December 2022
In this December Insider, we talk about all of the unglamorous things that are going on behind the scenes! Including details on the future new Account setup and various Admin changes. Finally, the details surrounding the Winter Tournament are here!
A Quick Recap
Those darned aliens! They just couldn’t leave well enough alone, could they?! Too bad, they were WEAK, HA! We sure showed them, despite them coming back with help. Because of this, we were able to confiscate some of their technology and reverse engineer it to bolster our base’s production rates! We should hopefully see that kick in soon and just in time too, as this month’s challenge is to harvest a bunch. Look for the shield symbol (🛡️) on bases indicating if they are being boosted!
In other news, our new ranking system on Discord is in full swing! This new program provides tokens and rewards for posting regularly and being active members of the community. The first round of rewards has been sent out, back-paying you loyal long-time community members! We sent out a total of 114,500 $MM and 600 Encryption Keys in this first go as we caught up with the rewards for everyone. This is a great opportunity to be able to earn some $MM and Keys for continuing to be engaged and for supporting other players in the community.
Lastly, we’re wrapping up November’s Shrine minting giveaway — we ran all 36 entries and SAMOVA was declared the winner! Watch Here!
Current Development
Simulator Update:
As we hinted at previously, a new Dark Web feature is coming soon! An Invisibility of sorts, to remove your name from the explorer for a limited time. This will allow you to be sneaky and your actions will remain hidden as you fork, or maybe you don’t actually fork!? Use it to throw people off! Muahahahaa! 😁
Mintoverse Update:
As we continue working on aspects of the Mintoverse, one of our primary visions is to better integrate the simulator and moon projects. The first major step is to merge their account systems into one unified Mintoverse account. We’ll also take that opportunity to create a singular, refined account page that has everything all in one place! This is good because we have future additions we’d like to add, and we need something solid in place before we can implement them. (Custom Avatars, I’m looking at you! 👀)
Furthermore, we have a number of background admin tools that make our job easier, but because of the time spent elsewhere developing this or that, these tools have started to begin lacking the capabilities we need. There is a list of things that we would love to incorporate, and so we’re about to begin that process. We want to bring these up to date before we push on ahead further in other areas so that we don’t fall too far behind. As it is right now, a bunch of things are having to be done manually and we can automate these further, allowing us to spend more time in the areas that matter most — adding more content!
Another feature that is being revamped is the login system that ties your eth-address to your profile. We’ve begun digging into new methods that will open the door to potentially launching the game as a mobile app on the respective app stores. As well as make it so that you don’t need to use a wallet browser to play the game!
All of these and more, are features that aren’t all that noticeable or flashy. They could easily go unnoticed and most of them don’t provide much in the way of gameplay additions, yet they are super important to tackle for the longevity and foundation of the project. These will help make our lives easier and provide a smoother and better overall experience by laying the groundwork to be able to include other additions more readily to the Mintoverse.
Moon Update:
We know, we know! Your shiny Mintobot card doesn’t yet have a job on the moon! We are working on this, but it will likely happen after we’ve accomplished most of the account restructuring.
Something else that you guys brought to our attention is that the harvesting bases on the moon currently demands steady, hourly visits. That was not meant to be the idea, so we are implementing your new “Energy Bar” suggestion.
With this change, each player will have their own energy bars, containing 3–5 jolts of energy. Each harvest will consume 1 of these segments and reduce your bar by that much, meaning you can harvest multiple bases in one go! The bar will refill by 1 unit approximately once per hour.
That means every 3–5 hours you can check back in to harvest again and still take home the same amount of resources as if you were here every hour harvesting. Perhaps we even make an account-level upgrade to increase this energy bar’s storage capacity? The moon's atmosphere is the limit… 😏
Speaking of skies, M.O.R.A.D. (Mintopoly Aerospace Defense Command) was tracking Santa’s pre-Christmas test flights and witnessed something strange! All we know is that the reports said: “Santa flew off into space! Is he headed to the moon?” 🎅
Winter Tournament
After hearing your feedback, we agree that it was best to push the start of this back, until after the crazy holiday season comes to a wrap. So, we’ve rescheduled the Winter Tournament to begin on January 6! Beginning next week and running up until the start of the tournament, we will provide opportunities for you to earn a handful of various prizes by participating in some extra activities.
Here’s how the tournament scoring will work:
Players will receive points in multiple ways during this event, and the player with the most points at the end will be crowned as the Mintopoly Champion and will be the winner of a Founder’s Edition NFT! This player will hold the title of Champion via a Discord role until they can be overthrown in the following tournament. We will of course also have runner-up prizes and a few random drawings as well — complete details on the reward structure will be released in the weeks to come.
The primary method of receiving points will be by your ranking within each round. We will begin with 50 points for coming in first place, with each subsequent rank losing 1 point for each placement lower they end up. The tenth-place person would receive 40 points, and so on until we get to the person in 40th place. Players ranking between 40th — 100th places will earn 10 points each and anyone ranking lower than this will not earn any points.
The secondary method of receiving points will be from designated side challenges (not to be confused with the side competitions that will be run as normal throughout the tournament). Each of these side challenges, such as Highest Fork Percentage and so on, will have a top 3 each round which will award 30–20–10 points respectively, which will be in addition to the rank placement points of the round. You’ll need to make sure to plan wisely! 😉
Since this is a new and uncharted territory, changes will inevitably need to be made along the way, and therefore we need to remain flexible as we adjust and figure out the best way to operate this. Future tournaments will adopt the learned best practices and we will make refinements to ensure that it becomes the best it can be! We look forward to seeing you all compete, perhaps we will be seeing some OG players come out of retirement to show the new kids on the block how it’s done too?!
- The Mintopoly Team
