👽 [ANN] Age of Chains: Trading Card Video Game: Series 2 Presale Live - page 10.

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Quote from: Goldcov1 on March 20, 2017, 10:27:43 AM

Any news?

Work in progress on all fronts.

Things we are working on at the moment are among others:

Internal Playtesting:
Last weekend I was meeting up with our game developer and we had some extensive playtesting sessions with our physical prototype. Playing has been lots of fun, we learned more about the game mechanics and had some interesting thoughts on further game mechanic implementations to make the gameplay even more fun.
Development of Digital Prototype:
We are working hard on getting our Digital Prototype out asap to get into intense playtesting. We love feedback and want a good variety of great playtesters for nurturing and harvesting a great amount of feedback that we can improve the overall game upon.
Card & Character Planning & Creation:
As ever since the inception of this project, we are working hard on creating characters and cards that suit our lore and are epicly pleasant to look at.
Securing Seed Round Funding:
I have been committing lots of time to reach out to angel investors and handle communication with them. We have several meetings with investors coming up and my aim is to further intensify and accelerate this process. The related FounderX program that we are participating in hands us weekly tasks that serve as an extra help and push in achieving our goals. Tomorrow we will have office hours with Adeo Ressi, the founder of the program.
Scaling the Team:
We are constantly reaching out to new talent to get involved with us and have some very promising candidates to join our team. These include another game developer as well as a storyteller, concept designer and a web developer. We also scaled our team on the illustrative side and now have three amazing illustrators that we are looking to work with for getting amazing cards into your hands.

Let me know if you have more questions!

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Any news?

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Thanks for the great questions and answers!

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Quote from: overthetop2011 on March 08, 2017, 10:13:28 PM

As the info shows, the project may have hundreds of cards eventually.

My assumption, based on the information provided at the Tau Swapbot (https://swapbot.tokenly.com/bot/m4nki/age-of-chains-official-swapbot-tau-the-time-traveller#choose) is that there could be hundreds of thousands of individual cards, possibly a million in total. The webpage states that the chances are way below 1% that Tau would be found in a deck pack. I take that to mean that, if there are 8000 Tau cards that would mean the total number of cards would be way more than 800,000. I could be misconstruing 'chance' or variables like the size of the deck pack, possible plans to destroy/burn cards, etc. Lots of variables could impact the final numbers.

I'm wondering about the price of cards as well. How will the price of card packs be determined and will the $100.00 price be the average minimum for all future cards in that line (i.e., Tau) or will the average minimum be higher?

We aim at having around 200 non cosmetic cards at release for creating a diverse deck building and playing experience. Not all but many of the cards will be blockchain based.
I would love to create a supply of cards that grants us creating 100 million regular card packs, each holding five cards. The rarer a card, the lower the probability of obtaining the card through the purchase of a card pack. Feel free to calculate the drop probabilities of our exisisting cards in such card packs taking the above mentioned numbers but be aware that numbers are not final yet and still may change. However, this already demonstrates the direction in which we aim to head.

The price of card packs still is being evaluated as it is not an easy task at this stage of development. One of the factors influencing this are Bitcoin network related transaction costs that might increase further up until release depending on the increase of Bitcoin's popularity. Transaction costs also might decrease, assuming segregated witness and lightning network are being implemented. Another factor is the decision of how many cards actually are going to be in a card pack as well as implementing different types of card packs with different pricing.

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Are all these cards tradeable ? and how to realize such a big list of trading items ? I mean it would not be practical to hope any exchange to lisk the whole pack of cards .

All of the cards sold so far are tradeable. I doubt that will change. Even the deck board is tradeable. They are Counterparty tokens which, once you own, you can trade, loose, destroy, or use.

While many of our cards are going to be tradeable, we also want to make the game attractive for Free-to-Play players to bring in a huge number of additional players. As mentioned above, this means there will be some cards that are no tokens that can be earned ingame.

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how to realize such a big list of trading items ? I mean it would not be practical to hope any exchange to lisk the whole pack of cards .

It does not need to be an 'altcoin exchange' that lists the cards. Spells of Genesis cards are not on exchanges. The exception is the Counterparty DEX where SoG and AoC cards (and other game tokens) are both being traded at present. I would say that an important aspect of the 'tradeablity' is being able to trade one specific card for another specific card. It can be done with the DEX (maybe with IndieSquare wallet now?) but the experience is not so user friendly. The AoC team could fork IndieSquare or develop their own wallet.

Exactly right: We do not necessarily need an extra exchange for our cards as the Counterparty Dex as well as other apps such as Book of Orbs (where we are looking to get listed on in the future) work great for that. We also aim at creating a possibility to trade your cards within our game to remove additional effort from the player and give him the full experience within our environment.

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Would there be an essential asset or card acting as the currency inside the system?

Good question. I'm guessing that it will be released with the 'ICO'.

I would love to have a token related to our lore acting as the main medium of exchange within the game. A potential ICO would introduce it to us.

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Quote from: overthetop2011 on March 08, 2017, 10:13:28 PM

As the info shows, the project may have hundreds of cards eventually.

My assumption, based on the information provided at the Tau Swapbot (https://swapbot.tokenly.com/bot/m4nki/age-of-chains-official-swapbot-tau-the-time-traveller#choose) is that there could be hundreds of thousands of individual cards, possibly a million in total. The webpage states that the chances are way below 1% that Tau would be found in a deck pack. I take that to mean that, if there are 8000 Tau cards that would mean the total number of cards would be way more than 800,000. I could be misconstruing 'chance' or variables like the size of the deck pack, possible plans to destroy/burn cards, etc. Lots of variables could impact the final numbers.

I'm wondering about the price of cards as well. How will the price of card packs be determined and will the $100.00 price be the average minimum for all future cards in that line (i.e., Tau) or will the average minimum be higher?

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Are all these cards tradeable ? and how to realize such a big list of trading items ? I mean it would not be practical to hope any exchange to lisk the whole pack of cards .

All of the cards sold so far are tradeable. I doubt that will change. Even the deck board is tradeable. They are Counterparty tokens which, once you own, you can trade, loose, destroy, or use.

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how to realize such a big list of trading items ? I mean it would not be practical to hope any exchange to lisk the whole pack of cards .

It does not need to be an 'altcoin exchange' that lists the cards. Spells of Genesis cards are not on exchanges. The exception is the Counterparty DEX where SoG and AoC cards (and other game tokens) are both being traded at present. I would say that an important aspect of the 'tradeablity' is being able to trade one specific card for another specific card. It can be done with the DEX (maybe with IndieSquare wallet now?) but the experience is not so user friendly. The AoC team could fork IndieSquare or develop their own wallet.

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Would there be an essential asset or card acting as the currency inside the system?

Good question. I'm guessing that it will be released with the 'ICO'.

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As the info shows, the project may have hundreds of cards eventually.

So, my question is :

Are all these cards tradeable ? and how to realize such a big list of trading items ? I mean it would not be practical to hope any exchange to lisk the whole pack of cards .

Would there be an essential asset or card acting as the currency inside the system?

thanks.

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Quote from: m4nki on March 08, 2017, 05:21:19 AM

Quote from: kwest1 on March 07, 2017, 08:12:28 PM

Just pleading to the devs: pleaase don't allow for mega-super-ultra face smorc decks like Hearthstone. Yes, like I've said earlier in this thread: I do love HS. But that is the one thing I really don't like. I want all decks to be at least somewhat thoughtful and well paced, not mindless "go face" until your opponent dies on turn 4 because he has nothing to contest you with.

(PS: new account since my original got hacked)

Thanks for this feedback, we indeed put lots of thoughts into deck creation to avoid the problem you mentioned. I will also forward your feedback to our game designer and am looking forward to having you participate in our playtesting phase in case you are interested, so you can try it yourself and have some influence on the game design.

Thanks! And I'm definitely interested in playtesting AoC. Looking forward to it.

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Thanks for all the posts, guys - great to see some action going on in here!

Also another big thanks to the supporters that have been buying cards in the recent days - we now are in Tier 2 for all cards except for Woodcoin's Guardian where two cards in Tier 5 are left before being sold out!

Quote from: bitabit on March 05, 2017, 02:25:28 PM

If you do an ICO, I hope you will burn all the tokens after redemption of ranks/ICO assets or whatever benefits. I would hate to see another shitcoin being used for game assets. I have to say that the way you have done it so far is excellent by only accepting BTC or XCP for selling your cards.

We are evaluating all options considering the ICO. I already have something in mind but that would not include burning the tokens such as BitCrystals is doing but rather serve creating a direct flow of fiat money into our network.

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Quote from: m4nki on March 04, 2017, 12:23:35 PM

Anyone here on LinkedIn? I would be happy to connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kilian-kunst-b7a36b88/

For securing more intros towards angel investors, I am crawling my network for checking who could make intros to relevant people so any connector willing to do intros can be of great help.

I have asked for a more detailed explanation of these communities interest in the heart for follow this community

Not sure what you mean by that. Could you please elaborate?

Quote from: schnötzel on March 06, 2017, 01:30:44 PM

bounty for german translation?

We already have done a German translation of the initial OP but did not receive much traction on it - our core thread is this one.

Quote from: kwest1 on March 07, 2017, 08:12:28 PM

Just pleading to the devs: pleaase don't allow for mega-super-ultra face smorc decks like Hearthstone. Yes, like I've said earlier in this thread: I do love HS. But that is the one thing I really don't like. I want all decks to be at least somewhat thoughtful and well paced, not mindless "go face" until your opponent dies on turn 4 because he has nothing to contest you with.

(PS: new account since my original got hacked)

Thanks for this feedback, we indeed put lots of thoughts into deck creation to avoid the problem you mentioned. I will also forward your feedback to our game designer and am looking forward to having you participate in our playtesting phase in case you are interested, so you can try it yourself and have some influence on the game design.

Quote from: dragonares on March 07, 2017, 08:30:08 PM

Game ICO, finger cross! You know people like games and recent game ICOs are very successful, Nexium, Augmentator Mobilego and so forth. You will definitely rock!

Thank you, dragonares!

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Game ICO, finger cross! You know people like games and recent game ICOs are very successful, Nexium, Augmentator Mobilego and so forth. You will definitely rock!

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Just pleading to the devs: pleaase don't allow for mega-super-ultra face smorc decks like Hearthstone. Yes, like I've said earlier in this thread: I do love HS. But that is the one thing I really don't like. I want all decks to be at least somewhat thoughtful and well paced, not mindless "go face" until your opponent dies on turn 4 because he has nothing to contest you with.

(PS: new account since my original got hacked)

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Bitcoin is a bit**

bounty for german translation?

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Quote from: m4nki on March 04, 2017, 12:23:35 PM

Anyone here on LinkedIn? I would be happy to connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kilian-kunst-b7a36b88/

For securing more intros towards angel investors, I am crawling my network for checking who could make intros to relevant people so any connector willing to do intros can be of great help.

I have asked for a more detailed explanation of these communities interest in the heart for follow this community

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If you do an ICO, I hope you will burn all the tokens after redemption of ranks/ICO assets or whatever benefits. I would hate to see another shitcoin being used for game assets. I have to say that the way you have done it so far is excellent by only accepting BTC or XCP for selling your cards.

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Anyone here on LinkedIn? I would be happy to connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kilian-kunst-b7a36b88/

For securing more intros towards angel investors, I am crawling my network for checking who could make intros to relevant people so any connector willing to do intros can be of great help.

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Quote from: DiCE1904 on February 27, 2017, 10:29:39 PM

https://swapbot.tokenly.com/bot/m4nki/age-of-chains-official-swapbot keeps throwing errors at me. Is there another way to get the card?

That is weird, what kind of error are you getting?

It should work fine.

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Quote from: DiCE1904 on February 27, 2017, 10:29:39 PM

Quote from: m4nki on February 27, 2017, 02:03:24 PM

Quote from: overthetop2011 on February 27, 2017, 07:11:20 AM

Nice to see the team keep making progress.

Good luck.

Would there be a ICO for the project?

Thank you, overthetop2011!

Yes, we plan to have an ICO before the release of the game.

On a side note, there are just two Woodcoin's Guardian cards left before they are sold out.

https://swapbot.tokenly.com/bot/m4nki/age-of-chains-official-swapbot keeps throwing errors at me. Is there another way to get the card?

I saw the Guardian card recently sold for 27 xcp on the counterparty Dex. Therw may be a few there. If there are none I can put 1 or 2 on the Dex.

What was the error?

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Quote from: m4nki on February 27, 2017, 02:03:24 PM

Quote from: overthetop2011 on February 27, 2017, 07:11:20 AM

Nice to see the team keep making progress.

Good luck.

Would there be a ICO for the project?

Thank you, overthetop2011!

Yes, we plan to have an ICO before the release of the game.

On a side note, there are just two Woodcoin's Guardian cards left before they are sold out.

https://swapbot.tokenly.com/bot/m4nki/age-of-chains-official-swapbot keeps throwing errors at me. Is there another way to get the card?

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Quote from: overthetop2011 on February 27, 2017, 07:11:20 AM

Nice to see the team keep making progress.

Good luck.

Would there be a ICO for the project?

Thank you, overthetop2011!

Yes, we plan to have an ICO before the release of the game.

On a side note, there are just two Woodcoin's Guardian cards left before they are sold out.

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Nice to see the team keep making progress.

Good luck.

Would there be a ICO for the project?

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Development Update 02

We just published our second development update for you to read here.

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Furthermore, we successfully deciphered the messages that reached us and proudly present:

Card 004:
Electrum, Home of Eleg

Being a modified sun with a relentless source of electrical energy, Electrum has been serving as an interstellar center for charging any vehicle,
device and organism that drafts electricity as a resource for reaching faster than light travel.

Electrum, Home of Eleg will be among the most powerful cards available for the game.

Only 111.111 Electrum, Home of Eleg cards will ever exist.

The distribution of the card is organized in multiple tiers and priced as follows:

Tier 1: 222 cards for $5 each.

Tier 2: 888 cards for $7.5 each.

Tier 3: 666 cards for $10 each.

Tier 4: 88 cards for $25 each.

Tier 5: 22 cards for $50 each.

Minimum purchase amount is two cards.

The other cards will not be sold directly and are going to become accessible by purchasing card packs.
The chances of receiving a Electrum, Home of Eleg card within a regular card pack will be way below 1%.

100 units will be put aside for promotional activities.

10 units will be distributed among the Age of Chains team.

The card can be bought through the Age of Chains - Official Swapbot: Electrum, Home of Eleg.

Secure yourself one of the few available Electrum, Home of Eleg cards now:

-----> Get Electrum, Home of Eleg. <-----

Card 005:
Galaxyboard

The Galaxyboard will immerse you within an intergalactic battlefield, surrounded by a variety of galaxies floating across our universe.

The Galaxyboard is a rare cosmetic used for enabling a unique customization of the game board.

Only 4.444 Galaxyboard cards will ever exist.

The distribution of the card is organized in multiple tiers and priced as follows:

Tier 1: 111 cards for $10 each.

Tier 2: 333 cards for $15 each.

Tier 3: 222 cards for $20 each.

Tier 4: 55 cards for $50 each.

Tier 5: 11 cards for $100 each.

The other cards will not be sold directly and are going to become accessible by purchasing card packs.
The chances of receiving a Galaxyboard card within a regular card pack will be way below 1%.

10 units will be put aside for promotional activities.

10 units will be distributed among the Age of Chains team.

The card can be bought through the Age of Chains - Official Swapbot: Galaxyboard.

Secure yourself one of the few available Galaxyboard cards now:

-----> Get the Galaxyboard. <-----

To make sure that we will get the card out to a variety of people, we will load up the swapbots multiple times per tier with only with a few cards.
So if you find the swapbots being out of stock, just check back once in a while to see if it got refilled.

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