# New Season: Rush ## **Welcome to Season 7!** Season 7 of *Gangster Arena* brings refined balancing, new rewards, and increased accessibility to enhance your strategic experience. Based on feedback from Season 6, we’ve fine-tuned features like Augments, Raids, Units, and the Auction House, so players at every level can jump into competitive, rewarding gameplay. Let’s take a look at what’s new this season! *** ## **Rewards** We have committed 1 ETH + 0.1% $xU. In addition, the prize pool will grow whenever players spend: * 100% of ETH spent in Gangster presale * 90% of $GOLD spend to player rewards (remaining 10% burned) *** ## Augments Update Augments have been rebalanced to align with player feedback and usage patterns in Season 6, adding more depth to your choices: * **Adjusted Bonuses**: * Reduced flat attack and defense bonus from 50/100/200/400 to 40/80/160/320. * Increased instant xGOLD rewards from 10/20/40/100k to 15/30/60/120k. * Increased Gangster bonuses from 2/4/10/20 to 3/6/15/30. * **Reduced Reroll Costs**: * The first roll is now 20,000 $GOLD, with subsequent rerolls at just 10,000 $GOLD, making rerolls more accessible for all players. *** ## Raid Adjustments We’ve made several changes to the raid mechanics to further balance competitive play and discourage exploitative tactics: * **Increased Point Reduction**: The penalty for defeating players with negative raid points has been increased from -30% to -50% to discourage excessive farming of low-tier targets. * **Defense Streak Modifier Reduced**: Defense streak multipliers are now 20%, down from 25%. * **Failed Attacks No Longer Lose Gangsters**: Players no longer lose gangsters after a failed attack. * **Minimum Raid Power**: Raid power now has a minimum threshold of 10% of raid points, reducing the effectiveness of opting out in the top ranks. * Formula: `raid_power = max(total_attack_power + total_defense_power + #_gangsters earning, [10%] * raid points)` *** ## Unit Balancing This season, we’ve made adjustments to units and their costs to allow for more strategic price fluctuations: * **Increased Daily $POOR from Thugs**: Thugs now generate 300 $POOR per day, up from 250. * **Rebalanced Scaling Costs**: To introduce more price dips: * Power ratio increased from 2 to 2.5. * Target prices reduced for Goons and Safehouses from 2000 to 1500. * Gangster starting price dropped from 1000 to 0. *** ## Auction House Updates We’ve revamped the Auction House to create a fairer and more rewarding system for all players: * **Removed $GOLD Rewards for Thugs**: Due to sybil and multi-account exploitation, $GOLD rewards for thugs are now removed. * **Enhanced F2P Rewards**: Added higher-value rewards to encourage free-to-play engagement: * **Horde of Gold**: 5 winners receive 50,000 xGOLD each. * **Gangster Bonus**: 10 winners receive 5 Gangsters each. *** ## Other Key Updates * **Season Duration Reduced**: The season duration is now 11 days, with a 5-day midseason, to add more dynamic pacing. * **Rank Rewards Tweaked**: Minor adjustments to rank rewards, reducing rewards for ranks 1-3 and increasing rewards for ranks 8-10 by 0.25%. * **Revised Starter Pack**: Now available for a flat price of 0.01 ETH, with increased rewards to eliminate high prices from the Dutch auction format. * **Lowered Starting Price for Dutch Auction**: The starting price for Gangsters in the Dutch auction has been reduced from 20,000 to 15,000 $GOLD. *** Season 7 brings a fine-tuned experience with greater balance, increased accessibility, and better rewards. We can’t wait to see how you strategize and dominate the leaderboard. See you in *Gangster Arena*! --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://wiki.gangsterarena.com/change-log/new-season-rush.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.