The best blockchain game on the planet, 0xUniverse passed some milestones this week.

The game's 1-year anniversary is due in July, and with over 140,000 planets discovered, it has been quite an adventure watching the game and community grow and evolve. https://www.bitsburgh.com/0xUniverse_art_02_1920.jpg Last Friday, May 24th the dev team held their 2nd QandA live on Discord. The masterminds behind the advanced blockchain strategy game answered questions and gave fans some reassurances about the major updates soon to come. Software development and deadlines do not mesh. So although players are anxious to see more features added to the game, we just have to be patient and allow the team proper time to deliver. Some of the major poinst of interest include: 1. Corporations and corp wars 2. A fully functional mobile version of the game 3. The highly anticipated 0xBattleships These updates might be a ways off and will not come all at once, but when they do, it's sure to blast 0xUniverse to the next level of blockchain gaming.

The mysterious crypto-space explorer and investor Spig is at it again.

https://www.bitsburgh.com/obspig.jpg 0xUniverse's power player Spig has been methodically buying up some of the games most prized assets, legendary planets. Upon unlocking the modules or puzzles hidden within a few legendary planets, Spig was then able to find the Hidden Planet of the Sculptors and move the storyline forward. I wouldn't be too surprised if more leggy discoveries are right around the corner.

Moreover, my personal progress in the game continues to aid in blockchain education.

So far, the game has taught me, first hand about some of the current, physical limitations of Ethereum's network. Ship invention #17 requires some serious thought and time-consuming planet moving. I'm just about there at the time of writing, I will keep you all posted. But back to ETH's current state...I'm not too worried. The overall roadmap includes a plethora of layer 1 (requires a hard fork) and layer 2 solutions. These are set to roll out in the next few years and have separate research and development teams. Ethereum seeks power in numbers, as it likely has the most developers in the blockchain space, more than Bitcoin. There are bound to be some hiccups, as this tech is so brand spanking new. Either way, I'm pretty confident that a combination of all these scaling solutions will make Ethereum 2.0 pretty unstoppable. https://medium.com/coinmonks/scaling-solutions-on-ethereum-explained-d970b66e28e5

Futhermore, new space explores are joining the fun and getting addicted to the game.

There are some seriously knowledgable folks within the 0xUniverse community. It is nice to see some new peripheral content popping up as well. Flat Universers are creating some pretty sweet, in-depth guides and video tutorials. I can't think of a better way to learn about Ethereum and blockchain, than by playing this game and collaborating within this community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTj1hfb2No0 In addition, the audiences on discord and telegram have been steadily growing. These platforms are the best places to interact with the global community and learn the game. People all over the world are buzzing around in spaceships and discovering new worlds of their own. Why don't you come and join in the fun? https://play.0xuniverse.com/ Thanks for reading. Take care and God Bless. Cheers! Here is a truncated transcript of the QandA. For the full version, please join the Discord server. https://discord.gg/R8fwEPC @Bitsburgh_cobra "Is there a clear outline for the planet class distribution? A definite planet limit of 1,000,000?" - very frequent question and I can not say something new ( @Lennonheath1234 "Exact date for Battleships please?" - Oh, I would also like to know the answer to this question. As you know, a separate team is working on each of our projects, and there were difficulties in 0xBattleships, so there was a considerable delay. As soon as they wake up the news, we will immediately But the game will come out in any case, while 0xGames heart burns. We like it very much! @Bitsburgh_cobra to clear this up, yea - 1 mln, but no set limit on classes - everyone will find this out as they go slight_smile @Kevinsmak "Any idea when the next update will be coming out?" - We underestimated the amount of work for corporations, but the release candidate is already in my hands. A couple more tests and release! @MKL "Are you guys open for community help on the development side?" - What kind of help do you mean? @SnowWit "so what do you think about your own token?" - We have already touched on this topic last time. In fact, since then we have a couple of thoughts and maybe in a few weeks you will hear an update on this! @Kevinsmak here I can be of help wink Wars of Corps is one of them surely @Bitsburgh_cobra "Can you go into some details of the physical limits of Ethereum as it pertains to inventing ship #17?" - Very sensitive question. I am very upset that we have not yet found a way to solve this problem. So far, the most realistic option is to transfer part of the game logic to our server. One way or another we will solve this! @von that is a secret that space explorers will find out soon enough I hope smiley But the thing is you can count on more of those beauties because, well, an expansion may happen rocket @MKL "ETA for corps?" please explain @MKL I think Sergey answered that with "We underestimated the amount of work for corporations, but the release candidate is already in my hands. A couple more tests and release!" wink Many questions about the legendary planet. Yes, it has become increasingly difficult to find them, but I am sure that not all have been found yet @Kitten Mittens You'll be Smitten @Alley @kadusu they're much fewer now than before, but as Sergey said not all have been found, and as was mentioned this is a secret for space explorers to discover (we're talking bout leggies after all smiley ). And, mind you guys, you will see more as the story continues @Lennonheath1234 "Is the planet of sculptors waiting to be found now or depending on certain number of planets discovered?" - No, this is only related to the study of the stories of the legendary planets. It became unexpected for us that there were many planets in the same hands. I think we can convince Spig to sell a few or share their stories @Kevinsmak "After corps do you have further updates planned other than battleships. If so can you mention anything about it?" - Definitely yes! Corporations are the basis of future upgrades. In addition, it is very important that you find the Hidden Planet to open up to the new features of the game. @Bitsburgh_cobra "perhaps transfer the logic to a different platform, to keep with the decentralized nature of blockchain gaming?" - We see no benefit from using platforms like LOOM. If some kind of game logic is too complicated and not related to the transfer of values, it is much easier and more convenient for everyone to transfer it to a centralized server. This does not contradict the blockchain philosophy of games simply to the fact that all the most important transactions remain in the blockchain. @PatrickG "Is there a plan to allow resources to be bought/sold directly (as opposed to needing to buy/sell the underlying planet)?" - What for? thinking @PatrickG 0xBattleships will have a use for resources, if that's what you mean. Also corps will have their own res pools @Fiammifero yea, 0xB will have a use for 0xU resources, as we mentioned before muscle::skin-tone-3 at least that was the plan hehe @MKL "help on issues you may have? help on speeding up a few minor features maybe? not sure, it seems the team could have used some help the past 6 months with no update" - The best way to help us keep playing. Including our other games. Your support is what gives us both financial and moral strength! @MKL @Kitten Mittens You'll be Smitten the changes improved efficiency because players that had many planets, when launching, experienced errors. So a new contract was created @Fiammifero "any plans to add some ingame communication like a public chat or private messages?" -Don't we already chat? wink I am sure that the problem with resources is not in the absence of a market, but in the fact that they can be used in few places so far. We want to make more places, this is what we are working on. @PatrickG well, that was asked before, if memory serves me right, and yea - 0xBattleships will have a use for 0xUniverse resources, that is - those resources that are produced on 0xU planets earth_americas but as Sergey mentioned, the thing is more places are needed and that is indeed what the team is working on now @Fiammifero "not while comfortably launching ships a few centimeters above the chat wink many players aren't on discord, it would have a bigger reach especially to trade planets smiley" - We can not make chat more convenient than the Discord. Those players who want to communicate are already here. Those players who do not want to communicate will not use the in-game chat. @PatrickG trade directly? You mean a res market - then Sergey is right, no separate market wink @Fiammifero "" - Direct messages with a plan to buy the planet can be useful. In particular, recently, at the request of Spig, we asked a couple of our players to set their planets for sale and they responded. We will try to make this feature comfortable and not violating privacy - thanks! @choody we have a trello board with suggestions, last time some guys asked about open source/api etc - we added the suggestion there to see how many would vote @choody "are there any plans to share 0xUniverse as a basis for creating other games for other games creators?" - We are always open to such offers @Fiammifero this is a point of concern for many - with resources being needed and all smiley but yea - the team is working on that so whilst no direct trade/res market (as Patrick asked), there will be other possibilities, but you will see for yourself thumbsup::skin-tone-3 @Fiammifero what I can say is that won't be a dead end and it will be possible to find itwink @Fiammifero "i might have already seen this question answered, but anyway: what happens if the owner of a legendary that has the key to discover the hidden planet looses access to his wallet? are there enough different paths to the last legendary to make sure this won't be a problem?" - We have an extra backup plan! @Bitsburgh_cobra a separate resource market - no. But other ways - yes 1 million - yes, the class distribution - players will find out as they go, that is the best answer I can give hehe @akeeter as mentioend before, yes the team is working on different solutions for that. Just not on a separate res market Thank you guys again and a big thanks to Sergey. We should do it again in a ..month?