Game launch, Badges & JPTS

🦧 WOO-HOO-HAHA!

🎮 We’re getting there!

As the last monthly drop of $BANANAS to BOB NFT holders is on its way, and the Diamond Species Badges are about to be released, we’re now about to enter a new chapter of the Jungle History!

After the success of the early Alpha game testing session (July 9th – July 23rd), we’re getting ready

to welcome 50 players to try out the Beta version of the Great Escape.

From August 6th to August 16th, these beta testers will help us adjust the last details for the first public release of the game (scheduled for August 27th).

Beta Testers won their invitations to this special game session by filling quests of all sorts on an experimental web3 social app called Crew3.

Given the success of that campaign and the levels of engagements it created within the community, we can already announce that the next one is already on its way!

We believe that we found a great way to keep our community active before the launch of the game while also raising the interest of potential newcomers by releasing a new Minor Badges collection.

We thought that given how limited the Apemocrats and Species Badges were, it would be a good idea to create some other cool badges that would be more accessible to GLMJ single holders & small multi-holders and even to a broader Dotsama crowd.

We aim at creating momentum for our Jungle by using the Minor Badges as a way to bring traction around our ecosystem right before the launch of the game.

Our idea is to organize a wild Crew3 campaign for people to win a WL allowing them to pre-mint Minor Badges in $BANANAS at a discounted price.

That, combined to very attractive public MINT prices should attract a lot of attention around the project just as we’re launching the Great Escape and would therefore help us onboard new apes into the Jungle!

Last, but not least we will also address the hot topic of JPTS’ future at the end of this article and offer a concrete proposal for their in-game use.

🛡 Minor Badges (concept)

The Minor badges collection would be made of 6 types of badges equipable on GLMR JUNGLE alone or in combination with a Great Badge (Apemocrats & Species).

We’d like to release the minor badges collection right before the launch of the Great Escape as it would help our Jungle to gain momentum by taking advantage of the synergy of these 2 events.

The idea is to allow single holders, small multi-holders and newcomers who did not get the chance to obtain enough JPTS to get a Great Badge to still be able to enter the race and get an affordable Minor Badge to equip on their GLMR JUNGLE.

The proceeds of the sales would be mainly used to fund the legal fees necessary to the set-up of a proper DAO’s structure , which is a pre-requisite for the later stages of development of the project as we’ll need it to welcome investments.

Some of it will also be used to finance V1.5’s marketing campaign and to recruit an additional part-time game designer to help us perfect the initial versions of the game.

Unlike Great Badges, the 6 Minor Badges would be classless (no bronze, silver, gold and diamond ranking) and would be sold in GLMR at very affordable prices directly from glmrjungle.com.

▶ Upon selecting their NFTs before the start of each game session, players will have the option to:

Play with a GLMJ alone (no badge)
Play with a GLMJ + 1 Great Badge (Apemocrat or Species)
Play with a GLMJ + 1 Minor Badge
Play with a GLMJ +1 Great Badge + 1 Minor Badge. (2 badges)

🌴 6 types of badges would be made available just a few days ahead of the game launch as following:

🍍 Fruit Taster (x250): Allows the player to eat several rotten fruits without losing score points.
🅰 The Letter (x 200) : Gives you a joker letter in the game. By managing to collect the four letters A, P, E and S while playing, players will unlock a Bonus.
🥥 Coco Helmet (x175): Allows the player to sustain several enemy hits before starting to lose HP.
🧲 Juicy Attraction (x150): Provides the player with a magnet at the beginning of the game session.
⏳ Master of Time (x100): Provides additional extra time for your game session.
😡 Ape Wrath (x75):Doubles the score points you receive for each enemy killed.

💡 The Plan

Our plan is quite simple : launch the Minor Badges campaign right before the Great Escape in order to attract as much attention as possible on our ecosystem.

On August 9th, we would launch a 2-weeks Crew3 campaign in which participants would compete to complete fun quests of all sorts while making our community more visible.

The top players would be rewarded with free badges and also with1 to 3 WL per person allowing them to mint their Minor Badges ahead of everyone in $BANANAS (instead of GLMR for the Public Mint) at a discounted price.

The Campaign would be running on the second and third weeks of August, while the WL and Public Mint would take place during the fourth week of the month, just a few days before the launch of the Great Escape scheduled for August 27th, 2022.

We expect the activity generated around the Minor Badges campaign to also help us draw extra attention to the Great Escape.

With over 950 Badges available at a low price, these Minor Badges could end up being sold gradually as new members hear about the project and decide to jump in. Having the minor badges available at affordable prices will avoid having new interested players being deterred from entering the game.

That way, we’ll make sure no one feels left out, while also keeping a certain advantages for early supporters of the Jungle.

As we believe that this solution would allow the team to solve multiple issues at once in an effective way, we would like to ask for the community’s support on it on the next Big vote taking place on August 2nd.

🎯 JPTS’s future

As you might know, GLMJ staking is scheduled to end with the last Species Badge minted in JTPS. However, that doesn’t mean that we’re going to let your precious POINTS go to waste!

In fact, we would like instead to allow players of the Great Escape to purchase micro-transactions at the beginning of each game session using JPTS exclusively.

From V1.5 on, players will have the option to purchase a boost at the beginning of each game session using JPTS.

These boosts will be similar to Minor badges on many aspects, except for the fact that they will only last for 1 game session.

Each week, the JPTS collected through the in-game micro-transactions would partly burned and partly redistributed to all players of the game following a model incentivizing them to play as many game sessions as possible.

🤩 For example, all players would be granted:

x JPTS per game session played if they played 1 to 3 sessions
2x JPTS/session if they played between 4 and 6 sessions during the week
3x JPTS/session for playing everyday.

Such a model would not only create interesting incentives for the players but would also help JPTS’ value increase over time as the supply would gradually be burned.

With that in mind, let’s now address the scheduled end of GLMJ staking and the opening of a JPTS/$BANANAS pool on our Dex (BANANASWAP):

As the few remaining Species Badges should be minted in the coming weeks and as our DAO’s best interest is also to maximize the number of game sessions played, it will be time to put an end to GLMJ staking.

Indeed, the last thing we want to see, is to end up with less game sessions being played because people are staking their GLMJ NFTs.

That’s why we would like to schedule the end of GLMJ Staking for August 26th(1 day prior to the Great Escape launch).

As we expect JPTS holders to reconsider the value of their JPTS (since they will be usable for in-game micro-transactions) we will therefore be able to open a JPTS/BANANAS pool.

However, as it is in our DAO’s best interest to keep the $BANANAS tokenomics at heart, we want to avoid having people dumping their JPTS for $BANANAS, and then dumping their $BANANAS for GLMR.

That’s why, the JPTS/BANANAS pool initial liquidity ratio supplied by the JUNGLE BANK will be very unfavorable to JPTS dumpers.

The Jungle Bank will supply 5000 JPTS and 500 $BANANAS (1/10 ratio), in order to allow people who genuinely want to get extra JPTS to get their Diamond Badges to be able do so, while also making the option of dumping JPTS very unattractive.

By giving JPTS a concrete in-game use and by applying a redistribution/burn mechanism to it, we believe that it should make it a lot more valuable in the eyes of our community members.

🦍 Apes rule

🗳 We hope to receive the Happy Apes’ support on these two important proposals as they appear to be the most beneficial to the long term health of the JUNGLE!

🚀 We can’t wait for the Great Escape official launch! So many things remain to be built! Let’s keep on growing together!

❤ & 🍌

The GLMR APES Team

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