Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - July 11th, 2022 - 1PM Eastern!

Town Hall Summary

• Speakers:
  • Aggroed (CEO)
  • Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
  • Chatter (Head of Marketing)
  • Nateaguila (Creative Director)
  • Pluck (Data Analyst)
  • WeirdBeard (Tournaments/ESports)
  • InfluxPictures (Video Editor)
  • Haythem (Senior Product Manager)
  • Black Heart (Technical Support)
  • Waffles Kitty (DYGYCON)
  • r0n d0n (Splinterlands TV)
• Main Topics:
  • Splinterlands Discussions 💥
  • Company Updates ⚡️
  • Q&A 👀
• Recording:

• Timestamps:

  • 03:15 - Team Introduction (General Updates)
  • 05:15 - InfluxPictures Intro (Video Editor)
  • 09:00 - Haythem Intro (Senior Product Manager)
  • 11:50 - Black Heart Intro (Technical Support)
  • 14:15 - Chatter Update (Marketing)
  • 16:40 - Weirdbeard Update (Tournaments/ESports)
  • 22:05 - Waffles Kitty Update (DYGYCON)
  • 24:30 - Nateaguila Update (Creative)
  • 28:45 - Pluck (Data Analyst)
  • 30:15 - r0n d0n (Splinterlands TV)
  • 36:30 - Yabapmatt (Ranked Rewards)
  • 1:15:15 - Q&A
  • 2:19:30 - Closing Remarks

💥 Splinterlands Discussions 💥

Economy Discussion/Update (Still Work In Progress):

• Goal of Dark Energy Crystals (DEC) was intended to be a relatively stable token of 1000 DEC = $1 USD
  • Stable pricing for in-game purchases is an extremely important concept for any type of Web 3 project
• DEC will continue to be the relatively stable transactional token for most in-game purchases
  • Cards, potions, packs, skins, land items, guild upgrades, etc...
• In order to keep it stable, there will continue to be more mechanisms and items sold for DEC
• Team wants to also allow users to burn $1 in SPS for 1000 DEC
  • Creates more value flowing into the SPS token
  • Will not be able burn DEC for SPS
  • Instead DEC is backed by in-game products
• Current problem is that DEC is being infintely minted
  • The minting equilibrium is lower than the demand for buying Splinterlands products with DEC
  • This is causing the price of DEC to be lower than the intended stable price (1000 DEC = $1 USD)
  • Future change will be replacing DEC rewards with SPS rewards
• SPS Governance
  • Original ideal was that the best players in the game will earn SPS (tournament winners, brawl participants, leaderboards, etc..)
  • SPS airdrop is ending the end of this month
  • The next way to earn SPS will be through playing the game and climbing to the highest league possible
  • These SPS rewards will be significantly less than what is currently being given out compared to DEC rewards
• In the near future, DEC will only be minted through the following:
  • Card Burning
  • Burn SPS For DEC
• SPS rewards will be possible through:
  • Ranked battleplay
  • Leaderboards
  • Brawl participation

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Upcoming Reward Changes:

• Replacing DEC rewards with SPS rewards
  • Will stabilize DEC while also allowing players to earn SPS which means giving more governance voting power
  • SPS rewards will be a fixed/limited reward pool
  • Each league will be competing for the same SPS reward pool
    • The reward pools will be bigger for the higher leagues
• You will not be able to earn rewards only through buying and cards and playing, you will also need to have SPS staked on you
  • This will be the main utility for SPS
  • Doesn't mean you can only stake on yourself, but on other players too
    • Staking on other players will give rewards to both the player and the players staking the SPS on that player

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Splinterlands vs Bots:

• Splinterlands goal is to build the most distributed, decentralized platform possible
  • This has never happened before and is a constant work in-progress within Splinterlands
  • Team will continue to try to build towards this goal even through the mistakes that are made in the process
• This means that Splinterlands is an open system for anyone to anonymously participate
  • There is not an easy way to perfectly identify who is a bot vs who is a normal player either
• Mistakes were made with the new Ranked Reward system
  • Goal was give out more rewards to everybody that had cards
  • This allowed for bots and farmers to earn more rewards as well
  • ROI is significantly high for those who rent/buy cards to bypass the starter card reward reductions
  • Most players taking advantage of this ROI are bots and the rental market isn't being impacted as much as expected
  • New upcoming changes announced recently should help address this issue
• Reminder, any changes targetting bots will also affect real players as well
• Whole ideal is not to reduce rewards but rather increase the amount of rewards to appeal to new players
• Having fixed SPS reward pools per league will help address the multi-account delegating
  • Rather than spreading cards around multiple accounts in lower leagues, the game will incentivize players to reach higher leagues where there is a higher SPS reward pool and less players competing for it

💥 Company Updates 💥

Creative Team:

• YouTube ads have been live and users have been noticing them
• Events that team is attending/recently attended:
  • DeFi Philly last week (16bit)
  • Futurist in Toronto (Chatter & 16bit)
• Reaching out to new projects to hopefully land some additional SPS utility
• LOTs of work with guilds
  • Have 3 guild tools in talks that will be helping pass new players through
• Splinterfest
  • Tickets and merchandise are still in the works
  • Splinterfest trailer is currently in progress

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Tournaments/Brawls:

• First tournament townhall was held last Friday (July 8th)
  • Opportunity for the community to engage with Weirdbeard and express their concerns/feedback with tournaments
  • Moving forward, brawls and tournament townhalls will be rotated and separate from these main townhalls
• Splinterlands is seeing around 3k tournament participants a week
• Biggest feedback items:
  • Ghost card tournaments (everyone has the same cards)
  • Gladiator card tournaments
  • High roller tournament series

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Creative Team:

• Creative team is hard at work with the following:
  • Rift Watchers
  • New Daily Focuses
  • Splinterfest
  • Land
  • And a ton of other items!

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DYGYCON:

• DYGYCON 10 happening this weekend starting Friday, July 15 to Sunday, July 17
• Register for event here: DYGYCON 10 Registration

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Splinterlands TV:

• Viewers receive points that can be redeemed for multiple prizes
• Splinterlands TV Doubled average viewers in the past month
• This Townhalls shoutouts:
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  • ApeOfWallSt
  • jmpards3
  • oL0rdo_yt
  • holdmycards
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⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️

Bots:

• All new changes will probably result in new exploits being found
  • Team will analyze the affects of changes and always make new ones once determined best
• Merit rewards will help reduce the rewards for bot farms
  • Merit rewards will stay valuable for actual players as it creates a new avenue for earning merits which are super valuable for Guild Brawls

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Collection Power:

• Staked SPS may eventually replace Collection Power
• Collection Power was intended to accurately determine what league players are allowed to play in
  • However, CP is skewed as it isn't perfectly weighted between card sets and just a couple of old cards could give you enough CP for higher leagues

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Reward Economy:

• To begin with, you will not need SPS staked to earn SPS rewards
  • This will be a later stage once all the other priorities are completed and released
• The 48 hour rental change will not pertain to card delegations

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SPS:

• Team is still working on releasing the details for Liquidity Pool rewards as the SPS airdrop is ending soon
  • The development of the LP reward smart contracts is already underway
  • The numbers are still being determined though
• More utility is constantly being developed for both SPS and vouchers
  • Rift Watchers is right around the corner
  • New promo cards will be introduced
  • Cool ideal that came out of NFTY NYC (to be revealed)

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Creative Team Miscelleaneous Opportunities:

• Most of the narrative team are published authors
  • Splinterlands comic book may be on the horizon
  • Same with DND or table top games

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Land:

• Land workers stats and abilities of cards may not originally affect how they work on Land
  • Rather the CP of cards will have the biggest impact/boosts
  • Old cards and Gold Foils will have the biggest impact due to the larger collection powers
• No plans on releasing SPS rewards for Land holders until Land functionality is released

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Rift Watchers:

• Will include 1 Epic summoner for each Splinter
• Will have abilities like the DICE summoners

🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥

Concept Icons For New Daily Focuses

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Grandmaster Rathe Wallpaper

Recent Announcements

Ranked Rewards Updates Follow-Up

• New Daily Focuses
• Daily Focus Mechanic Update
• Focus Splinter/Element No Longer Guaranteed to be Active
• Changing Minimum Card Rental Time to 2 Days
• Adding Merits as a Chest Reward
• Higher Potion Quantities in Higher Tier Reward Chests

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The Grandmaster Rathe airdrop is now claimable!

• To claim your cards, go to the Shop screen and click on the NEW AIRDROP banner or AIRDROPS button
• The cut-off time for eligible pack purchases to count for this airdrop was 11:30 am EST / 3:30 pm UTC on July 9
• Odds are 0.1818% per eligible pack, with 1 guaranteed card for every 550 packs

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Odyssey - Tome of Chaos Story

• The story this week highlights Bera Dallin

Past AMA Summaries

• Monday, June 27th, 2022
  • Modern/Wild 💥
  • Q&A ⚡️
  • Eye Candy 👀

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• Monday, June 20th, 2022
  • Splinterlands Multi-Game Platform 💥
  • Eye Candy ⚡️
  • Q&A 👀

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• Monday, June 13th, 2022
  • Splinterlands vs Red Market 💥
  • NFTy Arcade ⚡️
  • Q&A 👀

Next AMA - Monday, July 18th, 4PM Eastern (8PM UTC)