Dev Talk # 3

It’s been a while since we’ve had an opportunity to talk about the developmental direction of the game and the steps that we have taken to improve the player experience at Prison Struggle. Since the time of our last Dev Talk, we have taken to a new direction in providing an experience. While some of the changes are only minor optimizations we do want to go over what we can with you. 

Bosses!

Adding content for you guys to farm and set new goals is an awesome thing. So far we have loved watching all the inmates figure out the best ways to optimize their boss fights.  Starting with our first boss, we watched you all tear him apart and enjoyed seeing you all come together to get your Santa Suits. Santa-Boss gave us the information we needed to know to implement Bosses in a more meaningful/ Challenging way.

Contests

When contests were initially added to the game, they required a staff member to post the contests manually which wasn’t going to work with a game where so many of our player’s scattered around the world. So we’ve had automation done to the contests to make sure there is always something to participate in. 

Auctions

Auctions dealt with some of the same challenges that we had with contests. Generally, we were making the Auctions last week to get bids in, but we wanted to make sure that the Auctions were truly random to prevent too much of the same stuff from showing up in Auctions. Automation prevented a lapse between each Auction as well as making sure the choices for Auction were truly random.

Wars

Wars are our main content when it comes to player vs player interaction, we wanted to make sure that the player base had as many chances as possible to interact with each other and earn Refer Dollars so we reduced the time to wait for wars so they can now occur every 3 days. 

Attack Logs

Previously our Attack Logs had an issue where if the attack was too long, the player would not be able to view the log. We’ve fixed this issue and now you can view all your attack logs!

Pimp My Cell Boss Drop

Initially, on the release of the Warden bosses, they would drop PMC Item, however, We believe that lowering the costs of RP Store Items in addition to adding new packs makes the barrier of entry to becoming a paid member a lot easier. In addition to the RP Store Prices, we’re also working on more ways to accept payments.