AMA Summary
- Speakers: Aggroed, Yabapmatt, KnightAV (YGG)
- Recording:
- NOTE: Most sections I summarized below I tried to add a timestamp of when it was discussed in the recording.
- Main Topics:
- Scaling Update & Other Issues
- Chaos Legion Pre-Sale
- Splintershards (SPS)
- Tech/Customer Support
Chaos Legion:
- Pre-Sale Information (~23:55)
- Probably will be X amount of staked per pack - Yabapmatt
- Promo cards and other rewards for amounts
- Top 6 accounts who buy the most may be able to design the Legendary cards
- Total amount of packs minted has yet to be determined (~34:00)
- Will be more than any card edition before
- Designing the cards to counter/balance the existing cards (~44:40)
- Payment options = credits and DEC (~45:30)
- Cost will probably stay at $2 each (~45:50)
- No snapshot most likely, just what you currently have staked (~1:05:50)
- May stick to the same burn value as Untamed (~1:09:30)
DEC:
- Designed as a stable coin, but market will the determine value (~26:11)
- As price goes higher, more DEC is printed (~27:00)
- As game gets bigger, exchanges may start listing DEC more (~57:20)
Bots (~1:17:00):
- There are no plans to remove bots from game
- This is a crypto project, and it is decentralized, the team won't control who or what plays
Scaling Issues (~6:40):
- Battle operations are off the blockchain
- Still being created via player accounts/keys
- Past would take 4-6 transactions per battle on the blockchain
- Makes game much more scalable, less demand on servers and web services
- Matchmaking is blazing fast 🔥🔥🔥
Onboarding More Tech/Customer Support (~1:21:30):
- Team understands that current tech/customer support members are overloaded
- They are looking to onboard more members to help alleviate the work
Bridge Interface (~33:00):
- Team is working on interface to view bridge transactions, WAX & HIVE, but only for customer support employees
Lore & Content (~58:00):
- Want to get more lore and content out, compared to League of Legends
- Aggroed is working with Nate, but no timeline with everything else going on
Season Rewards (~16:00):
- Season rewards will remain highest achieved for this season
- Next season will see the changes where season rewards are based on end of season rating
- Cooldowns will be decreased as well with these changes
Land:
- Still discussing consumable items or not, vast majority may be permanent though (~22:52)
- Land rentals are TBD
- No intentions to release any more land right now (~52:45)
Card Rentals (~30:30):
- Team will get to rental backend upgrades eventually (~30:25)
- Peakmonsters is working on a tool where if rentals are cancelled by the owner, it can automatically find the renter a new rental?
Mobile App (~49:45):
- Have full time employees dedicated to working on the mobile app
- Working on spellbook purchases and catch up to all new enhancements
SPS:
- Liquidity pools have no date of start yet (~22:00)
- Total supply is 200million, will change monthly (~29:40)
- Team is staking SPS, didn't announce amount staked (~31:00)
- Team distributed rewards will be sent as SPS staked rewards
- Most team members are all about staking current, not selling
- There are plans to burn SPS, but can't say anymore (~42:00)
- SPS will be used to buy credits in the near future (~47:40)
- SPS rewards in tournaments may be live by next round of tournaments, August 22nd (~1:06:20)
- SPS ranked rewards are hopefully soon (~1:08:00)
YGG (~2:05):
- Weekly stream that is Splinterlands focused on Saturday evenings
- Splinterlands is second DAO
- End of August for more information
Interesting Remarks During AMA
- 9000 Registrations Yesterday
- 4500 Of Those Registrations Bought A Spellbook!
- Development team is aware of all the support ticket issues
- Will resolve the issues overtime
- If you have any questions, ask Neal, "he knows everything" - Aggroed
- Going to launch new collectible NFTs soon!
- Looking into third party apps to make purchasing DEC and SPS easier
- Aggroed & Yabapmatt Appreciation Towards Each Other! (~40:00)
- Matt appreciates Aggroed taking care of all business issues
- Aggroed appreciates Matt's passion towards making his product be supported properly
Potential Backlog For Splinterlands Dev Team
Minor Tasks:
- Add small icon to let players know they are in an active event that requires an action (Cryptomancer)¹
- Add DEC pegged value in marketplace so players have an ideal how much DEC would be required to buy a card, or how much they will receive if selling a card¹
- Add a new setting to allow players to change the sound volume¹
- Fix Hive Engine packs not being displayed properly
Bigger Tasks:
- Output more accurate error messaging and possibly include resources to alleviate the issue¹
¹ = Carried Over From Previous AMA's
Next AMA - Friday, August 20th, 9AM EST (1PM UTC)
