Splinterlands AMA Summary - September 10th, 2021 - 9AM Eastern

AMA Summary

• Speakers: Aggroed, Yabapmatt, Waffles Kitty
• Main Topics:
  • Chaos Legion
  • Season Rewards
  • Scaling & Dev Work
• Recording Link:

Chaos Legion

• Pre-sale is still striving for September, but may go into October
  • Pre-sale vouchers are still based on your SPS stake vs. total SPS staked
• Packs will be able to be bought with Credits, DEC, and SPS
  • DEC will probably be based on market price!
  • Packs will probably cost more than $2
    • Should help the overall economy by not flooding the game and give CL cards more value
• Starter deck will include Chaos Legion cards when released
  • Beta & Untamed --> Untamed & Chaos Legion
• Will have lower collection power than the existing editions

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DEC:

• Team agrees that the current DEC earnings for leaderboard players seems unfair
  • Example: High bronze leaderboard player can earn almost as much DEC as Diamond players
  • Team will review this DEC earning system in the near-future

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SPS:

• SPS delegation has been designed and may be released soon
• SPS earnings from ranked battles will be based more on your league, rather than rating
  • Team wants to encourage building a more competitive deck and ranking higher
• More SPS use cases are definitely a priority once scaling is less of an issue

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Scaling & Dev Work:

• Team is currently focused on critical issues that is preventing the game from running smoothly
• New issues that keep popping up will eventually be prevented
  • "Game will be smooth sailing soon" - Yabapmatt
• Team is looking to grow the developing team very significantly
  • Will probably double dev team fairly soon
• A lot of work is going in to fixing the common bridge issues currently
  • WAX bridge has the most issues, will be next highest priority

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Season Rewards/Cooldown Changes:

• Starting with the current season, season rewards are based on the league you finish in
  • Not highest achieved anymore!
• Cooldowns haven't been changed just yet

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Bots:

• Anyone can play, anyone can participate
• Even bots contribute to the economy like a normal player
• Team is looking into making bots not affect the average player though

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Reward Cards:

• Still on track to be released on Monday!
• See Eye Candy section below!

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Modern/Wild Formats:

• Not all reward cards will be able to be used in the Modern format
  • Cards with the Untamed and Chaos Legion frames will be allowed
  • Old Beta frames will not be allowed
• Will duplicate the reward pool for both ranked formats
  • Team will look into changing it if needed after it is live for a few weeks
• ECR for both formats is still being determined - Will it be split, or same ECR for both?

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Collection Power Requirements:

• If you want to earn higher rewards, you need to contribute to the ecosystem
  • The main concept of the game is to build your deck and achieve higher leagues

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Splintertalk:

• SPT rewards are still stuck and not being rewarded due to recent switchover to outpost
• SPT rewards will be released once everything is cleared

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DYGYCON:

• Date: Saturday, September 25th, 2021 | 2 PM - 5 PM EST / 6 PM - 9 PM UTC
• DYGYCON is created and sponsored by Splinterlands!
• What is DYGYCON?
  • Digital conference with various blockchain projects, games, and influencers
• Can pick up free swag and get in on a bunch of giveaways
• Will have a super secret guest
  • Will be announced in around 5 days on Twitter 👀

🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥

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More Reward Cards!

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Interesting Remarks During AMA

• Bug fixes & Brawls 2.0 follow-up enhancements - Thanks @cryptomancer!

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• Spellbook purchases don't correlate with card prices

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• Rentals are set in DEC while sales are set in USD due to rentals being put directly in escrows
  • Helps limit the price fluctuations

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• "There are no guaranteed rewards in this game"
• The ability to earn is provided by the game, the rest is up to the player

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• "I don't use shampoo because I barely have any hair" - Aggroed

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, September 17th, 2PM EST (1PM UTC)