Things I learned while reading the Alien Worlds Technical Blueprint

I had a few questions that I couldn't find answers to so I searched Alien Worlds site to get some answers. I still couldn't find the answers I wanted so I decided to reach the Technical Blueprint. Think of it as the Alien Worlds "WhitePaper".

Land Owners will have the option to upgrade their piece of land

The Land will degrade over time so the land owners will have to keep "upgrading" it to make it a viable plot of land to mine on. They will upgrade it with Trilium. I like this feature because Land is so expensive right now. I think the cheapest piece of land is $350 and it's a crappy one. This will incentivize land owners to spend their Trilium on upgrading their land to attract more miners. So owning land isn't just a cash grab because they charge a fee to mine on their land but now they will have to use their earnings to keep us miners coming back.

Artifacts do not exist yet but are scheduled for release soon

A lot is unknown about artifacts without having them in play yet. They can affect experience earned and NFT stats. This could be HUGE.

NFT's are only created/minted when a user opens a pack

Since all Packs are currently sold out this leads me to believe when new cards are released that new packs will be generated and it will give all of us who were late to the game a chance to get rare cards via packs.

Asset ID is the NFT's Mint number

This was sort of self explanatory to me. Your Asset ID of your shovel is the number of the card that was create/minted. So If you have a Standard Shovel with an asset ID of 1 it would be the 1st one created. I could see coming into play down the road of people wanted lower Asset ID's because they want original/older cards for some reason.

All NFT's have a Rarity attribute

The Blueprint makes it seem like every NFT has a chance of being any rarity. I find that odd because I have not seen or heard of a Standard Shovel being Legendary. Maybe I am misunderstanding this line

"All items received by explorers have a chance of having any of these levels of rarity, according to a prescribed probability. "

All NFT's have a Shininess attribute

Also, each NFT has a Shininess level. Stone, Gold, Stardust and Antimatter are the levels. The shinier the card the more power it has. BUT was it also tucked away in the Blueprint is this little gem... "All NFTs begin as Stone, and can be upgraded by the user". Which means at some point we are going to be able to upgrade our tools or weapons to make they more powerful! This is how they describe the process to take place:

If you want to see how upgraded tools are changed you can check out their Google Doc on it. From what I can see not ALL tools can be upgraded all the way. For example the Standard Capacitor can only be upgraded from Stone to Gold. While the Large Capacitor can go from Stone to Gold to Stardust and then to Antimatter.

I have heard people say this is live but I can't find any place to do it.

The amount of Trilium is a finite amount

There is a 5 billion Trilium supply plus another 5 billion stored in the "locked box". The "locked box" gets depleted every day. It releases 0.025% of it's supply each day.

Trilium will be exchangeable with Ethereum and WAX

We will be able to, at some point, exchange our Trilium for WAX or ETH. So mine like your life depends on it. I am sure the rate will be trash but still another awesome way to earn ETH or WAX. Right now the only way I know of to earn WAX via Alien Worlds is selling your NFT's. In each blockchain there will be 10 billion Trilium. As some is moved to Ethereum the same amount will become "locked" on WAX.

You will be able to buy NFT's with Trilium

The Blueprint states "Trilium can be used to acquire NFTs". I am not sure how they will implement this but it will be interesting none the less. Maybe you can only buy Stone rarity NFTs?

Planetary DACs are going to play a huge role

Right now they don't do much of anything. But over time the Planet's DAC is going to decide how to allocate its budget. Each planet is allocated a certain amount of Trilium based on the amount of Trilium staked to the planet. It also takes 2 days to unstake your Trilium from a planet.

When mining only the longest 2 charge times are calculated

This should definitely be taken into account. For example I am using 2 Standard Capacitors with a Charge Time of 75 secs and 1 Standard Shovel with 80 sec of Charge time. For me the formula take 1 Standard Capacitor (75 secs) and 1 Shovel (80 secs). Since the Shovel is the same stats for NFT luck it would be better for me to 3 Standard Capacitor's so that the formula is 2 Standard Capacitors at 75 secs each.

If only 2 tools are used then it takes the charge time of the longest and half the time of the shorter one.

This is my current mining tools. So for me this is the Charge Time after each mine 7 minutes and 45 seconds.

Formula is Z(X+Y).

Z = Charge Time multiplier of the Land you are mining

X = Charge Time of longest tool being used

Y = Charge Time of 2nd longest tool being used

3(80 +75) = 3(155) = 465 seconds = 7 minutes & 45 seconds.

If I was to use all Standard Capacitors it would be as follows:

3(75+75) = 3(150) = 450 seconds = 7 minutes & 30 seconds.

NFT Luck is a very simple formula as well

It states that NFT Luck is given by taking all the NFT Luck percentages of your tools added together, then multiplied by the lands Luck value.

(0.5% + 0.5% + 0.5%) x 2.2 = (1.5%) x 2.2 = 3.3% of getting a NFT. That would make sense because I am using very low NFT's but I am getting WAY more than 3.3% of NFT's when mining so I have to be missing something in this formula or I am just very lucky.

Proof of Work Requirement is actual PoW calculations

You may never notice it on a desktop because of the available RAM and CPU speed but it can be noticeable on a smartphone that is underpowered. This is interesting as it could also play a factor in people picking their NFT's to mine with. If you are on a crappy phone you may pick NFT's that make the PoW much easier, And for me on a desktop I never worry about it.

Landowners can offer NFT's for mining on their Land

They are able to send NFT's to a contract and it acts as a pool of sorts. They can then put rules into place based on the pools. For example they could create Pool #1 with 100 common NFT's. Then also create Pool #2 with 10 Legendary NFT's. The land owner could put a rule in that 95% of the time pull from Pool #1 and 5%of the time pull from Pool #2. Miners will only get a chance of getting a NFT that way if we already cleared the NFT luck stage and would have normally gotten a normal NFT from Alien Worlds. 

Cross Platform NFTs are possible

It was designed to enable other game NFTs to be useable in the Alien Worlds ecosystem. It was given as an example of having a GPK (Garbage Pal Kids) card set as your avatar to give you special attributes or used a GPK card as a minion in the Thunderdome. This could be very interesting but because the Federation has to sanction all of the attributes it will take time so don't expect this part out of the gate.

Plots of Lands will be able to be modified

In the future someone who owns a plot of land will be able to change it's Name, or sell advertising links on their land. They could even develop on the land and have those buildings change the lands productivity when mining. I think the last part comes into play with upgrading the land via Trilium I mentioned earlier. Either way it can be very exciting.

Alien Worlds will have 'mana'

Minions will have a power called mana that will be used when deploying them into battle.

My take a way's:

I think that in order for Alien Worlds to really thrive they need to keep releasing new features and updates. And they also need to keep updating what land owners can do. Because right now it appears to be if you own a piece of land you reap all the rewards with no effort except your initial investment. I do NOT want Alien Worlds to become a pay to win game like all the others. If they give land owners more options as far as giving better rewards for the miners it will keep them on their toes and give the power back to the miners. We can truly vote with our "money". 

If a plot of land has an active land owner who is giving out NFTs and lowering the Trilium commission I would rather mine there even if a different plot of land has marginally better stats.

I also think they need to release Thunderdome sooner than later as just mining for NFTs can only go so far. We need more things to do to retain more players.