We just launched the new Bonus Engine. This launch comes in response to the reams of feedback we've had from our totally amazing community.
The goals of the Bonus Engine are:
- To reward players who are skillful at making advanced battle Robots and skillful at piloting them in combat
- To ensure a reward for everyone who participates in battle, who gets stuck in, who fights
- To ensure that gaining Victory is worthwhile
- To reduce the frequency of receiving a net loss in T5-10 i.e. when RP total is less than robot repair cost
- To ensure that when you do receive a net loss, it is much less than previously, and to reduce repair costs in general
- To discourage exploitative play styles and less fun emergent game-play such as ‘AFK’ing’, ‘Gun-chairing’, ‘Up-Tiering’, ‘Hiding’ and ‘Base Racing (without fighting at all)
- To ensure the game continues to remain an increasing challenge at higher Tier, but also reducing how ‘hardcore’ this is
- To reduce the delta between a massive win and a massive loss, so your average income is more ‘steady’
Full Details on the Bonus Engine here
Other items in this update:
- Robocloud servers upgraded to support more users at once and get over some of the connection issues from yesterday
- Robocraft web servers are being upgraded to improve the responsiveness of the website during times of high load - this will take a day or so to get fully up to speed
- Sadly the Premium sale ended today, but we kept the prices low due to the great reception the lower prices received, I mean 1 months Premium for just over the price of a Venti at Starbucks, now that is good value!