Yes, the game has been under maintenance since yesterday.
The right thing to do is to develop it on a separate branch and test it locally, so they only need to take the site down for a few minutes to upload the changes, but this and a few other things made me realize that the devs of this game are inexperienced, so we need to be patient.
(I'm not speaking ill of the devs, everyone has to start somewhere. The artist has already admitted that he pays devs from third-world countries for development, and as a dev in a third-world country myself, I understand how beneficial this is for both sides.)
FairyHawk
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I'm loving the game and how much you interact with the community.
One thing that could help on the back-end is using WebSockets instead of polling for notifications. I noticed that the game makes some requests every 30 seconds or so, one of them being to check notifications. I've only implemented new connections in the system where I work, so I don't know how complicated the initial WebSocket setup is, but it's worthwhile in the long run. Instead of repeating requests, there will be a continuous connection between the front-end and the back-end, and the back-end only sends a message when there is actually a new notification. This could probably be used in other parts of the system as well.
The game doesn't check if you have free egg slots when you breed two mons, so you can go way beyond the limit and never have to buy new slots:
Furthermore, if there was an option to remove incubators, that would be great. I'd like to remove the weaker incubators I have and keep only the Ultimate ones. You would just need to do a small check to prevent the player from deleting them if they only have one left, to avoid softlocks.
Finally, eggs have enormous potential to disrupt the game's trading market. Since you can easily breed mythical mons, nothing prevents a player with malicious intent from flooding the market with mythical mons for free, for example. Perhaps establishing a minimum value or restricting the sale of mythical monsters to Diamonds only would solve this.