Castle Story: 01/30/2014 Update: Valentine's Day Items

[kooky panda]

New update thread here.



Edit- New update thread is here!

[craterlake]

What time is the next update due?

[anissada]

New update thread here.

duh, takes us right back to post no 1 in this topic...
we want to know about the one that's mentioned/promised for this week 😍

[kooky panda]

Usually it comes out around 2:00 PM TL Time

(In about 45 minutes)

You can use this Time Zone Converter to figure out your local time. You can enter "San Francisco" for the TL time zone (PST).

[kooky panda]

duh, takes us right back to post no 1 in this topic...
we want to know about the one that's mentioned/promised for this week 

HAHA sorry about that. Try this one!
https://forums.storm8.com/showthread....alentine-s-Day

[ciarjen]

This goes against our philosophy. We will never lower droprates of items from free sources just to incentivize premium item purchases. In general, we don't like lowering item droprates at all once they go live. We haven't changed mermaid scale droprate and have no plans to do so now or in the foreseeable future.

Thanks for your response and that is encouraging to hear.

I hit a dry patch with regards getting mermaid scales. In fact I was not even getting the fish I usually get - just coins and xp from water sources. But my stock of these items had fallen to below 20 and like others have reported, I found the drop rate go down for me.

I've collected a lot of water in the last couple of days and the drop rate has gone back to its usual on both fish and mermaid scales.


Now if I could just get an alicorn part to drop as I have been waiting for a year, that would be great

[mulan12]

Thanks for your response and that is encouraging to hear.

I hit a dry patch with regards getting mermaid scales. In fact I was not even getting the fish I usually get - just coins and xp from water sources. But my stock of these items had fallen to below 20 and like others have reported, I found the drop rate go down for me.

I've collected a lot of water in the last couple of days and the drop rate has gone back to its usual on both fish and mermaid scales.


Now if I could just get an alicorn part to drop as I have been waiting for a year, that would be great

I finally got my last Alicorn part after over a year. A very long time to wait!

[shambalaya]

This is psychological. When you are short of something you tend to pay more attention to whether or not it drops, and experience more disappointment when it doesn't. When you don't need something you may note with pleasant surprise when you see it drop, but care less when it doesn't, and because you aren't using it it builds up quickly in your inventory. Other than an increase after getting the first shard, for me mermaid scale droprate seems pretty constant. Some days I get unlucky and none drop at all, some days I get lucky and a bunch drop all in a row. The amount in my inventory goes up and down depending on how much I'm using them at any time. Same goes for any resource with a random droprate.

I second this

[Oliver118]

I'd just like to say a really big thank you to everyone at TL for your commitment to the weekly updates. I knew it was going to be worth sticking with during those couple months of silence, but now Thursday is my favourite day of the week! Updates get to me (UK) in the evening, so I love coming home from work to see what's new.

Looking forward to the Valentine items - keep up the great work! xx

In the UK too, I usually check them out on Friday morning.