Details on the upcoming hack. Post suggestions here too!
Dec 29, 2015 16:52:02 GMT
keka, mja28, and 1 more like this
Post by jumpingdead on Dec 29, 2015 16:52:02 GMT
First off, and I'm saying it up front, it will mostly be a paid app. Some features will be free, but some things will be paid. Why?
Read my reasons over here: Why I'm a greedy fuck, or, common sense
Here are the features to expect. Maybe. Features marked with a ?? are ones I HOPE to do but have not yet figured out, may not even be possible, or just don't work reliably enough yet. Features marked !! are confirmed to be working and will be in the hack, for sure. Those marked ## should be readily do-able, I just havent actually worked on it yet. Those should be moved to !! soon.
Raid Recon: ## Have a popup window appear showing you the makeup of the team you will be raiding against. Let's call it 'sending in a scout and checking out the defenses before you kick in the door'. Character, level, weapons equipped, etc. Will help with making last minute changes to your attack team to better your odds.
Higher level bots: !! It's annoying as hell to have a high rank on a server and have to hit 'refresh' 400 times just to find a bot thats close enough to your rank so you get more than 6 points for the win. This will fix that.
Better chances on random pulls: !! A toggle that will have it auto-reroll your purchases for a higher chance at a higher level character. (* See notes below on this)
Guaranteed 5* Pulls: !! Get the special advertised character on your first pull.*
Ignore the garbage on Mystery Bags: !! Open mystery bags without worrying about getting crap.*
Better AR leveling: ## Much increased chances for AR leveling to happen.
Faction Full 'o Droppers: !! Start a fight, choose your faction supporter, every single one will be a dropper. *NEW* Dropper weapon selection. Fighting zombies? The droppers will have +crit weapons equipped. Humans? +damage!
MORE TEAMS! ?? One of my personal pet peeves in the game, only 3 teams. When there is a special event, like the elite gear event, I have to redo all my darn teams just to participate, and then put them all back. Hoping to have a team 'bank' where you can choose an in-game team (Team 1, for example) and auto-assign it from a bank of in-hack teams. That way you can have raid, human farm, zombie farm, tough/roadmap specialty teams, raid blue teams, raid green teams, etc. No more team switching nightmare.
*UPDATED* QuickFarm Mode: !! Now confirmed working! A toggle that will turn OFF your team's ARs while autoattacking. Nothing slows down farming like Tyreese cheering everyone on to a +80% defense you won't ever actually use. And while it's cool that Jesus has an AOE attack, when he hits just one zombie, with zero chance of crit, and would never do enough damage to kill it, your team using an AR against a zombie farm just slows it down.
*NEW* Auto-clear raid notifications: ?? I cannot tell you how much I hate opening the game, and getting a 'you were raided!' popup, and THEN ALSO having to close it, open my Inbox, and click the raid tab just to clear out the damn notification icon. If I can swing it, I'll be fixing that too.
*NEW* Quicksell:?? If it's a weapon, clicking one will auto-highlight all others of the same type, saving about 10,000 clicks. If it's an ingredient, holding down the arrow will cause it to keep going up. I have about 3941 purified water I'll never sell, because I'm not clicking the button 3941 times. (This one is in theory, not sure it's even possible, but I'm going to try)
*NEW* Raid Revenge not Sucking:?? Highlight, or only show those you CAN revenge. I havent done a raid revenge in months because I got tired of clicking, nope, clicking, nope, clicking, nope, scroll down, click, nope, click, nope, throw phone.
*NEW* Throw your sword: !! Because of the game's silly restriction on melee weapons not attacking around barriers while gaining absolutely zero benefit from said restriction, melee weapons can now be thrown. (Really tho, it just ignores barriers. This breaks nothing. Ranged can do it, and gives up nothing for that power). For more details, read my post on this on page 4.
Thats all I have for now. I welcome suggestions on what else you'd like to see.
Now, as for the * above. My goal of this hack is NOT to put Scopely out of business. My goal is to let US have fun and not go bankrupt. No hack that I write will eliminate the need for coins. The first reason is that if I hacked something that added a character without a purchase, or added a character from a purchase that's not even available, Scopely would eventually see it, and your account would be banned. Second, like I said, I want Scopely to keep developing the game. It's fun. If it gets ruined, it dies.
Other * reasons: Like I said above, the app will be partially paid. I haven't figured out a structure yet, but some features will be free. Others will be unlocked by an in-app-purchase. I figure that given the fact that a 5* now costs $260 or so, paying a few bucks for one in a hack will be preferable. Plus, each event is different, the hack cannot be coded to just give out a Michonne, as the game handles it differently with each event.
As for mystery bags, same as above... if you ALWAYS got the best item, it would ruin the game. Some mystery bags are a great value *IF* you remove the garbage from the equation. I've no problem with Scopely offering mystery bags to make money. It's the fact a 250 coin bag can give me a pair of fucking boots that makes me want to light shit on fire.
FAQ:
Release Date? Not sure. I'm still hacking out the back end. Then I need to make it work in a front end for normal users who aren't going to go buy a macbook and setup a debugging enviornment. So that will take some time. A few weeks maybe? Hang in there.
How much? Basic features will be free (not sure what those are yet). Enhanced features will be like $5, maybe $10 tops, depends on how much work this all is. Enhanced features will be things like overall increased drop chances, etc. Premium features may be more, and/or may be a per-occurance cost. Again, I'm not sure, it all depends on how long this takes and how much work it is.
Do I need to have a jailbroken phone? Right NOW, if I had to give a firm answer today, it will be for jailbroken iOS only. That being said, in my quest to do this I've come across info (which I have not researched, given it doesnt help me yet) about sideloading hacks on non-jailbroken iOS devices. So non-jailbroken devices may work. I cannot say for use.
What about Android? As soon as I have a working hack for iOS, I'll look into how feasable it is to port it to Android. I've read that doing the things I'm doing is easier on an Android, but if the game software is vastly different on Android, that may pose a problem. In short: I cannot say with any certanty, one way or the other, if it will be available, until I'm at least done the iOS portion and can look into Android. I don't even have one yet, so, there's that.
Can I help beta test? Once I reach that point, I WILL need people with different iOS versions to try it out. Rolling back an iOS device is a massive pain in the ass, and getting my development environment set up on my test iphone took nearly a week to get all the software versions right and non-conflicting. In other words: I am not reimaging my phone to test different versions. If you have an installed iOS version other than 9.0.2 and it's jailbroken, I may need your help. Not yet. Don't offer. I won't remember.
Can I donate to help out? Absolutely. I'm working on that.
I have money. I hate Scopely. I've paid them enough, I'm willing to pay you. Can I get custom work done? Absolutely. Send me a PM. We'll discuss. But no - you cannot have it before the hack is actually done. That first. Then custom work.
I have a cool idea! Post it in this thread. If it can be done, reasonably, and won't break the game, I'll add it to the features list!
Ooh! Idea! Unlimited Raid and World refills! No, sorry, that's one I won't be doing. Besides the fact that the server tracks what you do and do not have (if I did this I'm almost sure it'd result in a ban), it would both break the game, and be absurdly unfair to everyone else. Everything this hack does is to make the game easier to play, and keep it enjoyable without needing to choke scopely with your torrent of money. Thats my goal. Increase enjoyment, reduce the cost to play the game to a REASONABLE level. See my other post regarding why I'm not breaking the game, and why it's ok that Scopely makes money.
Read my reasons over here: Why I'm a greedy fuck, or, common sense
Here are the features to expect. Maybe. Features marked with a ?? are ones I HOPE to do but have not yet figured out, may not even be possible, or just don't work reliably enough yet. Features marked !! are confirmed to be working and will be in the hack, for sure. Those marked ## should be readily do-able, I just havent actually worked on it yet. Those should be moved to !! soon.
Raid Recon: ## Have a popup window appear showing you the makeup of the team you will be raiding against. Let's call it 'sending in a scout and checking out the defenses before you kick in the door'. Character, level, weapons equipped, etc. Will help with making last minute changes to your attack team to better your odds.
Higher level bots: !! It's annoying as hell to have a high rank on a server and have to hit 'refresh' 400 times just to find a bot thats close enough to your rank so you get more than 6 points for the win. This will fix that.
Better chances on random pulls: !! A toggle that will have it auto-reroll your purchases for a higher chance at a higher level character. (* See notes below on this)
Guaranteed 5* Pulls: !! Get the special advertised character on your first pull.*
Ignore the garbage on Mystery Bags: !! Open mystery bags without worrying about getting crap.*
Better AR leveling: ## Much increased chances for AR leveling to happen.
Faction Full 'o Droppers: !! Start a fight, choose your faction supporter, every single one will be a dropper. *NEW* Dropper weapon selection. Fighting zombies? The droppers will have +crit weapons equipped. Humans? +damage!
MORE TEAMS! ?? One of my personal pet peeves in the game, only 3 teams. When there is a special event, like the elite gear event, I have to redo all my darn teams just to participate, and then put them all back. Hoping to have a team 'bank' where you can choose an in-game team (Team 1, for example) and auto-assign it from a bank of in-hack teams. That way you can have raid, human farm, zombie farm, tough/roadmap specialty teams, raid blue teams, raid green teams, etc. No more team switching nightmare.
*UPDATED* QuickFarm Mode: !! Now confirmed working! A toggle that will turn OFF your team's ARs while autoattacking. Nothing slows down farming like Tyreese cheering everyone on to a +80% defense you won't ever actually use. And while it's cool that Jesus has an AOE attack, when he hits just one zombie, with zero chance of crit, and would never do enough damage to kill it, your team using an AR against a zombie farm just slows it down.
*NEW* Auto-clear raid notifications: ?? I cannot tell you how much I hate opening the game, and getting a 'you were raided!' popup, and THEN ALSO having to close it, open my Inbox, and click the raid tab just to clear out the damn notification icon. If I can swing it, I'll be fixing that too.
*NEW* Quicksell:?? If it's a weapon, clicking one will auto-highlight all others of the same type, saving about 10,000 clicks. If it's an ingredient, holding down the arrow will cause it to keep going up. I have about 3941 purified water I'll never sell, because I'm not clicking the button 3941 times. (This one is in theory, not sure it's even possible, but I'm going to try)
*NEW* Raid Revenge not Sucking:?? Highlight, or only show those you CAN revenge. I havent done a raid revenge in months because I got tired of clicking, nope, clicking, nope, clicking, nope, scroll down, click, nope, click, nope, throw phone.
*NEW* Throw your sword: !! Because of the game's silly restriction on melee weapons not attacking around barriers while gaining absolutely zero benefit from said restriction, melee weapons can now be thrown. (Really tho, it just ignores barriers. This breaks nothing. Ranged can do it, and gives up nothing for that power). For more details, read my post on this on page 4.
Thats all I have for now. I welcome suggestions on what else you'd like to see.
Now, as for the * above. My goal of this hack is NOT to put Scopely out of business. My goal is to let US have fun and not go bankrupt. No hack that I write will eliminate the need for coins. The first reason is that if I hacked something that added a character without a purchase, or added a character from a purchase that's not even available, Scopely would eventually see it, and your account would be banned. Second, like I said, I want Scopely to keep developing the game. It's fun. If it gets ruined, it dies.
Other * reasons: Like I said above, the app will be partially paid. I haven't figured out a structure yet, but some features will be free. Others will be unlocked by an in-app-purchase. I figure that given the fact that a 5* now costs $260 or so, paying a few bucks for one in a hack will be preferable. Plus, each event is different, the hack cannot be coded to just give out a Michonne, as the game handles it differently with each event.
As for mystery bags, same as above... if you ALWAYS got the best item, it would ruin the game. Some mystery bags are a great value *IF* you remove the garbage from the equation. I've no problem with Scopely offering mystery bags to make money. It's the fact a 250 coin bag can give me a pair of fucking boots that makes me want to light shit on fire.
FAQ:
Release Date? Not sure. I'm still hacking out the back end. Then I need to make it work in a front end for normal users who aren't going to go buy a macbook and setup a debugging enviornment. So that will take some time. A few weeks maybe? Hang in there.
How much? Basic features will be free (not sure what those are yet). Enhanced features will be like $5, maybe $10 tops, depends on how much work this all is. Enhanced features will be things like overall increased drop chances, etc. Premium features may be more, and/or may be a per-occurance cost. Again, I'm not sure, it all depends on how long this takes and how much work it is.
Do I need to have a jailbroken phone? Right NOW, if I had to give a firm answer today, it will be for jailbroken iOS only. That being said, in my quest to do this I've come across info (which I have not researched, given it doesnt help me yet) about sideloading hacks on non-jailbroken iOS devices. So non-jailbroken devices may work. I cannot say for use.
What about Android? As soon as I have a working hack for iOS, I'll look into how feasable it is to port it to Android. I've read that doing the things I'm doing is easier on an Android, but if the game software is vastly different on Android, that may pose a problem. In short: I cannot say with any certanty, one way or the other, if it will be available, until I'm at least done the iOS portion and can look into Android. I don't even have one yet, so, there's that.
Can I help beta test? Once I reach that point, I WILL need people with different iOS versions to try it out. Rolling back an iOS device is a massive pain in the ass, and getting my development environment set up on my test iphone took nearly a week to get all the software versions right and non-conflicting. In other words: I am not reimaging my phone to test different versions. If you have an installed iOS version other than 9.0.2 and it's jailbroken, I may need your help. Not yet. Don't offer. I won't remember.
Can I donate to help out? Absolutely. I'm working on that.
I have money. I hate Scopely. I've paid them enough, I'm willing to pay you. Can I get custom work done? Absolutely. Send me a PM. We'll discuss. But no - you cannot have it before the hack is actually done. That first. Then custom work.
I have a cool idea! Post it in this thread. If it can be done, reasonably, and won't break the game, I'll add it to the features list!
Ooh! Idea! Unlimited Raid and World refills! No, sorry, that's one I won't be doing. Besides the fact that the server tracks what you do and do not have (if I did this I'm almost sure it'd result in a ban), it would both break the game, and be absurdly unfair to everyone else. Everything this hack does is to make the game easier to play, and keep it enjoyable without needing to choke scopely with your torrent of money. Thats my goal. Increase enjoyment, reduce the cost to play the game to a REASONABLE level. See my other post regarding why I'm not breaking the game, and why it's ok that Scopely makes money.