Splinterlands AMA Summary - November 5th, 2021 - 9AM Eastern!

AMA Summary

• Speakers:
  • Aggroed (Co-Founder)
  • Yabapmatt (Co-Founder)
  • Hardpoint (VP of Engineering)
  • Nateaguila (Creative Director)
  • Chatter (Marketing Director)
  • Isaria (Content Manager/Director of Music)
• Main Topics:
  • Company Updates (Dev, Support & Marketing)💥
  • EYE CANDY (Chaos Legion Preview) 👀
  • AMA Questions & Answers ⚡️
• Recording Link:

💥 Company Updates 💥

Dev Updates:

• Top priority is Chaos Legion
  • Still on track to be launched early December
• Stability is being worked on as well
  • Market Stability
    • Trying to resolve the removed cards quicker in market and make the market pop more
  • Bridge Stability
    • Improving stableness and resolution for transfers

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Support Updates:

• Had over 6000 tickets in last 30 days
  • Team has resolved over 5000 tickets over the last 30 days
• Still have 3000 outstanding tickets
  • Trying to create a triage process
  • Some bottlenecks for certain
• Starting a training program for support members and increase their resources
• Trying to create a more responsive support process
• Some of the support employess are being brought on full-time
• Will continue to expand support team (See hiring in the team updates below)

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Creative Updates:

• Looking to hire many more creative employees
• New Lore From Tome Of Chaos!
• Each CL splinter will have a 0 Mana Legendary Fiend!
  • Will be similar to the Furious Chicken, but better
• Buy your very own Splinterwear!

In Honor Of Aggroed's Push n' Shove

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Partnerships:

• Several partnerships are coming down the pipeline!
  • XPS
  • Cryptobots
  • Tournament with CommunityGaming in early December (working on curating a large prize pool for the SL fam)
  • Education courses launching with Finstreet (leading crypto edu platform in India - 1M+ active users)
• Potential guild onboardings from other games
  • These are huge communities that have their eyes on Splinterlands
• Around 10 more partnerships in the works as well, stay tuned!

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Sales & Marketing Updates:

• Reworking public CMS system to allow subscription and syndication
• Updating the Splinterlands Docs to make it more useful
• Will make dev updates more transparent via patch notes
• Dygycon - Kicking off on November 20th
• NFT Art Contest
  • Selected artists will be allowed to mint their NFT on the Splinterchampions account
• Aggroed was at the NFT convention in NYC this week to showcase Splinterlands
  • Watch him smash a toilet - LINK!
• Working on a new landing page for in-game to include:
  • Game updates
  • Upcoming changes
  • News
  • Other information to keep players up-to-date

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General Team Updates:

• Team is looking to still hire a lot more new employees!
  • Not online just yet, but be ready
  • Don't spam the team, wait for the new system to be released and announced
• Team is quickly improving their internal infrastructure
  • Scaling their resources themselves
• Working on a quality of life concept to collect minor improvements for the game
  • Hardpoint and Nateaguila would live stream and go through the items
  • Agreed on items would then be transferred to a new list
  • New list would allow SPS stakers to vote on which ones they want to give priority
  • Just a concept idea for now, but let us know what you think!

⚡️ AMA Questions ⚡️

👀 = See Eye Candy!

Chaos Legion 👀:

• Money received from Chaos Legion packs will be used to keep the game running
  • Needed for expanding the team and getting features out quicker
  • Resource costs are growing as the game and community increases as well
• Team is still trying to increase the capacity for the launch of Chaos Legion
  • Anticipating a huge strain on servers once CL is launched
  • Trying to prevent any server issues and lag once launced
• The first phase of the public sale should be shortly after the pre-sale ends
  • First phase consists of 2 million CL packs that requires vouchers
  • Vouchers will be airdropped at 2x the rate
  • The second phase (general sale) should be immediately after first phase ends
• Doctor Blight is only available for those who purchase packs during pre-sale
  • Won't be included in the card packs themselves

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SPS:

• No plans on making SPS purchases part of affiliate program
  • Just buy credits with SPS if you want the benefit of the affiliate program

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DEC:

• No plans to directly change DEC value
• The new Modern/Wild format may impact DEC prices as reward pool will be doubled

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Vouchers:

• To reiterate, if you want the coolest items in-game, you will want vouchers!
• Vouchers won't disappear after the CL and will be used for future utility

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Leaderboards:

• Leaderboards are great for making leagues competitive
• Future ideal would be to make top leaderboard fights streamable

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Guilds:

• Team would like to revamp the guild structure when time allows
• Guilds should motivate players to play together and grow together

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Tome Of Chaos NFT's:

• There are five NFT's being released for each story from the Tome of Chaos
• Checkout the Splinterlands gallery on Splintertalk!

🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥

Chaos Legion Cards Preview

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Animations

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Recent Updates

Security Updates

• Requiring Active Authortiy For All Accounts

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Gameplay Updates

• Updated Ranked Battle DEC Reward Shares Calculation
  • Rating² ==> Rating³ (squared --> cubed)

Past AMA Summaries

• Friday, October 29th, 2021
  • Doctor Blight Revealing (Eye Candy)
  • Chaos Legion Release
  • Vouchers Continuation Post Pre-sale

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• Friday, October 22nd, 2021
  • Scaling & Dev Work
  • Recent Game Changes
  • Yield Guild Games (YGG)

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• Friday, October 15th, 2021
  • EYE CANDY 👀🔥
  • Chaos Legion
  • PeakMonsters New Rental Bids Development

Next AMA - Friday, November 12th, 12PM EST (4PM UTC)