Wednesday 27 July 2016

Activity Feed Rewards



I'm currently working hard bringing some changes to way VIP etc is traded in the game, as well as some other cool stuff. It's coming along well and i think you'll love it. But for now, here's a juicy update in the wake of wearing those deliciously attractive metal hats.

Activity Feed Rewards

As many of you know you can earn WP from placing in the top of the daily leaderboards. Today I am going to add another!

Each day the Activity Feed is filled with...activity. And to spice it up a little more, I will be throwing in some WP lite into the mix.

At the end of every day, 10 people chosen at random who have had anything posted into the Activity Feed will be rewarded with free WP Lite.

Enjoy,
Ash

Friday 22 July 2016

Missions & MM Event


Happy Friday vampires of Reign Of Blood.  I am sorry it's been a small while since any updates, adding missions takes a hell of a lot of longer time than I thought, seeing as now each mission has to be added 4 times.

New Missions

Today I have a bunch of new missions for you all. 66 to be exact. All are extensions to the current missions for those who have powered through them. I have also added  a brand new mission  category which has 12 missions based on the new coven quest: Death+

These are of course added to the plasma mission lists too.

Metal Man Appreciation Event

The Metal Man, Grim, has been with us for quite some time. Sitting comfortably in Ghost Town collecting the metals required to build... something. He's been working hard for many years, and I think he deserves a special appreciation event.

Today there is a brand new Metal Man quest: Metal Man IX

Along with the new Metal Man quest, we're going to have a 5 day mini-event to celebrate the efforts of the Metal Man. Head to the Dead City for full information!


Enjoy,
Ash


Sunday 10 July 2016

Revisited: Covens



Welcome to another issue of the Reign Of Blood Revisited series, where I go back to older features and give them some love and attention to bring them up to modern standards.

Covens have been around since the dawn of Reign Of Blood. Today, I'm happy to announce some further tweaks and updates I have made to them.

New Look

As you've probably noticed, a lot of the coven pages are starting to look a bit dated compared with the newer features of Reign Of Blood. So I have gone through them all and given them a fresh new and updated look. This includes formatting, spacing and tidying up, as well as sorting out all the back links.

Quest Streamlining

We have 2 types of coven quests. One that is pre-set, and one that your coven owner has complete control over. I've made some changes to the quests, hopefully for the better.

All coven quests are now streamlined into one page with 2 categories.

Firstly, we have the "Fixed Coven Quests". These hold the (now 3) fixed quests that you can do once per day.

Quest 1: Death  (Kill 100 vampires that give over 3 coven exp per battle)
Quest 2: Death+ (Kill 250 vampires that give over 20 coven exp per battle)
Quest 3: Feeds (Give 40 Vadenhill humans to the coven)

And then we have the "Custom Coven Quests" which remain unchanged.

What has changed though, is the ability to complete the fixed quests and the custom quests in the same day. The only restriction put in place, is you can only have one fixed quest active at a time. The quest page itself is organised much better now, too.

Coven VIP

Covens have had a VIP option for a while now, but today I've made some changes and additions. Firstly, I've re-designed the coven VIP page, making it much more tidy and clear. Secondly, I've added two more VIP features:

  • Have up to 10 custom quest parameters
  • The ability to upload a VIP avatar icon which displays around the game

This adds to the great  VIP features of sending mass blood letter to all members, 10% off relic costs, and stand out features like coloured and bold coven name on lists.

Lastly, I've changed the way you can purchase coven VIP. The cost for coven VIP has always been 2 VIP Credits.  But today I've added one more option, which gives your coven +31 VIP Days for 1 VIP Credit and 5 plasma.

Coven Asset Management

One of the biggest chores of owning a coven is the difficulty of getting rid of equipment you don't want. I'm happy to announce today that I've built a reselling store directly into covens. So now, using a new link on the top of the coven armoury, coven owners and equipment staff can easily sell off equipment they don't want for half their cost, just like the regular reseller store.

I have also added a new option, which i'm sure will be very handy, to add a custom message when lending funds or equipment. The message appears in the vampire's news feed. This removes the need to send a blood letter follow up to explain any reasons for lending or giving funds/equipment.

Coven Hall

I have made a couple changes to the Coven Hall page too. I have tidied up a little, and added a order by table at the top of the active covens list. This gives you the option to order the coven list by name, level, VIP days, activity, status and selling point.

Selling point is a new feature that allows you to just write a sentence or two to describe what your coven offers. It is displayed on your coven's info & requirements page.

This coven lists now show VIP coven's avatars. So you VIP coven owners should get one uploaded!


Top Covens 

At Dead City we have a 'Top Covens' page which shows the total stats of all the covens. Today I've added one more which focuses more on now. On this new page, which is also listed at Dead City, will show the players who are earning coven exp today, and the top ones yesterday.

Small Things

As always, there is a small things section which lists smaller (but not insignificant) changes and tweaks made to the covens. I hope you appreciate these, too.
  • Coven announcements box no longer appears if its empty
  • Jump down to links area link added to the top of the main page
  • Potion storage now orders potions by name
  • Edit quest link on the quest page itself for owner/staff
  • Quick links on coven VIP page to use those features
  • Coven VIP now shows colours and avatar on relic page, and member profiles
  • VIP coven owners can quickly click avatar on coven page to quickly change it
  • Tokens to spend and power relic status added to the main coven page
  • New coven forum option to switch staff boards to non-staff boards, and vice versa
  • Coven co-owners now have full access to edit coven forum boards
  • Almost doubled the amount of coven exp humans get from Vadenhill
  • When searching coven news, you now have the option of adding a keywords along with the vampire ID you're searching for. (For example search for ID 1 with the keyword "donated" to list all the donations that vampire has made.)
  • Link added to your coven's enemy list on your personal enemy list
  • Coven daily quests link added to your daily quests page
  • Ability to add a selling point added to edit info & requirements page
  • The member count on coven homepage now links to member list


I hope you enjoy these coven updates, I've opened up a dedicated thread for any questions or bug reports.

Cheers,
Ash





Monday 4 July 2016

4th July & The EU



Happy 4th July

Happy 4th July to all Americans who are celebrating it. As you'll probably be busy today, we'll have a double day when you get back to normal on the 5th July.

So on Tuesday 5th July enjoy:

  • Double Blood
  • Double Coven Exp


The EU Referendum 

Speaking of independence. As some of you may have heard, the UK shocked the entire world by voting to leave the EU late last month. What damage will that do? We'll have to wait and see. In regards to Reign Of Blood (as we're based in the UK) there won't be any changes on how VIP etc is sold to our European friends. I imagine we'll continue to be in the EU for a couple years yet while the negotiations go on, but hopefully they'll be  no hurdles effecting what goes on here. There is nothing to worry about, at least in the near term, it's "business as usual", as they say. If you do have any specific questions, you can send me a blood letter and i'll do my best to answer.

Enjoy,
Ash

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