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.
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.
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[02/24/2013] Stealth CORE is made into the first standalone Neopets auto-player.
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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.
cavsfan817 (01-05-2024),j03 (01-04-2024),Stunna (12-30-2023)
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.
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♥ Rattata ♥ (01-04-2024)
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(
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
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