🍉 [MELN] 1UP Operator Weekly Lab Report: eXode

Hello, pilots and civilians! Welcome to the eighteenth installment of the weekly eXode lab report! We are now awaiting the first version of the most anticipated aspect of eXode: the colonization gameplay loop! Right now, our shipmates, which we'll now be calling our citizens, have been living inside the ship remains however on pause. During normal gameplay, time will pass even while you are not actively playing. After the proverbial big bang and when time finally starts, Elindos will actually alter the flow of time so that it will flow at a reduced rate. This is for testing purposes of course!

🍉 [MELN] Alliance Update

We are pleased to welcome @sckoarn as the newest member of our alliance! Congratulations! May we all prosper and expand. To the melon!

Soon we will perhaps all be benefitting from someone's shared high rarity design/technology. As 🍉 [MELN]'s Head Scientist, I hope that someone is me.

Do not feel discouraged all non-scientists. Research is not something only we will be good at. Depending on what the research subject is, it will require proficiency in a different skill. Ship technologies will, of course, require some degree of skill in Engineering. Research for things like accommodations and increased comfort will require welfare related skills such as Medical. It is all very intuitive.

New Acquisitions?

Nothing much to report here besides when I snatch up the occasional elite alpha card. I avoid buying elite contract cards since I have a chance at getting those dropped someday, however slim it may be. I have however been eyeing octohomes lately. I've even bought a few recently. The only thing stopping me from buying more is some sort of keychain error going on. Or maybe it has to do with the Starbase Market?

Why Octohomes?

The Octohome as a standalone base card may not be one of your first options that comes to mind when pre-loading your ship with cargo. First of all, it is a Large Prefab which means it takes up 3 precious cargo spaces. So by loading this up, you're sacrificing 2 other items you could have brought along. It also needs a whopping 4 energy to run! The main thing it has going for it if you're set on using it as a base card is its Atmospheric Shielding of 8! When this #NFT will really start to shine is when upgrading becomes allowed. Energy could be reduced to just -2 and Habitat could potentially be doubled to a capacity of 8. Then it will truly be an Octohome. Until the dynamic card update comes, might I suggest an Installation that is currently much more cost effective. That would be the Happy 5. The base version (it is also upgradeable) only requires 3 energy, and houses 5. Atmospheric Shielding is 7 which is still good! It is a normal sized prefab too so it will only take up one cargo slot. It can be maxed out to house up to 10 citizens (do Robots need housing?). That is around the average total crew size that you may initially start off with!

Good luck finding these epic cards out there!

The only card missing from my collection is still the legendary Fireworks. But I will will find it eventually. After that, my set will be complete. Until Beta is released. I'm still actively saving up for the coming contracts, assuming another 3 are released but details have not been revealed. What we do know is that the Beta contracts will have entirely unique droptables different from anything we have seen thus far. What I'm saying is the Tom Settler contract, for example, will never be released again. New contracts will drop new cards from some of our currently underrepresented factions. That's just my guess at least. Achean Gangs? Geneticians? Corporate?

The eXode Discord Hub has been quiet lately. Besides the occasional new pilot or market alert. But it feels more like the quiet before a storm. Something big is coming. May the 1s and 0s be with you, commander!

What is eXode?

eXode is a real-time strategy space colonization game here on the Hive Blockchain. If you still have not purchased your starter pack, use this referral code (de7ed45) and you'll also receive 2 free Alpha Booster Packs with 5 NFT cards each along with a free Epic Alpha Character!

In the future, these lab reports will contain much more substance (and numbers!) including season objective rewards, legacy rewards (when your game...ends), and of course 🍉 [MELN] activities.
🍉 [MELN] is the alliance I co-founded, the Market Expansion Leaders Navy. Our leader, @birdbeaksd, is also the host of eXode's only weekly giveaway. Check that out for a chance to win some Autoguided Ammo.
For a in-depth guide for anything and everything eXode-related, you can take a look at this post.

Other Useful Links

• PeakD: @elindos (Developer)
• Discord: https://discord.gg/EFZjmzUhd6

What is The 1UP Cartel?

The 1UP-Cartel is a mix between a gaming guild like YGG (that invests into gaming assets and creates scholarships for gamers, sharing the gaming revenue), a dividend token (similar to BRO, LBI, INDEX and UTOPIS, paying out regular dividends to token holders from part of the revenue stream) as well as one of the most extensive curation service initiative on the Hive-Engine ecosystem thus far.