Splinterlands AMA Summary - November 5th, 2021 - 9AM Eastern!
AMA Summary
- Speakers:
- Aggroed (Co-Founder)
- Yabapmatt (Co-Founder)
- Hardpoint (VP of Engineering)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- Chatter (Marketing Director)
- Isaria (Content Manager/Director of Music)
- Main Topics:
- Company Updates (Dev, Support & Marketing)💥
- EYE CANDY (Chaos Legion Preview) 👀
- AMA Questions & Answers ⚡️
- Recording Link:
💥 Company Updates 💥
Dev Updates:
- Top priority is Chaos Legion
- Still on track to be launched early December
- Stability is being worked on as well
- Market Stability
- Trying to resolve the removed cards quicker in market and make the market pop more
- Bridge Stability
- Improving stableness and resolution for transfers
- Market Stability
Support Updates:
- Had over 6000 tickets in last 30 days
- Team has resolved over 5000 tickets over the last 30 days
- Still have 3000 outstanding tickets
- Trying to create a triage process
- Some bottlenecks for certain
- Starting a training program for support members and increase their resources
- Trying to create a more responsive support process
- Some of the support employess are being brought on full-time
- Will continue to expand support team (See hiring in the team updates below)
Creative Updates:
- Looking to hire many more creative employees
- New Lore From Tome Of Chaos!
- Each CL splinter will have a 0 Mana Legendary Fiend!
- Will be similar to the Furious Chicken, but better
- Buy your very own Splinterwear!
Partnerships:
- Several partnerships are coming down the pipeline!
- XPS
- Cryptobots
- Tournament with CommunityGaming in early December (working on curating a large prize pool for the SL fam)
- Education courses launching with Finstreet (leading crypto edu platform in India - 1M+ active users)
- Potential guild onboardings from other games
- These are huge communities that have their eyes on Splinterlands
- Around 10 more partnerships in the works as well, stay tuned!
Sales & Marketing Updates:
- Reworking public CMS system to allow subscription and syndication
- Updating the Splinterlands Docs to make it more useful
- Will make dev updates more transparent via patch notes
- Dygycon - Kicking off on November 20th
- NFT Art Contest
- Selected artists will be allowed to mint their NFT on the Splinterchampions account
- Aggroed was at the NFT convention in NYC this week to showcase Splinterlands
- Watch him smash a toilet - LINK!
- Working on a new landing page for in-game to include:
- Game updates
- Upcoming changes
- News
- Other information to keep players up-to-date
General Team Updates:
- Team is looking to still hire a lot more new employees!
- Not online just yet, but be ready
- Don't spam the team, wait for the new system to be released and announced
- Team is quickly improving their internal infrastructure
- Scaling their resources themselves
- Working on a quality of life concept to collect minor improvements for the game
- Hardpoint and Nateaguila would live stream and go through the items
- Agreed on items would then be transferred to a new list
- New list would allow SPS stakers to vote on which ones they want to give priority
- Just a concept idea for now, but let us know what you think!
⚡️ AMA Questions ⚡️
Chaos Legion 👀:
- Money received from Chaos Legion packs will be used to keep the game running
- Needed for expanding the team and getting features out quicker
- Resource costs are growing as the game and community increases as well
- Team is still trying to increase the capacity for the launch of Chaos Legion
- Anticipating a huge strain on servers once CL is launched
- Trying to prevent any server issues and lag once launced
- The first phase of the public sale should be shortly after the pre-sale ends
- First phase consists of 2 million CL packs that requires vouchers
- Vouchers will be airdropped at 2x the rate
- The second phase (general sale) should be immediately after first phase ends
- Doctor Blight is only available for those who purchase packs during pre-sale
- Won't be included in the card packs themselves
SPS:
- No plans on making SPS purchases part of affiliate program
- Just buy credits with SPS if you want the benefit of the affiliate program
DEC:
- No plans to directly change DEC value
- The new Modern/Wild format may impact DEC prices as reward pool will be doubled
Vouchers:
- To reiterate, if you want the coolest items in-game, you will want vouchers!
- Vouchers won't disappear after the CL and will be used for future utility
Leaderboards:
- Leaderboards are great for making leagues competitive
- Future ideal would be to make top leaderboard fights streamable
Guilds:
- Team would like to revamp the guild structure when time allows
- Guilds should motivate players to play together and grow together
Tome Of Chaos NFT's:
- There are five NFT's being released for each story from the Tome of Chaos
- Checkout the Splinterlands gallery on Splintertalk!
🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥
Chaos Legion Cards Preview
Animations
Recent Updates
Security Updates
- Requiring Active Authortiy For All Accounts
Gameplay Updates
- Updated Ranked Battle DEC Reward Shares Calculation
- Rating² ==> Rating³ (squared --> cubed)
Past AMA Summaries
- Friday, October 29th, 2021
- Doctor Blight Revealing (Eye Candy)
- Chaos Legion Release
- Vouchers Continuation Post Pre-sale
- Friday, October 22nd, 2021
- Scaling & Dev Work
- Recent Game Changes
- Yield Guild Games (YGG)
- Friday, October 15th, 2021
- EYE CANDY 👀🔥
- Chaos Legion
- PeakMonsters New Rental Bids Development