Splinterlands AMA Summary - August 6th, 2021 - 8PM Eastern

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AMA Summary

  • Speakers: Yabapmatt
  • Recorder: Homesteadhacker
  • Main Topics:
    • Scaling Progress
    • Chaos Legion release
    • SPS Rewards/Staking

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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:
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

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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!

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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)
  • 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

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Next AMA - Friday, August 13th, 2PM EST (6PM UTC)

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I upvoted you, thanks for posting!

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Another monster summary 😁. Really helps me understand what was going on when I was answering questions (repeating change node info) in #general throughout the AMA haha.

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Glad to see it helping people! AMA's are too important to miss, so if you ever do, I want there to be a summary like this for everyone to reference!

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This summary is awesome and so useful... thank you!

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You might want to clarify this line: "Only the Binance and the diesel pools are counted for the SPS airdrop"

The Uniswap DEC-ETH and DEC-DAI pools on Ethereum also count.

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Thank you for clarifying this; just update the post with this!

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Thanks for another update this week,
Keep them going!

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Thank you for this summary, it saved me a lot of time.

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Good stuff man, this is so helpful and much appreciated. This point - When burning cards, DEC is newly minted, what does this mean?

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That question was in regards to DEC inflation mostly. So when cards are burned, DEC is newly minted and sent to the player that burnt the card/s. There isn't a separate pool or anything where the DEC is pulled from. So technically, it just adds to the DEC inflation.

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Ah yes i see. I wonder if this mechanism has a future with DEC being so high but id guess mot to many cards are being burny off right now. It is intresting though they need a mechanism for it, I guess automation was easier than having to create a pool top draw from.

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