AMA Summary
- Speakers: Aggroed, Yabapmatt, Waffles Kitty
- Main Topics:
- Chaos Legion
- Season Rewards
- Scaling & Dev Work
- Recording Link:
Chaos Legion
- Pre-sale is still striving for September, but may go into October
- Pre-sale vouchers are still based on your SPS stake vs. total SPS staked
- Packs will be able to be bought with Credits, DEC, and SPS
- DEC will probably be based on market price!
- Packs will probably cost more than $2
- Should help the overall economy by not flooding the game and give CL cards more value
- Starter deck will include Chaos Legion cards when released
- Beta & Untamed --> Untamed & Chaos Legion
- Will have lower collection power than the existing editions
DEC:
- Team agrees that the current DEC earnings for leaderboard players seems unfair
- Example: High bronze leaderboard player can earn almost as much DEC as Diamond players
- Team will review this DEC earning system in the near-future
SPS:
- SPS delegation has been designed and may be released soon
- SPS earnings from ranked battles will be based more on your league, rather than rating
- Team wants to encourage building a more competitive deck and ranking higher
- More SPS use cases are definitely a priority once scaling is less of an issue
Scaling & Dev Work:
- Team is currently focused on critical issues that is preventing the game from running smoothly
- New issues that keep popping up will eventually be prevented
- "Game will be smooth sailing soon" - Yabapmatt
- Team is looking to grow the developing team very significantly
- Will probably double dev team fairly soon
- A lot of work is going in to fixing the common bridge issues currently
- WAX bridge has the most issues, will be next highest priority
Season Rewards/Cooldown Changes:
- Starting with the current season, season rewards are based on the league you finish in
- Not highest achieved anymore!
- Cooldowns haven't been changed just yet
Bots:
- Anyone can play, anyone can participate
- Even bots contribute to the economy like a normal player
- Team is looking into making bots not affect the average player though
Reward Cards:
- Still on track to be released on Monday!
- See Eye Candy section below!
Modern/Wild Formats:
- Not all reward cards will be able to be used in the Modern format
- Cards with the Untamed and Chaos Legion frames will be allowed
- Old Beta frames will not be allowed
- Will duplicate the reward pool for both ranked formats
- Team will look into changing it if needed after it is live for a few weeks
- ECR for both formats is still being determined - Will it be split, or same ECR for both?
Collection Power Requirements:
- If you want to earn higher rewards, you need to contribute to the ecosystem
- The main concept of the game is to build your deck and achieve higher leagues
Splintertalk:
- SPT rewards are still stuck and not being rewarded due to recent switchover to outpost
- SPT rewards will be released once everything is cleared
- Date: Saturday, September 25th, 2021 | 2 PM - 5 PM EST / 6 PM - 9 PM UTC
- DYGYCON is created and sponsored by Splinterlands!
- What is DYGYCON?
- Digital conference with various blockchain projects, games, and influencers
- Can pick up free swag and get in on a bunch of giveaways
- Will have a super secret guest
- Will be announced in around 5 days on Twitter 👀
🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥
More Reward Cards!
Interesting Remarks During AMA
- Spellbook purchases don't correlate with card prices
- Rentals are set in DEC while sales are set in USD due to rentals being put directly in escrows
- Helps limit the price fluctuations
- "There are no guaranteed rewards in this game"
- The ability to earn is provided by the game, the rest is up to the player
- "I don't use shampoo because I barely have any hair" - Aggroed
Potential Backlog For Splinterlands Dev Team
Minor Tasks:
- Add small icon to let players know they are in an active event that requires an action (Cryptomancer)¹
- Add DEC pegged value in marketplace so players have an ideal how much DEC would be required to buy a card, or how much they will receive if selling a card¹
- Add a new setting to allow players to change the sound volume¹
- Fix Hive Engine packs not being displayed properly¹
- Add functionality to automatically stake your max balance¹
- Alphabetize the ability list in the dropdown¹
Bigger Tasks:
- Output more accurate error messaging and possibly include resources to alleviate the issue¹
¹ = Carried Over From Previous AMA's
Next AMA - Friday, September 17th, 2PM EST (1PM UTC)