With very short notice of less than a day, the first pack sale for MoonKarts will commence, shortly after the Arcade Colony website has been publicly updated with a functional version, where we can see our fork rewards too.
In case you read this at a later date, the sale starts/started on March 12th, 2024, at noon EST.
The announcement speaks of two options of payment, credits or SCRIPT tokens and is set at 5$ per pack, where SCRIPT is internally valued at $1, being the stablecoin used on Arcade Colony.
At the time of writing, there is no visible way of buying credits on Arcade Colony, so I assume that option will be visible in the Shop when you choose the payment option for your packs.
That is even better because SCRIPT tokens are on discount on Hive-Engine, so if you want to buy packs for MoonKarts packs (called Alpha Centauri) and want to pay way less than 5$ per pack, Hive-Engine is the way. I think I purchased them at an average of 0.76 HIVE per SCRIPT, and HIVE is around 0.452$, so I paid around 0.343$ per SCRIPT, instead of 1$. That means the cost of a pack for me will be 1.717$ (compared to 5$).
Currently, the price has already risen a bit:
I used funds from a Splinterlands LP to buy the SCRIPT tokens. I had around 50$ worth of tokens there which I thought would mean 10 packs, and I would stop at that, but seeing the discount, I purchased enough SCRIPT for 20 packs and I still have 16+ HIVE remaining.
I think it was a good deal. I'm sure people holding SCRIPT from the fork rewards who wanted to sell thought it was a good deal too, lol. You might be one of them if the price of SCRIPT pumps closer to its shop value (
I don't expect the 500k packs from the sale to go out quickly, even if we've started to taste the bull market excitement. But if you want packs for MoonKarts, you might want to buy your SCRIPT tokens from Hive-Engine before the gap between the price via credits (always valued at $1) and SCRIPT is reduced, and move them in-game.