Splinterlands AMA Summary - October 1st, 2021 - 9AM Eastern

AMA Summary

• Speakers: Aggroed, Yabapmatt, Cryptomancer, Hardpoint, CallMeTim
• Main Topics:
  • Meet Some Of The Splinterlands Team Members
  • Chaos Legion
  • Land Expansion
• Recording Link: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1164326962

Chaos Legion

• Pre-sale
  • Will be able to buy packs right away
  • Won't be able to open them until after pre-sale
  • Will be able to trade the packs though
• Contents of a pack are determined at the time the pack is opened
  • Based on the blockchain transaction and chooses randomly from the CL card set
• Legionnaire title is only available for packs purchased during the pre-sale
  • Planned to be relatively scarce and valuable

👀 Chaos Legion Pack Art 👀

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Vouchers:

• Vouchers are planned to be continue to be used after pre-sale
• May be used to meter-out the public sale
• Everything is still being discussed and not officially announced

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DEC:

• DEC reward pool is relatively the same even with DEC price increase
  • Player-base has grown a lot which keeps the rewards smaller compared to smaller player-base

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Guilds:

• Haven't focused many efforts towards guild economy
• Maxed guild ranges around $110,000

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SPS:

• Supply is increased 20M once a month
• Working on the minting of the SPS reward pools on BSC
• Staking requirements for tournaments aren't planned to increase anymore
  • Tournament prizes are high, so stake more SPS to get in!

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Scaling & Dev Work:

• There were some hiccups with season end yesterday
  • Getting smoother every season!

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SPS Liquidity Pools:

• CubDeFi just launched a new Kingdom feature - LINK
  • SPS-BNB pool
  • Puts your SPS in the PancakeSwap pool and gives you CAKE & CUB rewards

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Land:

🔥 The growth and hype over Splinterlands is making the land expansion that much better
🔥 Looking to hire more team members to solely focus on land expansion
🔥 Splinterlands team is very excited about how cool the land expansion is going to be!

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Bots:

• Only 13% of accounts were determined to be bots
  • Number was determined by an analyst
• Most bots hang around the lower leagues

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Rentals:

• Matt would like to allow rentals to specify a longer time before being cancelled
  • Would be filters on rental market
  • Could filter cards that can be rented for 1 week for example
  • If rented, that card would be guaranteed as a rental for that whole week

Interesting Remarks During AMA

• September Growth
  • 400,849 Signups
  • 266,000 Spellbooks
  • Overall, Splinterlands Grew 2x

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• Almost At 1 Million Registered Users! 🔥🚀

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• By default, battle lineups can't be viewed when submitted until both players submit their teams
• This was included in the minor patch that was pushed last night

Meet Some Of The Splinterlands Team Members!

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Note For Community!

Please be patient with the development and support team the next couple of months. The development team is starting to grow and onboard new team members to help with the growth and develop tools to better serve the players. When issues are presented in the game, the development team understands the frustrations the most and are always focused on resolving them as soon as possible!

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)¹
• 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 card¹
• Add a new setting to allow players to change the sound volume¹
• Fix Hive Engine packs not being displayed properly¹
• Add functionality to automatically stake your max balance¹
• Alphabetize the ability list in the dropdown¹

Bigger Tasks:

• Output more accurate error messaging and possibly include resources to alleviate the issue¹

¹ = Carried Over From Previous AMA's

Next AMA - Friday, October 8th, 8PM EST (12AM UTC)