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Tomorrow launches the public beta test of ConquerHeroes.com. We've been hard at work putting the final touches on a bunch of systems and quests so that players can properly experience the new world we're creating for them.

Here's a list of what's changed in the last few days.

-Mentor system added and tested: Mentors grant their students bonus battle power and in exchange receive a portion of exp and drops from their students.
-Registration page cleaned up: Less confusing for non English speaking players. Forced email authentication for creation and resets. All passwords are of course salted+hashed and cannot be recovered. Having it reset through validated emails is essential.
-Adjusted early game quests and drops for archers. They were having to do multiple quests to get their starting skills. Have smoothed that out and given them proper arrow packs with their starting gear.
-Changing the gender of your character now properly adjusts your avatar and hairstyle
-Titles are added for winning horse race or guild war. Players can equip or hide these titles and they are visible on their character sheet.
-Quiz show and horse race given fixed schedule. Google calendar used to map out all quest times for players to quickly reference.
-Adjusted many popular maps to balance the droprates and exp rates so that no single map is always the best. They are each useful for different purposes (leveling, powerleveling, hunting, etc)
-Numerous daily quests added and tested to give players encouragement to explore the game world and be active across all maps (each major city has its own daily quest currently)
-Ganoderma/Titan added (drop 1 hour exp potions. Spawn once per 30 minutes)
-Flower system added. You can give flowers to female characters and there is a leaderboard for who received the most flowers of each type per day. Silly cosmetic fun.

Is there going to be a database wipe at some point to reset Heroes before official launch? This is just open testing, right?

Yes, progress will be wiped when we launch the final server but that does not mean all progress will be lost.

All accounts involved in beta testing will receive an exclusive in-game title (permanent and able to be turned on/off) showing that they were a tester. We will also have bounties placed on in-game bugs and exploits which will be rewarded with in-game currency in the full launch of the game. That way even if your character may not stay, your work in helping to test the server will still benefit you in the final launch.

your paying bounties for in-game exploits in Jewels or you mean other in game currency?

Sorry for the confusion. It would be in game currency. It's a way for players to feel they keep some of their progress from testing without making it unfair to players who join later

Thanks for clarifying that. On that note, I've been wondering this do you have some way to address the power gap that MMOs seem to get over time in either Heroes or Rebirth? When a game constantly adds new features, it's great for existing players but its intimidating for new players because it means they've just got even more catching up to do to someone who's played for a year or two.