Town Hall Summary
- Speakers:
- Aggroed (CEO)
- Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
- Chatter (Head of Marketing)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- Pluck (Data Analyst)
- WeirdBeard (Tournaments/ESports)
- InfluxPictures (Video Editor)
- Haythem (Senior Product Manager)
- Black Heart (Technical Support)
- Waffles Kitty (DYGYCON)
- r0n d0n (Splinterlands TV)
- Main Topics:
- Splinterlands Discussions 💥
- Company Updates ⚡️
- Q&A 👀
- Recording:
Timestamps:
- 03:15 - Team Introduction (General Updates)
- 05:15 - InfluxPictures Intro (Video Editor)
- 09:00 - Haythem Intro (Senior Product Manager)
- 11:50 - Black Heart Intro (Technical Support)
- 14:15 - Chatter Update (Marketing)
- 16:40 - Weirdbeard Update (Tournaments/ESports)
- 22:05 - Waffles Kitty Update (DYGYCON)
- 24:30 - Nateaguila Update (Creative)
- 28:45 - Pluck (Data Analyst)
- 30:15 - r0n d0n (Splinterlands TV)
- 36:30 - Yabapmatt (Ranked Rewards)
- 1:15:15 - Q&A
- 2:19:30 - Closing Remarks
💥 Splinterlands Discussions 💥
Economy Discussion/Update (Still Work In Progress):
- Goal of Dark Energy Crystals (DEC) was intended to be a relatively stable token of 1000 DEC = $1 USD
- Stable pricing for in-game purchases is an extremely important concept for any type of Web 3 project
- DEC will continue to be the relatively stable transactional token for most in-game purchases
- Cards, potions, packs, skins, land items, guild upgrades, etc...
- In order to keep it stable, there will continue to be more mechanisms and items sold for DEC
- Team wants to also allow users to burn $1 in SPS for 1000 DEC
- Creates more value flowing into the SPS token
- Will not be able burn DEC for SPS
- Instead DEC is backed by in-game products
- Current problem is that DEC is being infintely minted
- The minting equilibrium is lower than the demand for buying Splinterlands products with DEC
- This is causing the price of DEC to be lower than the intended stable price (1000 DEC = $1 USD)
- Future change will be replacing DEC rewards with SPS rewards
- SPS Governance
- Original ideal was that the best players in the game will earn SPS (tournament winners, brawl participants, leaderboards, etc..)
- SPS airdrop is ending the end of this month
- The next way to earn SPS will be through playing the game and climbing to the highest league possible
- These SPS rewards will be significantly less than what is currently being given out compared to DEC rewards
- In the near future, DEC will only be minted through the following:
- Card Burning
- Burn SPS For DEC
- SPS rewards will be possible through:
- Ranked battleplay
- Leaderboards
- Brawl participation
Upcoming Reward Changes:
- Replacing DEC rewards with SPS rewards
- Will stabilize DEC while also allowing players to earn SPS which means giving more governance voting power
- SPS rewards will be a fixed/limited reward pool
- Each league will be competing for the same SPS reward pool
- The reward pools will be bigger for the higher leagues
- You will not be able to earn rewards only through buying and cards and playing, you will also need to have SPS staked on you
- This will be the main utility for SPS
- Doesn't mean you can only stake on yourself, but on other players too
- Staking on other players will give rewards to both the player and the players staking the SPS on that player
Splinterlands vs Bots:
- Splinterlands goal is to build the most distributed, decentralized platform possible
- This has never happened before and is a constant work in-progress within Splinterlands
- Team will continue to try to build towards this goal even through the mistakes that are made in the process
- This means that Splinterlands is an open system for anyone to anonymously participate
- There is not an easy way to perfectly identify who is a bot vs who is a normal player either
- Mistakes were made with the new Ranked Reward system
- Goal was give out more rewards to everybody that had cards
- This allowed for bots and farmers to earn more rewards as well
- ROI is significantly high for those who rent/buy cards to bypass the starter card reward reductions
- Most players taking advantage of this ROI are bots and the rental market isn't being impacted as much as expected
- New upcoming changes announced recently should help address this issue
- Reminder, any changes targetting bots will also affect real players as well
- Whole ideal is not to reduce rewards but rather increase the amount of rewards to appeal to new players
- Having fixed SPS reward pools per league will help address the multi-account delegating
- Rather than spreading cards around multiple accounts in lower leagues, the game will incentivize players to reach higher leagues where there is a higher SPS reward pool and less players competing for it
💥 Company Updates 💥
Creative Team:
- YouTube ads have been live and users have been noticing them
- Events that team is attending/recently attended:
- DeFi Philly last week (16bit)
- Futurist in Toronto (Chatter & 16bit)
- Reaching out to new projects to hopefully land some additional SPS utility
- LOTs of work with guilds
- Have 3 guild tools in talks that will be helping pass new players through
- Splinterfest
- Tickets and merchandise are still in the works
- Splinterfest trailer is currently in progress
Tournaments/Brawls:
- First tournament townhall was held last Friday (July 8th)
- Opportunity for the community to engage with Weirdbeard and express their concerns/feedback with tournaments
- Moving forward, brawls and tournament townhalls will be rotated and separate from these main townhalls
- Splinterlands is seeing around 3k tournament participants a week
- Biggest feedback items:
- Ghost card tournaments (everyone has the same cards)
- Gladiator card tournaments
- High roller tournament series
Creative Team:
- Creative team is hard at work with the following:
- Rift Watchers
- New Daily Focuses
- Splinterfest
- Land
- And a ton of other items!
DYGYCON:
- DYGYCON 10 happening this weekend starting Friday, July 15 to Sunday, July 17
- Register for event here: DYGYCON 10 Registration
Splinterlands TV:
- Viewers receive points that can be redeemed for multiple prizes
- Splinterlands TV Doubled average viewers in the past month
- This Townhalls shoutouts:
- butops18
- bukbukkun
- ApeOfWallSt
- jmpards3
- oL0rdo_yt
- holdmycards
- teamvangaurdz
- spikesan1
This Weeks Streamer Spotlights
⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️
Bots:
- All new changes will probably result in new exploits being found
- Team will analyze the affects of changes and always make new ones once determined best
- Merit rewards will help reduce the rewards for bot farms
- Merit rewards will stay valuable for actual players as it creates a new avenue for earning merits which are super valuable for Guild Brawls
Collection Power:
- Staked SPS may eventually replace Collection Power
- Collection Power was intended to accurately determine what league players are allowed to play in
- However, CP is skewed as it isn't perfectly weighted between card sets and just a couple of old cards could give you enough CP for higher leagues
Reward Economy:
- To begin with, you will not need SPS staked to earn SPS rewards
- This will be a later stage once all the other priorities are completed and released
- The 48 hour rental change will not pertain to card delegations
SPS:
- Team is still working on releasing the details for Liquidity Pool rewards as the SPS airdrop is ending soon
- The development of the LP reward smart contracts is already underway
- The numbers are still being determined though
- More utility is constantly being developed for both SPS and vouchers
- Rift Watchers is right around the corner
- New promo cards will be introduced
- Cool ideal that came out of NFTY NYC (to be revealed)
Creative Team Miscelleaneous Opportunities:
- Most of the narrative team are published authors
- Splinterlands comic book may be on the horizon
- Same with DND or table top games
Land:
- Land workers stats and abilities of cards may not originally affect how they work on Land
- Rather the CP of cards will have the biggest impact/boosts
- Old cards and Gold Foils will have the biggest impact due to the larger collection powers
- No plans on releasing SPS rewards for Land holders until Land functionality is released
Rift Watchers:
- Will include 1 Epic summoner for each Splinter
- Will have abilities like the DICE summoners
🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥
Concept Icons For New Daily Focuses
Grandmaster Rathe Wallpaper
Recent Announcements
Ranked Rewards Updates Follow-Up
- New Daily Focuses
- Daily Focus Mechanic Update
- Focus Splinter/Element No Longer Guaranteed to be Active
- Changing Minimum Card Rental Time to 2 Days
- Adding Merits as a Chest Reward
- Higher Potion Quantities in Higher Tier Reward Chests
The Grandmaster Rathe airdrop is now claimable!
- To claim your cards, go to the Shop screen and click on the NEW AIRDROP banner or AIRDROPS button
- The cut-off time for eligible pack purchases to count for this airdrop was 11:30 am EST / 3:30 pm UTC on July 9
- Odds are 0.1818% per eligible pack, with 1 guaranteed card for every 550 packs
Odyssey - Tome of Chaos Story
- The story this week highlights Bera Dallin
Past AMA Summaries
- Monday, June 27th, 2022
- Modern/Wild 💥
- Q&A ⚡️
- Eye Candy 👀
- Monday, June 20th, 2022
- Splinterlands Multi-Game Platform 💥
- Eye Candy ⚡️
- Q&A 👀
- Monday, June 13th, 2022
- Splinterlands vs Red Market 💥
- NFTy Arcade ⚡️
- Q&A 👀