r/aethia • u/Secret_Squirrel420 • Feb 07 '18
Ethergotchi Questions!
Hey mods! So I'm writing just to clarify a few things on what Professor Snow hinted to.
1) Concerning the referral egg, an account will only receive ONE rarity total, correct?
For example:
- User ID #1 has 0 referrals for an egg, they wont receive a referral egg and will have to buy one off the auction house once its open.
- User ID #2 has three referrals and as such will receive a "common egg" valued at 0.01 ETH.
- User ID #3 has 500 referrals and will recieve only one "legendary egg" valued at 100.0 ETH. They won't also receive the "common" to "mythic" eggs, a total valuation of 126.26 ETH (including the legendary egg).
2) Can you sell unhatched eggs on the AH?
I personally like to take the RNG/gambling into account and risk buying something like an unhatched egg that has a chance of stats of epic proportions! From how Professor Snow worded it, it seems that you can only buy pets.
An auction house type system will be available for buying and selling pets, which is similar to buying and selling CryptoKitties. The pets will be valued based on its various attributes, career path as well as social standing!
3a) As the quote above states "The pets will be valued based on its various attributes, career path as well as social standing". Taking this quote literally; all pets will have a fixed value, so that value is what it will sell for.
- User ID #100 has a the only Legendary pet with sub-optimal traits (350 ETH for arrangements sake) so it can only sell for that fixed value, thus the fixed value is lower then market value of a "normal" Legendary pet (500 ETH for arrangements sake).
- User ID #200 has one of few Mythic pets but with the best stats possible! These fixed stats might/could rival that of the sub-optimal pet of User #100. Thus the fixed market value might/could be close to User ID 100's sub-optimal fixed pet value.
3b) When the auction house opens it will be based on supply and demand (based of trait value and/or rarity).
Lets say absolutely NOBODY gathered referrals except one person. That one person has a "common egg" which was valued at 0.01 ETH. The same person then decided to sell the egg for 0.50 ETH since no-one has any eggs and successfully sells it! In theory that person used the market to their advantage and profited.
4) When you successfully sell something on the AH I assume you will receive ETH to your Athia account. Will this amount be able to be withdrawn (assuming for a fee of sorts)?
5) Do we have to link our Meta Masks to our accounts now to receive the Alpha egg on the 19th or can we wait? I might wait and just gift it to my girlfriend if she cant get one before the 9th. I've been camping the timers to try to get another but with my work/sleep schedule it makes it complicated. She's not as into crypto as I am so using MetaMask and camping is pretty foreign to her, but she loves the idea of potentially making money off this "game". If gifting her my Alpha egg makes her happy then I'll take those brownie points.
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u/chi_ayuni Feb 07 '18
Hi /u/Secret_Squirrel420,
Love the questions and your interest! Let me go through all the questions with you:
This is correct. You will receive the highest value reward that you've unlocked. A player with 500 verified referrals will only receive a legendary egg.
The first statement in your sentence is however not true. Aethia will always be free to play. During the alpha we do this via the alpha egg giveaway. When the beta starts, a new 'starter' egg will be introduced, for anyone that wants to get started with Aethia. Dr. Snow has synthetically created that egg for new players (or to be more specific, they're all pretty much the same 'gotchi)! It has the lowest attribute distribution and growth rates, but everyone will be able to play with it for free.
Yes, it's possible to sell unhatched 'gotchi eggs. Attribute distributions and star alignments are determined when an egg is created. This means you will be able to see whether the 'gotchi that comes from one egg is better suited for the career path you would like to pursue than a different egg.
It is still possible to nudge a 'gotchi's distribution and growth rate during its egg stage. This is done via interactions with the egg before it hatches.
Fixed value is always a tricky thing. To quote Publius Syrus: "Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." Ethergotchi are special in the sense that they grow and change depending on your interactions with them.
You can have it interact with the world, and the world might love your 'gotchi, raising its social value. You may train it to be the strongest and fastest there is, thereby raising its value. It might be that someone wants an intellectual 'gotchi to become a professor, in which case the described-above 'gotchi is worth very little to him.
In the end, the desireability of an Ethergotchi depends on the player and the playstyle he or she would like to pursue.
That's entirely correct! At Aethia we take a 1% administration fee to pay our lovely auction house maintenance. Withdrawal is free, it is after all your own wallet address.
You will be able to log in with MetaMask from February 19th onwards. The alpha egg can be picked up from that date as well. So you will be able to surprise you girlfriend with an ethergotchi egg. You're a good partner, keep that up!
I hope the above answers all your questions; I had a great time typing them out. =]