ENERGY REPLENISHMENT:

Troopers! Prepare for big changes you will love! Because we’ve heard what you had to say about waiting for energy, you will now never log in and have nothing to do! Now all battle camp players will never run out of energy. Minimum energy is now always increased to 1 energy (you can never have 0 energy again!)
 

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

This means now you will always have something to do in battle camp. Whether it's farming specials, rare pieces, commons, or finishing your single energy quests. Of course in any cases where you need more than one energy (event boss multiplayer, Lost Temple, quests that require more than one energy, etc), you will need to either regen or purchase energy as you normally do. 

 

---Questions and concerns---

Q. Can't people just farm specials, commons and rares all day?

A. Sure, and why is that a bad thing? People deserve to progress in the game by the amount of time they put into it. Just like the option to farm in any mmo game, you are not limited by the amount of time (energy) you can do play but still limited due to things like storage space. Plus commons, specials and rares isn’t going to put them over anyone else that spends for event prizes.

 

Q. What about people farming nonstop with one energy for event bosses?

A. Again, people deserve the chance to get further in the game if they put more time into it. This still doesn't put non spenders above spenders as they will only hit with one energy every minute while spenders can hit with 10x energy every minute. The multiplier most likely needs to be raised significantly, starting at 2 energy (as well as the bosses health). This will eliminate the false thought of efficiently farming only at 1 energy. If they spend all day hitting the boss with 1 energy then they deserve whatever amount of trophies they are getting for it. 

 

Q. What about combos on bosses? Would this give everyone the chance to keep them up all the time?

A. Combos are still falling off with full 25 man troops, it's going to happen when people are inactive either way. The goal is to get the users to spend for energy when fighting the boss (or wait until they hit cap) so they can hit higher amounts. 

 

Q. What does this mean for non spenders and farming for events?

A. This is great as it not only gives highly active non spenders a chance to join top troops with spenders (if they can pull their weight by farming a lot), but this will support the spenders enough to hit the boss with their gold and not sit around waiting for specials to be farmed and donated all the time. $$

 

Q. What does this do to the value of boosters?

A. Well if you think about it, a majority of boosters will now be much more valuable since, instead of waiting for your energy to replenish while your booster is ticking away, you are able to use it to its max potential by still always having something to do for the full half hour duration. 

Q. But doesn't that mean people can pop their xp boosters and level up a little faster than they can now? 

A. Yes! Yes it does! :-)

Perhaps we can add the option to buy boosters with gold in the near future too! 

 

Q. How will this benefit the casual players that aren't very active in the first place?

A. This will benefit them just as much, if not more. You wouldn't think it but many of us BC players are hardworking businessmen with busy daytime jobs or many players are even kids with school to worry about where we get minimal amount of breaks in between. With this type of system, we can pick up the game on our break and go as long as we want until break is done, instead of spending 2 minutes using 5 energy, then waiting around 10 more minutes just for 1 more energy. This can be extremely frustrating and unmotivated to pick up and play the game. And it just doesn't make any sense for the longevity of the game.  

 

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If you review the ratings on Battle Camp on the iTunes app store, the majority of negative ratings have to do with "energy taking too long to recover", or "I spend more time waiting than playing". 

So I decided to have a handful of my closest friends download the game to give it a try. Every single one of them told me the same thing. That they sat around waiting to play more than they spent time playing. They eventually got frustrated with it and deleted the game.

 

Another thing to think about here is that the top troops will not only have the biggest spenders but the most active farmers, collectively working together to progress at different levels. Spenders need the farming support, and farmers need the spending support.

 

The main point is, you shouldn't have to wait around to play a game. This has never been the case with any of the previous games we grew up with or even play now. It's a counterproductive idea and needs to be eliminated if you want to improve your game ratings, longevity and the amount of people that play. If it would make more sense doing it this way; perhaps just eliminating the cost of energy for fighting commons and uncommons would solve the whole issue. 

 

Please hear us out Penny.