Dear HWS Communtiy,
first of all I’m very sorry it took me so long to deliver your playtime rewards!
I know it should have been at the start of the season but it were difficult times for me on the one hand and on the other hand I underestimated the efforts to do that.
In the end I had to manually hand out all rewards player by player over couple of hours.
For the future I’ll be more careful with my words, promises and dates.
Special HWS Playtime Reward Helmet Skin
For the players on the list below (players with 50+ playhours, tracked by the tool at the last day of the last season) there is the following skin helmet in your backpack now:
I hope you like it.
Playtime Reward list
The rewards are as announced 1:1 HWS DNA and 1:1m credits.
The verification if you got them is in your HWS Connect Logs.
For example:
| - | - | - |
|---|---|---|
| 20.11.2024 16:58:56 | AdminBankCoinChange | Bank coins changed by Admin from ‘1000’ to ‘1456’ |
| 20.11.2024 16:58:51 | AdminHwsDnaChange | HWS DNA changed by Admin from ‘1000’ to ‘1123’ |
- 7 HWS Ingots on top.
If you did not get anything you can double check if your name is on the list here:
Keep in mind if you did not play last season for the last 7 days, the tool probably tracked you as inactive and thus no rewards are given.
If you were on the list but did not receive anything it could also mean you changed your name or I just could not find you on the server you played last season before. You can contact us then and only then.
Last but not least it can happen you got rewards on both servers. Make sure to handle the CSW logistic yourself then. The idea was here to reward one player on one server basis. As written below it should not have been seen as multiplication of reward boosts, including multi account boosting.
Disclaimer: obviously all of this was meant as a free gift and playing was not done under any obligation. Therefore there is no right for you to demand or receive anything, if not covered under the above information. Furthermore this is a one-time gift given now and can not be claimed or received in the future, such as in the next season, because of inactivity in the current season.
Reforged Eden 2 patch
With this server restart I also updated to the latest HWS Reforged Eden patch.
Keep in mind that with that and the skin helmet a new SharedData link was created. The initial download will take a bit again.
Also some new stuff from this and other patches require a new season. New content is coming automatically in the new season then.
Updated HWS Rules
Last but not least I want to highlight and remind everyone about our HWS rules. Especially the updated one about using multiple accounts. We will be more strict about this from now on.
With the introduction of Epic and overall fun of having more stuff than someone need, we see some players keep using multi accounts as farming option / account boosting.
Sending credits from main account to the alt account or vice versa or just using them to get more rewards / stuff or to get more OCD / Credits space.
I really don’t want to introduce the one-account only rule, which includes the ban of family shared accounts as well but for the very last time:
If we see you use your alt accounts as OCD parking lot, account booster or any other form of non intended use, we will ban it without any warnings.
The pure intend we allow more than 1 account for 1 player/household is for honest family members (husband<>wife, father<>son/doughter, etc.)
Balancing RE 2
As I wrote even before the HWS RE 2 season was started: we have to be very careful how to handle this “Beta” scenario.
It will be most likely unbalanced / broken / exploitative.
And here we are with the answer: yes.
While we can’t do all the config work to make it right, we have to eliminate any issues that arise from our features itself.
That means over the time I got a lot of feedback where we have to address our internal balancing.
Such as the Selling ships feature, some NPC Traders or Stargate Missions.
With this server restart, the Selling Structure feature got tuned down a bit.
Before
| EB Level | % of credits you get | HWS DNA Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/750 000 |
| 2 | 15% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/750 000 |
| 3 | 25% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/750 000 |
| 4 | 30% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/750 000 |
| 5 | 40% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/750 000 |
| 6 | 45% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/750 000 |
| 7 | 50% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/750 000 |
| 8 | 55% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/750 000 |
| 9 | 60% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/750 000 |
| 10 | 70% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/750 000 |
After
| EB Level | % of credits you get | HWS DNA Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/675 000 |
| 2 | 15% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/675 000 |
| 3 | 25% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/675 000 |
| 4 | 30% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/675 000 |
| 5 | 35% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/675 000 |
| 6 | 40% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/675 000 |
| 7 | 45% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/675 000 |
| 8 | 50% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/675 000 |
| 9 | 55% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/675 000 |
| 10 | 60% | Class Size of ship + Credit Price/675 000 |
Orbital Cargo Drone
The elephant in the room is still the OCD in combination with RE 2.
I see a lot of you put a lot of stuff in it – especially the new RE 2 stuff.
Very important: This can and will change! Some OCD categories and their items will change, some items will be banned from the OCD completely, so please watch out the next couple of weeks and adjust your OCD when needed.
For example if some items will be banned from the OCD, you have to take them out manually and work with (sell) them, or they will be automatically deleted with the next season start.
RE 2 was an unique opportunity to balance things as good as possible, trying to reduce inflation as good as possible.
Right now it’s not looking that good, so we have to adjust retroactively.
I know it’s great as a player to swim in credits and items but HWS is not designed for one single season. The idea always was to build up a progress over many months, years even. Having fun playing is the focus, not the race to the finish line and then getting bored.
Next on the list is more legacy clean up, further balancing of RE 2 and HWS+.
Thanks a lot for your patience and support!
RexXxuS