Kingdom Wars Updates - January 2021

Hi Dragon Lords,

We are running Kingdom Wars again this week and we wanted to update you all on some changes that we have made. Here is the new stuff:

New HP values for Dragon Defenders that are toned down significantly

Why are we making this change:
In the past run of Kingdom Wars, city HP values got way out of control and it made the gameplay stagnate. We hope that this change along with the bug fix (see below) will address most of the HP issues. We will be monitoring this and may change it again in the future.

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Direct link to the spreadsheet above

16 Cities -> 8 Cities per region

Why are we making this change:
This change is also targeting the stagnant gameplay issues we had in the previous runs. We hope by reducing the number of cities needed to control a region team will be able to take over more regions but also be more open to attacks. We will be monitoring this change and may adjust in the future.

Monuments are now PvP

Why are we making this change:
We have heard your feedback on this and have decided to make the entire event PvP. We have a couple of events that are more PvE oriented (Gauntlet and Temple Raid) and so we thought it was best to make Kingdom Wars exclusively PvP. We know that many of you prefer the PvE gameplay and we will continue to have the 2 major events as well as Assault and Dungeons in every season.

*Cities will be PvE bases until taken over for the first time.

Popup Opt-Out

Why are we making this change:
We heard the feedback that the number of popups in the event was frustrating. Now on the popups, there will be an option to hide popups for the rest of the event. We want to give people the option to remove the popups if they don’t want to see them. In addition to this change we have also reduced the frequency of popups, so if you keep them on you should see them a bit less often.

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Adding the Defend Button to Each Region

Why are we making this change:
Many of you are very strategic players and like to have the ability to manually select which dragon defends each region, so we add the region coordinates to the defend screen in the last run of Kingdom Wars. But this still required a lot of screen switching, so we added back the defend button to each region. When you tap on the region you want to defend you will only see that region. The main defend button will still remain where you can see all the regions you can defend in one spot. Auto-assign will still function in the same way as before.

VP Per Hour Leaderboards

Why are we making this change:
This should have existed a long time ago. Better late than never. You can access this leaderboard by hitting the popout button on the main map screen. The numbers will not update instantly but should update automatically every 5-10mins (depending on server load).

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Bug Fixes

1. Fixed issue with dragon defenders still providing HP after their timer ran out.
   Now when a dragon defender’s timer runs out the HP of each city within that region will be reduced by the defend HP value of that dragon (see above) to a minimum of 1 HP.

2. Resolved some server load issues that caused slow loading at the beginning of the event
   We hope that the fixes that we made make the event run much more smoothly. We will still be monitoring the event start and will make adjustments if issues arise.