DragonMaster Community AMA Recap (Dec 2, 2022)

DragonMaster

10 min readDec 5, 2022

DragonMaster Core Members:

Ethan Brown
ChuckRRR
Daniel | Magic Hat

@CoolmanYH
Can the energy items sending feature by mail be out before new season start?

Thanks for your question.

The Send Mail feature is currently being tested , and we plan to update it next week.

@ZENFT | Dragon Master
What updates are we expecting this month

Today we will update.

🔹 Christmas UI
🔹 S8 season rules

December updates.

Christmas events (Christmas quests, Christmas items, Christmas dragons)
Send mail feature between friends (with items)
S8 normal Matchmaking leaderboard (TOTEM reward, we will announce the detailed rules on December 5)
Skin Mall
Tower Defense and card game mode (Beta Version)
Items Trading feature

@anneron
1. When will the new leaderboard/normal mode will be implemented? any final details about this? Also i think you should make the regular mode playable even without energy so people can still play and practice without energy. These are for the players who doesnt want to buy energy props and just wanna have fun and practice, you wont earn totem and trophy if you play without energy
2. I saw that s8 will have a 5 day extension, is this final? Isn’t the community asking for longer offseason not longer regular season lol
3. NFT Skins when? Any better preview and is there some stats advantage using this? or just cosmetics
4. Titan Dragon preview?👀

Thanks for the suggestions.

1. We have released new leaderboards and normal mode today. Also, we now support playing and practicing without energy, it’s in the “more” “Friends Battle”.

2. The S7 ended on November 25, and according to the previous community vote, the S8 will open after 10 days, that is, on December 5. As for the extended S8 Season, it is because of the arrival of Christmas, a special month for Christmas events.

3. It is planned to be released in December, it has the advantage of increasing the attack power, but it will not seriously affect the combat balance.

4. Yes, we are testing the numbers, will release its preview time after a while.

@T lleCell B
1. Please do not change the current leader board setup. While it may be true that season seven top 10 reflected that 7 out of 10 were not top players from seasons prior to seven, this does not mean that these 7 players are not “skilled” as they say, it may be the time for them to shine… But one thing that stands out the most is that the top 10 from season seven had access to lots of energy which is a result of items from the treasure hunt. With energy items, trophy protection cards, trophy double cards, there will always be accounts that can achieve new feats. True, that there is a gap that is forming, between people who have so much totem to spend and the rest of the population but this is not a reason for a drastic change in the leader board (especially when no one really asked for it, ok maybe a select few but not a lot). As what was stated during the last AMA, item sharing will be allowed or enabled before season 8 begins so let us wait and see how this will affect/effect things rather than start thinking of implementing a change to the leader board. Like what I have stated in the other channels, granting people (especially managers) the ability to share/give treasure hunt items will help other people (the “skilled” people) or their scholars keep up with ones who have lots of totem to burn. Let us see how season 8 will turn out. If anything will result to this, it will just be more totem burned.
2. (continued) Just a general idea of what I am saying is that. The game would publish a tournament that will start at 0800 UTC with 8 slots, once 8 slots have been taken by people sign ups are closed and other will have to join other tournaments on a different time slot. Once 0800 UTC comes, the 8 will be automatically taken to their specific private rooms for them to finish their stated matches 1 game only, BO3 or BO5 (whatever). Once round 1 is done, round 2 will commence until a winner out of the 8 will be declared, the winner will have a qualifier ticket he won’t be able to join the same tournament until the whole circuit is done (meaning tournament of champions has been declared). People who lost on the 0800 tourney can join other time slots until they can win or until they run out of opportunities but when they win they cannot join again until the circuit is done. Further details about this can be discussed once the devs will decide to pursue this endeavor but I believe this is rather worth putting some effort into compared to trying to split the current leader board into different leader boards with restrictions and all. What we already have right now is what would be considered as the farming side of DragonMaster, the devs could start working on the “very competitive” aspect of DragonMaster.
3. Is this live?
A set of dragon NFTs is created and can be obtained by players via random breeding. Players who collect the whole set can summon a ‘Legend Dragon’ with bonus dividend ( smart contract).
The Legend Dragon can share a permanent dividend part to the DragonMaster marketplace, with daily transaction fees (ETH) income being automatically paid to the player’s wallet every day via the smart contract…. Can we actually get the “Legend Dragon”?
4. As said in number 2, we need a better platform to showcase skilled players. If number 2 is not yet implemented. Host more tournaments. As stated by others also, we need more tournaments… this may mean that prizes may have to be scaled down a bit, this is fine, as long as we have more tournaments, guild vs guild or singletons… a minimum of 4 per season should suffice. Different formats like, plain dragons only, no specials, free for all singles and free for all guilds (or team of 5). All within the season should be enough to satiate people’s competitive appetite.
5. I am not the only one that has this sentiment, but can we buff the Prickly family, in a way that if you use Prickly family you are guaranteed 100% skill effect. The prickly dragon at least the family deserves this buff.

Thanks for the questions.

1. Thanks a lot for the suggestion. Since the end of S7, we’ve been closely discussing and working on options every day, and finally getting the development team to prioritize them.
It needs to be acknowledged that the release of Treasure Hunt has brought more TOTEM burning ( check Weekly Data for details) and a new twist to the leaderboard.

The S7 leaderboard is more of an energy leaderboard than a competitive leaderboard that represents the fun of the game. We can’t keep waiting, we need to face up to this issue and fix it.

This week, we launched a dedicated communication channel in Discord to fully listen to the opinions of guilds and players.
Now, we have a better solution that fully takes care of the needs of all sides of the community.

Now, we ensure that the leaderboard is energy independent, limit the number of battles per day, and PVP only, to maximize the game’s competitive ranking.

Normal matches, there is no limit to the number of battles per day, you can battle when you have energy, and as the number of trophies gets higher, the higher the reward you get, which not only meets the needs of players who just want to get TOTEM, but also ensures the necessity of ranking matches.

Of course, how to make sure that players have the incentive to play normal matches? We agreed in our discussions that we can’t give more mDMT rewards. Our solution now is to have a TOTEM leaderboard, with TOTEM rewards coming from a portion of the profits from the Treasure Hunt (Burn-Recycle).

The advantage of this is that we neither generate new totem, but at the same time incentivize players to play normal matches, and if they want to get TOTEM leaderboard rewards for normal matches, then they need to consume more energy, thus stimulating the burning of Treasure Hunt, creating a dynamic positive cycle.

2. 8 player tournament, we will also develop it, it is fun and we are very much in favor of it. Our job is to provide more interesting competitive modes for players to choose.

3. Legend Dragon is in our plan, it will be released in the future, please rest assured.

5. About the Prickly Dragon skill buff suggestions, we will seriously take into account, thank you.

More DMT Burning Mechanism aside from Breeding?

Yes, we are working on the mDMT burn scene

we cant understand the new update.. can you clear it.. in normal battle, is that unlimited gaming?? and in rank mode can we earn totem??

We are writing an article detailing this and will post it to the community next Monday.

Is there any change in the recycling mechanism of the double card? Will there be other uses? Now it can only be sold?

For the sake of fairness in S8 qualifying, trophy double cards can only be recycled

Is there a totem fee to send item through mailbox?

Yes, it requires totem fees

We know @Ethan Brown mentioned last time that land system is part of 6months roadmap.
But can you tell more about the land system? What’s the current plan for it? How will it work?
I think aside from NFT dragons, focusing & having NFT lands would greatly increase interests on our game.

OK. The land plan is currently being planned and our ultimate goal is not to stay with the concept and the NFT picture, we want to give to it the actual use and taxation. It needs to be integrated with our gaming system, our on-chain system.

why did you extend the season to plus 5 days??

December is a special month, combined with the Christmas event time, we extended 5 days

@Ethan Brown
Thanks for listening to multiple members of the community on the season competitiveness issue. There were some very polarizing suggestions from some members and they were determined to push them through. It’s hard to satisfy everyone but thanks for doing something to fix the situation. If it does not work we will revisit again 👍

Yes, if there are any questions, we will revisit ❤️

For example, if I rent a dragon for 30 days at a time, the other party can directly take the dragon back at any time for personal reasons. Is this reasonable? I think the contract has been breached and liquidated damages should be paid.

Yes, we designed the paid lease with this situation in mind. If the other party ends the rental contract early, the player will be refunded the rent for the remaining time, and the system will deduct the breach of contract.

Perhaps it would be better if the system deducted the default fee will be given to the player?

thanks～The new question is the proportion of liquidated damages? How much is it now? I suggest heavier punishment

Currently it is 5%, about this part of the default, we plan to give to the player in the future.It is currently 5%, and regarding this portion of the default, we plan to give it to the player in the future. Maximum effort to protect the interests of players.

@Ethan Brown, we also know one of the things that Lucky Crystal can buy in the Shop is Dragon Skins.
Are these Dragon Skins are also NFTs? Can we withdraw them to our wallet and sell them in the Marketplace once we don’t want it or we have a duplicate?

Yes, Dragon Skin is an NFT. it is first redeemed in-game and can also be gifted and traded in-game. If you want it to be on the chain, it becomes an on-chain NFT, but at that point it can no longer be gifted and traded in-game, only traded in the on-chain NFT marketplace.

Will the new system proposal be implemented this coming season8??

Yes, the official implementation of the S8 season starts next Monday. The leaderboard for the regular season is under development and will be delayed a few days, but an update will be released next week as well.

so no bots anymore on ranked mode right? like start of season until end will be pure player to player, correct?

Yes!

so there should be no issues with the wait time in match making right?

I hope so, it still depends on the online match of all players

The skin have extra damage, health or nothing?

A week before the launch, we launched a poll in the community, haha

Will we be able to synthesize gems in game?

We don’t plan to do duplicate work. Synthesizing gems and propagation in the game requires access to the wallet function in the game, which remains on-chain. We are also implementing this solution to make the player experience better.

Recently most of the focus on burning is on TOTEM, i think we need more for DMT soon because there is still alot of DMT being given out as prizes (treasure hunt, season and other costs) it will only make the price go closer to 0 if there are no good ways to spend DMT

Yes, we are aware of this and are working on the DMT burn scene, so please rest assured