Thoughts on Ragnarok Announcement

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We have a claim period for Ragnarok claim tokens (RCT)!

The announcement came a few hours ago, and we are talking about April 20th as the date when the claim drop starts, but you have time to claim your RCTs for an an entire month.

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Image from @ragnarok.game's post

RCTs are not the actual Ragnarok NFTs, they will come later, but the claim tokens are tradable, fungible and probably can be broken down in sub-unitary denominations too, which helps for wider distribution during the airdrop phase and to accurately match the snapshots on accounts. Otherwise there would be a rounding to about 112 HIVE/HP which would be very disappointing for small accounts. Why around 112? Because that turns out to be the needed HIVE/HP at the snapshot time on January 6, to receive one Ragnarok NFT.

So, after you claim the RCTs from the same site as the LARYNX tokens (https://spk.dlux.io), you will be be able to trade them for HIVE and HBD.

Some will want to sell them since they are "free", others will amass them because they give access to a higher number of NFTs.

For those who intend to play the game, for the chess part you need 10 pieces, 5 Pawns and 1 of the other pieces: King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, and Rook.

As I understood (maybe wrongly), you could start the game with fewer pieces, but what would be the point? You would likely lose. Here's a refresher on the Ragnarok game mechanics.

But if each NFT card has a chess archetype associated with it, that means you'd need more NFTs to make sure you'll get all chess pieces when you claim the NFTs with RCTs. Am I right? Otherwise you'd need to buy the missing chess pieces NFTs from other players, once NFT market opens. I guess here's where we need to make a decision how to proceed, if we want to play.

In this way this is a bit like Splinterlands (only a bit). You don't know what you get from a pack (i.e. claimdrop of NFTs in Ragnarok). If you don't get what you need, you need to buy the NFTs from other players. The difference is in Ragnarok you can't buy more RCTs to turn into NFTs later, like you buy packs from Splinterlands. Maybe I'm pushing with this comparison.

What else have we learned from the Ragnarok announcement?

Next step will be the revealing of NFT cards, "within a few months":

within the coming months, the NFT art will be finalized, and you can then start claiming your NFTs and revealing which ones you get.

Since the claimdrop lasts a month, I guess few months become fewer.

Judging by what else is planned for "later this year", we might actually see the revealing of Ragnarok NFTs during summertime.

As for the later part of the year, some pretty sizeable chunks are slated for then: public testing of the game, voting mechanics and functional DAO.

By how the rough scheduling looks like, I believe the gameplan is to launch Ragnarok into the wild at the beginning of 2023, maybe even on the January 1st, to have seasons coincide with calendar years. Or maybe not, just wild guessing here.

I hope the development could go as planned, because there's obviously still a lot to do and excitement will grow exponentially once we have the NFTs and especially after we'll be able to test the game. I'm obviously looking forward to both these phases!

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Sometimes, I have a feeling that there is nothing new on the HIVE... lol... I mean, we are always "waiting" for something, like the Ragnarok game, Splinterlands lands, LeoFinance bonds, collateralization, PsyberX game launch, 3Speak tokens, etc...
But, of course, it's not all like that... Imagine that all these things got "unstuck" at a similar time, we would have a HIVE (and dApps) boost and it would go to the moon in a matter of a couple of days...

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Nah, you think it's different elsewhere? At least here many of the ones capturing interest eventually come into being, but there are so many projects out there which are left on the drawing board.

We all would like to have them ready at the snap of fingers, but things take time to develop.

As for Splinterlsnds land expansion, yeah, it's disappointing to see it pushed back for so long, but looks like their initial estimations were hyper-optimistic, plus SPS came, and I don't believe many would argue that's a bad thing.

On PolyCub, what can I say, we are used to how Khal operates. He says they are in testing (bonding and pHBD), but maybe it makes sense to push them after the inflation of POLYCUB settled, so I think maybe we'll see another cut before we see these released? Who knows?

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I know that it's not different elsewhere either... Look at ETH change from POW to POS... People were telling me that I'm crazy when I was buying additional GPUs to 2-3 years ago... As POS was "almost" there... 😃 Last year was the same, GPUs are already paid them off, and we aren't still there...

The problem with expectations on HIVE and elsewhere is that we had "some" communication with development, and that's why it feels more painful to wait... hehehehe...

!LUV

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Yeah, I wanted to mention Ethereum too. Seems like a classic counter-example for quick development, sticking to the roadmap and decent fees.

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Just what I wanted.. something else to keep track of claiming 😆

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I get you. Micromanaging things on our accounts became almost like a full time job.

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Exciting times ahead with this very unique way of introducing a game, by airdropping the assets instead of making people buy them.

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This is cool indeed. But the way Ragnarok will work, there will be costs associated with playing the game. To be profitable you have earn more than you put in.

But for those who don't want to play, they are practically free assets they can sell (or maybe rent when the option will be available).

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We'll have to wait and see how this plays out, and what the cost of playing will be, weighing that against the opportunities to earn. Are you good enough for it, if you understand the game, and if you have the opportunity to earn. Or is it more like a bottomless pit that will gobble up your HBD. This question is unanswered for everyone at the moment, and it will show with time. I don't know yet if I'm going to play or not ... but the NFTs are interesting to get airdropped anyway.

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I certainly will try the game. Probably will try it in the public testing phase too.

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Amazing news, I can’t wait to claim them!

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Yep, just one week until we get the claim tokens! :)

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It looks like you need a lot of pieces to get started and I don't think I will get enough pieces just off the airdrop. Is it a one-time claim or come back every month like LARYNX? I also hope the rental system is there so I can rent out my NFTs.

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It's a one-time claimdrop.

There will be a rental system, but not sure when it'll be released, from the start or later on.

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I circled April 20th so I don't forget. Thank you for making sure all of us on ListNerds were aware of the date.

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Great! I set an alarm myself. It's the only way I make sure to remember things, because they keep coming.

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The Ragnarok drop slipped off my mind but thanks to this, I got reminded :) Although I am not playing the game, the NFT cards sound interesting.

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Just remember these claim tokens are a precursor to the NFTs. You can buy and sell them, but at a later time you'll be able to use them to claim NFTs.

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