Saturday, 3 January 2015

Equipment Updates



New Equipment Page




Welcome to your brand new equipment page. There have been some changes and additions which I will now walk you through. Sitting comfy?

The overall design of the page has been updated. I've tried to make it much more compact, so you can see all your equipped items without having to scroll. There are a few new equipment types here, which will be explained shortly.

I have tidied up the hover over information boxes too. I have also added hover over ? around the page for quick hints on different sections if you ever forget.

Unequipped items now have their own sections, so if you have a lot of one item it won't stretch down the page leaving huge gaps on the opposite column. They're grouped in two's now.



For your convenience, you will notice a "coven" link next to the unequipped items. Clicking this link will take you straight to the coven donation page, with that item automatically ticked for you, ready for you to confirm.

Equip Collectibles





As most of you know, you can head to Ghost Town and lend Pentagu your collectibles, and he'll give you a QP for the effort. Now, I'm taking collectibles one step further, by allowing you to equip them. You can still claim the QP as before, I'm not taking that away. But you can now equip up to 20 collectibles.

What do equipped collectibles do? They give you a vampire battle blood boost. A small boost, but a boost nonetheless. And as times goes on, and as new collectibles are added, they'll get better and better.

The collectibles do now have a section on the bottom of the equipment page. But I have also updated the inventory page to show more information about the collectibles you have.

A common request in regards to collectibles is wanting more. So now there are 10 collectibles available throughout the game for you to explore and collect, including 5 new ones (the lottery winning one is no longer available).

Dagger Changes

This icon appears on the left side by your life bar when you're poisoned

Many of you loved the infecting of the Halloween event this year. And some people even suggested that's how the poison dagger should work. And I completely agree. So the poison dagger system has been changed as follows.

When you are poisoned the blood you get from battles is reduced by 5%. You can cure your poison with either of these 3 options. 1) Buy the antidote at the Dead City Potion Shop. 2) Throw a poison dagger at someone else to pass it along. 3) Wait until half past the hour, when everyone gets cured.


New Equip Type: RAGE STONE

Today I'm happy to announce a new equipment type (as you can see, it has its own little spot on the first screenshot), which are RAGE STONES.  Rage stones increase your overall stats, not just direct damage. Which means this is the first equipment type that directly increases your speed. The crafter of these delicious stones is of course Parch in Thermoden. When rank 50, you can head over there and get yourself one. It's not just cash he requires, you also need to round up odd items for payment also.

Once you've chosen a stone, you can equip it and get the boosts from it. What's even better about these stones is they can be upgraded. The more vampire battles you win, the more you can upgrade it.  All can be explored at Thermoden.

I have added extra information on the Pawn Shop to highlight new uses for those items, so people don't just go ahead and sell for cash without exploring the stones first.

Stones are currently bound to you. If they ever were to be traded or donated, they would be tradable in their default stats, just like with weapons and their level.

Finally, items found to buy these stones can be traded on the market. Which will help little guys make some money, and please the lazy guys with too much.

I hope you like these updates.
Enjoy the weekend,
Ash

Thursday, 1 January 2015

2014 Round up



2014 Round Up

Another year already. The past year has gone so fast! Let's take a look at all the major updates and features that were added to Reign Of Blood over the past year.


  • Pawn Shop added to add an extra element to Greenwood
  • Greenwood completely overhauled with brand new images
  • VIP+ made even better
  • Brand new non-refreshing chat system
  • New forum layout
  • Spring Valley overhauled with new features and new layout
  • Vadenhill updated to accommodate new Spring Valley features
  • Daily quest system changed with a new token system added
  • House system overhauled
  • Coven quests overhauled
  • Brand new mission system
  • Blood hour upgraded to Power Hour
  • Wheel Of Death expanded with 3 new wheels
  • Database cleaned up and streamlined
  • Brand new co-op quest system
  • The beginning of the new coven conflict system
  • & many many many more

Coming Soon

As most of you know, I am working on the new Coven Conflict system, and I do intend to get that rolled out this month. I look forward to getting that out there. There are a few other cool things on the way too, it's going to be a good start to the year.

Thank You

A big thank you again to everyone who played and donated this year. Let's have a great 2015 together. Don't forget to use the promo code: newyear15

Happy new year,
Ash

Monday, 15 December 2014

Christmas Event 2014



Christmas Event



I can't believe it's been another year already! Time sure does fly. As always, to celebrate the end of another great year, a fine Christmas event is upon us.

Christmas Tree
The Christmas tree in the Dead City is a great source for free turns each day.

Scratchcard
For all those who love a bit of gambling, you can get into the Xmas scratch card with 10 free scratches a day.

Sugar & Candy
A Christmas wouldn't be complete without those delicious sugar rush inducing candy canes.  Find sugar when battling other vampires, searching Greenwood and trading tokens via regular daily quests. Turn the sugar into delicious candy canes for amazing sugar boosts.

Daily Quests
Starting from Tuesday 16th December, there will be 10 pre-set quests. One for each day until Christmas day. Complete these for more candy canes!

VIP & Plasma Special
With all events, you can get your teeth into a beautiful deal for VIP & Plasma. Click here to check them out.

Enjoy the week,
Ash

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Coven Conflict v2 Phase 2





New Homepage Design

I have brought the red back to Reign Of Blood. There were a few people that disliked the 2013 redesign of the home page (the way it was yesterday) because it went down the blue moonlight look. However soothing that was, you'll be glad to know I have now soaked the page in blood and launched a brand new, yet familiar look, heading into 2015.

New Co-Op Quests

I'm excited today to also launch a brand new co-op quest system. Co-op quests have been around for a while, but haven't been developed in some time, but I do think it's a key area in getting people to work together. So I have completely re-written the co-op quest system.

Firstly, you can have up to 6 vampires in each quest, up from the  previous 2 (6 including yourself). When you open a quest, you will see all the available slots, and at the bottom, an invite form. Just as before, you can enter the ID of someone you want to join the quest, and they can accept and help you.  When they have accepted, you'll be able to track their progress, as well as send them a quick blood letter if you need to. Whether you're the keeper of the quest, or taking part of someone else's, you can keep track of the quests you're in on the co-op quest control panel. When the keeper is happy with everyone's progress, he or she can finish the quest and claim the rewards.

The quests only get marked off your lists when you're the keeper of it. For example, if you helped someone else in their quest, it won't mark as complete for you, because you're helping them. You can help other vampire's quests and unlimited amount of times (but once per day), to earn a small amount of blood and reputation (a use of reputation i've still not decided on).

There are 15 co-op quests added to get us started.

Phase 2


Phase 2 of the Coven Conflict system is now ready. Which is, Coven War Day. One day a week, picked at random on Sunday night's reset, will be a game wide war day. Every coven will be automated entered into the war that day, and will share in the prize fund for that day.

Of course the random day that this occurs, you will be unable to choose for your own personal war day, so make sure you check on a Monday which day will be the all out war day so you can choose your own covens war day that week. This will begin from next Monday.

Enjoy the week,
Ash

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