If you are guys did this, I would be a huge contributer to the tune of many tens of thousands of Aeon no matter what.
Super optionally, As well, I have an upcoming (fairly distributed with me having no advantage) Counterparty asset coming out soon. If you were willing to incorporate these custom magical tokens into the game, I would be happy to airdrop a significant amount of the base token into the hands of players. It's going to be basically a retro fantasy version of the rarepepedirectory.com cards.
Here's a couple of sample cards from Series One. In series two we allow users to submit their own cards. Actual in game effects of these tokens would be left up to the game programmers as it is outside my area of expertise. But a relaunch of CK for Aeon with some secondary layer custom cryptographic assets (that can't be taken away or fall in value even in the worst cases) would be awesome. This might be a pipe dream though, as it would require BOTH Aeon integration and reading signed tx from Counterparty assets (to assure that the player actually owned an asset). One day would be amazing to do this natively on Aeon, but at the moment second layers with custom assets only exist on the bitcoin blockchain.
Super optionally, As well, I have an upcoming (fairly distributed with me having no advantage) Counterparty asset coming out soon. If you were willing to incorporate these custom magical tokens into the game, I would be happy to airdrop a significant amount of the base token into the hands of players. It's going to be basically a retro fantasy version of the rarepepedirectory.com cards.
Here's a couple of sample cards from Series One. In series two we allow users to submit their own cards. Actual in game effects of these tokens would be left up to the game programmers as it is outside my area of expertise. But a relaunch of CK for Aeon with some secondary layer custom cryptographic assets (that can't be taken away or fall in value even in the worst cases) would be awesome. This might be a pipe dream though, as it would require BOTH Aeon integration and reading signed tx from Counterparty assets (to assure that the player actually owned an asset). One day would be amazing to do this natively on Aeon, but at the moment second layers with custom assets only exist on the bitcoin blockchain.
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This is awesome! I've long been in favor of doing something with AEON!
Actually, let me talk briefly about my initial reasons for joining CK as they may be relevant to AEON. Then I'll share some ideas on how AEON/CK intergation could work.
Personal CK Involvment
Long Game History, Topic Popularity, & Appeal
I had seen posts about CK for years since 2014. As a matter of fact, many of its threads still rank highly in views on BTCTalk. For example, the original (now locked) topic "Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City)" is still the 2nd most viewed thread of all time in "Altcoin Discussion" at 629k views!
XMR had just made its initial jump from $1 to $10. My thesis was that a more advanced CK (which Risto had continually promised was being developed) could be a good pathway to get more people interested in crypto. I also checked in on the game and it was a far cry from the Google Docs and spreadsheets I had seen earlier as the website format was more understandable to users. Also, in terms of themeing, a "medieval sim" had broad appeal, which I think you see the same thing in "Encrypted Charms".
XMR-Based Ecosystem & Dividends
For those already involved in crypto/XMR, I thought the game could be a good long-term dividend style investment opportunity that kept the funds in the XMR ecosystem. This is probably the category I fit in, and I took a portion of my XMR and invested in CK.
Increased Anonymity Set
Finally, with more on-blockchain transactions, the game could help increase the transaction set to help with XMR anonymity. Think if you could get something like the "World of Warcraft" auction house doing on-blockchain transactions for a privacy-focused currency like Monero/Aeon: that is a lot of "noise" to help feed RingCT!
Overall, these 3 main aspects remain in the case of AEON vs XMR integration (1) appeal to non-crypto users, (2) crypto users keeping more funds in the AEON ecosystem, and (3) larger transaction set for RingCT transactions.
AEON/CK Integration
Historic "Proof of Burn" & Game Refresh
Now, on to the present topic: I'm 100% in favor of pursuing a stronger AEON integration. I think the game needs a clean relaunch back to the middle ages with a clearing/refresh of many in-game items, but keeping some of the core items such as land/gold/etc. as many of these have a strong "proof of burn" history when it comes to value.
Many plots of land in the game went for thousands of XMR in the past, and there are many players who invested 1k, 10k, or even more XMR into the game. Just ask Karl Hungus who put over 30k XMR into the game: over 10 million USD at current prices!
I think the card integration is a great idea and could be directly used in gameplay. Maybe each plot of land can have its own card? Not saying there has to be art assets for everything, but a blockchain-based card? Sure! Beyond that, just the overall style of the cards is the sort of design that I feel CK should emulate.
Let me talk a little bit about a "wish list" sort of scenario, and maybe we can as a community discuss the tech behind implementing something like this.
Blockchain-Based User/"House" Cards
For CK, we need as much on-blockchain integration as possible. In an simple case, perhaps every user is issued a unique blockchain-based card (for example, I would have "House Loaf"). This can be bought or sold at will, say if the user wants to enter the game without starting from scratch or leave the game entirely without hiring an investment manager or someone else to play their account/assets. This card would keep track of all CK-based assets that House owns. In a simple case, checkpointing several times daily, but in an ideal case, constantly being up-to-date.
In-Game Currency, Masternodes, & Merge-Mining
On the in-game currency and transaction side, a few options here. I think history has shown issues with pure exchange pegging as Risto did in the past (e.g., 1 XMR = 1mil CK game units), but a floating AEON to CK in-game money exchange would be a great option. Or maybe AEON as the in-game currency could actually work; we'd have to discuss it.
Ideally, CK game units (say Crypto Kingdom Gold "CKG") would be blockchain-based as well. I've talked with some people and they made the really good point that while something like "Instant Transactions" in DASH don't make a lot of sense for a real-world currency, they would make a lot of sense for a gameworld. So InstatSend/InstantX technology paired with something like Masternodes or PoS mining to process all in-game transactions would be interesting.
In a super ideal world, I would like for the current amount of in-game currency to be cloned to a blockchain and then be merge-mineable with AEON. Economics and PoW reward amounts could be discussed, but I have always felt that a strong PoW network helps provide a base value to a cryptocurrency (due to the imputed costs of energy, time, miner experience, etc.).
Thoughts anyone?