Soul-bound accrual points + unique claimable SB tokens

[ponderingdemocritus]

Settling of the Realms has a significant game loop that involves fungible tokens. These tokens generate every day and are burnt in order to play the game. There are a few significant actions that players take:

• Trading of resources
• Raiding Realms (attacking army builds)
• Defending their Realms (defense army builds)
• Building troops

There is much discussion around soul-bound NFTs and this is a proposal to incorporate a soul-bound NFT system based on how well the player is playing the game. These are the ultimate recognition and cannot be bought or traded. One must earn this.

The mechanics are simple and this is how it would work for the Raiding aspect of the game.

1. A player would successfully raid a Realm
2. This successful raid would be tracked in a counter under 'Successful_Raids'
3. The counter will accrue as 'points' which will show on the users' profile page
4. Once the counter is over X amount of points, the player can 'mint' the soul-bound token and proudly display it on their page.
5. They then have to reach the next level of X * 2 in order to mint the next one

These unique tokens, although they cannot be traded can provide unique access to experiences.

This pattern could be repeated across all major actions in the game providing recognition of a player's ability.

[palomato]

Would soul-bound NFTs be very rare/difficult to earn? Or would there be many NFTs with various ways to earn, similar to Call of Duty achievements? If the latter, multiple game actions could be tracked- like which Realms/Orders are successfully raided, or the cumulative quantity and type of resource earned from raids.

For example, X successful raids against Order of the Fox earns the Foxbane NFT. Looting Y cumulative quantity of the Gold resource through successful raids earns the Gold Digger NFT, etc. But more metrics would have to be tracked.

[andy77381]

I like this. There needs to be non-financialized rewards and incentives in the game otherwise, it's not really a game. I think we'll find that players are equally motivated to earn rewards that only have flex value.

[ponderingdemocritus]

We could write as complex as we need! Some will be easy to earn, but others could be extremely hard to get. I love the idea of tying them to the orders!

The tricky part is keeping the costs as low as possible for tracking. If we want to do it all on-chain (which we should) then every action needs to be recorded in storage.

Also - We can do off-chain leader boards which just incorporate the indexer data, these are off-chain flexes.

[0xcodemonkey]

I like this idea! Are we planning to try it out on a smaller scale with Desiege? Maybe an SB token/NTT to indicate how much of a dark or light affinity you have?