Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - September 6th, 2022

Town Hall Summary

Speakers:
- Aggroed (CEO)
- Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
- Hardpoint (Chief Technology Officer)
- Chatter (Head of Marketing)
- WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- Falowyn (QA Lead)
- r0n d0n (Splinterlands TV)
Main Topics:
- RiftWatchers 💥
- Splinterlands Tower Defense 👀
- Q&A⚡️
Recording:

Timestamps:
- 01:00 - Team Introduction
- 02:25 - Yabapmatt Update (RiftWatchers)
- 10:10 - Nateaguila Update (RW Eye Candy)
- 26:10 - Hardpoint Update (Tower Defense)
- 26:50 - Double Coconut - David & Rob (Tower Defense)
- 1:13:50 - Chatter Update (Creative)
- 1:18:05 - WeirdBeard Update (ESports)
- 1:20:20 - r0n d0n (Splinterlands TV)
- 1:25:40 - Falowyn Intro (QA Lead)
- 1:31:30 - Q&A
- 2:00:30 - Closing Remarks

Recent Announcements

RiftWatchers:

Pre-sale goes live on Thursday, September 15th at 2PM EST
- Countdown can be viewed in-game - Shop | Gems Page
Packs won't be able to be opened right away
- Estimated date for opening and playing with RW cards is Tuesday, September 27th
Total packs minted is 3M
Price per pack is $5 in SPS + 1 VOUCHER
RiftWatchers will be the mini-set for Chaos Legion
- Main Set is mainly for the company to make revenue
- Mini sets are more for adding in burn mechanisms to give DEC/SPS/VOUCHER more utility
SPS used towards RiftWatcher packs will be sent to the DAO
- These funds will be voted on by the community on how they should be used
RiftWatcher cards are a bit more high mana focused
There is a new ability being introduced with RW called "Fury"
- Fury allows the character to do double damage against targets with the Taunt ability
RiftWatcher set will include six new Epic summoners (See Eye Candy)

Splinterlands Tower Defense (SPLTD):

New Splinterlands game being developed by Double Coconut
- Around 30 Double Coconut employees working on this game solely
SPLTD will be a PvE game, not PvP like Splinterlands
SPLTD will be an autobattler where you will set up your Towers then watch the gameplay automatically battle out
As you get further through waves and bosses, you will be able to Press Your Luck for the bigger rewards
- The futher you get, the more you will be rewarded
Each game you play will consist of you defending your rewards
- Instead of just a win/lose battle, you will either earn more rewards or lose rewards depending on whether you get through the wave or not
Rewards for SPLTD will be decided by SPS Governance Vote
- One set of rewards will be earning in-game NFTs (like you can in Splinterlands)
- Another set of rewards will be SPS (new SPS Governance vote)
  - Big portion of the SPS reward pool may consist of SPS taken from the internal team's SPS pool
Rewards will be gauged off of how much SPS staked your account has
Towers will have an ECR embedded in each Tower, rather than on your account
- Each time you use a Tower, that specific Tower will get its ECR reduced
- Depending on how this goes on SPLTD, this could be implemented in Splinterlands later down the road
Staking cards in Towers will restrict those SPL cards from being used in SPL battles or being sold/rented
- You will be able to unstake the cards out of SPLTD, but there will be a certain period of time you will need to wait before being fully unstaked
Splinterlands Asset Bonuses:
- Some SPLTD items will require DEC only
- VOUCHER tokens will give a discount for certain items as well
- SPL cards can be staked on towers to boost the stats of the towers
- DEC + VOUCHER may boost the unstaking time for SPL Cards staked in Towers
- DEC + VOUCHER could be used to increase your ECR on Towers
Initial pack sale launch will include around 25 Towers
- Every Tower will have certain upgrade paths

SPLTD Roadmap

Team's goal is to start TD pre-sale on Tuesday, September 20th
- 2M TD packs
- 250k packs allocated to the pre-sale
  - Exlcusive hero for those participating in the pre-sale
- $8 per pack
  - Can only be bought in DEC or Credits
  - 1 VOUCHER = $3 discount
- Packs will consist of 5 random Towers
  - Out of the 25 total Towers in the intial set
SPLTD will have a closed Beta for purchasers of 500 packs or more in the pre-sale
- Extra benefit to those larger buyers to get first access to the game!

💥 Company Updates 💥

SPS Rewards For Licenses:

SPS rewards for Licenses has yet to be released due to technical issues
The magnitude of developing a new blockchain on a running game is much higher than the team anticipated
Team is working on getting these SPS rewards as soon as possible

Splinterlands TV:

Clip of the Week:
- https://clips.twitch.tv/CulturedIronicShingleBuddhaBar-BNpsm5kfzqcLLxSo
This Townhalls shoutouts:
- butops
- jmpards
- oL0RDo
- xxVIRUSxx
- elephantium
- holoz0r the homeless
- thejestergamer
- draygyn
- downtowndetail

⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️

RiftWatchers:

Bonus packs may or may not count towards Promo card and Title numbers
- This is currently TBD and should be clarified in the next week
Generally vouchers are the gatekeeper for instant sellouts
- Team will look into other possible limitations to give everyone a chance

SPL Tower Defense:

SPS staked in SPL account will count towards SPLTD, won't need to stake in a different account
- Future vision will be to allow players to stake and determine which game that staked amount should go to
SPL card abilities may affect the effectiveness of the boost towards staking in Towers
A mobile app for SPLTD is slated for the future
Spell, towers, and heros will be tradeable
- Ingredients will be account bound
If game is successful, the team has a lot of future plans
- PvP
- Co-op PvE
SPLTD presale will probably introduce a specific Title

Land:

SPLTD Towers won't be able to be used on Splinterlands Land
- SPLTD is a game within a game, Towers don't technically exist in the Splinterverse
No plans on crafting items/spells that will be used for SPLTD

SPS Governance:

Proposal #34 has been passed as it reached the total number of votes needed to pass
Team is currently developing the changes and will release them when ready
Proposal #34 consists of splitting SPS Battle rewards by League