The trailer leaves us speechless, at the level of a Hollywood movie or one of the great AAA games, but we are facing a blockchain game ..., you ask me, what is that? In the words of Star Atlas CEO Michael Wagner, “the game uses NFT and DeFi resources to create a self-sufficient metaverse.” That is, we can have fun playing with friends (including making money, play-to-earn) and / or we can invest by acquiring digital assets to transfer them to players.
You can see the full interview with Michael Wagner (a bit old) here: Cointelegraph
Star Atlas is a metaverse in its purest form ...
Let's rewind, what is the metaverse (so fashionable since Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of the Facebook conglomerate to Meta, quite a statement of principles)?
The Metaverse is a virtual world in which we can interact and has been created to resemble an external reality. The term comes from a 1992 novel called 'Snow Crash', and it is a term that has taken hold to describe visions of three-dimensional or virtual workspaces. It is not something new, in the world of video games it has been going on for a long time, what is new is the introduction of a real economy based on blockchain, in which you can buy, sell and even earn money "playing".
In the following article you will find an explanation about Metaverse: What is the Metaverse, what possibilities does it offer and when will it be real?
We are really still very far from the immersion possibilities that it can offer us, it is a technological problem that will not take long to be solved, in fact Star Atlas is (or will be) a new generation game that uses Unreal Engine 5, which gives it cinematic-quality graphics capability. In addition, the games will be available in multiplatform, with virtual reality glasses but also from your laptop or from your mobile. In the following article you can see more about Unreal 5.
Ok, we are clear that the experience is going to be literally a movie experience, the question now is, when can we play and what can we do now? The answers are simple right now you can choose faction, later we will talk about them, start acquiring spaceships (such as houses in full boom, on plans, in this case on a description and jpgs) and alliances can be formed to kick off the game hard.
Keep in mind that this game is of epic magnitude, its first version is scheduled for summer 2022, however you have to be vigilant because shortly (the scheduled date is now December 9) a mini-game will be released for to be able to start using our spaceships. In any case, and for the most geeks we pass you the Star Atlas roadmap.
Before we get into economics, what does a blockchain like Solana bring to the project, let's dive a little into the history of the game and the different spaceships that are available.
Do you want to feel like an explorer of the universe like in Star Trek's Discovery? Or go on mercenary missions feeling like Han Solo the Millennium Falcon? They are examples that will soon be forgotten by the immersive experiences of Star Atlas, which is infinite space (as promised by the creators) and a space game.
Year 2620, the universe has been colonized but in the recesses of space there is a great treasure hidden ... reaching it is almost a dream, meanwhile ... players start in a tiny corner of the epic star map and can begin to scan visible stars in search of celestial and terrestrial resources. Discovering a planet can be reclaimed, mined for minerals, refined, and sold. You can create cities, you can trade in them but you can also conquer them so you have to defend them. Players can become recon pilots, fleet captains, mercenaries (bounty hunters), miners who extract resources from the subsoil, farmers who grow food, traders, space station operators… the possibilities are endless. One of the great challenges of the game in our opinion is how to combine the occasional player with the professional player, how to combine different levels of risk and experience, we will see how the team solves it.
A whole world of possibilities. To play for free or to join groups, alliances or even corporations since many times you need to have digital assets (ships, mining tools, store, ...) and those groups can provide them to you, we are therefore before the birth of a new investment asset type, the digital asset of the metaverse.
Anyway, the first step for any player or investor is to choose which faction you want to belong to. This Metaverse consists of three central factions: MUD, ONI and USTUR, with subsectors of security zones within each one to start the game gradually, without extraordinary risks. All the character races will be able to coexist with each other, although the faction selections are a bit more ... persistent. The MUD Territory is ruled by humanity, the ONI Region is made up of a consortium of alien races, and the USTUR Sector which is controlled by androids.
In this link you have the guide to register, from opening a wallet in Solana to choosing a faction.
Each section has a series of characteristics and advantages, which each one must consider, although we may end up playing in the faction where our friends are.
MUD: firepower, travel distance
ONI: stealth, scan distance
USTUR: maneuverability, hull strength
It is interesting to mention that games such as Star Atlas, exploration and space battles tend to be accepted by ages higher than other games, grandparents and teenagers can find their place in the game.
“Your contact in the Galactic Market insists on a flight path that involves a stretch beyond the Safety Zone, but the risk is worth it, you think. Half of the ATLAS have been prepaid to cover ammunition and fuel refills, but you need the rest for your ship's new armor, the Torch of Ulysses. Repairs after the last shooting hold your helmet together, but it needs an overhaul.
Now, the rogue alien pirates of the ONI are after you, and there are no friends from your faction, MUD, the alliance of humanity, at your fingertips to offer you help. It's up to you and your crew to face the ONI head-on or take off at full speed to get them off your back, can your crew take it?
The ONI ships are lighter than yours, but they outnumber you: three to one. One has unique marks that you recognize: thick engravings painted red like new scars. You've heard the stories about a group of ONI marauders who never lose their bounty; Will you become the next captain getting drunk at Central Station if your ship is destroyed?
Your gunner fires two shots. One hits the mark, the other misses. Perhaps, with a little skill and luck, you will make it home. A new alert sounds: a USTUR ship is heading towards you. The gentle androids were given shape and thought by multigenerational artificial intelligence and are generally friendly, but you never know what they're looking for on this deep-space frontier. They call your ship ... "
A day in the life of a captain of the MUD faction.
You are an ONI bounty hunter, looking for a new mission, looking to socialize with your colleagues, and you hang out at the Bounty Bar where the worst kind of the Metaverse gathers to plot, conspire, gamble, speculate and find out before you none of the riskier missions (and profitable if you are skilled).
Do not miss the training games they collect, that the first to enter the Metaverse, the true pioneers, will be the ones with the most earnings, check it here.
It's a possibility. A vision. But we envision a future where your job is in the Metaverse. Miner, pilot, merchant, captain, admiral, bounty hunter ... you work four hours a day, you earn ATLAS and you exchange them for Euros or Dollars to buy at the corner store. Instead of living in the big city, you have moved to a very nice little town in the mountains or on the beach, and between mission and mission you go out for a walk and have a coffee with your friends (those of flesh and blood, those of lifetime). When you return to the Metaverse, your POLIS allow you to vote on the future of the game and on various governance issues of the city where you have your second residence, you don't want to change the POLIS, you keep them together with your Bitcoins, saving always makes sense . You think about your life before, when you worked in the big city, you spent two hours on public transport and you didn't have time for anything, you also worked in front of a computer, there is little change in that, but now your work is more creative and more fun Your old one is now made by a machine, the AI that little by little is gaining more relevance in daily life. Yesterday you heard that this world already looks like a Digital Athens, but instead of slaves we have machines ..., you smile and go for a bike ride.
We've drifted off a few years into the future, let's go back to the present and finally see the Digital Assets of the Star Atlas Metaverse. We already have a plethora of spaceships available to buy or sell, from small $ 20 ships like the Pearce X4 ...
The key to the game is the use of blockchain and NFT technology that allows to acquire, assign (to third parties for their use) and sell the ships in different marketplaces. In this YouTube video GameVerse - Play-to-Earn Games Review! explains how to buy spaceships step by step.
Speaking of NFTs, the game is introducing a scavenger hunt… Can you ask for more excitement? We are going to look for an intergalactic relic lost in the recesses of space, do not miss it.
And this reminds us of a movie that we should all see, in a world in which the Metaverse is already normal and in which there is the typical struggle between large corporations that want to fill us with publicity and the freedom to live in an environment. world without borders, of maximum creativity in which we can all be whatever we want… Ready Player One!
Now let's go to what tokeners like the most, guts, blockchains, tokens….
Let's first talk about the three main partners of Star Atlas: Solana, one of the L1 blockchains with the most hype, Serum, one of the main DEX in Solana, and FTX, one of the most successful crypto exchanges. A good triumvirate that provides a powerful infrastructure for the Star Atlas economy.
Solana is currently one of the only blockchains that has the ability to make this ambitious project a reality. When the game was first developed, Wagner said the team considered several different options, but Solana made sense: “First, we needed scalable technology because we anticipated having millions to potentially billions of users interacting with the Metaverse in sometime, ”he said. “High transaction throughput, low transaction costs, and low latency for our players.” But the support from the Solana community, and seeing that Solana was backed by key institutional investors, helped. The Solana Labs team, Wagner noted, It was "instrumental in helping us promote Star Atlas in the early days and getting our initial user base to partner with Solana's user base."
Solana is a Layer 1 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain with a consensus mechanism derived from pBFT and 200 nodes operating worldwide, offering support for a speed of 50,000 transactions per second (TPS). Transactions are also processed in parallel using GPU hardware natively, which is or was a first for Blockchain. Previously, all blockchains were single threaded.
Anyway at beToken my Friend we are working on an in-depth study on Solana and her ecosystem with special mention to Serum (similar to the one we have done in Cosmos and which you can see here)
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Star Atlas and other play-to-earn games (play to win ... money) are different from pay-to-play games (pay to play, as it has been for years, generating an industry that still moves billions) because they are built on blockchain, which creates opportunities to generate real economies within the game and even connect them with the outside world.
The three keys to Star Atlas are decentralized finance (DeFi), which allows the creation of a solid and fully automatic financial structure, NFTs that allow the possession and trading of digital assets, and DAOs (decentralized autonomous organization) that allow self-governance. of the game itself by the players and the governance within the game, for example of a city.
Star Atlas has its own currencies in the game: ATLAS and POLIS, both can be exchanged for FIAT currency and other cryptocurrencies in Exchanges, that is, we are talking about an interconnected economy. In that sense, we are going to be able to think of Star Atlas as a country ... a virtual country, a country in the Metaverse.
ATLAS is the transactional currency of the game, with it you buy ships, pay salaries to your crew, receive rewards, buy land, equipment, fuel ... As Star Atlas is a Metaverse, if a player approaches his game with a commercial strategy, there are opportunities to earn ATLAS and grow your wealth.
In addition, ATLAS is also the currency used in the NFT Digital Assets marketplace, come on, where you can buy and sell spaceships, etc. You have to be clear about it ... a digital asset that you acquire is yours, it may lose value or revalue, it may need repairs or even destroyed depending on the dynamics of the game… There will be more than one investor / player whose spaceship will be worth more than their car (as digital as it may be).
On the other hand we have the POLIS, which is a governance token, the one used to vote in the DAO and that provides players with political power within the game and influence over its development outside the game, i.e. with the Star Atlas developer team.
Within the game, the holders of the POLIS token have voting rights (in proportion to those they possess) to decide, for example, what activity may occur in their lands or cities, what taxes are charged to other players, what laws are applied. apply, etc.
Once the game has launched, the only way to access POLIS is to staking ATLAS. However, 20% of the tokens will be available for purchase, as we will see later, in the exchanges.
We recommend reading this article, which offers an interesting guide about Star Atlas.
Commenting on the different dynamics of the game would take us hours, we recommend you read the white paper (you will find the link at the end of the newsletter) but, knowing that the word usually goes better than the letter, you can watch this video by Josh Cross - DeFi NOW to know the game dynamics:
The two tokens of the project, ATLAS and POLIS, are available in FTX, Raydium and Apollo-X, which will give liquidity to the players and investors of the project, opening the economy of the project to the real world. An amount of ATLAS and POLIS tokens equal to $ 1 million are allocated through the FTX Initial Exchange Offering (IEO). Additionally $ 500,000 in ATLAS and POLIS tokens are available for sale through Initial Decentralized Offering (IDO) on Raydium and Apollo-X. These channels guarantee a fair, equitable and widely distributed token sale that is in line with the values that Star Atlas wants to represent.
In the following post you have all the information:
And if you don't want to miss the price and all the data for both, follow the links:
An interesting fact ... Star Atlas, as a game, has not yet come out ... not even the mini game and it is already in the top 5 of the Metaverse projects according to CoinMarketCap ... are you going to miss it?
Star Atlas Resources:
Página web: https://staratlas.com
White paper: https://staratlas.com/white-paper.pdf
Blog: https://staratlasgame.medium.com/
Medium: https://medium.com/star-atlas
Twitter: https://twitter.com/staratlas
Discord: https://discord.gg/staratlas
Telegram: https://t.me/staratlasgame
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-y8Npwje5KDG5MSZ0a9Jw
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/staratlasgame/
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarAtlas
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@staratlasmetaverse
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/star-atlas
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