[Part 13] - The journey through Splinterlands: AMA Summary 14th May 2021

I'm never able to catch the AMA that occurs every Friday by the Splinterlands team and therefore have to watch the recorded session later on. I was wondering why there isn't a blog post summarizing all the information that is given, because I don't like to watch a one hour long recording and rather read quickly through the parts that interest me.
Since there is no summary of the AMA, I decided to do it myself. Let me know if this is helpful, if I missed anything or if the information I put here is inaccurate. All the feedback is welcome.

General Information

Some stats:

• On average 320 sign-ups per day
• On average 52 Spellbooks bought per day
• 87000 total accounts
• 25000 total Spellbook purchases

The Big Announcement

• Will happen at the end of May
• Will have some promos with it
• Will increase the daily earnings/rewards

Land Update

• Castles and Keeps will be usable as storage or trading hubs
• Castles and Keeps are upgradable and yield more benefits if done so
• Owners of Castles and Keeps might earn taxes or services for other players who use their buildings to trade or store
• Land Claim with an NFT will happen in June (maybe a little bit later)
• Decision on how many resources can be produced (production, totems, in general) will happen later on
• Summoners and Monster will be on land to create resources. Totems will be a bonus as well as gold/alpha cards
• Lots of things (world, market, game overall) are going to change once this comes live
• The chance to get plots from mystery potions will soon stop (approximately in a couple of weeks - will be announced)

Managing the Land

• Possibility of automation
• Initially takes some time and only update/upgrade when necessary
• Possibility to micromanage will be there as well (for slightly better rewards)
• Possibility of renting out land will be there as well

Brawl Update

• Items for Brawls will be for sale in the guild shop
• Individual Boards for Brawl participants
• Players can earn Merits
• Crowns will benefit the whole guild
• Merits will benefit individual players within the Brawls
• Merits are non-transferable and can only be used to buy things in the guild shop
• Gladiator Packs can be bought in the guild shop (contain gladiator cards with new abilities - only usable in Brawls)
• Gladiator cards will have new (pretty overpowered) abilities
• There might be potions for the guild shop (not decided yet)
• Only one Gladiator card per team will be allowed
• Tactics (e.g. Banishing a card) will apply to all editions
• Gladiators are permanent, upgradable and burnable (but can't be traded or sold)
• Release of these changes will be end of Q2 or Q3 at the latest

Being more Beginner friendly

• Buying the Spellbook will give some insights on blockchain
• Better on-boarding with more information for completely new player (with no experience in crypto so far)

Question - Answer

Q: Has the initial activity on wax died down?
A: Yes, but there are still sales of cards on wax. And more importantly a lot of players are continuously signing up with their wax address, which increases the Playerbase.

Q: Can I create content with Splinterlands artwork?
A: Yes for promotional purposes. No if you will profit from it. Will be decided on a case-by-case basis. In general a written permission is required and people mustn't think that the artwork is playable in game, which would result in a bad experience for players.

Q: Is the Dragon Splinter used more often in Battle?
A: No, it is used slightly less. It gets randomly chosen how many Splinters will be active and then it gets randomly chosen which ones are active. If the amount of active Splinters is 1 and the chosen one is Dragon, then another Splinter will be chosen as well.

Let me know if you like this summary or what I can improve upon. I hope I got the most important information, but let me also know if I missed something.

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