Hello, I am back once again to update you all on Influence! A space MMO built on Ethereum that will be scaled using StarkNet. See my First Post for a brief introduction to the game vision and the main game pieces, Crew Members and Asteroids.
The game has been developing nicely with regular updates from the devs, and AMA's through discord every other Thursday. The team has recently shared updates on in-game models for ships and buildings, and production chains ranging from raw materials --> refined meterials --> finished goods. A fan-made tool to help visualize the various production chains revealed so far can be found here https://materials.adalia.id/production.html#Steel
The game wiki has been updated with new information and developments https://wiki.influenceth.io/ and I highly encourage everyone to take a look at the Exploitation Release Guide posted near the bottom of the home page. It is very dense with information on how the game will be played. Of particular note is that the SWAY token distribution has been revealed. The initial distribution will be 150 billion tokens, broken down below. There are no VCs, partners or "early investors" getting tokens, you have to play the game or be involved in the community to receive them.
With an initial distribution of 150 billion tokens, 20% of that going to Crew Assignments, and 11100 Crew Members, each Crew Member that has completed their Assignments should be getting around 2.7 million SWAY tokens. I myself speculate that the token could be worth about $0.0001 with reasoning below. Of course Not Financial Advice / Do Your Own Research. A price of $0.0001 would make the 2.7 million tokens per Crew Member worth $270.
The current floor price is 0.1 ETH, with only five crew members available before spiking to 0.15 ETH https://opensea.io/collection/influence-crew
The Influence team recently had a "test-to-earn" initiative on Goerli testnet, with the SWAY earned coming out of the 15% for Additional Incentives. CryptozNewb wrote an article located here https://www.playtoearn.online/2022/05/12/test-and-earn-with-influence/ More test-to-earn initiatives will be coming in the future.
Finally, the big question everyone wants to know is WHEN. When will the game be released? The answer is that is depends on StarkNet, the scaling solution Influence chose. While ImmutableX runs on a StarkEx instance and is great for moving tokens around, it cannot handle complex smart contracts. All Influence game logic is to be recorded on chain and will require the use of smart contracts, so we are waiting for StarkNet. Currently StarkNet is in alpha, and Influence needs EDIT: "clarity around when and if it will be a trusted state migration" before the game can launch. You can follow along with StarkNet developments here https://medium.com/starkware
EDIT: eetherway from the Influence team has corrected me on a point about StarkNet!
