Gods Unchained News & Mortal Musings
News and Musings is a potential series of posts if the community finds it valuable. Not everyone has the time to follow the official Gods Unchained Discord or keep up on the official Gods Unchained blog. The concept is to occasionally provide an overview of interesting developments to the Gods Unchained Community...assuming this is seen as a worthwhile endeavor.
Shiny Rewards are from individual cards
There has been some confusion ever since the State of the Beta November 2021 included this tidbit:
At a high level we’re looking at rewarding all players with $GODS daily, with additional points earned based on the cards you're playing with. Decks with complete Meteorite cards will earn more points, and higher shine cards even more. This system intends to keep both Core trading and fusing relevant
I added the emphasis where a lot of the confusion was coming from...complete decks. Did this mean a player would need to have a deck with full meteorite cards before they'd earn any bonus to earning $GODS in the upcoming daily system?
Thankfully the debate is over, as the Game Director of Gods Unchained clarified.
FedeArgento asked: "So the rewards will be for each individual cards? Not full deck?"
If you want full bonuses ImmutableClay indicated you would need to have Meteorite level Welcome Set cards if they were in your deck. Note he indicated "full" bonuses, which implies if you use a Welcome Set card that is plain the bonus wouldn't be as high, but you'd still be earning $GODS under the upcoming daily system.
How to get those Welcome Set Meteorites?
Weekend De-rankers
Another hot topic among the player base is what to do with sandbaggers. People who intentionally throw matches to they will start the weekend at a lower rank. Facing competition below their natural rating allows them to win more games and earn more card packs. This is a system that needs to be overhauled and it appears the Gods Unchained team is moving on it.
Bot Attack!
Most online games face the issue of bot farming. Blockchain games that are play to earn either crypto or NFTs are going to face this issue more often than traditional games. Axie Infinity recently had to drastically reduce their PvE system in order to combat the many bots that had started to abuse their system.
Gods Unchained will be no different, it will be an ongoing battle to ensure players receive rewards, not bots.
This is really nice to hear. It will be imperative for the Gods Unchained economy for them to guard against bots earning $GODS.
I was initially afraid a large portion of the recent player growth may have been the bot invasion but apparently, that is not the case:
The Gods Unchained team has already been eliminating the bot accounts from their Weekly Active Users statistics.
This is likely part of the delay in receiving the weekly packs as well:
Good Bot!
One thing to be clear about...not all bots are bad bots.
Confirmation of the bots
Just as I'm finishing up this article a new post on the official Gods Unchained Discord further confirms the banning of bots and delay of not only Weekend Packs, but Blessing of the Gods distributions:
Petrichor | Editorial — Today at 12:13 AM
as player numbers have increased, so too have the bots. We’ve seen a huge wave of these robo scum rolling in after the new year, and it affects a wide array of our systems, from games (wins/losses/enjoyment) to rewards. Over the last few weeks, we’ve identified ~32,000 accounts that are bots – and today we’re bringing down the ban hammer to kick them out. With such a large amount of bots, this will take some time.
This will have a few knock-on effects for rewards and accounts:
Weekend Ranked Rewards: These bot attacks have been the reason for a delay in distributing Weekend Ranked rewards. Once we’ve banned the bots, we can start sending out the rewards from last week (keep in mind this distribution takes a few days to complete).
Blessing of the $GODS: Unfortunately, there is more work to be done to verify Blessing of the $GODS rewards after these bot attacks. Token delivery will be delayed until next week. The good news is this will mean more $GODS for all our real players!
Player accounts: There is a small chance that a few players may get caught up in this torrent. If you believe you’ve been unfairly banned, reach out to our support team by filing a ticket (https://support.godsunchained.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and we’ll look into your case.
Last of all, you may have seen we celebrated some wins from this year, such as having 75k weekly active users. This remains true! We’ve been hunting these bots for the last few weeks, and removed the suspected bot number from those findings before we published them.
Thanks for your continued support and patience, we’re battling these bots for a better tomorrow for us all!
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Sources:
Official Gods Unchained Discord Server
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