Version 0.9 launch info

[garvisus]

Maybe allowing the paladin to purchase a third HP for 25 XP will take some of the sting out of capping leadership at 10?

[smursh]

Not for me. Increasing his hits has little value since you would only buy this after maxing his other skills. I don't want my high level hero to be just a cheap barbarian. I would rather buy a DN so I could max out with a strong bonus at very high levels, or an assassin for the ambush, or one of the other heroes with high situational leadership.

[KGB]

It will all depend on map size. On smaller (50 and 75x) maps you won't even notice because it's rare you will get to L7 where he would have reached +13 Leadership. On mid size maps (100x) it will depend on the number of players while on large size you'll never use him because L7 will be much more common to achieve.

To me it's strange why he has been cut off at L5 from progressing any further as a useful hero other than adding a tiny bit of group move and group ambush. No other hero stops progressing that early or at such a low bonus with no other useful group skill to improve. Virtually every specialty hero dwarfs his numbers now with their top numbers. At least if he was allowed to reach +13 at L7 he'd be playable on a lot more maps.

KGB

[smursh]

Going back to some of the other changes I was wondering how the matchmaking feature will work. I set up a couple and am waiting for replys. When a match is found does it set up the game on a randomly chosen map? Or does it just notify the players who is interested.

Just curious really.

[piranha]

smursh, there are a couple of people who are waiting to be matched. The problem is that we haven't started the script that is going to look for matches yet because I couldn't test it until we did the move to ver09 so I'll test it any day now. Just been trying to fix other problems we noticed since we launched.

The idea is that the script will run with a few minutes interval and connect players and start the game.

[Omen]

Something minor: Please highlight "inbox" when new messages arrive, so people won't miss them

[Omen]

Hm, I can't send new messages after 0.9. What I mean is that I can reply to old messages, but the new ones that I compose don't go to anyone except me. Please look it up.

[Nighthawk]

Is the matchmaking script running yet?

[Nighthawk]

Looks like the matchmaking process has kicked off...two things:

1. It's displaying weird on my account page in that the shield emblems are not showing (i'm guessing b/c no color shield was selected by the players).

2. It'd be nice to get a message sent to our personal e-mail and inbox when the game starts (especially when the turn limit is 1 day).

[piranha]

I just started the script after working on it all week. Probably going to be a couple of bugs because it's pretty hard to make a full testing of it. You are the first player to be matched . I had to use all the others who tried to be matched for my experimenting .
Going to look into why the shields don't display correct. Probably something is slightly off with the data because you should have received a email if you have that on as well.