In-Game Utility
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Hey guys, stokarz here again.
Throughout the docs I mention how the economic model inside BFB works. Here, I will give you a coherent short description, and a practical example, illustrating its functionality to best of my simplification abilities.
Here is what we did: we took the exchange model, well known from crypto, and applied it to games. Why? Becuse all the previous models like Play-to-earn were unsustainable, and resulted in a catastrophic breakdowns of the in-game economies. As we plan to build games that last decades, we needed something better.
Introducing a peer-to-peer token pooling & redistribution based on your in-game performance.
Okay, this is how we might have finished our explanation if we were talking to some fancy VCs from New York. The suit guys who do not really care about onchain apps, but the story they will tell their LPs. Let me find an even simpler explanation!
This is Bob (there is no Alice in this story, sorry, she ran off after being defeated). Bob, like everybody else, wants to win. Oh and if that's possible, he wants to win a lot, and also help his friends win a lot. He understood that he doesn't have any edge farming airdrops or trading memecoins, so he seeks new opportunities.
Bob starts playing BFB. He has his in-game wallet filled with $INIT to pay the gas fees, and some $BFB tokens, which he will be spending in the game on various actions.
He buys some units: Roe, Potano, and 14 Snoodles. He spent 1,600 BFB tokens in the Unit Shop.
Say there is only Bob in the Forktown throughout the whole war. And his total contribution was just this single battle, where he spent 1,600 BFB tokens. On the other side, seems like Alice has finally returned, and she fought Bob again.
She spent a total of 1,600 BFB tokens, buying Hechoys (which were priced higher) and Kabangos. As one might expect, she lost. For the sake of this simplified example, we will use the 20% rate from the Siege.
Bob's position: 1,600 BFB tokens.
Bob's ROI: 20% or 320 BFB tokens.
Alice's position: 1,600 BFB tokens.
Alice's ROI: -20% or 320 BFB tokens.
In this example, we've showcased how the token pools work in Battle for Blockchain, and where the yield comes from (from Alice losing BFB tokens, and Bob winning them). Was there something Alice could have done better? Yeah, she might have won by placing better strategies on the battlefields. Being more strategic in her attempts to conquer particular zones. Or simply attacking more, and getting her friends to join her in the Spooncity and attack. If that happens, the token pool during the war will increase rapidly, incentivizing Bob to do the same.
We honestly love this model, and hope you will like it too.
Buying units in the Unit Shop*
Upgrading units in your Kingdom
Note*: all the units must be placed on the battlefield before the war ends. Those that weren't placed won't count towards your PnL calculations. Why? Because if they counted, you would join the war minutes before the siege, buy shitton of units, and guarantee the positive payout.
Disclaimer (!): If you are adding BFB tokens to the Kingdom to upgrade the units, to get the rewards from the PnL system at the end of the war, you need to play AT LEAST 1 BATTLE, and place the units on the battlefield.
Spending BFB tokens on Bentoboxes in Lady's Tartella shop doesn't count towards your PnL. These tokens are taken back from the "active" circulation and allocated towards BFB/INIT LP. We basically take the INIT tokens we earn from the sequencer revenue on our chain, and BFB tokens spent by the players in the Bentobox shop, and increase BFB/INIT LP position on Initia's L1 native DEX. Cool huh?
Now when you are familiar with how the BFB token model works, and how the money flows through the system, imagine it at scale. Hundreds or thousands of active players participating in the war, each adding their tokens to the overall token pool. Increasing the stakes for everybody involved. Temperature rising, each battle growing in importance, each zone becoming even more valuable for each kingdom.
The best part? More stakes means bigger ROI, means larger incentives, means more people willing to play and win their share. And they will all need to hold and use BFB tokens to do that.
