To add onto this, Heroes introduces 2 new classes, monks and ninjas. It also introduces new 'pure skills' for players who want to stick with the same class and adds the reincarnation system so players can re-work their previous lives.

Monks

Primary Uses
-Interrupting agile enemies (lower damage but slight stun allowing for combos or allies to help)
-Cleansing negative effects from allies (remove poison, shackle, etc)
-Buffing allies (elemental resistance, bonus crit chance)
-Pure skill (soul shackle) locks down enemy ghosts making them unable to be revived or move

Ninjas
Primary Uses
-Cursing enemies with poisons (reducing hp over time, blocking healing, knocking down flying targets)
-Focuses on picking off low health or low defense targets (weak vs tanks)
-Pure skill (counter-kill) randomly teleports behind someone who attacked you dealing damage and then returning you to your initial location.

Reincarnating drops your 'first' class.

Example: Trojan-Trojan-Trojan reincarnates as an archer, they are now Trojan-Trojan-Archer with the appropriate skills... They could then re-incarnate again as archer and would be Trojan-Archer-Archer.

It lets you completely re-build your character's skill tree without having to make a completely new one. It requires a special item to be reincarnated which can be obtained by spending jewels or using points earned in-game (from horse racing or from pvp events).


When reborning you only keep a few special skills. For example trojans have an XP skill called cyclone. When activated the character moves and attacks faster. That skill is kept regardless of what class they reborn too so you could then have an archer with that skill (very useful for hunting monsters due to the increased movespeed).

Alternatively if you plan to keep the same class, you unlock bonus 'pure' skills. Warrior-Warrior-Warrior for example gains a skill that allows them to use a shield and 2h weapon at the same time.

Sorry for any confusion. The website you're viewing the ICO information on actually is not the machine dealing with any of the crypto. www.ConquerHeroes.com is the machine running all of that and uses forced SSL for all pages. The apex site simply queries the info from the jewels API and outputs the results.

Because the heroes project is not out of beta yet and because there's very little done on the website (it works but doesn't have much content on it yet, has some formatting issues, etc). It would have looked very bad to people to use that as the landing page for the ICO. Better to include it on the site for the server that's online and active already.

I had done some descriptions earlier in the thread but here's some basic details from our forum.



There are plenty more both on the server already and in development. Basically it's just taking the concept of hit based events where skills matter over gear and themeing them in different ways to keep them fresh for players.




Heroes has the potential for a mac client... that being said our client protection system involves a LOT of reverse engineering. I'm not sure how feasible those same changes will be on the mac version of the game. The fact that a client for that version of the game exists though does give us a higher likelihood of releasing something for mac users.

This is a cosmetic weapon. It has no bonus stats and can be applied regardless of your character's level.

The way it works right now in apex is that when players donate they receive a mix of rewards including 'soul points', VIP Garment boxes, VIP tokens and some in-game currency. This weapon can be purchased using soul points.

Players can trade soul points between them, that way non paying players can still obtain these weapons by purchasing them from someone else who spent money. The style is then bound to your character and can be applied to any sword you then decide to use.

In heroes we'll use a much more user friendly method of simply having a jewels shop where players can turn their premium currency into whatever reward they want.

People seem to enjoy the content updates. Here's a preview of a new premium weapon skin that will be added to Apex later tonight.




The weapon skin will be able to be applied to both blades and swords using premium currency. Heroes will obtain these looks at a later date and will be purchased using jewels. They have no effect on your characters strength but they sure make you look 'pretty'


That is incorrect. If the 200 is not raised, we will provide investors with an updated timetable for how long it will take to complete each stage of development using the reduced funds. They will then be able to vote to go ahead with that time line taken into consideration or to cancel at which point all investors would be refunded.

The minimum is in place because it is the amount needed to properly hire a number of developers to assist in the project to allow it to be completed with the timetable we proposed. Obviously less funds means we can hire less people but it doesn't mean the project wouldn't happen.

One of the benefits is that the crypto gambling systems will all be web based. Once we have them added and properly tested in the Heroes server we will be looking for other servers and projects to partner with. If anyone does want to do a MU server they would be very welcome to join the Jewels 'family' and include the gambling mini games into their server. They get a bunch of highly polished content for their players and we get more people using jewels, it's a win win . We will of course be reaching out to other developers not involved in the pserver community as well with such offers.

There are many kinds. Generally speaking we use two different terms to discern between events that are skill based (hit or dont hit, your gear wont matter) and ones where your gear and level and stats are important.

Wars run every hour at XX:30 and are all hit based. They will always give you the required weapons or skills or stats needed to compete equally with other players. There's a wide variety of events that it chooses from randomly. These are things like our freeze war, bomb war, team deathmatch, soccer, etc.


Tournaments run much less often, anywhere from daily to only happening once per month. Most of them are weekly events which grants each day of the week something unique to look forward to. The way these events work are each different from eachother but the one unifying factor is that your character's items and stats are important. This includes things like Guild War, Weekly PK Tournament, Capture the Flag, Class PK Tournament and much more.


The Class PK, Weekly PK and Monthly PK tournaments are very similar in terms of how they are played (broken into level groups, can use any items/skills you want, prizes based on your rank inside the event). The difference is when and how often they run, what their rewards are as well as some differences in gameplay. A good example is that the Class PK war separates people into groups based on their profession (trojans only fight trojans for example) where the weekly PK tournament puts all classes into the same event.


Tournaments generally focus their rewards on temporary boosts or bragging rights (titles and halos are very popular with players and dont cause any harm to the economy) where wars focus on giving experience or a special PVP currency which are accumulated over time and traded in for rewards.

Max level is 140.
2x Rebirth (sets your lvl to 15 and 1/3 exp rate once 2nd reborn)
Reincarnate has no limits and is faster because you bounce back to previous level once you reach 110

Leveling is not very hard. Level 130 would take a couple of days for most players. Generally speaking anyone in the lower level brackets is going to be a high level player with strong gear who has made a dedicated character just to win those tournaments. Also worth noting that because we only run the brackets if more than 3 players qualify, splitting into smaller groups is un-advisable both because of the increased possible rewards being distributed as well as the increased likelyhood of the bracket not even running due to not enough players of a specific level/class signed up.



Generally speaking level 70 takes about a hour, level 100 maybe 2-3 hours and 130 you could probably grind out in about 12 hours of playing. Past that is when things are slowed down.

In conquer there are two rebirths (resets your level to 15, mix and match skills from other classes or unlock bonus ones for your class) and after 2nd reborn exp rate drops to 1/3. There is also a reincarnation system that lets ppl continue lowering their level to 15 repeatedly but they do not get extra stats for doing so.

Heroes has received another content update. Really trying to flesh out all the day to day tournament, quests and contents so it gets fully tested before release. Here's what's changed.


Weekly PK Tournament

Players can sign up every Saturday at 22:10 to fight in the Weekly PK Tournament. They are broken into three groups based on their level [1-109, 110-129, 130+] and will fight until only one person per group remains. The champion will receive a Weekly PK Champion title+effect for 7 days, 5 ExpBalls worth of experience, a DragonBall and 500k silvers. All participants will also gain 1 ExpBall worth of experience.

Monthly PK Tournament

Players can sign up on the 1st of the month at 20:10 to fight in the Monthly PK Tournament. They are broken into three groups based on their level [1-109, 110-129, 130+] and will fight until only one person per group remains. The champion will receive a Monthly PK Champion title+effect for 30 days, a Power ExpBall, a SuperDragonGem and 2kk silvers. All participants will also gain 1 ExpBall worth of experience.

Bomb War

Added to the hourly random event rotation, bomb war is a skill based FFA event where players are eliminated one at a time. By hitting a player they will become the 'bomb' and will have a glow around them indicating it. They then have 10 seconds to pass the bomb to someone else or they will be eliminated. When only 1 player remains, they are the victor. Only one player can be the bomb at any given time.

Team Bomb War

Added to the hourly random event rotation, bomb war is a skill based Team event where players must work together to eliminate their opponents. Hitting a member of the enemy team will turn them into a bomb and they will gain a glow around them indicating it. That player then has 10 seconds to hit a member of their opposing team to pass the bomb back. If they fail to pass the bomb before it explodes, they will be eliminated. When only 1 team remains with members alive, they are the winners. There is no limit to the number of bombs that can exist at any given time. This means you could have a bomb on every member of the enemy team all at the same time!





So, nothing super fancy but definitely adds some more variety to both the hourly skill based events and the more intensive weekly/monthly events for players to show off how strong their character is. We've also gone ahead and improved a bunch of the quest tracking systems to make things more clear to players.


When the player gets promoted at level 40 they will automatically receive the Lottery and Riding Crop quests. These quests are intended to teach them about game systems that function differently from the official version of conquer online, or introduce them to new item slots that have become accessible due to their level. These quests CANNOT be repeated and give bound rewards that may not be traded. We've added full walkthroughs and descriptions for these quests to the client to help avoid confusion for players.

When the player gets promoted at level 100 they will automatically receive the Star Tower and Heaven Fan quests. These quests are intended to introduce players to new item slots that have become accessible due to their level. These quests CANNOT be repeated and give bound rewards that may not be traded. We've added full walkthroughs and descriptions for these quests to the client to help avoid confusion for players.


We've also cleaned up a bunch of other client side junk that was giving incorrect or poorly worded information to players.

It will always say what went wrong below the submit button. It will either say it was made successfully or it will tell you what information was invalid (in use, invalid email, wrong format for user/pass, etc)

Configure.exe lets you choose any size you wish to use. We're also working on a more user friendly configuration tool for use with heroes.



The beta testing results in in-game rewards only including titles and some cosmetics when the full server launches.



It's using the price discovery method, yes.

There is a direct link to the EPVP discussion in the OP actually. Thanks for re-posting it though.


He's one of the better known trolls in that section yah. It's always entertaining because his main public project involvement was a bot that was so abusive it made the official version of the game un-playable for anyone else (the server load it created was so large the servers were constantly crashing) yet his arguments always tend to be based on the 'morality' of other projects. Good ol' contradictions




The ICO itself wont have a very large effect players and so we've focused how we advertise it to places where it will be most constructive. In general we've found any discussion of funds with players tends to turn into witch hunts very quickly.

#1: EPVP development thread for the server contains information about the project, validation of who I am (for this forum) and a discussion of the project with other members/developers of the CO community.
#2: Logging into your account on our website creates a wallet link which shows information about the ICO and how it works.
#3: Wallet page shows deadline for ICO ending and a link to view the ICO progress.

Quick Preview of some new content we're rolling out for testing on Heroes.


Lottery Tutorial Quest

We've finished re-writing the lottery system so that it uses tokens earned by competing in events, doing daily quests or hunting bosses. Because it's now different than how it worked in the official game, we wanted to give new players a quick quest to teach them how it works and to give them some starter rewards that wouldn't interfere with the economy.

Players level 40 or above can now speak to LadyLuck in market and will receive an explanation on how lottery works. They will then be given a free play ticket and teleported inside the lottery map where they can choose any chest they wish. This free play will give a 7 day temporary garment so that players can customize how their character looks and be exposed to the system. These garments are of course bound to that character and once activated (equipped for the first time) will expire and be removed after 7 days. This countdown is easily visible on the item to avoid confusion by players.




Class PK Tournament

Fairly basic event but something we wanted to provide for players to settle grudge matches over who is the best warrior or archer or any other class. The tournament is held every Saturday at 18:15 with signups starting 5 minutes earlier. Players are broken into groups based on their class and their level and receive prizes based on how long they survive in the event compared to their opponents.

Low Level Bracket: 1-109
Mid Level Bracket: 110-129
High Level Bracket: 130+


Players who rank in the top 3 for their tournament bracket receive a special title which when activated displays above their character's head and attaches a glow to their character letting everyone know how well they did. These titles expire after 7 days just in time for the next Class PK tournament to run. The top 3 players will also receive some free VIP time and bonus experience where those who place lower will still receive some experience for their efforts. Obviously if not enough players are in the waiting room for a specific level or class bracket, that division will not run (must have at least 3 players fightin per bracket).

As mentioned earlier in the thread, there's been some health issues with the other developer I've been working with which has really delayed things. The project is up for public beta testing and is being developed daily. Full patch notes and update lists can be found at the www.ConquerHeroes.com website.


We're still looking at a launch for the 1st but even if we were to miss that, it would only be a week or two delay. We want to avoid launching without enough content to keep players hooked. There's no point in spending a large amount of time and money on advertisements only to have players run out of content within the first month. Right now the focus is fleshing out content, balancing rates, testing the economic systems and looking for any glitches to get patched up before launch. The developer who is ill handles the client side changes and it seems there's a conflict with the new windows 10 update so we need that fixed before we can/should launch.


Quick timeline of what's left to do.

-Integrate jewels shop: Authentication, wallet and transaction management done, still need to handle purchasing and converting to ingame items (simple)
-Finalize poker: Core logic is all done, we're just making sure all sanity checks are in place and all conditions are handled properly.
-A couple weekly/daily PK tournaments: Class PK tournament, Clan war
-A couple more hourly PK tournaments: soccer, vampire war, dragon war, bomb war are all events from apex I'll be porting over to heroes.
-Clean up some client content/guides to improve new player experience
-Fix win 10 anniversary edition compatibility issue.
-Add a few more daily quests
-Re-format patch notes to be displayed in game.
-Finalize launch newsletter and advertisement assets
-Add and balance a few more RNG boxes (random garment and weapon skin loot boxes)


It's honestly a pretty short list. I'm focused right now though primarily on adding more content (more events, more tournaments, more dailies!) and then in the last week will be doing a deep stress test to look for any new issues that have cropped up in the process.

You'll have to be more specific. What error are you getting when you try to sign up? No matter what goes wrong it will always show a success/fail message below the submit button that tells you what was entered incorrectly.

The jewels website would be launched when the gambling games are ready. Developing the gambling games is what the funds from the ICO will be used for. As referenced in the development timeline, here's what we're looking at.


Web foundation: This must be done before we can do anything else obviously and involves authorizing wallets and linking them to game accounts, handling currency transactions securely, etc. Ready by ICO end.
Web Shop: Integrated into apex/heroes it allows players to spend jewels on in-game items/cosmetics/boosts. Ready by ICO end to allow for instant demand for the coin.
Heroes Launch: Huge step up from apex in terms of features, content and potential market. Ready by ICO end (+- 2 weeks). If there's any delays we'll be letting people know. No major issues are known currently.
Provably Fair Gambling [BETA]: First set of gambling games would be added to Heroes/Apex for testing. Timeline is under 2 months after ICO end (need the funds from ICO to fund development and hire an artist)
Provably Fair Gambling: [RELEASE]: Website + Mobile apps released for the gambling games. This would happen aprox 1 month after the beta and would expand our market to those not playing our servers.

After this point development continues and will focus on the following key points (timeline not fixed, depends on other factors).

-Expanded P2P Trading: Players can list their items and trade for in-game currency or jewels. Accessible in-game + on heroes website.
-Expanded Gambling: The first set of gamblign games will primarily be slot machines and dice games. Once released, we will work on developing more complex games such as blackjack and roulette where we can do things more complex than simple player vs house gambling.
-Expanded Accessibility: The more non crypto users we can attract to the gambling mobile app/website the better. We will be introducing things such as referral rewards, daily login bonuses, freeplay mode and more.
-Expanded Partnerships: Partnering with other servers, other games and other websites to integrate our games into their projects to expand the reach of jewels will allow us to keep growing past our own projects while introducing more gambling games over time to keep things fresh.



Note: I left rebirth off of this list as it will be developed separately and its dev timeline is less static.

I think there's some confusion. The room I just showed is not a website, it is a map in game with various NPCs you can talk to. The new gambling games will be made available in that room by adding a new model representing the game (slot machine, blackjack table, etc) and when clicked it will pop open the game itself in a html5 web view.

The website to gamble outside of the game will be its own dedicated site where you will be able to view all the different gambling games, find out more about them and open them to play. The games themselves will look the same regardless of if played from inside the game or out but by necessity the actual gambling website will look completely different than the in-game view.


Players understand that in game they need to move around the world to find a table to play at, on a website that's just not how things work and it would be designed accordingly.

Those maps and the poker event are from the official game yes. They asked about having a in-game casino room so I was showing what we already have in place. That's where we'd be making the provably fair jewels gambling games available to players (that way it feels cohesive within the existing game) while also having them available on their own crypto gambling site for those who have no interest in conquer.


The deadline is the 1st, full details at www.ApexConquer.com/ico.php