Hi there!
Beta 25 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
We're super excited to bring to you Beta 25, which will introduce new features that will change the game play and introduces new challenges for you to manage as CEO!
Major change to website satisfaction: Dissatisfaction
Beta 25 changes how website satisfaction is calculated.
How it worked in Beta 24
The website satisfaction was calculated by simply using the average of all features' satisfaction. You could have a Landing Page with 100% satisfaction and "Banner Ads" with 15% satisfaction. This worked okay, but it was super confusing to new players, as the red smiley would show 5% for "video ads" and 15% for "banner ads", indicating that "video ads" would be less annoying to the user.
How it now works in Beta 25
There are now two options for a feature: Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction. Base Features will only produce Satisfaction and Revenue Features will only produce Dissatisfaction.
The total website satisfaction is calculated by first taking the average of your base features and then subtracting the dissatisfaction from all the revenue features.
Hopefully this change will make it more clear to new players how everything is calculated.
Please notice: Existing Revenue features will continue to use the old model to avoid breaking your save-game. If you want to switch to the new model, you'll have to remove and add the revenue features.
AdBlockers
Adblockers are now a part of the game and will directly affect how many impressions is generated (and can be monetized) for ad features.
Small websites will have a very low ad-blocker penetration as they haven’t yet been discovered by many ad-blocker programs.
As a website gets more users, the more ad-blocker programs will register the site and start blocking ads.
AdBlock Obfuscator
The obfuscator will cover up your ads in messy Javascript code that makes it much harder for the AdBlockers to detect your ads.
If you don’t continue upgrading the obfuscator, it will be less efficient over time (as AdBlockers become smarter).
The obfuscator is also the first time we see Research Points being used to upgrade a feature.
Do you have suggestions or ideas for the game?
Check out our Conflux board.
As always, we'll be monitoring the release very closely for any potential issues that might arise or that we might have missed during testing. If you encounter any issue or a bug, please send us a message in our Discord channel (link provided below) or create a post in our community hub - which we'll be closely monitoring while Beta 25 is rolled out.
That's it for Beta 25!
Best,
Jonas
