Any update on Battledome fixes?

[Stunna]

I haven't kept up with Neopets in a long time and the Battledome has been riddled bugs and issues for years and I was wondering now that Neopets is their own separate company, has TNT recently addressed any fixes to the Battledome that they hope to accomplish in the near future?

Wasn't the Battledome and Battledome pets one of the biggest features of this site? Like for wars/plots? How could they let the Battledome turn into literal dog shit? I always saw the Battledome as an integral part of what made Neopets so great, it was like Pokemon you could train and battle pets, buy weapons, build your set, try to become the strongest. And the stronger your pet was the more likely it would have the chance of attaining expensive items from defeating war bosses like in Merridell. What the fuck happened?

And the old Battledome was so good, it had species abilities, and special defenses only available to certain species making those species more valuable, the enemies would gain HP as you defeat them making them harder and harder forcing you to train your pet and stay at the top of your game. War plots would give out prizes that literally were one in a million. Weapons were considered one of the most rarest and most expensive items on the entire site (they still are for the most part), but back then they were essentially the golden standard for being considered top tier... How have they ignored the Battledome for so long knowing all this?

[jmg]

What issues are there with the battledome? I haven't really noticed any minus the occasional lag but the whole site is laggy.

[Stunna]

What issues are there with the battledome? I haven't really noticed any minus the occasional lag but the whole site is laggy.

There's quite a lot of issues. There are lots of threads of it in the battledome boards. But the major ones include:

-Challengers never increase difficulty
-Stealing does not work
-Freezing is not reliable
-Opponents spam full blocking abilities
-DoN apparently doesn't work
-Your Battledome score on your user lookup doesn't work
-Alot of specific weapons don't work. Ex: Glowing Cauldron, Prickly Potion, Bent Fork and Voidberry potion
-Species abilities/defenses are no longer in the new BD
-Challengers don't gain HP just a set of 3 random HPs (Its not challenging at all)

Theres tons more but you get the gist of it

[Buizel]

The real short answer to this is: No

They've said in the past that tackling the BD and its spaghetti code is a major challenge. So, they'll "fix" it bit by bit as they go along, but there isn't a major fix scheduled within their roadmaps.

Edit:

I went through the recent CEO AMAs and Dom has this to say:

Are there any plans to fix the Battledome?

In short, not right now.

Acknowledges it's important to fix though and they have an internal deadline.

Teases that the upcoming plot next year will involve the Battledome.

[Stunna]

The real short answer to this is: No

They've said in the past that tackling the BD and its spaghetti code is a major challenge. So, they'll "fix" it bit by bit as they go along, but there isn't a major fix scheduled within their roadmaps.

Ugh that's so ridiculous man...Neopets will be dead by the time its all fixed.

[jmg]

There's quite a lot of issues. There are lots of threads of it in the battledome boards. But the major ones include:

-Challengers never increase difficulty
-Stealing does not work
-Freezing is not reliable
-Opponents spam full blocking abilities
-DoN apparently doesn't work
-Your Battledome score on your user lookup doesn't work
-Alot of specific weapons don't work. Ex: Glowing Cauldron, Prickly Potion, Bent Fork and Voidberry potion
-Species abilities/defenses are no longer in the new BD
-Challengers don't gain HP just a set of 3 random HPs (Its not challenging at all)

Theres tons more but you get the gist of it

Jeez I was completely unaware of all of those issues I appreciate your helpful reply

[chii3d]

I would personally prefer the premium opponents not to increase in HP since I just want to get those battles done for my free nerks and call it a day. Like this is one of the features I'm paying for don't make it more difficult for me.

[Jeongyeon]

I would personally prefer the premium opponents not to increase in HP since I just want to get those battles done for my free nerks and call it a day. Like this is one of the features I'm paying for don't make it more difficult for me.

The popular suggestion has always been a fourth setting: easy-mid-hard and then another setting which is the HP increasing setting.

[chii3d]

The popular suggestion has always been a fourth setting: easy-mid-hard and then another setting which is the HP increasing setting.

Oh ok! That makes more sense since these really are farmed daily. Why would people want the increase in hp? Just for the challenge of it?

[Buizel]

Oh ok! That makes more sense since these really are farmed daily. Why would people want the increase in hp? Just for the challenge of it?

Yep. Personally, I like fighting on easy, but from a video game perspective, I compare it to Pokemon. It's a fun game, but there are times where I wish the computer AI would be a little smarter and/or plan against me for a bit of a challenge. Curb stomping the E4 gets boring after a while!