Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - April 6th, 2022 - 8PM Eastern!

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Town Hall Summary

Speakers:
- Aggroed (Co-Founder)
- Hardpoint (Chief Technology Officer)
- Chatter (Director of Growth)
- MateuszMajewski (Creative - Art Lead)
- WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
- Cryptomancer (Lead Developer)
- WafflesKitty (DYGYCON)
Main Topics:
- Official Roadmap 💥
- Company Updates ⚡️
- Eye Candy 👀
Recording:

Timestamps:
- 02:00 - General Intro
- 04:30 - MateuszMajewski Intro/Update (Creative)
- 13:10 - Hardpoint Update (Roadmap)
- 29:20 - Chatter Update (GDC & NFT LA)
- 34:10 - WeirdBeard Update (Tournaments)
- 44:00 - Cryptomancer Update (Development)
- 1:01:30 - WafflesKitty Update (DYGYCON)
- 1:07:55 - Q&A
- 1:56:25 - Closing Remarks

Can also be found on the Docs site (https://docs.splinterlands.com/platform/roadmap)
Team's goal is to update this roadmap at least monthly
There are no hard deadlines as the team is agile and always pushing towards getting these big items done
Each item has a "Mana Cost" which reflects the scope and effort of work

Most of the code for Modern/Wild is finished
- Ranked Rewards update will be released first though
- Tournament support may not be included in the first phase, but will be included in at least the second phase
Modern/Wild ranked formats can be toggled with the buttons near the top of the page
There will be two reward pools: 1 for Modern, 1 for Wild
- Both reward pools will be independent of each other
- So rewards most likely will be different between the two depending on the number of players that play in each format
The Energy Capture Rate (ECR) will stay as it is
- Any battle between Mordern or Wild will reduce your ECR
Quests can be completed in either format
Power requirements will be reduced for Modern; Wild will stay the same
When Modern/Wild tournament support is released, Reward cards will begin to be used in their appropriate sets for tournaments

Team is working with Crypto.com to support SPS listing for US residents
- Currently only available for non-US residents
Currently making Snapchat ads and VR ads
- May be able to open a pack in a VR filter

Highest priority item currently is Ranked Rewards
- New animations, art styles, etc...
Team is also creating mock-ups of Modern/Wild Ranked formats
Additional work is creating new character art

Used to take 3-4 seasons for new spellbook owners to enter into tournaments
- Average is around 2.1 seasons now due to lower requirements and more variety
Seen large number of first time players in tournaments
- Bronze Blunder from a month ago had around 150 players
- Last Bronze Blunder that ended was around 250 players
Looking for more player tournament feedback
- Submit via WeardBeard 3 Month Update

Hardpoint & Chatter had some great conversations and experiences at GDC and NFT LA
- Bunch of additional talks for partnerships
- Had/have more communications with guilds and getting them in the game
- Others amused by the age and maturity of the game
Have a second promo card in the works
- Contracts are being worked on before officially worked on
- Was teased in a previous townhall that it was a professional athlete
Vegas is confirmed for Splinterfest 2022
- June/July are the potential months being planned around

No new updates to be announced this week, but Aggy is hoping Matt is able to join next week to provide more information on SPS Validators
- Nodes, tokenomics, DAO's, etc...

Once the SPS airdrop completes, Chaos Legion packs will probably be purchasable at a price of 4000 DEC
Will support DEC to be stable as originally designed

Performance bottlenecks made the system unplayable
- Instead of keeping it unplayable, the team rolled back the changes
- Working on simulating load stress in the QA environments to better test new changes and functionality
Team is looking to target specific time windows for the Dev team to release updates without interfering with tournaments & brawls