Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - May 23rd, 2024!

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Town Hall Summary

Team Members:
- Yabapmatt (CEO)
- Nate (Creative)
- Investygator (OPS Product Owner / Software Developer)

Recording:

https://www.youtube.com/live/f8pSGw0Uw-M?si=ljyjmk75cvLjCLQj

Timestamps:
- 00:35 - Yabapmatt
- 7:30 -Investygator
- 16:30 - Nate
- 35:05 - Yabapmatt
- 1:20:40 - Questions

💥 Key Points 💥

Release Notes

Conflict 5

The 5th Conflict has been loaded, which will release the next player designed Summoner, Cryptic, into the game. You can read more about his story here.

This Summoner introduces a new ability Expose. Expose has a 50% chance to remove Forcefield, Lookout, Reflection Shield, Shield, Void, Void Armor, Cleanse, or Immunity after a successful attack. Expose will always remove Immunity first.

General Updates

The Settings page has had a design update, as well as new options added:

Added a new setting, Animation Quality, to control the size of animations that will play in the game. Low Quality will only play very small animated images, Medium Quality will play any animations under 500K in size, and High Quality will play all animations on the site. This is High Quality by default.

Added new settings to disable Rental / Delegation expiration notifications. They are enabled by default.

Added new animated background and league icons to the battle history page, that only appear on High Quality animation mode.

A new 4x speed toggle was added to the battle replay.

Fixed an issue with the USD value on the DEC-Grain market calculating incorrectly.

Added the Trade Hub’s Dark Energy Crystal holdings back into the the supply calculation.

All of the Buy Grain links on Land pages now redirect to the Trade Hub.

Improved the Max button on purchase energy to correctly calculate how much energy will take you to 50 or the max you can buy with your available balance.

Fixed an issue where viewing another’s user profile would cause your local client Avatar icon to display as theirs.

Added handling for Items to be given out as Jackpot prizes, not just Balance tokens, to address redistributing some returned titles.

The header on the worker selection on worksite assignments will now stick to the top of the screen.

Added a third decimal place on the Non-Card Market listing input.

End of season processing has been improved and should run quicker going forward.

Items Hotfixed into the Game Prior to the Release

Fixed an issue with filling out the amount you want to receive from a swap in the Trade Hub not correctly populating how much needs to be sent.

Fixed an issue with Merit purchases incorrectly showing a warning about too many items potentially causing a slow display - that was intended for card draw/loot chests.

Upcoming Tuesday Release Notes

Land Updates

Pre-Fix titles will be added to the game! To view the current rankings visit Land → Production → View Rankings. The list of titles is updated hourly. You can read about the prefix in the whitepaper here or in game under the Prefix Titles tab.

The majority of land operations will no longer require active key authority, as nothing is leaving the game environment.

The Grain, Dark Energy, and Time Crystal balance displays will navigate to the appropriate transfer, or Stake/Unstake Dark Energy, screens when selected.

The DEC to Grain pricing will show two additional degrees of precision in the API results.

General Updates

You can use Coinbase payments to pay for Spellbook purchases.

The setting to disable potion use will be removed. You will have the option to select potion usage when submitting a purchase in the Reward shop.

When filtering by Ability in the Card Market using All Levels, it will filter against max level versions instead of the lowest level version of the card. As an example, Hill Giant will now show up when searching for Stun - even though a level 1 version of the card is displayed.

Will add some descriptive text for Item Locking in the settings.

If there are 0 Frays free, the notification about filling a fray will not display.

The Intro button on Conflicts will display for people at lower animation modes, but just display a message that you need to turn on High Quality animations to watch the video.

Fixed a minor UI issue on assigning land workers, where the checkbox could overlaying the header when scrolling down the list.

Cleaned up some issues with Land styling, where the new settings toggles were incorrectly applied to other screens using the same UI component.

Cleaned up some Splinterbites that had outdated card burning related text.

Added a clearer error response if you attempt to call the recent teams API and do not pass a player record.

👀 Eye Candy with Nate👀

Prefix Titles

Onboarding Tutorial Images

6 Year Anniversary Event!

Updates from Matt

Financials

Looking for ways to reduce expenses
Reducing overhead
Becoming more efficient
Over time we may need help from the DAO
At that point we will create proposals
Any funds given will be used as efficiently as possible
Crypto markets seem to run in 4 year cycles and we are ready for the bull run
We did bring on an employee a few months ago to focus on:
- Private equity
- Legal
- Accounting
- Financial

Validators

New bill just passed in the house - framework for what makes a crypto project decentralized
2 Developers working hard now on the validators
Election of the DAO treasurers is a step in the right direction
By the end of the year validators will be ready

Partnerships

There needs to be an upside
If we are doing one, then it needs to be hugely beneficial to the community
With that being said, there is one opportunity that we are currently working on

New Soulbound Reward Cards

Plan is to do a new set that is similar to the old set
Release sometime this summer

Governance Proposals

Regarding suggestions for changes to the game
We want to avoid the mindset that if the proposal passes then we stop what we are doing to make the changes
We need to fit the proposal changes into our current plans

Land