Greetings, Admirals!
In this Dev Note, we would like to go over our plans for the Blitz Defense & Island Exploration features.
Since last October, we’ve been sharing and updating our Admirals about our plans regarding the Blitz Defense via Dev Notes and have been applying some changes as we’ve progressed.
After carefully reviewing all of the feedback sent from our Admirals since then, we’ve decided to keep the previous Blitz Defense XP acquisition rates the same, increase the rewards and add more benefits for Blitz Defense Lv.60 and Lv. 70.
As noted previously, we’ve informed our Admirals that we will continue to pay close attention to the vital game features that directly effects your overall gameplay, and exhaust the resources we have at our disposal to prevent any complications, and more specifically, address any potential for exploitation that may rise, ultimately harmfully impacting the gameplay.
That said, we have not only been closely listening to feedback our Admirals provide, but we’ve been actively monitoring the game over the past 3 months and have come to the decision that the current Blitz Defense meta has been utilized in a such way that is counter to the intended design, negatively impacting the gameplay environment for many Alliances.
Several Admirals have reached out to us about this issue, justifiably pointing out that the current, core feature use is not well-balanced, which makes it difficult for them to suitably sustain the extraordinary requirements associated with the gameplay needed from their Alliance. Also, such gameplay patterns have caused a significant gap in the growth spectrum, adversely impacting the overall game balance; a burden of accountability that inadvertently falls upon our Admirals.
We are very aware that the Blitz Defense is currently one of the vital features in the game, a feature that is intentionally designed to provide additional benefits to Alliance comp and individual Admirals. Blitz is a top-tier, end-game feature that is designed to encourage group cohesion, use of tactics and fun playing together. However, it seems that the current incentive is rather disheartening and discouraged many Admirals, persuading some to leave their Alliances. This is absolutely counter to the original design.
This must change. However, the kind of change needed, the comprehensive function changes needed are complex, but we’re up for the challenge.
As we implement the changes needed to Blitz Defense and monitor the needed stabilization within the Alliance community, we will begin Blitz Ship XP event.
As we progress through the development process, we plan to make improvements to the [Alliance: Increase Blitz Defense Member] that is found in the Alliance Research tab as soon as possible so that more Admirals can participate in Blitz Defense.
For now, it is our goal to implement the discussed plan by early March.
As optimistic as we are, realistically, there will be some aspects of the content improvement plan that cannot be implemented right away. Even at this moment, we are currently discussing the details regarding what the best direction of implementation will be. However, we will do our absolute best to do what we can - as soon as we can, so we kindly ask for your patience and understanding.
We will do our best to prepare an execute the improvements in a manner that truly encompasses the intended design: encouraging alliance members to cooperate.
Considering that the significance of the improvement measures noted are needed to ensure a fair and safe gameplay environment, we ask for your understanding and will continue to share more details of our development plans via the Notice Board.
Secondly, we would like to discuss the updates on the Island Exploration (BETA).
The Island Exploration has been added in hopes that it would be a challenging content for Admirals to achieve for various rewards.
Originally, we did plan to continue further developing the content after monitoring the BETA version, but it was concluded that it will be difficult to improve such monotony of the play that is implemented in the game and change it to something that many Admirals will utilize and enjoy.
That said, inevitably, we have decided to end the Island Exploration (BETA).
■ The schedule for the ending of the Island Exploration (BETA): End of February ~ March Update in 2023
※ The exact schedule will be announced via Notice Board.
Even though the Island Exploration (BETA) will end, we will do our absolute best to provide more contents that will satisfy our Admirals.
※ The contents and schedule in the development note may be adjusted due to internal circumstances.
Thank you.
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