Hello bananas!

After hard work and some ideas thrown back and forth we've come up with the Exchange System! We have a bunch of more update to tell you about, so keep on reading!

Collections

We've added 4 Collections:

• Legacy 1 (From the start of the game until around mid may)
• Legacy 2 (From around mid may until mid june or july)
• Summer 2024 (From mid june/july until September 21st 2024)
• Autumn 2024 (From September 21st 2024 to )

(Autumn 2024 Collection isn't included here yet because it's not yet complete!)

1 Collection lasts/is built during 3 months*.

*The common bananas will be used to exchange into the current collections (right now Summer & Autumn) afterwards, only the bananas within the same collection can be used (e.g. Common into Uncommon, and Uncommon into Rares, and so on). We're looking into making the exchange system dynamic, E.g. 5 bananas from Legacy 1 + 5 bananas from Legacy 2 = 50% legacy 1 and 50% legacy 2 result. Legacy 1 & 2 were made from the first 2-3 months of bananas between them. We've tried to make them the same amount of rarities.

Sounds

We've added some sounds to the game, so it doesn't sound like it's just dead when you're using it:

• Clicking sounds
• Entering Menus (Inventory & Settings)
• Exchange System Sound (Animation)

Exchange System!

We've added the asked exchange system/trade up system, to be able to use lower tier bananas into higher tier bananas. Right now you'll need 10 of the lower tiered bananas to upgrade into 1 of the higher tier banana. BUT to prevent people (mainly "oilers") from spamming and gaining a lot of higher tiered bananas we've found a way to prevent that spam, with TOKENS!

Tokens

For every exchange ABOVE normal, so common > uncommon, uncommon > rare (and so on), you'll require 1 token per exchange. So, requirements will be 1 token + 10 bananas (common, uncommon, rare, epic, ultra rare or legendary)

Everyone will get 300 tokens for free at the start!!

Afterwards you'll keep getting around 8 per week OR you can buy them in the item shop!

Why Tokens?

We do this for two reasons:

• This makes it more fair for the people who recently started buying and people who will be buying new bananas to exchange as the trade & market-lock, from purchasing those, also goes over into the stacked or exchanged bananas anyway. This way EVERYONE is tied to 8 tradeups in a week and 7 days trade & market-lock after exchange, the only thing you can "bypass" if you so need to/want to is by buying more exchange tokens from our item store, you can look at them as some form of tiny keys.

Examples:

• 1 token + 10 Normal bananas = 1 Common Summer 2024 or Autumn 2024 Collection Banana
• 1 token + 10 Uncommon bananas = 1 Rare Summer 2024 or Autumn 2024 Collection Banana
• 1 token + 10 Rare Bananas Legacy 1 = 1 Epic Legacy 1 Collection Banana

Change Notes:

• Overhauls the integration system with steamworks
• Updates stack & unstacking system to make them more responsive & work better
• Adds new sounds (clicking, opening and closing menu, exchange animation)
• Adds new volume option to the settings Menu, also saves between gameplay sessions
• Removes triggering item drop on clicking, which causes some players to recieve rate limits
• Adds new stacking system & loading screen
• Adds new unstacking system & loading screen
• Adds number of selected bananas when selecting for stacking
• Adds button to refresh inventory, limited once per minute
• Adds token input, to show how many you have

* The exchange token numbers are subject to change. - The Banana Team

[ 2024-10-15 22:26:18 CET ] [ Original post ]