Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - October 31st, 2022 - 1PM Eastern!

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Town Hall Summary

  • Team Members:
    • Aggroed (Co-Founder & CEO)
    • Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
    • Chatter (Head of Marketing)
    • Nateaguila (Creative Director)
    • WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
    • Brybro27 (QA Engineer)
    • Royaleagle (Support Lead)
    • r0n d0n (Splinterlands TV)
  • Special Guests:
    • N/A
  • Main Topics:
    • SPS Proposals 🕸
    • Tentative Release Notes 🕸
    • RUNI, Lux Vega, & Many More! 🕸
  • Recording:

  • Timestamps:

    • 02:10 - Team Introduction
    • 04:30 - Royaleagle Support Tutorial
    • 07:35 - Brybro27 Update (Upcoming Release Notes)
    • 12:15 - Yabapmatt Update (SPS Proposals)
    • 38:10 - Yabapmatt Update (RUNI)
    • 47:15 - Chatter Update (Marketing)
    • 53:55 - WeirdBeard Update (Brawlhalla)
    • 1:13:20 - Nateaguila Update (Creative)
    • 1:24:40 - r0n d0n Update (Splinterlands TV)
    • 1:34:35 - Q&A
    • 1:59:35 - Closing Remarks

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💥 Company Updates 💥

RUNI:

  • Last date for allowlist mint is Tuesday, November 1st, at midnight
    • Unused allowlist mint spots expire beyond this date
  • RUNI take over on OpenSea begins on Wednesday, November 2nd
  • Public mint starts on Thursday, November 3rd
    • Each ETH wallet is limited to only 3 public mints
  • RUNI is only the beginning for what the team wants to do
    • Team may introduce specific benefits for RUNI holders
  • Be careful operating on OpenSea as there are a large amount of scam projects and scammers out there
    • Team can vouch for OpenSea for only the RUNI project
    • Trying to mint on a scam project could give hackers/scammers access to your ETH wallet where they can steal your assets/tokens
  • Everyone can now view all RUNI traits and rarities in the file below:

SPS Proposals:

  • Goal with SPS Governance is to allow for anything to be proposed
    • In the future, players will be able to create proposals for a fee
    • It is up to the community to decide what they think should be implemented or not
  • Team goal is to take any ideals/feedback from the community and put them out
    • Team doesn't want to play gatekeeper and limit the ideals/feedback items that get proposed
    • Team is trying to create an open space that is completely decentralized
      • This means that anything can be changed as long as the community passes it through
  • There is a separation between Splinterlands company/game product and the DAO (SPS, Vouchers, Licenses)
    • Anything that the DAO proposes and approves that is under control by the DAO will be implemented
    • Non-DAO items are ultimately up to the Splinterlands company to decide if it gets implemented or not
      • CL Pack burn is an example of a non-DAO proposal
      • Team proposed this just because they wanted community feedback on the subject rather than making the decision themselves
    • Team plans on updating the SPS Proposal UI to differentiate between DAO and non-DAO proposals
  • Everything that is put up as a proposal by the team is not expected to be passed
    • There are some controversial proposals like making RiftWatchers & Licenses purchasable in DEC
    • These two ideals were proposed by the team as they ultimately think that making all products priced in DEC will help push DEC price back to its soft-peg price
      • Goal of the ecosystem is to back every product by DEC in order to stabilize it as best as possible
      • If DEC is closer to peg, then it would create a higher demand for burning SPS for DEC

Lux Vega:

  • Team plans on releasing the Lux Vega sale next week (still TBD)
  • Lux Vega will be purchasable with DEC only
    • VOUCHERs may be accepted for an additional discount
      • VOUCHERs will potentially be accepted at $1 per VOUCHER
    • Promo codes can be used on top of the VOUCHER discount
  • Splinterfest attendees will receive a Promo Code pertaining to the ticket they purchased
    • Once the Promo Code is used once, it can't be undone or reused
    • Be careful when doing deals with the Promo Code!
  • All information regarding Lux Vega will be announced as soon as it is ready

Marketing:

  • New potential partnership announcement pending for December
  • Marketing team wants to look into new player onboarding experience and how it can be revamped and more user-friendly

Creative:

  • Team has completed all the Lux Vega creative assets and pushed them to the development team
  • Team created a new Death character to replace Usut for the first RiftWatcher Legendary airdrop (see Eye Candy!)
    • Team didn't think Usut accurately fit the stats given so they created Kain Hace to replace him
    • Usut was moved to the backlog for a later potential release
  • Team has continued producing Land assets every week
    • Will look to release some of these assets in the upcoming Townhalls!
  • HyperX Arena finally sent all the film from Splinterfest
    • Creative team will be creating a virtual experience with the film for those who didn't attend to be able to watch and experience the event

Brawls/Tournaments:

  • First Splinterlands Open tournament started this past Friday and concluded over the weekend
    • 337 total participants
    • Congrats to the top five winners!
      1. OMG-SP2 - 22 Wins / 0 Loses
      2. Martax - 20 Wins / 2 Loses
      3. Supercow - 20 Wins / 2 Loses
      4. Kentuckyjoles - 19 Wins / 3 Loses
      5. Infinityx22 - 19 Wins / 3 Loses
    • Team is taking in feedback for future Splinterlands Open tournaments and how they can continue improving to help push Splinterlands into ESports

Splinterlands TV:

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🤝 Tentative Release Notes 🤝

** Subject to change prior to actual release! **

  • Tech Modernization:
    • Reworking the technology framework to make the system more scalable and mobile-friendly
    • Changes being applied mainly affect the following pages
      • Registration Page
      • Affiliate Program Page
      • Login Page
      • Settings Page
      • Profile Page
      • Request Keys Page
      • Currency Activity Page
  • Bug Fixes:
    • Fixed a bug that inaccurately capped the level of Gladiators at certain leagues
    • Battle system will use the same card for every battle, even if you own multiple copies of the same card
      • This prevents a cooldown being applied to multiple copies of the same card
  • New Features & Enhancements:
    • New icon being added for Splinterlands Open tournaments
    • Adding Splex.gg bannet to the Market page (joining PeakMonsters, MonsterMarket & CardAuctionz)
    • Three new rulesets being introduced:
      • Thorns
      • Magic Reflect
      • Return Fire
    • Summoners can now be swapped during the battle lineup creation
      • System won't automatically make you restart your lineup if you choose a new summoner that allows you to use same cards from previous lineup
      • Example: Neutral cards will remain in lineup when swapping your summoner

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⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️

SPS Proposals:

  • Anything that is deemed of potential value for the community will be proposed by the team
  • Adjusting Rewards By Card Level Proposal:
    • This new system was proposed to better handle what Collection Power was introduced for
    • Collection Power requirements may be removed entirely in the future as the system will be rewarding those who earn more cards at higher levels
      • CP can be exploited currently as well as you can rent/delegate Level 1 cards to surpass the CP requirements
      • CP doesn't ultimately incentivize leveling up of cards which is what the new system is pushing towards
  • Chaos Legion Pack Burn Proposal:
    • With Land gameplay and Tower Defense gameplay around the corner, card scarcity could be a factor when considering whether to vote for the CL pack burn or not
    • Future card sets may have be released with a burn mechanism that will activate if the set doesn't sellout by a certain time period
  • The fee for creating SPS Proposals is still being determined
    • SPS Validator nodes will initially only support SPS, VOUCHERs, and Licenses
    • So only SPS and/or VOUCHERs will most likely be accepted to pay the fee for a SPS Proposal

Rebellion:

  • Rebellion set won't be released until at least 3 months after Chaos Legion sells out
    • There is no fixed date on this set release and there won't be one until CL is completely sold out first

RUNI:

  • Team is in the early brainstorming phase for what special things could be introduced for RUNI owners
    • Players could potentially see Land utility introduced, among other utility
  • Once your RUNI is staked in the game, you will get the benefits for all the other things released along with being able to play it in-game

Transak Issues:

  • Transak goes through HIVE and appears to have been down since the two HIVE hardforks
  • This is a big business item that the team wants to address in the near future as they believe anyone should be able to easily buy any supported token (SPS, DEC, etc...)
  • Team is aware of the issue and will provide more details when the system is live again

DEC:

  • The plan is to pair every Splinterlands asset with DEC
    • This includes Land Liquidity Pools for Resources when Land gameplay is released
    • All that value that is going into the DEC ecoystem will go directly to SPS

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👀 Eye Candy 👀

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🔥 Support Tutorial 🔥

Abilities & Status Effects

  • Read the guide above to learn more about abilities and how they interact with other abilities!
  • Guide Outline:
    • Abilities That Can Activate On Successful Attack
    • Status Effects
    • Status Effects That Stack
    • Other Ability Effects
  • NOTE: This guide is currently being tuned so you may notice some changes in the upcoming weeks

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🎞 Past AMA Summaries 🎞

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Next AMA - Monday, November 7th, 4PM Eastern (8PM UTC)

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There are bigger issues with Transak than just them being down since the hardforks. Part of my HIVE onboarding nightmare was giving all of my information to Transak in an effort to purchase some HIVE with fiat (this was pre-fork) so that I could buy some cards in Splinterlands, and having them deny me repeatedly. When I reached out to their support, they told me that my SSN was marked as either deceased or locked. I double-checked both, and neither was true. Had no such trouble completing the KYC process at Bittrex the next day, so I'm further convinced the issue was with Transak, and not my SSN.

I don't know how many other people have run into issues like this, but let me tell you; if I hadn't had a cheerleader who loves Splinterlands helping me every step of the way with the process of getting up and running with Splinterlands (and HIVE in general), I would have given up long before ever playing my first battle.

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Oh! The splinterlands open was an amazing experience. I'm pretty happy I'm still in shape and kicking ass!

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Summoners can now be swapped during the battle lineup creation ...

That's an apparently small but very useful, great change!

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The best way to help DEC back to peg would be to stop issuing it, e.g. for bonus liquidity pool rewards. This is like a stealth way to devalue SPS since any process minting DEC which doesn't burn SPS is a process preventing DEC returning to peg and then the burning of SPS to maintain upward pressure on the peg.

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