DragonMaster Community AMA Recap (Dec 30, 2022)
DragonMaster Core Members:
- Ethan Brown
- ChuckRRR
- Daniel | Magic Hat
@Cognizant
1. As a original genesis holder and long term investor of DM, Im curious to hear the opinion’s of the devs regarding the Totem and DMT liquidity pool prices and if they plan to add anymore liquidity to help prevent death spiral.From my experience with axies before the boom, average players where around 20,000. people flocked into it soon as they realized how much was to be made each week going well over 1mil users each day, there where lots of server issues and downtime after that but I believe this would be a good way to draw more people into the game, unfortunately it would be people looking to make quick $.
2. Are there any thoughts on adding more utility to our genesis cards?
(like increased breed rates or further reduced repair costs)
Thanks for your questions.
1. About liquidity and prices, we are deploying multi-chain now, and there are new liquidity pools coming soon in the future, and players can choose to withdraw to a specific chain in game. We are in a crypto bear market now, and experience has taught us that it is best not to fixate on price but focus on build.
2. Players with Genesis cards will have more rights and benefits than regular players, which have already been realized: DMT airdrop, discount for buying pre-sale new dragon NFT, and Gem NFT airdrop.
It is more like a status entitlement than a privilege. For improving breeding rate and reducing maintenance cost, we have given the same solution to all players, and it will not be changed specifically because of the Genesis card.
In the future, we still insist on bringing more benefits and rights to players with Genesis cards, so please keep an eye on the official community announcement, thanks.
@˗ˏˋ烫 ˎˊ 🍗 HDC
1.Can you provide a full-cycle totem burning curve, DMT curve, and active user curve? Do these curves fit the economic model devised by your Magic Hat team? What advantages or disadvantages do you think can be explained?🤝❤️2.Thanks again for your work and dedication. Then, have you ever calculated the return rate of investors in the game? Do you think this answer sheet is a pass? Where could a better solution be and how do you plan to work it? Is there any big action in the future that players should continue to look forward to? Can you be more specific?
3.What kind of state do you want players to face DM games? Or what kind of people do you think your target users are?
4. Only when you think about it first, you can do it later. What state of the game have you imagined that you would be satisfied with? Or what do you think is the goal of your phased success? I’d love to know what your goals are? Science and technology are specific to data and have clear goals that can be measured, and hope to get answers!❤️
5. Seeing that the ability to design and develop the magic hat is still very good, do you consider making game peripheral products for stimulating marketing?
Thanks for the questions.
1. We disclose the weekly report data every week, which lists the data of TOTEM, DMT, and active users, in fact, we can plot this curve by these data.
At the time of launch in March this year, we only had a few hundred active users, and now we are close to 5k. At first, TOTEM and DMT were only generated, not burned. Now, both TOTEM and DMT have more burning scenarios. Although the number of output minus the number of burning is still greater than 0 in the inflation phase, the difference is gradually shrinking. In the future, we are confident to bring the economic model into a real deflationary phase.
2. According to the current price of TOTEM and DMT, and the floor price of a dragon team, the return on investment cycle is expected to be 2~3 months. We as developers are more concerned about how to develop the product rather than calculating the ROI cycle. We believe that the data is the performance of the product, and in the future, we will continue to implement the plans and milestones of the white paper to make DragonMaster a simpler and easy-to-use web3 product. Like
-Embedding wallet feature: Get access to fiat currency to buy cryptocurrency and NFT, breeding, gem synthesis and other on-chain features are implemented within the game.
-Deploy multi-chain feature: Get more blockchain players involved and achieve multi-chain user growth.
-Social features: Players can make friends through the game, battle together, chat together, and create more open content for DragonMaster together.
-Game play feature: Fun and joy have always been the core of DragonMaster. We will develop more gameplay to engage more players who enjoy the game.
3. We want players to be in a relaxed and happy state to play DragonMaster games.
4. We focus on key indicators such as the active hours of players, retention rate, and the conversion rate of players who eventually bind their wallets to become Web3 users. This path is also the core goal of our team.
5. For the time being, we have no marketing plan for peripheral products. The reason is that the user base is not yet large enough, and secondly, we should continue to focus on R&D to deliver a more competitive product and achieve the milestones on the whitepaper.
@! TIGERシGULZAR
I have a question
How many use freeze gems
To get freeze dragon.
Thanks for the question.
Breeding is random and there is no 100% guarantee that you will get a certain dragon despite using all gems.
Frozen gems help increase the probability of getting a frozen dragon. You can see in the hatching interface what the probability of a Frozen Dragon is before and after using Frozen Gems, which helps you to determine the breeding result.
Can you make it 100%
Please
One of the attractions of reproduction is uncertainty. If it is 100% acquired, then any dragon will be able to be accurately costed and there will be no need to trade.
I use 50% lucky gems but i got life dragon why ?
Other kinds of dragons also have a probability to be obtained.
Gems increase the probability of getting a certain type of dragon, not necessarily the type of dragon.
@CoolmanYH
Please implement the uses of gems , they are just siting in our bags taking up space with no utility
Gems are generated from treasure hunt and are used to increase the probability of breeding on chain.
You can choose to withdraw it on chain and turn it into gem NFT, which can be used for breeding, sold, and can be upgraded.
Of course, you can also recycle it directly in the game and get TOTEM.
@Edigital
Greetings Dev…Is there any updates in the pipeline that you think will have investors yelling at you to take their Money?
If yes… I am glad.
If not… Pls rethink.
It is not sensible for any investor to decide to invest in developers just because of a single update.
One of the reasons investors choose to invest is because they believe in the ability of the dev team to keep updating the product, keep innovating, and gradually build trust in the process.
Ultimately, they take the product and the community together to achieve various milestones, gaining user recognition and market acceptance.
@M1STER/Y0S0
dear devs fixed your unbalanced match making before the player quit so istressfull
We’ll be implementing the ELO ranking system in S9, which will fix the unbalanced matches!
@Clint I E-Digital
is there a way to recycle this items sir/maam?i over farmed it my bag is full and i don’t want to upgrade it .🤧
Thank you for your question.
You can go to the Candy Shop to exchange props.
sir yanki i already redeemed all the redeemable props.🥺
OK, the end of the event, will be able to recover the candy props
@BBQ Gaming
This week was a huge wake up call for me. I started inviting new scholars to try and play DM and I can imagine how painful it is for new players to try out this game.On average they probably had 20% win rate. Anyone struggling like this would definitely not find the motivation to comeback. Previously the motivation was money, but that is no longer the case for sustainable NFT games. Some didn’t even want to play a second day despite the incentives I give for reaching 35 wins. And I have not even mentioned the sheer difficulty of getting people interested to try Dragon Master, which is really sad because I honestly find this game fun (just for a small group of people).
The onboarding process for beginners/new players are just terrible. I suggest the developers put themselves into the shoes of a new player. Go and create an account and pretend to be a new player. Open the game and play it. I did it recently and I was appalled by the experience. The tutorial is too short and doesn’t even let you play a full game against a beginner bot. After the tutorial, there was no guide on how to rent dragons. In fact there is no more guidance at all after the simplistic tutorial. The player is forced to play battle or ranked and force to be competitive from the start. And when they lose, they would have no idea why.
There is just no fun in the experience at all. Treasure hunt and lucky card means nothing to a new player, and yet so much effort was spent on those. There is no progression for beginners, no sense of fulfillment. No goals to achieve besides totem farming (which nobody wants anymore)
New players should be able to try the best parts of the game, just like how most games give a free demo or preview to their full content. Give new players an 1 day untradable/unrecycable special dragon trial card. Or let them earn it through a beginner quest system. Most mobile games have beginner quests/progression to help guide the player.Create something interesting with the free white dragons in the game. Maybe they can evolve into a random dragon after some quests are completed.
Have a fun pve/coop mode that gives casual players a good experience and also help them learn the game, instead of throwing them into pvp without a clue.
I hope the team learns to get its priorities right. All treasure hunt did was burn some totem which is very insignificant and I can safely say that with the current pace the new gameplay features are coming out, totem and dmt will go to almost zero and we won’t have players anymore.
I still stand by all my previous opinions on the competitive aspect of the game. But casual players and new players are even more important now.
And also, marketing is still shit. No official gameplay videos that I can even share with the new scholars to help them play better. Everything is contributed by the community. Where is the contribution from the team?
Thank you for the questions.
1. This seems to be the game’s tutorial problem, we will refer to your feedback to improve the new tutorial. Give more dragon experience card rewards, gradually increase the difficulty of the opponent, give game objectives other than TOTEM, etc. Thank you again for your suggestions for the tutorial.
2. About the game instructional videos, we will make more official videos for new players to learn and share.
@Edigital
A player who has been supporting this game since the launch is sharing EQUAL standing with a new player starting just today.We need to show more appreciation to those who stick around.
This can be in the form of in-game credit which can be used to BUILD something in-game.
Yes, we are very grateful to the players who have been supporting DragonMaster.
In the future, we will develop a medal system to record each player’s actions and achievements, and the medals can be used to unlock more benefits and features of the game.
Are there updates on these from last weeks ama:
- using special dragon trial card with rental team. Last week its 80% complete, will it be ready today?
- adding referral code field into registration form. The link is buggy sometimes. Last week you said you will add it.
Speed of development is too slow, it will kill the interest of the gamers, whoever is left
Yes, this week we are accepting the dragon skin version and adding these features from last week, still a little short of time, sorry 🤣
What season will the demon adjustment will be implemented base on the poll u make before
It seems that most of the community disagrees with this proposal
https://discord.com/channels/879250438036275260/1028197333927735296/1053269127176917074
How many pvp players do we really have? 500?
There are 4k+ players fighting every day, and they are distributed in different time periods, not matched at the same time
When can we use trial sd card to scholars?
Send props to anyone via email now!
send yes but when can we use it on rental/scholar team
next week
But they can’t use it with a rental team which was my point about this feature 😅
OK, we will update as soon as possible 🤣
Opponents are not matching properly our rank is 1000 we are matching with 3000 and 4000 how can we win
In fact, 3000 and 4000, they may just play 2~3 days more than 1000, it doesn’t mean he is necessarily stronger than 1000. The current score mechanism is not perfect, we will improve this problem in S9.
At the same time, 1000 and 3000 fighting, victory should give more rewards, failure should give less punishment, so that it will be fair.
Longer matchmaking is the effect of changing the energy system and adding 2 game modes. We cant blame the devs cause majority voted for this change..
No matter, there are problems we continue to improve together, I believe that S9 will be better
31 December and 1 January
Game disable?
According to the poll results, yes
When white paper update? Actually I have no clue what the long term goals are now
Yes, it needs to be updated. The current white paper is from earlier in the year and now needs to be updated with the latest plans and goals.
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Finally, a big thank you to everyone for participating, and to @Ethan Brown @ChuckRRR @Daniel | Magic Hat for answering questions! !
