Splinterlands AMA Summary - August 13th, 2021 - 2PM Eastern

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)

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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)

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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

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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 🔥🔥🔥

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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

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Bridge Interface (~33:00):

• Team is working on interface to view bridge transactions, WAX & HIVE, but only for customer support employees

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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

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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

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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)

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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?

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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

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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)

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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!

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• Development team is aware of all the support ticket issues
  • Will resolve the issues overtime

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• If you have any questions, ask Neal, "he knows everything" - Aggroed

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• Going to launch new collectible NFTs soon!

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• Looking into third party apps to make purchasing DEC and SPS easier

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• 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

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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)