Last weekend, we had to ban a user from our game because he threatened our community manager Manuel with violence. He was lucky that we did not hand this over to the police.
As the mood of many messages we received in the last months has changed in a way we believe to be inacceptable for interaction between humans, we decided to take action and modify our rules for misbehavior as follows:
Threatening leads to immediate lifetime ban.
Insulting and offensive words are considered as misbehavior, but also explicit language can now lead to warnings.
Libel and slander, spreading conspiracy theories (like: Ludetis manipulates matches in favor of specific teams or clans) are considered as misbehavior. (new)
Losing matches by intent is misbehavior as before.
Using multiple accounts to get a measurable advantage is misbehavior.
Misbehavior is followed by a yellow card shown in the team emblem for 6 months. But the card stays, it’s just invisible.
A second yellow card means yellow-red and leads to a ban for 15 days.
Another misbehavior during a temporary ban or severe misbehavior leads to lifetime ban.
A warning message will be added to the feedback screen in the Android app in the next update.
Please support us in keeping the game fair play and enjoyable for all of us, thank you!
Today we are going to remove the May/June Season Pack from the store. It will be replaced by the new Summer Season Pack. Note that this change requires to take the old pack offline at 12 CEST. The new pack will be available from midnight CEST.
Season Pack Summer contains the following items:
One Top Specialist Platinum Rookie Contract. You can choose position and specialist as usual in the academy.
11 Rookie Points (as always).
11 random special collectibles.
Obviously, the contract is worth more than the player previously available in the packs. That’s why we removed other items.
After examination of the Earth League results of the last weeks, we decided to adjust the paper scissors rock system for this league for some formations. The will lead to better statistics around 75 percent win ratio for the right counter formations.
Important notice: Other matches than Earth League are not affected at all by this change.
Saturday, June 29, and sunday, June 30, the group phase of this year’s KiO World Cup will take place. Here are the 32 groups:
Group 1 -BH- Finch der Grinch BMC Kölle 1948 -GVV- Nugget JVP Fortuna Himbeergeist Group 2 -BH- Walking with Strangers BMC The LAST Stylebander BMC Rot Weiß Hechingen -GNA- Klautern 1900 Group 3 -BH- FC Norden Kicker CFT fc klanta JVP F.C. MACCABI T.A. JVP FC Südfriesland Group 4 -BH- TSG Holzhausen -GVV- Thunderstorm United JVP Yin Yang 33 TRM Torpedo Rostock I KB Group 5 -BH- RudisRandalierendeRabaucken -DE- Greifswalder SV 14 JVP Rising Stars TRM Rumpelfuß Group 6 -BH- SG Schneifel -BH- Daan -GVV- KÖNIGSKLASSE TREMMEN.EV LATIN SC Renegados Group 7 BMC Spvgg Koeln-Hanau -GVV- Sylter Sport JVP starsontour1909 -RBC bnmfjiu.bu Group 8 -GVV- BIW BOYS 1887 -KL- FC Hot Dog TFF FC Döner jawull TRM Merci FC Group 9 -GVV- FC Flummi 1909 -GVV- Black n Yellow JVP FC Holzwurm e.v. TRM Snakeville Group 10 1FC Vfl Borussia Kaster BMC The Highwoodys JVP SportgemeinschaftDD TRM BlexenCity Group 11 BWB BockwurstBier LATIN CF ATENEO -UA- Ayyildizspor 74 MC P@Ds Borussia 09 Group 12 BMC GRIESHEIM FC CFT TSG Öhringen CFT FC Bayern Sport -GVV- germania baumberg Group 13 -AG- Münster 2016 JVP Dettum Footbawlerz JVP Zweckler Jung -UA- uA Sari Kirmizi Group 14 BMC Grün-Weiß Borgsdorf CFT TSV 1860 Aufräumer -GVV- FC Kölsch 1978 JVP -19–Fonti–81- Group 15 BMC Kickers21 LATIN UglyCat TRM Bauchredner 04 TRM Moeschy Group 16 -DE- Bu-Pv FcB -GVV- Rathenow FC TRM domnitsch TRM Baumi Fc Group 17 BMC John C. CFT Thunder Angel -GVV- xEARTHQUAKESx TRM SVW Salzgitter Group 18 -BH- 1fc sambuca -BH- Marios Bierpatrioten -GVV- KSCeWILDPARK JVP P0L0NIA Group 19 -AG- SC Kickers United -BH- Rote Teufel Amateure BMC TSG Wismar BMC Ronny Berlin Group 20 -GVV- BLADES JVP Bananenzupferl LATIN FC SANTBOIÀ 3-S TRM SG halbe Lunge Rohrbach Group 21 -BH- Galacticos KingX -GNA- Super Bumm 1904 JVP Halli Galli Lucker 81 -OBC- vazelos82 Group 22 1FC Augustin Kickers -BH- Vorwärts Bayern -GVV- Phönix Karlsruhe JVP borussia baden Group 23 -GNA- BFV Bochum 1848 -GVV- Svænne Exercitus -GVV- The DeVil InSide JVP BIEL Group 24 CFT Thundersquad CFT Mingolsheim -GVV- Boobonics TFF SV Ripuar Homberg Group 25 -BH- Fc Beckingen -DE- Red Cola Dortmund JVP Königreich Der Hölle -MK- LATIN Club Pirates 1913 Group 26 -BH- Marcs Bierpatrioten -BH- FC Rot Weiß Holzbein 1890 -GVV- Ostblechbande TFF Fc Emdschi20 Group 27 -GVV- BvB Lippstadt 09 TFF Borussia Burgermeister 1900 TRM Magic Stars 1 TRM Rexus Group 28 -BH- FC Ballspiel F.C. -BH- FC Normannia BMC Black – Pearl JVP FC Sc Nankatsu Group 29 -BH- Batlo Fc -BH- fc 1846 ich -GVV- FC Hillary JVP Welcome to Hell Group 30 -BH- FC Saufhemden -GVV- FC KÖNIGSBLAU S04 JVP CKC Green V.i.P. TRM FC Muff Group 31 CFT Essen Steelers -DE- SV Katzow 49 JVP 1 FC FAMAS TFF Kipsdorfer Kickers Group 32 -AG- Hoggars Swarte Fööt BMC Biersportverein Berlin JVP FC AUSTRIA 67 TAA AC Valsugana 1961
Groups 1 to 16 start saturday between 16:00 and 16:30 CEST, groups 17 to 32 on sunday around the same time. The tournaments will be visible early, son you won’t miss them.
This year, we are playing the groups with rematch to diminish random influences. So you have 6 matches to play. Place 1 and 2 advance to the KiO World Cup Final tournament which will take place on July 6th.
As announced earlier, the KiO World Cup Qualifiers are going to start on June 8.
Qualifier tournaments will be held each hour from 15:30 CEST to 22:30 CEST for 16 days. That’s 128 tournaments, and each tournament winner qualifies for one of 32 groups in the next round.
You can play any number of qualifier tournaments until you win one.
The next KiO update will be published on june 8th. These are the changes, mostly based on suggestions from you:
Galaxy Cup Winners will get access passes for the following Galaxy Cup. Notice: If such a team also qualifies for Universe Cup, the Galaxy Cup pass will be removed, as one team may only play one of the great saturday cups.
We add Egypt as playable country. Egyptian teams may join Earh, World or Africa league.
Whenever you get a new player, you’ll see him in a large dialog with all details, and not just a tiny popup. This way, you can immediately see everything about your new player without searching him in the players list. This will only be available on Android phones for now.
Some fixes and minor changes, mostly for the KiO Worldcup which will start next week.
There will be NO change to Clan Cups. We are still discussing this topic. By the way thank you for all the feedback! We are trying to find a solution which is good for ALL managers.
Pack Special
Say goodbye to May (ha ha!): This weekend you get three Brexits … no, ruby! for free for each pack purchase (until monday, midnight CEST).
By the way: Season pack contents will remain unchanged to June, 1st.
The new Earth League is now open for registration!
This league is playing with reduces rock-paper-scissors influence (roughly 70 percent odds to win with correct counter formation in contrast to 80 percent in other matches).
If you like to test this configuration first, check out the Birthday Cup we just started. It’s played once an hour (roughly a quarter past each hour) in the same low tactical mode as Earth League.
Why Birthday?
Well, Kick it out celebrates its 9th birthday on May, 21st. So the Birthday Cup will be held until this date!
Change in support
As of july 1st, we are changing our support concept. Our Community Manager Manuel has finished his studies and has a full time job, so he will leave us end of june. The rest of the Ludetis team will take over, mostly lead developer Uwe will answer your questions.
Previews
Starting end of May, another instance of the KiO World Cup will be held. The largest tournament in our game will start with qualifiers, followed by a group phase and a final elimination tournament. More information later this month!
While the next regular KiO update is still not scheduled, we can already announce that it will support Egypt as additional country to choose from.
Starting today (12 CEST), you can collect easter eggs. But the eggs are hidden, which means that we won’t undisclose how you can get them. We’re sure you’ll find it out fast!
The eggs come in different colors and rarities. You can swap 5 eggs of the same color for a free item. Of course the items you get for the least common eggs (the striped ones) are the best!
Moreover, we change where the eggs are hidden each day around 12 CEST!
The special runs until monday, midnight CEST. You can swap eggs for another 5 days, thereafter they will be deleted.
Welcome to the Spring edition of KiO News! And actually welcome to spring itself, at least here in Germany.
First of all, we are today introducing the new Season Pack Spring:
The new Season Pack contains NO player and of course no „Après Ski“ sponsor event. Instead, it brings you one prolongation item (which makes senior players stay one season longer, normally this item is not available in packs or shops). Furthermore, the pack still contains 11 talent points – and an all new sponsor event which rewards you with another 11 talent points if you solve it. But here comes a special twist: As long as you have this special „sponsored“ challenge (up to 24 hours), your morale maximum is increased by 2. Yes, this means that you can reach morale 12 or 13 at least for a day! Of course this requires that you don’t solve the challenge meanwhile, so you also cannot start other challenges. You see, this is a little mind-bending, and a funny idea. As you know, we often use the Season Pack to test new stuff, so make sure you tell us what you think about this! It all depends on your feedback if we keep doing stuff like that, or bring back the worldstar player in April instead.
Upcoming change to rename rule
Because of some not so funny recent events, we decided to stop allowing team renames for teams of level 30 and above. As you know, today, for those teams renaming is only permitted if their name remains recognisable. Naturally, there are many discussions about what exactly that means and if a certain name should be allowed or not. And if we DO allow such a name change, shortly after other teams ask why their rename wishes have been denied. To make this easier for all of us, the rename item will not be purchasable and not usable for teams of level 30 and higher starting with the next update (mid of march). Until then, you have the last chance to change your name (if it stays recognizable). I am quite sure that you understand why we do this. And this brings us to the …
March update
Scheduled for release next weekend (march 10th), the new version will bring one new feature, that’s the Clan Agent.
You get the clan agent automatically if you are in a clan (or once you join a clan). He shows up in your inventory under personell. You can use (activate) him up to once a day when you have no challenge to get a special challenge. This challenge will ask you to win 2 standard tournaments (Junior to Platinum, depending on your level), and the reward is 2 points for your clan score. So once you activate your clan agent, you play for your clan!
This allows clans to earn up to 2 points per member and day additionally, so 14 points per member per season. If all top 7 members solve their Clan Agent challenges each day, this makes 98 points in total, an obviously relevant number of points!
Furthermore, we are going to add a new clan challenge to the existing three, asking your whole clan to score a huge number of goals that day. This new challenge will be added to the schedule, so your clan gets all four challenges twice each season, but one them only once. We are sure this adds more fun to the clan championship.
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