Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - March 23rd, 2022 - 1PM Eastern!

Town Hall Summary

  • Speakers:
    • Aggroed (Co-Founder)
    • Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
    • Nateaguila (Creative Director)
    • WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
    • Breeze (Technical Writer)
    • Kamelot (QA Engineer)
    • Mancio92 (Developer)
  • Main Topics:
    • Development Updates 💥
    • Land & SPS Updates ⚡️
    • New Legendary Life Summoner Concept Art 👀
  • Recording:

  • Timestamps:

    • 01:30 - General Intro
    • 04:05 - Yabapmatt Updates (Development)
    • 28:15 - Nateaguila Updates (Creative)
    • 43:35 - WeirdBeard Updates (Tournaments/ESports)
    • 45:45 - Breeze Intro (Technical Writer)
    • 53:40 - Kamelot Intro (QA Engineer)
    • 58:15 - Mancio92 Intro (Developer)
    • 1:06:00 - Land Update/Overview (Yabapmatt)
    • 1:11:50 - SPS Update/Overview (Yabapmatt)
    • 1:27:25 - Q&A
    • 1:52:50 - Closing Remarks

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💥 Company Updates 💥

Development Updates:

  • Yabapmatt has never been more bullish on Splinterlands and the future
    • Multiple projects being worked on simultaneously
    • Splinterlands teams continue to grow and increase bandwidth
    • Current projects are improving the infrastrucutre of the game and economy
  • Current/Upcoming Developments
    • Modern/Wild (~April)
    • New Reward Structure/Economy (~April)
    • SPS Private Distributions Ending
    • Non-Card Market
    • Riftwatchers
    • SPS Validators
    • Land
  • Modern/Wild Recap
    • Modern - Allows Untamed, Dice, & Chaos Legion
      • Power requirements will probably be half the CP requirements
    • Wild - Allows all cards
      • Power requirements will most likely not be changed
    • Reward pool will be doubled due to having two different formats
  • Reward Changes
    • Solution is to build the economy in a way to incentivize active players and encourage card ownership
    • Starter cards will begin to reduce the amount of rewards you earn
      • Using all starter cards will earn 0 rewards
      • Using a few starter cards will still earn rewards, but a reduced amount
      • This will encourage players to start buying cards and/or renting more frequently to earn
      • Team may adjust spellbook purchases to include credits so new players can buy/rent right away and earn without only having starter cards
    • New reward system will have different tiers of reward chests
      • All leagues can earn you a significant number of chests
      • However, lower tiers will see lower quality of rewards
      • Higher leagues will have better chances for better rewards
      • Will keep the incentive for climbing to higher leagues
      • Gold Foil Legendaries are still possible to be earned in Bronze rewards, just very rare
    • Plan on releasing 10 new Reward cards into the mix as well
      • Should include a new ability that may also be seen in the Riftwatchers set
  • Expanding In-Game Market
    • Team is developing an entire new framework for the in-game market
      • Will be more mobile friendly, user friendly, and improve UX/UI
    • Will allow for non-card assets to be bought/sold (land, titles, totems, etc..)

Land Updates (From Yabapmatt - The Wizard Himself):

  • Been laying the groundwork for all the pieces to come together
  • Release dates are still TBD until groundwork is more finalized
  • Phase 1
    • Redeem claims to reveal your land type and rarity
    • Market will support land claims and land plots
    • Map will be introduced to view all the land, tracts, and regions
  • Future developments:
    • Harvesting resources and crafting items/spells
    • Potential automated marketing pools, LP providers, lending platforms

SPS Updates (From Yabapmatt - The Wizard Himself):

  • "I think people are underestimating SPS" - Yabapmatt
  • Riftwatchers will be sold purely for SPS only
    • Will probably be 10x the supply of Dice
  • SPS Validators is basically building their own blockchain platform
    • Currently in the internal testing phase
    • Planning to allow people to buy licenses to run nodes
    • Two ways to earn rewards (split reward pools):
      • Be voted to be a top SPS Validator
      • Purchase licenses to run nodes
        • SPS will be burned and will require vouchers as well
        • There will be a pre-sale for license purchases
        • Licenses will be NFTs and will be tradeable
    • Will be created to be as easiest as possible for anyone to run a node
  • New and interesting SPS features will come after the SPS airdrop is complete
    • Teaser: Splinterlands wants to be its own DeFi platform

Creative Team Updates:

  • New Tome of Chaos Story - Change
    • Main character may show up in Riftwatchers or in the new Reward set
  • Creative team has been churning out assets for all the current projects and upcoming ones as well

Tournament/ESports Updates:

  • $10k Community Gaming tournament went smoothly over the weekend
    • Saw over 60k viewers on Twitch streams
  • Overall tournament participation has increased by more than 30%

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⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️

Splinterfest:

  • Currently looking into the HyperX Arena at the Luxor as a potential venue
    • Would allow for live tournaments on an actual ESport-style stage and maybe even an AMA/Townhall
  • Other venues that will allow the same setup are being looked at as well

SPS/DEC:

  • Another ongoing project is to make SPS and DEC easier to buy
  • Looking into third-party services to provide new gateways

Guilds:

  • Team is already discussing how to enhance Guild gameplay and Brawls
  • Guilds will be an important part of the Land expansion
  • Higher level buildings will most likely benefit Land more

Imagine Dragons - Splinterlands Trailer:


Earnings Dashboard:

  • Has been discussed within the team to create a dashboard for all earnings within Splinterlands
    • SPS, DEC, tournament rewards, market listings/rentals, etc...
  • Not as high of a priority though currently

Acquisition Attempts:

  • Splinterlands has been approached twice to be acquired, and both were turned down

Gaming Guilds/Scholarships:

  • Yabapmatt thinks getting gaming guilds into the game is one of the best ways to grow the ecoystem
    • If guilds can raise money and buy a ton of assets and build a scholarship model from them to earn, then it will encourage them to raise more money or encourage other guilds to do the same thing
    • Team is actively speaking with multiple guilds to build tools to make it easier to get them in the game

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🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥

New Legendary Life Summoner Concept Art


Jared Scar Animation


Cursed Slime Character Development

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Past AMA Summaries



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Next AMA - Wednesday, March 30th, 4PM Eastern (9PM UTC)



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what about the reward cards, will they be split into the respective edition or will we not be able to use them at all in modern?
that would be a pity, especially for beginners, if they could not use their first earned reward cards!

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The current reward cards; Lava Launcher, Ventaris, Djinns, Pelacors, etc are all classified as Chaos Legion Reward cards... and I imagine the new ones would be the same. If you look at the current reward cards you can see the little CL icon at the very top.

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yes i know that, but in tournament you can't select them specifically, because under the category reward cards all are listed together also the ones from alpha and co, that's why, in modern tournaments reward cards are completely omitted!

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you see the problem for example on the market, under reward are all listed, your eye recognizes the difference between the editions, but the system apparently not!
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I see there is still no mention of the bots and how it is affecting gameplay

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The changes regarding the Starter cards are a way to dissuade bot use. Bot owners won't be able to rely on Starter cards to profit. They'll need to invest in more cards making it less profitable.

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That would change the game a bit but not enough,i have noticed that the bots generally use 3 or 4 splinters only and tend to rent the cards at lvl 2 upwards in the Gold league..in theory what they want to do isnt enough and in practice it will make almost no difference as they use rented cards and will not really lose much profit.Remember bot owners also have a main acc which is powerful and they also delegate lots of cards to their bots

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Bots use all Gold cards, this update wont change anything

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Bots use all Gold cards, this update wont change anything

but small players earn less 🤣

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Exactly, they punish small and new players rather than fix Bots problem

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Loving the sounds of what is to come and the changes. 💪 all of these are sounding like good moves for counteract bot accounts and such while still leaving it as decentralized as possible. Like you said you never know so time could be longer but doing is the best test but glad you're spending time to figure it out as best as possible before pushing those live. Keep up the good work!

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Can companies stop trying to purchase the Splinterlands company? Great! Thanks!

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I tried making a trade for one of my regions for the whole game and they didn't want to take me up for it. Their loss.

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And now Splinterlands HQ has no digital land with which to reside and do business. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

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I trust the dev who will do a lot more to make the game even better for more invistors to come in. Just keep up the good work for the development of the game.❤️❤️

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Sounds a major change is going to happen soon. Great.

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blah blah we need more f'ing players. and a deflationary mechanism for SPS. the voucher system was a big fail. killed all the momentum.

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blah blah we need more f'ing players. and a deflationary mechanism for SPS. the voucher system was a big fail. killed all the momentum.

have patience

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Jared Scar is the Splinterlands Negan. 😝

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Someone buying the splinterlands company is one of my worst nightmares and something that should never happen.

Brexit, Covid, a stupid war and the sale of splinterlands? The horror... the horror....

#spt

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Riftwatchers will be sold purely for SPS only

So VOUCHERS are useless?

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over 60k viewers on Twitch streams

This is quite a great way to get new people playing splinterlands !! Awomse.

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excited waiting for the changes!

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I hope the Splinterlands map will be interactive with 2FA to prevent bots moving around. I'd love to see a Legendary league with unlimited leveling for the whales and and unlimited mint edition for land plots and plebs. And lvl 20 bosses that can be battled against by indivdiduals/groups for reward drops. Be good to encourage burning of cards for temporary card bonuses and rewards too. Alot of evoution still to come.

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"Using all starter cards will earn 0 rewards
Using a few starter cards will still earn rewards, but a reduced amount"

This is a good change but risky. One of Splinterland's appeal is it's one of the lowest entry NFTs so you can start it on a budget. If you're going to implement these two changes and yet the RENT > Rewards, it would probably turn away new players. Because, logic, why would I rent if I would lose money due to low rewards. If I rent a total of 10 dec/ day and earn 2 dec/day, then what's the point of renting?

Either you should increase the rewards to the point that you can actually earn from that OR remove the entry point of $10 for playing the game. I think the idea of implementing Spellbook is for players to be rented the cards in return. So, with spellbook and those changes implemented, Splinterlands is technically creating a membership or registration fee without any rewards for it like, "Hey, if you want to play splinterlands, you need to register the game for $10. Oh, you want to earn as well? Sorry. That's not included in the $10 you just paid. That $10 is just to see what's inside the game, not including the earning part."

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Also, if I may add a suggestion if you really don't want to remove the $10 entry fee for Splinterlands via spellbook, you can actually convert that to aa $5 worth or 5000 credits included for every new created account. That way, there's a bit of incentive for new players and they can earn even just a little bit as they join the splinterlands fam.

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Is Chaos Legion Rewards cards useable in modern format?

If not , is it possible to include it?

Because it does not make sense the cards earned from battle could not be used.

Or the modern format will be able to earn different set of cards which is no rewards edition?

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Ideally, all reward cards will be part of one of the deck sets and usable for those sets. So the current reward cards should be playable with any Chaos Legion rules.

I'm not sure if that will be allowed as soon as Modern/Wild is released, but it is something the team is aware of and would like to support in the near-future.

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When comes to Guild Brawl fray. The Chaos fray, it does not allow to use Chaos rewards cards.

Is there any plan to add the Chaos reward card in the brawl or it will not be considered?

Without the Chaos reward card, the option to out a team is pretty limited as other frays.

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I'm excited for modern format, i really hope that the CP for modern format will be half and will not change anymore. I also hope that the CL legendary summoners will be as powerful like the ones in untamed and hopefully would attract new players

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