Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - December 17th, 2021 - 9AM Eastern!

Town Hall Summary

• Speakers:
  • Aggroed (Co-Founder)
  • Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
  • Hardpoint (Chief Technology Officer)
  • Kbux (VP of Engineering)
  • Homesteadhacker (Community Moderator Lead)
  • Chatter (Director Of Growth)
  • Nateaguila (Creative Director)
• Main Topics:
  • Marketing Updates 💥
  • Eye Candy 👀
  • Q&A ⚡️
• Recording:

• Timestamps:

  • 00:00 - Intro
  • 1:05 - Splinterlands Tech Team Role Changes (Matt)
  • 11:20 - Hardpoint Intro/Update (Dev)
  • 17:23 - Kbux (Kevin) Intro/Update (Dev)
  • 26:50 - Homesteadhacker Intro/Update (Community)
  • 31:15 - Chatter Intro/Update (Marketing)
  • 40:15 - Nateaguila Intro/Update (Creative)
  • 59:30 - Q&A
  • 1:56:35 - Closing Remarks

💥 Company Updates 💥

Dev Updates:

• Will be short dev release planned for Monday
  • Includes a bunch of minor adjustments/enhancements
  • Some are based on community feedback
• Dev team wants to push out these enhancement at least once or twice a week
  • Keep submitting your feedback and vote on the changes you want: Feedback Form
• Big focuses are Modern/Wild format, SPS Validators, & Chaos Legion general sale

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Marketing Updates:

• Team is looking at new exchanges and ad platforms
• Working with CoinMarketCap for new organic branding exposure
  • CMC is running a new alpha for listing/advertising new platforms on their site
  • Splinterlands was handpicked by CMC to engage in this alpha
  • Alpha consists of two sections: Twitter feed & longform articles
  • Alpha testing is scheduled for Tuesday, December 21st
• Planning for Splinterfest has officially begun underway
  • Likely to be in Q2/Q3
• A lot of partnerships are in the works
  • A-list rapper partnership incoming? 👀
• Working with ZenSports for new tournaments/ESports league
  • Year long tournament with monthly qualifiers and tournaments
    • $5-10k prizes every month
    • Monthly tournament results will determine who gets in the end of year big tournament

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Creative Updates:

• Creative team is still looking to hire a bunch and add more positions to Breezy
  • Narrative Editor
  • Concept Artists
  • 2D Artist
  • Visual Designer
  • 2D Animators
  • 2D VFX
  • Multimedia
• Team's biggest goal is to pull players into the game and lore
  • Don't want Splinterlands to be just a card game
  • Want every player to be a Battlemage fighting for a goal
  • Land expansion will play a big part in involving player's decisions
• New tale from the Tome of Chaos - Check out Recent Updates section!

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General Team Updates:

• There are just over 70 Splinterlands team members now!
• Team is still hiring specific positions - Check open positions on Breezy.Hr
• Homesteadhacker is being transitioned from Community Moderator Lead on Discord, to a new Product Team design
  • Team will be hiring a new Community Moderator Lead
• Community Song Contest - Link Here

⚡️ AMA Summary ⚡️

SPS:

• Tech specs for SPS Validators are TBD, but team will try to make them as minimal as possible
  • Official post should be incoming soon
• Goal for SPS was to help drive Splinterlands to be a player-owned/ran game
  • Mostly everything the team does going forward will incorporate SPS
  • Team's goal is to provide as much value to SPS and SPS holders
• SPS rewards for Liquidity Pools already technically exist
  • PancakeSwap, SushiSwap, etc...
  • These platforms reward those who put in the pool with SPS and the third-party token
  • Provides liquidity but also adds to marketing

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Roadmap:

• Team would like to update their roadmap and SPS roadmap as soon as Q1 2022
  • Still a lot of moving pieces internally within the team
  • Reminder, roadmaps are estimated dates and not confirmed dates

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Credits:

• Purchases of credits with DEC, SPS, or other tokens are company income
  • Need to keep game running and pay the team
  • Team doesn't sell DEC or SPS and just stockpiles them currently
    • Only time they will sell is when they setup Liquidity Pools
  • Overall, team never wants to put sell pressure on the market for DEC & SPS

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DEC:

• Future plans consist of introducing more skins and profile avatars for more DEC burns
• Team can't show the winnings per league as it is constantly changing and based on too many variables
  • Variable Examples: DEC market price, # of players/battles, cards you use, etc..
  • Could provide more information on this publically to explain how this works
• Team wants to continue to drive value through DEC to motivate players to continue to earn DEC through playing the game and buying cards

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Tax Tool:

• Team would like to build a tool to help provide all the necessary information for tax purposes
  • No ETA currently
• Currently, this is the responsibility of each player
  • But team does want to help players make this job easier

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Modern/Wild Format:

• May reduce the Collection Power for the Modern format
• May have one ECR pool that goes across both formats
  • Will incentivize players to choose which format they should focus on instead of both
  • You can play both, but may earn more from just playing one
• Both formats may have separate reward pools
• Daily quest will be the same and can be completed in either format
• Season rewards are still TBD
• Leaderboards may be separate with separate rewards

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Chaos Legion 2nd + 3rd Airdrops:

• Both the 2nd and 3rd airdrop will drop at the end of the current sale phase
• So if you bought CL packs in the pre-sale and current phase, you will be eligible
• More information on the cards and droprates will be posted later
• May be Legendary cards
• Will probably start doing guaranteed Gold Foil drops as well

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Support System:

• Support site got a revamp: https://support.splinterlands.com/hc/en-us
• Includes new knowledge articles and guides for support issues
• Will have a live support agent in the future for real-time support help

🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥

Potential New Buy SPS Screen

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New Wallpapers

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Animations

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Concept Art

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Chatter's New Business Card - Concept Art

Chatter The Beardless

Recent Updates

Tech Team Role Changes

• Yabapmatt is transitioning from CTO ==> CPO (Chief Product Officer)
• Hardpoint is taking over the CTO position
• Kbux is taking over the VP of Engineering position
• All three of these team members involvement and commitmment aren't being reduced, they are being put in roles that fit their skillsets more

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New Tale From Tome Of Chaos

• These tales extend the story of how Chaos Legion affected Praetoria and the rest of the world
• Includes a video that reads the story for you

Past AMA Summaries

• Friday, December 10th, 2021
  • Dev Updates 👀
  • Creative Updates 💥
  • Q&A ⚡️

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• Friday, December 3rd, 2021
  • Chaos Legion Launch (5 Days Away!) 👀
  • Creative Updates - More Lore/Stories! 💥
  • Land Expansion & SPS Validators ⚡️

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• Friday, November 26th, 2021
  • Chaos Legion Top 6 Pre-sale Buyers 👀
  • Chaos Legion Public Sale Updates 💥
  • Eye Candy ⚡️

Next AMA - Friday, December 24th, 9AM Eastern (1PM UTC)