HOLYBREAD ROADMAP - UPDATE (6/7/2020)
This week's Roadmap is going to be a slightly different format.
As always "hit" the upvote to support us & now you can TIP us in Brave Browser
COMMUNICATION:
We are uploading a patch update tonight. During this time the game will be off-line, lasting anywhere from 15min up to 1 hour.
This patch is going to introduce an in-game notification system, the image for this post is what you will see in game.
This update is in direct response to some of our player base that told us they did not read the Hive Posts or our Discord Announcements, so were unaware of changes happening to the game.
Now when you login a pop-up will appear with system wide notifications about game changes, technical improvements or bugs, events, etc..
We feel this is a huge update to our mission of improving communication.
EVENTS:
We Completed 2 Events this week.
1st off was the breadcrumbs to bread exchange. This allowed us to move off of Steem-engine (SE) and the old reward system for players.
This is a big 1st step in our economy rework. More is coming
Our 2nd event just ended today and it was our Hero Recruit Drive. Introducing variable abilities for hero's instead of static one's. During this event hero's spawned every hour for 48 hours.
Our next big event starts Tomorrow, it is a FEE FREE Marketplace week. For the week coming up we are removing the 10 cents per item & 30 cents per Hero fee.
Allowing players to keep more of the money their hero and items sale for we feel is a good thing.
Game Changes:
We removed Breadcrumbs as a reward for the Arena, you can still receive them while questing.
The remaining uses for breadcrumbs are equipment repair and buying potions. We will be addressing these soon.
Expect breadcrumbs to be 100% removed from the game very soon.
ROADMAP:
#1 Our biggest goal is still Hive Migration!!
This is coming along well. We are still on target for our end of June date, but may be earlier.
We have decided to take this time to refactor some backend code and that has slowed things, but will allow us to scale moving forward.
HIGH PRIORITY !!! ACTIVE RESOURCES ASSIGNED
#2 New Artwork is still being produced and slowly introduced into the game.
You may not see it until you refresh your browser cache or your cache is full and re-downloads the artwork
This team is also working on updating our webpages with proper information and has been tasked to revamp some of the UI flow.
If you have any feedback on this, let us know
This is being driven by 
Skins are coming!!
#3 Economy Rework
Currently Eliminating Breadcrumbs
Making Gold more important - rebalancing costs / inflation
Addressing BREAD and its USE CASE
As you know we are reworking the entire game economy, progress is being made and we are happy with what we are seeing so far. A lot of this week's changes will show in the data over the next few weeks.
MED PRIORITY !!! RESOURCES WILL BE ASSIGNED AS THEY ROLL OF 1ST MILESTONE
#4 Item rework / Use case
It has come to our attention players don't really see a use case for items.
The data of the number of market place buy/sell's on items show this to be true.
We are hoping reduces FEES and later the min price of Items will help change this.
We are also reworking items and planning NEW USE CASES for them.
#5 Game Monetization and Company Sustainability
This weeks Recruitment drive helped us raise enough Steem to help with this month's server costs.
We hope everyone enjoyed the event.
To give players a use for their remaining liquid Steem we are leaving Bread on sale at the reduced prices until we move to HIVE.
Now another way to earn some income, we have become a verified content creator on the BRAVE Browser.
This allows you to TIP us in the browser and set us up for a monthly payment amount.
We are hoping this gives players another avenue to show their support for our work.
Next Projects:
DUNGEONS!!! (This has moved up our list)
BARBARIAN !! (He moves faster then the bard
SEASONS!!
Potion System / Daily Task system OVERHAUL ----> Achievements / Apothecary
Later Projects:
Bard - to busy stopping to play a gig, didn't keep up with the barbarian
New Leaderboard for PvE
Off on the Horizon:
Guilds
I want to continue to give a big thank you to all players for helping support HolyBread since its inception, without you we would not have this great opportunity.
I hope this addresses some of the issues you have and gives you an idea of where the Team wants to take HolyBread.
Is anyone interested in posts on the following topics:
-Game design : where are we going and what is the thought process behind it (Theory and Technical)
-In Game Economy : what is our current issue and strategies to fix
- State of the Game : Goal for the game & company. [answering the question. : are you profitable/stable]
Our goal is to be as transparent as possible with everyone. I know a lot of players are powering down Steem completey, if you have any liquid Steem your support on the Steem chain helps us generate revenue to get our plan implemented and moved over to HIVE.
