Meta #32 - How To Play MetaGame
This week I give you the new How-To-Play with reminders of how MetaGame works.
First though, the changelog:
⛓️Chainlog*📃
The MyMeta flow is now connected to the back-end, means you can finally permanently upgrade your profile with goodies such as personality type & skills.
We had a call oriented around upgrading the wiki last week. It resulted in a lot of discussion and only going through ~10% of the wiki, so we decided to do it async.
We’re in talks with the Balancer team, setting up a smart pool to allow us to later change the pool parameters through the DAO vs the currnet set-forever pool.
We got the Zerion team to list Seeds on Zerion!
Kay built a new embassy, this time bridging MetaGame comms to Sourcecred.
I did a lot of thinking & writing on the framing of MetaGame and the onboarding system. From a new intro, through this how-to-play, to the onboarding guide, etc.
Recorded a new MetaRadio episode, this one with Stani of Aave - then realized the recording cuts off after the first 2 minutes. 🤦♂️ Kevin of Gitcoin next up!
We launched Achievmintry, an achievement minting DAO, in collaboration with the Raid Guild & MetaCartel. Moar soon.
10 players lose their player status as 10 new people join. Yes, the curation is real.
Kind of a slow week tbh.
Onto the main topic:
🤔 How To Play MetaGame
One thing we’ve been trying to explain to the people is that in the future we’re building, we don’t like free-loaders.
You like MetaGame? You want MetaGame to succeed? You want to join MetaGame?
Contribute.
We recently capped the number of active players to 150 (around Dunbar’s number) to ensure we start MetaGame with a tight knit community of proactive, value-aligned contributors and avoid a barrage of 4channers trying to game the system. We’ve slowly been curating the member-ship; this week we removed 10 inactive players, replaced by 10 new ones.
We also made it so that “completing quest1” is no longer enough to join. In fact, there are no “intro quests” anymore. One has to fill a submission form to join MetaGame.
We won’t grill old members about proving their values-alignment because y’all were here before Seeds had any monetary value whatsoever ❤️
Without further ado:
📜 2 Rules of MetaGame
Rule no.1 - One Shall Be Cool
To be a part of MetaGame, you have to be cool. To be cool, you have to contribute.
Luckily, there are countless ways of contributing. From something as simple as sharing one of our posts or buying $50 worth of Seeds, to helping us write the next post. Maybe build the next feature? Organize a teaching session? Start a new raid?
There will be daily #🏰-quests-&-challenges anyone can complete.
Least you can do is report on your progress, whether its something you're learning or the project you're working on. Just #🌞-check-in.
To get inspired on how you could contribute: read through the roles or check out the ongoing raids. Find the role that fits you best, a raid you are most drawn to, or just do whatever you thing is valuable & report in #😊-I-did-this.
Rule no. 2 - One Shall Not Be An Asshole
There are many ways of being an asshole. From obvious ones such as being a racist piece of shit, to more insidious ones, like bringing everybody down through constant complaining, disruption of decision making processes, or trying to game the system by making shit posts/commits thinking you’ll gain XP.
We don't want to burden you with standard "code of conduct" bullshit.
We trust that you are a sensible human being who knows what kind of behaviors make people assholes, and that you will steer clear of those ways.
⚔️ 2 Ways to Earn Your Stay
Since the earliest of days, MetaGame has been plagued with the people who say they absolutely love the idea but then don’t really do anything to help make it real.
I personally take a lot of the blame for that. I haven’t ensured there are enough clearly & regularly stated ways for anyone to easily contribute & we haven’t made the rules of the game explicit enough.
Well, times change.
Now it’s time to see who really is a Player & who is an NPC.
So, the two ways:
A) Activate
First, go to #role-select and pick yourself a role.
Then, just come in once in a while & tell us what you’ve been up to in the #🌞-check-in channel. We’d love to hear what you’ve been learning or building!
Check the #🏰-quests-&-challenges channel, promise there will always be some 2 minute way of helping push the needle forward and earn some XP.
Check the ongoing raids on the wiki and ask about them.
B) Freeze
You love what we’re about but you really don’t have time to keep up?
You can freeze your player status by holding enough Seeds.
👉Check your Seed balance here👈 &/OR 👉Buy some Seeds here👈How many Seeds is enough Seeds? Let’s start with 50 Seeds, but expect this number to grow as time goes on because the number of “Frozen Players” is also limited to 150.
Together, the 150 Active Players & the 150 Frozen Players make up 300.
😱 The 300 of MetaGame 🤯
🤨 Now, are you a Player or an NPC?
👉 3 Guidelines 👈
These should help you be a great player. 🙃
💪 Take Ownership
If you see something that needs to be done and nobody is doing it, take it as your responsibility to do it. We don't want to end up writing the good old story of Everybody, Somebody, Anybody & Nobody, do we?
👮 Stay vigilant
If you see something you don't like, something broken or out of place, speak up and initiate the fixing process. If there is something you think we should do, something new, better or just different - again, please say so.
🤗 Recognize
If you see someone doing or sharing something good on Discord, make sure to give it a reaction emoji.
If you really like what they've shared, react with the 🐙 emoji (which has 10x weight over all other emojis), or react with multiple other emojis.
If you really really like what they’ve done, use the #🙌-props channel.
That should be about it for now
🤔So… How do I Play, then?
As explained in the rules above, you find a way to contribute through the Wiki, or the Quests channel on Discord, & contribute.
Do good things, earn XP & Seeds. Simple as that.
Onwards! 🐙
Join the Friday Community Gathering! We’ll be hanging out, welcoming new members, answering questions and whatnot 🙃
This Friday’s special is “Shill Your Project”. So, share what you’re working on and maybe we can help you!
Friday @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 5pm UTC / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST
Also consider RSVPing into “MetaGame: A Game B of Sorts”, where I’ll be talking about MetaGame at The Stoa.
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