LOLA 101: game bases
LOLA 101 articles will highlight specific aspects of Lots of Lands and provide users with essential information about the game and its economy. The first article in this series is devoted to the first asset to become available in the LOLA ecosystem, game bases.
What are LOLA bases?
LOLA bases are an integral part of the Lots of Lands game and will play a key role in the game’s economy, especially in its early stages. To understand what a base is and how it works, it is a good idea to familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of how the game will work.
Lots of Lands is an NFT strategy game set on a slightly futuristic virtual model of the real world map called the meta-earth.
Players of LOLA will be able to work together and compete to expand their resources and territories on the map. All of the assets in the game will have both an in-game and an on-chain value, allowing players to do certain things in the game and also allowing them to sell or exchange their in-game possessions for digital assets on exchanges.
The Lots of Lands economy will have four major asset classes: bases, lands, resources and the game’s own LOLA governance token. The meta-earth will be broken up into plots that are each roughly equivalent to a territory of 30 square feet. These plots are lands where players will be able to construct buildings and begin to interact with other players. In order to build, players will need resources. Each land will come with a randomly determined allocation of natural resources that players will have to extract in order to use. In our subsequent LOLA 101 articles, we will break down in detail how exactly lands and resources will work in the game.
But, before all of that kicks off and the game gets properly underway, access will be opened to the game via an NFT drop consisting of 25,000 unique game bases. Each game base is a homestead that will be located on lands in the meta-earth. By acquiring a base, a player will be able to enter the meta-earth before others and start acquiring lands and resources in order to build.
Types of LOLA bases
As mentioned above, the initial NFT drop will consist of 25,000 unique bases. Lots of Lands is set in a slightly futuristic version of reality and the bases that players can acquire will reflect that. Some bases will be minimalistic, some will be exotic, some done in a baroque cyberpunk style, but they all will be unique and have their own personal touches that, taken all together, will contribute to the game’s vibrant panoply. Below you can see some of the bases we are currently developing:
LOLA base utility
As the initial tickets allowing players to get started in the game, bases have a crucial significance in the LOLA ecosystem. Once a player has a base, they will be able to explore the territory around their base and mint lands, which, once minted, they can also own in the form of NFTs.
For every base you own, you will be able to explore that many number of lands. For example, let’s say you get 2 LOLA bases. That means you will be able to explore two plots of land located close to your base (or close to any land that you have also acquired). You will be able to explore these lands for free or, if you want lands further away from your base, you can pay to mint a land farther away using LOLA tokens. The farther away a land is, the more expensive it will be to mint, quadratically.
The bases will originally be sold on the Ethereum blockchain before being migrated over to the NEAR Protocol where LOLA will operate. Since the bases are NFTs, in addition to being keys that unlock the game, bases will be valuable assets in themselves that players can exchange and sell as they see fit. There will only ever be 25,000 LOLA bases, making them the most scarce asset in the game. Their scarcity paired with the high demand they will generate as access points to the game will ensure that they are one of the most highly sought assets in the LOLA ecosystem.
How to get LOLA bases
The initial base NFT drop will take place around the end of July. The bases will be available as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain before they are migrated over to NEAR. The sale will be conducted according to the mystery box model, in which purchasers will be given random bases at a flat price and can also resell unopened boxes. These bases will have unique geolocations that will determine which nearby lands a player can explore and mint.
Because of the bases’ scarcity and high demand, there is a whitelist for the NFT drop that will guarantee a limited number of people the ability to participate in the drop. The whitelist can be found on the Lots of Lands discord: discord.gg/SfhQG5xe6M. In the run-up to the drop, there will be different opportunities to get included on the whitelist, so make sure you join our discord and follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlayLotsofLands in order to not miss out.
