Here's what you need to know about them!
The Alpha Edition Vials will be time-limited but not amount-limited. This is done to prevent a few large buyers from cornering the market and adding a premium price for re-sale value. Everyone has enough time to purchase a Alpha Edition Vial for the Alpha duration of our game.
The scarcity of Vials will thus be in the hands of the community!
Starter items in the Alpha Vial will have a limited design that will only exist in these vials. While there will be similar items in the game for players to craft or purchase from Beta Vials, the looks won't be the same.
While the 4 starter creatures won't be fully limited to our Alpha Vials, you are guaranteed to get one when opening them. Their stat rarity odds will be slightly higher in the Alpha Vials compared to Beta vials where they will also have much smaller odds of being pulled from as we'll introduce Beta Starter Creatures by then. The same thing applies to item rarity found in Alpha Vials.
As a collector of the Alpha Vials, you can choose if you want to open the vial up in a future release or hold to trade later. As they will be time-limited some of you may value to open them up at a later date or save some for friends and family for special occasions! Zing Collection rewards will vary over time for unopened Vials.
When opening up the Vial, you can rest assured that the odds are in your hands. Provably fair technology makes it possible for you to verify that no one messed with your odds while ensuring no insiders were able to cherry-pick when to open Vials up for increased rarity results.
Those of you who have collected the Holozing Advent Calendar achievement in 2023 will enjoy a discounted first Alpha Vial based on the amount of days you claimed zing rewards. If you claimed on only 1 day you'll receive a 1% discount up to a 31% discount for those who claimed daily! This discount will only apply to one pack and will also be valid for a healer mint!
The Holozing Alpha packs will be priced at $20. We have spent a lot of time ensuring the contents of the vials and the access it will give healers will be worth the price point while at the same time making it costly for potential abusers to risk being bad healers!
The Alpha Vial will guarantee one of the 4 Holozing starter creatures, these will not be capturable in-game but may drop at significant lower odds in Beta Vials to prevent a very limited future supply. They can evolve as showcased in this blogpost.
The starter creatures have increased rarity odds when being pulled from the Alpha Vial compared to future Vials as well as increased odds of Radiant variations as explained in this blogpost.
They will also come inside an Alpha designed Capture Card of different rarities.
Guaranteed 1x Alpha Healing Gloves - Healer Class restricted with different rarities based on stats, equippable at level 1. Healing Gloves will be required to use your healing abilities in-game!
Guaranteed 1-6x Alpha Designed Capture Cards - This is where Holo creatures reside upon successful capture with a limited design that can't be crafted by player professions. These will come in different class type restrictions with their own looks (Water, Grass, Fire and Electric) as well as some rarer variations with no class restrictions!
Guaranteed 1-3x Alpha Designed Capture Ammo - these energy magazines will power your capture device for wild Holo creature capture attempts! They come in different rarities with the Luck stat.
Guaranteed Starter Potions or Elixirs - these will be used to replenish healer mana instantly or boost your mana regeneration and healing powers temporarily to make battles more efficient.
Guaranteed Alpha-themed Creature or Healer food & water - these will help replenish Creature moves and healer ability points along with Healer mana over time off-battle
Alpha Designed Capture Device - comes in different rarities with varying Luck stat compatible with Alpha Designed Capture Ammo.
Alpha Healer Mount - to make traveling in our future game faster, this comes in two variants; an alpha-themed bike or hoverboard in two different rarities and class-restricted.
Alpha Healer Backpack - to fit in all your items during your travels, comes in different rarities which determine size and is class restricted as well.
Since we have previews to past blog posts in all the items above except for Alpha Designed Capture Cards, we wanted to give you a sneak peek of how they will look while keeping the rest a secret until the opening of Vials is released.
This is our Water Type Alpha Designed Capture Card with no creature captured yet:
The buttons on the cards will represent the 4 main stats for each creature, HP, ATTACK, DEFENSE and AGILITY. They will showcase the exact value of the creature upon capture while also determining the rarity in its respective color. The level button will highlight the average rarity of all 4 stats combined as well as show the current level of the creature.
For Alpha Vial and achievement holders, they will be able to earn our in-game token Zing based on collection rewards. While the soulbound achievement holders have already been claiming 1k staked zing per day, we will be assigning a weight to Alpha Vials and increasing the zing distribution to 100k zing per day with majority going to Alpha Vial holders. This feature isn't live yet to give collectors a fair chance of reading the announcement and getting their Alpha Vials, we expect this to go live in a few days and will announce it by then.
Over time we will adjust the Zing distribution based on Alpha Vial purchases and Hive Power delegations, we will be holding a zing-staked poll to get feedback from the community on these adjustments. While it may sound like a lot of Zing going towards Vial holders, with the upcoming opening we will further adjust the weight of collection rewards to favor those opening their Vials and it being based on amount and rarity of creatures and items they hold.
This will then be further diluted when the game enters Beta as collectors will be able to craft items and capture creatures all with their own weight on the Zing distributed to Collection rewards while having rewarded early supporters of Vials and achievements along the way.
With the removal of "setting a referrer" option the only way to get more referrers now is by inviting new players over using your referral link. Players purchasing Vials will give referrers a lifetime 5% in the token they've been purchased in (Hive/HBD). Future methods of acquiring Vials through other crypto and fiat will give referrers the option to pick if they want the 5% in Hive/HBD or Zing.
The official symbol for our Alpha Vials on hive-engine is ZINGALPHA. Be aware that we haven't enabled a market for them yet but players can trade them peer2peer. We'll enable the market along with Zing collection reward adjustment in a few days.
Referral rewards should be granted to referrers instantly.
Upon purchase of Vials, they should show up in the inventory page after a few seconds.
If you stumble upon any issues, jump in our Discord server's #support channel and let us know.
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