AMA Summary
- Speakers: Yabapmatt
- Recorder: Homesteadhacker
- Main Topics:
- Scaling Progress
- Chaos Legion release
- SPS Rewards/Staking
Chaos Legion
- Pre-sale still planned for September
- Will be limited per person, and based on the amount of SPS you stake (details TBD)
- Definitely will be at least one promo card offered during pre-sale
- Will continue airdrops like Untamed and Azmare Dice packs
- X amount staked = Y amount allowed to buy during pre-sale
- Probably won't be much of a discount, if any
- Will be first utility for staking SPS
- Economy has yet to be decided still
- Will be able to buy Chaos Legion with credits
- All the art has been already designed, abilities haven't been yet
DEC:
- When burning cards, DEC is newly minted
- Team can change the peg value, but no intentions or thoughts of doing so
Scaling Issues:
- Highly recommend reading the scaling update posted a few days ago!
- TLDR; Battle information won't all be published to the blockchain anymore
- Fairness and provability will still be published
Battle Gameplay:
- Will keep the same provable fairness without publishing straight to the blockchain
- Question was more so in regards to the randomness between players
- Changing season rewards reasoning:
- Changes were required to make the cooldown changes
- Purpose is to restrict players from using the same cards across multiple accounts
Card Skins:
- Will not pull any skins and won't remove the discount for buying whole sets
Land Claims:
- Depending on rarity, the SPS points may change (hasn't been thought about yet)
Keeps/Castles:
- Castles will be considered at least legendary, maybe more than legendary
- Keeps will be legendary
Future Land:
- Possible, but no plans for releasing more land in game
- Land was intended to be scarce and limited
- Land is not required to play the game
Animations:
- Nate has been working with artists to create animations like the one shown in last AMA
- Not highest priority though
In Game Marketplace For Assets Other Than Cards:
- Matt really wants to get this out, but doesn't know when
Cancelling Rentals:
- Team is aware of the bug with cancelling rentals and having it be relisted on rental market
Renting API:
- Team talks to the Peakmonsters frequently and will get to this after scaling issues
Surrenders:
- Team understands the frustration, but would result in taking away time in fixing the actual issues
- Will revisit if this persists beyond implementing the scaling issues
Process For Developing/Testing New Cards/Abilities:
- Matt has a huge spreadsheet with all the cards and uses a point system to compare
- Judgement call for the most part, but they ensure each new card is fair
- Obviously tests on the test server
SPS:
- All tokens from SPS airdrop have been minted on BSC for the current month
- Largest holder is cold wallet for all the tokens given out in the game, for the month
- Each subsequent month will have newly minted SPS tokens for that month
- Breakdown is in the whitepaper: https://sps.splinterlands.com/
- Only the Binance and the diesel pools are counted for the SPS airdrop
- Edit From Cryptomancer: Uniswap DEC-ETH and DEC-DAI pools on Ethereum also count
SPS Staking:
- Unstaking SPS will still count towards your stake amount until it actually leaves your stake pool
- Can't issue more than one unstaking process at a time
- Will need to cancel first unstaking process in order to start a new one
SPS Ranked Rewards:
- Will work exactly like how DEC works when winning ranked battles
- Will not replace DEC rewards!
- No timeframe until scaling issues are resolved
Interesting Remarks During AMA
- "You gotta do what you gotta do" - Yabapmatt
- "Stake as much SPS as you can" - Yabapmatt
- Chaos Legion may be released before land claims
- Chaos Legion is a standard process, land is completely new
- Team has expanded and added additional people to provide customer support on Discord/Telegram
- Team is always looking to do new collaborations with new games or other projects
- No announcements at the moment
- Team has a developer working on a notification system for Splinterlands!
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)
- 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 card
- Add a new setting to allow players to change the sound volume
Bigger Tasks:
- Output more accurate error messaging and possibly include resources to alleviate the issue
Next AMA - Friday, August 13th, 2PM EST (6PM UTC)
