Bloodline Champions: el nuevo MOBA

General
• New experience and level algorithm (read more below).
• Multiple Bloodgates (read more below).

Experience and leveling
It’s time to test a new algorithm for experience and leveling! The current algorithm does not award experience when losing a game, except on the first levels. Also the level scaling, especially on the early levels, was something that we wanted to tweak.

Level is a way to determine how experienced a player is. Note that experience and actual skill is not the same thing. Every round you play in Bloodline Champions should increase your knowledge of the game and therefore reward you with experience. The new algorithm will therefore give you experience for every round you play, however there will still be an experience bonus if you win the round. We’ve also tweaked the level scaling to increase players level in a more suitable rate.

The experience gained from a match also depends on the match time as well as if the game was a custom game, rated game etc. The reason for this is that we feel like you get the best experience from playing rated matchmaking games and will there for reward a very small bonus for that. Regarding the match time we also want to eliminate the possibility to create custom games with high amount of rounds and just forfeit to easily gain experience, so the experience gain will depend on the match time.

Because of this new experience and level algorithm we will calculate new experience and level for all players by looking at their stats records. This will greatly change the level of most players since you will now gain experience for all the games you’ve lost, which previously haven’t received any experience from. However the new levels will be more accurate on how many games and how experienced the player is.

Multiple Bloodgates
We have started up a second Bloodgate for this beta weekend. This means that you can choose which Bloodgate that you want to login to (you can also swap between Bloodgates while logged in). We have added an extra Bloodgate since we want to test to have multiple Bloodgates online at the same time and test so that everything works as normal.

We will need support for multiple Bloodgates to make sure that we will be able to handle a lot of users at the same time in the future. All the stats and ladders are shared between the Bloodgates but the chat, matchmaking and game servers are not shared between them. And if you want to play in a team all team members must be on the same Bloodgate. Some of these restrictions might be improved or removed later on, but for now we just want to test the basic support of multiple Bloodgates.