Monday, June 24, 2019

Pendoria's New Direction

Endless Tower Is A No Go?

For quite a while the Developer of Pendoria, Maria, has been working on a feature known as The Endless Tower, however as of yesterday Xortrox (The Owner of Pendoria) released a "Small announcement" which I personally think is a big deal. Endless Tower is now postponed for an unknown time frame, which means that it could never come.

So What Now?

Maria has released what she would do after Endless Tower before, that is what she is working on now. She has an entire "Guild Rework" planned, which will include the following;
  • Custom Guild Ranks, which was suggested by me in month one while Zampa was still doing Q&As.
  • Guild Armories, which have long been promised by Xortrox.
  • Much more guild QoL which should help a ton.
  • Something related to making guild levels relevant, we don't have much detail.
All in all, Maria is now working on non-content changes to guilds, and many more QoL changes that should improve the overall quality of the game. Reactions to this were mixed however everyone seems ready to cheer on the updates outlined above.

Who is Evelyn?

Evelyn, the Admin that was just promoted from player to Admin less than 3 weeks ago, stepped down from his position which was defined as "admin/partial developer". This came as much of a shock as his initial promotion did, I'm confused as to what this was all about, especially since Maria promised no more staff changes for a while.

Anything Else?

Nothing else has really changed besides a few little edits. A few QoL updates, some bug fixes, and no more please refresh pop-ups constantly. Also, you can now decide to look naked and take your title off, it looks weird. Final thing, if you invested your invasion points without thinking, you can now reset them the same way you can rhodium boosts.

That's It?

So that's all that has changed recently, I plan on doing more of these so if you liked this post please leave an up vote, if you disliked it tell me why in the comment section and I'll consider your opinion. This series of posts is archived below if you missed the last update(s).

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If you don't care, click the first one, it doesn't hurt you at all.

Friday, June 7, 2019

Pendoria's Recent Changes

What?

Recently quite a few changes have been made to Pendoria, I have decided to write up a post detailing the recent changes of Pendoria from a positive point of view. The idea for this came from Aylea but as we all know, she can't write with a positive attitude. So without further delay lets get to it.

Scraptown Catch-up mechanic

Anyone behind on their Scraptown just got a major buff, anyone 10 levels behind the current player with the #1 Rank in that building, get a 2% speed increase for every level they are behind. This changes some player's days of waiting to a mere 2 hours, new players Scraptown's will certainly have a bright future.

Armory Boosting Gear Value

Armory levels now effect the scrapping value of gear, on each piece of gear a 1% Spare Part value increase will be applied for every armory level on that specific piece of gear. For those ahead in their Scraptown's Armory level, this is a major buff to income.

Another Satchel Balance

The Satchel inside the Dungeon Tools (the resource % increase boost) just got a major re-balance, it now costs the same as the Battle counterpart (which makes it cheaper) but now the increase for each level is now 5% instead of 5.5%, this has been done to prevent the need for future changes to this boost, therefore we can all agree that this is a good change.

Rhodium Boosts Uncapped

Rhodium Boosts, which were capped to prevent ulta-high boosts are now uncapped! You can purchase a cap increase (Global Exp Boost by 5%, Global Drop Boost by 1%, and SP Boost by 1%) for 16.20b gold and 540m of any resource, this cost goes up each purchase and you do still need to pay the rhodium to increase the boost itself as this just increases the cap, according to Maria this is soft capped by the cost and so we will not see extremely high boosts. We do not yet know if this is a change for the better as it is yet to be seen.

Daily Bound SP

You can purchase up to 75k Bound Spare Parts from the NPC Store that costs 1K Gold per 1K SP, the cost goes up 1K for every 1K SP purchased. This has increased the amount of SP in the game by a very large amount.

Ingots For Rhodium

You can now purchase bound rhodium using Rhodium Ingots within the NPC Store, this is good for anyone with 100% dungeon uptime that have excess or for anyone with terrible dungeon tools. Karubo the math wizard has been generous enough to add a comparison (TSers Only!) on his ROI sheet so that TSers can calculate this and know whether or not it's truly worth it for them.
Karubo's ROI Sheet: https://tiny.cc/KaruboROI

Refresh Popup

Another QoL feature, no longer will people toss and toil over fixed bugs, a popup will show every time the server reboots, they have a commented out TODO in the code stating that this should only be done when the client's code changes, but that has not yet been done. Some players have chosen to complain, others are thankful, I do think this is a good addition however I will say that the popup is quite annoying.

See Those Whom Fail To Appreciate Your Messages

A small QoL feature, but a fun one; You can now see anyone whom has '/ignore' -ed you simply by typing '/ignoredby', my list was shorter than I was expecting, but no matter.

Goodbye Gale

And the last thing on my list, a change of staff positions. The long time Admin Gale "no longer has the time to" continue his duties on Pendora and "has asked to step down as admin". This was a shocking event despite that I have seen Gale become less active as of late. Evelyn, a player whom I know next to nothing about has been promoted directly from normal player to an admin, I have personally had an awkward conversation with Gale to serve as a 'I appreciate you' sort of thing. I wonder what 'Admin Evelyn' will do in the future, we'll all have to wait and see.

That's It

So as my list has ended I will tell you that this is all of importance that has changed on Pendoria recently, I hope this message serves to bring old players back, educate curious readers on what has changed, and convince at least one person to try the game out. This is my first 'News' post about Pendoria, so if you have any criticism, don't worry, I'm not soft skinned. This series of posts is archived below if you missed the last update(s).

Join Pendoria If You Haven't!

If you haven't joined Pendoria it's never too late to start playing! Below I have a referral link that helps me out on the game if you click it and sign up, so please click that link, however if you don't want to you can click the other link.

If you don't care, click the first one, it doesn't hurt you at all.