Splinterlands AMA Summary - October 22nd, 2021 - 9AM Eastern

AMA Summary

• Speakers: Aggroed, Yabapmatt, Cryptomancer, Hardpoint, CallMeTim, & KnightAv (YGG)
• Main Topics:
  • Scaling & Dev Work
  • Recent Game Changes
  • Yield Guild Games (YGG)
• Recording Link:

Chaos Legion 👀:

• New leaderboard page has been released just yesterday
• Most likely will be a gap between the end of pre-sale and official launch of CL
  • This means CL packs won't be opened right away after pre-sale
  • Goal is to get launch out before end of year
  • Still a lot of work with the CL cards and the new ranked formats

• Top 6 Summoner design only allows the buyer to design the art, not the abilities
• When CL is released, there will be a 1% chance to get a pack in a rewards chest
• For each airdrop, there will be a minimum amount required to get a guaranteed airdrop
  • The amount required is announced before airdrop is dropped
    • Amount changes per airdrop and what rarity the card is
      • Legendaries require a higher amount, epics require less
  • Any pack bought from the in-game store will count towards the airdrop
• Chaos Legion packs will include both summoners and monsters

DEC:

• The algorithm in the game is designed to increase DEC rewards as price goes above the pegged price of $0.001
  • Team doesn't control the price; it is a free market

SPS:

• At some point, the team may sell the SPS income they receive
  • May also give SPS bonuses to team members
• Aggroed has sold SPS in order to make Liquidity Pools
  • When selling, he sells at a higher market price and waits for market to buy it
• Most team members though have been staking all their SPS
  • Check out their accounts on the Richlist for SPS
    • Smalp (Aggroed), Yabapmatt, Cryptomancer
• SPS used for payments or credits is ultimately corporate income and will be used as such
• Anything that is cool in this game is going to require SPS staked
• SPS.DAO account may put the vouchers they've received in a SPS/Voucher pool

Scaling & Dev Work:

• Server and backend work is going to be an ongoing process
• Made some backend changes to make servers run smoother
• Beyond scaling issues, team is mainly focused on Chaos Legion
  • New ranked formats, SPS rewards, & land is next priorities
• All ongoing issues are growing pains and need patience from the community while the team gets through it
• Expect to see more stability throughout the next few weeks
• Team is adding more servers to cache data quicker and make the site run quicker
  • Will allow the ranked leaderboards to be back online
• Team isn't trying to limit the playing of players
  • The rate limit will allow automated systems to not break the game
• Shoutout to the support team!
  • Support team gets thousands of tickets a day
  • Responses are slow because there are far fewer devs than community members
  • Team needs to budget and prioritize resources to handle everything
  • No issue will be left unresolved, team can promise that
• Team is working on a Splinterlands software development kit (SDK)
  • Look at Splinterlands website and see what API calls are made
  • Will release documentation in the near-distant future

Land:

• You will want higher level cards to work on your land plots
  • Higher level cards will boost the production more than lower levels
  • Land owners better start preparing!
• SPS will be needed to upgrade buildings
• Items and spells will only be able to be crafted on land
  • This produces many more earnings to land owners rather than Splinterlands team

Recent Splinterlands Updates:

• Splinterlands is not a free-to-play game
• Splinterlands main goal is to incentivize players to buy Splinterlands assets
  • DEC farmers that don't invest ultimately ruin the game economy
  • Recent changes will limit these players and hopefully motivate them to play the right way
  • This is not to scare away new players, it is to incentivize them
  • Come to the Telegram & Discord channels if need any kind of help or have questions
• If you want to earn more but can't invest, checkout YGG below
  • YGG balances the need for people to own assets in-game vs players who might not want to put in those upfront costs

Yield Guild Games (YGG):

• One of the biggest play-to-earn gaming guilds
• Special Announcements:
  • Had purchased two regions and bunch of packs earlier this year
  • Going to be introducing fractional ownership through their new subDAO
  • Read More Here: YGG|SPL SubDAO Litepaper
• Always looking to recruit new players
  • Taking in anyone, whether you have assets or don't
  • Click the header link to go to YGG's Discord to learn more how to join

Exchanges:

• Exchange listings are nice, but are very difficult
  • It isn't just the team, but the community can help spearhead these exchange listings
  • Team could take a bunch of time to try to get listed, or they can continue focusing on the game
    • Splinterlands have 1.2 million registered users
    • Goal is to have exchanges FOMO into Splinterlands, not vice versa

🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥

New Chaos Legion Leaderboard Page

Past AMA Summaries

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

• Friday, October 8th, 2021
  • EYE CANDY 👀🔥
  • Scaling & Dev Work
  • Chaos Legion & Vouchers
    • Pre-sale Clarifications

• Friday, October 1st, 2021
  • Meet Some Of The Splinterlands Team Members
  • Chaos Legion
  • Land Expansion

Next AMA - Friday, October 29th, 2PM EST (6PM UTC)