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Now don't ask me how I got this thing back. All this was originally posted by gildward.
Topic and then the Quote:
When I asked the ulterior motive for the pumpkins.
"Shut up and look at the Pumpkin"
Free Shiny/Making Shiny/Trading resources for Shiny/Stealing Shiny or Mushrooms/Cheaper Store/Change Store Shiny/Growing Mushrooms
"Shiny is the currency of the Backyard and pays for the development of the game as well as the hosting. You can buy it via Paypal or by completing offers (some free, some not)
Shiny is not required to play the game as you can do pretty much everything without it, it just takes a bit longer to do. For all these reasons please do not suggest the following in this forum:
Giving daily shiny for the number of friends you have or any other measurement.
Making a building that gathers shiny like the other resource gathering buildings.
Making a building to convert other resources into shiny.
It is possible to earn 2,600 Shiny for free by completing quests, you get 1,000 for just building a General Store! Just click on the Quests tab in game and then click on "Bonus" on the left for a list of Shiny giving Quests.
Lastly, a HUGE thanks to all who have purchased Shiny so far, it keeps us going and helps keep the game free for others, you rock!"
"It would also be unfair to people who paid for shiny if we just started giving it away."
"Correct, a person who pays nothing can compete at the same level as someone who pays for shiny if they just put in a bit more time and effort."(Update)
Rotatable Map/3D View
"Not possible"
Moving Multiple Buildings/Blocks at once
"Working on making it so you can quickly move things around"
On a Bank All/Collect All Button
There was a poll on one of the many threads asking for this. Dave voted No.
Monsters that target specific types of resources/buildings
"Don't have enough monsters to do this, try the Bolt and Brain as they target resources and move on when the building is empty."
Ability to see tower stats such as strength of fire and range of fire
"Working on different towers and showing tower stats and ranges."
DP Countdown Timer
"This already happens, if you have any protection (beginner, damage or purchased) it is displayed in the top right corner next to the full screen button. It counts down to when it runs out."
Speeding up Monster Production
"Or buy the Hatchery overdrive from the store, all hatcheries run at 4x for 1 hour."(in other words buy it)(x6 and x10 have been added)
Building Que(Of any variety. I.E. Worker Control Center, Town Hall Building Que, etc)
"No reason to actually return to the game as much, also devalues the extra workers."
Current monsters are unbalanced
"You're not factoring in the benefit of a few units vs many if both groups have the same combined HP and damage. If it was "Seriusly unbalanced!!" then people at a high level would not be taking any damage or getting any loot, but that is not the case."
Limiting number of buildings
"When we add more towers, traps and walls there will be a limit on the total number of traps/towers/walls to make players pick which ones to build instead of just building them all. So if we add an electric tower you would have to pick a sniper or splash to recycle to make room for it.
We probably will up the limit from the combined total now but not by much."
New Quests
"All good ideas"
Wild Monster Bases
"I think adding a whole bunch of WM bases which give you quests and rewards for knocking down the TH or doing X% damage would be a great idea and would help noobs get use to attacking before PVP. Plus the late game players. Would need to make it so if I attacked it and you attacked it we only saw our own damage, so it creates an instance of the base which gets reset after 24 hours. Not too hard to do."
"We do plan to let you discover and attack the wild monsters yards. All in good time"
"Play nice children!
What can I say, those wild monsters are trick! But bide your time, soon you will be able to scout out their yards and fight back"(Update)
On the developers
"it's Developer not Developers I don't have a split personality."
Keeping Workers busy / A use for resources piling up
"We will continue to add new content, both premium and non premium buildings"
"We will be adding the ability to fling in pebbles and twigs to damage buildings in an area"(Has been implemented)
Epic Monuments/Wonders
"We will be filling 'Yard Customization' with buildings which will range from quick and cheap to very resource and time expensive (and some will cost shiny)" [Implemented]
Combining workers on an upgrade/building
"Guess the little fellas don't know how to work with each other."
Sending wild monsters to attack a base
"I like it, but to prevent abuse it could have randomness in when it happens. So I select to send bounty hunters to someone and it sends them any time in the next 48 hours. This way it does damage but I am not likely to use it to start or end a streak of attacks."
On saving base designs in the Yard Planner
"The problem with saving a design is what if I save a design, load another then build a new building and reload the old design, where does the new building go? What if in the new design there is no room for it?"
On Selecting more then one building at a time
"The problem with drag selecting is it conflicts with the drag moving of the whole map, however shift clicking could be used to select more than one thing at a time, but you would have to shift click every building to move everything at once."
Monsters being controlled in battle
"Controlling units once flung in was left out to make the game more casual and less of a RTS click fest. Micro managing individual monsters is a little too hardcore right now."
"Its a sort of RTS crossover, I don't think unit control is a requirement of RTS"
Repairs costing resources.
"What if someone destroyed your base and takes all your resources, you would be stuck. Unable to bank, unable to repair."
On a replay of attack feature
"Nothing is impossible, given enough time & skill. However there are lower hanging fruit (more buildings, more things to do at high levels) that my time is better spent on. So not saying never. But not any time soon."
On giving D.A.V.E. targets before flinging
"The option to give D.A.V.E.s targets is something we could add, we will be adding the monster academy soon so maybe higher level D.A.V.E.s will get that ability."
On a better A.I./targeting system
"They go for the closest*, it just so happens that the closest will also be the first to shoot at them in most cases.
* The actual method used is to find the closest 2 using line of sight distance then it calculates the path for both targets (taking into account things it has to move around / walls it must move through) and finally heads for the one with the shortest path."
On a Leader Board/Ranking system
"We have many plans to add things to extend the life of the game past level 32."(Has been implemented)
On Rotating Buildings and different looks for buildings at different levels
"Not just some extra art.... 4 TIMES AS MUCH.
Nope. We plan to add different art for different level buildings, which would make rotating them even more expensive in terms of the art creation and game loading files."
"And he is right(Gildward stating it would take too much art)
Example:
Twig snapper has a graphic for levels 1, 3, 6, and 10.
They all have different damaged graphics and a common destroyed graphic.
All have different shadow graphics and the non-damaged ones have animation graphics.
So to do 4 angles for rotation would involve making 82 graphics :/" (Update)
On whining and complaining about how long the updates take to come.
One user stated, "i want you guys to hurry and make the wild monster baiter already ive waited for months but you guys still don't have it"
Dave asks him for him user id.
He gives it.
He looks up him log in and play information and replies: (sick burn)
"I feel your pain, I too have waited for months for you to buy some shiny, invite some friends, "like" the app and bookmark the app but you have done none of these in the 71 days you have been playing (for an average of 15 minutes a day)
But I don't message you with demands for any of the above, so maybe you should hold off with the faces and just sit tight, be polite and appreciate the updates we do release.
Just sayin"
EPIC!!(can also imagine him with the user id sending in a few wild monster attacks. *evil laugh*)
On a monster breeder/morpher/customizer. Anything involving creating custom looking monsters.
"It's a nice idea, but very complex, would require a LOAD of art (78 monsters total if my math is right) and would not add much to the game."
On attacking BDBs
"Maybe lightning should shoot out of the project-x's eye and bounces between buildings that are close together "
On a Zoom function
"Backyard Monsters uses bitmaps instead of vectors as it uses less CPU to draw and can have more detail, texture and things like shadows and shading.
Sadly if you were to zoom in you would not get more detail, instead it would get blocky.
You could move your face closer to your screen though, that would work."
Originally Posted by Kiyo
