Recent posts by TheRealJackBlood on Kongregate

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / TWS Penalized

I’m not going to say who was responsible. That’s for the guild to sort out and deal with if they want. I will say that they obviously tested what the limits of abuse were and went beyond them. There was a rule limiting levels lower than 20 from attacking high level players so you can’t create low level alts and give your guild wins. They leveled their alts to 20 to get around the rule. I increased the level for that rule to 50. They added low level alts to the guild so they could use hundreds of additional low level alts to attack and lose to the new guildies. Just not the kind of behavior you can allow in a game of this sort.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / done with this damn game!

Just to set the record straight (I’m a dev) – all items are stored on the server. It’s impossible for everything to get wiped out. The game has been live for over a year and nobody has ever lost their inventory. This was most likely a client-side javascript issue which a refresh (CTRL-F5 or similar) would fix.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / HTML5 going to kill flash games?

This game doesn’t use flash – html and javascript and the game is not going to die. The game is HTML5 compatible ;-).

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Let's get CoH android reviewed!

We won!!! Thanks very much to everyone who voted! If you want to see a video of 2 google guys drinking beer while looking at CoH on an android tablet, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UOzIQc4Gv4&feature=related

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Bug in herenvale

Where are you trying to look at it? I check the profile and market, and it is working for me. Here is the url of the image:

http://herenvale.s3.amazonaws.com/images/items/weapons/sw_shadow_masters_blade.png

Does that come up for you?

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Platinum Nerf from a Design Perspective

I want to reply to the original post from Sir Valimont at least along the lines of one concern. I basically agree with you and don’t want you to think I’m trying to exploit players. At the same time, I don’t want players exploiting the game. The game wasn’t changed in relation to new players. The change impacted the farming of lower tier raids by higher level players. I’d argue that the game has given more over time rather than less. Let’s take a look at the Rings of Summoning. These rings unleash raid bosses for free whereas those same raid bosses used to cost platinum or at least the only way to summon them was with platinum. The “free” bosses are the same tier that is currently appropriate for the player (usually 4 or 5) while the boss that was destroyed might be 2 or 3. A net win for the player. Given the high plat drop rate when a high level player solo’ed a lower tier (or had relatively few attackers involved), this made or makes farming lower tiers very attractive – raid master, raid killer, 1st place/2nd place, etc plat bonuses in addition to the chance of summoning a higher tier stam boss. The strategy was simply launch as many gold (energy) bosses as possible and farm as much plat and stam raids as possible. The player can also share the “free” raids so many benefit not just the owner of the ring. I think the changes that were made to reduce high level players farming of lower tier raids for plats were “fair” and don’t really impact any new players. The changes reduce the plat drop rates if the boss is lower than tier 4 and the player is level 80 or higher.

Online games are a constant evolution and some features are added that “break” an existing design. It’s a challenge to maintain the balance, and the players get to judge how successful additions and changes are. I thought the rings would be fun for the players who have them and benefit those players who don’t always have the gold/platinum for a raid of their own as free raids were created. There were obviously other “side effects” and I really don’t mind for the most part. However, I did feel like the system was being abused.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Bugs in the Game. (Put all of them here)

Bkilgore1, I believe the term is “pulling your leg”. Don’t believe everything you read on the interwebs. 1149 is currently the max.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Bugs in the Game. (Put all of them here)

v1sag3, please try it now.

MydizWeljump, I’ll look at ie8. You might try Chrome. I haven’t tested popup blocker and smart screen filter – it’s just too difficult to test every combination that people use. If you can tell me which weapons don’t provide info, I’ll get them fixed.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Bugs in the Game. (Put all of them here)

Hugo, please try refreshing your browser cache and let me know if that clears up the problem: http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser’s-Cache

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Bugs in the Game. (Put all of them here)

It’s back – amazon rebooted the database server due to an update and it got a new IP address. Sorry about the down time.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / challenge fixs

Actually, we’re debating what to do. We agree with the sentiment. For example, we could expire the challenges nightly (or every other day) and credit the challenger. Or we could give the challenger the option to take 2 free points or leave the challenge after 24 hours or something like that.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Suggestions

Nan, I’ve updated the code so it refreshes that list every hour.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Bugs in the Game. (Put all of them here)

I’m looking into the issue where the “spend stat pts” link is in the wrong place. If you can post what browser, version and operating system you are using, that will be helpful in tracking down the issue. Here is a site that will give you the system info necessary if you want to just copy/paste the line at the top that has your browser info: http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/browser_id.shtml

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Suggestions

Good suggestion, Nan. [And I know ppl have suggested in the past.] I’ll see what I can do.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Loot Chance 10% on quest is a lie

Quests only drop fire and lightning. The Book 3 raids drop the others.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Bugs in the Game. (Put all of them here)

Hella, I’ve seen that happen. It was caused by some sort of browser plug-in that was interfering with the game’s code. It was a while ago but if I remember correctly, the plug-in cached some of the code and was supposed to speed up browsing the web.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / about corvinus

Try it now – it would be helpful if you’re playing the game on FB to post over there or email support@mososh.com :-).

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / the art?

What do you mean by full art? You want a high-res image?

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Private Arena

There will be a blue SUMMON button that will show you the link you need to give people when you click on it. If you want to share it publicly, you have to do that just after the arena is created when the SHARE button is shown.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Suggestions

Goontra, I think that’s a kong thing. It’s using the game’s image I believe.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Suggestions

Sim, I see what you’re saying, but my personal belief is that you can’t have too many. The example that comes to my mind is that I’ve never walked into a book store and thought to myself, “I wish they would stop writing these things.” I like to express my creativity, program these types of systems and my artists love creating the game art. I hope that people enjoy playing (and if they don’t I’ll try to work on the reasons why they don’t and make this game and/or my next one better). I like to think that CoH has some originality as was discussed here (based on the Facebook version) even though as you’ve said there are obvious similarities to things that are out there: http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2011/02/01/mososh-brings-more-rpg-originality-to-facebook-with-chronicles-of-herenvale/

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Wiki Get!

I think this is it: http://chroniclesofherenvale.wikia.com/wiki/Chronicles_Of_Herenvale_Wiki

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Allies - Weapons

Higher damage = better for raids.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Compare

That’s the funny thing about “code”. Sometimes things that seem simple aren’t quite as simple as they look. Anyway, are you saying you like it better with no info or just that it could be better? I’ll add the weapon damage today then (I think) the only thing missing will be specials but usually people know what items have specials as they’re pretty rare. They guys in chat last night seemed to like the extra info but it might not be perfect for everyone. I hope it’s useful for the majority of people but if I find that a lot of people don’t like it, I can always take it out.

Topic: Chronicles of Herenvale / Need Help

Knowledge actually does 3 things (all related) but the biggest impact is on your chance to hit. It also increases your chance of a critical hit slightly and increases your chance to penetrate your opponent’s armor so you’ll do more damage. It does not reduce your opponent’s damage. Your armor and your strength reduce your opponent’s damage.