Hozzászólások - Miklos

ardent: don't worry about numbers. yes the alghorytm takes 95-99% but there are many differences between your character and your clone. For example, you get bonus attack from your clan building while your clone does not. So even if they have seemingly same or better equipment, most of the time they are much weaker than you. On purpose, in some fights, like 15% of them, you get extra hard opponents. Those are the ones which you sometimes you lose. And yes, I do not understand what is your problem, please help me to understand. You win 90% or more of your fights even in "hard mode". You would like to win 100%? Or take no damage in fights? When you fight real opponents you always win? In many games I played, the biggest challenge was always to defeat my own clone...

Stiska: I'm not sure I understand what you say. There are 3 strategies, DD with compensation, EH with extra AA abilities based on EH, and pure AH/DD which switches with potion. All 3 strategies has advantages and disadvantages. We try to balance as much as possible, but in specific situations there will be always strategies which are better than the other. If you can prove (with numbers) why one side is much better than the other, please send it to us via CS and I will see if you are right and we can always make adjustments.

Cruel: for the next event, probably we will create a separate forum for each horde. But you should know, in the original servers, players could create strategies, and the one which is following their strategy most consistently is winning. So executing a strategy is possible, just not easy and needs a lot of organizing. "Clones are not fun". This is simply a different thing people are used to. Everyone except an opponent which he can kill with one blow without taking damage. But this time, we wanted player to make a decision. Do 15 pp, and do the event easily. Or take 30 pp, and sometimes lose, and pets take heavy damage. I never really heard people complaining that Hard mode in game *** is too hard. If it is too hard, they switch to normal. Your pets taking damage, this is a good opportunity then to use the resources you have, potions, temple crystals, revive essences, or just play smart and redistribute skill points. About being "too expensive": there is nothing mandatory to buy. But we always looking for player feedback, we want to make sure players are satisfied with item prices.

Opponents are generated based on your stats:
we could make opponents which stats are completely independent of the player. In this case, strong players would not take a scratch (this would be a lesser problem) but weaker players would constantly lose. We wanted to create a challenge for everyone. Your weapon, spell and pets still make a difference, so stronger players have an advantage there - as you could see, Alexor, who does not have premium items kept losing in 30 pp mode. You can also gain advantage by having berserker potion and mind boosting the right skill. But yes, having 400 IQ instead of 300 will not help you win more often.

Please also note, that clones do not inherit your abilities 1:1. Their stats are less than yours, something like 92-96% at 15pp, 95-99% at 30pp.

Your secondary attack and spell is *not* cloned. If your pet dies, it is due to your opponents spell, and his pets enrage ability. If you are using 30pp, you play the hard mode - your opponent can have multiple pets, with more enrage, and your pets will lose more hp. To counter this massive damage, there are numerous ways: monster cocktail, resurrection essence, or as Trackur pointed out, leveling up pets, like with 10 temple crystals.

ardent: I checked your character. Of the last 51 battles, you lost only 3, won the rest, that doesn't seem to me so bad. And criticals, you must score a hit (for spells, you crit only when your opponent doesn't avoid your spell). If you don't hit often enough, remove some items which increase your defense. This way your clone will have a lower defense too, and you can hit more often (but you will take more damage too).

About the critical hit and spell quests:
As I mentioned earlier, your opponent is generated from your stats. So if you want to gain advantage over him in critical, you must mind boost the corresponding critical skill. Without that, you will have a hard job. With it, its even easier than on real doomlords. I hope this info helps!
If you think the program does not count your crits, please make screenshots (unfortunately, due to the sheer number of event battles, these are not saved for long time) and we will check it. So far I do not know about any bug not counting these crits (but don't forget, your pets crit show the same way in the text as your own, so I think the problem is rather that you didn't mind boost it)

Adventure Codex is a relic, you can have only one.

As I also wrote, you should try to get a better weapon and spell. These can give a major advantage in these event battles.

Alexor, I checked your logs when I wrote the previous post. In your last post, your opponent cast a spell, dealt 1450 damage with spell, and executed you. You had an execution skill of some 88 (which your clone copied). I have seen you lost the previous 4 battles too, maybe because of the same reason (unfortunately, I can check only the last battle's description).

Alexor - you play the 30 DP setting, which is hard mode. Expect to pay more attention when you play in hard mode, because opponents will not die automatically. If you have the wrong or suboptimal weapons / spells equipped - you might lose. If you attack at very low hp, while having a decent execution skill (copied by your opponet, who starts at max hp) you will lose. Make sure you have the proper equipment when you attack, and you hp is high, and you will have no problem.

Just checked out Cruel's fights, out of 37 battles, he lost 3 with a 30 DP setting. I hope it's not that bad, this is supposed to be "hard mode" If anyone else has statistics with 30 DP settings, please let me know. So far it seems it is worth using (same report from other servers).

Btw we are closely monitoring results with 30 DP fights, and if it is to difficult we will make it easier.

You misunderstood, having 30 DP setting is not a disadvantage. The opponents are still killable, they just deal more damage. Rarely, you get an opponent which can be stronger than you, and as such, he might win. So out of 20 battles, you might lose 1-4. But you get +15 duel points per day which is +15 battles. So this is not punishment, or bad balance etc. It's just a choice you can make. Having 30 dp does not double your efficiency, it just increases it to some extent. Try both versions, and decide which fits you more.

As you could see, I gave a very detailed information in the opening post. All rules, facts, everything. Yes I missed to mention that the opponent's strength is different in 15/30 DP settings, I'm sorry for that. But even if I would, you couldn't see which is better for you without trying the difference. Also in other events, like xeno, 30 pp opponents are stronger. After all, 30 pp setting is "I want equal or stronger opponents" while 15 is "weaker opponents", and this event is using duel points.

I think it is normal than in a game, you do not get every bit of detail, statistics, maths in advance so you can immediately play the perfect strategy. This would kill exploration. I know there are games out on the market, which say "press the green button". you push it, and you get the reward. Then "press red button". You get the reward. Etc. Doomlord is not such a game. There are some things you have to discover, and sometimes you can walk a suboptimal path and lose a bit. But this makes victory only sweeter, imho.

When you use 30 duel points / day settings, you get stronger opponents. Probably this is the case with you, Alexor. If you use 15 dp setting, you will win most battles, if not all. Those who hav 30 DP setting, can battle more, we wanted to make it real hard otherwise everyone will go that way.

Your opponent is generated based on you. You can gain advantage in the fight by having a better spell and weapon (these are not generated based on your character!) and pets can make a difference - but in 30 DP setting, the opponent will have the same number of pets as you, although weaker.

We will try to add chat.

Yes, I know that is a concern, but there must be a stake otherwise no one will care about tactics and only does the X attacks.

Btw, the 1st in every top10 gets diamond medal whatever his horde's ranking.

You can collect event points from now on.

I'm sorry, we have technical difficulties, I hope we can set live the first phase very very soon and you can start collecting event points. I will keep you updated on this.

Communication between hordes: my first idea was too to add a horde tab to the chat interface. However some people pointed out that it is very easy to spy upon another horde. The most convenient way would be that each horde creates a private forum with the leadership of the big clans leaders, they discuss strategy there, and each forwards it to his own clan. If you insist, it might be possible to create the chat thing too but I'm not sure it would serve its purpose. For strategy a forum would be better than a chat.


Yes. This is necessary because there are a few worlds which has lesser population and we wasnt all players have a chance to be involved. Top10 lists will be separate for each world, however.

Yes, I know, time was tight, we just finalized the event and I posted all details asap. We knew since long that people wanted something else instead of map, but spent a lot of work on the world merge program (which is still not ready).

We are introducing a new event to the game, Horde Wars. It will replace the map event, which was the least popular of all events.

The Horde Wars lasts for 3 weeks. Players of any level can participate. No registration is required.

Rules
During this event, the hordes compete each other. There will be a map, divided into 6x6 territories. Players can choose to attack any of the territories.
When you attack, you will fight an NPC doomlord. If you defeat him, your horde will receive 1 victory for that territory.
At the end of each day, we will see how the total victories of each horde are distributed between territories.
For example, the ruby horde have 1000 total victories by the end of the 5th day on the entire map. Of these, they have 100 victories on the first territory. This means they have 10% victory on that square.
The emerald horda have 3000 total victories. Of these, they have 150 victories on the first territory. So they have 5% victory on that square, therefore the ruby horde gets the point for that day.
At the end of each day, each horde gets one point for every territory they control (ie. they have the highest percentage).
At the end of the event, these points determine the rank of hordes.

More details
When you attack a territory, you will see the standing from the end of the previous day, but you will not see the additional victories gained during that given day.
Attack costs 1 duel point and 1 event point. Event points you can collect by hunting. If you win at least 65 times a day, additional attacks will cost 2 duel points.
Fight follows the same rules as huckster wars (no drain life, you can't lose SE). You can complete the critical spell/hit quests, and the stunning as well.
During the event, SWITCHING HORDE IS NOT PERMITTED.
Map finding skill is important. If it is at least 1/3 of your level, you will heal at the end of the battles, and have greater chance to find treasures.

Rewards.
At the end of the event, participating players will receive medals, which grant +stats similar to championship medals. These medals will have a duration (until the next Horde Wars).
There will be a bronze, silver, golden, platinum and diamond medal. Which you receive will depend on the rank of your horde and the number of victories you achieve. You can get a diamond medal even if your horde is third if you have enough victories.
Also, after each victorious battle, you will receive soul-energy, xp (same way as with the huckster event), and with some chance, treasure.
One of the treasures will be the horde trophy. Collect a number to exchange them for relic coupons and 2 unique relics.
Although the event will run for all worlds combined, there will be separate top10 lists for each worlds (number of victories and number of healing potions used). Top10 in each list will receive additional horde trophies.
During the event, we will be offering a package on daily offers which you can buy twice per day at most (t will contain duel and action point potion, healing potion and other goodies).

Date/time
The event starts on 16th of October, 8am EST (14pm CET). You can start collecting event points already from this Friday (11th of Oct).
The event lasts for 21 days.

We can do it in the future, I think the reason why it wasn't implemented so far, we did not want to make the interface more complicated (many people play the game from phones).

We added crystal horde for W4 to increase numbers of targets.

We want to make sure everyone can find enough targets during the Huckster Wars. We added extra crystal doomlords for every level today. You can also buy the Frozen Heart amulet (under relics) and the subplasma pack (under misc) to help find more targets. Please also check your duel settings! There are 2 options: you either get 30 duel points and can attack only equal or higher level players (this is the default for a new char!) or you get 15 duel points and can attack lower levels too. If you have the first setting, we recommend to change to the other. Please be aware though that the setting will reset your duel points. Good luck everyone!

Alexor:
Yes players will be able to see players from other worlds on the duel list and attack / rob them.
Don't completely understand the other question

Cruel:
When a fight includes a W3 character, it will be W3 rules. Still, due to different "habits" (W1 chars having a minimum SE, W3 chars having millions) it will be better strategy for "3 chars to spend most of their SE.
You can start a 2nd or 3rd char on the corresponding worlds. But there are many problems with having multiple characters in the same clan: one used for "building slave" giving support to each other etc. So you can play multiple characters, but they can't be in the same clan.

Sbart:
Highscore, top50, Lady Alvariel will be joined for all 3 worlds. Bricks will be put into a common pool. And yes, a W1 char can join a W2 lan.
Itt will be an effective merge, W1, W2 and W3 will have no other meaning besides being an extra "label" on your character next to your ID. (So your ID will be W1-123 instead of just 123).

The awards had to be added manually, we did it this morning.