Town Hall Summary
- Speakers:
- Aggroed (Co-Founder)
- Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
- Hardpoint (Chief Technology Officer)
- Kbux (VP of Engineering)
- Homesteadhacker (Community Moderator Lead)
- Chatter (Director Of Growth)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- Main Topics:
- Marketing Updates 💥
- Eye Candy 👀
- Q&A ⚡️
- Recording:
Timestamps:
- 00:00 - Intro
- 1:05 - Splinterlands Tech Team Role Changes (Matt)
- 11:20 - Hardpoint Intro/Update (Dev)
- 17:23 - Kbux (Kevin) Intro/Update (Dev)
- 26:50 - Homesteadhacker Intro/Update (Community)
- 31:15 - Chatter Intro/Update (Marketing)
- 40:15 - Nateaguila Intro/Update (Creative)
- 59:30 - Q&A
- 1:56:35 - Closing Remarks
💥 Company Updates 💥
Dev Updates:
- Will be short dev release planned for Monday
- Includes a bunch of minor adjustments/enhancements
- Some are based on community feedback
- Dev team wants to push out these enhancement at least once or twice a week
- Keep submitting your feedback and vote on the changes you want: Feedback Form
- Big focuses are Modern/Wild format, SPS Validators, & Chaos Legion general sale
Marketing Updates:
- Team is looking at new exchanges and ad platforms
- Working with CoinMarketCap for new organic branding exposure
- CMC is running a new alpha for listing/advertising new platforms on their site
- Splinterlands was handpicked by CMC to engage in this alpha
- Alpha consists of two sections: Twitter feed & longform articles
- Alpha testing is scheduled for Tuesday, December 21st
- Planning for Splinterfest has officially begun underway
- Likely to be in Q2/Q3
- A lot of partnerships are in the works
- A-list rapper partnership incoming? 👀
- Working with ZenSports for new tournaments/ESports league
- Year long tournament with monthly qualifiers and tournaments
- $5-10k prizes every month
- Monthly tournament results will determine who gets in the end of year big tournament
- Year long tournament with monthly qualifiers and tournaments
Creative Updates:
- Creative team is still looking to hire a bunch and add more positions to Breezy
- Narrative Editor
- Concept Artists
- 2D Artist
- Visual Designer
- 2D Animators
- 2D VFX
- Multimedia
- Team's biggest goal is to pull players into the game and lore
- Don't want Splinterlands to be just a card game
- Want every player to be a Battlemage fighting for a goal
- Land expansion will play a big part in involving player's decisions
- New tale from the Tome of Chaos - Check out Recent Updates section!
General Team Updates:
- There are just over 70 Splinterlands team members now!
- Team is still hiring specific positions - Check open positions on Breezy.Hr
- Homesteadhacker is being transitioned from Community Moderator Lead on Discord, to a new Product Team design
- Team will be hiring a new Community Moderator Lead
- Community Song Contest - Link Here
⚡️ AMA Summary ⚡️
SPS:
- Tech specs for SPS Validators are TBD, but team will try to make them as minimal as possible
- Official post should be incoming soon
- Goal for SPS was to help drive Splinterlands to be a player-owned/ran game
- Mostly everything the team does going forward will incorporate SPS
- Team's goal is to provide as much value to SPS and SPS holders
- SPS rewards for Liquidity Pools already technically exist
- PancakeSwap, SushiSwap, etc...
- These platforms reward those who put in the pool with SPS and the third-party token
- Provides liquidity but also adds to marketing
Roadmap:
- Team would like to update their roadmap and SPS roadmap as soon as Q1 2022
- Still a lot of moving pieces internally within the team
- Reminder, roadmaps are estimated dates and not confirmed dates
Credits:
- Purchases of credits with DEC, SPS, or other tokens are company income
- Need to keep game running and pay the team
- Team doesn't sell DEC or SPS and just stockpiles them currently
- Only time they will sell is when they setup Liquidity Pools
- Overall, team never wants to put sell pressure on the market for DEC & SPS
DEC:
- Future plans consist of introducing more skins and profile avatars for more DEC burns
- Team can't show the winnings per league as it is constantly changing and based on too many variables
- Variable Examples: DEC market price, # of players/battles, cards you use, etc..
- Could provide more information on this publically to explain how this works
- Team wants to continue to drive value through DEC to motivate players to continue to earn DEC through playing the game and buying cards
Tax Tool:
- Team would like to build a tool to help provide all the necessary information for tax purposes
- No ETA currently
- Currently, this is the responsibility of each player
- But team does want to help players make this job easier
Modern/Wild Format:
- May reduce the Collection Power for the Modern format
- May have one ECR pool that goes across both formats
- Will incentivize players to choose which format they should focus on instead of both
- You can play both, but may earn more from just playing one
- Both formats may have separate reward pools
- Daily quest will be the same and can be completed in either format
- Season rewards are still TBD
- Leaderboards may be separate with separate rewards
Chaos Legion 2nd + 3rd Airdrops:
- Both the 2nd and 3rd airdrop will drop at the end of the current sale phase
- So if you bought CL packs in the pre-sale and current phase, you will be eligible
- More information on the cards and droprates will be posted later
- May be Legendary cards
- Will probably start doing guaranteed Gold Foil drops as well
Support System:
- Support site got a revamp: https://support.splinterlands.com/hc/en-us
- Includes new knowledge articles and guides for support issues
- Will have a live support agent in the future for real-time support help
🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥
Potential New Buy SPS Screen
New Wallpapers
Animations
Concept Art
Chatter's New Business Card - Concept Art
Recent Updates
Tech Team Role Changes
- Yabapmatt is transitioning from CTO ==> CPO (Chief Product Officer)
- Hardpoint is taking over the CTO position
- Kbux is taking over the VP of Engineering position
- All three of these team members involvement and commitmment aren't being reduced, they are being put in roles that fit their skillsets more
New Tale From Tome Of Chaos
- These tales extend the story of how Chaos Legion affected Praetoria and the rest of the world
- Includes a video that reads the story for you
Past AMA Summaries
- Friday, December 10th, 2021
- Dev Updates 👀
- Creative Updates 💥
- Q&A ⚡️
- Friday, December 3rd, 2021
- Chaos Legion Launch (5 Days Away!) 👀
- Creative Updates - More Lore/Stories! 💥
- Land Expansion & SPS Validators ⚡️
- Friday, November 26th, 2021
- Chaos Legion Top 6 Pre-sale Buyers 👀
- Chaos Legion Public Sale Updates 💥
- Eye Candy ⚡️