#Colonist io mobile free

We will continue improving the game for both free & paid players. We fully realize not everyone will be able to afford them, and they shouldn’t have to pay to enjoy the features. Multiple levels of research and experimentation went into the decision of determining these prices. I don’t like the prices of the Membership Plan, how about you price it $x instead?

We chose the second because there is so much more we want to add to the game and we see so much potential for Colonist to grow. We had 2 choices in front of us: either stop working on Colonist and work on other projects, or make new features and charge for them. A player who has bought an expansion once and continues playing forever using up server resources is not sustainable, and we would eventually run out of money to continue the business. Colonist is an online service and we want it to be a healthy platform for many decades. Our previous business model does not allow us to expand the game. Why did you implement a Membership Plan?Ĭolonist is not just a hobby project, we are supporting a team of developers which we aim to grow as time goes on. Free users will need to watch a short video advertisement to unlock ranked games. We have already built the feature, it goes live in v136. Here are answers to some of your questions: Will Ranked Games be only available to paying users, or will it be free to play for everyone?Īfter the feedback received, we decided to make it free to play, without limits. Ranked games might not be perfect right now, but with continued improvement it will be the best of its kind. Today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow we will be better than today.

#Colonist io mobile update

For players who have been following our progress, we update the game every 2 weeks making it better each time. The good thing about having the whole system setup and stable is we can tweak and iterate with ease.

Everyone wants the competitive system to be fair and cheater free.

Many of you either cannot or choose not to pay high prices.

Many of you want to play competitive ranked games.

This post is meant to address those.įirstly, we read every feedback regarding the recent changes. A lot of people reached out with ideas, suggestions, opinions and questions about these systems. We were overwhelmed with the feedback we received on Ranked Games. We know a lot of people are very passionate about Colonist. But thanks to our supportive community, we get feedback about wrong decisions and are able to correct our course. There are many decisions we make each hour while working on Colonist. We are lucky to have a mature and vocal community who have thoughtfully expressed what they want. However we realized that while we were focusing on the product we had forgotten to pay attention to the community, their wants, needs and desires. We worked with world class academicians to have a better matchmaking algorithm than our competitors (post about this coming soon).

We are happy to be able to provide you Ranked Games & Leaderboards, and proud of the high quality and efficiency achieved. We have finally fixed the bugs and polished it enough to be launched.

In our wanted features list, Ranked Games & Leaderboards was the 2nd highest suggested feature, so our team worked night and day to set up the required infrastructure.