0.2.1

0.2.1, the Mana Scientist update, is a minor update, released February 2nd, 2018 @ 10:20pm with build number #052.

* Previous udpate: 0.2, the Minion update
* Next update: 0.2.2, the Dailies update

## Announcement

The update was announced January 14th, 2018 @ 1:11pm in the official Guild Game Discord server.

*One of the Guild Game's problem is currently the poor mana regeneration (+1/day), which radically restricts gameplay and causes permanently full inventories. This problem will be the main focus of the next upcoming content update: 0.2.1* - MightyWolf\_
* Goals:
	+ Add more ways to replenish mana.
	+ Increase the possible mana regeneration and thus decrease the mana's value.
	+ Reconstruction of the 1st event: Mana Scientist

Release date: Late January to early February.

## Content

### Additions

* 9 new cards.
* New card type: Equipment
	+ Using Equipment cards doesn't cost any mana and equips used card.
	+ Equipment cards have various effects, which are active while equipped.
	+ Each Equipment has its own durability.
		- Part of the player's damage taken is is dealt to their equipment.
			* This part is slot-specific.
				+ Currently only one slot (Rings) has 10%.
		- When durability goes to 0 or less, Equipment is permanently destroyed.
	+ Used Equipment can be managed through the Equipment command.
* New card rarity: Special
	+ Special cards don't drop from common sources (Shop, Quests, etc.).
	+ All Special cards have their own source instead.
		- Currently all Special cards can be obtained through the Mana Scientist event.
	+ XP gain from discovering cards with the Special rarity: 320
* Event command
	+ Rewritten code and improved visuals.
	+ `>event list [<page>]` shows date of each event's last launch.
	+ New command `>event list <page>` last, which sorts events by the date of their last launch.
* Events
	+ Rewritten code.
	+ Mana Scientist
		- Now offers Rings and Potions.
		- You can buy only 1 Ring and 1 Potion during the event.
		- You can manage the offers via the `>event offers [<page>]`, `>event [view] <offerID>` and `>event buy <offerID>` commands.
	+ Royal Battle
		- New `>event leaderboard` command alias: `>event top`
		- Leaderboard is now split into pages of 20 players.
		- New command `>event leaderboard <page>`, showing given page of the event's leaderboard.
		- HP gained from removing HP during the event: 10-25% → 25%
		- Reward scaling from total HP removed during the event: 40-60% → 100-150%
		- Base reward value: 0 → 500
	+ Monster Hunt: If monster escapes, bot will show its remaining health.
* If a critical error occurs during the command process, bot will warn the command's author instead of continuing.

### Changes

* Cards
	+ Mana Potion
		- New artwork.
		- New name: Lesser Mana Potion
		- Set: *none* → Potion
		- Value: 180 → 160
	+ Persuade
		- Value: 320 → 300
	+ Poisoned Arrow
		- Value: 960 → 920
	+ Void Crusher
		- Now has to destroy a friendly minion on order to destroy a target player's minion as well.
* Bot is a bit slower due to synergizing new code with the old one.
	+ This problem should slowly fade with upcoming updates.
* Card name is no longer required when suggesting a new card in the feedback form.

### Fixes

* If a player targeted by Void Crusher didn't have more than 1 minion, Void Crusher didn't destroy any friendly minion.
* Haunted Creeper had same discoverable ID as the Spectral Spider.
* Merchant's offer preview wasn't showing some information about the card.
* Text correction.

## Trivia

* 0.2.1 update is the first update officialy announced before its release.