It has been a few months since we launched Crownrend. In this time we added and changed many things. Some of these changes improved player experience, some of these changes broke the game balance in ways we did not anticipate. We've played our game as our players did and we identified things we could improve, change and replace.
One such system we've decided to work on replacing is the current army stats and battle system. Many players have problems with its current iteration and we hear them, we wanted to take this opportunity to rather than tweak things to entirely change them.
So what is next?
We are going to remove Army Stats and replace the current battle system with a unit based battle system. This system is going to be much more complex than our current battle system, but we hope that it would be much more engaging for our players. We hope that it would allow players to better strategize and better theory craft with multiple units and multiple classes.
To illustrate, Infantry would be one class, and Basic Infantry would be a unit under that class.
An Elite Infantry would be stronger against a Basic Infantry by the virtue of having more stats. But a Basic Archer would be stronger against a Basic Infantry by the virtue of having a strong class against Infantry.
What about next next?
After the unit rework is done, we've discussed that we might bring a virtual physical aspect to the game. Adding distances between kingdoms, and maybe some sort of representation on a map. But we are not sure about this one.
All of these are going to take some time, we don't really have a time estimation. We expect it to be done in a month or two, unless for some unforeseen interruptions.