Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - November 7th, 2022 - 4PM Eastern!

over 1 year ago (Edited)

Town Hall Summary

Team Members:
- Aggroed (Co-Founder & CEO)
- Hardpoint (Chief Technology Officer)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
- Brybro27 (QA Engineer)
- WafflesKitty (DYGYCON)
- r0n d0n (Splinterlands TV)
Special Guests:
- N/A
Main Topics:
- SPS Brawl Rewards 🎯
- Splinterlands November Roadmap 🎯
- Q&A Summary 🎯
Recording:

Timestamps:
- 00:35 - Team Introduction
- 02:50 - Brybro27 Update (Upcoming Release Notes)
- 08:15 - Hardpoint Update (Tower Defense & Roadmap)
- 27:00 - WafflesKitty Update (DYGYCON)
- 31:40 - WeirdBeard Update (Brawlhalla)
- 1:05:20 - Nateaguila Update (Creative)
- 1:22:10 - r0n d0n Update (Splinterlands TV)
- 1:28:05 - Q&A
- 1:57:50 - Closing Remarks

DoubleCoconut has been making great progress on the Splinterlands Tower Defense game!
- 20-30 people working on this game over at DoubleCoconut
Splinterlands Tower Defense will be built in Splinterlands
Team is still finalizing the official name for the game
- Tower Defense is just the placeholder name for now
Checkout the Townhall Recording to see a snippet of the Tower Defense gameplay that Hardpoint shares at 11:30 timestamp
- Live video of the game engine running with real assets

Announcing The Splinterfest Promo Card: Lux Vega
- Lux Vega will be available in the Shop to be purchased on Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 at 4PM EST
- There will be a total of 1000 Lux Vega cards for sale
- Each Lux Vega will be Max Level by default
- Lux Vega will be purchasable for 1M DEC (~$1000 in DEC)
  - VOUCHER tokens can be used to discount up to 50% of the $1000 total
  - VOUCHER tokens will be accepted at $1 per VOUCHER
- Splinterfest attendees will have their Lux Vega promo codes emailed to them closer to November 15th
  - Promo code can be applied for a discount
    - $300 for general admission
    - $2000 for VIP tickets
  - Using a Promo code will reserve a Lux Vega until November 22nd
- The Lux Vega sale will run from November 15th to November 22nd

Tech Modernization Phase #1 - Technical Foundation for where Land is being built
- Should be released tomorrow if all goes well
- Phase #1 mainly affects main menus & settings
  - Examples: Login, Profile, Settings, Affiliate Program, Currency Activity pages, etc...
Once Tech Modernization Phase #1 is successfully released, the Non-Card Market will be the next big project rolled out
- Non-Card market will support majority of all other Splinterlands assets being sold/bought on the Market
  - Titles
  - Land Plots
  - Totems
  - Card Packs
As we get closer to Land Phase #1, the team wants to release more and more information and eye candy!

New RUNI Trait Document
- More compressed document link
- Last shared link was around 1GB in size
New soundtrack for the Runi Mint - Props to Aftersound!
Creative team is working on the next batch of Reward Cards
- Current reward cards are coming close to their max print

SPS Rewards are being introduced to Brawls!
- SPS Governance Proposal for SPS Rewards passed just last week
- The higher tier your guild participates in, the higher the SPS reward pool is
- SPS rewards should further incentivize higher ranked guilds to move up to higher tiers
WeirdBeard is pushing for Gladiator tournaments to be implemented hopefully in the near future
- Gladiator challenges was introduced a few weeks back
  - You can challenge someone and use Gladiator cards (same rule as Brawls like one Gladiator per Challenge)

What is DYGYCON?
- Digital conference hosted by Splinterlands, with various blockchain projects, games, and influencers
DYGYCON 12 is coming up on Nov 18-20, 2022!

** Subject to change prior to actual release! **

Tech Modernization:
- Second attempt at rolling this out
  - Last week's release found some issues in the Production environment
  - Team fixed these Production issues and are looking to roll these changes out again
- Changes being applied mainly affect the following pages
  - Registration Page
  - Affiliate Program Page
  - Login Page
  - Settings Page
  - Profile Page
  - Request Keys Page
  - Currency Activity Page
Bug Fixes:
- Updating Thorns, Magic Reflect & Return Fire ruleset names
  - "Thorns" --> "Briar Patch"
  - "Magic Reflect" --> "Counterspell"
  - "Return Fire" --> "Fire & Regret"
- New rulesets (Thorns, Magic Reflect & Return Fire) not showing ability bubble in battle
  - These bubbles indicate that the ruleset is adding the ability to each card
- Adding a hard cap of 100 Rounds before the battle resolves into a Draw automatically
  - There were rare occasions where two teams could out-heal the Fatigue damage
  - System did not properly handle this before and would result in the next two battles auto-surrendering
- Transak is fixed and should be able to support new transactions/swaps
Big Features:
- Adding SPS Rewards to Brawls
- Kain Hace Riftwatchers First Legendary Airdrop
  - Should occur tomorrow shortly after the release
- Adding Lux Vega Shop Page

Team would like to revisit the Rating System and how it currently functions
The team hears the complaints from the community and will address them as soon as time allows!

Bot services are starting to get their hands into Tournametns and Brawls
From the team perspective, it is very difficult to determine what is a bot account
- Some people use bots to analyze the rulesets and mana caps to determine the best lineup and submit the lineup automatically
- Some people use bots to generate the best lineup and then the player submits manually
- This problem of allowing bots in Tournaments & Brawls is not as simple as allowing vs not allowing bots
Ideally, the team wants to remain decentralized and not gatekeep what account can play and what account can't play
- The team wants to build an environment where bots are allowed, but they just don't have an advantage over actual players

Splinterlands is growing in the bear market
- Market obviously impacts revenue overall, but Splinterlands remains strong
- There should be no concerns with company revenue and if it will impact the team's development roadmap

The same Reward Point bonuses that are applied during Ranked Rewards will more than likely apply to the Land Worker bonuses as well
- Gold Foil
- Alpha/Beta
- Promo