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Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - May 2nd, 2022 - 8PM Eastern!


Town Hall Summary

  • Speakers:
    • Aggroed (CEO)
    • Z416175 (Developer - Kron Job)
    • Cryptomancer (Developer - Dark Eternals Team)
    • Antiosh (Developer - Dragon Riders Team)
    • WeirdBeard (Tournaments/ESports)
    • Bulldog1205 (Community Manager)
    • Doogie (VP of Project Management)
    • Steamdan (Community Moderator)
    • Kay (Marketing)
  • Main Topics:
    • Company Updates 💥
    • Q&A Summary ⚡️
    • Recent Announcements 👀
  • Recording:

  • Timestamps:

    • 00:45 - General Intro
    • 03:00 - Z416175 Intro/Update (Developer - Kron Job)
    • 17:50 - Cryptomancer Update (Developer - Dark Eternals)
    • 31:00 - Antiosh Intro/Update (Developer - Dragon Riders)
    • 42:20 - WeirdBeard Update (Tournament/ESports)
    • 57:40 - Bulldog1205 Update (Community Manager)
    • 1:08:35 - Doogie Update (VP of Project Management)
    • 1:13:15 - Steamdan Intro/Update (Community Moderator)
    • 1:19:10 - Kay Intro/Update (Marketing)
    • 1:28:30 - Q&A
    • 2:00:10 - Closing Remarks

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💥 Company Updates 💥

Development Updates:

  • Kron job team is working on the following, in order:
    • Tech Modernization
    • Non-Card Market
    • Land
  • Tech Modernization is rebasing the code, but with more modern and efficient technology
    • Will speed up the process for releasing new features
    • Increases performance and scalability
  • Since Land is such a big, important feature, the team realized that the technology behind Splinterlands needed to be updated
  • Release Priorities:
    • Ranked Rewards
    • Tech Modernization or Modern/Wild (still TBD on which one goes first)

Tournament/ESports Updates:

  • New tournament mode is estimated to be released possibly by end of May
    • Planning stage has been complete
    • New mode should give tournaments more life and participation
  • Modern/Wild tournaments are coming soon too with the Modern/Wild release
  • Team is very close to getting tournament sponsors as well
  • WeirdBeard will upload a document in Discord that lists all the tournaments, entry fees, and requirements

Warner Music Group Updates:

  • Kay and Aggroed are working on the Warner Music Group (WMG) projects
  • If the WMG projects are built on Hive, then you can log into all of them through single sign-on (SSO) with your Hive account
    • Allows for easy access to existing Hive users
    • Increases exposure for Splinterlands with the new artists & newcomers

General Team Updates:

  • New VP of Engineering has been hired and is being onboarded currently
    • Has a great wealth of experience and knowledge to share with the team

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⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️

SPS Validators:

  • Validators will be a huge step in achieving decentralization
  • Meaning, big parts of the game can be voted on by SPS holder
  • However, anything that impacts the core business will be handled directly by the Splinterlands team

Guild Brawl Frays:

  • Biggest issue with Guild Brawls currently is having guilds plateau
    • Most guilds aren't currently moving up to the higher leagues as it may not be worth it
    • New Guild Brawl changes are the first step in tackling this issue
  • Team will consider reevaluating the Brawl frays
    • Lower tiers consist of frays such as Alpha/Beta Only & Gold Foils Only that are difficult for newer guilds to fill
  • SPS rewards for Guild Brawls are on the backlog but probably not until after Modern/Wild is released

Ranked Rewards:

  • Starter cards will be marked as starter cards when building your lineup during a battle
    • This allows players to view what starter cards they own and what starter cards they don't
    • Each starter card that you use in a battle and don't own will result in a DEC decrease
  • New Reward cards release and distribution have yet to be announced

DEC Lending Contracts:

  • Team has thought about building the option to give cards to a smart contract and being able to take out loans agains them
  • Integrates more DEFI into the game

Bronze Playstyle:

  • The team is fully aware of the difficulty that new players experience when coming into the game
  • New team members experience these difficulties all the time directly
  • Marketing team and Data Analytics team has been focusing efforts on the lower leagues as well

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🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥

Modern/Wild Tournaments

Tournaments are labeled as Modern or Wild

New Game Mode option when creating tournaments

Info buttons are updated accurately to reflect cards allowed

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Recent Announcements

Crypto.com Exchange Listing Update

  • We have gone live with one of the campaigns in which users who register and are trading SPS can win from a $100,000 worth of SPS prize pool!
  • Please note there will be another campaign once the US pairing has been sent live (Crypto.com is working on that pairing currently)
  • Crypto.com Twitter Link

Crypto.com App Listing

  • Splintershards (SPS) is now listed in the Crypto.com App and can be bought at true cost with USD, EUR, GBP, and 20+ fiat currencies

Brawl Economy Update

  • The new changes will look to accomplish two things, being:
    1. Decrease the disparity in Brawl prizes between top performing guilds and lower performing guilds, and;
    2. Better incentivize guilds to move up to higher Brawl Tiers.
  • The updates are set to go live on April 30, 2022

Splinterlands (SPS) Token Updates

  • Final private sale investor SPS token distribution went out yesterday which will reduce the amount of new SPS minted by 20M / month
  • Additionally, there are less than 90 days left of the airdrop which will drop the new emissions significantly again
  • On the flip side, we have the validator node license sale coming up as well as the Riftwatchers mini-edition, both of which will only be purchasable using the SPS token.

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Next AMA - Monday, May 9th, 10AM Eastern (2PM UTC)

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