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
- Starter cards will reduce the amount of DEC you earn per battle
- 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)
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
Riftwatchers:
- Riftwatchers is expected to be a little bigger of a set than DICE
🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥
New Reward Cards
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
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
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 💥
- Monday, April 25th, 2022
- Development Updates 💥
- General Team Updates ⚡️
- Q&A 👀
- Monday, April 18th, 2022
- SPS Validators 💥
- Ranked Rewards ⚡️
- Eye Candy 👀