Wheel Of Death Expansion

Wheel Of Death

The majority of people who login each day indulge in the Wheel Of Death. Any why wouldn't they? Free stuff is awesome. It started with a daily turn login bonus. For those that remember, you used to get a little turn bonus on top of the updates page when you login each day. An extra boost for those who are active on a daily basis. I then made that process a little more interactive, and created The Wheel Of Death. Today, I take it a step further.

The new Wheels Of Death

3 New Wheels
3 new wheels have been added in addition to the main wheel. The old lonely wheel is now labelled the Turn Wheel. This wheel gives you a random turn bonus each day. The other 2 wheels, Vial Wheel and Vitality Wheel are explained in their descriptions. The Coven Wheel will be explained in just a minute. You can spin each of 3 above wheels once per day. How awesome is that?

The Coven Wheel
Wheel number 4 is a Coven Wheel. This wheel can only be spun by a coven's owner or co-owner, and can only be spun once per week. The wheel gives out exp, as well as other bonuses you'll have to wait and find out for yourself.

Timers
As you can see in the above image, the link to spin them is below the picture of the wheel. When you have spun the wheel, that link gets replaced by a counter until you can spin again.

Payouts
The Turn Wheel's payout has been increased. So now pays out even more than before (for both winners and losers).

Quests Etc
All previous quests, achievements & missions that require the spinning of the wheel, have had their descriptions re-written to indicate that they count only the turn wheel. Future quests etc will include the other wheels, but the past ones are valid on the turn wheel only.

What's even better for those that are online right now, is that if you've already claimed your wheel today, it's been reset so you can do it again.  Find any bugs? Be sure to report them.

Database work

In order to get ready for an awesome 2015, I need to start streamlining the database. During October, you probably won't see a huge amount of updates as I'll be spending time on the back-end of RoB. This will result in even faster page loads, and the ability to add more things that could never been done before due to potential "lag". There's so much in the pipeline, and I don't want this to be a deciding factor on an awesome idea not getting done.


Enjoy the weekend,
Ash

Increasing the feels

Reign Of Blood

On a quick note, I hope you all enjoyed the 2 week event at the start of the month. I know many of you love the AP rage event, we'll have another soon.

8 and a half years. That's a long time for something to still be going strong. And I'd like to keep doing that. So, I want to change, or rather improve, some things. Some graphically, some mechanically. But not in a huge way. People don't like change, and to be honest, neither do I. But I would like to increase the feels a little more. What do I mean by that? Well, one example is the feeling of accomplishment. Sure there is already lots of that. But can it be done more? What would really push you to do that little extra?

So I'll be doing some research and a lot of background work for a while and get some good stuff cooking. I'd also like to say at this point that towards the end of the year, probably in the next couple months or so, I'll be doing some MAJOR database work. I am going to streamline the hell out of our database. Getting rid of old unused stuff, clearing out lingering data, setting up more automated deletion for future data, and just giving it a really good clean. Not only will it make Reign Of Blood more fast, it will make for a more efficient system.

Keeping things fast, fun and flowing will keep us on track to always being one of the most loved vampire games! And I plan to keep it that way.

Your Daily Routine

To get me started on my feels quest, I'd like to get know your general daily routine. I know the routine I put in the daily to do list page, but some people do things differently. I know quite a lot of you won't want to share. But I'm not asking for your dirty secrets, just your general daily routine of how you do things, so I can get an idea of the most popular areas and spend extra time increasing the flow of those features.

If you'd like to contribute, you can post it on this thread, or send me a blood letter if you don't wish to have it public.

Graphic artists

My most recent graphic artist has gone off to college. I could outsource some work, but we have so much talent on Reign Of Blood, I'd like to tap some of it. If you want to part of a graphics team for future Reign Of Blood image related jobs, please send me a blood letter.

Writers

A couple months ago I put out applications for writers. I haven't forgot about that. I've made a list of all the writers that will be put forward to the next stage. Circumstances change, even over a couple months. So if you applied a couple months and go and are still interested, send another blood letter (link below) to say you're still interested. If you did not apply, and would like to, you can blood letter (link below) with your application on why you should picked as a writer for future Reign Of Blood quests and writing content.

Click here to send the blood letter to the RoB-Bot.

Thanks,
Ash