Coming After Christmas
Vacation
User Achievements
Members will be given achievements based on their
merit.Meaning if they complete a set of tasks, they will earn
saidachievements. For instance, a member may be required to post
100times in the forums to obtain a particular achievement or come
backto study every day for 2 weeks without missing a day. The
rewardsfor completing the achievements will differ for
eachachievement.
These rewards will include J-Coins, Emblems, Themes,
YokaiTrainer items, Stickers, Achievement Points for AP Related
shoprewards to name a few.
Jappleng Missions and Daily
Missions
This new feature is tentative in name but it will permit
usersto complete certain tasks for rewards. Think of them
likequests in a game where a quest giver gives instructions and
theplayer must complete them to earn their reward. This will be
thesame concept but it will be for doing various tasks
aroundJappleng. There will be an initial amount of missions
to doand leveling will also unlock greater missions to complete. At
somepoint, users will have completed all of the Jappleng missions
andwill rely on daily missions for their rewards. Daily missions
willreset every day and users will be able to complete them for
variousrewards.
A mission could be something like... Add 5 new words to
yourvocabulary and use the flashcard trainer. Then if completed
beforethe end of the day, the user will receive their
missionreward(s). Events will also be tied to this.
AP Based Items and Level Requirements
for Shop items
A new feature will be added to the shop which will
requireusers to be of a certain level before being able to purchase
items.Some items will be Level 1, some may be Level 10. It really
dependson the item. Achievement Point items will also be
introducedwhich will be Items unlocked by completing Achievements
and usingthe AP they earn from them for the desired items.
Whileachievements do give certain items, there is always a base AP
thatis given as a bonus where users may purchase special goods from
theshop.
Gacha
The gacha system is coming and it is yet another incentive
forusing the site. The prizes behind gacha are randomized and are
alsoreliant on the time of the year such as events. The
initialrelease of Gacha will come with one token type which is free
andoffer basic prizes. In the future, I imagine that a premium
gachacurrency will be introduced to help fund the project as it
does notcontain ads or subscription model. As such, those who wish
toprovide "donations" to the project to help keep it free, will
berewarded and I believe that one of said rewards should be a
premiumgacha ticket. Jappleng has remained free for 15
yearsalready, however it would be nice to have a bit of help to
keepfunding the servers and perhaps even pay for specailists to
writelessons one day. I hope you all understand.
Enhanced User
Settings
User settings will be revamped meaning it will look and
feeldifferently, a bit more modern and the performance related
bugswill also be fixed. New settings will be added there such
asthemes, full e-mail control and other important
settings. User Inventory will be improved and these changes
will also bereflected in the Jappleng Shop.
Site-wide tutorial
Using Jappleng is not really difficult but it does have a
lotto do as it is unique in its endevors. Knowing this,
Japplengrequires a site-wide tutorial. This will be implemented
after theehnaced user settings so that the tutorial may be
complete. Everyuser who logs in after it is implemented will be
shown thistutorial and be asked to complete it. The tutorial
will alsooffer rewards for each tutorial set completed and
eventually anachievement for their hard work. This tutorial
can bepost-ponnned but it will be stickied on the site until
theycomplete it.
Coming After These
updates
There is much more to come but these are various things to look
forward to. Also, as far as items in the shop, there will be
so much more!