Get ready for the Great Update 🎮 (V1.5)!

🌴 Hello Jungle friends!

The Great Escape just entered its 8th week, players are having fun on the map and the basic functionalities of the game are working smooth.

It’s now time to get ready for the next step!

As planned, V.1.5 of the Great Escape (the Great Update as we call it) will come live 3 months after the launch of V.1.0, during the first of week of December 2022.

With the aim of increasing the existing player base,the Great Update will feature 4 major changes to the game:

a massive increase of the weekly rewards
NFT renting
the use of JPTS to purchase in-game micro-transactions.
A more personalized gaming experience

Let’s take a look at what is at stake!

🍌 Juicy Rewards

Our Rewards model has always been based on the idea that it should remain sustainable over the long run. The rewards and tokenomics of $BANANAS have been designed in a way that doesn’t require a never-ending player growth to maintain the rewards system.

That’s why, The Great Escape rewards have been designed in a way that is consistent with a long term increase of GLMR APES DAO Treasury.

GLMR Rewards come directly from several sources:

the staking rewards of a dedicated wallet owned by the community
a part of the royalties coming from GLMR Jungle and Badges second-hand sales
other additional income the DAO can make (marketing, gifts, sponsorship etc…).

When it comes to the $BANANAS rewards, they were calculated based on the number of game sessions played on the previous week.

These fees are collected each time a player initiates a game session (1 $BANANAS fee/game session).

We currently redistribute 50% of the game fees collected during week x directly in the prize pool of week x+1.

Given the fact that all of the rewards were self-generated up until now, they only averaged about 300 GLMR + 1500 $BANANAS per week.

With the current market conditions and the price evolution of the GLMR token, that wasn't particularly juicy. However, we’ve got good news for you because this is about to change!

We are happy to announce that we’ve secured some additional resources for the rewards.

Therefore, we will be able to guaranty at the very least 1000 GLMR per week of rewards for the duration of V 1.5 (December – February/March 2022).

On top of that, we are also working on securing extra support from the community itself and other actors to increase the game rewards even more.

Our idea is that the juicier the rewards are, the more motivated players will be to play the Great Escape.

By increasing significantly the weekly prize pool, we aim at attracting more players to the Game and make the Jungle grow!

The growth of our ecosystem should also be facilitated by enabling GLMR JUNGLE NFT renting.

🔁 NFT renting

With this long awaited feature finally implemented in the Great Update, players will have the option to rent a GLMR JUNGLE from other players. Thanks to their rented NFT, they will be able to play the game and compete for rewards without having to own their GLMR JUNGLE.

In concrete terms, it means that anyone will be able to access the game for cheap, which in returns should help on-boarding new players.

The details of the renting itself remain to be discussed and voted on by the community, but it seems likely that the minimum renting period will be 7 days (for technical reasons).

Renters will be able to list their NFTs on our website where they will become available for rentees.

Rentees will only have limited rights over the NFT. They will only be able to play with it but will NOT be able to transfer it nor to sell it, making the whole process fully secure.

Since the scores (competition rewards) and the number of game sessions (participation rewards) are linked to the wallet that played and not to a specific NFT #ID, there will be absolutely no distinctions made between NFTs that are owned or rented when it comes to the rewards.

It remains to be seen whether the renting should be made in GLMR or $BANANAS. As with other important aspects of the renting features, these issues will discussed and voted on by the community in the upcoming weeks.

🎯 JPTS : Get that nice that boost!

As we just mentioned tokens, you might wonder what’s going to happen to your JPTS.

JPTS was a token obtained by staking GLMR JUNGLE NFTs while the Great Escape Game was still in the making ( April-August 2022).

With this token, holders were able to purchase some Species Badges that they can now use in the Great Escape to boost the abilities of their in-game NFT character.

Once the all these badges were sold out and the game was launched, GLMR JUNGLE staking was disabled. Since then, it is no longer possible to obtain JPTS but it will all change with the Great Update.

Some JPTS will be automatically obtained for each game session played according to a model taking into account two variables:

the score obtained at the end of the session
the number of games you already played during the week.

Based on those two factors, you will be attributed x JPTS at the end of your game session that you will automatically receive upon the closing of the week ( happening each Thursday at 16:00 UTC).

For the sake of the making it easy to process, we are going to give an example of what it could look like with imaginary numbers.

⚠ These numbers are only used as a way to illustrate the concept and ARE BY NO MEAN FINAL nor ACCURATE:

Example:

If you reached

between 0 and 500 points, you would get 3 JPTS
between 501 and 1000 points, you would get 4 JPTS
between 1001 and 1500 points, you would get 5 JPTS
between 1501 and 2000 points, you would 6 JPTS
over 2001 points, you would get 7 JPTS

This number of JPTS received would then be applied a coefficient based on how many games you already played during that week:

On your first 5 game sessions, the coefficient would be 1.0
From your 6th to your 10th session, the coefficient would be 1.1
From your 11th to your 20th session, the coefficient would be 1.2
Etc…

Once again, we insist on the fact that the above mentioned figures are only indicative. T

That being said, it is now time to address the actual use of these JPTS after the Great Update (V 1.5).

The big novelty is that JPTS will allow players to purchase in-game micro-transactions before the beginning of each game session to obtain an extra boost on top of the badges.

This temporary boost will only last for the duration of the game session (unlike badges that you can equip as often as you wish on your GLMR JUNGLE).

The exact nature of the boosts will be be discussed by the community, but it will take one of the following forms:

possibility to use an extra Minor Badge power
possibility to use new special powers that do not exist yet (new powers)
both options combined

JPTS will therefore provide players an additional edge when playing on the updated version of the Great Escape.

Combined to an improved gaming experience, this “third” power option should make the Game even more fun to play!

🎮A personalized gaming experience

While the in-game character of the players was of the specie and color as their NFT in V 1.0 of the Great Escape, it wasn’t 100% unique since all the traits weren’t present.

The Great Update will solve this issue by adding almost all the existing traits of the GLMR JUNGLE collection into the game skins.

Players will now be able to truly play with “their” unique ape. But the customization doesn’t end there since the update version of the game will see the creation of a personal player profile.

Players will be create profiles and link 1 or more of their NFTs to an email address and/or Discord and Twitter. By doing so they will be able to achieve side quests and obtain honorific medals and titles for reaching some long-term targets ( total number of game sessions played, collection of the A,P,E,S on all maps etc…).

Over time, these medals could end up turning into additional badges or perks for the players.

Last, but not least the Great Update will help the game put a greater emphasis on the social/communal aspects of the game by allowing players to share their scores on Twitter and by creating a side competition between the tribes.

The idea is that each player will be able to pledge allegiance to one of the four tribe on their personal player profile (and it won’t be possible to change it too frequently).

By doing so, players affiliated to a tribe will be able to enter the tribe’s competition and compete for a dedicated share of the weekly rewards.

The exact details remain to be discussed, but it could be that we’d take the ratio of total sessions played by species divided by the maximum potential playable sessions by that same specie to create a sort of weekly tribe’s ranking.

🦧What’s next?

As we mentioned earlier, the Great Update is scheduled to take place on December 1st. The new V 1.5 of the game is expected to last about 3-4 months (until February/March 2022) before the launch of a mobile V.2.0 of the Great Escape.

In order to achieve a successful launch and manage to welcome more Apes in our Jungle, we are about to launch an important marketing campaign starting on November 1st.

We will also welcome a few active players for a closed beta-session around mid-November in order to get some feedback on the new player experience and ensure that all the new features work as intended.

In the meantime, we will need all the help support and brain power of the community to make this campaign as effective as possible. Despite the difficult times, we aim at attracting fresh new players to us and achieve some level of growth for the ecosystem.

Our goal is to increase the overall number of game sessions played each week by growing the player base but also by increasing the number of $BANANAS burned each week (to move closer to deflation).

The Great Update will help us moving closer towards our main goal : the delivery of a mobile V 2.0 of the Game aiming at on-boarding non-crypto users to our ecosystem.

Bear or not, Apes will keep on building and delivering.

Thank you for your long-term support to the Jungle, you give us a lot of motivation to keep on making progress on this collective journey. Stay tuned...

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The GLMR APES core team