In an effort to keep Ninja Kiwi players up to date on all things Ninja Kiwi, we decided to start a regular blog post to relay the NK happenings to you. With so much going on we couldn't hope to tell you everything (and indeed, there are a lot of things that we prefer to keep for later surprises), but we can attempt to fill you in on the most interesting/important things
We'll try to start having these sort of updates more often, weekly if we can pull it off, so make sure to leave comments about things you would like to know more about and I'll do what I can about filling in the gaps in your knowledge.
Bloons Monkey City
For new stuff, nothing stands above Bloons Monkey City, a game coming soon to Ninja Kiwi.
We currently do not have a release date for Bloons Monkey City.
The only thing we can say at this point is that you will all get a chance to play Bloons Monkey City soon, and as you all know, games take a long time to make, so "soon" can encompass a wide range of possible time frames. But, this soon is getting really close to anyone's definition of the word, so keep an eye out for more announcements around our new game!
Clans and Marks
Many of you have entered into discussion about the Clans, Clan Challenges, Marks of Honor and Marks of Awesome and most importantly, we want you you to know that we are watching these discussions. We can't really reply to every post and question, but know that ears will always listen at Ninja Kiwi to those who speak.
We can recognise a few separate issues with the system and we're thinking about simple ways to remedy the problems we see. With something as complex as player involvement, we don't see any one change to solve everything, but we think with a series of smaller changes to different areas, we can make the Clans and Clan Challenges system feel fair for all players, and hopefully promote a bit of friendly competition.
The first of these changes, which happened last Friday, was to change how new NK accounts are allocated into clans. Previously, the total clan membership was considered, but now we look at each clan's "Active Members" ("Active Members" being players who have earned Awesome Points in the previous 30 days). Already the weekly AP race has evened out, so we think this is a step in the right direction, and with further opportunities for players to contribute to their clan winning, we hope to see an even closer race where individuals feel they can really help.
The previous Clan Challenge, while exciting, did exclude a lot of people simply from being so short. We did intend for the challenge to be over quickly, though less than 24 hours is something we'll try to avoid in the future.
I'll stop here as I'm unsure how long you want to be reading for, but leave any feedback you have about different topics, content, formatting or anything else you can think of for these posts.
Aaron
it's like waiting for a game to load. if it's an instant load, it's liable to crash. a long load mean everything will run smoothly. Now, we have a loading bar update and it might say 75% done. other words, it is taking a long time for the game to be released, but we will love it. the graphics will be prisrine, the content will be fun and exciting for many hours of pure fun, and the game will run very smoothly. and like a loading screen, we won't see it as long a second time. this long wait will only happen once. p.s. you probably didn't think about this sooner, so put it in an update of later if at all, so as not to delay the release. will there be an option to lower the frame rate of the game so laggy computers will play well? Will this game take advantage of hardware? whatever method you used to make BSM2 run smoothly, will you use that method for BMC? will we be able to take advantage of monkey money to buy buildings for special towers? will special missions sometimes make use of special towers? I apologize if asked too much. I do not expect all this to be answered all at once.
Wait how did you allocated the clans? And BTW thanks for doing this.
You guys are doing a great job, are open to suggestion, you listen and you improve upon received feedback. What more could we ask for?! Really glad to see the new/active members allocation. Good job!
Could attract more monkeys, returning the "double money" in some famous games. I play again, turn it.
I am glad to see nk know updating all the blogs :)
Thanks Aaron, we are glad to see this weekly update being added. Just a small question: Why we have to define players as active for earning AP points in the last 30 days? Considering some clans have more members with max AP, it will be a disadvantage for them. I think we should define a player as active if he played at least one game per day.
do you think you could mark the games that you can get awesome from so we know what other games can give us awesome if we want to play something other than btd5
Well then, we will all enjoy the new changes! :)
hey joeyrainstorm i have a question, are you part of ninja kiwi?
thnx ninja kiwi this will prove most useful in the future.