New article within Community-Based Content by @Fial_Darg 👍 Free translation. Narrated by the Nine Chronicles team.
It has been an amazing year, full of ups and downs, and we are thrilled to celebrate the anniversary of Nine Chronicles with you, dear adventurers.
Without a doubt, the launch of the Nine Chronicles was one of the most exciting, challenging and touching chapters in the Planetarium. We pushed a button to launch the mainnet last year, full of enthusiasm for building a gaming network that can be supported by players and never go offline.
In the first year, we met tens of thousands of crypto enthusiasts, early adopters, investors, players, and creators from over 140 countries. As a 100% blockchain game, we have reached the top 5 in terms of trading volume of all blockchain games, and thousands of players launch our node every day to power the network, generating valuable resources and items.
This is our day to celebrate - let's learn about the past year of Nine Chronicles development and the vision for the future of the network! 🎂
🕹 A gaming network that will outlast us
Can we build an open source gaming network fully supported by the community? How will players react?
Tens of thousands of games are created every year, but most disappear over time. The lifecycle of an online game depends a lot on its income. And game revenue is often not directly tied to the core content - be it art, story, interaction, or whatever emotion arouses in users.
This leads to one-way monetization schemes, such as loot boxes, which basically suck money from users but never return. In the worst case, whatever you've purchased and earned will disappear when the gaming company decides it's no longer profitable to maintain the network.
So, earlier we would say that games were owned by publishers and developers, especially in terms of revenue. Players who equally make the game what it is may never benefit from the development of the game. To make matters worse, all the time and effort, as well as the memories accumulated in the game, can completely disappear if the company simply decides to turn off the network. And trying to keep what you love can be met with great resistance.
So, in 2018, we dreamed of a gaming network that could exist forever and be controlled by players. Back then, no one dared to create a massively multiplayer online game powered entirely by blockchain. In theory, this idea seemed feasible, but the technical challenges we faced were serious. Blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum were never built to run an entire online game, so we needed a completely different approach.
We were fortunate enough to have true cryptans, enthusiasts, and talented developers who had a similar vision. Nine Chronicles is now a reality, a serverless game that our adventurers enjoy every day.
Our community earned over 15 million NCGs in its first year, and our first sponsors have also benefited from the growth of the network, which has grown in value more than 100 times. In the last arena season, we handed out 896 NCGs to over 000 players who fought hard - the game that brings back the community is now an official reality.
As the first fully operational blockchain game project, we face certain challenges because we are the pioneers here. However, if we look back to 2020 and show a picture of what we have accomplished in the first year of Nine Chronicles, we will be amazed. As we enter our second year, we are fully committed to making the Nine Chronicles Network a fun, inclusive, competitive and rewarding community-created RPG.
📈 Milestones and achievements in 1 year
Network statistics
- 2500+ nodes provide power to the network daily
- 9 200 000+ on-chain battles
- 1500000+ Player Created NFTs
- 472000+ NFTs are traded on an internal decentralized marketplace
- NCG market volume: $ 80 million
Funding and partnerships
- Raised $ 13 million from well-known venture capital funds и public sponsors to expand the Nine Chronicles network and ecosystem.
- Partnerships with Animoca Brands, Hashed, Divergence Ventures, IDEO CoLab, Sfermion, Hypershere Ventures, SkyVision Capital, The Sandbox and
Game features and ecosystem
- The Play2Earn portal has been launched, where over 2300000 NCGs are handed out to players.
- The function of collecting monsters was introduced (zero version of staking) and the fifth World was opened.
- An extensive ecosystem support program for content creators and developers.
- Conducted Arena Season 0 , during which 896 NCGs were drawn among more than 000 players.
- Our Ethereum bridge which was used to carry 66 million NCG and WNCG.
- Launched Nine Chronicles improvement proposal bringing together the best ideas and suggestions from the community.
- Launched fully functional new block explorer through our ecosystem partners.
Community
- 37K active Discord users, 43K Twitter followers.
- 60+ content creators and 3600+ content created.
- 35K players from 143 countries.
- 12000+ NCG holders.
- 96 thousand registered users of the p2e portal - (we hope that soon all of you will be connected!).
🚀 Looking ahead
Nine Chronicles is an open source game that runs exclusively on the blockchain and is the future of online games owned and supported by players. After IDO, we worked hard to sketch out a unique vision and team to support the project in the midst of many exciting moments taking place in the crypto gaming space.
Nine Chronicles Economics 2.0
A new design team made up of players, consultants and Planetarium is working together to build a resilient economy ready for a new phase of growth. We will introduce a new inflationary sub-currency focused on playing to make money while creating reliable end-to-end content for our highest level users. A completely new supply-demand economic model is under development and the initial design will be presented to the community in a new whitepaper format later this year.
Focus on our unique strength: open source
We believe the future is open source online gaming... We're ready to take the next step by supporting mods and even custom gaming experiences that leverage our excellent assets and the NCG and WNCG economies.
A quarter of our token economy (over $ 200 million) is set aside for content creation, and we will use those resources to fund new experiments that expand the Nine Chronicles network and content. This experience could be linked to other thriving blockchain ecosystems, which will be easier now that we have our own ERC-20 token.
We are very happy to see where this leads us! If you have an idea for a minigame, NFT project, metaverse experience, DeFi collaboration, or anything else based on our resources , come and say hello!
Facilitating access to the Nine Chronicles
It's still amazing to wake up and see thousands of nodes running and powering the network every day. But our blockchain has become non-trivial in terms of size (40 million transactions!), And we want to make sure that players can access the Nine Chronicles from anywhere without downloading the entire chain.
In November, players will be able to connect to all nodes controlled by Planetarium or other players to play instantly without syncing the entire chain! Think how fast your crypto wallet is - the experience will be similar. This update will be a huge boost for our game, which is currently only playable on the best PCs with the best internet connection.
A mobile assembly is also in development, and in 2022 anyone can grab their phone to join the Nine Kingdoms.
Proof of Stake (for everyone)
When the price of NCG rose sharply after the IDO (I can't believe it was only two months!), Greedy miners appeared and made the game more difficult. We made the difficult decision to work in PoA mode, but we understand that this is not an ideal situation. Do we want reorganization or centralized mining? A tough situation for all of us, especially now that the reorganization is significantly degrading the gameplay, and mobile devices will be launched in 2022.
We're working hard to move to PoS, but we're also 100% committed to supporting our players and guilds to use their own validators. We will empower our community to participate in our economy in the deepest and most rewarding way possible. Staking rewards will also be issued, which will include NCG.
Reinvest in our community
Last but not least, we will focus on filling the Nine Worlds, our Discord and social media, and other locations in the ecosystem with exciting content and support for everyone. Due to the technical challenges we faced, Planetarium was mainly a development oriented organization, but we will be switching gears and redoubled efforts to expand our content and community team to support your growth to provide the community with fresh and exciting content. ... This content can be part of the game or competition outside of the game itself. Our initiatives will focus on making the community more rewarding, cohesive and positive.
On behalf of the entire Planetarium team (we have grown even bigger and we need a bigger group photo!), We would like to thank each of you for your support. Thank you for celebrating the anniversary with us 🙏
If you haven't already, feel free to join our competition. B-Day Crappy Drawing, you can leave a message for the team 🙂
If you just found out about us, subscribe to us at Twitter and join our Discord, to learn more about the open source RPG network maintained by the community!
Thanks to our community member @Fial_Darg for the article.
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