Mavericks Can Play Land 1.5 on the Test Server Starting This Weekend!
It's very close... You can feel excitement building up again!
During this week's Town Square, the announcement was made that this weekend (without a clear starting day) we will be able to start playing to try to break and offer feedback for Land 1.5 on the mavericks test server.
For anyone hoping to see Land 1.5 released on the next maintenance window (August 15th), if speed of the test server is the same as in the real game (I'm thinking about clearing plots here, in particular), I doubt we will see the expansion released then, as it won't make sense from the testing point of view.
If everything goes ok with mavericks' testing and no serious bug is revealed, I'd say it's likely to see Land 1.5 launched on the following maintenance window (August 22nd), giving at most one week and a half on the mavericks test server before that happens. That seems enough to simulate various scenarios of initial gameplay. But I wouldn't exclude even the possibility of a week later.
If I remember correctly the discussions from the land channel on discord before Land 1.0 was launched, I believe ALL land owners received the maverick status to be able to test the game at that time, and should still have it. Maybe you should check, if you are a land owner and haven't tried out Land 1.0 on the mavericks test server.
What will we be able to test this time? Practically the entire gameplay of Land 1.5, which is:
- claiming totems (we currently have totem claims, not totems!)
- (un)staking cards on land plots (including Runi and/or a Power Source)
- (un)staking titles and totems
- (un)staking DEC
- buying grain from the game (not from other players!)
- buying power sources from the game
- clearing plots
- selecting the job (Farming Grain, SPS Mining, Researching Secret of Praetoria) and putting cards to work; changing work option (job)
- collecting (and paying) taxes - automatically, I think
- harvesting resources (grain)
- using time crystals
What won't we be able to test? What it's not included in Land 1.5 and will be part of Land 1.6:
- p2p market/transportation (including withdrawing grain to Hive-Engine, I believe, otherwise it would be a market on HE)
- land surfing
- prefix titles
On the mavericks test server, every player will be given plenty of assets (DEC, cards, plots, etc.), none of them real, but great for testing purposes.
One important aspect, besides finding potential bugs, is to get used to the interface. So that when the game launches, you don't explore aimlessly throughout the UI and potentially make costly mistakes with real assets.
I'll include here a reminder to self: to remember to test if land-related operations like clearing plot, staking on plot etc. work both if the deed is locked and unlocked. Also if cards need to be locked before staking on land (that is what we were told a while ago).
I expect we will see many Land posts this weekend, next week and then afterwards when the game launches. So there will be an opportunity for non-mavericks to see the gameplay or screenshots from it, before it goes live. I will obviously post more than usually about that too!
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How do you get onto the test server.
I was never bothered before this.
This is the link. It will be updated and reset when we will have access to Land 1.5 and likely reset a few times during the testing period.
Thanks man.
I'm just moving my deck around this week to get prepared.
Yep, me too. But for now, I'm only combining what I still have to combine and looking to see if I can shift cards around a bit for a better PP on the plots I am interested in.
Haven't taken them off the rental market yet, unless I needed to combine them.
https://twitter.com/lee19389/status/1689637361590935552
#hive #posh
Thanks.
I look forward to your post to see how things work.
Does harvesting start as soon as land is cleared?
Can you trigger a harvest every 5 minutes by staking 1 dec in the region?(Is the harvest based off the first minute of mining or the last minute) Only important for the first few hours when plots are coming online and the pool is fuller.
How much will it cost to switch from SPS mining to grain growing if using time crystals vs 24 hours?
Thanks,
!PIZZA
Harvesting is done either manually (at least once every 7 days) or triggered by various actions listed in the whitepaper (like staking/unstaking DEC or cards).
If you are referring to working the land and earning whatever you have your cards set to work for, I'm not sure how the process goes (if you set a task and if the plot isn't cleared then clearing the plot comes first and then the task is started automatically, or if you need to manually start the task after clearing ends). I guess we will see on the testing server.
I believe you can harvest as often as you want, but we will see (probably there is a limit to prevent automated scripts from doing it too often). Staking 1 DEC will only trigger harvesting for the account that stakes the DEC in that region, not for other players in that region.
I believe you thought about this question thinking about potential ways to optimize the harvested amount. I don't think it matters, since in the whitepaper I saw all actions that have an influence on the harvested amount trigger an automated harvest action.
That's a good remark. From this point of view, harvesting early and often will matter. It will be like a just-launched defi platform with crazy yields.
You can't use time crystals to eliminate the 24h waiting period when switching tasks (as far as I know).
You raised some important questions. I'll make sure to test some of them on the test server when we'll have access to see if I got it right or if there are new things to learn from this.
$PIZZA slices delivered:
@ijat(1/5) tipped @gadrian
I actually want to know how this game works very well. Well, thanks for this explanation
I'm willing to play...
Right now (when Land 1.5 will be launched), you can only play if you own land on Splinterlands, but after a while, when Land 1.6 will be released, people who don't own any land plots can play on other people's plots that aren't used by their owners. They'll need to come with DEC and cards to stake on the plot and will probably share the earnings with the owner.
Well elaborated.
Thanks.
It's nice to see it finally start rolling out but I guess it means my Runi delegation will probably end soon. Either way, I hope everything goes well in the test server.
That's very likely.
I hope so too, I wouldn't want the release postponed again.
Nice progress on land.
After all, people have been waiting for this day for a long time, it's only a matter of time when people will start playing Land game.
Yep. Only a matter of days for mavericks to test it. And I suspect at most two weeks until launch, if nothing major comes up.
Yeah you are right.
Hello @gadrian. I love the images you posted. Are the images from the game? I love them! I hope you have fun testing the game. Have a great rest of the week! Barb 😀👍 ✨ !BBH !CTP #ctp
Yep, they are from the game, the part that is already released. Nothing new yet.
Thanks @gadrian I love the artwork! Have a great week! !BBH !CTP
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