ROBOCRAFT

We just launched the new Bonus Engine. This launch comes in response to the reams of feedback we've had from our totally amazing community.

The goals of the Bonus Engine are:

- To reward players who are skillful at making advanced battle Robots and skillful at piloting them in combat
- To ensure a reward for everyone who participates in battle, who gets stuck in, who fights
- To ensure that gaining Victory is worthwhile
- To reduce the frequency of receiving a net loss in T5-10 i.e. when RP total is less than robot repair cost
- To ensure that when you do receive a net loss, it is much less than previously, and to reduce repair costs in general
- To discourage exploitative play styles and less fun emergent game-play such as ‘AFK’ing’, ‘Gun-chairing’, ‘Up-Tiering’, ‘Hiding’ and ‘Base Racing (without fighting at all)
- To ensure the game continues to remain an increasing challenge at higher Tier, but also reducing how ‘hardcore’ this is
- To reduce the delta between a massive win and a massive loss, so your average income is more ‘steady’

Full Details on the Bonus Engine here

Other items in this update:

- Robocloud servers upgraded to support more users at once and get over some of the connection issues from yesterday
- Robocraft web servers are being upgraded to improve the responsiveness of the website during times of high load - this will take a day or so to get fully up to speed
- Sadly the Premium sale ended today, but we kept the prices low due to the great reception the lower prices received, I mean 1 months Premium for just over the price of a Venti at Starbucks, now that is good value!