DragonMaster Community AMA Recap (Dec 23, 2022)

14 min readDec 27, 2022

DragonMaster Core Members:

Ethan Brown
ChuckRRR
Daniel | Magic Hat

@brando
Can you pause ranked mode play in dec 24 and 25 and dec 31 & jan 1? Its a special day and have many events that day and that time we can spend our time together to our loveones without thinking the game.. If its okay to you guys thanks

To celebrate Christmas, DragonMaster has specially designed a Christmas UI and events to show our wishes and respect for this special day. Both the game and players are free, and we will not pause any features, which would be unfair to players who want to play. Thanks.

@Welds | HDC
Can you also focus on marketing more? The tokens are just continuously dumping. The game is also lacking players, this has caused long queueing, which makes the game boring, do u have any plans to make the community grow more? Please do focus to attract more investors.
Investors won’t just invest their money in the game without knowing the developers. so when are you going to reveal the magic hat team? The game is not new anymore, I think it’s time to reveal the team.
Also the matchmaking, it’s still really unfair, there’s still a huge gap of trophies between the players that are playing, I think this is because of the lack of players. If this issue won’t be fix, the game will go down, because for sure a lot of players will quit.
If the matchmaking can’t be fix, then how about adding bots again?
Low rank — easy bot
Mid rank — normal bot
High rank — expert bot
just give the bots SD in high rank, so it’ll be harder to deal.

Thank you for your question.

1.The S8 ranked mode has caused long queues due to some players not participating in the ranked mode but only in the Battle mode. To solve this problem, we have proposed in the community last week that S9 will adopt the ELO ranking system and cancel the Battle mode, so that all players can participate in the ranked mode.

2.Yes, we are developing bots at different levels, and higher level bots may be able to use special dragons. The bots will be applied in casual and practice modes. The ranked mode will still use the PVP mode, otherwise the competitive experience will be lost.

3.We will announce the team at an appropriate time and notify the community as soon as possible.

@CoolmanYH
Please implement bots for rank, top players cant find match and they spend timing queuing the game all the time

We will increase the number of match trophies for top players to shorten their queue times. In S9, we will adopt a new ELO ranking system.

@BBQ Gaming
I absolutely hate having bots at high rank because it destroys the competitive integrity of the game at the highest level. Sorry I have to disagree with adding back bots for the top 10–20 players. There are so much DMTs at stake and if it is going to come down to who gets to face bots more it is freaking ridiculous. Bots are the easy way out to solve a much deeper problem.
But I also understand the game is in deep shit right now in terms of player base and getting players to participate in competitive gameplay. This game has only a very small group of dedicated competitive players and it is definitely tempting to neglect this small group of players to focus on the others, but right now Dragon Master is all about the competitive gameplay and nothing else. There are no casual game modes that are fun, there is no fun pve. In fact the reason for asking for bots, especially bots that play badly, is just to be able to drain energy. It adds zero fun to the experience.
The fun and exciting games, you can only get when you play with strong teams with special dragon against another player with the same. Hopefully the new update this week will come which allow more average players to use special dragon trial cards in combination with their rental teams to give them a better experience. I will even give out special dragon trial cards randomly to let more people try and enjoy the game if this update can become live soon.
It seems like the developers are spending a lot of effort in the new tower defence mode. I hope we get some leaks soon. And most importantly, market this new game mode aggressively. New games/content/game modes are the things that make people curious and want to try, so please I hope the team takes this opportunity to aggressively reach out to influencers and partners on the new game mode to attract players. Hopefully the tower defence mode is as good if not better than the current gameplay.

Thank you for your questions.

1.With the arrival of the S9 ELO ranking system, bots will not appear in the ranked mode, as it would affect the fairness of the ranking. Bots will be applied in casual and practice modes.

2.Regarding the rental team allowing the use of special dragons, the original plan was to update it this week, and the current development progress is 80%. It has been slower than expected. We will launch it as soon as possible.

3.Yes, we hope to bring more new changes and experiences to all players through the tower defense mode. I could share some information briefly here.

-General mode: The victory or defeat will still be judged by the player’s main blood volume. When a tower defense on a track is broken, one star is obtained, and collecting more stars will have new uses, such as possibly unlocking dragon trial cards and other items.

-Occupy mode: The player who breaks the most towers wins. Within the stipulated time, the player who breaks the towers on the track the most wins. This will be an interesting gameplay, and players will no longer focus solely on the total blood volume, but also consider multiple aspects of the track.

Of course, this still needs to be updated and will be subject to the feedback and evaluation of the community and players. We look forward to its arrival.

@namamasko po 1m totem
what is the advantages of having higher class dragon?? i saw some lower class dragon with higher attack damage and higher chances of skill to trigger..

The class of a dragon is determined by a combination of attack damage, speed, durability, and skill probability. While low-class dragons have a higher attack damage, their other attribute values are lower than normal for other dragons.

@namamasko po 1m totem
Why did you create two mode (battle and rank game)?? when we only have a small number of players playing this game and lots of them have multiple account.. because of this the players are divided into those two modes.. and as a result players with normal and mix team are suffering from facing top rank accounts with special dragon not once but multiple times in a row.. i’m sure many players wont going to like this especially investor who buy special but i will still suggest this, can we try a season without sd in a team?? lets see if there will be a progress on this game.. lets see if player will stay if there are no overpowered teams they are facing in this game.. and also lets go back to single mode or rank game only.. and if it is really imposible to temporarily remove the sd while we still have a few number of players, can you create a smarter bot?? and also bot with strong teams?? and increase the bots chances of spawning xl and l in high rank..

Thank you for your questions.

1.The treasure hunt feature was introduced in S7, and after its launch, there were unfair occurrences on the leaderboard. We promptly shared the S8 solution with the community. Our intention at the time was to prioritize ensuring a fair number of challenge matches for each player’s ranking mode, followed by meeting the desire of other players to continue battling.

Of course, due to the time pressure at the time, we did not consider the ELO solution, which would have perfectly solved both issues.

Therefore, in S9, we will adopt the ELO ranking mechanism and cancel the Battle mode.

2.The ranking mode will not cancel special dragons. For tournaments, it is possible to consider canceling special dragons.

3.Yes, we will develop bots at different levels.

@BBQ Gaming
Referral link is still buggy for many people…
I suggest adding referral code field in the sign up form instead

We will investigate the cause of the incorrect referral link. At the same time, to ensure the effectiveness and accuracy of referrals, we will include a referral code in the registration form.

@anneron
- Replay feature when
- DMT burning mechanism when
- Updates to expect next month?
- Guild Rental System v2 when? can we improve this for managers ? develop it at the same time with replay feature, in which we can see their battle history and also can view battle replays, even just the latest 3 battles. Make community manager role relevant by showing the winrate or even battle history as well
- I know many scholars would want this but I think it’s good to have a restore durability option for scholars, because many scholars cannot play without durability and I know sometimes the manager is just busy or forgot about it. Maybe create automatic restoration after just like in free rentals.

Thank you for your question.

1.The replay feature and guild rental system V2 are in queue, and we will announce the latest news as soon as possible.

2.We are designing the DMT burning scenarios, and when the design plan is completed, we will share it with the community.

3.Next month’s updates:
-Dragon skin feature
-Item trading feature
-Card tower defense gameplay
-Multi-chain plan
-Custody wallet plan

@Lunazure
Is the game optimized with the latest android 13 update? The game was extremely laggy these past days, worse yesterday — Dec. 22. Please check on this. Internet connection is always checked and in optimum status, with 4 people playing multiple games in our household with no issues. Only DM lags most of the time. Thank you in advance.

Thank you for your feedback.

We have informed the team’s network engineer to check what the cause is.

@TIGERシGULZAR
Season 8
Feedback
Matchmaking problem
Low trophy vs high trophy.
Who have special dragon his
Increase chance to get l,xl.
Normal vs special (many times )
How can we win ?
Check leaderboard win RATE
Only stunning problem
ONLY UNFAIR UNFAIR UNFAIR MATCH 😭
I suggest
Normal vs normal
Special vs special
No special available
Special vs bots
Remove stun

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions.

1.Regarding the matchmaking issue, we have already answered questions 2 and 3.

2.As for the special dragon issue, all players actually have an equal opportunity to obtain special dragons. They can be purchased on the NFT market, obtained through breeding, and obtained through treasure hunt in the game. In addition, special dragon trial cards can be obtained through treasure hunt and sent to friends via the mailbox. Players who have special dragons do indeed have more advantages, and we encourage players to collect or purchase special dragons in order to have better competitiveness.

3.Stun is a good strategic effect that adds more variety to the game and does not have a major problem. We will not remove it. In addition, we are also developing stun effects for dragons of certain sizes, such as only XL dragons being unable to appear when stun, while other dragons can still appear.

How about release of new dragons?

After Christmas, S9 season released new dragon

This is from @T lleCell B
Before anything else… I just want to make sure to emphasize that the ELO system works (as evidenced in other games employing it), there is no argument about that.
BUT there is a very big BUT, the ELO system, the current system, or the previous system will not work unless we have a sufficient number of players at least about 50 players/hour present or playing the game. Once everyone has accepted this fact with DragonMaster then we can move on and stop wasting time. No matter how we tweak the system the fact still remains we lack players, so we won’t be able to really see if any system will work, thus we are just wasting time trying to make something work, when we do not have the needed conditions for it to work.
By moving on, I mean we still need bots inside the game, whether we like it or not we need bots as DragonMaster is trying to be a global game.. which means it does not operate only on one time zone, it should work or people should be able to play no matter what time of the day it is. We have a concentration of players coming from SEA region thus there are times that we have a lot of players online and there are times that people need to wait at least 5 mins and at most 1 hour to queue. We cannot force these players to login different times just so they have worthy enemies.
I for one love to really see true skill get rewarded, meaning the skilled players are allowed to shine. BUT as of this moment we cannot implement a leaderboard system that would reflect such situation without sacrificing the rest of the game. Let me explain this a bit further. With the current system that we have, we are able to identify that the top 10 right now are really skilled players, no doubt about that… but then there is unfair matchmaking. Low trophy players are matched with high trophy players. We get to reward the high trophy players by showing their high ranks but what does this do to the low trophy players? there are some who strive to improve their game, but most will just really give up. Now people can say… well you should not play ranked if you are not up to it… when you play battle it’s still the same thing, priority is given for PVP situations thus still matching low skill players with high skill players, people may not see the trophy count of others but that does not change the fact that newbie still get matched with high levels.
Second big problem we got is the long queue time. Each match is limited only at 5mins… the waiting time to get a match should really not be longer than that. When new players get into this type of situation, they will not stick to play the game, new players need to get a chance to play the game more so that they can actually get into the game (as they say get hooked to the game). Obviously this will not matter if the new player is coming from the SEA region as they will have lots of people to play with during their up time. But players coming from different time zones will try the game and realize that they have to wait for some time to get matched for a 3–5min game, they will not continue playing. Or worse, they only get matched with high ranked players all the more demoralizing.

Yes, we will be releasing a white paper on DragonMaster ELO next week with more parameters and details.

It solves many problems, but it does not prevent waiting too long due to lack of players in a certain time period.

Second, we will carefully consider the use of the robot. At the same time, we will make some optimized experiences where players will be allowed to go back to the game’s home page and continue using other non-combat features while waiting for a match, to ensure that players don’t stay on the match page.

can u consider? there are a lot of Filipino players, even if the managers are foreigners and have different religion, their scholars are filipinos. mostly the players are filipino so i think the majority goes to us.

Players are free and can choose to spend their holidays with their families.

I for one love to really see true skill get rewarded, meaning the skilled players are allowed to shine. BUT as of this moment we cannot implement a leaderboard system that would reflect such situation without sacrificing the rest of the game. Let me explain this a bit further. With the current system that we have, we are able to identify that the top 10 right now are really skilled players, no doubt about that… but then there is unfair matchmaking. Low trophy players are matched with high trophy players. We get to reward the high trophy players by showing their high ranks but what does this do to the low trophy players? there are some who strive to improve their game, but most will just really give up. Now people can say… well you should not play ranked if you are not up to it… when you play battle it’s still the same thing, priority is given for PVP situations thus still matching low skill players with high skill players, people may not see the trophy count of others but that does not change the fact that newbie still get matched with high levels.

Thanks for the suggestion. It’s right that we should protect new players upfront, as well as focus on match times, and we will make improvements.

Other than that, the core of our problem should be to design a growth system for new players by setting goals that new players can complete and then get rewarded.

This reward is limited, and in this limited time, they have a chance to compete with top players

Disable rank mode during Dec 24–25 and new year Dec 31-Jan 1. Everyone deserves a break to have quality time with family. This season last 35 days and I think 4 days off is not big deal

Now you can vote here.
https://discord.com/channels/879250438036275260/1028197333927735296/1055810440346734653
https://discord.com/channels/879250438036275260/1028197333927735296/1055810744685436949

“… special dragons. They can be purchased on the NFT market, obtained through breeding, and obtained through treasure hunt in the game.”
Special dragon obtainable from treasure hunt?

Special Dragon Trial Card

Any update on marketing strategy to gain more new investor to this game?

Multi-Chain Program. We are working with Meter.io to get Meter users to come in to DragonMaster

Can we have a poll for those players who want to play during Christmas and new year? I doubt there’s anyone.

If ranked mode is banned, Battle mode will not be banned, it will always be on.

Of course, this has not been finally decided.

I agree with the rest (majority) that we should disable ranked for this xmas and new year. It might seem unusual and counter intuitive because you don’t see this in other games. However, this is necessary because of the flawed system which forces players to play 30 games a day to not have a disadvantage. Furthermore, it will only be a one time thing as from S9 onwards players won’t be forced to play x number of games daily anymore. And also because most players are from PH at this specific period, it won’t be an issue for the game.
In other words, DM is not like other games, in many ways. We can afford to disable ranked for these holidays

Yes, other games never seen. That’s okay, let’s see what the community thinks, that’s the beauty of Web3.

I have a question on marketing. Personally I am full time running a guild and nft game investor now and recently I have been seeing a lot of advertisments on social media such as facebook and instagram, from other games.
It is unfortunate because I search for dragon master a lot but I see 0 ads on dragon master. Why is there a hesitation in running a marketing campaign on social media?

We are not currently advertising on facebook or instagram. The reason for this is that we have one major milestone left to achieve for our game: adding the wallet feature.

In fact, as you can see, the process of buying NFT is still very tedious. We need to simplify the on-chain functionality and integrate it into the game so that users who come in through ads can experience it directly, so that the effect is maximized and valuable.

We are ramping up our development schedule to complete this milestone.