Rule Selling has returned We have listened to players requests to bring back rule selling so that they can continue to achieve the goals and strategies they used previously to play the game (using rule as a bank for example). The ability to sell off 100% of your property in order to raise huge amounts of coins and dramatically reduce bounty base cost is no longer possible. Stamina / Energy Refills Stamina and Energy refills now give your full max, say for example your max stamina is 100 and you are at 10, if you refill stamina you will be at 110/100. Rival List Updates Paginated list view (ability to view all rivals, no more falling out of the list) Hide rivals from list to prevent over attacking Added info on attacker No more losing rivals with cache server failures, which hopefully means no more cache server failures (We will take that!) The rivals list change was a BIG behind the scenes change, a lot of code changed to support the move over to a whole new data storage that will ensure data is not lost on a cache outage, there were some issues that we didn't cache but we were pleased that we were able to keep rivals intact for all users. Database Maintenance/Replacement Sunday March 11th we had a single database cause a cascading failure across our system which resulted in downtime. Wednesday March 14th we scheduled maintenance for 6pm PT for 30-min outage, we actually took the game down just after 6:20pm PT and had it back up before 6:30pm PT with a brand spanking new db that should hopefully remove the performance issues we experienced Sunday afternoon. The start of the year has been a rough one to say the least with respect to game uptime, this is not what players have come to expect over the past +3-yrs of playing KANO/APPS games as we have always prided ourselves on our extremely high uptime. The start of this year has been what one might say a perfect storm of several very different kinds of outages from multiple cache server failures of differing issues to database failures to Amazon disrupting network connectivity for their entire facility (we host our games through Amazon servers). The past 90-days is in no way indicative of what the next 90-days will look like, we have been working hard and around the clock to bring game stability back to what players have come to expect from KANO/APPS over the past +3-years and put this string of "bad luck" behind us. St. Patty's Day Calendar starts Friday March 16 @ 12pm PST and runs for 72hrs. Boss Tweaks From Ideas, Boss Min Dmg for Kill Reward pulled into boss list Player suggested in forum, expired friend bosses now show in you list as expired that have expired and are removed from list on subsequent page refreshes Next Week Dev We have been so busy with working on this week we have not finalized plans for next weeks dev, but you can expect to see some cherry picked from the ideas board or that have been mentioned on the forum. We also plan to introduce an idea on the ideas board that we are sure will generate some interest from battle minded players!
