If you are active in Alien Worlds, chances are good you already know about R-Planet as well. It's where many of us are staking the NFTs we find while mining Alien Worlds' planets. But even if you never heard of both Alien Worlds or R-Planet, it's not too late to jump in! Just yesterday, R-Planet announced that they are going to launch the first iteration of their own game on February the 16th. In this article, I'm going to provide you with all the information we have so far and give my own opinion on what to expect from the first days of launch. Let's get right into it!
In case you haven't heard about Alien Worlds yet, I'd advise you to go and read that article first as it will provide you with all the information you need to know about that game. In short, it's a mining game where you can try your luck mining on 6 different planets, providing you with their ingame token of TLM but also giving you the change to find both their own NFTs and NFTs from third parties. These NFTs are were R-Planet comes into play.
R-Planet is a completely separate project and is made by different developers that basically allows you to stake NFTs from different games with their own service. By doing so, you earn your hourly share of Aether, their respective game's token.
So far, said Aether would only be accumulated in your account but there was nothing to do with it yet. On February the 16th, this is going to change. At that day, R-Planet is going to release their own gamification system working with Aether. This is a huge step forward and I'm quite excited to see where things will be going from there. So what are things going to look like?
We don't know too much yet about what to expect exactly, but there are at least some information available on their site. The story behind the game is somewhat odd. Some sentient animals escaped Earth in a stolen rocket and headed for Mars. There, they try to establish their colony. To get that done, they've created a so called generator of elements. This device is meant to help them build their colony step by step. In terms of actual gameplay, this means that you will be combining different elements to create new elements within the game.
The 4 basic elements are bought by spending some of your Aether. Afterwards, you can mix and match these basic elements to create new elements and/or items. These items are than meant to be further explored and will probably have their own use down the line or will be able to be combined even further. The first 600 players to create a new element are also going to receive a price NFT that's theirs to keep. So being among the first players is certainly going to pay off.
On top of that, there's a special reward for the first player to create a new element that has never been minted before. Said player will receive 0,002% of the prize fund, an NFT Pack with mint #1, which can be opened for a collectable NFT, and he'll also have the the honor of naming the newly found element.
Other than that, it seems that the newly minted NFTs will be able to be staked as well and, according to the website, will allow for dramatically improved mining. We don't have any information on what's going to come after this first iteration, so for now it seems you mostly are going to mint these NFTs so you can stake more NFTs which then should allow you to mint even more NFTs which then are meant to be staked so you can mint more NFTs... you get the idea.
Personally, I'm a bit underwhelmed by the concept as I had hoped for a bit more originality than just minting more NFTs out of existing ones. Nevertheless, I'm quite excited for the release day. Right now, 1 Aether is traded at around 0.0005 WAX which puts the 20,813 Aether I've gathered so far at a value of about 10.5 WAX. That's not terribly much, but considering there was nothing to with it at all so far, that's a good start already. If things take off and people enjoy the game, its value is bound to go up quite a bit. I'll monitor the developments after the initial launch and depending on how everything turns out, I might take part in the game or just dump all my Aether.
The cool thing about R-Planet is that Aether is 100% passive income, you only need to claim it every now and then, but other than that it's all just coming from my Alien Worlds' NFTs. So even if I personally don't end up enjoying the game, as long as there are people playing it, I can just stake what ever I find and regularly dump my Aether for some additional profit.
On release day, I'll do a Is It Worth Your Time-style follow up article and take a first look at the gameplay. I'm not overly optimistic yet, but they have another 8 days to get me excited about their game, so maybe there are some cool additional announcements until then.
And that's all from me for today. Thank you all for reading and I'll see you next time!