This page keeps an archive of any (and all) news postings made on the front page of the Billy Vs. SNAKEMAN webpage. This is largely for posterity's sake.
May 9, 2008
Updates to Genin Level: Training Missions removed for now. Allies have a higher drop rate. A number of Missions require less successes / have a slightly lower difficulty. Certain special Missions are easier. Spot is now a Chunin Rank Special Mission, but is twice as cool. Genin now cannot do Ingredient Collection. Shuriken / Tag prices cheaper. More to come.
May 8, 2008
Retaking Leadership of a Village: We've had enough instances of Village Takeover crap that we've instituted a new policy - Village Leaders that give up their ability to Lead to someone else have a limited timeframe where they can forcefully take it back. Read the How to Play for details.
New Kage Council Rules: We're getting sick of all the begging for members, so now you'll get banned if you beg for them.
May 7, 2008
Advanced Resource Kaiju Summoning Now takes 3, not 8. Thanks to Millennium for the idea.
May 5, 2008
New 'Welcome to Billy' Missions! New players now get one easy Special Mission per day for the first three days, and end up with a nice little item for doing them. They are open to everyone, so have fun! (NOTE: You will need to Collect for this mission. Patrolling works as well. Sannin will have to wait until they Loop.)
Bugfix: The 'dark hour but no dark hour bonus' Arena thing has been fixed.
More New Stuffs:Leaders can now send one Announcement a day - a message that also shows on the announcements of everyone in their village.
May 4, 2008
New 'Welcome to Billy' Missions! New players now get one easy Special Mission per day for the first three days, and end up with a nice little item for doing them. They are open to everyone, so have fun! (NOTE: You will need to Collect for this mission. Patrolling works as well. Sannin will have to wait until they Loop.)
New Stuffs: New Bingo Item for those too-powerful folk out there, and Arena players get one free fight per day. New prizes forthcoming, starting with the Roll of Tickets. Sigs should show Arena titles at 100, 250, 500, and 1000 by the end of the day for people with Arena Favorite (are now live). Thanks to Aeryes, Celeste, Corian, Drazhar, Hav0c, Lafiel, Universum, and Vysaga.
Dayroll Issues Part 2 - READ BEFORE BUG REPORTING: Think of today as if there wasn't a dayroll, and you got 150% stamina and 6 NWW attacks.
THINGS YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUGREPORT:
Everyone is being given double NWW attacks today and 150% stamina, regardless of bloodline.
Yes, your daily XP / daily NWW didn't reset.
Yes, you should use your bonus stamina codes again.
Yes, your village size didn't update.
Yes, the top player XP / friends page is off.
Yes, we know that the people you are hanging out with didn't actually register.
You didn't lose their FP, so it isn't too much of an issue.
Yes, you didn't get your chakra back.
Yes you can ingredient hunt again. Yes we know that for a very small group of people this is a little less stamina than normal.
Yes, we know your Moon did not wane, your sparring partners, your free team switch, and other such things that reset at dayroll didn't.
Yes, we know you didn't get your Science bonuses, even though it said you did - tomorrow's dayroll, all Science! machines with a probability of 2% or more will activate if unleashed.
No, we aren't just going to roll day, because we don't want to deal with all the loop timers and monster days and this and that and everything else we get reports for.
Yes, we know you can't patrol or collect - it saved the thing you did yesterday, so your village has all the patrol and collect bonuses you gave it yesterday.
Just *please* do not bugreport this stuff, play like normal, and wait for tomorrow. Just deal with it for the day, tomorrow will be fine. Just think of today as actually 'yesterday lasting 48 hours'. If you still bug report one of these specific things, you will be ignored. -_-
Dayroll issues: Due to some weird hiccup in the freaking dayroller, only 1% of people got their stamina back. STOP BUGREPORTING IT. it'll fix in a second.
April 29, 2008
Dark Hour Leniency: If a Monochrome Reaper wins at least three battles in the Arena during a Dark Hour (even against non-Monochrome players), their Moon will not wane that day. That way, players won't get stuok fighting scrubs (no offense) and losing their attunement.
April 27, 2008
Headband upgrade: Working on some cool stuffs, brought up by a tip from WingedCat. Thanks!
New Friend Franking System: The new friend ranking system shows the top 10, and allows one person to hang out with an Ally per day - two if the top friend points are over 5000, and then +1 for every 25000 points the top friend has (so an ally with 75000 points would have the top five players hanging out. one for free, +2 at 5K, 3 at 25, 4 at 50, and 5 at 75.). To flush out some of the allies, all of them that have at least 10 players who have obtained them and are over 5000 top points will all be hanging out with their whole top 10 today.
Welcome, Toracon players! Hope you like the game! -11DBHK
Lots of new players, no updates for a couple days: I don't want to break anything on the new players.
Potion Reverse Nerf: Silver Potions are now twice as powerful. -11DBHK
Dark Hour Bonuses:You get 50% more Arena Points if you play during a Dark Hour and win.
Potion Suggestions:We're adding a new potion area into the game, and would like your ideas on potions. Send them via the suggestion box.
Silver Potions more powerful:double the friend points as before, effective immediately.
Three Thousand Players! Three thousand active players per day now. Thanks, everyone!
April 26, 2008
Potion Reverse Nerf: Silver Potions are now twice as powerful.
April 23, 2008
New Upgrade: 'Overseers' allow Special Jonin to collect Resources. Small size, big benefits!
New Arena Points Calculation: The losing player in the arena gets 10 Points if they stay the whole match and don't disconnect. Thanks to Questara for the awesome idea.
Starter Pics changed: New ninja look like Billy and Stalkergirl. Why no Pinky? I had to pick one guy and one girl, and Stalkergirl has big guns. Not that I like big guns or anything. >_> -11DBHK
Yes, Your old Hangouts are still there: Don't bug report them. We held a lot of the 'bad' parts of the dayroll back (losing hangouts, some FP, monster timers, etc) as a payback for yesterday's crap. Some of you may go to 22 days on your dayroll - don't bug report it , we're working on it.
April 22, 2008
Random Genin Village Jumping: We're making it live right now - it'll say 'NinjaName wandered into your village'. Make your announcement awesome, and thanks for making a village! On top of that, if someone comes through YOUR link to make their character, and your village has the random genin thing on, they'll join YOUR village if they go random!
Regarding Bug Reports: It says RIGHT THERE in the checkboxes below the bug reporter that you have A: Read the front page, and B: are not bug reporting because some stupid website told you that you can get Billy Level 6 just by having 1 Kunai in your inventory, or stupid crap like that. We are going to start penalizing people for being idiots. You've been warned.
Bonus due to bug: Today and tomorrow (as in, tonight's dayroll and tomorrow night's as well), Science and resource output will be doubled - science will have twice the chance, and you'll get 2X the ryo and resources. This is to give morning-only villages a chance to get in on the action as well.
Cobra Kai: The mission that gets you this Blood Ability now requires a Leveled-Up Strawberry. Check the high-level Monochrome Tai missions.
Sham Rock Mission Note: You need to be Sp. Jonin or higher to start it now.
FALLOUT OF BUG (today only):
- It'll be a little slow between now and noon, as everyone logs in. please think about maybe waiting an hour to play.
- Villages won't get their resource collection today.
- Science won't have gone off. THE FIX: During the next dayroll, all ryo / resources given will be TRIPLED. all science chances will be TRIPLED.) (see above)
- many players will seem 'inactive'. just go do your regular missions for the day first, it'll 'wake you up'.
- some of you may be 'hanging out' with the same person twice or three times. it was either that, or lose your hangouts completely. don't bug report it, it will fix itself.
DAYROLL BUG FOUND/FIXED: Lottery exploiter found and banned. Dayroll complete. If you missed a timer on a mission (Cutter Emosuke, Bankai), if your monster's timer / sabotage is a problem (and ONLY if it is a problem), let us know AFTER NOON EDT (so we can clear out the bug reports), and we'll fix you. Same goes with other such stuff. You may have doubled-up stamina messages, etc - that is not a bug. Just chill.
April 21, 2008
New Genin in Villages: In the next few days, we'll be rolling out an option that lets Genin just 'jump' into any village that chooses to specifically allow new random players. That way, Genin can quickly get started in the game, and you new villages can get some people. Leaders have it next to their 'application' area. It isn't active yet, but you can turn it on (if you are accepting villagers) so it will be ready to go when it launches.
THREE THOUSAND PLAYERS: Thanks, everyone, for getting us to three thousand players! As a reward, I've added a Lottery in the Party House, to give away shiny shinies, and even monster drops! Keep getting people to join, and I'll keep making new things! If got a lot of Art to go through, and once I do that, I'll set up the next major upgrade - Pirates! -11DBHK (Note: Wow, lots of people are playing the lottery. We'll look into adding more prizes to it!
April 19, 2008
'Dark Hours': These are certain times of day when Monochrome Reapers can get certain special things done. For those of you that don't know what is up, these hours are good times to get some fights in the Arena under your belt. You can find them on your main page, under the server time. Stay tuned for more!
New AA-Mission Drops: half-dozen Village Contracts (major and minor) in the Sannin-Level Missions.
Older News (before April 19, 2008)
Slight Change to Ingredient Hunting: Due to some exploiters, only one player per IP per day can collect ingredients.
You know what is more fun than that? Banning the crap out of idiots, and letting everyone else have a fun game. New rule: The later IPs will just get -1 ingredients if that IP collected that day. Just don't go building up a big load of ingredients, moving to another village, and dumping it, so that your alt can pick it up. ESPECIALLY if you are a filthy storehouse robber. The system's written to catch that now. NOTE TO THE, oh, SEVEN PEOPLE I HAVE THE LOGS ON THAT DID THIS, INCLUDING THE LEADER OF THAT ONE VILLAGE: Enjoy this page, because it's the only one from Billy that your IP will ever see again. Go watch some filler. -11DBHK
Mad Scientists HP lowered: Contat us if yo uare a Leader of a village fighting them, and they started at 25K. If it checks out, we'll knock it down a bit.
New Kaiju: Super Robots! (Enticement Only)
For the eleventy billionth time: IF you got your info on how to unlock something form some website, and it doesn't work, DOUBLE CHECK WITH OTHERS BEFORE BUG REPORTING. The number of "Waah Bankai won't unlock" and "Waah Soul Candy won't unlock" because they are reading crap boards with wrong info is MADDENING.
Looping: You can now loop if you are within striking range of the cap, even before the cap hits. Helpful for those not looking to hang back, but instead forge ahead to a new season.
Friend Point Change: To stop the people who first get into new content abusing the 'only one to hang out' friend bonus, you must have at least 1000 friend points with someone to hang out with them.
MONOCHROME (REAPER THREE) IS LIVE! Season 2+ and the Captain's Jacket to unlock! WARNING: Crazy hard. Proceed with caution! Special props to Lafiel for being the first into the new Missions! -11DBHK
In-Mission Stats: New stat box on the side. It counts everything, from potions to Village Bonuses, so don't bug report when you forget you have a Jonin Academy.
Loop Limits Changed: This is sudden, but necessary to allow players to get to the higher level stuffs. Loop Limit is now 20-in-a-stat + 3 per completed season (first loop: 20 Gen-or-Nin-or-Tai starts it. second loop: 23 G/N/T starts it. etc, up to season 4). Those still in the Loop will have their loop timers reset, but will not get back any levels they lost for hitting 14 days.
New Reaper Stuffs tomorrow! Season 2 or Higher + Captain's Jacket to Unlock!
Bingoing back up: Unexpected downtime, it is all better. People can pick up where they left off.
New Enticement-Only Monster: 'Mad Scientists'.
Bingo Academy Item: Perimeter Barrier now available to those with Bingo Academies. Defensive players may keep Teams from affecting a Bingo Attempt. Each can do this twice before breaking.
Bingo Time Limit: You now have five minutes from hitting the 'attack' button on a Bingo Attempt to finish the mission, or you automatically lose. Also, if someone tries to bingo you and fails, it lets you know right away.
Late Night Snack Changed: This Monster Drop is now no longer useless. :)
Bingo Academy Item: Bingo Armor now available to those with Bingo Academies. They lower the damage done by Abilities and Jutsu in a Bingo to 40 if it does more than 40. Each Bingo Armor can do this twice before breaking.
Hairpin Piece Nerf Warning: Starting Tuesday afternoon, the Hairpin mission will only be able to be performed once a day.
Older News
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