Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - May 23rd, 2022 - 4PM Eastern!

Town Hall Summary

Speakers:
- Aggroed (CEO)
- Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
- Hardpoint (Chief Technology Officer)
- Chatter (Head of Marketing)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- WafflesKitty (DYGYCON 9)
- Orillion (Developer Team - Validator Team)
- EatherFeast (Developer - Validator Team)
- Wolf (Developer - Validator Team)
- r0nd0n (Splinterlands TV)
Main Topics:
- Company Updates 👀
- Q&A 💥
- Eye Candy ⚡️
Recording:

Timestamps:
- 01:00 - General Intro
- 02:40 - Yabapmatt Update (SPS Validators)
- 33:55 - Hardpoint Update (Development Updates)
- 44:35 - Chatter Update (Marketing Updates)
- 47:05 - Nateaguila Update (Creative Team)
- 55:55 - WafflesKitty Update (DYGYCON 9)
- 59:15 - Orillion Intro/Update (Developer Lead - Validator Team)
- 1:08:00 - EatherFeast Intro/Update (Developer - Validator Team)
- 1:14:25 - Wolf Intro/Update (Developer - Validator Team)
- 1:29:10 - r0nd0n (Splinterlands TV)
- 1:35:25 - Q&A
- 2:12:05 - Closing Remarks

SPS Foundation is starting the License sale on Wednesday, May 25th (Check out the Node Shop page)
- None of the sales is going to the Splinterlands company
- 80% of the SPS is going to be burned, 20% goes to the SPS DAO
Licenses will be NFTs so they can be transferred like all other assets
- Will be included in the non-card market when released as well
Will be able to hold multiple licenses under one account and link that account to the licenses
- That way you won't need one account per license
Goal with SPS Validators is to have all assets (DEC, cards, land, etc..) to be mixed into the validator system
Outside interest has expressed they'd like to invest $1M+ in Node Validators
- The presale is geared mainly for current players who already own SPS + Vouchers
Presale will only allow 1 license to be purchased per transaction
- Tranches will allow as many licenses to be bought in one transaction

"This is the summer for Splinterlands where we will be dropping things left and right" - Hardpoint
- Land development is progressing
- Ranked Rewards being officially released at the end of this season
- Modern/Wild will start the testing phases shortly after Ranked Rewards are out
Win-trading solution
- Team automated the process for analyzing patterns between accounts to determine who may be win-trading
- If players are found to be win-trading, they will be grouped together so that they can't be matched together
Team has had some major wins on server performance
- Team put more rate limiting on servers
- Team also put out some critical fixes out that has helped reduce server costs by 50%
- Means the team has more money to put towards other projects/teams

Ads are scaling up with Google, Brave, Snapchat, & YouTube
Team is attending conferences monthly
- 16bit is attending Permissionless this week
- He will be attending Consenous in two weeks
Reminder that Splinterfest is officially happening on September 17th & 18th
Shoutout to NFTy Arcade for helping with new upcoming guild and reward tracking tools + helping more guilds into the game

Team plans on updating the Roadmap every month
Hardpoint is saving his SPS and vouchers for the SPS Validator Node License sale!
Splinterlands TV - Goal for streaming Splinterlands 24/7
- Twitch -
- Almost at 1000 followers on Twitch

Q4 2022 SPS Validators - Mainnet will be live & SPS rewards will begin
Q1 2023 Splinterlands Validators - When other assets (DEC, cards, land, etc..) will be moved over to the Validator system

Ideally, you should be getting roughly the same amount of chests in each league you are in
- If you don't have the levels for higher leagues, you should optimally stay in the league that better suits your levels
What is being released next week at the end of season isn't going to be the only changes made to Ranked Rewards
- Team will constantly monitor the changes and adjust based on analysis and feedback from community
Team would like to add a whole bunch of different focuses in the near-future

Airdrop rates are set to still be an additional 25 packs for each Summoner released
- These numbers won't change even with more packs being opened recently

The team will determine how the Riftwatcher sale will be handled once we get closer to the Riftwatchers release
- Anything could change in the few months leading up to the release so the team wants to adjust as they see best
Generally, vouchers will be required for at least a certain part of the sale
- Still up to debate is whether vouchers will be required for the whole sale or not

The team did release changes in regards to brawl rewards a few weeks ago
- Team is monitoring the changes and analyze how they affected the economy
Team is limited in capacity and would love to put more work into Brawls when time allows

Team doesn't want to increase CP requirements even as more and more cards are released into the economy
- Would make leagues harder for new players overall to climb
Team will review how the economy and system works once Modern/Wild is live and will adjust as needed after