Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - May 16th, 2022 - 1PM Eastern!

Town Hall Summary

• Speakers:
  • Aggroed (CEO)
  • Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
  • Hardpoint (Chief Technology Officer)
  • Doogie (VP of Project Management)
  • WeirdBeard (Tournaments/ESports)
  • Chatter (Head of Marketing)
  • Nateaguila (Creative Director)
  • Aftersound (Creative - Musician)
  • Ironseed (Creative - Content Writer)
• Main Topics:
  • Ranked Reward Changes 💥
  • Roadmap V2 👀
  • Company Updates ⚡️
• Recording:

• Timestamps:

  • 01:15 - General Intro
  • 03:00 - Yabapmatt Update (Ranked Rewards)
  • 43:00 - Hardpoint Update (Roadmap V2)
  • 57:30 - Doogie Update (Roadmap V2)
  • 1:11:00 - Chatter Update (Marketing)
  • 1:15:00 - WeirdBeard Update (Tournament/ESports)
  • 1:17:25 - Nateaguila Update (Creative)
  • 1:22:15 - Aftersound Intro/Update (Creative - Musician)
  • 1:26:35 - Ironseed Intro/Update (Creative - Content Writer)
  • 1:35:20 - Q&A
  • 2:13:55 - Closing Remarks

💥 Company Updates 💥

Ranked Rewards:

• Goal is to ensure Splinterlands economy doesn't favor bots or big players with multiple accounts
  • Team wants to incentivize climbing as high as you can with one account in order to maximize your rewards
• Main Changes:
  • Starter cards will reduce the amount of DEC you earn per battle
    • Prevents DEC farming without actually owning cards
    • Card and rental prices should increase due to more demand
  • Reward values increase drastically as you move up to higher leagues
  • Reward chests are based on the league you finish in for the previous season
• Playing ~30 battles a day will allow you to maximize your rewards
  • Keeps your ECR at a reasonable value
  • Playing more than this will lower your ECR which will greatly reduce your reward shares and DEC rewards
• New changes will also encourage players to play every day and focus on their win rate
  • A large amount of players currently play one or two days and stop at a high rating
  • ECR is reduced every battle, win or lose
  • A higher win rate will maximize rewards vs lower win rate
• Changes will include 12 new Reward Cards added to the reward card pool (See Eye Candy)
• Plan is to release changes for next season (Starts Tuesday, May 31st)
  • Starter card reductions will start before the new season (when the code gets pushed out)

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Roadmap Updates:

• Can also view the Roadmap on the Splinterlands Docs site
• Validator Node License sale starts on May 25th (will be talked more on next weeks Townhall)
  • 80% of the SPS used will be burned, other 20% will be given to the DAO
• Riftwatches release is estimated for August

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DEC Updates:

• DEC was originally created to be a relatively stablecoin
  • Need a native token to do atomic market purchases
• DEC value is backed through the in-game products/assets
  • Card packs, potions, skins are all priced in DEC at a fixed rate of 1000 DEC --> $1

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Marketing Updates:

• RAD AI & Potion partnerships are actively being worked on
• Google and YouTube ads are spinning up
• Splinterfest dates are confirmed: September 17th & 18th at HyperX Arena in Las Vegas, NV
  • We want to hear from you on what you want to see at the event - Fill Form Here

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Tournament/ESports Updates:

• New tournaments are going to be created later today
• Actively working with streamers to create a streamer mode that makes their lives easier when streaming battles/tournaments

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General Team Updates:

• The new VP of Engineering (PJ) is making strides in adjusting to his position in Splinterlands
  • Brings a great wealth of experience in crypto and blockchain
  • Brought a few other people with him with even a broader knowledge
• Most devs have grown accustom to the codebase and are able to actively contribute to developments
  • New enhancements & features should be released quicker and more efficiently going forward
• Splinterlands site has been seeing some performance issues lately
  • Few hot fixes have been pushed out today & yesterday to improve performance
  • Performance will constantly be improved going forward and especially once Tech Modernization is released

⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️

Ranked Rewards Update:

• Some numbers were off in the Ranked Rewards post - will be updated properly
• Each league allows players to earn up to 150 chests per season
• Guild Lodge will eventually be updated to require a certain number of Reward Shares to level up
• Bronze III will be able to earn DEC again as long as you aren't using only starter cards
  • There won't be any more Credits rewarded either in Bronze
• Summoners are included in the Starter Card reductions
  • So if you use a Summoner that is part of the Starter card deck, you will receive less DEC
• Team will look into a versatile way to change the Daily Focus so it isn't just one Splinter for a while day after changes are out

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Economy:

• Team wants majority of future games to integrate DEC as well, or sometype of rebranded version of DEC
• 5% market fee is revenue for the marketing platform purchased on
  • Splinterlands Market == Splinterlands revenue
  • Peakmonsters/MonsterMarket == Peakmonsters/MonsterMarket revenue
• Current DEC burns are through Potions & Guild Building upgrades
• ~2.7M vouchers burned through the Splinterlands Shop
  • From pack purchases and special cards (Waka)

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Land:

• Neutral monsters will be able to work on Land like any other Splinter
  • May not be as effective for certain plots as certain Splinters may have a bigger boost than others
  • Example: Water Splinter will have a better boost on a Lake plot than any other Splinter

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Win-Trading:

• Team has started to bucket players so they aren't allowed to match up with each other
• Was a manual process in the past, and now it is being automated through data analytics
• It is being monitored currently and being actively worked on
• If you find a win-trading perpetrator, please submit a support ticket and the team will investigate

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Riftwatchers:

• Riftwatchers is expected to be a little bigger of a set than DICE

🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥

New Reward Cards

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Countess Sinesh Wallpaper

Recent Announcements

Splinterlands Ranked Rewards Update

• Changes estimated to be released at the end of this month
• Changes are going to completely change the way you play Splinterlands daily and seasonally

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Splinterlands Fan Art Emote Contest

• Splinterlands is calling all artists and designers to help out in designing new Splinterlands emotes that will be featured in our discord, twitch and other channels
• The winners will be highlighted on our Splinterlands' social channels and will receive Chaos Legion packs as reward

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Understanding - A Tome of Chaos Story

• This week features Fiafia, a pirate who has escaped the clutches of Queen Mycelia.

Past AMA Summaries

• Monday, May 9th, 2022
  • Eye Candy 👀
  • Company Updates ⚡️
  • Q&A Summary 💥

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• Monday, April 25th, 2022
  • Development Updates 💥
  • General Team Updates ⚡️
  • Q&A 👀

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• Monday, April 18th, 2022
  • SPS Validators 💥
  • Ranked Rewards ⚡️
  • Eye Candy 👀

Next AMA - Monday, May 23rd, 4PM Eastern (8PM UTC)