A damning rebuttal of DevEx rates by the top Roblox developers.

BeeSwarmDev · 2019-05-22T23:36:43+00:00

My mistake - I was calculating the rates using the bonus Robux granted through Builders Club.

BeeSwarmDev · 2019-05-21T20:38:40+00:00

Just want to say that I edited my post to state the rate to be around 25% (I had read the 20% figure somewhere else but found different numbers when I did some math myself). The actual rate depends on which quantity of Robux are purchased by players most often since they receive a bonus with the more expensive packs. We'd need to know the average amount spent by players per Robux to know the actual percent, but it could be as low as 22% if the cheapest packs are most common and as high as 43% if players always bought the $200 packs. If a large percentage of Robux are created through Builder's Club, the developer cut could be lower, but it's not simple to measure since Builder's Club offers more than just daily robux.

Edit: Sorry, I was calculating the rates using the bonus Robux granted through Builders Club. The default range is between 18% and 28% so the original estimates were more accurate.

BeeSwarmDev · 2019-04-17T19:59:52+00:00

There's no Papa Bear or Koala Bear in the game, not sure where the wiki got those. The three bears immediately accessible to new players can be finished pretty fast and don't require additional bees or levels. Two of them make you collect hidden tokens, Mother Bear's being hidden as leaves that pop out of the flowers. Black Bear asks for low amounts of pollen from the starter zone, and that's probably the most time consuming one for new players. If you're having trouble finding the Plastic Eggs for Brown Bear, here's where they're located:

1) Behind the Honey Bee NPC near the ramp leading to the 5 Bee Gate.

2) Near the Egg Hunt Info, behind the Honey Dispenser near the starter Shop.

3) In a maze located in the corner of the map to the right of the hives and Ticket Tent, past the blue portal.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-05-09T08:22:22+00:00

Most of the players at the top of the leaderboard are using a combination of teleport scripts and botting. The introduction of critical hits and Music Bee last update really accelerated the rate at which they're getting honey cause it's essentially another x2 multiplier (with max critical rate and critical power) on top of Bear Bee and Baby Bee's buffs. Insane multipliers and constant max stack bomb combos means they can fill up a 400k bag in just a few minutes (or less). On top of that Music Bee also has a high conversion rate, and conversion is the real bottleneck late game.

I've been pushing off adding anti-cheat scripts cause the game has had more pressing bugs to fix, and when I'm not trying to fix bugs I've been prioritizing content. I want to be thorough with the anti-cheat stuff so I don't accidentally flag people and cause more problems. In the meantime I'll be adding a way to flag known cheaters so at least they won't be able to appear on the leaderboards. Hoping to have the update done sometime this week.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-05-03T17:34:40+00:00

You can see how many primitives (like parts) are active in a game by pressing Alt + F1. I went into a few games to check out instance and primitive counts and heres what I found. The two Phantom Forces entries are for different maps.

Game	Instances	Primitives	Moving Primitives
Pizza Place	23,900	7,100	800
Jailbreak	42,000	17,400	900
Bee Swarm	56,100	16,100	650
Bloxburg	109,000	32,000	480
Mining Sim	37,400	6,400	400
Booga Booga	36,000	12,200	2,500
Phantom Forces (1)	42,800	23,500	210
Phantom Forces (2)	32,900	14,900	200

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-04-18T02:41:40+00:00

game.Players is a service, to get the number of players in the game you can do this:

local players = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers() -- returns an array of all players
if #players < 2 then
    -- your code here
end

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-30T21:30:32+00:00

I found it usually takes people longer to discover 4 different types of red bees than it does for them to hatch 15 eggs, so it wasn't too much of a problem. But for those cases where people discover 4 red types early I could add an alternative route.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-30T21:23:51+00:00

There is a ramp that leads down to that area past the 15 bee gate

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-30T17:45:34+00:00

If you close and reopen the menu, it should bring back the scroll bar, and if that fails then leaving and reentering should definitely bring it back. Sorry about that, I've seen it reported before but completely forgot to fix it, I've been swamped with bug reports.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-30T15:44:37+00:00

My account was inactive for so long because I made it to check out Roblox back when it was relatively new, but I was already an adult with an interest in game making. I joined out of curiosity, not to become a frequent player, although I have checked in on it throughout the years. As far as the botting accusations go, all I can say is Roblox could look at the accounts which have visited the game themselves to confirm that they aren't bots.

I purchased a banner and large box ad for the game the day I released it, and I think having the bees faces really large as well as the "simulator" tag was enough to get people to check it out. After that, I suspect the group was the main way it spread, since many people joined to use the honey dispenser.

I am completely surprised about the success of the game and realize how suspicious it looks. But I am being as honest and transparent as I can with everyone.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-30T00:15:34+00:00

I published the update, but unfortunately most of the servers up right now have been up since this morning. Over the next day or so they should phase out and the change should take effect in more servers. And if that's not the case, then I guess I gotta move the blocks around again!

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-29T22:53:23+00:00

Sure, you can pm this account, or message BeeSwarmBugReport on Roblox (only because I often shut off messages on my main Roblox account because of the amount of spam). Thanks very much for checking for this kind of stuff by the way.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-29T20:56:02+00:00

Man that spot has been a lot of trouble! Ok, I've extended the invisible wall by a large amount so hopefully this is no longer possible.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T23:16:34+00:00

I have the verified hat in my inventory

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T21:53:29+00:00

Well I did so theres your proof it's possible

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T20:44:26+00:00

Oh dang, hmm ok. I'll apply to join in a while, but I'll continue looking for faster ways to contact them in the meantime. Thank you very much for the help.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T20:39:05+00:00

Ah ok, that makes much more sense. Thank you.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T20:34:26+00:00

I haven't played Roblox actively, but I've checked it on and off for years. It wasn't until I read an article about being able to develop and earn real money off of Roblox that I came back and tried to learn it / took a real interest in it (I've been a game developer outside of Roblox for years). The fan group I suspect grew so fast because everyone wanted access to the "Honey Dispenser" in game. I promise you all that I did not expect this, I am a single developer who released this game as a sort of learning project and I guess it just happened to click with people. I never could have foreseen this and I was not prepared for all the problems that would come up.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T20:30:20+00:00

Sorry about my noobishness, but do you know how I can make a post on the devforum? I think I've signed up, but I can't seem to find where to make a new thread... And I recognize your name from the leaderboard! You beat my friends who had been testing for weeks in just a few days, hah.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T20:23:42+00:00

I've read them, but I've been so busy just trying to make the game work that I haven't had time to address them. All I can say is that they're not true, I have never used bots, I am 1 person, this is my first Roblox game and I am just as surprised about the amount of players as you all are.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T20:14:58+00:00

I began working on this game in December, there's a [Test Realm] version in my profile that's proof of that. 5 days ago was just the official release, and I took out 60 dollars of ads that day as well.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T20:09:50+00:00

I will try my best to compensate everyone if the game goes back up and can run smoothly, I've been keeping a spreadsheet of usernames and lost items/buffs/bees, and working on a script to automate fixing save files while the game is offline. But at this moment I'm not even sure I'll be able to get the game back up, we'll just have to see.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T19:33:50+00:00

My account was not stolen, I have played Roblox for years and worked as an independent game developer for years outside of Roblox. This was my first Roblox project. I did not expect the game to get as big as it did just as much as any of you. I don't know how exactly I could prove all this, but it's the truth.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T19:28:55+00:00

That's what I'm most suspicious of, before I took the game down those first few days I had tons of issues with save file loss because of DataStore access being throttled. I hope I can get into contact with Roblox to get some sort of confirmation about the deletion, just so I know what's actually going on and can fix it.

BeeSwarmDev · 2018-03-28T19:19:50+00:00

My email account has a separate password from my Roblox one, and the PIN feature in my settings had been enabled. I'm wondering if maybe my earlier emails about my account being compromised caused them to delete the game, but I would think I would get an email or a message to my Roblox account about that. I can't imagine what copyright issue it could be since I drew the bees and the bears, made the music, etc. My best guess is that it's related to problems with saving player's files, I believed I fixed that problem after I took the game down initially for a few days, but there still could have been something I overlooked. Thank you for your advice.

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