- Golden Apple Tickets are available in NPC trades!
- Some shopkeepers are now able to trade for L$!
- Players are receiving L$ rewards for being active, based on their new Reputation Scores!
- One day left to get Golden Apple Tickets!
Golden Apple Tickets
Golden Apple Tickets are still on sale for a short time! After our most recent milestone, each redeemed Golden Apple Ticket now gives a Limited Edition Unbonded Creature paired with a Golden Apple. Along with being purchasable from the vendor on Krafties Island for the next day, Golden Apple Tickets can also be procured in NPC Shops in exchange for loot and other items until ticket sales have ended. Which brings us to…
Shopkeeper Trades
Our NPC Shops have received some big changes! Over the past few days, players have noticed shopkeepers offering some of their items in exchange for L$. Always nice to have options, right? This is a big change to a beloved mechanic, so naturally, we’re proceeding with caution. We’ve been monitoring and tweaking the system and are quickly arriving at something we’re proud of.
One of the first adjustments made was to ensure that some of our more predatory shopkeepers can’t be quite so aggressive when it comes to L$ trades. That’s not to say that every L$ trade is a winner of course (recognizing good and bad deals is the name of the game after all), but we thought it prudent to have some protections built-in. Along with that, the base number of trades offered by shops has been raised from 5 up to 6 to ensure players are still able to receive an ample number of high-quality item trades.
With all of these changes, we’ve made sure to monitor activity and see how players are receiving the additions. These new trade types, along with the Shopping Spree events and Golden Apple Tickets in trades, have created a significant upswing in both the number of players participating in trades as well as total trade volume! With the goal of breathing energy into the secondary market and the player base as a whole we couldn’t be happier to see this level of initial success. There are more plans in the works to help this trend continue to an even greater degree, so be sure to stay tuned!
“But Krafties…”, you say, “I don’t have L$ to trade!” Fear not! This brings us to…
L$ Rewards and Reputation Scores
Along with all of this trading love, active players have noticed another strange phenomenon over the past week. Throughout the day, Krafties handlers are receiving L$ distributions just for having a creature active! This new feature arrives hand-in-hand with a new scoring system: the player Reputation Score and Reputation Ranking.
Your Reputation Ranking determines the frequency of distributions, along with potentially resulting in larger distributions in the future. Reputation Scores are increased by:
- Inviting new players to the game
- Ensuring that your new invitees become active players
- Your invitees in turn bringing other members into the game
- Actively inviting members. Recent invitations have a greater effect on your score!
This system is very new, so expect changes and fluctuations as time goes on. Our hope is that players see this as a direct incentive to increase the size of the Krafties playerbase, and thus the secondary market. At the same time, it allows players who otherwise couldn’t participate in features that require L$ to save up and invest back into the economy however they see fit. All good things!
Thank you for reading this, thank you for being a part of our community, and thank you for enjoying our game! Have fun!
