start there were issues regarding the servers. Different worlds(?) of the servers crashed,
so they rebooted. And another time everything crashed.
BC does want to get more players playing BC. They're looking
at making their whole first time user experience much better and rewarding for
new players... but without giving reason for veteran players for creating 50
new alt accounts.
When will Bogtacle get a sevo? Masta Don is writing it down
and will look into it. He thought BC was
up to date with sevos, but this one may have been missed.
No more stones in Dominion. That was a huge mistake.
Can we claim 10 energy from Cool Luke instead of hitting
with 5 energy? Masta Don doesn't like the 5 energy cap limit. It was when there
was a lot more energy in the ecosystem. It's one of the things that BC is looking
at as they examine ways to make the game more appealing for newer users help beginner
player retention.
Images of the newer mobs for the trading website? BC will
look into this.
Could there be more energy redeem options (like
50/100/500/1k, etc)? BC will look at energy redeem options. Ideally Masta Don
would like the energy redeem options to be higher for veteran players, to
reduce the number of alt accounts. However this may dissuade new players from
playing as they'd be at a disadvantage. It's a bit of a double edge sword.
When BC was created, a huge aspect of it was intentionally
social, a huge aspect was the monster collection aspect, and a huge aspect of
is built into troops for events. 90% of
games out there are built around solo players. BC is heavily pushed for players
being in troops and having communication systems in place for troops and for
socializing. A big part of Masta Don's design was wanting to bring a game that
was a bit like Pokemon and a bit like World of Warcraft, and put it all onboard.
Leader boards were shown for Coliseum.
Trading crystals? Not
at the moment.
Masta Don will look into the new weapons that only have 2
jewel slots instead of 3. He thinks this
is just an error as all higher level weapons should have 3 slots.
Can energy regen beyond 5, perhaps to 10? Energy cap has
being considered in the past as this would help new players as well as looking
at the general inventory for new players.
These are felt to be a bit rough for new players.
Single element vs Dual element? BC has heard of this, as
well as putting normal legendaries back in. A lot of people like a simple attack
setup. BC is looking at a better system for
all players. They're also looking at stability.
How do we ask questions about event bugs - BCG shuts off
commenting, BC Live can be too far away to wait for, etc? It's not usually the people asking the
questions who are the issue, but the players following up on the issue. There's a difference between good actors and
bad actors. We see it every day in the world, where some people may
legitimately have a problem with something and ask about it, but then tons and
tons of people latch onto those posts and fill it with negativity. Support
needs to balance both groups of people, and people asking legitimate questions
can get caught in the crossfire of it. Masta Don will talk with support about this.
New single element monsters? Masta Don is writing it down.
Cost of Merging? Masta Don doesn't think it's a bit too
expensive... he guesses that it is a bit too expensive. It's more a high end thing to fine tune our
monsters, which is the reason why it's so expensive. It's more for players who
want their Skyrin to have the best stats.
Trophies for farming during World Boss events? Masta Don is
writing it down. BC will look at this for world bosses. In a perfect world, the
game wouldn't be so divided and there wouldn't be a need for farmers and
hitters. However, BC knows that this is needed for lower PR players.
5 matches had issues in CS?
Masta Don knows for a fact that only 3 matches had issues, not 5
matches. Masta Don is sorry about it. He
feels very powerless with server issues.
When servers crash or players are disconnected, there is little he can
do, but to try to correct it from the other end of the phone.
Unevolving monsters? BC has had issues where duplicate
monsters had been traded and then someone else received them an evolved them.
The evolved monster then is treated by BC as a duplicate monster that shouldn't
exist. BC can't allow these to be
unevolved as then there would be double duplicates and it would be bad. It
would be a nightmare to do. The best BC
could do would be to have a trader who would take an evolved monster and give
you back two unevolved monsters.
Farming problems with holiday stars? BC rebooted the holiday
stars and haven't seen any reports for farming issues since then. Holiday
farming should be working now. Let BC support know if you are still
experiencing issues. Masta Don will check the drop rates and see if we're just
not seeing holiday stars as maybe the drop rates are too low. It will be going through December, so the
drop rates aren't especially high and maybe people are getting too much bad
luck on them so far.
Really old monsters aren't seen much in the ecosystem. The only way to introduce them back into the
ecosystem right now is to add them into spins, but it becomes problematic as
they need to be entered manually. BC is looking at redoing the grabs to make
this easier.
Players who took advantage of the stackable PvP energy will
have that removed and their tokens returned.
The transaction will be undone.
Real crowns for girl avatars please as they only get
headpieces but boy avatar get crowns? Art
team will be talked to about this. Masta
Don has a strong dislike that all of the avatar items are gender dependent. Unfortunately
the boy and girl avatars have been designed slightly differently and the clothing
for one gender can't be worn the shape of the other gender, according to Art.
Avatar grabs are on BC's list. The grabs in general do need
to be rebuilt. This is a massive task, and the grabs touch everything in the
game. BC is trying to find ways to make it work.
Duel element monsters aren't good? You can't say that dual
element monsters aren't good as they have all the same functionality of the base
element monsters plus a bonus with the second element.
Raid event monsters rotate through having bonuses in
different raid events. To be honest, helmet monsters probably won't have a
bonus again. That was just a horrible, horrible, "not my decision" to
create those ones. Basically BC was
going to invent a new event but they realized about 10% of the way in that it
was going to cost them lots of resources to build, and they already had the
monsters, so they pushed those monsters out anyway.
Players commented that some actives weren't good with duel
element? BC actives unfortunately have
way too much power compared with gem matching, but no one will let Masta Don
return to a gem based setup.
Can we eliminate shielding in Dominion? Masta Don has brought that up multiple times
in the past. His thoughts on defensive
measures is that playing defense is not fun. There should be an attack bonus,
not a defense bonus. Just hurting your opponent isn't as exciting as having an
attack bonus yourself instead. He's
written it down and will bring it up again.
Pao is still here but he's just very busy. So if there
really are 1000 shares for a code then he will be dragged in to have his head
shaved. It's been going for over a year and players have only come close once.
Bring back the 20 energy code? Masta Don and Wrkshp Warrior
didn't realize that we didn't get a code when streams weren't on. BC will make sure that we either get 20
energy codes during BC Live or that a 10 energy code will be given out during
the alternate weeks.
Christmas raid will start on a Thursday but will end on the
26th, making it one day extra in length so that it doesn't end on Christmas
itself.
BC won't be removing damage caps completely any time soon,
as BC needs a way to mitigate players doing ludicrous things with hacks.
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