Changes to Boss Battle Mode
Hey everyone! It’s Josh here from Gimkit with an update on Boss Battle. We’ve loved seeing you all challenge your students; there have been some incredible games!
Shortly after the release of Boss Battle, we saw some issues. The Boss was winning too much. We made a change to decrease the Boss’s earnings by 20%. After pushing out this change, we monitored the results and saw that the Boss was still winning too much.
Since that first update, we’ve made two additional changes, to decrease The Boss’s earnings by 50% and then 75%. In short, The Boss was earning 1/4 the cash from when we first launched the mode. Even with all of this, The Boss was still winning most of the time. From your feedback, we learned we messed up with the design behind the mode.
We learned it was a mistake to include the same balance sharing logic with Team Mode in Boss Battle. Basically, it doesn’t make sense for all The Challengers to share a balance. In Team Mode, this works because it’s a smaller group, and teammates can communicate mid-game and figure out the strategy. With Boss Battle, there’s too many people to effectively communicate. What ends up happening is everybody shops on their own, which means a consistent low balance for The Challengers. What we need to do is make a change so that balance isn’t shared between all The Challengers. And that’s exactly what we’ve done!
Starting on October 8th, we’re introducing a new balance system for Boss Battle. With this system, each student will have their own balance. This means they won’t be able to purchase powerups & upgrades without earning the cash on their own first. The team balance (the one on the leaderboard) will be all the individual balances together. Since each student will have their own balance, we hope this will help make the game more fair.
Here’s some more information on how the balance system will work:
Starting Cash: The starting cash amount will be distributed evenly between all members. So, if there are 5 challengers and you set $100 for starting cash, each challenger will have $20 so start.
Subtractor: 20% will subtracted from each individual member
Gift: 25% will be increased from each individual member.
Link: The Link is disabled in Boss Battle, but for future modes that use this system, Link earnings will be distributed evenly between all members. Same as starting cash. With this update, we’ve also making a change so Link earnings only apply to answered questions.
We hope this new system will help make Boss Battle more fun and fair! With this update, we’ll also be changing the reduction in The Boss’s earnings to 16% from 75%.
As always, send us your feedback! We love to hear it!
Also, one last piece of good news! Since we’re making this significant change to Boss Battle, we’re extending the leave date from October 11th to October 16th! Get some extra days of Boss Battle fun! Thanks so much everyone!