Approaching the one-year mark since its launch by way of cell app shops, 9 Chronicles‘ developer Planetarium has dropped a improvement replace together with important gameplay modifications.
Constructing on its preliminary imaginative and prescient of a “community-driven, everlasting sport world”, Planetarium not too long ago rolled out the Journey Boss & Customized Creation mode as a part of its open-source improvement technique. Because of this, it hopes the 9 Chronicles group will continue to grow and stay engaged within the NCG token ecosystem.
Certainly, the cell launch of 9 Chronicles, a sport which was beforehand solely accessible on PC, was itself an try to extend the consumer base and engagement. And though to some degree profitable, with each the quantity of staked and used NCG tokens rising considerably for the reason that launch, the developer has recognized some essential retention points.
Regardless of efforts to seek out the appropriate steadiness to assist new customers adapt, a majority of gamers nonetheless appear to get caught at World 5 and 6, in what the developer calls “the center levels”. Customers then depart with out advancing any additional.
Planetarium factors out that the rationale for this sample is “crucial steadiness changes remodeled the previous 4 years to guard the investments of the long-standing group that has supported 9 Chronicles.”
Now with the primary anniversary lower than a month away, 9 Chronicles is planning a number of occasions and collaborations as a method to onboard new gamers. Nonetheless, to retain these gamers long-term, some important changes will even be launched. These embody letting outdated and new customers actively compete with one another, in addition to permitting early gamers to maneuver up, “with the objective of tripling the variety of customers getting into World 8”.
Moreover, amongst a number of the important modifications are World Boss rewards and the Runes reward system. The crafting slots will even enhance, with extra pets which might be summoned utilizing Soulstones additionally being launched. Because the twentieth November anniversary is drawing nearer, extra options can be unveiled.
For a extra complete checklist of updates, learn the official announcement.
