Splinterlands AMA Summary - October 22nd, 2021 - 9AM Eastern
AMA Summary
- Speakers: Aggroed, Yabapmatt, Cryptomancer, Hardpoint, CallMeTim, & KnightAv (YGG)
- Main Topics:
- Scaling & Dev Work
- Recent Game Changes
- Yield Guild Games (YGG)
- Recording Link:
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Chaos Legion 👀:
- New leaderboard page has been released just yesterday
- Most likely will be a gap between the end of pre-sale and official launch of CL
- This means CL packs won't be opened right away after pre-sale
- Goal is to get launch out before end of year
- Still a lot of work with the CL cards and the new ranked formats
- Top 6 Summoner design only allows the buyer to design the art, not the abilities
- When CL is released, there will be a 1% chance to get a pack in a rewards chest
- For each airdrop, there will be a minimum amount required to get a guaranteed airdrop
- The amount required is announced before airdrop is dropped
- Amount changes per airdrop and what rarity the card is
- Legendaries require a higher amount, epics require less
- Any pack bought from the in-game store will count towards the airdrop
- Chaos Legion packs will include both summoners and monsters
DEC:
- The algorithm in the game is designed to increase DEC rewards as price goes above the pegged price of $0.001
- Team doesn't control the price; it is a free market
SPS:
- At some point, the team may sell the SPS income they receive
- May also give SPS bonuses to team members
- Aggroed has sold SPS in order to make Liquidity Pools
- When selling, he sells at a higher market price and waits for market to buy it
- Most team members though have been staking all their SPS
- Check out their accounts on the Richlist for SPS
- Smalp (Aggroed), Yabapmatt, Cryptomancer
- SPS used for payments or credits is ultimately corporate income and will be used as such
- Anything that is cool in this game is going to require SPS staked
- SPS.DAO account may put the vouchers they've received in a SPS/Voucher pool
Scaling & Dev Work:
- Server and backend work is going to be an ongoing process
- Made some backend changes to make servers run smoother
- Beyond scaling issues, team is mainly focused on Chaos Legion
- New ranked formats, SPS rewards, & land is next priorities
- All ongoing issues are growing pains and need patience from the community while the team gets through it
- Expect to see more stability throughout the next few weeks
- Team is adding more servers to cache data quicker and make the site run quicker
- Will allow the ranked leaderboards to be back online
- Team isn't trying to limit the playing of players
- The rate limit will allow automated systems to not break the game
- Shoutout to the support team!
- Support team gets thousands of tickets a day
- Responses are slow because there are far fewer devs than community members
- Team needs to budget and prioritize resources to handle everything
- No issue will be left unresolved, team can promise that
- Team is working on a Splinterlands software development kit (SDK)
- Look at Splinterlands website and see what API calls are made
- Will release documentation in the near-distant future
Land:
- You will want higher level cards to work on your land plots
- Higher level cards will boost the production more than lower levels
- Land owners better start preparing!
- SPS will be needed to upgrade buildings
- Items and spells will only be able to be crafted on land
- This produces many more earnings to land owners rather than Splinterlands team
- Splinterlands is not a free-to-play game
- Splinterlands main goal is to incentivize players to buy Splinterlands assets
- DEC farmers that don't invest ultimately ruin the game economy
- Recent changes will limit these players and hopefully motivate them to play the right way
- This is not to scare away new players, it is to incentivize them
- Come to the Telegram & Discord channels if need any kind of help or have questions
- If you want to earn more but can't invest, checkout YGG below
- YGG balances the need for people to own assets in-game vs players who might not want to put in those upfront costs
- One of the biggest play-to-earn gaming guilds
- Special Announcements:
- Had purchased two regions and bunch of packs earlier this year
- Going to be introducing fractional ownership through their new subDAO
- Read More Here: YGG|SPL SubDAO Litepaper
- Always looking to recruit new players
- Taking in anyone, whether you have assets or don't
- Click the header link to go to YGG's Discord to learn more how to join
Exchanges:
- Exchange listings are nice, but are very difficult
- It isn't just the team, but the community can help spearhead these exchange listings
- Team could take a bunch of time to try to get listed, or they can continue focusing on the game
- Splinterlands have 1.2 million registered users
- Goal is to have exchanges FOMO into Splinterlands, not vice versa
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