Any update on Battledome fixes?

[kittyray]

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

I gotta admit I never paid close attention to hear this suggestion, but this really does work well to go in addition to being a daily.

[Infected]

I like how Dom's said they won't *really* be fixing it, and then saying the plot will have a BD component in the same breath. I hope it doesn't have any crashed when the plot starts, but that feels inevitable.

[j03]

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

Sadly, we have a dumbed down version of the Battledome now. There are some placeholders put up but not functioning (high scores/most enemy wins page for example).

I think it might be beneficial for everyone's interest if they kept the 3 difficulties, but added a 4th difficulty/category which starts at easy but increases HP/stats as you win just like the old Battledome. This way players can still farm for items and NP daily.

Man... The points shared are spot on in here. Prime neo vibes. Appreciate the discussion @(you need an account to see links)

[Maluko]

The Battledome is barebone yes, but it works as intended. They even used it succesfully in previous plots.

So I kinda understand them not worrying about it for now. There are multiple game breaking glitches (like ppl losing items/np in tp/auctions for example) and the recurrent lags and freezes which are much more important fixes.

[Jeongyeon]

The Battledome is barebone yes, but it works as intended. They even used it succesfully in previous plots.

So I kinda understand them not worrying about it for now. There are multiple game breaking glitches (like ppl losing items/np in tp/auctions for example) and the recurrent lags and freezes which are much more important fixes.

I prefer they fix the BD first before anything else. Its been broken for over a decade. It should have priority out of everything else.

[Tr3v0r]

They should just revert to the old code.

Side note from a business perspective though; they don't fix the battledome because it doesnt drive profits for them. If they fixed the battledome and added a way for them to make money.... theyd probably make bank.

[infestedvirus]

They should just revert to the old code.

Side note from a business perspective though; they don't fix the battledome because it doesnt drive profits for them. If they fixed the battledome and added a way for them to make money.... theyd probably make bank.

They actually said the old code got lost

[Hellkittten]

They actually said the old code got lost

Haha typical… how hard can it be to get it right though, seriously? It was pretty good early 2000’s, now with technology, you can just ask ChatGPT to write better battledome code than what we have lol…

[infestedvirus]

Haha typical… how hard can it be to get it right though, seriously? It was pretty good early 2000’s, now with technology, you can just ask ChatGPT to write better battledome code than what we have lol…

Yeah. I think the old one was indeed much nicer... The current prizes thing and stuff is nice, but HP increase and also de dynamics was pretty darn good for that time as well. They should have kept the site as it was, people like old school stuff. We dont like something inbetween that doesnt even work well x(

[nataurs]

They actually said the old code got lost

All the old bd files are still there in the folder at neopets.com/battledome/ but they have a rewrite rule that redirects all requests to the new dome folder

I think part of the reason they refuse to do anything with bd is because the code itself is horrendous. Its the type of code only the person who created it would understand and belongs in /r/programminghorror. It probably applies to the legacy bd code too, afaik Viola and Snarkie were the primary programmers for the old bd and they're long gone