It is day 16833 in the belt. Dan here bringing you your weekly update. This week has been a whirlwind with the team dropping tons of new and exciting information about the game. Let's dive in:
A timeline has finally been put on the launch date for Exploitation! Expect the game to be released this summer (Northern Hemisphere, within ~6 months). Phase 4 will be available for testing sometime between April 11th and the launch
The Prepare for Launch sale will be running from April 11th to 18th with asteroids and SWAY being available for purchase. Check out more details here
SWAY for Arvad crewmates (Arrival/Populate the Belt sales), the Adalian Creators Collective, and community mods will be claimable on April 11th. This SWAY will also be soulbound until launch. Note that asteroids from the previous sales also have claimable SWAY but at least one crewmate is required in the same wallet to claim any asteroid associated SWAY. More details here
The starter packs have been finalized for the Early Arrival asteroid sale. Notable changes from previous talks are the skins will be attached to the LTs as well as additional transports and shuttles for medium and large arrival holders. Here's the final breakdown:
With the addition of the 'Claimable SWAY' trait, a couple of tool additions have quickly popped up to evaluate the claimable SWAY in a wallet:
materials.adalia.id by Elerium115#8299. Connect your wallet to the Asteroids Planner tool and go to "Add Asteroid"
StarkSight.xyz by trevis#7067. Connect with Metamask/WalletConnect or paste-in any address. Calculate for asteroids or crew in each of their respective sections
☄️ Around The Belt
Congratulations to the winners of the 5th ACC! It was a close one with the difference between 1st and 2nd being less than 1000 INFA! Full votes breakdown here. The current and final round of the ACC is now ongoing so if you you'd like to submit, check out these guidelines. Here are the results:
The Starknet Foundation has selected our very own DarkosNightmare as a delegate to aid in the governance of Starknet. Show him some love here and give a follow!
Spitfunkolips#8861 listed a merchant Block Captain (id: 4387) at floor (0.0562) and it was promptly scooped up by Gnarly_Narwhal#6204. After finding out it was an accidental listing, Gnarly worked with Spitfunkolips to get it back to him at cost. Shoutout to Gnarly for being an amazing example of the strong community within Influence ❤️
The UEC has launched various NFT memberships that grant 1-2 lots on their HQ. Check out the collections here. Contact Kommissarr#1586 in the main Influence server or in the UEC server for more details
💡 Trainee Tips
If you aren't familiar with the ins and outs of asteroids, check out this guide by u/eethersway. There you can find out details about spectral types, orbital mechanics, and more! If you have any questions, feel free to drop them here or in the discord. The community is always ready to help!
💵 Big Sales
Lots of action this week with 58 crew sales (45% up over last week) and 100 asteroid sales (257% up)
u/Strwrsfrk spiked the asteroid volume this week with the aforementioned purchase of a Huge S type for an incredible 17.8947 eth! That rock is the 5th largest S type and 54th largest overall
Other notable sale was a private one for six medium EA rocks for 3.3eth. The total surface area was 4488 km2 and with the changes to the Arrival starter packs, will come with 12 light transports (6 with 1 of 259 skins) and 6 shuttles.
Although pilots once again led the higher end sales with four going this week at an average of 0.305eth, the highest crew sale went to a miner Delegate (id: 3741) for 0.45eth
🗓️ In Case You Missed It
Lots of discussion being drummed up this week after the announcement. Here are some of the highlights (scroll up/down from linked posts in caption to follow along with more of the discussion):
Pre-conflict release, what content would you be most excited to see from streamers?
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There was a lot of additional info and discussion dropped in the discord so if you aren't in there or just want to find out more about an upcoming space strategy sandbox MMO where you compete to spread your influence by mining, building, trading, researching, and fighting in the asteroid belt we now call home, join here. The references and news in these weekly reports usually revolve around the discord. Alternatively, if you are on twitter, give the team a follow to keep up with updates
