Brendan Vanous
started a topic on Tue, 09 December 2014 at 7:01 PM
While we have had the ability for titles to define and use virtual currencies (VC) since the start, we now also provide the ability to define a VC as regenerating over time.
The RechargeRate and RechargeMax for a VC determine this behavior. The RechargeRate is the number of units which will be added in a 24 hour period, while the RechargeMax is the limit beyond which the VC will no longer be incremented. The RechargeMax can be lower than the RechargeRate, to allow for fast-regenerating VCs, and the RechargeMax isn't a hard limit on the VC - just the point where the player won't get more just by letting time pass.
So for example, a title could define a VC like so:
POST https://[TitleID].playfabapi.com/Admin/AddVirtualCurrencyTypes
Content-Type: application/json;
X-SecretKey: <title_key_value>{
"VirtualCurrencies": [
{
"CurrencyCode": "CC",
"DisplayName": "Chump Coins",
"InitialDeposit": 0,
"RechargeRate": 1440,
"RechargeMax": 500
}
]
}
This would create a VC which starts at 0 when the player signs up for the game for the first time, regenerates at a rate of 1 per minute (1440 being 24 hours times 60 minutes), and would stop accumulating when it reaches 500.
1 Comment
gwertzman said on Tue, 09 December 2014 at 7:10 PM
Or you could do a recharge rate of 24 and a max of 5, and have something similar to the Hearts in Candy Crush Saga that recharge one per hour, up to 5 total.
The new game manager (which is coming out shortly) provides direct editing of these new fields.
