Halloween gear will no longer be available from the zylon shop or from the admins.

This event takes place between October 25-31.
For each day, a piece of the Halloween set will drop from a single in-game map (head, body, arms, shield, shoulder, or trans).
When the items swap over, I will release an easily solvable, bots-related riddle as a login message denoting which map it will drop on. There will be no repeats.
On the seventh day (Halloween), all the items will drop on the maps they were previously dropped on.

For the duration of this event, all Halloween gear will have its power increased to that of RT3. The shield/shoulder will have its stats magnified to be as strong as they would be if they were RT3, and the trans will also give trans power in addition to its speed.
These stats will be readjusted at the end of the event to a stronger version of what they used to be.

Happy Halloween.



Update: All parts will be dropped in their respective giga counterparts (ie shield/shoulder in blue boxes and head in red boxes). The trans will drop from green chests.


Halloween Update: All non-halloween maps above 200 (except 258) also have a chance to drop a new assortment of rares.
The following rares drop:
HaloEF1, HaloEF2, Metojack, Darkbot, Reapers, Lady-Valor(E), DigiDragon(E), White-Knight(E), Overrunner(E)


Riddles:

10/25 -
I work slowly to relieve your boredom, but only if you're fast enough.
    [Lv219] Run Fast | Halloween Trans

10/26 -
Not what you're expecting.
    [Lv149] Fresh Air | Halloween Arm

10/27 -
It turns out BOTs aren't the only beings inhabiting Zylonspace.
    [Lv200] Hackenn Escape | Halloween Shield

10/28 -
I thought these were diamonds.
    [Lv133] Enter the Data Mines | Halloween Head

10/29 -
I don't think his backup came.
    [Lv86] X Escape | Halloween Body

10/30 -
But it's not windy in space.
    [Lv247] Kyura's Requem | Halloween Shoulder

If you wish to compete, please review the rules below and either post here or PM me. Once added to the list, you will be eligible to either have your tournament character unlocked, or a new one made as of Saturday, October 10th.
The tournament will begin on Saturday, October 17th. This will be a one day tournament, so please register assuming you have at least a few hours of spare time.

General information:

• Date: Saturday October 17th
• Time: 1PM EST
• Location: BOTS Zylon
• 1v1

Specifics:

• You must be on within ten minutes of the start of the tournament, or you will be automatically disqualified; No Leniency
• All participating members will be given a boosted level 100 with your choice of bot type and gear to use for the tournament; these accounts will not be able to trade with other players and will be auto-locked when you lose (or win the grand finals)
• You will be given this level 100 to practice between Saturday, October 10th, and the day of the tournament
• All countries, english or not are welcomed to join, as long as you can communicate with myself
• Only requirement is having BOTS installed and ready to go when the tournament begins
• If we have at least twenty (20) participants, we will have a bronze match; third place rewards below

Fight Conditions

• No map restrictions
• II abilities and TD coin flags/minibots are not allowed
• Best of 3
• Best of 5 for Semi-finals and Bronze Match
• Best of 7 for Finals
• First game will always be random
• The same map cannot be used twice, including the randomly chosen one
• Loser picks map

Rewards:
_{Grand Prize:}

• 10,000 coins on BOTS
• 5,000 Zylon Coins
• [ONE] Permanent Membership on BC for any account of your choosing - whether or not it is yours
• If you choose to decline one or both, you can choose to accept an additional 5000 Zylon Coins per decline
• You may opt out of all other rewards in order to keep your event account, remaining coins and all

_{Second Place:}

• 5,000 coins on BOTS
• 2,500 Zylon Coins
• If you choose to decline the BOTS coins you can choose to accept an additional 1,250 Zylon Coins instead
• You may opt out of all other rewards in order to keep your event account, stripped of its coin items and given 2,000 coins

_{Third Place:}

• 2,000 coins on BOTS
• 1,000 Zylon Coins
• If you choose to decline the BOTS coins you can choose to accept an additional 1,000 Zylon Coins instead
• You may opt out of all other rewards in order to keep your event account, albeit stripped of its coins and coin items

Official registration ends Friday, October 16th. Brackets will be made using  Challonge at the start of the tournament with those who show up. Fill-ins will be allowed for players who don't show up.

Do not sign up if you will not make it. Players who are not present at the start of the tournament will automatically be disqualified.

Good luck!

Current Participants

ID	Name	BOT Type
1	Allie	Surge
2	Oreos	Surge
3	Lamp	Surge
4	CrvckCocaine	Ram
5	Meteor	Surge
6	Cooky	Patch
7	Nephthys	Surge
8	Michael	Surge
9	Itsv2	Surge
10	CodePurple	Surge
11	Aln	Surge
12	Robo	Surge
13	Teh	Surge
14	JackDaw	Ram
15	Dryz	Surge
16	Vish	Surge
17	Dis	Patch
18	BitKamp	Surge
19	Smash	Surge
20	Ducky	Surge

I need to know [Mini-bot/EF(MIS,CRT,SP),Shield/Shoulder(TD,TG,GUN)] from the following:
CrvckCocaine

http://challonge.com/bots1v12015

First place goes to WildRose
Second place goes to Oreos
Third place goes to Neph

Thank you everyone for participating in this tournament. We'll have another 1v1 tournament next month.
Good games.

We've reviewed the results from the last tournament, and decided to proceed with a 1v1 tournament instead of a teams PvP/BvB tournament.
What we do next will be determined by the results of this one. We still strongly want a BvB tournament, however there was not enough community interest to warrant it.

You may review the rules below, and if you wish to enter, either post below or PM me. Once added to the list, you will be eligible to either have your tournament character unlocked, or a new one made as of Saturday, September 5th.
The tournament will begin on Saturday, September 12th, with the finals being held on Saturday, September 19th.

This is planned to be a two day event, so please make sure you are available for both days if you plan to win.

General information:

• Date: Saturday September 12th, Saturday September 19th
• Time: 1PM EST
• Location: BOTS Zylon
• 1v1

Specifics:

• You must be on within ten minutes of the start of the tournament, or you will be automatically disqualified; No Leniency
• All participating members will be given a boosted level 100 with your choice of bot type and gear to use for the tournament; these accounts will not be able to trade with other players and will be auto-locked when you lose (or win the grand finals)
• You will be given this level 100 to practice between Saturday, September 5th, and the day of the tournament
• All countries, english or not are welcomed to join, as long as you can communicate with myself
• Only requirement is having BOTS installed and ready to go when the tournament begins
• If we have at least twenty (20) participants, we may have a losers bracket; third place rewards below

Fight Conditions

• No map restrictions
• II abilities and TD coin flags/minibots are not allowed
• Best of 3
• Best of 5 for Semi-finals and Finals
• First game will always be random
• The same map cannot be used twice, including the randomly chosen one
• Loser picks map

Rewards:
_{Grand Prize:}

• 10,000 coins on BOTS
• 5,000 Zylon Coins
• [ONE] Permanent Membership on BC for any account of your choosing - whether or not it is yours
• If you choose to decline one or both, you can choose to accept an additional 5000 Zylon Coins per decline
• You may opt out of all other rewards in order to keep your event account, remaining coins and all

_{Second Place:}

• 5,000 coins on BOTS
• 2,500 Zylon Coins
• If you choose to decline the BOTS coins you can choose to accept an additional 1,250 Zylon Coins instead
• You may opt out of all other rewards in order to keep your event account, stripped of its coin items and given 2,000 coins

_{Third Place:}

• 2,000 coins on BOTS
• 1,000 Zylon Coins
• If you choose to decline the BOTS coins you can choose to accept an additional 1,000 Zylon Coins instead
• You may opt out of all other rewards in order to keep your event account, albeit stripped of its coins and coin items

This is planned to be a two-day event, with brackets automatically created using Challonge Brackets. The first round or two (dependent on how many teams participate) will be completed the first day, with the remaining fights completed the second. If we have at least 20 participants, the first round of the losers bracket will also take part on this day. If you win your fight and don't plan to participate in the losers bracket, you may leave after your game.

If you would like to participate, please sign up below. Registration ends and brackets will be created on Wednesday, September 9th. The tournament will be scrapped if we're left with less than eight participants by Wednesday, September 9th.

Do not sign up if you will not make it. Players who are not present at the start of the tournament will automatically be disqualified.

Good luck!



Current Participants

ID	Name	BOT Type
1	Allie	Surge
2	RK	Surge
3	Kulvinder	Surge
4	Yz	Surge
5	Cooky	Patch
6	Blade	Surge
7	Robo	Surge
8	Lamp	Surge
9	iJordan	Surge
10	Aguila	Surge
11	Nephthys	Surge
12	Oreos	Surge
13	Shadow	Surge
14	Vish	Surge
15	Aln	Surge
16	Michael	Surge
17	Oren730	Ram
18	Markone	Ram
19	BitKamp	Surge
20	Bulletz	Surge
21	Xaon	Surge
22	WildRose	Surge
23	Ross	Ram
24	Teh	Surge

This section of the forums are for getting help with account issues such as losing your password, appealing a ban, or issues with account information.
Please do not post here unless you need help, as these boards will allow the admins to find people who need help a lot quicker.

Thanks.

The tournament is about to be under way with the five teams who qualified to make it.

The final tournament brackets can be viewed here. This will be updated every win with the results.

The final teams are:

Team #	Team Name	Player1	Player2	Backup
1	Staff	Allie	Blade	None
2	EGK	GM Max	leapman	None
3	asd	GM Oreos	GM Vish	None
4	Poopi	Mod Shadow	Lampster	None
5	Bullsh1t	mr_aln	Kulvinder	Swagboy

The rules can be found below, and the first match begins at 1:20PM EST and this thread will be updated with the results of each match.

Good luck.




General information:

• Date: Saturday August 15th, Saturday August 22nd
• Time: 1PM EST
• Location: BOTS Zylon
• 2v2

Specifics:

• You will be allowed to choose one partner to participate with you
• A second backup partner may be chosen if they are not part of anyone else's list
• At least two partners must be on at the start of the tournament, or you will be automatically disqualified; No Leniency
• You will be allowed to communicate using voice chat if you so choose
• All participating members will be given a boosted level 100 with your choice of bot type and gear to use for the tournament; these accounts will not be able to trade with other players and will be auto-locked when your team loses (or wins the grand finals)
• You will be given this level 100 to practice on Saturday, August 1st, if the tournament begins on Saturday, August 15th
• All countries, english or not are welcomed to join, as long as you can communicate with myself
• Only requirement is having BOTS installed and ready to go when the tournament begins

Fight Conditions

• No map restrictions
• No item restrictions except for II skills of any kind
• Best of 3
• Best of 5 for Semi-finals and Finals
• First game will always be random
• The same map cannot be used twice, including the randomly chosen one
• Loser picks map

Rewards:
_{Grand Prize:}

• 5,000 coins on BOTS, each
• 2,500 Zylon Coins, each
• [ONE] Permanent Membership on BC for any account of your choosing - whether or not it is yours
• If you choose to decline one or both, you can choose to accept an additional 2,500 Zylon Coins per decline
• You may opt out of all other rewards in order to keep your event account, remaining coins and all

_{Second Place:}

• 2,000 coins on BOTS, each
• 1,250 Zylon Coins, each
• If you choose to decline the BOTS coins you can choose to accept an additional 1,250 Zylon Coins instead
• You may opt out of all other rewards in order to keep your event account, albeit stripped of its coins and coin items

What would your thoughts about this be?
Rules would be similar, but possibly enhanced to learn from our mistakes.

A few people know, but I'm moving tomorrow.
Due to issues with the electric company, I won't have power for a few days so I won't have internet until a few days after that.
If you need me for something, you'll unfortunately have to wait until I get back.
See you then.

As our levels were increased multiple times, we've started to realize the low experience rates aren't cutting it.
As it was, it would take over 55,000 games of 266 to level from 269-270.
To counter this, I have increased the experience gains of all maps above 126 to reflect a more balanced experience curve.
The jump starts at sector level 142, where it now offers 70 experience instead of the old 40. It ends with 266, which now gives 5,649 instead of 95.
With the new experience set, it should take you about 800 games of 266 before exp buffs to reach 270 from 269.
Leveling from 1-126 is unaffected.

We hope the players of the low server enjoy this update, and can finally reach the high level you've been aiming for.

The guilds board no longer gives post count. Along with this change, guild threads are now allowed to contain mild (but not excessive) amounts of spam.
Posting non guild related spam content in the guild forum will still result in a warning, and/or further action.

If any thread that has been locked due to spam wishes to appeal their unlock, you may do so through PMs to myself.

As it's finally hit midnight on Halloween, I must make the decision to post pone this event.
On the 23rd, Santa moved to Wyoming. We agreed he'd be back and ready by the 27th, but unfortunate I haven't heard from him since.

Halloween is always our biggest event, and I don't want you to think we're not having one.
The event is coded and ready - we're just waiting on him to show up. I'm assuming his internet is just not on yet.

Deeply apologize to those who were waiting on it tonight.

This is a topic of ideas we got from you, and are willing to bring to the game depending on your feedback.
Please tell us your thoughts on each idea.

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The max level will be reduced to 135 (exactly half of what it is now, the experienced required to hit 135 will be the same as 270, etc).
Stats will be unaffected by this change.
With this change, we will increase max level to either 140, 145, or 150 (280, 290, or 300 in current game).

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Experience gained will now have an additional factor: you will get half experience if the level is above the formula [lvl*1.2+12], and you will get 1 experience if the level is above the formula [lvl*1.2+24].
For example, a level 50 will get half experience at maps 72 or higher, and 1 experience from maps 84 or higher [50*1.2+12/24].
Meanwhile, a level 200 will get half experience at maps 252 or higher, and 1 experience from maps 264 or higher [200*1.2+12/24].
This will become 6/12 if the level reduction update takes place.

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Stay with me here, this is going to get complicated (PvP related),
At the start of every month (the first), our database will have a set total of X (we're thinking 40) "marks". These marks can be randomly given to you at a low rate if you manage to win an individual PvP game, and will stop dropping after all of the marks are given out
If you get a mark, you're now flagged with a mark in the room. Anyone who manages to win a game with a marked player (or players) will get a point per mark. These points will be viewable via a new interface either in the lobby or a pvp room.
The player with the most points at the end of the month will get a new item, called the MVP flag. It will have the stats of the reaper, and will ONLY be given out once a month to the person with the most points.

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Bot stract will be wiped entirely and made untradeable.
Players will now receive bot stract coins on their second, fourth, sixth and seventh day of the week.
Specifically, 10 on the second, 20 on the fourth, 30 on the sixth and 40 on the seventh. This adds up to a total of 100 if you login 7/7 days a week.
Members will receive 2.5x as many bot stract as normal players (25 on the second, 50 on the fourth, 75 on the sixth and 100 on the second, adding up to 250).
Bot stract will then be redeemable on the Zylon Shop interface for zylon coins at a rate of 5 stract to 1 coin. This means 20 free coins a week for non-members, 50 for members.

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The higher level armors will have a value that you can sell to the shop for gigas.

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Potential welcome back and/or daily/bi-daily login rewards on a future date.

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Gora from map 258 can no longer be pushed. Pushing will result in an auto-lose.

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Massive ban removal of everyone who was banned before a certain date (we're thinking around summer of last year).

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What is released depends on your feedback. Let us know what you think of these ideas, as they are all what's currently planned for next month.

Related to our thread in Announcements, we're looking for things you guys don't like about the game.
If enough of you agree on something, we will seek to remove or adjust it.

And whats been stopping us from updating is over.
We've come back together to update the game more, and while deciding what we should do, we realized we don't know what you guys want anymore.

This thread is for you to tell us what you want updated. No matter how big or small it is. We'll hopefully be back to doing regular updates starting next month. What you tell us will directly affect what will be updated.

PS, a halloween event is planned as always.


Edited in - we're also looking for things you don't like about the game over on this thread. We're taking all of your feedback seriously.