Hello Splinterlands Fam,

We had another Town Hall Meeting yet this time there is no big news. (As I was writing this summary SPS is officially listed on Crypto.com 😁 Here's our big news) Still, there are very good clues about the future of everything SPL :) I'm here to take some notes and thoughts on the matters talked about. Here we go:

Here is the speaker's list from the original

of Splinterlands.

Speakers:

Aggroed (Co-Founder)
Nateaguila (Creative Director)
WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
Andrew Stoeve (Doogie) VP of Projects Management
Rondon - Splinterlands.TV
Kira1995(Corey) Financial support senior
Sean Ryan - Head of Narrative Team

Let's Move on to the Notes

Aggroed started saying this is a progressing week for everything. Also he and his wife expecting a baby (9 days overdue) so I would like to congratulate him and hoping healthy and prospherous life for all his family.

Nate: We, creatives are all over the place :) Animation team, multi-media team, artist and everyone are working hard. Sean Ryan will be here sharing lots of stuff. We're working on a new thing about backdrops of splinterbites. They will change according to the league you're playing; showing relevant strategies etc. And here is an eyecandy where the avatar of Aggroed as a splinterbites backdrop. Aggroed wants a more beat-up version of that. beating opponents with his own severed arm. Maybe holding his own intestines like Braveheart :)

Nate: I came across on project management board and I got a Cursed Windeku attacking opponents:

Nate: So, Modern/Wild will take some time for the U/X and stuff. We will be planning a soft-opening and maybe polish everything over time. Chests will definitely evolve in time, animations etc. We wannna compete with the big guys and go mainstream. Music and sounds are all coming and we're excited to share them with you.

Releasing a batch of new cards. And here is some sketches:

We give double the needed art and Matt chooses :) So these sometimes doesn't come realised. Sometimes narrative changes stuff from the lore too. And whatever not used in reward cards will be in riftwatchers.

Nowadays narrative gives more detailed stuff so creative has less space to go crazy :) We're literally thinking 2 years in production and improvement. Campaign modes, animations, comic books are already planned in the future. What characters play big role in that!

New Tourney Perspective

We have all the data coming from tourneys. We use them to power-up!
Agg: people saying only 5 people winning and this thing is broken, what's your say on that?

WB: We're adjusting the requirements and everything.

First of all, I was skeptical about tournaments at first. Because there was just big tourneys with famous players playing and earning by themselves. Yet, in this town hall, Weirdbeared told us some stuff about how normal players can also join the tourneys and have fun without getting squashed by pros ;)

• He told something about a kind of tourney that you can enter without any power requirements. Not just that, you don't have to have any cards too. In this tourney everyone have the same set of cards and advantages. That's I think will be huge. Weirdbeard said he wants to see thousands of players attend to them and I believe it too.
• He also said high league players coming to the low level tourneys and stampeding players will be adjusted.

WB: We'll adjust tournaments to not become merely a faucet for people to collect on.
I don't know how to deal with that but we'll see. Yet there should be some grounds where rising noobs and pros can battle also!

Andrew Stoeve (Doogie) on VP of Projects Management

• We met Andrew, the project manager of most things going around SPL. So you can say that CL is project with all aspects and he's responsible for keeping it moving without problems. I'm a project manager too so I understand what he's doing. When you have a project like that people are usually have lots of stuff to do but organizing, time-framing and distribution is my job and I can see why he's one of the most important people in SPL.
• At the end of his speech he referenced to Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. I always like people that are into creative and fantasy worlds to become heads of very serious positions. Than those serious positions not only does the job but also make things go in a more creative way. He said "So long and thanks for all the fish!" This is from "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams and it has same value as LOTR for most people!

• Ron was talking about the new Splinterlands.tv where amateur and pro twitchers and youtubers will have their own programmes. That's so cool. He said underneath all NFT and earning stuff SPL is a fun to play game and he wants to emphasize that on that TV stream. Twitch is the best avenue for advertising and building presence. @aggroed add that it should be called more of a Content Marketing than advertising.

WB: People are very excited about P2E on twitch, there a lots of people haven't been exposed. This is different from NFT monkeys etc so we need to be exposed on twitch and move on from there.
AGG: What sort of streams we'll have?
Ron: Passionate people about the game making stuff is the key. They'll decide themselves individually. A little bit guidance maybe. Non-english speakers also be there.
You can check the full schedule here :

• Kiram995:
  My name is Corey, financial support senior for the financial scheme. I fing SPL by researching on different economics stuff. Dino introduced me. Stucked transfers, gather info, payment failures all, airdrops not creditted come to me. My start with Splinterlands was so good, I spent $100 just for a mermaid healer yesterday.

• Sean Ryan:
  He was an assistant director on Marvel Comics and an editor on DC comics, mostly in the Superman office. You are basically a producer to the stuff. Responsible for putting everything together. We're talking with Nate about a comic book. Goal is to make it seem and wanted by someone haven't heard about that.

AGG: The narratives in comics mostly bipolar, just good vs evil. GOT is good at characters that there are grey areas. How does the problems in cultures and communities solved should be the base problem. Characters should not be evil/good completely. Controversial characters and storylines, what does kids/gamers want.

Fanbase some would like the idea of comic books as NFTs, some won't. If you want a digital comic book it won't take more than 2 months he said. But printing needs to be worked on more. Stores and distributors and this crypto world is kinda overlapped. It's good to hear SPL on a comic store too.

AGG: I want all stuff like books, comic books, tabletop games, card games, plastic miniatures! Starter kit or spellbook coming with a comic book would be nice!

Q&A

Tournaments

• I'm thinking about getting enough gold foil to push my collection into a competitive space for Wealthy Gambit Gold foil. What kind of assurances are there that the Power Requirements won't jump up the day after I drop another $20-40K into the game?

Weirdbeard answered that their priority is not to raise the requirements, instead they want to lower them to make everyone participate. For me that's a very healthy perspective from SPL team.

Brawls

• When will we have "Brawler" tournaments again?
  We're still working on it.

Validators

• Can we get a ballpark price for validators? Will there be enough time between the announcement of price and sale for people to unstake SPS if needed?
  Good point. AGG thinks the price will be dynamic.

• Will there be KYC for the SPS governance licenses? If not, what mitigation would be in place to prevent one human buying a bunch of licenses, effectively serving a significant percentage of SPS validation?
  I don't think KYC will be part of that. People are welcome to have several nodes.

Cards

• Any timeframe on when Djinn Renova will be buffed?
  She's missing a stat imp.

• It was mentioned in the last town hall that new reward cards would be coming. The current reward cards are shown to have around a 30 - 40 percent print and distribution. Would that mean that the new reward cards would be issued along with the current ones or would the current reward cards print run be cut short?
  We're adding more.

• Could SPL provide a chart or raw data about CL pack selling performance?
  maybe :)

• When will the updates for the starter deck be released?
  I don't know the plans now.

Battles

• In regards to "Win Trading," wouldn't it be easy for someone to run a bot to verify their last five matches to the current opponent’s last five matches?
  I'l look at this too.

Roadmap

• Can you provide a timeline of when you will be giving an updated roadmap? Also thanks for all your hard work, the team is great!
  I have it but I need to talk to Hardpoint about that. We're close.

Modern/Wild

• Why double the reward pool for modern/wild instead of 50/50?
  The amount of DEC produced not that large.

• I noticed the preview of the new players records (best rating, highest rank ect) for the two formats (wild and modern). What happens to our current stats? Will they be converted to wild format? Or reset?
  It probably be reset. Good question. Nate: History will be added to wild I think.

Ronin Hack

• How safe are our assets here at SL? After the Axie hack and $625m worth of crypto stolen, I would like to hear your take on this.
  Any system is prone to hacking. Also when you're decentralized. Axie made some mistakes. We've made different choices to tackle that. My heart goes out those guys. They are good people and I hope they'll resolve that.

Suggestions/Requests

• Is there a feature coming up in a update where you can create card presets to use in battles so that way you can just select the preset quickly instead of finding the same cards for same match?
  I don't know. It should go to feedback.splinterlands.com

• Can you add a news/update/media page to the website?
  It would be high priority.

• Is it planned in Challenges to give us options to choose from all Editions, also Gladiator Cards? Would help a lot to prepare for Tournaments and just for the fun to play Gladi more 😉

• Have you considered a max power as well as a minimum power cap for lower league tournaments?
  There are nerfs.
  WB: Why are people going down leagues/tournaments to play!

Others

• Is non-card market-ready?
  Nate: Non-card market UI is somehow finished. Needs rewamps. We got the wireframe settled.

• Athlete NFTs? AGG: I don't want to share yet!

Nate: CL is the biggest collection of cards. I gave Matt a set to choose for CL and choose all cards.

• At one point AGG mentioned my [Airship Design](

  yacht-is-here) I shared on Discord and said it looks fun, pretty cool. :))

• Nate: We're releasing another lore video tomorrow! keep an eye on that!

• When we launch the land reveal we want them to be able to buy and sell! The deed tokens will be buy and sold. We want everyone to see all the options within the game.

• We're playing on the UI options. Some notifications, warnings about rewards using or not using ghost cards.

• Priority defaults: I want in reverse speed to use worse card instead of higher. We'll look into that, a UX challenge!

• Until you survey the land you don't know the rarity!

• Also there was a question on discord: Will this be the first page on 1st comic book?

Nate said nope! :)

Take Care!

P.S. If you think that I misunderstood some stuff, please comment and I'll change it! Thanks.