ceo, proofofplay.gg; building onchain games starting with piratenation.game. 

Prev: co-creator FarmVille; managing partner, Presence Capital

Current: Product Lead, Founding team /proofofplay /piratenation

Past: Founding team CashApp | Square Loans Lead Always: film buff | pizza maxi

A fully onchain pirate RPG by @proofofplay. Play at https://piratenation.game

Hi ya'll. We are going to do a lil AMA today to learn about web3 gaming, @piratenation and it's founders @fern- and @amitt 

starting now: 

@fern- let's start w/ you. who are you, and how did you get on farcaster?

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I’m curious, how do you guys approach building for the outer meta. For example when you introduce a settlement building in the game, how do you approach putting incentives in game to make sure people use them?
Do you guys prefer a hands off approach or a hands on approach? I imagine you have direct/indirect levers.

The current status of SW buildings is that there is more supply than demand thus usage rates are low. To tackle this, would you approach this with direct gameplay changes (harder gauntlets was one) or indirect (like growing player base) or combination of both? And have you guys built models to predict the usage rates?

It has to been deeply woven into the core loop. Meaning it needs to have meaningful impact. The core loop of PN is 1. gather resources->2. craft/use them to enhance your deck->3. go to combat to get materials->repeat.  

Settlements will intersect with #2 and thus be core to getting the best cards/decks.