What's New in CU? (3.0.6 Tuning Update)
Read all the upcoming changes related to the 3.0.6 Tuning Update before 3.1! This patch includes several Joust updates, quest revisions, and bug fixes.
Hey Unifam! Here are the following changes that will be applied to the core game with the tuning update before 3.1.
The changes will be completed after the maintenance period on Thursday February 1, 2024 7:30PM UTC
Check out the article below for more details on the maintenance period.
🚧 Scheduled Maintenance - Thursday February 1, 2024 7:30PM UTC🚧
Substack article: https://cryptounicorns.substack.com/p/scheduled-maintenance-thursday-february
In this Article
One of our goals for 2024 is to release smaller and more frequent tuning changes to the core game. This goal is intended to allow the Design team to move levers less drastically and not change the current meta with each tuning push. In turn, we will be able to react more quickly to trends seen in data and locate a common ground where both players and the economy are excelling.
After analyzing the results of the 3.0.5 Update, we have created the following goals and suggested changes. The main intent of this tuning push is to increase the amount of engagement in Jousting and Questing, with the total number of events and total number of unique participating addresses considered the most.
Increase Jousting engagement and unique jousters before the new jousting formula changes.
Provide an incentive for players to breed all unicorn classes and increase the number of unique breeders.
Increase engagement on Jousting and Questing by expanding on Jackpot functionality in Quest and Jousting features.
Jousting Updates
Revised Jousting Rewards System
The current Jousting gameplay rewards players with a fixed amount of RBW based on how their Unicorns place in any given tournament. To spice things up, Jousting tournament rewards will be delivered mostly through a giftbox system, with some variance between giftboxes.
We have also removed Jousting potions from all giftboxes and increased the amount of potion materials each box generates.
The expected value of RBW rewards for Jousting will remain the same. However, each giftbox will offer a variable amount of RBW. It could reward players with as little as 1 RBW, or in rare instances, it could reach thousands of RBW. The more giftboxes you open, the closer your average RBW per giftbox will be to the previous fixed value.
Higher placements in each tournament award more giftboxes, and the top-performing Unicorns will still receive some fixed RBW in addition to Jousting Giftboxes.
Class-Gated Jousting Tournaments
The Jousting arenas are currently dominated by Star Unicorns. While we work on overhauling the Jousting formula for release with Patch 3.1, we’ll be adding additional tournaments calibrated for the lower-performing classes. These class-gated tournaments allow other class sets to compete against one another and try a hand at Jousting to prepare for the Jousting formula change.
These new class-gated tournaments will not affect participating Unicorns’ ELO score. (NOTE: In these temporary tournaments, you might experience a visual indicator with incorrect ELO values. This is only visual and does not affect ELO or the official, “ranked” ELO tournaments.)
Bronze Brawl, Silver Showdown, and Golden Gauntlet will remain on the tournament list on Jousting weekends.
Rewards for these temporary tournaments are compared to the Silver Showdown.
After this first week, we will evaluate these tournaments and make adjustments to restrictions as needed. (Remember, these class-gated tournaments will be removed come Patch 3.1!)
Quest Revisions
Weekly Rewards
Similar to Jousting, players are rewarded with a fixed amount of RBW and Class Giftboxes when completing a weekly quest. The amount of RBW rewards depends on how far the player has progressed in the quest chain.
Following the new Jousting reward system, players will receive their RBW rewards directly from Class Giftboxes. Aside from Collection Items and UNIM, each Class Giftbox will provide a variable amount of RBW with a chance of hitting a jackpot. The expected value of the RBW rewards will not decrease.
Below is a breakdown of the chances to hit different amounts of RBW:
Class Items have also been removed from the Class Giftboxes.
Daily Quests
Daily quests will still provide a fixed amount of RBW, as it depends on land rarity and questboard level bonuses.
Updated Beginner Quest Text
Due to limited space, the text on the Beginner Quest 1/38 removed a part of the quest description. This update should correct this and indicate that turning in the required items should reward players with Beginner Seeds.
Several Daily Quests on varying levels of questboards gave the incorrect amount of RBW rewards we originally set. These also vary depending on the rarity of the land. With this patch, players should be rewarded with the appropriate amount of RBW.