In the next version, there will be an overview of the current daily quests in-game.
This is a new card located one swipe next to the current game statistics.
Big thanks to @Kami for the idea!
This is a long promised post about the new immobilize system introduced with the Dawn of Light release last Christmas.
Immobilize abilities are those who alter the movement of creeps: Time Warp, Knockback, Stun and Slow.
Steady creeps (or Vir) are totally immune to those abilities.
All other creeps have an immobilize resistance. Initially, that resistance is 0%. When chance based immobilize abilities are rolled, the chance is first reduced by the current immobilize resistance of the creep.
Whenever a creep is immobilized it gains +10% immobilize resistance. Also the immobilize resistance is steadily reduced at a rate of -10%/second.
For instance, a level 99 Beaver has about 20% chance to stun. Here's an example of what would happen:
Sorry it took so long to write this post! If you have any questions, please drop me a comment, I'm happy to answer all of them :-)
| Event | Effective chance | Immobilize resistance |
|---|---|---|
| Creep spawned | 20% | 0% |
| Beaver attacks but does not stun | 20% | 0% |
| Beaver attacks and stuns | 10% | 10% |
| Simulation is updated (100ms) | 11% | 9% |
| Simulation is updated (100ms) | 12% | 8% |
| Beaver attacks and stuns | 2% | 18% |
| Simulation is updated (100ms) | 3% | 17% |
@Evnov suggested to add different backgrounds for Nature und Metropolis towers.
I finally gave it a shot and think I will include it in the next update.
Let me know how you like this change :-)
When the DoL season is over, Frog will receive a significant buff.
This tower was meant to be a feared boss-killer. But currently our little Frog is very underpowered.
Frog is going to get the Toxic decomposition ability, causing his venom to penetrate 30% armor. Plus, the poison damage per level will be increased from 1% to 2%.
I hope we're going to see more Frog builds after this change.
What do you think? Would you give him a chance after the buff?
The forum now tracks what posts you have read!
For me it was exhausting to track what forum threads I've already read. I think I also missed a few posts and may not have responded as frequent as I should have.
From now on the amount of unread posts is shown as a badge 1. This badge is shown for the forum menu entry, the forum page and for each category listing.
It keeps track on a per post basis, so aggregated numbers are shown. For instance:
Forum menu entry shows 5
News shows 3
The news page shows 1 for a news you haven't seen yet.
Once you open up a thread it is marked as read for you.
If you don't see any: Note that you need to be logged in to see the forum badges.
Let me know what you think!
This weekend I did mostly maintenance work on the server.
Since the amount of data in the DB outgrew the mariadb default settings, I did some fine-tuning of buffer sizes and binlogs. You probably won't notice it, but the DB update time is now pretty fast. It used to be 18ms, with the growing data it went up to 80ms and is now about 2ms on average. Pretty cool!
I've added a little feature as well: The stats page now shows the current players (what was displayed in the sidebar in the old wordpress days). You can check it out here.
Here's the current Scepter of Time situation (thanks @Diamuid Ua Dhiboune for bringing this up):
- You gain one copy if you invest the skill point
- You gain another copy (if you are in single player) once hitting bonus round
- Equipping the scepter does nothing, but grants an active ability
- Triggering the ability toggles the game speed: 1x (normal), 2x (currently 1 scepter), 3x (new), 4x (currently 2 scepters)
- The effect is global: Every player with a scepter can trigger it and the changed speed is applied to the entire game