Update 1.7.1 is now Live for Split or Steal!
HQ - Artifact Discount bonuses
All HQ Buildings now have an "Art Discount" bonus available, which will lower the maximum amount of coins you pay for Artifacts. These discounts upgrade along with your HQ Building
While every building contains an Art Discount bonus, the largest discounts are reserved for Active Play buildings with lower Idle Coin generation bonuses.
The maximum collective discount for artifacts is currently set at C25 Million, effectively lowering the Price Per Artifact to a minimum of C35 Million - or, around 58% of the current costs.
Karma - Artifact Discount bonuses
As a minor incentive for high-climbers on the Karma ranks, a small additional Artifact Discount bonus is now available based on your current Karma levels.
For the first 1 Million Karma you earn, you will be awarded with a discount of up to 5% off the Maximum Artifact Cost, on a linear scale. As an example; with 250,000 Karma, you would be entitled to 25% of the 1 Million reward, which would give you a 1.25% discount.
Following the first 1 Million Karma, each additional Million Karma earned will net you an additional (scaled) 1.5% discount on Maximum Artifact Pricing.
Note that this value will be kept intentionally small - and is intended as a small bonus for karma-climbers, rather than allowing it to climb to a level which would disincentivize stealing to any major level. Additionally, the Karma Discount cannot lower the price beyond the current minimum of C35 Million per Artifact.
Immediate HQ Updates
While rewards from your HQ will still be distributed hourly, your ORG Contributions & Personal bonuses will now be updated immediately after constructing, demolishing, or upgrading any buildings.
Minor HQ Balance changes
The Don Loanshark building has been slightly buffed in Steal %, in order to compensate for its lower Art Discount bonus, owed to its high Idle Coin bonus.
Patron Updates
As a thanks to all of you who are helping to pay the server costs via Patreon, the Hotdog Tier now awards a Coin Infusion every month, while the Fatcat Tier now awards a Double Artifact Grant every month!
QoL - Kongregate Updates
In order to prevent against small balance patches taking 3-4hrs to reflect new HQ values correctly on the Kongregate/WebGL version of SoS, the client has been patched to pull down and store HQ Bonus values during play, rather than requiring these to be shipped with updates.
This should effectively ensure that we no longer have temporary parity problems between Web and Steam/Kartridge clients for minor update & balance patches.
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