https://iourpg.com/forum/ Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:47:22 +0000 MyBB https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2619 Sat, 16 Feb 2019 01:57:36 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2619 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2612 Sat, 06 Oct 2018 22:16:58 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2612 Guild wars! With results based more on participation (enrol, meet timed objectives) than actual guiild level. Maybe use a secondary currency o arm/explore guild.
- If we tackle anything like this it wont be for a long time. I prefer competition via parallel where it isn't specifically verse another guild.

Would it be possible to add Wishing Well to the Building Restrictions panel to prevent new players wasting their gold?
- Live and learn newbies! If this is highly desired among the community I have no issue working it out.

Also the new members club button, instead of taking us to the guild can it take us to the building itself so we don't have to scroll over to it?
- Late to reply to this. Was done.

Short version: Update party card totals on map change or a command with a minute timer on it to manually call for that information)
Long version: Can it update party information on map change? Or if not on map change for server spam reason, perhaps a command with a timer on it and it would tell us how long before we could use the command again? Specifically for card totals on current mob. It can take minutes for that information to change and it makes optimizing card hunting a drag waiting for everyones information for the current map to load so you know if you can want to stay at the current map as a party or move to the next one because everyone already has the current goal.
- We are currently working on a major new parsing for personal stat information with the Unity client that will be previewable soon. With that in mind we'll look at expanding parsing of party members as well.

Now that mining is on its way to a healthy daily/weekly growth instead of relying on Dynamite pushes and that dynamite damage carries over next mine, would you consider either: 
::removing the trophy and making the dynamite 8000 base damage so we can also spend our dynamite on this daily/weekly basis without the headache of respeccing it ?
::removing the cap on the trophy to make it a bit more worth it?
This might be necessary especially if you release other AP sinks(will you?) that will render dynamite(other than the free ones) pretty much useless.
- I'm working on a major revamp of the mining as it is. It will likely contradict your points here.

Higher max nrg capacity?
- I feel like it's in a good spot currently, so probably not.

What is the long-term plan for wood?  Is your plan to have a valuable long-term sink for wood such that investing in wood production improvements is a good long-term strategy, or is the intention to keep mining capped such that players with decent wood production will always be at the maximum mine level with no other sinks for wood?
- I'm looking at a significant revamp of mining to raise the depth cap, along with raising the wood tree cap to up to 70

Can we have a timer on event, maybe just days/hours. to know the time till its over? so we could plan accordingly
- Unfortunately my life is too chaotic right now to be able to assure specific times. When Unity comes along, if I can get Jay & Kay to manage these things safely, then that will be possible.

Will we have a +1 stone chance orb?
- Nope. It would devalue too much over time, or be too powerful if otherwise.

Would it be possible to at least remove confirmation  (YES/NO) when unlocking a new node in PetMap? It could save already a lot of clicks when reseting map. It could be enable/disable in options.

- Removed that confirmation completely for the next patch.

QoL featire: allow to save specs for ascension points distribution/trophy points/legendary points, all combined. Allow us to switch to those specs instantly. Either calculate AP cost outcome on fly or give it a fixed cost. maybe even separate em into Asc/Trophy/Leg pts and have like 3-5 slots to save. IF its not too time consuming. Its not too hard ot spend an hour or two per month just clicking/assigning/reassigning. But sometimes due to haste you just forget some parts and meet the consequences, cuz it quickly gets old
- Unfortunately I doubt we would be able to set this up in a clean way.

Can we get a gold logs orb?
- Yes probably.

To Ray/Jay/any_developer_of_this_game: I have 2 questions. 
1. Did you think to do something with PVP in this game or it will stay the thing at which most people don't want spend a second? 
2. If you want to make reset of ships possible, may be we need also 2 branches for ships builds in the game (PVP and PVE)? Thank you.
- 1: I don't think people want us looking at PvP really right now to even improve it.
- 2: That is probably something we could do down the road. It won't have such a feature when the reset ability hits soon though.

Another QoL change - better distinguish locked/unlocked guild buildings. im not blind but i have to put my face RIGHT into the monitor at 10inch distance to visually distinguish an unlocked building from all the locked ones. but usually i end up clicking all the buildings. iunno maybe im doing something wrong. i tried awful/best quality of flash. you cant really distinguish em
i know ppl write it in the guild disclaimer. usually. but that doest help the fact that without it its hard to find a building. maybe if only once is active give its some ouline/shine something
- This is something I can bring up to Kay for the Unity version. I agree as i've had the same feeling with that window.

Add a reminder for daily pet arena claims. We have ones for wood/stone/pet train/fishing/membership claim, but not for fasttracking pet arena. Would be pretty useful
And make it appear before the pet train one so we do that before training and be more efficient 
- Added to my short-list. No promises though.


Maybe implement train all for pets so it trains both pets as much as it can
- Added to short-list. Might be able to get this rolling.

Can you guys add mine depth and current tree of guild members to the /export command?
This would be useful, in order to aid guild members improving their rank in the guild. Calculating statistics, and making calculated decisions based on the stats of the members of the guild.
- Export at this point will no longer be updated for the flash version, sorry.

Will the next event have cumulative energy claim? This is one thing the upgraded rpg event had right! energy claim automatic and unlimited! If you wish to wait until you have 600 to spend thats fine, if you spend daily it is also fine... please make it so for the match event !!
- The next event is Halloween now, and should have that.

Add another button in the mining interface "Mine Level" which only finishes your current level. Would be useful to people who aren't at maximum depth.
- Mining is getting a big revamp shortly

What is the time estimate on Unity release now?
- Test version for feedback as we continue to work on it should be out within the week. For Live? Will be a while.

Do you and the members of your team play iou and have characters of your own? Besides test. And leave them running 24/7?
- I used to all the time. Unfortunately I couldn't keep up with it. Isael & Kay play a bit, and Lynn I believe is fairly active.

Make a dynamite version for the tree, maybe that would be an idea... I always find that tree is the limiting factor for moving deeper in mine
- This has been suggested a lot but just hasn't ever received such a mechanic.

Can we please draw pet food tiles in event a lil differently? maybe make em darker or something? when you have both pet food any dynamite pop up, they look all too similar. hard to distinguish on glance, probably if desaturate it a lil, or just make a lil darker, or a lil different background or something. ofc only a few thousand ppl will experience that torture for a few minutes in their life. but maybe if not now, maybe a bit later?

- Yeah the colors there are too similar. Unfortunately Match3 event may be permanently over though. If we pick it back up in Unity we will look at that.

Tbh this event is so good why dont we make it a daily minigame later, persistent, roll 4 different resources, have 25 energy. do it, just do it!
- Probably not lol.

Ray, are you having fun coding?
Always remember that people like your game?
- I enjoy developing new features a lot....but that's far and few. I used to wake up and just enjoy coding all day, but with how busy things have gotten, it's quite infrequent. Hoping as things settle that I'll get that same feeling more often.

Claim and repeat should NOT just claim if you dont have enough fuel to repeat. its convenience in style of sticking ap button to auto/click damage dont know why you just dont remove em since their only point is to trick you every level. but that one isnt good too.
tl/dr. claim and repeat should claim and repeat. or just say thats insufficient fuel and dont do anything
- I believe this is fixed for the new test version? If not tag me.

Hey Ray, quick question. What time is it?
- Eastern Time. The only time.

Is there a mod coming to where we can set our group up, to let say 1 million cards, when all people get it, it auto moves to next mob, with a boss skip option
- Not planned in the near future....even with potential party system changes this is unlikely.

It would be helpful to have timestamps in relation to each other
Eg if its for current day, just time.  If past days, add date.  Otherwise just add dates for all

- The flash client is so tiny that it's too difficult to ensure that in the current state of chat. Perhaps Kay can develop a better system for this in the Unity version; the problem is mobile will have the same fate.

I was thinking that anything that could make the game more lively would be good, any multiplayer feature like World/guild raids or global events where player interacts, things like that because right now aside from push you can clearly see that the game is stagnant and it's not really fun.
- Well hopefully we can fill that void soon.

I would love to get a countdown timer after a ship expedition is done, until it wont regen more fuel.

- This is an unlikely addition right now


Can we have the trophy upgrades NOT shuffle on refresh or whatever. I really don't see the point in having the upgrades move around instead of staying in the same place at all times like asc/leg upgrades.
- This isn't intended, it's just based on updated properties on the account. The resolution for the flash version is far more annoying than you'd think as they are all dynamic, not static.

A Suggestion.. When we open the console it automagically will let you start typing instead of having to move the mouse to the text input box and clicking first?!!!!?
- Added to my short-list.

Little daily claims tweak: Actually when u finish claiming daily claims it starts over with 5mins initial cooldown,  even if before it passed a lot more time that's because the cooldown after a daily claim cycle is not accumulated but it starts over with a new cycle and 5 mins initial cooldown. Any chance we tweak it so we won't lost claims because of real life issues like timing, work or engagements?
(i think he means that if you are on the last claim and leave for work an hour before the end it should cycle over to the next set of claims instead of stopping... as it is now after a 12 hour shift you could have "missed" out on 11+ hours of claims cause work started at an awkward time
plenty of times i come home from work and do a claim or 2 and then its sitting at the 5 min wait for next claim... so i know what he means... think what he wants is say 18 or 24 hours of claims from your LAST claim to accumulate... not for it to stop at the end of the last claim and wait for you to get home in 10 hours)
- This was brought up in a meeting a couple weeks back. We intend on improving this. Thanks.

If you have a question or concern you want answered, head over to https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2610 to submit.

Thank you everybody for your questions.]]> Guild wars! With results based more on participation (enrol, meet timed objectives) than actual guiild level. Maybe use a secondary currency o arm/explore guild.
- If we tackle anything like this it wont be for a long time. I prefer competition via parallel where it isn't specifically verse another guild.

Would it be possible to add Wishing Well to the Building Restrictions panel to prevent new players wasting their gold?
- Live and learn newbies! If this is highly desired among the community I have no issue working it out.

Also the new members club button, instead of taking us to the guild can it take us to the building itself so we don't have to scroll over to it?
- Late to reply to this. Was done.

Short version: Update party card totals on map change or a command with a minute timer on it to manually call for that information)
Long version: Can it update party information on map change? Or if not on map change for server spam reason, perhaps a command with a timer on it and it would tell us how long before we could use the command again? Specifically for card totals on current mob. It can take minutes for that information to change and it makes optimizing card hunting a drag waiting for everyones information for the current map to load so you know if you can want to stay at the current map as a party or move to the next one because everyone already has the current goal.
- We are currently working on a major new parsing for personal stat information with the Unity client that will be previewable soon. With that in mind we'll look at expanding parsing of party members as well.

Now that mining is on its way to a healthy daily/weekly growth instead of relying on Dynamite pushes and that dynamite damage carries over next mine, would you consider either: 
::removing the trophy and making the dynamite 8000 base damage so we can also spend our dynamite on this daily/weekly basis without the headache of respeccing it ?
::removing the cap on the trophy to make it a bit more worth it?
This might be necessary especially if you release other AP sinks(will you?) that will render dynamite(other than the free ones) pretty much useless.
- I'm working on a major revamp of the mining as it is. It will likely contradict your points here.

Higher max nrg capacity?
- I feel like it's in a good spot currently, so probably not.

What is the long-term plan for wood?  Is your plan to have a valuable long-term sink for wood such that investing in wood production improvements is a good long-term strategy, or is the intention to keep mining capped such that players with decent wood production will always be at the maximum mine level with no other sinks for wood?
- I'm looking at a significant revamp of mining to raise the depth cap, along with raising the wood tree cap to up to 70

Can we have a timer on event, maybe just days/hours. to know the time till its over? so we could plan accordingly
- Unfortunately my life is too chaotic right now to be able to assure specific times. When Unity comes along, if I can get Jay & Kay to manage these things safely, then that will be possible.

Will we have a +1 stone chance orb?
- Nope. It would devalue too much over time, or be too powerful if otherwise.

Would it be possible to at least remove confirmation  (YES/NO) when unlocking a new node in PetMap? It could save already a lot of clicks when reseting map. It could be enable/disable in options.

- Removed that confirmation completely for the next patch.

QoL featire: allow to save specs for ascension points distribution/trophy points/legendary points, all combined. Allow us to switch to those specs instantly. Either calculate AP cost outcome on fly or give it a fixed cost. maybe even separate em into Asc/Trophy/Leg pts and have like 3-5 slots to save. IF its not too time consuming. Its not too hard ot spend an hour or two per month just clicking/assigning/reassigning. But sometimes due to haste you just forget some parts and meet the consequences, cuz it quickly gets old
- Unfortunately I doubt we would be able to set this up in a clean way.

Can we get a gold logs orb?
- Yes probably.

To Ray/Jay/any_developer_of_this_game: I have 2 questions. 
1. Did you think to do something with PVP in this game or it will stay the thing at which most people don't want spend a second? 
2. If you want to make reset of ships possible, may be we need also 2 branches for ships builds in the game (PVP and PVE)? Thank you.
- 1: I don't think people want us looking at PvP really right now to even improve it.
- 2: That is probably something we could do down the road. It won't have such a feature when the reset ability hits soon though.

Another QoL change - better distinguish locked/unlocked guild buildings. im not blind but i have to put my face RIGHT into the monitor at 10inch distance to visually distinguish an unlocked building from all the locked ones. but usually i end up clicking all the buildings. iunno maybe im doing something wrong. i tried awful/best quality of flash. you cant really distinguish em
i know ppl write it in the guild disclaimer. usually. but that doest help the fact that without it its hard to find a building. maybe if only once is active give its some ouline/shine something
- This is something I can bring up to Kay for the Unity version. I agree as i've had the same feeling with that window.

Add a reminder for daily pet arena claims. We have ones for wood/stone/pet train/fishing/membership claim, but not for fasttracking pet arena. Would be pretty useful
And make it appear before the pet train one so we do that before training and be more efficient 
- Added to my short-list. No promises though.


Maybe implement train all for pets so it trains both pets as much as it can
- Added to short-list. Might be able to get this rolling.

Can you guys add mine depth and current tree of guild members to the /export command?
This would be useful, in order to aid guild members improving their rank in the guild. Calculating statistics, and making calculated decisions based on the stats of the members of the guild.
- Export at this point will no longer be updated for the flash version, sorry.

Will the next event have cumulative energy claim? This is one thing the upgraded rpg event had right! energy claim automatic and unlimited! If you wish to wait until you have 600 to spend thats fine, if you spend daily it is also fine... please make it so for the match event !!
- The next event is Halloween now, and should have that.

Add another button in the mining interface "Mine Level" which only finishes your current level. Would be useful to people who aren't at maximum depth.
- Mining is getting a big revamp shortly

What is the time estimate on Unity release now?
- Test version for feedback as we continue to work on it should be out within the week. For Live? Will be a while.

Do you and the members of your team play iou and have characters of your own? Besides test. And leave them running 24/7?
- I used to all the time. Unfortunately I couldn't keep up with it. Isael & Kay play a bit, and Lynn I believe is fairly active.

Make a dynamite version for the tree, maybe that would be an idea... I always find that tree is the limiting factor for moving deeper in mine
- This has been suggested a lot but just hasn't ever received such a mechanic.

Can we please draw pet food tiles in event a lil differently? maybe make em darker or something? when you have both pet food any dynamite pop up, they look all too similar. hard to distinguish on glance, probably if desaturate it a lil, or just make a lil darker, or a lil different background or something. ofc only a few thousand ppl will experience that torture for a few minutes in their life. but maybe if not now, maybe a bit later?

- Yeah the colors there are too similar. Unfortunately Match3 event may be permanently over though. If we pick it back up in Unity we will look at that.

Tbh this event is so good why dont we make it a daily minigame later, persistent, roll 4 different resources, have 25 energy. do it, just do it!
- Probably not lol.

Ray, are you having fun coding?
Always remember that people like your game?
- I enjoy developing new features a lot....but that's far and few. I used to wake up and just enjoy coding all day, but with how busy things have gotten, it's quite infrequent. Hoping as things settle that I'll get that same feeling more often.

Claim and repeat should NOT just claim if you dont have enough fuel to repeat. its convenience in style of sticking ap button to auto/click damage dont know why you just dont remove em since their only point is to trick you every level. but that one isnt good too.
tl/dr. claim and repeat should claim and repeat. or just say thats insufficient fuel and dont do anything
- I believe this is fixed for the new test version? If not tag me.

Hey Ray, quick question. What time is it?
- Eastern Time. The only time.

Is there a mod coming to where we can set our group up, to let say 1 million cards, when all people get it, it auto moves to next mob, with a boss skip option
- Not planned in the near future....even with potential party system changes this is unlikely.

It would be helpful to have timestamps in relation to each other
Eg if its for current day, just time.  If past days, add date.  Otherwise just add dates for all

- The flash client is so tiny that it's too difficult to ensure that in the current state of chat. Perhaps Kay can develop a better system for this in the Unity version; the problem is mobile will have the same fate.

I was thinking that anything that could make the game more lively would be good, any multiplayer feature like World/guild raids or global events where player interacts, things like that because right now aside from push you can clearly see that the game is stagnant and it's not really fun.
- Well hopefully we can fill that void soon.

I would love to get a countdown timer after a ship expedition is done, until it wont regen more fuel.

- This is an unlikely addition right now


Can we have the trophy upgrades NOT shuffle on refresh or whatever. I really don't see the point in having the upgrades move around instead of staying in the same place at all times like asc/leg upgrades.
- This isn't intended, it's just based on updated properties on the account. The resolution for the flash version is far more annoying than you'd think as they are all dynamic, not static.

A Suggestion.. When we open the console it automagically will let you start typing instead of having to move the mouse to the text input box and clicking first?!!!!?
- Added to my short-list.

Little daily claims tweak: Actually when u finish claiming daily claims it starts over with 5mins initial cooldown,  even if before it passed a lot more time that's because the cooldown after a daily claim cycle is not accumulated but it starts over with a new cycle and 5 mins initial cooldown. Any chance we tweak it so we won't lost claims because of real life issues like timing, work or engagements?
(i think he means that if you are on the last claim and leave for work an hour before the end it should cycle over to the next set of claims instead of stopping... as it is now after a 12 hour shift you could have "missed" out on 11+ hours of claims cause work started at an awkward time
plenty of times i come home from work and do a claim or 2 and then its sitting at the 5 min wait for next claim... so i know what he means... think what he wants is say 18 or 24 hours of claims from your LAST claim to accumulate... not for it to stop at the end of the last claim and wait for you to get home in 10 hours)
- This was brought up in a meeting a couple weeks back. We intend on improving this. Thanks.

If you have a question or concern you want answered, head over to https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2610 to submit.

Thank you everybody for your questions.]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2611 Sat, 06 Oct 2018 21:46:05 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2611 Ray can you give us an option to turn off that popup completely when we level up, please?
-Any and all new options will have to be part of the unity builds. I can't even say for certain how popoups will work just yet even in Unity Test, but we'll definitely get kay to work on that.

What about runes feeded with crystals instead of new resources?
look like second layer orb won't come on ever so if it ever come make it easy to full upgrade it and limit the boost cap of each second-layer orb by the stars of orbs in first layer
for example stone 5* max cap for stone second-layer would be 50, make the bonus small (but still a boost) and different from first layer orb and somewhere near 1k crystals for buying the lvl 50 (and increasing at a higher rate after 50)
this way we have 2 ways to spend crystals and non need to invent new resources and systems
And if we want to help challenges it's easy make challenges reward crystals in small quantity too :wink: especially when you help a lower level that make his first kill (but right now doesn't seem like an issue since i often see the challenges waitlist cleaned many times I check)
-I answered this too late. 2nd layer is in.

What color are your eyes Ray?
-They turn bluer the more tired I am, otherwise green.

Will there eventually be 8*(+) orbs?  Alternatively, if orbs end up capped, will there be another valuable use for sacrifices?
-I do imagine there being an eventual expansion.

Can @Level get a raise?
-:middle_finger: Biggest raise we can afford!

Why not spend 10 min to remove outdated messages ingame? ("Guild bonus: 0" into stats... , Buildings announced for early and mid 2018.). Any  new player that see "beginning 2018 release" message may think game is not updated anymore (= moneyloss for you)
-I think we ended up doing this. Are there still any? PM me if so.

Can we separate gulid chat and guild notifications?
-We'll have options for this.

Could you fix/increase the hitbox for this icon? missclicks happen very often to me. thanks

Unfortunately not possible as the bounds are based on MovieClips in flash for this. I could reduce them but it would no longer be able to be dynamic with your avatar.

Could there by chance be a tiny visual update to the taxidermist menu, where any tab that contains a fish where we can claim pearls get a special colour, like in this demonstration bad MS paint edit?

-I'll add this to Kay's todo list. Fishing window is in Unity now but needs some work anyways. Thanks.

Is it hard to change "111,111,111,111/222,222,222,222" Xp to level up to "111,11B/222,22B"? Would save much brain energy = actual food= could save the planet. XD
-I just wrote a new system for Unity that will allow you to select specific number formatting and condensing, which we will be adding to the options window and expanding on from feedback very soon

Any chance of a "restart" button in ship expedition that claim reward and send back the ship to the same expedition he was?
-Done

Trophies/orb to reduce minimum fish quality
Less rng on fishies please
-Possible for the near future

Will this one ever be renamed to "Grave Pigger"?

-Never =o I like it though

Tbh id like to see an 'auto-refresh of a mining level if lack wood to unlock' as an option. Also would be cool to see somewhere on mining screen how much wood do we need to unlock the next level. Atm have to check on multicalc for that. You shouldnt just refresh mine if you cant unlock it right now. its dumb. if you miss 1 tree or something.
-Few changes were done on this recently, however we still have some pretty big changes to mining very soon!

So can we get a ticket refund for bingo if we didnt click anything at all? Or ok, auto powerdab at the end of a session. Cuz is sucks to loose 5 days ticket b/c someone has broken a leg and you have to come out to help him. 
-Sorry....Not anytime soon. Simply because outside of optimization we don't want to spend much more time / focus on this until it can be a side priority

Pets are great but getting trophies for them is very difficult, will we be getting a trophy revamp for pets?
-I didn't have that planned. This is a new complaint for me. Feel free to bring it up on test sometime.

Since ingame chat is a bit of a gamble for people that are afk alot, resets and if the silence is to long the stone investments have cleared the whole history. How about a "real" motd apart from the one on building page that no one reads, a motd that is for important information to guild members, a message that the system will broadcast in the guild chat preferably in some noticeable color at the daily reset every day unless empty.
-While we still have yet to integrate a new chat system within the Unity version, I still doubt we can tackle this kind of thing any time this year, sorry.

Why can't we reset a level 50+ character, and will there be a way to do it?
-Because of high score submissions. Just because the character is reset unfortunately does not let us retroactively resolve all the score submits and it can cause issues. I am dying to be able to rework the score system, and when that is done, then we can expand the limit.

Can we get a new pet skin that is a Whale?
Make it cost 100k diamonds, or require reaching Support Level XX to unlock? (or both)
-No, but we will have new pet skins soon.

If you have a question or concern you want answered, head over to https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2610 to submit.

Thank you everybody for your questions.]]> Ray can you give us an option to turn off that popup completely when we level up, please?
-Any and all new options will have to be part of the unity builds. I can't even say for certain how popoups will work just yet even in Unity Test, but we'll definitely get kay to work on that.

What about runes feeded with crystals instead of new resources?
look like second layer orb won't come on ever so if it ever come make it easy to full upgrade it and limit the boost cap of each second-layer orb by the stars of orbs in first layer
for example stone 5* max cap for stone second-layer would be 50, make the bonus small (but still a boost) and different from first layer orb and somewhere near 1k crystals for buying the lvl 50 (and increasing at a higher rate after 50)
this way we have 2 ways to spend crystals and non need to invent new resources and systems
And if we want to help challenges it's easy make challenges reward crystals in small quantity too :wink: especially when you help a lower level that make his first kill (but right now doesn't seem like an issue since i often see the challenges waitlist cleaned many times I check)
-I answered this too late. 2nd layer is in.

What color are your eyes Ray?
-They turn bluer the more tired I am, otherwise green.

Will there eventually be 8*(+) orbs?  Alternatively, if orbs end up capped, will there be another valuable use for sacrifices?
-I do imagine there being an eventual expansion.

Can @Level get a raise?
-:middle_finger: Biggest raise we can afford!

Why not spend 10 min to remove outdated messages ingame? ("Guild bonus: 0" into stats... , Buildings announced for early and mid 2018.). Any  new player that see "beginning 2018 release" message may think game is not updated anymore (= moneyloss for you)
-I think we ended up doing this. Are there still any? PM me if so.

Can we separate gulid chat and guild notifications?
-We'll have options for this.

Could you fix/increase the hitbox for this icon? missclicks happen very often to me. thanks

Unfortunately not possible as the bounds are based on MovieClips in flash for this. I could reduce them but it would no longer be able to be dynamic with your avatar.

Could there by chance be a tiny visual update to the taxidermist menu, where any tab that contains a fish where we can claim pearls get a special colour, like in this demonstration bad MS paint edit?

-I'll add this to Kay's todo list. Fishing window is in Unity now but needs some work anyways. Thanks.

Is it hard to change "111,111,111,111/222,222,222,222" Xp to level up to "111,11B/222,22B"? Would save much brain energy = actual food= could save the planet. XD
-I just wrote a new system for Unity that will allow you to select specific number formatting and condensing, which we will be adding to the options window and expanding on from feedback very soon

Any chance of a "restart" button in ship expedition that claim reward and send back the ship to the same expedition he was?
-Done

Trophies/orb to reduce minimum fish quality
Less rng on fishies please
-Possible for the near future

Will this one ever be renamed to "Grave Pigger"?

-Never =o I like it though

Tbh id like to see an 'auto-refresh of a mining level if lack wood to unlock' as an option. Also would be cool to see somewhere on mining screen how much wood do we need to unlock the next level. Atm have to check on multicalc for that. You shouldnt just refresh mine if you cant unlock it right now. its dumb. if you miss 1 tree or something.
-Few changes were done on this recently, however we still have some pretty big changes to mining very soon!

So can we get a ticket refund for bingo if we didnt click anything at all? Or ok, auto powerdab at the end of a session. Cuz is sucks to loose 5 days ticket b/c someone has broken a leg and you have to come out to help him. 
-Sorry....Not anytime soon. Simply because outside of optimization we don't want to spend much more time / focus on this until it can be a side priority

Pets are great but getting trophies for them is very difficult, will we be getting a trophy revamp for pets?
-I didn't have that planned. This is a new complaint for me. Feel free to bring it up on test sometime.

Since ingame chat is a bit of a gamble for people that are afk alot, resets and if the silence is to long the stone investments have cleared the whole history. How about a "real" motd apart from the one on building page that no one reads, a motd that is for important information to guild members, a message that the system will broadcast in the guild chat preferably in some noticeable color at the daily reset every day unless empty.
-While we still have yet to integrate a new chat system within the Unity version, I still doubt we can tackle this kind of thing any time this year, sorry.

Why can't we reset a level 50+ character, and will there be a way to do it?
-Because of high score submissions. Just because the character is reset unfortunately does not let us retroactively resolve all the score submits and it can cause issues. I am dying to be able to rework the score system, and when that is done, then we can expand the limit.

Can we get a new pet skin that is a Whale?
Make it cost 100k diamonds, or require reaching Support Level XX to unlock? (or both)
-No, but we will have new pet skins soon.

If you have a question or concern you want answered, head over to https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2610 to submit.

Thank you everybody for your questions.]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2610 Sat, 06 Oct 2018 21:44:51 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2610 Hello players,

Leave your questions and concerns here for the 14th Q & A with Ray. Make sure to view the previous answers from Ray to make sure your question hasn't been asked before.

Thanks.]]> Hello players,

Leave your questions and concerns here for the 14th Q & A with Ray. Make sure to view the previous answers from Ray to make sure your question hasn't been asked before.

Thanks.]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2603 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 03:51:51 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2603 Can we get Gold Log expeditions?
- Maybe? Unfortunately I am avoiding touching expeditions until it has its chance to be a sole focus on the game as there are several things that need to be cleaned up with it. I don't intend on adding any new expeditions until then.

For pets, can we get more trophy categories? For example with recent changes to pet training the pet food itself is less significant for pet tiers, so perhaps per tiers could make a nice category for trophies?
- This makes a lot of sense, however we're just coming up on the testable draft version of rune-crafting, so perhaps wait for that and we can really push a good number of additional trophies to it.

Can you soon add minutes to know it a bit more exactly when someone was last online? 0 hours seem a bit odd
- https://trello.com/c/xSLgJJwa/153-add-mi...rs-if-1-hr
if this isn't done for flash, Kay will definitely get that rolling.

Can we have how much ap we got, on the mining screen just above dynamite?  So we can keep track when buying dynamite

Can we get a collect all button for diamonds/stone/crystals on clearing a mine (for lag reduction)
- We are anticipating a mining screen change by September

Ultinum tastyness orb?
- ?

[This is a reply to your answer in the previous Q & A regarding the gold slider question]
[Your reply was "- It 'could' be done. I'm not sure I see why at the moment though? Is the input too fugly/difficult for high numbers?"]
Yes, it is. Rather annoying to go type 1(or other number) and then count out 18 0s or however many you are you needing.
- I agree. I cannot jump on this in the short-term though, as I have quite a list of QoL to catch up on.

Any chance of a VIP Upgrade reset system? I maxed Gold Boost before cap increase/multi catch and have maxed all my gold upgrades.
- Unfortunately no, these are permanent.

Can you please make the card multiplier command shorter? eg '/cmd cm'
- '/cmd cm' will work after the next live patch. Won't be included in patch notes though.

Can the error spot taken when joining a party be changed to fishing spot taken please
- Done for next patch. Won't be included in patch notes though.

Can you add a "click confirmation" when clicking on monster while in idle mode? Or a toggle for idle mode so you can't click monsters?
- For now I suggest just clicking anything but the background/monster area. This can be an option in Unity.

It looks like Lineage Level is based on Daily Claims, so there's no way to see when you actually started the game (if you missed some claims). Obviously a very low priority, but maybe your account creation date could be added to the Character screen?
- When you started and how long you've played are different in this case. No one is playing and not claiming, as you are forced to claim to interact otherwise. This is accurate to 'active days played'. Creation date I can probably include in the future as we do have it but we've already begun on the character window in Unity.

Can we get rid of the confirmation Pop-up about the AP-Claim in pet arena, as it is for Upgrade purchase confirmations?
- PM me for clarifications please.

For the "no abiltiies challenge" in pet arena, why not just have it automatically calculate the outcome and just tell us if we won or lost? no point in clicking attack until its over that i can think of.
- Yes. No eta, but added: https://trello.com/c/9HakHvEP/154-auto-n...na-battles

Is it possible to keep the selected skin when your pet increases in tier? Bit of a QoL question but would be nice if it's not too hard.
- This sounds like a bug, sorry. It should only auto switch when the skin selected is the same as the tier of your pet, as it assumes you let it naturally evolve in skins. Selected anything other than the natural pet skin and tiering up should not do this. We'll look into it.

Do we get reset codes for personal stone if the new buildings get released? Can even be codes like reduce all buildings by 10% of there personal stone levels.
- There will not be reset codes for that, sorry.

Could we get fishing upgrade pearls in the daily chests or bingo packs or expeditions?
- This is a limited currency based on action. It is based on milestone progression and calculated dynamically from those values, so tl;dr, there won't be any crediting like that.

Can we get guild reset timers included in /export data? I know Zist creates lists of resets to do each week to help coordinate the guild better, and knowing whose resets are when would be really helpful with that.
- Apologies, until unity I'm no longer making changes to export. On a good note there will be 3 devs you can bug for such a thing after flash is done.

For pet map maybe it's easier for ray to add an undo on a node, since the map does recognise i think the "last" node. Would this be possible?
- We are looking at completely revamping the map to simplicity, and avoiding any further work to the current system.

Seeing as Ray has been so kind as to put in comma in most places. Would it be alright to add it to these other places?



- Unfortunately the problem is with flash text/squeezing the commas will offset the text so much that it'll get cut off in those places. We use a rather clean and sexy solution for Unity for this though, and will allow you to select how numbers are formatted.

When you do the command /cmd genpass pass you get to choose your password. Would it be possible in Unity to set your username too? On armour games the generated username is extremey long and hard to remember.
- Unity is only the front-end and has nothing to do with the back-end. We do have an over-ride link system though. Hop in on test if you can and bring it up for assistance.

Could we get a date stamp on chat messages, too?
- Sorry, not immediately. We are going to be looking at how we can sincerely clean up the chat system soon.

Why did you put the Level 6 boss in the random spawns of LEVEL 6 ?? (Invasion Event)
- Because I do things to make people's live's miserable every once and a while. Otherwise it'd feel monotonous.

Will there be any use for the wood that is acquired after mine lvl 750?
- Yes, Mine lv 750+

Would it be possible to have some different backgrounds for bingo so we can customize them to match our cards? Pretty low priority but would be cool to see that one day.
- Maybe. As you understand though it definitely would be extremely low priority. I don't know how much customization we'll have for IOU on the standalone version but perhaps that's where we can handle that.

Would it be possible to make a party search by dps instead of by level in the future?
- We have a new match-making window in progress. I can't say if it'll have that as an option but we are looking at alternative sorting options.

Wish there were a way to speed up normal challenges
- I wish I could revamp challenges, yesterday. Eventually

Now that cards are dropping in the masses, I'd like to see cards drop from every mob
not trying to be greedy... I'd expect a similar hourly card rate but with massively varying card bonuses between party members it'd be nice to calculate when a party will be ready to be moved
- We have options to open up on higher card drop chances...another attribute within the game so i'd rather not force it every single kill.

If you have a question or concern you want answered, head over to https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2602 to submit.

Thank you everybody for your questions.]]> Can we get Gold Log expeditions?
- Maybe? Unfortunately I am avoiding touching expeditions until it has its chance to be a sole focus on the game as there are several things that need to be cleaned up with it. I don't intend on adding any new expeditions until then.

For pets, can we get more trophy categories? For example with recent changes to pet training the pet food itself is less significant for pet tiers, so perhaps per tiers could make a nice category for trophies?
- This makes a lot of sense, however we're just coming up on the testable draft version of rune-crafting, so perhaps wait for that and we can really push a good number of additional trophies to it.

Can you soon add minutes to know it a bit more exactly when someone was last online? 0 hours seem a bit odd
- https://trello.com/c/xSLgJJwa/153-add-mi...rs-if-1-hr
if this isn't done for flash, Kay will definitely get that rolling.

Can we have how much ap we got, on the mining screen just above dynamite?  So we can keep track when buying dynamite

Can we get a collect all button for diamonds/stone/crystals on clearing a mine (for lag reduction)
- We are anticipating a mining screen change by September

Ultinum tastyness orb?
- ?

[This is a reply to your answer in the previous Q & A regarding the gold slider question]
[Your reply was "- It 'could' be done. I'm not sure I see why at the moment though? Is the input too fugly/difficult for high numbers?"]
Yes, it is. Rather annoying to go type 1(or other number) and then count out 18 0s or however many you are you needing.
- I agree. I cannot jump on this in the short-term though, as I have quite a list of QoL to catch up on.

Any chance of a VIP Upgrade reset system? I maxed Gold Boost before cap increase/multi catch and have maxed all my gold upgrades.
- Unfortunately no, these are permanent.

Can you please make the card multiplier command shorter? eg '/cmd cm'
- '/cmd cm' will work after the next live patch. Won't be included in patch notes though.

Can the error spot taken when joining a party be changed to fishing spot taken please
- Done for next patch. Won't be included in patch notes though.

Can you add a "click confirmation" when clicking on monster while in idle mode? Or a toggle for idle mode so you can't click monsters?
- For now I suggest just clicking anything but the background/monster area. This can be an option in Unity.

It looks like Lineage Level is based on Daily Claims, so there's no way to see when you actually started the game (if you missed some claims). Obviously a very low priority, but maybe your account creation date could be added to the Character screen?
- When you started and how long you've played are different in this case. No one is playing and not claiming, as you are forced to claim to interact otherwise. This is accurate to 'active days played'. Creation date I can probably include in the future as we do have it but we've already begun on the character window in Unity.

Can we get rid of the confirmation Pop-up about the AP-Claim in pet arena, as it is for Upgrade purchase confirmations?
- PM me for clarifications please.

For the "no abiltiies challenge" in pet arena, why not just have it automatically calculate the outcome and just tell us if we won or lost? no point in clicking attack until its over that i can think of.
- Yes. No eta, but added: https://trello.com/c/9HakHvEP/154-auto-n...na-battles

Is it possible to keep the selected skin when your pet increases in tier? Bit of a QoL question but would be nice if it's not too hard.
- This sounds like a bug, sorry. It should only auto switch when the skin selected is the same as the tier of your pet, as it assumes you let it naturally evolve in skins. Selected anything other than the natural pet skin and tiering up should not do this. We'll look into it.

Do we get reset codes for personal stone if the new buildings get released? Can even be codes like reduce all buildings by 10% of there personal stone levels.
- There will not be reset codes for that, sorry.

Could we get fishing upgrade pearls in the daily chests or bingo packs or expeditions?
- This is a limited currency based on action. It is based on milestone progression and calculated dynamically from those values, so tl;dr, there won't be any crediting like that.

Can we get guild reset timers included in /export data? I know Zist creates lists of resets to do each week to help coordinate the guild better, and knowing whose resets are when would be really helpful with that.
- Apologies, until unity I'm no longer making changes to export. On a good note there will be 3 devs you can bug for such a thing after flash is done.

For pet map maybe it's easier for ray to add an undo on a node, since the map does recognise i think the "last" node. Would this be possible?
- We are looking at completely revamping the map to simplicity, and avoiding any further work to the current system.

Seeing as Ray has been so kind as to put in comma in most places. Would it be alright to add it to these other places?



- Unfortunately the problem is with flash text/squeezing the commas will offset the text so much that it'll get cut off in those places. We use a rather clean and sexy solution for Unity for this though, and will allow you to select how numbers are formatted.

When you do the command /cmd genpass pass you get to choose your password. Would it be possible in Unity to set your username too? On armour games the generated username is extremey long and hard to remember.
- Unity is only the front-end and has nothing to do with the back-end. We do have an over-ride link system though. Hop in on test if you can and bring it up for assistance.

Could we get a date stamp on chat messages, too?
- Sorry, not immediately. We are going to be looking at how we can sincerely clean up the chat system soon.

Why did you put the Level 6 boss in the random spawns of LEVEL 6 ?? (Invasion Event)
- Because I do things to make people's live's miserable every once and a while. Otherwise it'd feel monotonous.

Will there be any use for the wood that is acquired after mine lvl 750?
- Yes, Mine lv 750+

Would it be possible to have some different backgrounds for bingo so we can customize them to match our cards? Pretty low priority but would be cool to see that one day.
- Maybe. As you understand though it definitely would be extremely low priority. I don't know how much customization we'll have for IOU on the standalone version but perhaps that's where we can handle that.

Would it be possible to make a party search by dps instead of by level in the future?
- We have a new match-making window in progress. I can't say if it'll have that as an option but we are looking at alternative sorting options.

Wish there were a way to speed up normal challenges
- I wish I could revamp challenges, yesterday. Eventually

Now that cards are dropping in the masses, I'd like to see cards drop from every mob
not trying to be greedy... I'd expect a similar hourly card rate but with massively varying card bonuses between party members it'd be nice to calculate when a party will be ready to be moved
- We have options to open up on higher card drop chances...another attribute within the game so i'd rather not force it every single kill.

If you have a question or concern you want answered, head over to https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2602 to submit.

Thank you everybody for your questions.]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2602 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 03:51:04 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2602
Welcome to the 12th Q & A with Ray! Leave your questions and concerns below and Ray will answer them in 2 weeks. Please view the past Q & A threads to make sure your question/concerned has not been already answered.

Thanks!]]>
Welcome to the 12th Q & A with Ray! Leave your questions and concerns below and Ray will answer them in 2 weeks. Please view the past Q & A threads to make sure your question/concerned has not been already answered.

Thanks!]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2588 Sat, 02 Jun 2018 01:49:43 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2588 (More to be answered by Jay) How exactly does offline card drops work, in the sense of....if partymate switches stages while I am offline? Do I get drops only for the mob that a) I was farming when going off, b) the one that party is actually at when I login back, c) all in history as when drops did happen?
- (From Jay): When you are in a party, it should be recording drops as they happen and giving them to you. So if you are on two different mobs while offline, its possible to get cards for both

There should be an info about guild level in the "join guild" section
- https://trello.com/c/ncMvlb6W/149-show-g...ild-screen

Could you put party data into the /export function?
Like for example {party:[["username1", DPS], ["username2", DPS], ["username3", DPS]]
- It's kind of updated on the fly, not so much stored. Unfortunately we'll have to come back to that, and the export data as a whole later on, in any case: https://trello.com/c/uSvrBTBm/152-export...rname3-dps

Why does the screen darken when your pet levels? Makes the screen go near black if you go nuts with food.
- Most notifications have a disabling background. I am fully aware of how bad the current notification system is. We have a notification/mail system we started 2 years ago that we'll be looking at this month, and to where we can start separating non-important notifications without disablers, and including other notifications within a log or mailbox.

Any chance that party member info will update faster in the future? (card count, dps, etc)
- Yes, just not the immediate future, sorry. This will be far better handled with Party Management Revamp. I just don't know when that will be based on current priorities.

Would it be possible to add a games section where we bet a currency, (diamonds, ap, etc) against other challengers could be simple games like blackjack, would help pass the time and perhaps bring the activity level of the members to a new high
Maybe you get Gambling Points for winning hands, and you can exchange those for currency-packs—like with bingo?
- I think I can say confidently: no, there won't be gambling with the in-game currencies like that. Just not my style.

Can we get building reset to be 6 days and 23 hours instead of 7 days? If we want to use them proactively every week, they keep shifiting away from monday to next days, nights, etc. It would be cool if we are able to use them at one hour every week
How about every monday, when the week start, we get a reset, and we have lets say 24h to use it, before it starts to catch up on us, so if we use the reset any time monday, we'll have a fresh reset next monday as well
- Added to Trello: https://trello.com/c/PI2s4vgG/150-weekly...ve-reset-t

Can we at least have Arena PP pet nodes possible to reset separate from normal PP nodes? You won't have to come up with additional node reset logic for that, and it is really awkward to have to reset the entire map just for Arena nodes.
- Sorry we won't be touching on this just yet.

Any plans for a card boost VIP upgrade?
- Here are my plans for VIP upgrades: . That's all of them! They really just get added when the game could use an extra side focus for currency sinks, and usually without any major planning forethought. We could probably use one soon though.

Can there be a message in the Group-chat like
"xxx changed the inferno-tier to 123."? 
It'd be nice if it was easy for everyone to see when someone is trolling and who it is, so we can all agree on kicking that person when he's offline instead of the whole party slowly breaking apart over such an issue. :/
- I think we're looking at an activity log, mail system, and improved notification system soon.

Would there be possible tipping function in the future for people who help out in Challenges?
Here are some ideas suggested. Anyone can give max 1 karma every day and it is applicable only in challenges that you have beaten first time, and only silver and gold tiers. 100 karma = bingo ticket, a Pet Skin or the Fish Whistle.

What about a random booster for helping in challenges. Maybe 1%-2% for an hour random booster (XP, gold, cards, stone, wood, fish) and that it be additive, so if you are lucky and help in many challenges, you can get, let say, 10% for an hour in XP
- Nope. I think the plan is to set up daily/quest rewards for those that participate in assisting challenges...however challenges in the future being repeated will be beneficial to everyone, not only until initial completion.

"/cmd time" displays UTC time not server time
- Uhh lol. Fixed in the upcoming patch. Sorry about that.

I am assuming that the weekly buffs are rolling once, and thats what we get
Would it be possible to roll 3 buffs instead, and take the two more potent one for the weekly bonus?
Like, it could roll lets say: 11% PP, 12% Multicatch, and 10% Stone, the two more potent, would be 11% PP and 12% Multicatch
I also know that gold has much higher %, but I think it wouldnt be too much trouble to normalize the values
- I'm happy with two currently. The unity version is far more scalable for adding things dynamically, perhaps can be touched up then.

Could we have a use x1000 and/or use all sacrifices option pretty please?
- I think the typing/input system as it is will have to suffice for now.

Any chance challenges could be set up so that if there is an existing group challenge, choosing to start a challenge will automatically put you into that existing group challenge room? (so if someone starts Rats! on bronze I, if there already is a bronze I room for Rats!, the person just gets added to that room instead of starting a new one)
- Unfortunately might be a bit more complicated than I wish it was, but still: https://trello.com/c/FLq0tfal/151-sugges...ficulty-id

Are there any plans for the actual nerfrate to show with /cmd nerfrate?  ATM it doesn't display lower than 2%
IE accurate nerfrate display when you are being carried by someone more than 500 levels over you?
- I've asked Jay to fix this when he gets a chance. Will likely be a ninja-change without patchnote

Possible to get a comma or decimal in here so we can easily see how much we got ? :3

- Done for upcoming patch

Now that pet training has a bit more value, could the number of stored claims increase, or change the trophy to increase both feed value and time instead of reducing the time?  It only stores 12 hours (17 if you time it perfectly),  and all you can do is shorten it with trophy, unlike mining and woodcutting where you can pay for laziness.
- Double retroactive allowance for this for the upcoming patch

Just out of curiosity would it be possible to have the guild stone reset an hour or two earlier as sometimes life happens and you can't be at the computer for the exact time needed to switch stone around and if you have a late night your now stuck at the new time. Sorry if this question has been asked before it is totally QOL issue and probably more work then it is worth I just had to ask.
- Believe this is a repeat Q&A question this time around, if not please let me know: https://trello.com/c/PI2s4vgG/150-weekly...ve-reset-t

Important question: When is it planed the current event to end?
We need at least and estimate week so we can figure out if its worth it go for reward 19 in hard mode, or it is a waste of time cause it is imposible to get
- Consider this your notice of about a week.

I can haz optional lab downgrade reminder circle clicky button?
- Sorry, this won't be made into a tip

Can you increase challenge gold rewards? Sometimes they are really low like if i get 400k or somewhat from a challenge while i get 300m each coin drop
This also relates to rewards such as the daily chest claims.
- Challenges need a full revamp and that will be done when the time comes. A lot more than just gold needs to be fixed with challenges unfortunately.

Fish Traps: option to buy a trap for any fish rarity  that is 1/2 or lower than max and can have X amount active at once (increased by an orb or something maybe). They work independently of nets, and catch a set F (increased by orb or asc points or something) amount of fish over T period of time at which point it must be repurchased. There could also be different sizes that catch more fish over longer periods of time.
It would give a reason and method of obtaining more trivial tiers of fish that you may no longer be wasting nets fishing for.
- This is interesting. I won't be adding it to trello atm, but I would like for the community to discuss it a bit more and if something like this is desired we can add it.

Double cards information on /export (enabled or not, how much time left) so it can be imported into sheets
I hate waiting for only one party user to reach the card goal because s/he has not purchased double cards
- Added to trello, but might not be for a bit:[url= https://trello.com/c/uSvrBTBm/152-export...rname3-dps] https://trello.com/c/uSvrBTBm/152-export...rname3-dps[/url]

Add an option to donate all gold to guild well or a slider (like with stone) for said gold donations
- It 'could' be done. I'm not sure I see why at the moment though? Is the input too fugly/difficult for high numbers?

Submit your questions/concerns for next time here - http://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2587]]> (More to be answered by Jay) How exactly does offline card drops work, in the sense of....if partymate switches stages while I am offline? Do I get drops only for the mob that a) I was farming when going off, b) the one that party is actually at when I login back, c) all in history as when drops did happen?
- (From Jay): When you are in a party, it should be recording drops as they happen and giving them to you. So if you are on two different mobs while offline, its possible to get cards for both

There should be an info about guild level in the "join guild" section
- https://trello.com/c/ncMvlb6W/149-show-g...ild-screen

Could you put party data into the /export function?
Like for example {party:[["username1", DPS], ["username2", DPS], ["username3", DPS]]
- It's kind of updated on the fly, not so much stored. Unfortunately we'll have to come back to that, and the export data as a whole later on, in any case: https://trello.com/c/uSvrBTBm/152-export...rname3-dps

Why does the screen darken when your pet levels? Makes the screen go near black if you go nuts with food.
- Most notifications have a disabling background. I am fully aware of how bad the current notification system is. We have a notification/mail system we started 2 years ago that we'll be looking at this month, and to where we can start separating non-important notifications without disablers, and including other notifications within a log or mailbox.

Any chance that party member info will update faster in the future? (card count, dps, etc)
- Yes, just not the immediate future, sorry. This will be far better handled with Party Management Revamp. I just don't know when that will be based on current priorities.

Would it be possible to add a games section where we bet a currency, (diamonds, ap, etc) against other challengers could be simple games like blackjack, would help pass the time and perhaps bring the activity level of the members to a new high
Maybe you get Gambling Points for winning hands, and you can exchange those for currency-packs—like with bingo?
- I think I can say confidently: no, there won't be gambling with the in-game currencies like that. Just not my style.

Can we get building reset to be 6 days and 23 hours instead of 7 days? If we want to use them proactively every week, they keep shifiting away from monday to next days, nights, etc. It would be cool if we are able to use them at one hour every week
How about every monday, when the week start, we get a reset, and we have lets say 24h to use it, before it starts to catch up on us, so if we use the reset any time monday, we'll have a fresh reset next monday as well
- Added to Trello: https://trello.com/c/PI2s4vgG/150-weekly...ve-reset-t

Can we at least have Arena PP pet nodes possible to reset separate from normal PP nodes? You won't have to come up with additional node reset logic for that, and it is really awkward to have to reset the entire map just for Arena nodes.
- Sorry we won't be touching on this just yet.

Any plans for a card boost VIP upgrade?
- Here are my plans for VIP upgrades: . That's all of them! They really just get added when the game could use an extra side focus for currency sinks, and usually without any major planning forethought. We could probably use one soon though.

Can there be a message in the Group-chat like
"xxx changed the inferno-tier to 123."? 
It'd be nice if it was easy for everyone to see when someone is trolling and who it is, so we can all agree on kicking that person when he's offline instead of the whole party slowly breaking apart over such an issue. :/
- I think we're looking at an activity log, mail system, and improved notification system soon.

Would there be possible tipping function in the future for people who help out in Challenges?
Here are some ideas suggested. Anyone can give max 1 karma every day and it is applicable only in challenges that you have beaten first time, and only silver and gold tiers. 100 karma = bingo ticket, a Pet Skin or the Fish Whistle.

What about a random booster for helping in challenges. Maybe 1%-2% for an hour random booster (XP, gold, cards, stone, wood, fish) and that it be additive, so if you are lucky and help in many challenges, you can get, let say, 10% for an hour in XP
- Nope. I think the plan is to set up daily/quest rewards for those that participate in assisting challenges...however challenges in the future being repeated will be beneficial to everyone, not only until initial completion.

"/cmd time" displays UTC time not server time
- Uhh lol. Fixed in the upcoming patch. Sorry about that.

I am assuming that the weekly buffs are rolling once, and thats what we get
Would it be possible to roll 3 buffs instead, and take the two more potent one for the weekly bonus?
Like, it could roll lets say: 11% PP, 12% Multicatch, and 10% Stone, the two more potent, would be 11% PP and 12% Multicatch
I also know that gold has much higher %, but I think it wouldnt be too much trouble to normalize the values
- I'm happy with two currently. The unity version is far more scalable for adding things dynamically, perhaps can be touched up then.

Could we have a use x1000 and/or use all sacrifices option pretty please?
- I think the typing/input system as it is will have to suffice for now.

Any chance challenges could be set up so that if there is an existing group challenge, choosing to start a challenge will automatically put you into that existing group challenge room? (so if someone starts Rats! on bronze I, if there already is a bronze I room for Rats!, the person just gets added to that room instead of starting a new one)
- Unfortunately might be a bit more complicated than I wish it was, but still: https://trello.com/c/FLq0tfal/151-sugges...ficulty-id

Are there any plans for the actual nerfrate to show with /cmd nerfrate?  ATM it doesn't display lower than 2%
IE accurate nerfrate display when you are being carried by someone more than 500 levels over you?
- I've asked Jay to fix this when he gets a chance. Will likely be a ninja-change without patchnote

Possible to get a comma or decimal in here so we can easily see how much we got ? :3

- Done for upcoming patch

Now that pet training has a bit more value, could the number of stored claims increase, or change the trophy to increase both feed value and time instead of reducing the time?  It only stores 12 hours (17 if you time it perfectly),  and all you can do is shorten it with trophy, unlike mining and woodcutting where you can pay for laziness.
- Double retroactive allowance for this for the upcoming patch

Just out of curiosity would it be possible to have the guild stone reset an hour or two earlier as sometimes life happens and you can't be at the computer for the exact time needed to switch stone around and if you have a late night your now stuck at the new time. Sorry if this question has been asked before it is totally QOL issue and probably more work then it is worth I just had to ask.
- Believe this is a repeat Q&A question this time around, if not please let me know: https://trello.com/c/PI2s4vgG/150-weekly...ve-reset-t

Important question: When is it planed the current event to end?
We need at least and estimate week so we can figure out if its worth it go for reward 19 in hard mode, or it is a waste of time cause it is imposible to get
- Consider this your notice of about a week.

I can haz optional lab downgrade reminder circle clicky button?
- Sorry, this won't be made into a tip

Can you increase challenge gold rewards? Sometimes they are really low like if i get 400k or somewhat from a challenge while i get 300m each coin drop
This also relates to rewards such as the daily chest claims.
- Challenges need a full revamp and that will be done when the time comes. A lot more than just gold needs to be fixed with challenges unfortunately.

Fish Traps: option to buy a trap for any fish rarity  that is 1/2 or lower than max and can have X amount active at once (increased by an orb or something maybe). They work independently of nets, and catch a set F (increased by orb or asc points or something) amount of fish over T period of time at which point it must be repurchased. There could also be different sizes that catch more fish over longer periods of time.
It would give a reason and method of obtaining more trivial tiers of fish that you may no longer be wasting nets fishing for.
- This is interesting. I won't be adding it to trello atm, but I would like for the community to discuss it a bit more and if something like this is desired we can add it.

Double cards information on /export (enabled or not, how much time left) so it can be imported into sheets
I hate waiting for only one party user to reach the card goal because s/he has not purchased double cards
- Added to trello, but might not be for a bit:[url= https://trello.com/c/uSvrBTBm/152-export...rname3-dps] https://trello.com/c/uSvrBTBm/152-export...rname3-dps[/url]

Add an option to donate all gold to guild well or a slider (like with stone) for said gold donations
- It 'could' be done. I'm not sure I see why at the moment though? Is the input too fugly/difficult for high numbers?

Submit your questions/concerns for next time here - http://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2587]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2587 Sat, 02 Jun 2018 01:48:40 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2587
Leave your questions and concerns here for Rays 11th Q & A. Please make sure to look at the previous answers to make sure your question hasn't been submitted before. You can do that here - http://iourpg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=8

Thanks everyone!]]>
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Thanks everyone!]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2579 Sat, 12 May 2018 03:52:19 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2579 What do you do if you forget your password?
- You don't. Right now we manually verify with the user their details and go from there.

When we set our guild to open at 39/40, someone joins then leaves, them joining cause the guild to be closed and now we have to re-open it, can there be a guild auto-opens feature if someone leaves?
- Added to Trello

Make a channel for codes, easier to see all updates, (announcements) at once
- Announcements generally just contain prominent info. Anything else is just dated (patch notes). If this is that desired I have no problem with it, but personally I just see it as yet another channel to cluster the channel groups.

How about bulk buying pet arena bonuses?
- Pet arena development is coming up after the next patch

Can you rename were things
Since all the mobs have different names now not weretiger etc
- I've added it to trello suggestions as I don't have answer to that yet: https://trello.com/c/dpY61zwU/142-can-yo...etiger-etc

Can there be a way where we can highlight the names of ppl that in game pm us so we can copy and paste to respond? Annoying when ppl have uppercase i and lower case L in names
- Noted on trello. I can see that being a problem. https://trello.com/c/UL7ccddM/143-can-th...oying-when

1) Is there any particular reason why you aren't allowed to go to previous trees in woodcutting? I lvld to tier 9 not realizing i cant go back and now i can hardly kill my trees lol. Maybe thats how its supposed to be though..
- Efficiencies in energy can create an exploit with it.  I tried allowing that but it became an issue.

2) I just did like 10 challenges with a friend and our ingame chat was like.. completely busted... The chat doesnt work while in challenges and then continues to kinda mess it up if u tried to use it, even once youre out of the challenge. We both had to restart because it was being weird. -I guess that wasnt really a question but wondering if that's been said by anyone
- Added : https://trello.com/c/Ug3CP4KG/144-party-...challenges

Why can we still decide when to advance mine. Just unlock it whenever there is enough wood for it otherwise refresh. Since you don't use wood for anything else

Combine into one dynamic button that is either refresh or upgrade depending on if you can afford an upgrade or not, or if any are available (since 750 cap it would always be refresh until he raises cap)
- Mining is going to get some attention in the near future. There's probably some pretty big mechanic changes included, so I don't want to waste any time on the existing setup until that time comes. I do understand the oddity of that though


Could we remove/have the option to remove the background for pet-training? IMO, it looks nicer like this (and maybe in other windows as well) 

- Not likely, Sorry

Can you please do away with AP purchases for world, idle, and click upgrades altogether. I have the confirmation on and that is a pain in the ass and even with the confirmation, I still accidentally get charged AP for upgrades that cost very little gold. I don't know of anyone who ever purposely uses that function
- I'm hoping we can look at the entire upgrade system later this year. In the meantime it's still useful early on.

I think it would be better if you remove this notification (only in event frames). 

- It's there to ensure people have receipt (beyond the level changing), as otherwise we get complaints that people think it lagged when they click 5x not realizing each one goes through.

Can we change monthly rewards?
Or the way that the supp lvls give them? Because its kinda unsatisfying when ur daily reward is the same like ur monthly
Or just one rarity higher :/
- We have yet to revamp the support/lineage systems. I imagine the answer is yes?

When will lynn be free from rays tyranny!
- Next week

Can we be allowed to mute the music without muting the sounds? I wanna be able to hear the sound of hitting enemies, without having the music playing x.x
- New options window will be surfacing on the Unity port development next week. We'll be separating them and allowing volume levels as well (0-100%). Hopefully we can improve the music to where people are immediately suffocating for the mute button

Suggestion

- I don't think it'd be good to constantly have that showing in the main UI. Some kind of hover around the teammates would make sense perhaps?

Can we make this click graphic thing have a toggle for on off? its destroyed clicking for me.
- How?

Why does log splitting not affect gold logs?
- Because they are entirely separate currencies/systems of their own balance.

Any plans to start including end date of events, or at least give one weeks notice before end of event?
- I usually give notice on such things, and the new events usually sit on test a week before the release. As for exact event dates? Not with these kinds of events. Down the Mobile road and major changes to how events work? They'll have start/end dates planned probably a year in advance.

That concludes the 9th Q & A with Ray! To submit a question or concern for next time, head over to https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2578]]> What do you do if you forget your password?
- You don't. Right now we manually verify with the user their details and go from there.

When we set our guild to open at 39/40, someone joins then leaves, them joining cause the guild to be closed and now we have to re-open it, can there be a guild auto-opens feature if someone leaves?
- Added to Trello

Make a channel for codes, easier to see all updates, (announcements) at once
- Announcements generally just contain prominent info. Anything else is just dated (patch notes). If this is that desired I have no problem with it, but personally I just see it as yet another channel to cluster the channel groups.

How about bulk buying pet arena bonuses?
- Pet arena development is coming up after the next patch

Can you rename were things
Since all the mobs have different names now not weretiger etc
- I've added it to trello suggestions as I don't have answer to that yet: https://trello.com/c/dpY61zwU/142-can-yo...etiger-etc

Can there be a way where we can highlight the names of ppl that in game pm us so we can copy and paste to respond? Annoying when ppl have uppercase i and lower case L in names
- Noted on trello. I can see that being a problem. https://trello.com/c/UL7ccddM/143-can-th...oying-when

1) Is there any particular reason why you aren't allowed to go to previous trees in woodcutting? I lvld to tier 9 not realizing i cant go back and now i can hardly kill my trees lol. Maybe thats how its supposed to be though..
- Efficiencies in energy can create an exploit with it.  I tried allowing that but it became an issue.

2) I just did like 10 challenges with a friend and our ingame chat was like.. completely busted... The chat doesnt work while in challenges and then continues to kinda mess it up if u tried to use it, even once youre out of the challenge. We both had to restart because it was being weird. -I guess that wasnt really a question but wondering if that's been said by anyone
- Added : https://trello.com/c/Ug3CP4KG/144-party-...challenges

Why can we still decide when to advance mine. Just unlock it whenever there is enough wood for it otherwise refresh. Since you don't use wood for anything else

Combine into one dynamic button that is either refresh or upgrade depending on if you can afford an upgrade or not, or if any are available (since 750 cap it would always be refresh until he raises cap)
- Mining is going to get some attention in the near future. There's probably some pretty big mechanic changes included, so I don't want to waste any time on the existing setup until that time comes. I do understand the oddity of that though


Could we remove/have the option to remove the background for pet-training? IMO, it looks nicer like this (and maybe in other windows as well) 

- Not likely, Sorry

Can you please do away with AP purchases for world, idle, and click upgrades altogether. I have the confirmation on and that is a pain in the ass and even with the confirmation, I still accidentally get charged AP for upgrades that cost very little gold. I don't know of anyone who ever purposely uses that function
- I'm hoping we can look at the entire upgrade system later this year. In the meantime it's still useful early on.

I think it would be better if you remove this notification (only in event frames). 

- It's there to ensure people have receipt (beyond the level changing), as otherwise we get complaints that people think it lagged when they click 5x not realizing each one goes through.

Can we change monthly rewards?
Or the way that the supp lvls give them? Because its kinda unsatisfying when ur daily reward is the same like ur monthly
Or just one rarity higher :/
- We have yet to revamp the support/lineage systems. I imagine the answer is yes?

When will lynn be free from rays tyranny!
- Next week

Can we be allowed to mute the music without muting the sounds? I wanna be able to hear the sound of hitting enemies, without having the music playing x.x
- New options window will be surfacing on the Unity port development next week. We'll be separating them and allowing volume levels as well (0-100%). Hopefully we can improve the music to where people are immediately suffocating for the mute button

Suggestion

- I don't think it'd be good to constantly have that showing in the main UI. Some kind of hover around the teammates would make sense perhaps?

Can we make this click graphic thing have a toggle for on off? its destroyed clicking for me.
- How?

Why does log splitting not affect gold logs?
- Because they are entirely separate currencies/systems of their own balance.

Any plans to start including end date of events, or at least give one weeks notice before end of event?
- I usually give notice on such things, and the new events usually sit on test a week before the release. As for exact event dates? Not with these kinds of events. Down the Mobile road and major changes to how events work? They'll have start/end dates planned probably a year in advance.

That concludes the 9th Q & A with Ray! To submit a question or concern for next time, head over to https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2578]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2578 Sat, 12 May 2018 03:38:19 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2578
Leave any questions or concerns you have for Ray to answer for the 10th Q & A.
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Thanks everyone!]]>
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Thanks everyone!]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2572 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:43:35 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2572 Do you have an eta on beasts?
- Not specifically. I have held on to assets prepared for features for long durations and simply found the perfect time for features and they are introduced with little notice. We're definitely building up to bigger things here as you'll see with the pet arena/tier expansion.

When will name change come to this discord server? I am requesting this since months.
Tbh i am in over 25 servers and this one is the only one that doesn’t allow it. if you fear people changing their names over and over again, theres a cool down for that too, so a abuse is not possible. i dont see a single reason to still not allow it.
- We can change your name if it's that important for now.

Why does the "Total Expedition Pts" trophy gives points to "Trades Trophy Upgrades" and not "Ships & Expeditions Trophy Upgrades"
- Good question...Added to trello

A game to reroll for pet skin? or something 5 diamond per roll? :>
- Not likely

Are there going to be other ways to unlock pet skins such as events?
- Yes, in fact this event does that.

Is there gonna be emblem for guilds like pets have pet skins?
- It's an interesting idea, although not sure it'd be worth the effort just yet.

Due to recent struggle, when will it be possible that the carrys that join a challenge can force start it? Maybe with a 30s countdown or sth like that
- Not in the short-term that I have ahead. Challenges overall need a good review.

What happened to the diamond investment portion of WW? I know it was taken out due to potential alt abuse. Will it ever come back or any varient?
- It's actually still set up in code. Good question....however you are the first to bring it up in a while so I don't know that it is heavily desired.

Can we please fix the pet arena glitch? its super annoying. You always attack first until you have hp where the boss can one shot you, then your attack is skipped and he hits first killing you making you miss out on a hit, this seems very unfair
- If the next attack means your pets die, is there really a difference in order? I'm confused. Feel free to follow up with me.

What is the most times an individual has lost to final boss in mafia
- We don't track this information. There used to be a case where it showed a much higher rate than was true, and people failed an insane amount of times, and getting angry with the event over it (understandably)

How much fun did you have coming up with all the names for the mobs and fish?
- Isael came up with the fish ones himself. I enjoy it sometimes however the pressure is real, lol.

When will there be a separate reset within the petmap?
- Not likely ever

How is the fuel you get when you sit on completed expeditions calculated?
- It's based on how many ships you have and how long you've been sitting on it, and based on existing fuel regeneration

What's with this gap >.>? It's like the Gappalachian mountains.

- Let it go! lol. We're improving against these things in Unity with far better dynamic UI handling, sorting, spacing, padding, etc.

Whats the chance to get an inferno pack from a code?
- 1/5000. Good luck!

Can features that have been canceled be removed, like i-matter for fuel upgrade? some of the non-English speaking players in my guild thought it was coming anyday and have been saving i-matter.
- It could be coming any day though, I just don't know which! Kidding aside i'll add it to trello-board to review.

Is it possible to get a timestamp on /export with the time it was executed?
- Added for today's patch: 'generatedAt'

The party mouseover window looks nice, but would it be possible to add commas to the card count?  543,211 is easier to read as half a million, but looks like  5431211 which is 5 million without stopping to count all the digits in the display.
- Untested, but should be done for today's patch.

Changing password is bugged as hell. fix that!
- It's in the list, and no, it kind of isn't. Overrides just operate differently, but we'll come up with a solution.

Instead of the usual stuff that calculates your trophy + NRG ie the 15min 34sec for 3 energy or 14min 56 sec for 3 energy, Why not add it all up to see how much total time left till the energy max to full base on your trophies + NRG. Instead of showing ie. 3 energy for 15min why not for 306 energy = 16 hours and 12min., or 312 energy = 14 hours 10min. and 56 sec. something like that, but ofcourse will just sum all of your setup trophy + NRG. and still will leave the player to chop whenever they want, and of course the 3 energy will tick still on a certain time you setup your trophy.

- I'm not sure why that would be any more important? Bring it up in test discussions and we can look into it.

A new title for guild leader rather than just leader again

- On my end, it's technically Creator. Perhaps we could come up with a new naming scheme though...Emperor, king, etc. lol

Having more than just Member/Captain/Leader/Owner would be miraculous. Or even better, editable position. IE Creator can choose whether leaders/captains can invite, kick, promote, set open join, open buildings, or write guild message each individually.
- I'm not sure I see why it would be needed. Only enhance people with the powers you trust, otherwise leave them as members.

If you want to leave a question/concern for next time, you can do so by visiting here - https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2571
Thanks everybody!]]> Do you have an eta on beasts?
- Not specifically. I have held on to assets prepared for features for long durations and simply found the perfect time for features and they are introduced with little notice. We're definitely building up to bigger things here as you'll see with the pet arena/tier expansion.

When will name change come to this discord server? I am requesting this since months.
Tbh i am in over 25 servers and this one is the only one that doesn’t allow it. if you fear people changing their names over and over again, theres a cool down for that too, so a abuse is not possible. i dont see a single reason to still not allow it.
- We can change your name if it's that important for now.

Why does the "Total Expedition Pts" trophy gives points to "Trades Trophy Upgrades" and not "Ships & Expeditions Trophy Upgrades"
- Good question...Added to trello

A game to reroll for pet skin? or something 5 diamond per roll? :>
- Not likely

Are there going to be other ways to unlock pet skins such as events?
- Yes, in fact this event does that.

Is there gonna be emblem for guilds like pets have pet skins?
- It's an interesting idea, although not sure it'd be worth the effort just yet.

Due to recent struggle, when will it be possible that the carrys that join a challenge can force start it? Maybe with a 30s countdown or sth like that
- Not in the short-term that I have ahead. Challenges overall need a good review.

What happened to the diamond investment portion of WW? I know it was taken out due to potential alt abuse. Will it ever come back or any varient?
- It's actually still set up in code. Good question....however you are the first to bring it up in a while so I don't know that it is heavily desired.

Can we please fix the pet arena glitch? its super annoying. You always attack first until you have hp where the boss can one shot you, then your attack is skipped and he hits first killing you making you miss out on a hit, this seems very unfair
- If the next attack means your pets die, is there really a difference in order? I'm confused. Feel free to follow up with me.

What is the most times an individual has lost to final boss in mafia
- We don't track this information. There used to be a case where it showed a much higher rate than was true, and people failed an insane amount of times, and getting angry with the event over it (understandably)

How much fun did you have coming up with all the names for the mobs and fish?
- Isael came up with the fish ones himself. I enjoy it sometimes however the pressure is real, lol.

When will there be a separate reset within the petmap?
- Not likely ever

How is the fuel you get when you sit on completed expeditions calculated?
- It's based on how many ships you have and how long you've been sitting on it, and based on existing fuel regeneration

What's with this gap >.>? It's like the Gappalachian mountains.

- Let it go! lol. We're improving against these things in Unity with far better dynamic UI handling, sorting, spacing, padding, etc.

Whats the chance to get an inferno pack from a code?
- 1/5000. Good luck!

Can features that have been canceled be removed, like i-matter for fuel upgrade? some of the non-English speaking players in my guild thought it was coming anyday and have been saving i-matter.
- It could be coming any day though, I just don't know which! Kidding aside i'll add it to trello-board to review.

Is it possible to get a timestamp on /export with the time it was executed?
- Added for today's patch: 'generatedAt'

The party mouseover window looks nice, but would it be possible to add commas to the card count?  543,211 is easier to read as half a million, but looks like  5431211 which is 5 million without stopping to count all the digits in the display.
- Untested, but should be done for today's patch.

Changing password is bugged as hell. fix that!
- It's in the list, and no, it kind of isn't. Overrides just operate differently, but we'll come up with a solution.

Instead of the usual stuff that calculates your trophy + NRG ie the 15min 34sec for 3 energy or 14min 56 sec for 3 energy, Why not add it all up to see how much total time left till the energy max to full base on your trophies + NRG. Instead of showing ie. 3 energy for 15min why not for 306 energy = 16 hours and 12min., or 312 energy = 14 hours 10min. and 56 sec. something like that, but ofcourse will just sum all of your setup trophy + NRG. and still will leave the player to chop whenever they want, and of course the 3 energy will tick still on a certain time you setup your trophy.

- I'm not sure why that would be any more important? Bring it up in test discussions and we can look into it.

A new title for guild leader rather than just leader again

- On my end, it's technically Creator. Perhaps we could come up with a new naming scheme though...Emperor, king, etc. lol

Having more than just Member/Captain/Leader/Owner would be miraculous. Or even better, editable position. IE Creator can choose whether leaders/captains can invite, kick, promote, set open join, open buildings, or write guild message each individually.
- I'm not sure I see why it would be needed. Only enhance people with the powers you trust, otherwise leave them as members.

If you want to leave a question/concern for next time, you can do so by visiting here - https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2571
Thanks everybody!]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2571 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:42:04 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2571
Leave your questions and concerns here for the 9th Open Community Q & A with Ray.
Make sure to view the past questions as it may have already been answered. You can find these previous answers here - http://iourpg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=8

Thanks everyone!]]>
Leave your questions and concerns here for the 9th Open Community Q & A with Ray.
Make sure to view the past questions as it may have already been answered. You can find these previous answers here - http://iourpg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=8

Thanks everyone!]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2567 Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:15:36 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2567 What was it like to draw this? is it the image you have the most fond memories of drawing, or do you have another that is more dear to your heart?


- I've never being that much into organic noises, but i don't mind doing those kind of drawings . Even if, most of the time, an artist love to work on 'noble' and heroic 
graphics that is likely supposed to elevate spirits over the mass, i guess life is also about laughing of simple things and fecal oriented jokes.

What is your personal favourite piece of art you have drawn for IOU to date?

- That would probably be the tribal necromancer from the 'tribal smash. challenge.

Have you read the short story written by Beifong, about the master fish man Billy? If you haven't I suggest you go and read it, 
and I was wondering if you could edit the spray for the Sharken (world 4, stage 13 mob). It would be a nice touch if the hook 
the sharken carries had the engraving "Billy" on it.

- I have read the story . I can edit it in my free time, within the month to come.

What IOU planet do you think would be the scariest to be trapped on? 

- I've just seriously questionned myself about those, too seriously . Two planets come 'ex aquo' as the most dangerous one: Gamma and Eta. Let me explain....

- On Alpha, one can live while hiding in trunks, caverns, and eat some edible mushrooms and berries as a snack . The Forest Guardian seems to be pretty open-minded, as long as you say 
you don't throw your batteries in the gargabe, you convert your food left-overs to compost, and love puppies (quickly grab a baby lynx and caress his forehead meawhile, just to prove it).

- On Beta, the reindeer is actually showing you the way to the nearest igloo where you could drink some hot chocolate (while you don't know how to decipher actually and slash him thinking he is 
charging at you). 

- On Delta, pretend you are a pirat, wear a 'tricorne' and you are good to go. Pop some coconuts and relax on the beach until the sun set .

- On Epsilon, even if the environment seems scary, you can still symphatize with 'phantom', and tell him you understand why he is angry, that being dead sucks, 
that he did'nt deserved so much misery in his carnal life . Wereverine is a cousin of Chewbacca, so if you look like Han Solo and can do some trick with a laser gun, you'll
 get his affection and a hug, plus he'll help you punch the replica of Jason Vorees .

- Goblins on Zeta have nothing against you. You just need to give them valuables and pretend you know about a treasure chest full of gold nuggets . Just try to escape while they
chained you upside down on a roasting stick, before they come back from the trekking to the fictive jackpot.

- On Theta, you have to look for a Pentaloke and try to get advantage of their dubitative spirits . The are the only beings on this planet capable of reason and you can see, by alternatively looking at their four eyes, that they don't judge you for being a human . They instantly seize that you are vulnerable, avid of freedom, a warrior of the truth . For this reason they'll help you hide from the  mastermind that want to eradicate your race .

- Robots on Iota are made by humans. You understand nothing at first, but you just have to run for a shelter and lock yourself in for a year and survive eating bean cans . If you want to escape you have 3 choices, you either try to locate the main plug of each mech and pull it off, while one of them is trying to chop you with their ultra quick metal arms, or you read the book that will help you bunch reprogram them using an assembly langage. Finally, you can call Ray to do it for you, if the intergalactical phone is still working.

- On Kappa it's easy, you just pray and offer a young virgin as a sacrifice. Also, keep in mind that semi-god don't like that you stare at them. So remember to always look
at your shoes while you walk on this planet .
  
- Finally on Gamma, you are screwed . It's highly radioactive, so there is not a single carrot growing nearby, and everyone is a zombie wearing some pustulent
scars and bubbles . They understand nothing and they are constantly in pain, so no dialogue will ever be possible . The best you have to do both for you and for them
is to end their misery without remorses. 

- Virus on Eta are as well organisms that just need an host, YOU, to propagate and feel satisfied . Most of the things you can hide in are liquids, cells and holes, so it's either
damp or stinky, too warm . Is a violet fluid good for you? The blue one maybe? You have no choices but to taste and spit, until you find something that is not too toxic for you.
Anways, your survival chances on this planet are very weak. 
  
How annoying are Ray's art requests?

- They are not annoying at all. Ray rarely ask for modification and I have pretty much white card on everything once the main directions are given .

What file type are you using for your graphics? jpg? png? gif? I am wondering if you use vector data types (EPS/AI/SVG)

- Up to date , everything, except some promotion images, were done directly in flash . So they are all vectors, as they come weightless and easy to scale.
We are starting working with Illustrator, as some things will get easier in this software .

How come you're so cool and with it, and ray is so lame and not with it?
 
- That's because i live in the Northern part of Canada, it's cooler . Ray is on the South .It's all about supraconductors .

Can you draw me a simple drawing of a frog eating a clam, panda, and monkey ty

- That is confusing . An action drawing, including 4 elements, all stuck in a bunch, cannot be that simple . But yes i can. 
That is a funny one. Will do it when i find some free time as well .

What was your favorite "old IOU" monster drawing? (Not including challenges)

- I remember this Octopus stuck upside down with tentacles spread all over a boat. I think it was on Delta. That was my favorite .

Were you the artist who made the potato for april fools 2 years ago or however long ago?

- Yes!

Isn't it irritating for you that most icons are not centered and aligned well?

- Not that much, there is some align tools in flash, i use them a lot . But yes, some slight things that i know are not even noticeable can bother me .

Are you solely employed to iou or is it a side gig? Where did you learn to draw? Self taught or school? What's your background in art as work?

- IOU is my main work, i do some side gigs once in a while , not even always art related . I learned drawing by myself, but learned technical stuff by attending different classes .
I did a videogame 3d school back in 2000, when the program was brand new and was not offered by any public schools. Then i did some gigs here and there .

Do you want to spend time on creating a symbol that actually resembles "wood"cutting damage instead of "stone"cutting damage?


- This 'stone' is a spatial 'grinding stone' . By friction and magnetical interactions it removes impurities on the woodcutting axe blade, made of non-radioactive ultinum. 
The more you use it, the more your axe get powerful!!!  :-)]]> What was it like to draw this? is it the image you have the most fond memories of drawing, or do you have another that is more dear to your heart?


- I've never being that much into organic noises, but i don't mind doing those kind of drawings . Even if, most of the time, an artist love to work on 'noble' and heroic 
graphics that is likely supposed to elevate spirits over the mass, i guess life is also about laughing of simple things and fecal oriented jokes.

What is your personal favourite piece of art you have drawn for IOU to date?

- That would probably be the tribal necromancer from the 'tribal smash. challenge.

Have you read the short story written by Beifong, about the master fish man Billy? If you haven't I suggest you go and read it, 
and I was wondering if you could edit the spray for the Sharken (world 4, stage 13 mob). It would be a nice touch if the hook 
the sharken carries had the engraving "Billy" on it.

- I have read the story . I can edit it in my free time, within the month to come.

What IOU planet do you think would be the scariest to be trapped on? 

- I've just seriously questionned myself about those, too seriously . Two planets come 'ex aquo' as the most dangerous one: Gamma and Eta. Let me explain....

- On Alpha, one can live while hiding in trunks, caverns, and eat some edible mushrooms and berries as a snack . The Forest Guardian seems to be pretty open-minded, as long as you say 
you don't throw your batteries in the gargabe, you convert your food left-overs to compost, and love puppies (quickly grab a baby lynx and caress his forehead meawhile, just to prove it).

- On Beta, the reindeer is actually showing you the way to the nearest igloo where you could drink some hot chocolate (while you don't know how to decipher actually and slash him thinking he is 
charging at you). 

- On Delta, pretend you are a pirat, wear a 'tricorne' and you are good to go. Pop some coconuts and relax on the beach until the sun set .

- On Epsilon, even if the environment seems scary, you can still symphatize with 'phantom', and tell him you understand why he is angry, that being dead sucks, 
that he did'nt deserved so much misery in his carnal life . Wereverine is a cousin of Chewbacca, so if you look like Han Solo and can do some trick with a laser gun, you'll
 get his affection and a hug, plus he'll help you punch the replica of Jason Vorees .

- Goblins on Zeta have nothing against you. You just need to give them valuables and pretend you know about a treasure chest full of gold nuggets . Just try to escape while they
chained you upside down on a roasting stick, before they come back from the trekking to the fictive jackpot.

- On Theta, you have to look for a Pentaloke and try to get advantage of their dubitative spirits . The are the only beings on this planet capable of reason and you can see, by alternatively looking at their four eyes, that they don't judge you for being a human . They instantly seize that you are vulnerable, avid of freedom, a warrior of the truth . For this reason they'll help you hide from the  mastermind that want to eradicate your race .

- Robots on Iota are made by humans. You understand nothing at first, but you just have to run for a shelter and lock yourself in for a year and survive eating bean cans . If you want to escape you have 3 choices, you either try to locate the main plug of each mech and pull it off, while one of them is trying to chop you with their ultra quick metal arms, or you read the book that will help you bunch reprogram them using an assembly langage. Finally, you can call Ray to do it for you, if the intergalactical phone is still working.

- On Kappa it's easy, you just pray and offer a young virgin as a sacrifice. Also, keep in mind that semi-god don't like that you stare at them. So remember to always look
at your shoes while you walk on this planet .
  
- Finally on Gamma, you are screwed . It's highly radioactive, so there is not a single carrot growing nearby, and everyone is a zombie wearing some pustulent
scars and bubbles . They understand nothing and they are constantly in pain, so no dialogue will ever be possible . The best you have to do both for you and for them
is to end their misery without remorses. 

- Virus on Eta are as well organisms that just need an host, YOU, to propagate and feel satisfied . Most of the things you can hide in are liquids, cells and holes, so it's either
damp or stinky, too warm . Is a violet fluid good for you? The blue one maybe? You have no choices but to taste and spit, until you find something that is not too toxic for you.
Anways, your survival chances on this planet are very weak. 
  
How annoying are Ray's art requests?

- They are not annoying at all. Ray rarely ask for modification and I have pretty much white card on everything once the main directions are given .

What file type are you using for your graphics? jpg? png? gif? I am wondering if you use vector data types (EPS/AI/SVG)

- Up to date , everything, except some promotion images, were done directly in flash . So they are all vectors, as they come weightless and easy to scale.
We are starting working with Illustrator, as some things will get easier in this software .

How come you're so cool and with it, and ray is so lame and not with it?
 
- That's because i live in the Northern part of Canada, it's cooler . Ray is on the South .It's all about supraconductors .

Can you draw me a simple drawing of a frog eating a clam, panda, and monkey ty

- That is confusing . An action drawing, including 4 elements, all stuck in a bunch, cannot be that simple . But yes i can. 
That is a funny one. Will do it when i find some free time as well .

What was your favorite "old IOU" monster drawing? (Not including challenges)

- I remember this Octopus stuck upside down with tentacles spread all over a boat. I think it was on Delta. That was my favorite .

Were you the artist who made the potato for april fools 2 years ago or however long ago?

- Yes!

Isn't it irritating for you that most icons are not centered and aligned well?

- Not that much, there is some align tools in flash, i use them a lot . But yes, some slight things that i know are not even noticeable can bother me .

Are you solely employed to iou or is it a side gig? Where did you learn to draw? Self taught or school? What's your background in art as work?

- IOU is my main work, i do some side gigs once in a while , not even always art related . I learned drawing by myself, but learned technical stuff by attending different classes .
I did a videogame 3d school back in 2000, when the program was brand new and was not offered by any public schools. Then i did some gigs here and there .

Do you want to spend time on creating a symbol that actually resembles "wood"cutting damage instead of "stone"cutting damage?


- This 'stone' is a spatial 'grinding stone' . By friction and magnetical interactions it removes impurities on the woodcutting axe blade, made of non-radioactive ultinum. 
The more you use it, the more your axe get powerful!!!  :-)]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2565 Sun, 15 Apr 2018 03:48:20 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2565
I just defeated Donaldo Trumpo. Is this the end of the event?

(If it is, could you please add a 6th area please? Event is too short)

Thanks]]>
I just defeated Donaldo Trumpo. Is this the end of the event?

(If it is, could you please add a 6th area please? Event is too short)

Thanks]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2561 Mon, 09 Apr 2018 01:32:27 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2561 Can you make it where we can not accidentally spam legendary resets? I wanted to reset and add to  wood as i do before dumping energy. But I was tired and instead spammed reset 8-10 times losing a couple hundred ap.
- Probably wont make it into changelog, but I have added a check serverside to prevent resets when there is nothing to reset. Good call, thanks.

Could a 'How many dyna do you wish to get' be put into the game. If you save up a lot of AP, rather than click a lot of time, you buy how much you want. This would also mean there would need to be a new way to clear the mining screen other than buying dynomite
- Will be a unity feature likely. We are also revamping Mining in general so I don't know what kind of interactions will be occurring at that point. So for now I won't be jumping on this right away.

Can you be more open about when you are gonna be not working on game? Don’t have to give specific reason just say like real life is happening see you guys in a few days. Sucked waiting for last update and not hearing from you when everything was working on test server
- Working on the game and doing updates are very different aspects on my end. My ability to perform an update and allocating a full day to ensure no issues go on, along with all the support requests are not in the same. Even without seeing constant updates on test, I'm generally always around working on 'something'. I did mention the update would be delayed.

Ray, can you please add a confirmation button for if you are about to spend max fish sacs?
I lost my fish stock for the second time this year when the game lagged while i was buying sacs. this hurts a lot, especially since i used whistles to get my stock as high.
- Added for upcoming minipatch

Why not adding a week bonus for ship expeditions? like X week bonus +X%  to ultinum or sac or whatever
- Expeditions are already heavily outbalanced. I don't want to toy with them until they get a serious review

Can we get a guild chat notification that guild well will expire soon, nothing says excitement like being surprised that your well just decreased.
- I think we can tie notifications for something like this in the Unity event system. Not likely to hit the flash version though, sorry.

Talking about guild chat: add a notification when a member joins? at the moment there's only a message when someone leaves
- Same applies via Unity

Can we get a notification orb when our ingame tickets status changes
- Same applies via Unity. This one is really important though, I agree. I have an in-game mail system designed, so perhaps we can tie it into that.

If you fail to log in (failure to login to the game, either due to maintenance or due to connection), on the login screen the 'log in' and 'close' buttons disappears, leaving only the words. You're forced to reload to be able to log in again.
- This was originally to prevent people from spamming the login while waiting for the request. I'll look into it.

Fix bingo or remove it from live till its actually working 100%
- This is Jay's priority when he returns from vacation.

Concerns
1. Lack of usage for crystals
2. Lack of good usage for diamonds - fish, card x2 and fast tracking expedition is not something I want to blow my diamonds on at all times
1. Coming with 2nd layer to orbs
2. A new VIP will be coming soon. Also the pet arena expansion will probably bring a new sink to the game.

Thanks for participating, you can post a question/concern for next time over here - https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2560]]> Can you make it where we can not accidentally spam legendary resets? I wanted to reset and add to  wood as i do before dumping energy. But I was tired and instead spammed reset 8-10 times losing a couple hundred ap.
- Probably wont make it into changelog, but I have added a check serverside to prevent resets when there is nothing to reset. Good call, thanks.

Could a 'How many dyna do you wish to get' be put into the game. If you save up a lot of AP, rather than click a lot of time, you buy how much you want. This would also mean there would need to be a new way to clear the mining screen other than buying dynomite
- Will be a unity feature likely. We are also revamping Mining in general so I don't know what kind of interactions will be occurring at that point. So for now I won't be jumping on this right away.

Can you be more open about when you are gonna be not working on game? Don’t have to give specific reason just say like real life is happening see you guys in a few days. Sucked waiting for last update and not hearing from you when everything was working on test server
- Working on the game and doing updates are very different aspects on my end. My ability to perform an update and allocating a full day to ensure no issues go on, along with all the support requests are not in the same. Even without seeing constant updates on test, I'm generally always around working on 'something'. I did mention the update would be delayed.

Ray, can you please add a confirmation button for if you are about to spend max fish sacs?
I lost my fish stock for the second time this year when the game lagged while i was buying sacs. this hurts a lot, especially since i used whistles to get my stock as high.
- Added for upcoming minipatch

Why not adding a week bonus for ship expeditions? like X week bonus +X%  to ultinum or sac or whatever
- Expeditions are already heavily outbalanced. I don't want to toy with them until they get a serious review

Can we get a guild chat notification that guild well will expire soon, nothing says excitement like being surprised that your well just decreased.
- I think we can tie notifications for something like this in the Unity event system. Not likely to hit the flash version though, sorry.

Talking about guild chat: add a notification when a member joins? at the moment there's only a message when someone leaves
- Same applies via Unity

Can we get a notification orb when our ingame tickets status changes
- Same applies via Unity. This one is really important though, I agree. I have an in-game mail system designed, so perhaps we can tie it into that.

If you fail to log in (failure to login to the game, either due to maintenance or due to connection), on the login screen the 'log in' and 'close' buttons disappears, leaving only the words. You're forced to reload to be able to log in again.
- This was originally to prevent people from spamming the login while waiting for the request. I'll look into it.

Fix bingo or remove it from live till its actually working 100%
- This is Jay's priority when he returns from vacation.

Concerns
1. Lack of usage for crystals
2. Lack of good usage for diamonds - fish, card x2 and fast tracking expedition is not something I want to blow my diamonds on at all times
1. Coming with 2nd layer to orbs
2. A new VIP will be coming soon. Also the pet arena expansion will probably bring a new sink to the game.

Thanks for participating, you can post a question/concern for next time over here - https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2560]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2560 Mon, 09 Apr 2018 01:26:20 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2560
Leave your questions and concerns here for the 8th Open Community Q & A with Ray.
Make sure to view the past questions as it may have already been answered. You can find these previous answers here - http://iourpg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=8

Thanks everyone!]]>
Leave your questions and concerns here for the 8th Open Community Q & A with Ray.
Make sure to view the past questions as it may have already been answered. You can find these previous answers here - http://iourpg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=8

Thanks everyone!]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2556 Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:50:14 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2556 How about adding a notification window next to guilde chat, that would inform if a guilde member needs someone to join in Group or Duo challanages.

^ and that notification button when pressed is a window that is filtered with only guild members doing challenges
- It's not a bad idea but I don't think this will realistically make it into a priority any time soon. First we need to improve consistency with the guild rooms to begin with, let alone adding challenge details into it.

Curious, will there be a thing put in where we could make the mine ores set to invisible? When you save a lot of Dyna and have quite a bit of energy, when using all of them at once to get a lot of mine ores, you get that CRAZY LAG.
- There will not. Mining is likely going to get changed a bit soon....beyond that the Unity client should not contain the same kind of lag you experience in Flash, and since at that point the option by far should not even be necessary it won't really be tackled right now. I know what you're talking about though.

Question for Ray: since ship arena is a important part of the game, and many people have unknowingly made mistakes during their build, example raising reactors to high. Would it be possible to get a one time reset code? or will reactor be fixed anytime soon? Or even better make it like asc and let us reset points at a cost
the abuse is the punishment we receive by not having 100% optimization from the start, there is no way to repair a build because the cost is simply too great and there is no income.  this could be fixed with upcoming features such as more drones, fixing of reactors, speed boost, etc.  a one-time forced reset when a major change is introduced would be nice, just so that everyone gets to play with the new toys without being stuck in a build months-old with no way out.  in short:  raybeewankanobee you're our only hope
- The thing is about systems like this, is they are not from a limited currency. You can always get more and improve the build by upgrading the things you would better intend to. That being said, there will not be a reset code, or at least it is not planned.
    
I was searching on google for what would be worth my money on the game and I found like next to nothing. I'm a light spender who is just returning to the game and I had to come on discord and search for some key words about it (pack, best deal, just coming back, ect) to find out the monthly pack is good value. My suggestion is to maybe make a small guide on spending for someone who is new or just coming back? (maybe see if it can be added to the Game Guide by ExWhiteWolf? I'm not sure if its still updated though)
- Such a guide would not make sense for me to write up (Bias, lack of understanding of value of packs through limitation considering I can just 'give' myself the packs). Something like that is generally something the community can assist with...it probably makes more sense to just ask the chat instead of the community writing a guide for it.
    
Add a ding for every new player who joins the challenge queue
- An improved sound system is planned for the Unity project. This would be very easy within the flash client however there are a lot of people who would get annoyed by that if the option wasn't available, and that's where it gets complicated. In any case, I am adding this to an upcoming Trello-board for unity features for the new front-end developer to add

Is it possible to get involved in the development of IOU? I'm an MCSE and I've been developing in c# since 2002, also good with Swift, SQL, C++ ... loads of experience as a professional developer, thing is I'm sick and bored at the moment
- I appreciate the interest. The work on IOU is extremely niche. We just got a new front-end developer on the team, but this required some serious specifics to make happen. Most people, no matter their skill level would become a detriment to the development since IOU has so many different technologies involved, and has a serious collaborative context. It also requires a lot of years of experience in dealing with multiplayer code due to the threading, AWS (Ec2's, lambda, S3/Cloudfront, etc), SSL, MongoDB, Redis, etc. It's unfortunate that it's such a complication to expand members because IOU has many programmers within it.

Question: can the mining border be changeable, i got the water one way back at lv100 and I'm ready for something new, but 200 levels later it has not happened.
- I sure hope so. I'm looking at a mining rehaul by summer.

Will we get some new use for huge infinity matter stash after maxing all drone slots?
- This has been a growing concern, where people are actually asking for rewards other than I-Matter in things like Match-3. The answer is yes, but I don't know when or what for as of yet.

Will we ever be able to reset personal guild building lvls? after a while some of the buildings become useless or unwanted, and with the current setup, once you upgrade a building, you are stuck with it. yet we can reset our donations to full guild buildings to move stone to new buildings.
- This is another case of a very unlimited resource. I don't think it will be necessary to integrate such a system as you can spend some time investing into the newly desirable buildings pretty quickly. I don't like 'everything' being resettable.

"Total woodcutting damage" Trophy?
- Interesting. We haven't tracked such a thing, but I think I'll start tracking it and then consider the trophy later.

I have issue with the numbers and skills it can be annoying. we need a button that can activate them all in 1 press say number 7? Learned that key boards can have a hard time with multiple key-presses at once. 3 or 4 of them trigger and then i need to press the others to trigger them which ends up being 1 or 2 secs delay
- Hmm, what is your ping in this situation? I find they all activate quickly as I press the numbers. It is an interesting idea though and it was suggested before having built-in macros to handle abilities in sequences.

Can the start time for Bingo be moved each week? Start it one hour later, then the games will all start at a different time
- I think this would make it difficult for the community to attend as it being consistent has made it clear when players can and will make it for bingo. Changing it requires weekly research on the times. Short answer? No, sorry.

Anyway to unlock new themes as you level up to a certain level or unlock to buy them. I mean you started your Universe writing on wood. When you are at Qs of coins and levels 1500+, I think we should be writing on more expensive/elegant things instead of wood.  I mean we've come from keeping a snake as a pet to going past a Mechanical Dragon as one.
- If you can throw together some toss-up versions of what you're thinking, show me and I can potentially look at that being done for the Unity version.

Will we have some sort of celebration for reaching version 1.00.00?
- The celebration will be the features released with 1.00 =p What did you have in mind?

Quick button to start fishing, often find myself forgetting about it when I login and have other things to do.
- We've talked about having a fast-track option for fishing. Likely in the next month.

'Lazy man' option for events
- Nope. The ep is awarded for doing the interaction. Lazy man option is not doing the event at all, and not getting the rewards.

Think this might be annoying for some people because of missing claims and having to deal with it every 8 hours. wouldn't it be better to have it as a single claim with 24h cool down and have time timer going for the next 12h if you miss a claim? having it at 150 energy instead of separating it in to 3 claims 8 hour each? Or an automatic claim system like the santa event?
- Is the forgiving claim recoup not working?

Suggestion
Release stats regarding the player base, average level, average time played, most fish caught, etc..
- At one point I was looking at weekly 'Interesting Stats' on fridays but it didn't pan out. With a new developer on board it might be possible again.

Make a hook with the inscription "Billy" on the sharken (World 4, Stage 13 mob), referring to the short story written by our very own Beifong.
- lol - I don't think we're looking at new fishing gear for a good while.

When will new VIP be added?
- I assume you mean VIP improvements? Whenever it becomes a priority. It hasn't been brought up much/lately by the community.

Can we obtain pet points outside of arena and the pet pack (which gives worthless amts of pet points) ? i.e expedition or some
- Pet packs will be changing in that regard. Pet arena is also getting a solid rehaul as the next major patch.

Can we get a quick patch for pet feed that lets us players with maxed out pets collect apples for pet feed timer
- I've added it to trello as a critical matter for the next patch.

Why does the ability to sell stone and crystals still exist? (especially stone...)
- It wasn't supposed to still be there lol. It'll be removed soon.

Building Idea
Said this a while back but I've thought about it more and want to suggest it.  New building "Building of Requirement"  Like in Room of Requirement in Harry Potter (lol).  Building does whatever you need it to do.  Simple.
So imagine space expeditions.  You can select the resource you want to farm and increase.  This building does exactly that.  It gives you the bonus you want/need.  Have a few different bonuses active, perhaps tied to current building bonuses or new bonuses entirely.  You can then select what bonus you need and the bonus can be changed on a weekly cooldown.  Perhaps to offset or boost current weekly bonuses that you might want or not want?
Perhaps the bonuses could be from the list of possible weekly bonuses
- It's interesting but if I'm being realistic, it is more complicated than i'd like for new buildings.


Just a minor thing but: why are the gold pop up messages longer than others that can be "clicked away". I mean in the event they take forever to disappear where others pop up with a window to acknowledge by clicking "ok"

- Because, bad UI integration by me It'll have to be something looked at/fixed for the next match 3 (which, who knows, may even be on the Unity client, where UI will actually be consistent!)

Can we get better estimation of "Coming Early 2018"? (Relating to the unreleased guild building)
- First half of the year. The guild bonuses for 200+ has become a bigger issue needing attention before a new building.

Could we get some zone specific music at some point, the game still runs that old 3 second looped tune
- It's much longer than 3 seconds lol, it's minute(s) but feels like a loop doesn't it? I don't know about zone specific; world specific maybe.

Can dyna dmg owerflow hit next mine (with auto refresh) like woodcutting?
- Dynamite is pretty powerful now with the upgrades for it. I'm not sure it would be good to have that. If it becomes a more desirable feature we can look at the math and ensure it isn't a balance concern.

What are the exact ranges (min, max) for the weekly bonuses?
- These are the ranges:
        XPBonus : 10% - 25%
        GoldBonus : 10% - 40%
        WoodBonus : 10% - 30%
        StoneBonus : 10% - 20%
        FishValueBonus : 10% - 40%
        CardBonus : 10% - 40%
        CrystalBonus : 2x
        TrainingBonus : 2x
        PetPointBonus : 10% - 30%
        ValorBonus : 2x
        ExpeditionPointBonus : 10% - 40%
        MultiCatchBonus : 10% - 50%

Can we get the current gold logs in the export? "goldLogAcc" is in the export but not gold logs on hand.
- Done for the next client update

Thanks everyone for the questions this time. You can post your questions and concerns for the next session over here https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2555]]> How about adding a notification window next to guilde chat, that would inform if a guilde member needs someone to join in Group or Duo challanages.

^ and that notification button when pressed is a window that is filtered with only guild members doing challenges
- It's not a bad idea but I don't think this will realistically make it into a priority any time soon. First we need to improve consistency with the guild rooms to begin with, let alone adding challenge details into it.

Curious, will there be a thing put in where we could make the mine ores set to invisible? When you save a lot of Dyna and have quite a bit of energy, when using all of them at once to get a lot of mine ores, you get that CRAZY LAG.
- There will not. Mining is likely going to get changed a bit soon....beyond that the Unity client should not contain the same kind of lag you experience in Flash, and since at that point the option by far should not even be necessary it won't really be tackled right now. I know what you're talking about though.

Question for Ray: since ship arena is a important part of the game, and many people have unknowingly made mistakes during their build, example raising reactors to high. Would it be possible to get a one time reset code? or will reactor be fixed anytime soon? Or even better make it like asc and let us reset points at a cost
the abuse is the punishment we receive by not having 100% optimization from the start, there is no way to repair a build because the cost is simply too great and there is no income.  this could be fixed with upcoming features such as more drones, fixing of reactors, speed boost, etc.  a one-time forced reset when a major change is introduced would be nice, just so that everyone gets to play with the new toys without being stuck in a build months-old with no way out.  in short:  raybeewankanobee you're our only hope
- The thing is about systems like this, is they are not from a limited currency. You can always get more and improve the build by upgrading the things you would better intend to. That being said, there will not be a reset code, or at least it is not planned.
    
I was searching on google for what would be worth my money on the game and I found like next to nothing. I'm a light spender who is just returning to the game and I had to come on discord and search for some key words about it (pack, best deal, just coming back, ect) to find out the monthly pack is good value. My suggestion is to maybe make a small guide on spending for someone who is new or just coming back? (maybe see if it can be added to the Game Guide by ExWhiteWolf? I'm not sure if its still updated though)
- Such a guide would not make sense for me to write up (Bias, lack of understanding of value of packs through limitation considering I can just 'give' myself the packs). Something like that is generally something the community can assist with...it probably makes more sense to just ask the chat instead of the community writing a guide for it.
    
Add a ding for every new player who joins the challenge queue
- An improved sound system is planned for the Unity project. This would be very easy within the flash client however there are a lot of people who would get annoyed by that if the option wasn't available, and that's where it gets complicated. In any case, I am adding this to an upcoming Trello-board for unity features for the new front-end developer to add

Is it possible to get involved in the development of IOU? I'm an MCSE and I've been developing in c# since 2002, also good with Swift, SQL, C++ ... loads of experience as a professional developer, thing is I'm sick and bored at the moment
- I appreciate the interest. The work on IOU is extremely niche. We just got a new front-end developer on the team, but this required some serious specifics to make happen. Most people, no matter their skill level would become a detriment to the development since IOU has so many different technologies involved, and has a serious collaborative context. It also requires a lot of years of experience in dealing with multiplayer code due to the threading, AWS (Ec2's, lambda, S3/Cloudfront, etc), SSL, MongoDB, Redis, etc. It's unfortunate that it's such a complication to expand members because IOU has many programmers within it.

Question: can the mining border be changeable, i got the water one way back at lv100 and I'm ready for something new, but 200 levels later it has not happened.
- I sure hope so. I'm looking at a mining rehaul by summer.

Will we get some new use for huge infinity matter stash after maxing all drone slots?
- This has been a growing concern, where people are actually asking for rewards other than I-Matter in things like Match-3. The answer is yes, but I don't know when or what for as of yet.

Will we ever be able to reset personal guild building lvls? after a while some of the buildings become useless or unwanted, and with the current setup, once you upgrade a building, you are stuck with it. yet we can reset our donations to full guild buildings to move stone to new buildings.
- This is another case of a very unlimited resource. I don't think it will be necessary to integrate such a system as you can spend some time investing into the newly desirable buildings pretty quickly. I don't like 'everything' being resettable.

"Total woodcutting damage" Trophy?
- Interesting. We haven't tracked such a thing, but I think I'll start tracking it and then consider the trophy later.

I have issue with the numbers and skills it can be annoying. we need a button that can activate them all in 1 press say number 7? Learned that key boards can have a hard time with multiple key-presses at once. 3 or 4 of them trigger and then i need to press the others to trigger them which ends up being 1 or 2 secs delay
- Hmm, what is your ping in this situation? I find they all activate quickly as I press the numbers. It is an interesting idea though and it was suggested before having built-in macros to handle abilities in sequences.

Can the start time for Bingo be moved each week? Start it one hour later, then the games will all start at a different time
- I think this would make it difficult for the community to attend as it being consistent has made it clear when players can and will make it for bingo. Changing it requires weekly research on the times. Short answer? No, sorry.

Anyway to unlock new themes as you level up to a certain level or unlock to buy them. I mean you started your Universe writing on wood. When you are at Qs of coins and levels 1500+, I think we should be writing on more expensive/elegant things instead of wood.  I mean we've come from keeping a snake as a pet to going past a Mechanical Dragon as one.
- If you can throw together some toss-up versions of what you're thinking, show me and I can potentially look at that being done for the Unity version.

Will we have some sort of celebration for reaching version 1.00.00?
- The celebration will be the features released with 1.00 =p What did you have in mind?

Quick button to start fishing, often find myself forgetting about it when I login and have other things to do.
- We've talked about having a fast-track option for fishing. Likely in the next month.

'Lazy man' option for events
- Nope. The ep is awarded for doing the interaction. Lazy man option is not doing the event at all, and not getting the rewards.

Think this might be annoying for some people because of missing claims and having to deal with it every 8 hours. wouldn't it be better to have it as a single claim with 24h cool down and have time timer going for the next 12h if you miss a claim? having it at 150 energy instead of separating it in to 3 claims 8 hour each? Or an automatic claim system like the santa event?
- Is the forgiving claim recoup not working?

Suggestion
Release stats regarding the player base, average level, average time played, most fish caught, etc..
- At one point I was looking at weekly 'Interesting Stats' on fridays but it didn't pan out. With a new developer on board it might be possible again.

Make a hook with the inscription "Billy" on the sharken (World 4, Stage 13 mob), referring to the short story written by our very own Beifong.
- lol - I don't think we're looking at new fishing gear for a good while.

When will new VIP be added?
- I assume you mean VIP improvements? Whenever it becomes a priority. It hasn't been brought up much/lately by the community.

Can we obtain pet points outside of arena and the pet pack (which gives worthless amts of pet points) ? i.e expedition or some
- Pet packs will be changing in that regard. Pet arena is also getting a solid rehaul as the next major patch.

Can we get a quick patch for pet feed that lets us players with maxed out pets collect apples for pet feed timer
- I've added it to trello as a critical matter for the next patch.

Why does the ability to sell stone and crystals still exist? (especially stone...)
- It wasn't supposed to still be there lol. It'll be removed soon.

Building Idea
Said this a while back but I've thought about it more and want to suggest it.  New building "Building of Requirement"  Like in Room of Requirement in Harry Potter (lol).  Building does whatever you need it to do.  Simple.
So imagine space expeditions.  You can select the resource you want to farm and increase.  This building does exactly that.  It gives you the bonus you want/need.  Have a few different bonuses active, perhaps tied to current building bonuses or new bonuses entirely.  You can then select what bonus you need and the bonus can be changed on a weekly cooldown.  Perhaps to offset or boost current weekly bonuses that you might want or not want?
Perhaps the bonuses could be from the list of possible weekly bonuses
- It's interesting but if I'm being realistic, it is more complicated than i'd like for new buildings.


Just a minor thing but: why are the gold pop up messages longer than others that can be "clicked away". I mean in the event they take forever to disappear where others pop up with a window to acknowledge by clicking "ok"

- Because, bad UI integration by me It'll have to be something looked at/fixed for the next match 3 (which, who knows, may even be on the Unity client, where UI will actually be consistent!)

Can we get better estimation of "Coming Early 2018"? (Relating to the unreleased guild building)
- First half of the year. The guild bonuses for 200+ has become a bigger issue needing attention before a new building.

Could we get some zone specific music at some point, the game still runs that old 3 second looped tune
- It's much longer than 3 seconds lol, it's minute(s) but feels like a loop doesn't it? I don't know about zone specific; world specific maybe.

Can dyna dmg owerflow hit next mine (with auto refresh) like woodcutting?
- Dynamite is pretty powerful now with the upgrades for it. I'm not sure it would be good to have that. If it becomes a more desirable feature we can look at the math and ensure it isn't a balance concern.

What are the exact ranges (min, max) for the weekly bonuses?
- These are the ranges:
        XPBonus : 10% - 25%
        GoldBonus : 10% - 40%
        WoodBonus : 10% - 30%
        StoneBonus : 10% - 20%
        FishValueBonus : 10% - 40%
        CardBonus : 10% - 40%
        CrystalBonus : 2x
        TrainingBonus : 2x
        PetPointBonus : 10% - 30%
        ValorBonus : 2x
        ExpeditionPointBonus : 10% - 40%
        MultiCatchBonus : 10% - 50%

Can we get the current gold logs in the export? "goldLogAcc" is in the export but not gold logs on hand.
- Done for the next client update

Thanks everyone for the questions this time. You can post your questions and concerns for the next session over here https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2555]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2555 Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:49:27 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2555 Hello everyone,

Feel free to leave your questions and concerns here for Ray's 7th Open Community Q & A.

Please view the previous (http://iourpg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=8) Open Community Q & A responses before submitting your question, chances are it has already been answered somewhere. 

Thanks.]]> Hello everyone,

Feel free to leave your questions and concerns here for Ray's 7th Open Community Q & A.

Please view the previous (http://iourpg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=8) Open Community Q & A responses before submitting your question, chances are it has already been answered somewhere. 

Thanks.]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2548 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:12:51 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2548 Not really a question, more of a suggestion... Fast Tracking of diamonds should not be locked at 2h... that makes lower level runs more useful than higher one, it should be a % of the total time... around 40% remaining of original time should be good so that people dont abuse it... just a suggestion
- We can look at it as a QoL feature however it will definitely require a solid review

The missing leaving the guild penalty favours alliances more than standalone and new guilds because it gets abused, creating a bigger gap, however fixing the bug would give a huge advantage to the guilds who have already taken advantage of it (Chaos). Do you have any ideas on how this situation could be remedied? Perhaps some kind of loyalty reward planned which could encourage people to stay loyal to their guilds?
- Guild Quests, proper scoring. It is an issue we will be tackling soon.

So! I know that challenges are going to receive some sort of overhaul/rework/change in the future.
However, this wasn't even listed in the Dev Blog thing that came out recently, making me think this is a LONG ways away.
Is there any harm in adding new tiers of challenges in the meantime so we have something to do?  I don't imagine it'd be too difficult to add platinum/ragestone(or whatever).
The rewards from these challenges are not game breaking in any way(tiny amount of ability points, challenge points, and diamonds), and they encourage people to actually play the game, and give us milestones to aim for and stuff like that so it feels like we're accomplishing things.
TL;DR: More Challenge tiers please! Minimal amount of work, no risk, no harm, a lot of interaction amongst players so we don't get burnt out waiting for new content ^^
- Unfortunately it is a little ways away. I'm not sure adding the new difficulties would be good, as the rehaul may change the future difficulty mechanics

Challenges are more interesting as solo challenges. Consider tripling the rewards, and removing duo/group
- I think I would considering removing duo, but not group as throughout the history of the game it has been a nice social feature at times.

Is it possible to get rid of the overall nuisance of the Pet Level Up on the pet menu? By that, I mean the words that kinda stop you from clicking on anything while its active
- Fixed, next patch.

Would you please give us a hint on the new function of the upcoming building? And getting guild levels is not an answer
- No! =p

Suggestion, new Global Event, All monsters are turned into octopus tentacles, (treasure spawns are the octopus's head). Event ends when X amount of damage has been done, (challenges count and are where the prizes are) as well as total damage brackets based on level or lineage or support or something... like.. battle the evil octopus! (It could things other than an octopus)
- I'll try considering a new global event for the near future. Not sure it would quite be this but something collective for sure.

Suggestion, pet fasttrack has a slider instead of buttons, allows you to make the jumps with a slide to select how much AP or Free you desire (left is all Free, right is all AP) with a button above to confirm selection
- It's a good idea, one that Unity client should tackle

Can pet fast track rewards be in a click-to-close reward window, like all the others, before the unity overhaul?
- Somewhat related to quesiton above - unfortunately not, sorry

You are awesome and beautiful.
- Who asked this? Are you single? =D

Can we get a "on/off" or "show"button at the bottem of the upgrade pages were you can buy upgrades with AP? (idle/click/mining)
- Please reach out to me and clarify this mechanic if you can.

Give us way to see total fish multicatch % in game
- Added to Trello Board. Makes sense.

Can there be more monitoring or structure to the current IOU testing chat? I would like to participate, but when my comments and questions are responded to with trolling and unfriendly responses, I feel my thoughts and opionions are not heard.
- I appreciate all assistance, however if you're asking that I spend more time moderating instead of taking that time to develop, I can only insist that you just mute the trolls as moderating will never appease everyone, but anyone can mute whoever they want and appease themselves.

In testing ray should try to communicate with more of the community that is outside of Chaos, a quick scroll up through multiple channels show ray is primarily talkative when chaos members are talking
- Hi RageKai (kidding). I respond as much as I can and I don't know specifically who is in Chaos, contrary to these silly claims, nor do I care whatsoever....in fact I tend to show frustration with Chaos publicly if some issue arises from the guild's actions or comments. I'm sure most of the people in Chaos were not always in Chaos, but have been around long enough to give great feedback, and just happen to now be in Chaos. Kind of how it works....they certainly don't get special favors or biased love from me; they are the most vocal and angry Guild in IOU with me all the time. Shrug to the accusation...

I think there is a problem with the guild system for new recruits, and we should think about it.
- Again, we will be looking at a solution for this soon.

Need a command that lists commands
Like /cmd cmdlist or /cmd help
-Unlikely, at least in flash.

Can we have a command in console for server time? it gets confusing when we do anything and half of them do not know in which time zone to look for when stuff starts
- Added to Trello

Suggestion
All banked collections (pet training, claims, etc) should be one click to get all claims available.
- Daily Task system...was started long ago but never finished. Eventually, but not very soon. Sorry.

Suggestion
All Banked collections  should bank to 24H worth of progress allowing for once daily checkins. this could be a diamond upgrade, or a p2w upgrade.
- Same part of above mentioned mechanic.

Can we get Gold Logs tiles as new tiles on the match-3 event?
- Next time, yes. I unfortunately never got to it with this last patch, even though it was mentioned.

Can we get auto refresh for mine? Or spend all dynamite button
- Mining may be getting a rehaul soonish. At that point it might not even make sense to do so, or if it does, then might become a possibility.

Put in a Qi symbol, 1000Q looks weird
- We are getting to bigger numbers...I'd rather offer multiple options for systems. This is something I'm working on in the Unity version.

Suggestion: add mine depth to the member window of the guild
- Unlikely. Would make sense for inspection though.

Change wood and stone rewards for energy for next match 3
- Agreed.

How about giving the multi catch orb one more purpose?
Keep the percentage bonus of multi catch the same, but add the same percentage (or some other percentage) as a new bonus to also "catch" fish from the ever growing pool of smaller fish than your auto-fish min rarity setting.
- I don't see this is a mechanic that would get added to the orb. Can certainly bring up discussions for it in testing if you think it's important though.

What is the birthday of IOU?
- January 15, 2015 is when the game came to beta (pre-kongregate). The small userbase grew pretty quickly by March, and obviously sky-rocketed upon the beta-program in Kongregate. I believe we went public on Kongregate on July 14, 2015

Can bingo be fixed at some point to give xp/points to people who sign up but aren't active during the game?
- I thought about this but as I continue to ponder it I don't know if that makes sense to reward non-participators just because they register.

Can you reactivate letting us use crystals for SO exchange?
- That would be a very terrible idea. Extra crystals will have their use.

We need the ding on group challenges for every players join. And also an indicator if they're not on keyboard "green = active, yellow=semi-active, gray = away from keyboard". And also the player who created the challenge who's away for more than 20min or more is out on the lobby.
- That is a lot of work, outside of how simple it sounds. It's possible to be tackled during its rehaul but I can't promise anything on this.

Oh, the only other thing was, any ET on a Guild boost? Not many have hit 200+ but anything coming for those who have, and we are to get a building 'Early 2018'. They tend to say the first 3 months are 'early' so will we be getting it soon?
- Uncertain. We'll be looking at solutions though; whether they are integrated 'soon' is beyond my knowledge right now.

You can post questions and concerns for the next Q & A over here - https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2547]]> Not really a question, more of a suggestion... Fast Tracking of diamonds should not be locked at 2h... that makes lower level runs more useful than higher one, it should be a % of the total time... around 40% remaining of original time should be good so that people dont abuse it... just a suggestion
- We can look at it as a QoL feature however it will definitely require a solid review

The missing leaving the guild penalty favours alliances more than standalone and new guilds because it gets abused, creating a bigger gap, however fixing the bug would give a huge advantage to the guilds who have already taken advantage of it (Chaos). Do you have any ideas on how this situation could be remedied? Perhaps some kind of loyalty reward planned which could encourage people to stay loyal to their guilds?
- Guild Quests, proper scoring. It is an issue we will be tackling soon.

So! I know that challenges are going to receive some sort of overhaul/rework/change in the future.
However, this wasn't even listed in the Dev Blog thing that came out recently, making me think this is a LONG ways away.
Is there any harm in adding new tiers of challenges in the meantime so we have something to do?  I don't imagine it'd be too difficult to add platinum/ragestone(or whatever).
The rewards from these challenges are not game breaking in any way(tiny amount of ability points, challenge points, and diamonds), and they encourage people to actually play the game, and give us milestones to aim for and stuff like that so it feels like we're accomplishing things.
TL;DR: More Challenge tiers please! Minimal amount of work, no risk, no harm, a lot of interaction amongst players so we don't get burnt out waiting for new content ^^
- Unfortunately it is a little ways away. I'm not sure adding the new difficulties would be good, as the rehaul may change the future difficulty mechanics

Challenges are more interesting as solo challenges. Consider tripling the rewards, and removing duo/group
- I think I would considering removing duo, but not group as throughout the history of the game it has been a nice social feature at times.

Is it possible to get rid of the overall nuisance of the Pet Level Up on the pet menu? By that, I mean the words that kinda stop you from clicking on anything while its active
- Fixed, next patch.

Would you please give us a hint on the new function of the upcoming building? And getting guild levels is not an answer
- No! =p

Suggestion, new Global Event, All monsters are turned into octopus tentacles, (treasure spawns are the octopus's head). Event ends when X amount of damage has been done, (challenges count and are where the prizes are) as well as total damage brackets based on level or lineage or support or something... like.. battle the evil octopus! (It could things other than an octopus)
- I'll try considering a new global event for the near future. Not sure it would quite be this but something collective for sure.

Suggestion, pet fasttrack has a slider instead of buttons, allows you to make the jumps with a slide to select how much AP or Free you desire (left is all Free, right is all AP) with a button above to confirm selection
- It's a good idea, one that Unity client should tackle

Can pet fast track rewards be in a click-to-close reward window, like all the others, before the unity overhaul?
- Somewhat related to quesiton above - unfortunately not, sorry

You are awesome and beautiful.
- Who asked this? Are you single? =D

Can we get a "on/off" or "show"button at the bottem of the upgrade pages were you can buy upgrades with AP? (idle/click/mining)
- Please reach out to me and clarify this mechanic if you can.

Give us way to see total fish multicatch % in game
- Added to Trello Board. Makes sense.

Can there be more monitoring or structure to the current IOU testing chat? I would like to participate, but when my comments and questions are responded to with trolling and unfriendly responses, I feel my thoughts and opionions are not heard.
- I appreciate all assistance, however if you're asking that I spend more time moderating instead of taking that time to develop, I can only insist that you just mute the trolls as moderating will never appease everyone, but anyone can mute whoever they want and appease themselves.

In testing ray should try to communicate with more of the community that is outside of Chaos, a quick scroll up through multiple channels show ray is primarily talkative when chaos members are talking
- Hi RageKai (kidding). I respond as much as I can and I don't know specifically who is in Chaos, contrary to these silly claims, nor do I care whatsoever....in fact I tend to show frustration with Chaos publicly if some issue arises from the guild's actions or comments. I'm sure most of the people in Chaos were not always in Chaos, but have been around long enough to give great feedback, and just happen to now be in Chaos. Kind of how it works....they certainly don't get special favors or biased love from me; they are the most vocal and angry Guild in IOU with me all the time. Shrug to the accusation...

I think there is a problem with the guild system for new recruits, and we should think about it.
- Again, we will be looking at a solution for this soon.

Need a command that lists commands
Like /cmd cmdlist or /cmd help
-Unlikely, at least in flash.

Can we have a command in console for server time? it gets confusing when we do anything and half of them do not know in which time zone to look for when stuff starts
- Added to Trello

Suggestion
All banked collections (pet training, claims, etc) should be one click to get all claims available.
- Daily Task system...was started long ago but never finished. Eventually, but not very soon. Sorry.

Suggestion
All Banked collections  should bank to 24H worth of progress allowing for once daily checkins. this could be a diamond upgrade, or a p2w upgrade.
- Same part of above mentioned mechanic.

Can we get Gold Logs tiles as new tiles on the match-3 event?
- Next time, yes. I unfortunately never got to it with this last patch, even though it was mentioned.

Can we get auto refresh for mine? Or spend all dynamite button
- Mining may be getting a rehaul soonish. At that point it might not even make sense to do so, or if it does, then might become a possibility.

Put in a Qi symbol, 1000Q looks weird
- We are getting to bigger numbers...I'd rather offer multiple options for systems. This is something I'm working on in the Unity version.

Suggestion: add mine depth to the member window of the guild
- Unlikely. Would make sense for inspection though.

Change wood and stone rewards for energy for next match 3
- Agreed.

How about giving the multi catch orb one more purpose?
Keep the percentage bonus of multi catch the same, but add the same percentage (or some other percentage) as a new bonus to also "catch" fish from the ever growing pool of smaller fish than your auto-fish min rarity setting.
- I don't see this is a mechanic that would get added to the orb. Can certainly bring up discussions for it in testing if you think it's important though.

What is the birthday of IOU?
- January 15, 2015 is when the game came to beta (pre-kongregate). The small userbase grew pretty quickly by March, and obviously sky-rocketed upon the beta-program in Kongregate. I believe we went public on Kongregate on July 14, 2015

Can bingo be fixed at some point to give xp/points to people who sign up but aren't active during the game?
- I thought about this but as I continue to ponder it I don't know if that makes sense to reward non-participators just because they register.

Can you reactivate letting us use crystals for SO exchange?
- That would be a very terrible idea. Extra crystals will have their use.

We need the ding on group challenges for every players join. And also an indicator if they're not on keyboard "green = active, yellow=semi-active, gray = away from keyboard". And also the player who created the challenge who's away for more than 20min or more is out on the lobby.
- That is a lot of work, outside of how simple it sounds. It's possible to be tackled during its rehaul but I can't promise anything on this.

Oh, the only other thing was, any ET on a Guild boost? Not many have hit 200+ but anything coming for those who have, and we are to get a building 'Early 2018'. They tend to say the first 3 months are 'early' so will we be getting it soon?
- Uncertain. We'll be looking at solutions though; whether they are integrated 'soon' is beyond my knowledge right now.

You can post questions and concerns for the next Q & A over here - https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2547]]> https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2547 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:11:47 +0000 https://iourpg.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2547 Hello everyone,

Feel free to leave your questions and concerns here for Ray's sixth Open Community Q & A.

Please view the previous (http://iourpg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=8) Open Community Q & A responses before submitting your question, chances are it has already been answered somewhere. 

Thanks.]]> Hello everyone,

Feel free to leave your questions and concerns here for Ray's sixth Open Community Q & A.

Please view the previous (http://iourpg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=8) Open Community Q & A responses before submitting your question, chances are it has already been answered somewhere. 

Thanks.]]>