Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - November 21st, 2024!
Town Hall Summary
- Team Members:
- Yabapmatt (CEO)
- Nate (Creative)
- Investygator (OPS Product Owner / Software Developer)
- Blaze (Marketing)
- Patrick (CTO)
- Cryptomancer (Developer)
- Recording:
https://www.youtube.com/live/JZI10_NnWfg?si=9GO_hHUz7oROdchJ
Timestamps:
- 00:35 - Yabapmatt
- 06:35 - Blaze
- 14:35 -Investygator
- 23:00 - Nate
- 36:55 - Patrick
- 44:45 - Cryptomancer
- 1:08:15 - Yabapmatt
- 1:35:55 - Questions
💥 Key Points 💥
Release Notes
The Free-To-Play experience has been improved! We have made a lot of big changes to make the game better for new players by giving them the ability to earn account-bound rewards and improve their collection!
All players can now earn Glint from their Ranked victories after Novice league!
The base “modifier” for Glint is now 1x, even with no SPS staked.
The Starter Card penalty for earning Glint has been removed.
All players can now earn League advancement rewards.
A Spellbook is no longer required: to join a guild, earn Glint from ranked play, purchase Credits, purchase cards, receive gifts of packs or cards, receive card delegations, participate in Brawls and earn Merits, rent cards seasonally, combine cards, open packs, or purchase Rewards from the shop with Glint
A Spellbook is still required to: sell cards, transfer cards, delegate cards, list cards for rent, hold Dark Energy Crystals (DEC) or Splintershards (SPS), enter a Tournament, create or own a guild, hit Jackpot rewards, access Land, access Soulkeep, and earn SPS rewards.
To simplify the Starter Card selection, it is now only the oldest cards from the two sets currently in the Modern format - currently Chaos Legion.
New users can now pick a name!*
(* As long as it does not conflict with an existing account. It will get suffixed with _lite, which can be removed when a Spellbook is purchased.)
Upcoming Hall Of Legends
The fourth Hall of Legends event approaches! Nephket, a new Life/Water legendary unit, and Meriput Mossmender, a new Life/Earth rare unit, will be arriving in about two weeks!
The rare gets a new ability, Echo: Active abilities (Repair and all healing and cleansing abilities) trigger twice per round.
Gameplay Updates
Fixed an issue where Olivia Mimicking Double Strike or Echo would not work properly.
General Updates
There were changes made to improve the overall performance of the new battle display and to correct some issues. We have also made it so that the animation mode setting will now have an impact on the battle image rendering quality.
Fixed an issue where Olivia Mimicking Immunity would break the battle replay.
The battle replay speeds have been tweaked slightly.
Fixed an issue with the display of health not showing the proper color when interacting with bonus health.
The mute/enable sound on battles will now persist the selection during your current game session.
Fixed an issue where the tooltips that show up when hovering over a card were not removed when the card died.
Guild names should now fit better on the battle replay, and are much less likely to be truncated.
Setting the music volume to 0 will now correctly mute the music for battles.
The Earthquake damage animation is now much more lively.
The countdown timer on Tactics should now always appear and the text is now more centered over the progress bar.
Refreshing the browser on the Team Creation screen should no longer cause a notification to appear that you have an outstanding battle for Ranked play.
Added highlighting of the 1st position Unit on Mobile sized displays.
Added a display of the mana cost on cards selected to be part of your team on Mobile sized displays.
The Opponent Found display for Mobile has been resized slightly so that the Create Team button should now show without needing to scroll down.
The buttons on the Battle Results for Mobile sized displays have been moved to the top of the display.
Made it much easier to select a Tactic on Mobile without it selecting the summoner underneath instead.
Fixed an issue where advancing leagues was not triggering properly without a browser refresh.
In Landscape mode larger numbers of abilities will now wrap outside of the card instead of showing up as a plus sign with the number of undisplayed abilities.
Clarified the tooltip for the level reductions of cards in Tournaments when it is due to the level caps of the event.
Ghost Cards will now display their experience bar as being full, instead of empty.
Updated the display of cryptocurrencies noted as being accepted for the spellbook to ones that we still currently accept.
Updated the text on the No/Low Card warning for ranked to denote that you can still earn Glint with starter cards.
Updated the Auction House to show the total spent in the Previous Winners section.
New Ambassador Program - projected to release in December
👀 Eye Candy with Nate 👀
Marketing
Hive DAO funds are going toward marketing efforts
Very productive - working on leveraging strengths
Momentum on X: impressions, visits, likes, reposts, new followers have all increased over the last month
Daily sign ups and Spellbook purchases have increased
Marketing challenges/contests have been successful
New contest upcoming - will be posted on PeakD
Growth and partnerships - building connections
Land
Updates from Matt
Survival Mode
Splinterlands is now in a good position
Hall of legends promo card sales are going well
Splinterlands is feeling optimistic!
Progress being made regarding these projects:
- Mobile App
- Onboarding experience
- Glamour and Cosmetics
- Validators
- Land
Google drive link for media assets
Check out the lore!
🔥 Support Tutorial 🔥
How Do I Vote On SPS Governance Proposals?
- Read the Support article above to better understand how to vote on the SPS Governance proposals
- Access proposals on the SPS Proposal Page
Past Town Hall Summaries
Next Town Hall - December 19th in Discord
One thing about survival mode it would be great if it was Wild Format, but no bots allowed...
I'm sure they'll add a Modern Format - but like they said "we just want to keep it simple and get it started... we know it's not perfect and we know the community will have some really strong opinions on it... just bear with us, this is v1.0"
I hate I missed it - was working my wage-slave job :'(
I really miss what this game USED to be.
That was the best news of the day, I hope they now add starter packs, like a start pack for each element
!PIZZA
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