Discussion on Dev Q&A Feb 2024

[rain ocean]

This is NOT the Q&A channel, this is for discussion regarding replies from the Q&A.

Q&A can be found here: https://discord.com/channels/465846009164070912/1207140423923933274

Discussion on Dev Q&A Feb 2024

[static quiver]

I like the fact that any tournament has the ability to be featured in game and request a free map of the week. That could be very useful for growing the community

In response to this: #1207140423923933274 message Even though the Devs did not respond positively to game logic being shared on their end I think we should keep pushing for more access to that. I do not believe that them providing it would provide an unfair advantage to anyone. In fact I think it would do the opposite. As it is now only a very select few have access to the backend tools that some have worked very hard to reverse engineer including:

• Zombie pathing maps
• Disconnection maps
• Bot logic
• Odds calculators (with troop losses)

Having SMG create a forum with this information would open up that information to everyone and make it easier for players around the board.

As a principle I believe we should also have access to the tiebreakers in ranked. Not sure why that's not available information. It currently happens in the game and we should have the ability know what place we got in a game.

[rare marsh]

I kinda expected many of these answers, to be the way they were. The last Q&A was also very centered around the network overhaul (which is a huge project for the game).

So it's kinda obvious that this eats up most of the dev resources at the moment. I still appreciate that they take the time to give us some feedback regardless.

It's a bit unfortunate that we got such a clear no about game logic (ranked tiebreaker especially), because reverse engineering that would require severe break of the fair play rules.

[rain ocean]

Can't who won be tested in pass&play or casual private? (The winning conditions would still apply for the final placements)

At worst I could also confirm placements from a game (e.g if you've put 4 separate tiebreaker type items at the time victory would occur, can see which is prioritised over others)

[rare marsh]

Not really because in a 70% game the winner wins and the rest doesn't, and stats only show win or loss, and not 2nd 3rd and so on

Speed blitz doesn't have the troop capacity to test the impact of troops in a meaningful way

[rain ocean]

Yeah I can confirm here and there, it'd be good if it's for example:
GameID_1 - playerA win, playerB has X playerC has Y, to confirm if playerB or playerC is 2nd
GameID_2 - etc

[rare marsh]

Like when someone cap runs it could say Third instead of defeat

But changing such a thing would be a lot of work for very little benefit, that's why I wanted to know the logic behind it

[rain ocean]

It'd be nice if placement was listed beside the friend IDs but it only really works if not already friends

Otherwise yeah still quite a bit of work as adding a new screen for it

[rare marsh]

There is already a screen in the game that could be remodeled for it

[static quiver]

To be clear you can do this for a casual private game? Like if we gave you a game ID for a 70% game you could tell us who got 2nd/3rd/etc?

[rain ocean]

Yeah, just not something that should be spammed 😄 a list of ids and I can check list of placements

[static quiver]

Understood and good to know. I’m sure we will get around to testing this. Thanks!

[rare marsh]

The screen I'm talking about