Reign Of Blood News BlogFor all major news announcements for the online vampire game, Reign Of Blood.Blood Letters V3, bank interest changes, Inventory & other changesPosted on 22-Sep-2010Been working on quite a few things the last week. Some new exciting features and some changes that some may not be too happy about, but necessary. Sitting tight? Here goes! UGC Card changesFor those that use the Ultimate game cards you can now see some new packs as well as the monthly packs I added to the Paypal page a month back. Metal Man II & V quest IIAs you've probably already noticed there is a new V quest (ha) and a new Metal Man (Grim) quest. I wonder what he's building? Rank Up noticeYou no longer level up automatically per se. When you complete a battle, hunt, quest etc it checks if you have more blood than your max and gives you a rank up notice and then ranks you up. The blood bar no longer stretches over the limit if you have more blood than blood max. Drop down menu editsThere has been a couple very small changes to the drop down menu, one of which is explained below. InventoryFor reasons explained below there is now a new inventory section. Which in its first stage, doesn't do a lot. You know when you send gifts to each other? Well now you actually get the gift. They'll be stored in your inventory. In the future more things can be added to store in there & quests can be spawn from this. You can hold up to 50 items at this time. Bank Interest changesI've made some changes to the bank interest system. Because of abuse of the interest system I've made the interest rank based. The interest is still 1% a day, and every day at the main reset you get the 1% added with the new caps (explained below) and a news notification to let you know how much you earn. Oh, and you must have at least $100 in your bank to get any interest. Rank Interest Cap 1-9 $1,000 (First $100,000 gets interest) 10-19 $10,000 (First $1,000,000 gets interest) 20-29 $20,000 (First $2,000,000 gets interest) 30-49 $30,000 (First $3,000,000 gets interest) 50-74 $40,000 (First $4,000,000 gets interest) 75-99 $45,000 (First $4,500,000 gets interest) 100+ $50,000 (First $5,000,000 gets interest) please note this is the first version, changes may be made soon For example, if you're rank 20 you'll be in the 3rd tier, which means you'll get a cap of $20,000 interest a day. Which means that if you have $100,000 in the bank you'd get $1000 interest. If you had $10million in your bank you'd get $20,000 because only the first $2million earns interest. VIP members get a + 20% bonus after caps VIP+ members get an extra + 10% bonus after caps (25% total if you have both VIP days and VIP+ days) So using the example above and you're rank 20 (and you have VIP and VIP+ days) with $10million in the bank you'd earn $20,000, then + 20% ($4,000) and then +10% ($2,000) which gives you a grand total of $26,000 daily interest. So the maximum interest you can earn (being rank 100 and having VIP and VIP+ days) is $65,000 a day. This will also give another incentive to rank up. Obviously a lot of people won't be happy with this because the majority of people will be getting less bank interest. But at the end of the day, its FREE money you're getting from the system. So some better than none right? Rank up and get more :) Blood Letters V3 Blood letter changes! A complete overhaul of the blood letter system that will come to a shock to start with (it is different!) but once you play around with it for a while you'll learn to love it like we do. Sitting tight? Blood letters v3 works on a 'thread' system similar to the forum setup. When you send someone a blood letter for the first time it creates a new 'thread' between you and the person you just sent a blood letter too. The message than appears on the blood letter homepage as it always has, but when they click it will it take it to the thread you started. At that point they can reply to the thread that adds a message into the thread itself which then sends you a notification (like before) of a new message where you can view the reply. The messages you send will have a dark background and the messages you receive will be a lighter coloured background so you can quickly and easily tell the messages you sent. Blood letter homepage works like the news page, the messages you see are not the actual message like before, they are just notifications of a new thread or new messages in a current thread. If someone adds 3 messages to a thread before you get chance to look at it again you will get 3 notifications on the blood letter homepage even though its 3 messages added to one thread. In this scenario when you click on one of the unread notifications it will mark all unread notifications linked to that thread as read. Notifications on the blood letter page can be deleted but the actual thread messages CANNOT be deleted. They are deleted automatically after 30 days of inactivity (subject to change). So it does not matter if you're not using the thread anymore, just delete the notification link to it and forget about it. Saved messages work the same, threads cannot be saved but individual can be, click the save image next to the message itself. Sent messages has changed a bit, they work on the notifications, you can still see if a message has been read or not. You can no longer mark a message as unread, but you can flag them by clicking "Flag messages" when viewing a message thread. You can now longer view the message that was sent, only the subject and whether its been read or not. Messages will no longer disappear if the receiver deletes the messages, although you won't know if they deleted it, it'll stay marked as read. Unfortunately, you can longer search by message. The old blood letters can still be accessed via the link at the top of the page for a couple weeks. Unfortunately saved messages cannot be transferred over. So if you have any messages of importance, you'll have to transfer them over manually. Some of the automated services (i.e. new player welcome bl) will be transferred to the new over the next day or so. Gift Shop changesAs said above, gifts are now sent to your inventory with a news notification instead of just a blood letter, so you'll no longer see blood letter notification of gifts from the gift shop. The bank interest, inventory & blood letters are running in BETA just in-case any bugs find their way to the surface or I have to make any necessary changes. As you can see, lots of changes! Gonna relax now and have a drink. Next month will be a cool month, with lots of Halloween events. Next month hopefully we'll do a review of the coven wars & a couple other features that need improving. Post feedback or ask questions on any of these updates here Post any bugs here Thank you! Enjoy, Ash |
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