Splinterlands AMA Summary - August 27th, 2021 - 9PM Eastern

AMA Summary

• Speakers: Aggroed, Yabapmatt
• Recording Link:
• Main Topics:
  • Scaling & Growth Update
  • Chaos Legion Updates
  • DEC Economy Review
  • EYECANDY

Chaos Legion

• Pre-sale
  • Will have a set number aside of packs for the pre-sale
  • Everyday a certain amount of packs will be available to purchase
  • Your SPS staked compared to total SPS staked will earn you vouchers on how many packs you can purchase per day
  • Vouchers will be tokens and will be tradable
  • 1 Voucher = 1 Card Pack
  • Card packs will cost the initial cost (~$2) and one voucher
  • Pre-sale may run for around a whole month
    • Packs will be airdropped to everyone who buys with voucher and the cost
  • TLDR; More SPS Staked = More Vouchers
• Can buy packs with credits and DEC (See DEC section about reevaluation)
• Burn rates will be lower than Untamed
  • Going to decouple burn rates with collection power
  • Collection power will be the same as Untamed, the burn rate will be lower though
• Chaos Legion packs and cards will count towards the SPS airdrop

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DEC:

• Team will be making an overall review of DEC and its economy in the near-future
  • This would affect tournament costs, card packs, potions, guild buildings, etc...
• Team can't control the actual price of the DEC
  • They want to see prices stay high and increase
  • Team will develop Chaos Legion economy based on the DEC market
• Looking into new options to buy DEC within Splinterlands!

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SPS:

• Team is trying to get out more SPS rewards - ranked play & tournaments first
  • Liquidity pools will be next focus
• The recent 20 million increase was due to the 10% release of the private investors
  • 10% gets released every month - 20 million
  • Other supply increases are all included in the SPS Whitepaper
• Looking into new options to buy SPS within Splinterlands!
• Matt will look into getting the SPS tournament pool started for SPS tournaments!

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Scaling & Growth:

• All servers are upgraded and can support the load balance
• Putting in a lot of work still into Customer Support
• Looking into bridge issues and trying to limit them as much as possible
• Looking into adding additional security
• Bringing on more developers and more team members! 🚀

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Brawls Update:

• Brawls v2 rollout went smooth - Props to @cryptomancer! 🙌
• Gladiators can only be used in guild brawls and not in any other types of battles
  • They are also soulbound which means you can't buy, sell, or trade them
• Merits are based a guild's arena level
  • Higher arena level's earn more merits since they can earn more crowns

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Battles & Tournaments:

• Will consider allowing different game formats to be created in the future
  • Example: Choose your own rule set

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Reward Cards:

• Will have the updated burn rates (see Chaos Legion)
• Will have the new Chaos Legion frames
• Nate just finished all the artwork and frames and sent off to Matt - See eye candy below!
• Yabamatt is working really hard to get these out as soon as possible!

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Credits:

• Can't be converted to DEC or SPS due to legality issues

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Quest Potion Change:

• The quest potion allows you to earn without buying cards
• This goes against everything in regards to the game and the play-to-earn concept
• The goal should be to increase your account's rating to increase your league
• Team was profiting at the expense of players and instead, they want to profit along players!

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BOTS:

• People own the bots the assets on those accounts so the team can't control them
  • Taking this aspect away would take away the decentralized aspect
• Team does want to review the bots impact though to limit how they affect the gameplay

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Season Rewards:

• Reminder: End of season rewards will be based on where you rank at the end of the season starting next season!
• Primary reason for season reward change is to support the new cooldown mechanics
• Team will review the impact of this change overtime

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Hive Engine NFT Feature:

• NFT feature is done - been done for a bit actually
• Outpost is going live on Saturday!
• Aggroed would love to award stuff all the time without ruining the game
• Integrating NFT's Into Splinterlands will be figured out later

Interesting Remarks During AMA

• "The more we grow, the slower and more careful we have to be" -Yabamatt
• "We don't want to profit off of players, we want to profit along with players" -Yabamatt

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• In Memory Of Gigas
  • Gigas was an active player playing Splinterlands and just past away a couple days ago
  • Our sympathy goes out to his family and friends
  • To support his family, his cards are on sale in the market right now
    • Support By Buying From His Collection!
    • Memorial Tournament

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• Matt has really big economy spreadsheets!

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• Most proud moment/achievement:
  • Aggroed loves the growth we've been experiencing and the way the Mavericks and the rest of the community has stepped up to welcome all the new players!
  • Yabamatt is proud that Splinterlands has created opportunities for players

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• Most common complaint: "People want to achieve the highest return with the lowest amount invested, and to do that, they want to eliminate all their competitors"
  • The highest earnings are from those overcome it

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😍 Chaos Legion EYECANDY 😍

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• Chaos Legion will show more artwork, less frame in the way
• Icon on top indicates it is a Chaos Legion card
  • Green means it is a Chaos Legion Reward card
• At the bottom of the card, there will be little runes to explain more Lore details of the card
  • Race, culture, etc...

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😍 Animations EYECANDY 😍

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Potential Backlog For Splinterlands Dev Team

Minor Tasks:

• Add small icon to let players know they are in an active event that requires an action (Cryptomancer)¹
• Add DEC pegged value in marketplace so players have an ideal how much DEC would be required to buy a card, or how much they will receive if selling a card¹
• Add a new setting to allow players to change the sound volume¹
• Fix Hive Engine packs not being displayed properly¹
• Add functionality to automatically stake your max balance

Bigger Tasks:

• Output more accurate error messaging and possibly include resources to alleviate the issue¹

¹ = Carried Over From Previous AMA's

Next AMA - Friday, September 3rd, 2PM EST (6PM UTC)