Thursday 29 April 2010

VIP+ on Reign Of Blood (For those who just can't help but want more)



Surprisingly enough a feature that was suggested a lot was the option of buying  "Super VIP" which had a few extra benefits over VIP. With this much want why would I turn it away?

The features of VIP+ are:

+5 extra MP an hour

5 % Blood Ruby discount

900 turn cap

$65,000 bank interest cap

1000 turn daily gym limit lifted

x 1 result in the gym removed


You need a minimum of 100 VIP days to have VIP+ Days. All the information is displayed on the VIP+ page which can be accessed when you have 100+ VIP Days. I'm running it in BETA for a while and make sure it works okay and I'll adjust anything later on, I'll keep an eye on the feedback.

With the ever growing monthly backup fees (increases each month as RoB gets bigger) this is very convenient. I already know some of the feedback I'm going to get for doing this, but I hope you see the positive side. There are people who don't like to buy plasma, this will be a great way from the to contribute to game further without doing that, as requested.

On another side, a new equipment feature is in works and hopefully will be ready for release soon, I hope you'll like it!

Had lots of requests also for the coven forums to be updated, I assure you they are being worked on too!

Thanks
Ash

Wednesday 28 April 2010

New Facebook like button!


I know it's not really worth posting a blog about the blog rather than a blog about the game (still with me?) but I found this cool little tool for people to quickly like a blog post on RoB (If you're not on Facebook then this doesn't effect you). Above you'll see a like button, all you've got to it is click LIKE if you like it. Be interesting to see what results come from it, so if you like it, don't forget it like it :) You'll also see on the left below the twitter feed a facebook activity list too (wont be long till some other sites copy this idea too)

The double turns are now over :(

Last week or so there are has been some good ideas brought forward as well as new ones popping in my head, I'll be powering on with them pretty soon.

It's Wednesday! Which means ReignOfBlood is 4 years and 1 day old. Good times.

Have a good week,
Ash

Tuesday 27 April 2010

ReignOfBlood is 4 today!




Happy 4 years ReignOfBlood! It doesn't seem that long ago I started this and it's been 4 years already... I'm getting old :(

Notice about POINTS. There is a NEW points company which I've put under "points offer company 1" to test them out for a while. I'd like some of you go fill some of those out, 99% of these new ones do not need credit card or mobile phone number, they're surveys. Another bonus for you guys is that if you complete an offer and it doesn't give you the points, there is an email and instructions on the page to give them shit and as long as you have proof (screenshot) you've completed it, you should get your points. In further good news, I have increased the POINTS payout by 30%! So for every 10 points you were getting before, you'll now get 13 points with the same effort. So go check it out and see if it works better for you.

The double turns will continue until tomorrow night (24 hours time), so enjoy that whilst it lasts.

Because of peoples paydays etc I've had a lot of requests to extend the plasma special, which I will do until the end of the week. The balloons will stay until the end of the week too.

Few other little updates this week, a new homepage layout & custom gift options. I hope you're liking that. The lottery seems to be more liked now there are 3 winners, lets make this week a big week again yeah? It's RoBs birthday! Just go get a few tickets to celebrate...

Final thanks to all players and supporters of today and the last 4 years, couldn't have done it without you!

Here's to 4 more years...

PROMO CODE (now enter on the updates page) : 4thbirthday


Ash

Monday 26 April 2010

ReignOfBloods 4th Birthday today!

Happy 4 years ReignOfBlood! It doesn't seem that long ago I started this and it's been 4 years already... I'm getting old :(

Notice about POINTS. There is a NEW points company which I've put under "points offer company 1" to test them out for a while. I'd like some of you go fill some of those out, 99% of these new ones do not need credit card or mobile phone number, they're surveys. Another bonus for you guys is that if you complete an offer and it doesn't give you the points, there is an email and instructions on the page to give them shit and as long as you have proof (screenshot) you've completed it, you should get your points. In further good news, I have increased the POINTS payout by 30%! So for every 10 points you were getting before, you'll now get 13 points with the same effort. So go check it out and see if it works better for you.

The double turns will continue until tomorrow night (24 hours time), so enjoy that whilst it lasts.

Because of peoples paydays etc I've had a lot of requests to extend the plasma special, which I will do until the end of the week. The balloons will stay until the end of the week too.

Few other little updates this week, a new homepage layout & custom gift options. I hope you're liking that. The lottery seems to be more liked now there are 3 winners, lets make this week a big week again yeah? It's RoBs birthday! Just go get a few tickets to celebrate...

Final thanks to all players and supporters of today and the last 4 years, couldn't have done it without you!

Here's to 4 more years...


Ash

Sunday 25 April 2010

Server down (13:24 25th April)

Servers down as per yesterdays blog... will keep you updated.
Ash

Updates to be posted on the facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/reignofbloodnet

Saturday 24 April 2010

ReignOfBloods 4th Birthday 3 day DOUBLE TURNS extravaganza & VIP Special.

On Tuesday ReignOfBlood will be 4 years old, I can't believe it! To celebrate I'm running a VIP/Plasma special as always (Paypal, Google, Wallie & UGC)... and more exciting than that... DOUBLE TURNS until the end of Tuesday. How about that?

Non-VIPs will now get  28 turns an hour.
VIPs will get 38 turns an hour.

Please note that your turn caps (300 for non VIPs & 600 for VIPs) will not be increased, you'll have to be active over the next few days to get full use of the extra turns.  I will not bother updating the sidebar so it'll still say you get 14/19 turns even though you're getting double.

I will also release a promo code on the Tuesday for use on that day only for the people who login on RoBs actual birthday, the VIP/Plasma special will end Tuesday too.

Thanks to everyone who has supported and played the game over the past 4 years, and hope for many more years to come!

Please also be aware of the previous post about possible downtime today.

Don't forgot that tonight's lotto draw will have 3 winners, go get tickets!

Thanks & Enjoy!
Ash

Expected downtime sometime today

Message from our provider....

"Affecting System - Your servers | Priority - High

On the 13th of March we will be moving some servers between racks in our data center. We will contact clients individually to let you know if you are affected by this. Downtime for individual servers should be short whilst we power down and physically move your server. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause and do not hesitate to contact our support staff in the usual manner should you have any questions.
Update: This work has been provisionally rescheduled for the 24th of April. We will contact clients individually and update this notice once we have confirmed this maintenance slot."

(how many of you read the 13th march bit and thought i was an idiot? Until you read the update...)

So if you see the server down at all the in next 24 hours this is why. As they have not got an exact time yet, it could be any time, but I'm just warning you now that it will be sometime soon. (If any)

If you missed the previous blog about the US pre-paid in store cards we're now accepting, click here to check it out.

I did a little work today on the "home" tab page and gave it a bit of a face-lift. That yellow box will vanish when there are no messages to be displayed. I've also made it a little easier for new players to know what they have to do to get started in that yellow box too.

Thanks & sorry for any inconvenience.

Ash


Wednesday 21 April 2010

We're now accepting THE ULTIMATE GAME CARD (pre-paid card sold in Walmart)







Under 18 with credit/debit card? Want to hide your plasma fixes from your wife?  

The ULTIMATE GAME CARD is now accepted as a payment on RoB! After lots of negotiations and time setting it up it's ready to be released. At this time only cards sold the United States can be redeemed. I do believe these cards are sold in Canada also, but at this time we're not accepting them via the normal way. If you wish to buy some VIP or Plasma with these cards and you have the Canada ones, please contact me directly, Canadian payments will be setup soon.

Where can you get these cards?

*Most* Walmarts (i think it could be just the super walmarts) across the United States, Gamestop stores, Blockbusters, 7 Eleven, CVS Pharmacy, H.E.B, Meijer, Speedway & many more. This link will take you to their site where you can enter your zip code to find out what stores near you sell the card. (This link is also available on the UG card VIP page).

I apologise if these are not in your area. These guys are the biggest company and I'm afraid if these guys are not near there's nothing I can do. There are some areas with tons of stores and some with none, that's just the way it is.

They come in the values of (as far as I'm told) $10 and $20. So for example the $50 pack you'd need to get 2 x $20 and 1 x $10 pack.

For the US players a new top banner advertising this card and payment link option is now visible on the Buy VIP/Plasma page.

It looks like a bit like:


















You will now see the updated VIP / Plasma page.

Thanks & hope this helps those who want what they were unable to buy.

Ash

Tuesday 20 April 2010

Lottery 2.1 & detailed explanation

Due the feedback comments on the blog about the new version of the lottery running from this week...

What's new in version 2.1? 2nd and 3rd place winners! After reading the feedback i do believe that one person winning that huge jackpot is a bit too much. So as suggested I have added  2nd and 3rd place winners too. Here's how it breaks down:

1st place: 60% of jackpot

2nd place: 30% of jackpot
3rd place: 10% of jackpot. 


There are some questions, so instead of posting a comments I'll just post this blog explaining it for everyone to read. (I will add this in the FAQs as soon as i do this).


Q: How does the lottery actually work now?
A:  Very good question! Every Saturday night the lottery is ran automatically. It then picks 3 random tickets that were bought and the owner of those tickets are put in 1st 2nd and 3rd place (in the order chosen). More tickets = higher chance of being picked. Each ticket costs $2,000. 1st place gets 60% of the jackpot, 2nd place gets 30% of the jackpot and 3rd place gets 10% of the jackpot.



Q: Could one person win 1st, 2nd and 3rd?
A: No, if someone is picked as the winner it is not possible for them to win 2nd or 3rd place as well. The same goes for whoever is 2nd place cannot be chosen as 3rd place either.


Q: Guess there won't be rollovers now?
A: Rollovers will still run as they did before.


Q: So if a rollover happens, does the entire lottery rollover?
A: The rollover system works as follows: When the lottery reset is run, there is a 1 in 4 chance of the jackpot being rolled over to the next week. (Why? Because the week after draw becomes even more exciting). If that happens there are NO winners at all and the entire jackpot is added to next weeks draw. If the 3 in 4 happens then a 1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners will be chosen. There will never be just a 1st place winner or a 2nd place winner. Its either [it all gets rolled over] or [there are 1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners that share the jackpot].

Q: Can you please bring back the old lottery? 
A:

Q: The lottery isn't worth it now because i only get 60% of the jackpot if I win?
A: The overall winner gets less, yes. But now there are 3 winners. Which triples your chance of winning a prize. Seeing 1 person win $100+mil last week just shows that the whole jackpot for one person is a little extreme. So I decided to break it down to 1st 2nd and 3rd. (60/30/10). But look at it this way, having a higher chance of winning a prize will most probably get more people interested in buying tickets, which therefore increases the jackpot which would make up for the amount you would get with less people buying and one winner.

I hope that's answered most your questions. I look forward to this weeks draw.


Ash

Dead City's Lottery Center V2.1

After last weeks exciting $100million+ jackpot I do agree with the feedback that is a lot of money for one person.

Firstly, let me get one thing out the way with this new lottery vs old lottery dispute.

In theory the old lottery was good, you pay 100 turns and for life you get a free hit at the daily lottery to win up to 100k i think it was. Indeed that was a good deal, but it wasn't helping the economy. That lottery was coded by a friend around 3 years ago when we were in college, it's a good system but it's no good with the game as it is now. The new lottery does 3 things.  It takes some money out the game & gives a more fun higher jackpot for people to try and win. Last Saturday night there was over 150 people watching the lottery page on the main reset, that has never happened before. In summary, It helps the economy, it excites people, and makes lucky people very rich without damaging the economy. The old lottery will not be put back in, so learn to enjoy this one!

Okay now onto what's new in version 2.1. 2nd and 3rd place winners! After reading the feedback i do believe that one person winning that huge jackpot is a bit too much. So as suggested I have added  2nd and 3rd place winners too. Here's how it breaks down:

1st place: 60% of jackpot
2nd place: 30% of jackpot
3rd place: 10% of jackpot.

I hope you agree this is a good step forward for the lottery, and I look foward to see how it plays out this saturday night.

I'll play with the lottery page layout of the previous winners as time goes on as i can't make my mind up how it should be displayed yet.

Thanks,
Ash

Sunday 18 April 2010

LOTTO RECORD!

For the last half an hour I've seen the lottery jackpot go up $50,000,000 to $103,539,000. It's been really exciting watch it go up as people get their tickets in, great atmosphere in chat over a lottery!


2010-04-18 00:00:09 - shadow of wolfsblood (300909) won $103,539,000

Congratulations to him! lol.

Thanks all, awesome support from everyone!

Ash

Wednesday 14 April 2010

Lottery system updates!

As hugely requested you can now buy multiple tickets in one go! Just head over to the Lottery Center in the Dead City and get your tickets for this weeks roll over jackpot!

I want this week to be the biggest prize week we've had so far. So get over there and buy some tickets! It also now says on the page how many you can afford with the money you have in hand to save you the pain of working it out.

Please also note the changes to the recent forum joke competition.

Enjoy and I hope to make someone rich this week!

Ash

Epic Fail on my part.

After doing some research I was told that the UK microsoft points code do work in the USA and other countries...now I'm being told it wont.

Either way I'm not going to sort through the UK posters of the thread. Thanks to everyone who submitted something... some were good... some were very very bad ;)

Everyone is welcome to the code on a first come first serve basis. In the next 24 hours I will post the 1200 points card code on my twitter account.

Good luck :P

Ash

Monday 12 April 2010

Another lottery rollover!

Damn, the lottery rolled over again. Make sure you get tickets in this week, I'm hoping for a record jackpot!

Thanks for all those who have submitted something for the 1200 points card, I will take the time in the morning to go through them and pick a winner.

Enjoy your evening.
Ash

Wednesday 7 April 2010

I'm giving away 1200 Microsoft points, who wants it?

I have a spare 1200 Microsoft points card to use on a Xbox 360. Because I'm such a kind person I'm going to give it away to one of you lucky people.

I'm a guy who likes a laugh. Make me laugh by posting on this thread. The post has to be less than 30 words and you must only post once. It doesn't have to necessarily be a joke, but something that will make me laugh. I'll get my laugh-o-meter out (i don't really have one) and whichever joke/post I find most amusing will get the 1200 points card. Easy enough eh? Now, be funny.

This should also give for a good read for other players. I'm sure there will be some good ones and some...















... ones. But that's entertainment right?

You've got until Saturday to make me laugh.

No Xbox? You could give (or sell) it to a friend, eat it, set it on fire, anything that takes your fancy.

Good luck,
Ash

Easter event is over!

I hope you enjoyed the eggs, some certainly did taste good. Shame I got a shed load of paperwork to get sorted now, what a waste.

Hope you all had a good Easter holiday and stuffed your face with chocolate.


Some updates to come this week, stay tuned.
Ash

Saturday 3 April 2010

Free Eggs for everyone!

Congrats to Xanthis (139648) for winning this weeks lotto & 25 eggs!!

I have given everybody 3 free eggs also because I'm just that nice.

The VIP/Plasma special will run until MONDAY night (game time). So get what you can now. At this time also the Easter bunny will go into hiding until next year, so make sure you spend your eggs before then.


Thanks & enjoy!

Ash

Friday 2 April 2010

Easter Egg hunt has begun! (Updated)

There are Easter eggs scattered all over RoB! Go hunt them down and trade them to the Easter Bunny @ the Dead City for something a little more use to you.

For the last couple days of the Easter special, you now get extra eggs in the VIP/Plasma packs. Get some cheap plasma/VIP whilst it lasts! (The eggs you get are extra rewards buying packs from today as per last weeks blog about extras during this two day period).

ABout the eggs: They are in different locations around the site and each player can claim an egg at each location. When one is found by one player, it does not disappear. Wherever there is an egg, each player can find it there. More eggs will be added over the next couple days. And no, I will not declare how many eggs are currently out there, where would the fun in that be?



Enjoy!
Ash

Thursday 1 April 2010

The gravemarket has magically been restored!

I love when things just fix itself, don't you? The gravemarket was a prank & it has been completely restored to how it was.

 What made it so beautiful is that when it hits April 1st here it's not April 1st yet for everyone, which freaks them out even more.

Hope you enjoyed it, i know I gave a few heart attacks & it gave me a giggle.

Ash

GRAVEMARKET ERRORS!!!!

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING ARGH!!!

There seems to be a cock-up with the daily reset that just happened...

The grave market has seem to completely messed up, all shares have been vanished and everything has gone to way below 0. I've even got the server mangement guys looking at possible database corruption of the gravemarket tables. Unfortunately there are no backups of the gravemarket (sorry), due to the amount of data being backed up we cant do it all (was getting really expensive), so we had to  cut a few corners. I will make it up to you if we cant get it fixed, so sorry!

Will let you know as we find more out.

I've added a promo code for you to use till we get it fixed: STOCKERROR (it should give you back some of what was lost)
 

Sorry!
Ash

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