A simple SQL query would have implemented 30% gold boost

_Sham_

I don't understand what's going on with Kabam always complicating things.

Game is already super bugged and yet they go add more code to just add 30% gold boost. And risk to create more bugs.

While a simple SQL query would have updated the database table. Would have took like 30 second of work.

When 30% boost is already approved why go through all that coding is beyond my comprehension. Are devlopers trying to justify their pay ? Or there is no one to guide them ? Or they really are completely out of touch of their own game ?

There is maybe a pattern here of why we seeing more and more bugs.

Daddrieda

Do you mean that they are creating more codes than necessary when most of the existing codes can be edited instead of creating brand new?

GroundedWisdom

This was a miscommunication, one that worked out in our favor. They initially increased the percentage of Gold overall. Meaning 15k versus other amounts. We understood per Crystal. So they adjusted it to our expectations. Not much room to complain outside of clearer explanations.

Daddrieda

That’s true as yours makes more sense

DNA3000

_Sham_ said:

I don't understand what's going on with Kabam always complicating things.

Game is already super bugged and yet they go add more code to just add 30% gold boost. And risk to create more bugs.

While a simple SQL query would have updated the database table. Would have took like 30 second of work.

When 30% boost is already approved why go through all that coding is beyond my comprehension. Are devlopers trying to justify their pay ? Or there is no one to guide them ? Or they really are completely out of touch of their own game ?

There is maybe a pattern here of why we seeing more and more bugs.

Well, I don't understand why people who know absolutely nothing about a subject still feel confident in making assertions about it, but here we are.

1. No code was added to the game to change the gold drops.

2. No amount of SQL can change the gold drops either.

3. Just because you only know one way of doing things, doesn't mean that's how it is done everywhere.

The idea seems to have been to simultaneously change a number of things in a number of ways, both increasing the drop values and the drop odds tables so that both the average return on the crystals was higher (by about 30%) and the odds of getting the higher drops was increases so they were less rare. This required changing drop values and drop percentages in a coordinated way. The problem was that players can see the value changes but not the odds changes, and were confused. Rather than try to explain what happened, the devs decided to change everything to a flat 30% increase which is universally visible and transparent, and requires no mathematical explanation.

In other words, they are going to change everything from something slightly better for the players but difficult to see and explain to something slightly worse for the players but obvious to see and explain, because they vastly underestimated the players ability to presume the worst.

ChiliDog

DNA3000 said:

_Sham_ said:

I don't understand what's going on with Kabam always complicating things.

Game is already super bugged and yet they go add more code to just add 30% gold boost. And risk to create more bugs.

While a simple SQL query would have updated the database table. Would have took like 30 second of work.

When 30% boost is already approved why go through all that coding is beyond my comprehension. Are devlopers trying to justify their pay ? Or there is no one to guide them ? Or they really are completely out of touch of their own game ?

There is maybe a pattern here of why we seeing more and more bugs.

Well, I don't understand why people who know absolutely nothing about a subject still feel confident in making assertions about it, but here we are.

1. No code was added to the game to change the gold drops.

2. No amount of SQL can change the gold drops either.

3. Just because you only know one way of doing things, doesn't mean that's how it is done everywhere.

The idea seems to have been to simultaneously change a number of things in a number of ways, both increasing the drop values and the drop odds tables so that both the average return on the crystals was higher (by about 30%) and the odds of getting the higher drops was increases so they were less rare. This required changing drop values and drop percentages in a coordinated way. The problem was that players can see the value changes but not the odds changes, and were confused. Rather than try to explain what happened, the devs decided to change everything to a flat 30% increase which is universally visible and transparent, and requires no mathematical explanation.

In other words, they are going to change everything from something slightly better for the players but difficult to see and explain to something slightly worse for the players but obvious to see and explain, because they vastly underestimated the players ability to presume the worst.

I agree completely, except for one piece. Although some of the people in the forums may incorrectly believe 2+5×3=21, instead of 17; I don't believe that it would be hard to explain statistics (/drop rates) on crystals correctly.

I am probably one of the few though that support (what should be unnecessary) government overreach for fully divulging the chances in gaming crystals, since it has become legalized gambling for minors.

AverageDesi

DNA3000 said:

_Sham_ said:

I don't understand what's going on with Kabam always complicating things.

Game is already super bugged and yet they go add more code to just add 30% gold boost. And risk to create more bugs.

While a simple SQL query would have updated the database table. Would have took like 30 second of work.

When 30% boost is already approved why go through all that coding is beyond my comprehension. Are devlopers trying to justify their pay ? Or there is no one to guide them ? Or they really are completely out of touch of their own game ?

There is maybe a pattern here of why we seeing more and more bugs.

In other words, they are going to change everything from something slightly better for the players but difficult to see and explain to something slightly worse for the players but obvious to see and explain, because they vastly underestimated the players ability to presume the worst.

I don't think it's fair to place this on the players. They should have made this clearer in the og post

Aburaees

I had a similar thought when AW ended early. If I want to add up something in a database and change the cut-off date, changing the date parameters in the WHERE clause seems a simple way to do it. But it turns out there’s a complexity involved that I’m not appreciating.