6/11/2025

Battle Grounds Update

We've taken a closer look at the long-term impact of BG badge rewards and made a few key changes to improve balance and sustainability. Badge sinks help, but they’re not enough by themselves. To ensure long-term stability without creating a gap between new and veteran players, we've made the following adjustments:

⚖️ Badge Reward Adjustments

• All base badge rewards from all BG modes have been reduced by 2.
  • This is a small reduction — during Happy Hour, it translates to only 5–6 fewer badges per round.
  • While barely noticeable short-term, this change helps maintain a healthier economy over time.
• Badge reward bonuses have been reworked to be more linear.
  • Previous bonus scaling (player count → bonus %):
    • 10 → 45%
    • 18 → 55%
    • 28 → 65%
    • 40 → 100%
    • 60 → 110%
    • 80 → 120%
    • 100 → 130%
  • New bonus scaling:
    • 10 → 45%
    • 20 → 55%
    • 30 → 65%
    • 40 → 75%
    • 50 → 85%
    • 60 → 95%
    • 70+ → 105%
  • These changes are designed to scale more gradually with player count, offering sustainable rewards as BG participation grows.
  • Note: For the past 10 days, BG has typically run below 20v20 — so current rewards should remain unaffected for now.

🎯 New: Badge Rush Event

A new Badge Rush Machine has been added in the main town as an additional badge sink and reward source.

• Cost: 200 BG badges per spin
• Duration: Available for 5 minutes at a time
• Schedule (server time):
  • 01:15
  • 05:15
  • 09:15
  • 13:15
  • 17:15
  • 21:15

🔁 How It Works

• Players have a limited 5-minute window during each scheduled time to spend badges for a random reward. Prizes are divided into three tiers:

Tier 1 (58% chance)

A random costume case or a Battle Manual:

• BG_Winter_Case_2021
• BG_Fall_Case_2020
• Angels_and_Demons_BG_Case_2020
• BG_Easter_Case_2020
• BG_Gate_Of_Babylon_Case
• BG_Spring_Case_2020
• BG_Fall_Case_2019
• BG_Halloween_Case_2017
• BG_TG_2017
• BG_Winter_Case_2017
• BG_NY_Case_2018
• BG_Valentine_Case_2020
• BG_Easter_Case_2018
• BG_Summer_Case_2020
• BG_Case_19
• BG_Winter_Case_2023
• Battle_Manual150

Tier 2 (39% chance)

Utility and consumable items:

• Bloody_Dead_Branch
• RMS_OCA
• Babylon_Bi_Frost_Ticket
• Enriched_Elunium
• Enriched_Oridecon
• HE_Bubble_Gum
• Bubble_Gum
• Symbol_Of_Sun

Tier 3 (3% chance)

Rare drops:

• Goibnes_Coating
• Event_Ticket

The Badge Rush is designed to help players spend excess badges in a fun and rewarding way.

🛍️ BG Shop & Misc Updates

• Added several mushroom pet recolors to the BG Special Shop
  • Fixed stats for all recolors.
• Fixed Cluckers CP reward.
• Re-added character ID packets in BG to investigate restoring Alt+G guild window functionality during matches.

🔁 Previously Posted on Discord

A mini update was posted 2 days ago directly on Discord. Since it was a short list, no formal changelog was made at the time. For transparency, here’s what it included:

• ✅ Fixed the server crash that occurred earlier that day
• 🧪 Added a test fix for BG Alt+G functionality
  • This will help determine the next debugging steps depending on whether the crash persists
• 🐾 Added a new BG-exclusive pet under Special Shop → Other Items
• 🌿 Bloody Branches for War Badges were re-added to the @go vend dynamic shop
• 🛠️ Reworked Glorious item permissions
  • These were incorrectly set during Friday’s WoE rollout