A few dawns later
Hello fellow citizens of EOS Planet! It’s been three days since we landed on this new world, let see what happened and what the future holds for us.
We landed on the planet late on Friday night, and during the weekend 1700 users roamed around. Thousands of blocks started being build.
I must say that I think that this first version of the game was very successful and opens the way for the next iterations. This is what I would like to focus on in this post.
The ultimate goal
The ultimate goal of this project is to make a self sustaining game that lives on the blockchain. We are currently doing very well on that part. EOSPlanet doesn’t even need a backend. It is just your browser talking to the blockchain. The plan is to keep it this way for all core features. Only secondary stuff will (if needed) require a backend to be deployed on a private server. By secondary meaning things like some user statistics, etc.
So, at the end of the journey we imagine EOSPlanet a completely autonomous and unstoppable system, where itself through the “block holders” decides even who develops its new features. And those block holders are the beneficiaries of any profit the system makes.
Early adopters
First of all, as it was a popular demand on the telegram group, lets talk about the current economy. This system put in place for the launch of the game, is to give users the ability to create blocks without mining materials first. This gives a huge advantage to people joining early on. Let me explain why.
In the next version of the game an inventory will be added. After that, in order to place a block you would need to mine the materials first. There will be no cost in placing a block in the world, it would cost when mining the raw material from the world. So, if you want to build a wall with 10 blocks, you would need to mine 10 blocks of soil. If you want to build with materials that are not in the world, you will need to craft them by combining others. These resulting materials can then be mined by other users that need them. So essentially there will be a material economy.
For example: I mine a block of soil for 0.02 EOS, then I craft it (essentially convert it) to a stone wall material and place that in the world. If an other player want to build some stone wall, he might find your block pick it up and place it where he want to. You will get the profits of mining this more expensive material. So early users get the benefit of having lots of higher priced materials placed in the world for the price of basic materials, so they will profit more.
The pot
We also updated the rules for the pot to incentivise buying blocks from other users. So now, when you spend EOS to build in the world you only get 50% of your contribution to the pot. You get 100% of your contribution only when mining blocks of other players.
So if you are in only for the pot, then it’s better that you replace or clear out blocks of others!
Next releases
So in the next update we will introduce the inventory that will allow you to mine materials and hold them, until you place the in the world. At the same time the “infinite” materials users have now will no longer be available.
At this phase there will be no crafting, so all the higher order materials will be the ones that users placed on the planet in the current phase.
This will last until crafting is enabled in the consecutive update. After we make sure everything works as expected with the inventory enabled, crafting will be released. At that point lots of new materials will be introduced. Keep in mind that the crafting recipes will be a secret. So if you discover a recipe to produce a rare and expensive material you might choose to keep it to yourself, and just craft and sell the resulting materials/objects!
We don’t want to put a specific timeline on these releases, as we are breaking new grounds here and development is not so predictable.
So stay tuned as more exciting stuff are coming!
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