AMA Recap — Dragon MainLand
The session of AMA ( Ask Me Anything ) with Dragon MainLand was conducted on 11th Nov 2021 at 5:30 PM IST (12 PM UTC) and lasted for 1 hour.
ADMIN ROUND
I welcome you on behalf of Crypto players India team, hope you will enjoy today’s AMA session.
Very excited to have you with us.😊
Jonty|Host
Please tell us about yourself and the team working on Dragon Mainland?
Jason Dekker
My quick background is I started my professional career as a stock market trader in the late 1990’s trading Internet stocks. I did very well and started my own hedge fund in the early 2000’s. Ran it up to $300 Million USD at its peak. Then I was a founder of a Biotechnology company sold to a publicly listed Nasdaq company. Had an organic food and beverage company sold to my former business partner. Then I was the CEO and Founder of a Blockchain company called GoChain. We successfully raised $15 million USD in our ICO in 2018 and won the Binance community listing vote by the largest margin ever, ticker symbol GO. At GoChain we partnered with several Fortune 500 and public companies like Microsoft, Dish Network, and Enviva. GoChain has primarily turned its focus to Supply Chain with its Chainsparency platform. They also have an NFT platform called Zeromint. There’s more but I’ve had a very successful corporate background and been active in the blockchain crypto space for the past 6+ years. And, now I’m the CEO of Dragon Mainland! Our team is the combination of a game studio and blockchain/crypto experts. That’s exactly what’s needed for a play to earn game like Dragon Mainland!
Jonty|Host
What is Dragon Mainland? Please provide a detailed introduction.
Jason Dekker
DM is a brand new “play to earn” game that’s a fully immersive 3D encrypted NFT collectibles game. The original idea of Dragon Mainland came from How to Train your Dragon. Dragons have long captivated both Eastern and Western cultures. Most recently with movies and TV shows like Avatar, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and many others. We feel like the idea of breeding, raising and fighting Dragons 🐉 will captivate gamers and is something exciting.
As we started structuring the game after further discussions we started to form a mythical worldview on the background of Dragon Mainland.
Worldview: Magical Mythology (high level):
This is a continuation of the era after the Dragon Knight where humans rode dragons. Now, there is no longer a need for dragons to be used as mounts to participate in the war. After continuous domestication and training the Dragons are now under the leadership of sub commanders.
Since the start of independent
warfare, the war between people has turned into a war among dragons. Dragon Mainland is divided into five different territories according to the terrain environment:
Fire flames, Aqua city, Sand kingdoms, Wind dune, and Thunder god hill. Superficially, harmony exists among all countries in accordance with the jointly formulated plan. And, the rule of existence maintains order although the actual undercurrent is turbulent. In order to compete for a
high-quality hierarchical tribal system. Various forces are vying openly and secretly. Adventurers are sent to various countries to search for and battle different tribes. We aim to create a fully decentralized community or a DAO . The community will be able to validate all transactions and activities inside the game which provides a level playing field for everyone.
It’s the intersection of gaming + DeFi + NFTs in a Dragon Ecosystem.
We have 4 combat modes:
1. Single player PvP
2. Multi player PvP
3. Single player PvE
4. Multi player PvE
PVE：
Battle unit: 1–3 dragons on our side, and up to 3 dragons from the enemy. Each can attack multiple times at a time.
Attack rules: If there are no special card effects, priority will be given to attacking the dragon closest in front of the enemy. If the enemy’s foremost unit is side by side with another the restraint unit will be attacked first among the two. If there is no restraint, priority will be given to attacking the parallel units below the enemy. Preparation: In this stage, players play the five skill cards in their hands according to their own energy points. Some skill cards require energy consumption, while others do not. The skill cards played correspond to the dragons one by one. At this stage, only the player manually enters the next step before entering the round battle phase.
PVP
The battle among the players focuses on the player’s choice of placement and strategy for each round. Players: Both sides can only supply 3 dragons.
Preparation: In this stage, players play the six skill cards in their hands according to their own energy points, some of which require energy consumption and some do not. The skill cards played correspond to the dragons one by one. There is a countdown at this stage, and it will automatically enter the round battle stage when the countdown ends. The round battle phase is the same as the PVE round battle phase. There is also an extremely vibrant in-game economy in which the Dragon Mainland charges fees for transactions to earn revenue. That revenue will be reinvested back into marketing and user acquisition.
Jonty|Host
How many characters are there in Dragon Mainland please give us some details of each of them. How to play and earn? What are the unique features?
Jason Dekker
There are 5 races of dragons in DM, Fire Dragon: favors violent combat, Water Dragon: favors assisted regeneration, Rock Dragon: favors defensive control, Storm Dragon: favors agility attack and Thunder Dragon: favors skill damage. All 5 dragon types have a mutual restraint relationship with each other. Water dragons restrain earth and fire dragons, fire dragons restrain wind and thunder dragons, wind dragons restrain earth and water dragons, earth dragons restrain thunder and fire dragons, and thunder dragons restrain water and wind dragons. I’ll also add a graphic below with more information about the attributes of each Dragon. In terms of the play to earn function you can earn DMP by passing levels, winning PvE and PvP matches, and completing daily quests. The stronger your dragon and ladder rank the more you can earn.
The top 3 unique features to Dragon Mainland are:
1. Deflationary token ecosystem: 100% of blind box DMS revenue is burned and 50% of our marketplace transaction fee is used to buy back the DMS token. It will then be permanently frozen.
2. Dragon devouring: Stronger dragons can devour weaker dragons to upgrade a random. This will decrease the proliferation of Dragon NFTs.
3. Dragon staking: stake your dragon NFTs to earn DMP.
Jonty|Host
There are two tokens namely Dragon Mainland Shards (DMS) and Dragon Miracle Potion (DMP). Can you tell us about these two tokens?
Jason Dekker
Dragon Mainland has a dual token model DMP and DMS:
Dragon Miracle Potion (DMP) is the utility token issued by Dragon Mainland. It doesn’t have a fixed total supply. It can only be obtained through passing game levels, combat wind, and completing daily quests. It will be consumed during dragon breeding, dragon skull absorption, and devouring other dragons. Dragon Mainland Shards (DMS) is the ecosystem and governance token of the Dragon Mainland. The total supply of DMS is 1,000,000,000 and no additional DMS will be issued. The full release will take place over 5 years or 60 months.
Token Allocation：
Mining Rewards 45%，
Foundation Reserve 15%，
Team 21%，
Advisor 4%，
Token Sale 15%
Team, Advisor, and mining reward tokens are locked and released monthly in equal increments over the 60 months. There is a fixed max supply or DMS but we have several mechanisms to make sure our DMS supply is deflationary to protect the value of it over the long term. The advantage of holding DMS is that if you stake your tokens and participate in our DeFi opportunities you will earn more DMS! Next, 50% of the marketplace revenue will be used to buyback DMS and permanently freeze it. This means that there will be buy pressure from gameplay on a daily basis and the overall available token supply will continue to decrease on a daily basis. The more people play the game the more DMS tokens that will come off the market. This in itself should drive investors to stake the token and hold it AGAIN decreasing the available supply on the market. We strongly believe in deflationary token ecosystems to create long term value for our holders and we believe in rewarding our token holders that stake their tokens to earn bigger returns. We feel it’s a very strong model and one that aligns the incentives of the players, investors, and the ecosystem.
TWITTER ROUND
I see that every dragon has “variability” and “ability to shape”. What does it mean, that every dragon has an acquired learning ability? If we can upgrade to allow dragons to absorb dragon bones or swallow other dragons, can our dragons learn these skills by swallowing them?
Jason Dekker
What this means is that when you breed any two dragons you can get a variety of outcomes and potential positive or negative mutations. Very similar to how it works in nature. With all the cross breeding of dragons the attributes it’s born with will vary with each birth. In terms of acquired learning, again, it’s similar to how it is for humans and animals. As they grow they can get stronger. In Dragon Mainland dragons upgrades happen through devouring dragons but only of the same race. Or, through absorbing dragon skulls from Blind Boxes. With each devouring or absorption a random attribute or skill can be upgraded. You can upgrade a maximum of 3 levels. These upgrades will increase the attribute or skill focus to make it easier for your dragon to win in combat.
I see user can accompany players around the world to defeat the world Boss and receive valuable rewards. Will those rewards be divided equally among all players? Or will those users who have monsters with better skills and better training receive a greater part of the reward?
Jason Dekker
The DM is divided into two modes of play, PVE and PVP. The rewards in PVE mode are based on the difficulty level that your currently playing. The more difficult the level, the more rewards you will receive. In PVP mode, rewards are based on your current ladder ranking. The higher the ranking, the higher the reward for victory. In either mode, the stronger the dragon, the easier it is to win the match, so training your dragon to become stronger is the core gameplay.
It caught my attention that Dragon Mainland is a 3D game, but could you tell me if I need a computer with minimal requirements to be able to enjoy the 3D game experience? Also planning to launch a mobile application in the near future?
Jason Dekker
We are launching on Mobile, IOS and Android, first. PC and Mac will launch in a few months. We will have a mobile app, yes.
NFT gaming particularly those featuring a Play-to-Earn mechanism is clearly the new trend these days. #DragonMainland appears to have this as a strong suit. Can you explain #DragonMainland Play-to-Earn mechanism in more details?
Jason Dekker
There are several ways to earn:
1. Complete daily tasks — login, play 5 PvE and 10 PvP games and earn Tokens
2. Stake/Pledge DMS to earn more DMS
3. Liquidity Mine by adding liquidity to our DEX for DMS/BNB, DMS/DMP, BNB/DMP pairs
4. Win Ladder Tournaments
5. Win PvP or PvE games
6. Breed Dragons and sell them in the marketplace
7. Trade NFTs for a potential profit
8. Stake your Dragons to earn DMP
Players can earn money by competing in ranked battles (PVP), challenging the environment (PVE), and breeding dragons for sale. Many in-game assets such as the dragon skulls (NFT), DMP, and DMS, can be obtained through playing the game. Tokens can be sold on the dex, and NFTs can be sold on the marketplace.
COMMUNITY ROUND
Rinku Singh
I Read about the Two TOKENS in the Dragon Mainland:
1. DMS (Dragon Mainland
Shards)
2. DMP (Dragon Miracle Potion)
I would like to know More about these Two Tokens , Can You tell me The Primary Roles of these 2 Tokens and How these 2 Tokens are different from each other ?
Jason Dekker
Dual Token Use Cases:
DMS use cases:
1. Marketplace Payments. All NFT transactions require DMS as the payment medium or currency.
2. Gameplay. Breeding, training, and raising your dragons requires a certain amount of DMS as a service fee.
3. Governance. DMS holders will be allowed to participate in platform governance voting by staking their DMS.
4. Staking. Users will be able to stake DMS to earn weekly DMS rewards.
5. Liquidity mining. Users can provide DMS liquidity to the revenue aggregator in order to receive DMS token rewards from liquidity pools.
6. Platform DMS freezes and burns. Token deflation. 50% of marketplace earnings are used to repurchase DMS in the open market and permanently freeze them and 100% of Blind Box DMS revenue is burned.
DMP Use Cases:
1. Breeding
2. Dragon devouring
3. Dragon skull absorption
4. Dragon Skull Synthesis.
Me Sir
Do you have AUDIT certificate or are you working to AUDIT your project? so that the security of the project becomes more secure and reliable.??
Jason Dekker
We just announced today on Twitter that Certik is almost done with our Smart Contract audit. Once it’s completed you we will post the Certificate publicly.
Surjo moni
How important is the community to Your project? and How can we collaborate or help share token for the development of the project?
Jason Dekker
Community is everything! Without a strong community nothing good can happen. We plan to focus heavily on Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East where the play to earn gaming markets are strong. We hope to partner with the likes of YGG and other similar gaming guilds or groups that will help accelerate user growth. There will be a huge focus on working with different community leaders to build telegram groups and the like in different languages so there support and a communal network. We are already working with KOLs and local country groups to make sure we provide all the resources necessary to support the communities in every region. How the Crypto Player India community can help is to start playing the game early, get involved and spread the word. The early players will be able to buy the NFTs, in game assets, at low prices, and start staking the tokens they earn to gain the highest potential rewards. As they then help spread the news about the game their potential for profit increases. The whole token ecosystem is designed to mutually reward all the stakeholders over the long term. We look forward to working closely with your community!
Tran To Uyen
How secure is your platform to use? Have you done audits of smart contract? What security measures are adopted from bugs of smart contract and hacking?
Jason Dekker
Platform security is of the utmost importance and it’s a huge focus for us! We fully expect all the hackers and scammers and fraudsters to come. They are already here and already trying to disrupt our ecosystem. At this point happening so early we’ll take it as a compliment. Hacking is always a concern and we take cyber security very seriously. To protect the project we are tons of penetration testing, audit all the smart contracts, hiring hacking groups to try to break in, and using FileCoin and IPFS a to protect the NFTs. All smart contracts are in the process of being audited by CertiK, a very well known smart contract auditing firm. We will publish the audit certificates publicly when the audits are complete. To protect the NFT’s using FileCoin and IPFS provides a massive advantage because of the way they use content addressing. This ensures that if a breach did happen all the NFTs should be protected. This creates a truly decentralized solution to manage this problem. This is an ongoing issue that will never go away and we will stay vigilant to protect our platform and our community!
Blue Core
If you think your project is the best in the world. But tell me, how is your project the best in the world and what are its benefits?so that, Will users like your project?
Jason Dekker
Here are the incentives or benefits for users to choose our platform:
1. Epic 3D graphics
2. Rich engaging gameplay
3. Ecosystem token staking
4. NFT staking
5. Deflationary token ecosystem
6. Defi — Revenue aggregator
7. High payouts
There’s definitely more but we feel the above combination should be extremely rewarding for those that play our game.
Md Jahidul Hassan
Staking program is very important for
any project, Can i stake your token? Do you have any plan of starting staking program?
Jason Dekker
We have DMS token staking and Dragon NFT staking. DMS staking to earn DMS and Dragon staking/pledging to earn DMP.
Cally Stone
What is the most ambitious goal of Project ? I would appreciate it if you could share with us any Upcoming Updates?
Jason Dekker
Our most ambitious goal is to dethrone Axie as the top play to earn game. For regular announcements follow our announcements page: https://t.me/dragonmainland_ann
Clara Leathers
Many scam projects in the market. I would like to invest in your project but I habe doubt. Can you assure us that you are not like others and there is no chance of scam?
Jason Dekker
Rug pulls mostly happen on “new” projects where the founders are not well known and/or anonymous. We aren’t an anonymous project and I’m very visible on video quite regularly and I’m very active in the community. You can trust our project because we are well known in the industry. My track record in the Blockchain space and in the Corporate world is fully visible to the world. My name is on the door. I live in Dubai. My background is easily verifiable and you can videos of me on YouTube and articles about me on Google. In addition, and probably most importantly the play to earn Metaverse/GameFi space is just beginning to blow up! This is by far the most exciting niche in Blockchain/Crypto today. We aren’t going anywhere. We are just starting.
Philomena 🇬🇧
How big and strong is your community? do you have community for non English users? Is your project a local project or a global project ? Can anyone use your ser Super players from anywhere in the world? Is there any restrictions of using your ser Super player ?
Jason Dekker
To really expand our market we are partnering and focusing on our regional communities. Without a strong communities nothing good can happen. We plan to focus heavily on Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East where the play to earn gaming markets are strong. We hope to partner with the likes of YGG and other similar Guilds or groups that will help accelerate user growth. There will be a huge focus on working with different community leaders to build telegram groups and the like in different languages so there support and a communal network. We are already working with KOLs and groups to make sure we provide all the resources necessary to support the communities in every region. We are also focusing on a lot of non-English speaking regions. We are also working with our developers to potentially allow users to choose their language when they sign up and sign in. The global community is going to be what makes Dragon Mainland successful and we plan to support them as much as possible!
🌐 Dragon Mainland Regional Communities. 🔅
1.Vietnamese : https://t.me/dragonmainlandvietnamese
2.Spanish : https://t.me/dragonmainlandspanish
3.Japanese : https://t.me/dragonmainlandjapanese
4.Russian : https://t.me/dragonmainlandrussian
5.Korean : https://t.me/dragonmainlandkorean
6.Turkish : https://t.me/dragonmainlandturkish
7.Arabic : https://t.me/dragonmainlandarabic
8.Filipino : https://t.me/dragonmainlandfilipino
9.Indonesian : https://t.me/dragonmainlandindonesia
10.India : https://t.me/dragonmainland_india
11.Brazil : https://t.me/dragonmainland_brazil
12.French : https://t.me/DMfrench
13.German : https://t.me/DMGerman
Md Sejan Hosean
What was your motive behind making your project?
Jason Dekker
I personally decided to get in the GameFi space because I think this is the killer application that blockchain and crypto have been waiting for!
I have two macro views on this subject:
1. All games will be blockchain games soon because of the ability to own in-game assets or NFTs and for their token based economies.
2. The rise of industrial automation and robotics will put half the world out of work. We see this as a new occupation and that’s more what we are targeting. Game experience or not… Next, if the incentive is high enough, i.e. the payouts are high, traditional gamers will teach themselves and learn on their own. Blockchain and crypto is growing massively and we don’t think we need to teach users how to deal with crypto.
The AMA recorded many great questions from the Crypto Players India community, as well as meticulous answers from our guest Jason Dekker from Dragon MainLand. AMA Concluded at 6:30 pm IST.
