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Below is Part III from our Metablox Whitepaper 2.0, which incorporates our Game Mechanics and Experience Design. Part I on the Vision might be discovered right here. Later on I’ll publish the ultimate Part IV (Technology and Team) right here in your comfort too.

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Yu-kai Chou (Co-founder and Head of Experience at Metablox) is a world-renowned Gamification pioneer finest recognized for the Octalysis Framework. Yu-kai’s work has helped Google, Uber, LEGO, Tesla, BCG, IDEO, and plenty of different world corporations. Over 1500 Academic journals and Ph.D. theses have been written in regards to the Octalysis Framework and the way it applies to quite a lot of industries. Yu-kai is making use of top-end Octalysis design expertise to Metablox to create a pleasant, significant person expertise and  journey whereas constructing lasting worth for the neighborhood.

Battleplan

The Metablox Battleplan is the whole Gamification design for Metablox. You can evaluate the Metablox Battle Plan right here.

Game Loop

The Game Loop is a breakdown of the motivations and key drivers of motion on Metablox. The Gameloop will evolve with every iteration of the roadmap.

Metablox Gameloop 2.0 (by Yu-kai Chou) on Jan 8, 2020

✨ Mint pricing

How it really works

Blox on Metablox might be purchased as NFTs. For instance, Jun’s first house in San Francisco was 3632 twenty sixth Street. He can buy the block that this handle belongs to as an NFT.

To buy the Blox, an individual will use ETH, MATIC, or USDT.

The Blox is saved as an NFT within the crypto pockets of the particular person.

What does it imply to Mint an NFT in Metablox?

“Minting” an NFT in Metablox signifies that the Blox was bought for the first time — the NFT is added to the blockchain and saved within the crypto pockets of the customer.

How does Mint pricing work?

The Mint worth is the bottom worth of the Blox (decided by Tier).

Each metropolis in Metablox could have 10 phases. A metropolis strikes up in part at every 10% buy threshold of a metropolis. 

Example: If a metropolis has 5,000 Blox:

  • Phase 1 = the preliminary part.
  • Phase 2 = triggered when 500 houses are bought in complete.
  • Phase 3 = triggered when 1,000 houses are bought in complete.
  • Phase 4 = triggered when 1,500 houses are bought in complete.
  • And so on…

Upon reaching the subsequent part, the bottom worth of unclaimed properties will enhance by 1.5x in comparison with the earlier part. Since the founding precept of Metablox is strong development and lasting worth – as a substitute of exuberant hypothesis and hype – the aim is to not shortly promote out all properties inside a metropolis. Rather, the Phase of that metropolis will replicate the natural demand, which may attain full saturation over an prolonged time period. 

We need to make shopping for an NFT owned by another person extra interesting than a newly minted one – till the market demand is excessive sufficient to open a brand new part with a brand new set of unminted properties that’s a lot larger than the earlier part.

This ensures that Metablox homeowners could have regular rising values for his or her NFTs as ground costs enhance whereas neighborhood curiosity in Metablox stays wholesome. 

Below is the present work-in-progress Property Base Price from the Metablox Battleplan. Please evaluate the Experience Design part for the whole Battleplan.

All costs in USD.

Phase Requirement Tier I Base Price Tier II Base Price Tier III Base Price Tier IV Base Price Tier V Base Price Unlocks
Phase 1 None $100 $200 $300 $400 $500
Phase 2 10% of Region Owned $150 $300 $450 $600 $750 Landmark 1 Auction
Phase 3 20 % of Region Owned $225 $450 $675 $900 $1,125 Landmark 2 Auction
Phase 4 30% of Region Owned $338 $675 $1,013 $1,350 $1,688 Landmark 3 Auction
Phase 5 40% of Region Owned $506 $1,013 $1,519 $2,025 $2,531 Landmark 4 Auction
Phase 6 50 % of Region Owned $759 $1,519 $2,278 $3,038 $3,797 Landmark 5 Auction
Phase 7 60% of Region Owned $1,139 $2,278 $3,417 $4,556 $5,695 Landmark 6 Auction
Phase 8 70 % of Region Owned $1,709 $3,417 $5,126 $6,834 $8,543 Landmark 7 Auction
Phase 9 80% of Region Owned $2,563 $5,126 $7,689 $10,252 $12,814 Landmark 8 Auction
Phase 10 90% of Region Owned $3,844 $7,689 $11,533 $15,377 $19,222 Landmark 9 Auction

If an early Metablox proprietor buys an NFT for $100 – moreover being a extra wanted Blox to start with – the Metablox proprietor will doubtless stage the Blox up with reminiscences, which permits the Blox to generate extra MetaRent

After a sure time if the bottom worth of different unclaimed NFTs turns into $225 (Phase 3), the Metablox proprietor ought to not less than be capable of promote their NFT for $225, contemplating any random unclaimed and Level 1 Blox is at $225. 

If the Metablox proprietor desires to promote shortly and lowers the value to $200, not solely is the Blox larger stage than unclaimed Blox, it will even be cheaper. It can be an affordable assumption to consider that individuals who care in regards to the Metablox ecosystem would need to buy it relatively shortly.

If everybody desires to commerce at under the present part mint worth, then the mint worth won’t transfer to the subsequent part. But if everyone seems to be beginning to commerce at above the present mint worth, then it makes extra sense to mint new ones, which might ultimately increase the mint worth to a brand new part.

We are very devoted to creating positive individuals not solely have rising worth of their NFT belongings, however they’ve liquidity that corresponds to market demand.

⭐️ Blox Tiers

Each Blox in Metablox will include two most important attributes that have an effect on the worth and shortage of the NFT: 

  1. Blox Tier
  2. Blox Level

Blox Tier is mirrored in a five-tier system. Tier-1 Blox are probably the most plentiful whereas Tier-5 Blox are probably the most scarce. 

How Blox Tiers are decided

Blox Tiers might be predetermined earlier than they’re minted, and might be based mostly on their proximity to Landmarks, that are the epicenters of reminiscences and that means related to a bodily location. Three components will come into play: proximity to landmarks, the variety of landmarks that they’re close to, and the Landmark Prestige Score.

Each metropolis will solely have 100 Tier-5 Blox and 300 Tier-4 Blox

Tier-1 56% of a metropolis
Tier-2 24% of a metropolis
Tier-3 12% of a metropolis
Tier-4 6% of a metropolis
Tier-5 2% of a metropolis

How Blox Tiers have an effect on MetaRent technology

High Tier Blox generate extra MetaRent than Low Tier Blox on the similar Level, and value extra to mint. 

MetaRent/day Tier 1 Tier 5
Level 1 10 MetaRent/day 30 MetaRent/day
Level 20 62 MetaRent/day 183 MetaRent/day
Mint worth Tier 1 Tier 5
Phase 1(<10% of the town is owned) $100 to mint $500 to mint
Level 5(40% of the town is owned) $506 to mint $2,531 to mint

Blox Tiers basically stay constant all through the expertise. Unless later voted individually by way of the neighborhood, a Tier I Blox will stay a Tier I Blox perpetually. However, it may be leveled up right into a Perfect Blox, and might ultimately grow to be a part of a Mechablox.

The specifics of how a lot MetaRent is generated upon completely different Tiers/Levels, powerups unlocked, Max MetaRent Storage, Memory Slots, and Memories required to stage up is documented within the Metablox Battleplan Spreadsheet.

🌇 Blox Levels

Blox Levels replicate how a lot care and dedication the present and former homeowners have dedicated to infusing it with reminiscences associated to that Blox that contact peoples’ hearts. 

Each Blox stage unlocks Memory Slots that the proprietor can use to root reminiscences. Memories can appeal to Memory Marks by different customers who’ve related their wallets onto Metablox.

Once the proprietor roots a threshold of Memory Marks into the Blox, the Blox will stage up. Each time a Blox ranges up, it’ll mine out a specific amount of Metablox Coins.

Benefits of excessive Blox Levels

Higher stage Blox inside the similar Tier generate extra MetaRent than decrease stage Blox inside the similar Tier. 

Higher Level Blox will even produce other advantages, together with the next Maximum MetaRent Storage for a Blox earlier than it must be collected, larger most for Attention Boost Bonuses, in addition to quicker Rooting Times for brand spanking new reminiscences.

A newly claimed Blox will begin at Level 1 and begin producing MetaRent every day in keeping with its Tier. The Blox will stage as much as Level 2 immediately (0 Rooting Time) when the proprietor provides their first first reminiscence and it’ll begin to generate extra MetaRent. Reaching stage 3 would require three extra Memories, every requiring a sequential 5 day Rooting Time.

The specifics of how a lot MetaRent is generated upon completely different Tiers/Levels, powerups unlocked, Max MetaRent Storage, Memory Slots, and Memories required to stage up is documented within the Metablox Battleplan Spreadsheet.

👯‍♂️ Ownership Generations and Generational Leveling

At Metablox, we consider that Blox are extra significant after they go via generations of homeowners, every importing and rooting their very own mix of reminiscences. It can also be wholesome for the ecosystem when NFTs have buying and selling momentum past individuals simply shopping for unclaimed properties. 

When an Unclaimed Blox is bought by an proprietor, it’ll formally be a Gen I Blox. The proprietor can stage up the Gen I Blox to stage 5 by attracting Memory Marks from different Metablox customers, till it will get capped as a Completed Gen I Blox. The Blox will proceed to generate MetaRent as a Gen I Level 5 Blox however will not stage up till it will get transferred to a different proprietor.

How to develop to the subsequent Generation?

Once the proprietor sells the Completed Gen I Blox to a different proprietor (incurring a 2.4% fee), the Blox turns into a Gen II Level 1 Blox (or Level 6 Blox for ease of language). The new proprietor can then add and root new reminiscences to, enhance their NFT Shelf show area, and collect extra Memory Marks to stage up one other 4 occasions, turning into a Gen II Level 5 (or Level 10) Blox. 

The cycle can then proceed. The Gen II Blox proprietor can promote it to a 3rd proprietor, turning into a Gen III Blox. 

In this fashion, if an individual buys a Completed Blox from one other proprietor, what the brand new proprietor has bought will at all times be extra useful than what the earlier proprietor had. 

Perfect Blox and Mechablox

When a Completed Gen V Blox is handed to a sixth proprietor, it turns into a Perfect Blox. Perfect Blox can not be leveled up however will generate the max quantity of MetaRent, present probably the most quantity of Memory Slots, and has probably the most quantity of NFT Shelf Space a Blox may have.

When 5 Perfect Blox of the identical Tier and similar City is owned inside a pockets, they grow to be a Mechablox. A Mechablox behaves like a Landmark, ceasing to generate MetaRent whereas incurring MetaRent maintenance prices. At the identical time, it’ll earn Metablox Coins each week indefinitely based mostly on the Tier of the MechaBlox. Landmarks and MechaBlox are the one two entities that may indefinitely earn Metablox Coins time beyond regulation.

The tier of the Mechablox might be decided by the tiers of the 5 Perfect Blox that the MechaBlox consists of. Five Tier I Perfect Blox in the identical metropolis will grow to be a Tier I Mechablox, whereas 5 Tier V Perfect Blox will grow to be a Tier V Mechablox.

A MechaBlox will stop to operate if one of many 5 Perfect Blox elements is not owned inside that pockets, or if the pockets account doesn’t have ample MetaRent to pay the maintenance prices.

If one of many 5 Perfect Blox elements is not inside the pockets, the opposite 4 merely resume again to regular Perfect Blox standing and begin producing MetaRent once more.

If a pockets is unable to pay the MetaRent maintenance for the Mechablox, then Metablox Coin incomes will stop and can resume its weekly Metablox Coin accumulation as soon as the pockets has sufficient MetaRent to pay the maintenance once more.

As Perfect Blox itself might be uncommon within the first 12 months of a metropolis, and due to this fact a Mechablox might be exceedingly uncommon. However, those that have Perfect Blox will doubtless be capable of promote it to different Perfect Blox holders who’ve the ambition of making one of many only a few MechaBlox in existence.

Incomplete Blox don’t activate the subsequent Generation

If a Gen I proprietor solely ranges up the Blox to Level 3, this Gen I Blox is Incomplete. If the Gen I proprietor sells the Incomplete Blox to another person, the brand new proprietor will nonetheless be a Gen I proprietor and might root reminiscences to make it a Completed Gen I Blox. Then will probably be capped for the brand new proprietor till they go it off to a different proprietor (which is able to begin at Gen II Level 1). 

A Blox can solely transfer ahead to the subsequent Generation if it has the required quantity of Memory Marks to grow to be a Complete Blox.

The specifics of how a lot MetaRent is generated upon completely different Tiers/Levels, powerups unlocked, Max MetaRent Storage, Memory Slots, and Memories Marks required to stage up is documented within the Metablox Battleplan Spreadsheet.

💸 MetaRent

MetaRent is the core forex on Metablox and is used for quite a lot of operations and utility. MetaRent just isn’t saved on the blockchain however on the Metablox database. 

Creation of MetaRent

MetaRent is generated every day from each owned Blox, based mostly on its Level, Tier, and quite a lot of different Boosters (Community Bonus, Attention Bonus, and so forth.). To receive the created MetaRent from every Blox, the proprietor should return to the Metablox platform and one-click acquire all of the newly created MetaRent. Each Blox could have a Max MetaRent Storage based mostly on the Blox stage. 

MetaRent Storage Tier 1 Tier 5
Level 1 10 MetaRent/day300 MetaRent Max Storage 30 MetaRent/day300 MetaRent Max Storage
Level 10 38 MetaRent/day1,139 MetaRent Max Storage 114 MetaRent/day1,139 MetaRent Max Storage
💡 Important: Once a Blox hits the Max Storage, it’ll cease creating extra MetaRent. In order to renew MetaRent creation, the proprietor should acquire the MetaRent from the property (or stage up the Blox with larger Max Storage). 

In this fashion, those that maintain a considerable amount of MetaRent and the utility that comes with it are the individuals who often take part and contribute to the ecosystem. People who solely return to MetaBlox as soon as per 12 months won’t have a excessive quantity of voting energy.

There are many issues that require the spending of MetaRent, every inflicting the MetaRent to be faraway from the ecosystem and controlling the inflation of the economic system.

How MetaRent is spent

Many Metablox operations require the spending of MetaRent: 

Operations Utilities
Rooting MemoriesLeveling up a BloxInternet hosting NFT artwork, characters, trophiesLandmark UpkeepMechaBlox Upkeep Landmark auctionsEarly entry to new areasMystery boxesAesthetic property enhancementsCreations of Collectives

🧠 Memories, Memory Slots, and Rooting

A Memory is a bit of media with descriptive textual content that describes why that reminiscence is significant. Memories might be Rooted in Memory Slots inside a Blox, which in time period may appeal to Memory Marks that can assist the property Level up. 

There will solely be a restricted quantity of Memory Slots for every Blox per stage. Only one Memory might be rooted at a time, and with out boosters it’ll take days for a Memory to take root in a Blox. This restriction motivates homeowners to not unexpectedly root irrelevant reminiscences however solely embody reminiscences which can be really excellent among the many relaxation. 

In the foreseeable future Memories are strictly picture recordsdata with a textual content description. In the longer term there might be extra exploration on feasibility for video/audio reminiscences.

🧘 Memory Marks 

Memory Marks are emotion tags customers with a related Wallet (doesn’t must personal Blox) can use to label reminiscences. Currently, there are 4 attainable Memory Marks: Inspiring, Heartwarming, Hilarious, Solemn.

A person with a pockets related may label one Memory Mark per day, plus yet one more per day for every Blox they personal. This signifies that any pockets with no Blox can tag one Memory with a Memory Mark every day. A pockets with 10 Blox owned may tag eleven Memories with Memory Marks every day. Each pockets can solely tag one Memory one time.

Accumulating Memory Marks permit a Blox to stage up. Memory Marks required to stage up might be discovered right here within the Battleplan Spreadsheet.

Memory Mark Rewards

Memory Marks can generate MetaRent rewards for the Wallet account. Each Memory Mark that has the SAME Mark tagged after it on the identical Memory inside 30 days will generate one MetaRent. This can occur as much as ten occasions for every Memory Mark.

For occasion, if Wallet 1 tags a reminiscence as Inspiring, and nobody tags the identical reminiscence as Inspiring inside 30 days, no MetaRent is gained.

If inside 30 days 5 different wallets tag the identical reminiscence as Inspiring, then Wallet 1 will acquire 5 MetaRent, whereas Wallet 2 that tagged the second Inspiring mark will acquire 4 MetaRent. 

If inside 30 days eleven different wallets tag the identical reminiscence as Inspiring, then Wallet 1 good points 10 MetaRent, Wallet 2 good points 10 MetaRent, Wallet 3 good points 9 MetaRent.

This is an software of Octalysis Game Design Technique #95: The Bandwagon Streak.

Memory Mark Sorting

Users are in a position to browse completely different Blox and Memories by sorting with Memory Marks. A person can kind and choose probably the most Inspiring Memories of a Community (Zip Code), or the Funniest Memories of a City. This approach the properties which have probably the most Memory Marks

Attention Bonuses

Blox generates extra MetaRent when extra individuals take note of them and the Memories Rooted inside. The Attention Bonus is calculated based mostly on views of a Blox within the trailing seven days vs the views of the town throughout these seven days. 

For occasion, if there are 1,000,000 views in San Francisco up to now seven days, and a Blox has 10,000 views, it’ll obtain an Attention Bonus of 20% (10,000/1,000,000*20). If the Blox has 10% of the town’s consideration, the Attention Bonus is 200%, or tripling the MetaRent technology.

🌉 Landmarks and Auctions

After sure intervals and milestones, well-known Landmarks of a metropolis (such because the Golden Gate Bridge) might be up for auctions. People can solely bid for Landmarks with MetaRent (however the proprietor of this Landmark NFT can later promote it for ETH, MATIC, or USDT). 

There might be a Landmark auctioned each month, with the key Landmarks being auctioned as soon as a sure % of a area is owned. A Neighbor or Collective should personal a Blox within the metropolis to qualify to bid for a Landmark.

Landmarks don’t generate MetaRent and actually value MetaRent to maintenance on a weekly foundation. However, a Landmark will earn Metablox Coins for the proprietor each week indefinitely based mostly on the Landmark Class. There are three Landmark Classes – B Class, A Class, and S Class. 

The Class of a Landmark relies on its Prestige Score, which components in reputation on evaluate websites and general recognizability internationally. Landmark Classes are decided in the beginning of every metropolis’s launch, and customarily won’t change.

Landmarks and MechaBlox are the one two entities that may indefinitely earn Metablox Coins time beyond regulation.

If a pockets is unable to pay the MetaRent maintenance for the Landmark, then Metablox Coin accumulation will stop. The Landmark will resume its weekly Metablox Coin accumulation as soon as the pockets has sufficient MetaRent to pay the maintenance once more.

🪙 Metablox Coin

Metablox Coin is generated by way of two strategies: Leveling Up a Blox, or passively generated by way of Landmarks (or in a while Mechablox which is a Landmark-equivalent).

The most important technique to earn Metablox Coin is to stage up your Blox. Whenever a Blox is leveled up, it generates a specific amount of Metablox Coins. How many Metablox Coins are generated is set by the Tier of the Blox in addition to the Generational Ownership of it. 

Referencing the Metabox Battleplan Spreadsheet, a Tier 1 Generation I (Levels 1-5) Blox will generate 1 Metablox Coin when it ranges up. A Tier 5 Generation V (Levels 21-25) will generate 25 Metablox Coins when it ranges up. 

Since there are solely a specific amount of ranges attainable for a Blox, the Metablox Coins that may be earned from a Blox is capped. 

Landmarks don’t generate MetaRent however even have an maintenance value every day that drains MetaRent. However, a Landmark can earn a small quantity of Metablox Coins each week perpetually. This means the quantity of Metablox Coins a Landmark can earn just isn’t capped and might go on perpetually. 

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MechaBlox are the finished assortment of 5 Perfect Blox of the identical tier in the identical metropolis and act as Landmark equivalents. This means a MechaBlox will even slowly earn Metablox Coins indefinitely so long as the proprietor nonetheless holds all 5 Perfect Blox.

Metablox Coins might be tradeable on the open cryptocurrency markets so Metablox Coin homeowners can liquidate their belongings for different Cryptocurrencies, growing their liquidity with out essentially promoting their NFTs.

💝 Bounties

tl;dr: A Blox proprietor can provide a MetaRent bounty to those that submit Memories associated to that location that’s authorised and Rooted.

🏘 Neighborhood Bonus

Communities with extra memory-infused Blox inside will obtain a Neighborhood Bonus, growing the quantity of MetaRent collected. If 5% of a neighborhood is owned by individuals who root not less than one reminiscence in every Blox, then the entire neighborhood Blox will generate 5% extra MetaRent every day.

If 95% of a neighborhood is owned by individuals who root not less than one reminiscence in every Blox, then the entire neighborhood Blox will generate 95% extra MetaRent every day.

Upon reaching 100%, the Neighborhood Bonus will leap to 150%, rewarding communities which can be absolutely owned with homeowners contributing their share of reminiscences to it. 

This will incentivize Blox homeowners to ask their associates to buy Blox in the identical neighborhood, or maybe consider proudly owning properties in the identical neighborhood. It additionally rewards the Museum Curator participant sort in Metablox.

🚀 Boosters & Mystery Boxes

Boosters assist short-term good points inside the expertise. This contains decreased Rooting Time, Discounts on NFTs, additional MetaRent manufacturing and extra. Boosters might be obtained from Mystery Boxes that may be purchasable by MetaRent. 

The contents of Boosters and specifics of Mystery Boxes might be revealed in future updates.

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