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The Space Station – Episode 3

Since there were no questions for this space, Chuck drops several topics of things that happened in the Planets project the last weeks and also has Creator talking about future of Planets, both short- and long-term.

“Mother” by Artax

Last week the Artax artwork was added to the galaxy. Creator first saw Artax art a couple of months ago as he launched an artpiece call The Hellpool, a 3D artpiece about the fact that every time you try to inscribe or mint stuff the mempool spikes (therefor the title hellpool)

It is the first guest artist artwork. Creator wants to ask Artax to join a future Space Station to explain more about his artwork called Mother. It was complex to implement and it took a lot of time. Also because it’s the first guest artist piece. The team did learn a lot from implementing it so future artists artworks will be added more easily. 

“Mother” shows up at every planet for 6 blocks, than it flies of to the next planet. Next to that the “Mother”artwork hides when the gascloud appears. 

Creator is happy that the artwork as added in the 2 week timeline they predicted, and ads that it is sometimes hard to work in the background on stuff that is basically invisible until its complete, and due to that work in the background not being able to be as active as he wants on discord/socials.

Protocol

Another thing that is being worked on in the background is the protocol that Planets need for future stuff. It’s a long term development. The protocol is already in use, for example with the naming of planets. But it has to be expanded for future use. If you name your planet you get an inscription in your wallet using the SATNET protocol. It is worked on daily. The protocol is also needed for communication between planets. 

Are you already working on adding next artwork?
A couple of artists are being asked already, next week another artist’s work will be worked on being added to the galaxy. There is also another “event” based artwork (like the gascloud) that the team discovered themselves that will be added to the galaxy soon (approx. 2 weeks).

Pressure

Creator talks about a recent “good morning” tweet about the different phases a project is in. That after a successful mint projects mostly fade out in the next phase. He prepared for these phases by looking at a lot of data from other phases. People tend to get restless as the phase switches from successful mint to the next phase. He feels that Planets is doing well in this next phase. Even after not being in top10-top20 on a daily basis anymore. He sees floorprice as a indicator of how satisfied people are and how trustlevels are within the project. There will always be phases that looks less active than other phases, but development continues in the background. 

Website

Last week the new website with more information was launched by Creator. Incl. bright mode and dark mode. It also shows an easy step by step instruction on both how to aquire a planet and also how to enjoy the detailed parts of a planet (its not just a JPEG!)

These chances also come from the feeling that the Ordinals space is still small. Planets is perfect for looking for holders outside of the Ordinals space. Therefor the site needed a different tone and approach to inform people from outside the Ordinals space. Suye Gallery helps onboarding a lot of people from outside Ordinals. The site should hold all that info for newcomers to get Planets (and therefor Ordinals)

Its still work in progress.

Game and Protocol

Anything more you can share?
Building protocol is rather boring. Its very technical. Just a way to put data on-chain that is needed for the Planets (and the game) for example how many resources, if somebody is attacking (or defending) etc etc. This takes time. Creator expects that first aspects of gaming will be ready at the end of this year. But before that the resources system will be added already. 

There are people forming alliances for the game 😊 

Alpha: you cannot attack any planet to get their resources. Therefor neighbors are important. Neighbors can help attack or defend (whilst you are out their attacking)

The game is important for the future of Planets. There are to main things:

The art part. People like Planets for their art, collect them as art pieces. Strategy is to onboard people from outside of Ordinals.

The entertainment part. People want to be entertained. Like minting every day. The ordinals space likes to be active. The gaming aspects give people a way to look at Planets in a different way. A reason to look at your planet. These two strategies will be very good for the project in the long-term.

OG Points

OG points are a way to measure commitment amongst Planets holders. Just like the floorprice is a measurement of trust in the project. It’s a smart algoritm that looks at several things. How many planets do you hold? Do you list planets. At what price do you list planets. Do you list planets on days where the ordinal space seems slow (weekends). The algoritm is still under development, other factors (like purchase price) will be added. Creator says he doesn’t take anything personally. He just looks at it in a way that if people feel that they have to sell, Creator is doing something wrong. 

Can you lose OG points?
For example for the Yonder WL spot. You needed 500 OG threshold to participate. Do you lose OG points?

Not in this case. But in the future OG points can be used, for example to buy WL spots. 

Ribbi on stage asking questions
Ribbi says Planets is the only project that gets his normies friends interested in ordinals. A valuable tool to onboard people to Ordinals. 

His main question is will OG points in the future be a tradeable currency?

Creator: There are not a lot of projects that people checkin to look at their ordinals on a daily basis. This is something Creator wants to achieve through gamification. Using your ordinal in a fun way. 

He wants to give value to Planets holders. Not only by a Planet becoming more valuable but also through thinks like giving profit from the future Ordinal.io marketplace back to the Planets holders (based on OG points)

Resources will be used to attack of defend the planet. You need resources for certain items added to the galaxy. (vague alpha)

Dextroid on stage asking questions
Will black holes / dark side of the moon be added to teleport between galaxies? And will other projects be able to add to the galaxy (collabs)

A lot of these things are on the todo list. 

On involving other communities. They are looking into this but there is a little setback. Within the Ordinals protocol there were plans to be able to look at addresses. Planets dev wanted to use this to add other projects into the galaxy. But the devs of the Ordinals Protocol withdrawn the plant to implement this. So Planets devs have to find out another way to achieve this. And they will find another way. 

Another way to involve other projects is adding them into the game. 

About the travelling. There will be ways to travel between dimensions. The way of travel hasn’t been decided yet, but they will take suggestions into account. 

Question from the community:
When are you gonna change your pinned tweet, it still refers to the mint page.

THE PINNED TWEET HAS BEEN CHANGED