Meta #45 - Wat Do Sir?
How to play, what are the quests, what are the raids, what's going on etc.
People often say:
I’d love to help but I just don’t know what to do…
So, we rewrote the onboarding guide and wrote a shitton of quests.
NO. MORE. EXCUSES.
Welcome to MetaGame v2
🤗 Welcome, fam!
Its natural to feel like an outsider at first, but we want to make it as clear as possible that you are a member of this community now!
We want to hear your suggestions & opinions
We want to hear how you’re feeling & how you're doing
We want to hear what your goals & aspirations are
We want you to feel safe, heard and understood 🙃
Note: there was no “real life team”, everyone here has joined MetaGame almost the exact same way as you did. We were all complete strangers just a year ago.
So, get over your unfounded imposter syndrome and get out there! We need you.
🔭 Recognizing Value
At the heart of MetaGame is a value recognition system based mostly on human judgement. It's up to players of MetaGame to decide what is valuable, and they signal it by engaging with it, building on top of it or reacting on it.
On Discord, it's mostly about emojis - if you see something valuable, make sure to add an emoji.
Something valuable: react with any emoji.
Something more valuable: react with multiple emojis.
Something very valuable: give it the 🐙 or MetaGame logo emoji (these are worth 3x all others)
Something super valuable: give it the 🐙, MetaGame logos & multiple others.
Think it's mega valuable? React but also 🙌-give-props.
Note: Try to reward things based on value they create for MetaGame, not just your emotional response - never give something an 🐙 just because.
👉 More on how it works & how to use it in Reactions
💸 Creating Value
Keep in mind that for every new player entering MetaGame, one has to be cast out. 😬
So, your duty is to contribute in one way or another.
Luckily, there's a lot of ways to contribute inside MetaGame.
We're preparing more onboarding paths with lots of intro quests, we have a lot of ongoing quests & raids and there's countless ways you can contribute as a rogue.
We'll get to all of that in a bit, below.
Keep in mind:
Minimum Viable Everything - If you’re suggesting a solution to a problem; don’t overthink & over-engineer it - think: “what’s the most minimal elegant solution to this problem?”.
Remember: ask for feedback before you think it's ready for feedback. You can do that either in the #feedback-box or in one of the domain-specific guilds below the raids category.
😶 Staying in Sync
Now that you're here, you'll need a way to keep up.
Discord is good for some, but overwhelming for many. Good news: you don't need to keep up with Discord to keep up with MetaGame!
If you want to stay active on Discord & you think we’re being spammy with notifications, don’t mute the server.
Tell us we’re being spammy instead.
Mute certain channels only.
Maybe change your status to do-not-disturb from time to time.
If you’re new to Discord and joining multiple servers, things can get out of hand. Luckily there’s this inbox button in the top right here which I personally only discovered months after using Discord 😅
Discord too noisy for you?
If you want to keep up with what happened, read the newsletter.
If you want to keep up with what's about to happen, check Quests & Raids.
👉 Subscribe to the newsletter if you haven't already.
⚔️ Now, choose your path!
Note: The main difference between players & patrons is that the latter don't have to stay active to keep their membership. Their status is protected by their Seed planting.
You plan on being active, completing quests & participating in raids?
You’re a player! Now go check out the:
You don't have much time & want to take a more chill route?
You’re a patron!
Now go & check the Patron Path
🌲❓ Evergreen Quests
🧠 Learn or Teach - We need more knowledge to spread! Go to the #🧠-brain-exchange channel and post “I want to learn X” or “I can teach someone Y”.
🌱 Plant Yo Seedz - If you’ve been holding your Seeds for a while, its about time you plant some - you’re going to need to do that sooner or later 🙃.
🏥 Help Others - Go help someone! May be a fellow metagamer or it maybe a a fellow stranger - any philantropic or ecological cause out there.
🏛️ Tread The Forums - Forums are a crucial place for curating useful information but currently still underpopulated. Go and do something about it.
🚨 Speak up! - We need more people suggesting improvements & speaking up for what sucks in MetaGame. Do that in the #🚨-issues-n-ideas channel.
📣 Shilleth - Post one of MetaGame’s posts on any platform or inside any community that you think would find it interesting.
🙆 Diversify - We have people from all over the world. From US to Europe, to India, Asia & Australia. So, who’s missing? Women. Help bring more women to MetaGame.
🔭 Get-a-guild - Find a guild you think would be a perfect fit for MetaGame. Culture fit is more important than whether they’re a group of builders or designers.
🐝 Swarm Attack - Organize an attack; eg. opening one of the links in the #🎶-music channel, commenting "MetaGame brought me here" & calling others to do the same.
🚨 High impact 🚨
🔨 Bring a Builder - MetaGame needs moar builders! Help us find some by reading through the role description. Bonus points if they’re from the old world of Web2.
🤑 Onboard a Patron - MetaGame still hasn’t reached the Patrons cap 😱! Get someone to buy 5 Seeds & plant them 🙃
❓ Quests
✏️ Elder - We need more of the people who already found their way in Ethereum, to write their playbooks for people of similar angles & backgrounds. Check what Cooper did then do something similar.
✏️ FreeMasonin’ - We got the House of Ethereum, we got the House of DAOs, Vanilla is writing the House of DeFiance & Uranus is writing the House of Permaculture… What about the House of Tokens? House of dApps? House of Philosophy? House of Worldviews? House of… Anything? Just go ahead and write something.
✏️ Moar League Perks - We are putting together a list of perks for attaining higher leagues (top 100 of 300), go drop some ideas on what you would want these perks to be.
✏️ Indexing Skill Forest - We had a first call on coming up with the standards for a decentralized accreditation system - watch the recording & suggest edits to the summary document.
🎨 Designing Ranked Leagues - We need new icons designed for the ranked leagues; Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum & Diamond. Ask for more info or feedback in the #🎨-artists-guild.
🎨 Season1 Achievements - We’ll be minting achievement NFTs for the people who participated in Season1. Eg. “Season1 Diamond Leaguer”, “Best Shepherd Season1” etc. need designs for these achievements. Need more ideas? Ask in #🎨-artists-guild.
🎨 Seed Subscription - We need someone to design the Seed subscription page.
🎨 Help Plant Seedz - We need someone to design the interface for interacting with the Seed market & the pool.
🎨 Design the Questing System - We need someone to design the Questing interface.
🛠️ Protec Forums - We want to make forums only accessible to pSeed or NFT keycard holders, check the post or message peth for more info.
🛠️ Where Image Sir? - Linking wiki pages doesn’t bring up their photo - it should.
🛠️ Ticker Line - We want the pages of my.metagame.wtf to be a bit more informative, by bringing in the ticker line for news. Check the link for more info.
🛠️ Forum Theme Alignment - We want the forum to be in the same color scheme as the rest of MetaGame, check the link for more info.
🛠️ Leaderboard Theme Alignment - We need the XP leaderboard to be in the same color scheme as the rest of MetaGame.
🛠️ Seasonal Leaders - Now that MetaGame is being played in seasons, the leaderboard should also have a “season”or “weekly” view filter. Build it pls?
🛠️ Drawing Apps - There’s a bunch of smaller issues around the app drawer currently up on my.metagame.wtf
🛠️ Openin’ Appz - Currently all the apps opening from the app drawer open in a new page - can’t build the MetaOS like this. Make all apps open inside iframe windows without leaving the page. We know iframes suck, its temporary, promise 😛
🛠️ Need Modz Sir - We need people to be able to add more info to their MyMeta profiles, otherwise we’re failing to deliver the promise. Add the “add new block” functionality & a template.
🛠️ Ditchin’ Enneagrams - If you’ve been active, you know we decided to ditch the Enneagram personality system for the Magic system. Now we need to replace it from the MyMeta profile creation flow.
🛠️ Role Select - We decided revamp the onboarding system by having people create profiles first & use them to apply. One of the crucial things is having a role select screen during the profile creation on MyMeta rather than on Discord.
🚨 High impact 🚨
✏️ Elder - We need more of the people who already found their way in Ethereum, to write their playbooks for people of similar angles & backgrounds. Check what Cooper did then do something similar.
🎨 Design the Questing System - We need someone to design the Questing interface.
🛠️ Openin’ Appz - Currently all the apps opening from the app drawer open in a new page - can’t build the MetaOS like this. Make all apps open inside iframe windows without leaving the page. We know iframes suck, its temporary, promise 😛
Assign to yourself, ask to be added to the organization if needed.
🤔 Open Roles
🎨 Designah - Need more UX/UI designers to help design anything from the archetype selection screen, to the dashboard, the market & questing system.
🛠️ Builder - Can never have enough builders, mainly looking for those familiar with working with React & Hasura, writing TypeScript & GraphQL.
🙌 MetaBuddy - Here to help newcomers onboard to MetaGame & make friends. They hang out around the tavern & other leisure channels and engage with people.
☸️ Guild Navigator - Help newcomers find things to learn & ways to contribute based on their background & interests.
✨ XP Fairy - Fairies make sure the XP system is being fair. They keep an eye out for emoji accrual on discord & XP scores in the ledger & alarm when it seems unfair.
☔ Rainmaker - Usually filled by patrons, rainmaker role is about bringing in more patrons to support MetaGame by buying Seeds.
💡 Productizer - They help turn projects that MetaGame is building into products for other organizations to use. Eg. MyMeta.
🤯 Headhunter - They are out there looking for people to fill the above roles.
NOTE: Don’t be afraid to ask any question about any of these quests, raids or roles. You can do so by commenting directly on their Notion posts or Github issue or in the quest-ask or skill-specific-guild channels.
✨ Make it real!
Seriously though.
⛓️ S1W2 Chainlog 📜
6 weeks down, 7 to go!
In case you missed the last newsletter, there are now these awesome video updates made by Annalesse.
Gnomeski scribes for the Champions Ring.
dysbulic refactors the app drawer & closes a bunch of mobile issues.
MLIBTY delivers the first version of MetaGame’s first embassy - set-up in one of the most popular districts in cryptovoxels.
The Lone Ronin & heterotic collaborate on the first MetaMaps spec.
A bunch more people plant their Seeds & Octo The Fuck Up.
Misanth goes on a rampage on Notion, fills in a bunch of missing info on Quests & Raids, starts a How to Meta page, writes a bunch of guides & makes new infographics.
Trolleo finishes the personality selection icon alternatives, sends them off to voting & continues by making the app drawer icons.
peth gives an interview for the Bitcoin Podcast.
Uranus drafts the Metarrhizal network, mapping all the channels on Discord.
Uranus also fires up the first Bloom x MG local chapter through Bloom Network.
mZ & peth set up a meetup on Proof of Expertise: Decentralizing Intellectual Legitimacy, attended by a bunch of guild reps including Commons Stack, TokenEngineering, Raid Guild, 1Hive, Gitcoin and about 10 others.
mrfeelgood sets us up with a Figma team to unify design efforts & style guide, then continues designing the dashboard.
Kyle inspects & leads a great session on improving the player onboarding system, Sparrow scribes the thing.
peth writes the v2 of the Welcome to MetaGame doc, the general Warm-up Quests & the Patrons questlines.
mprime sets up the first Rabit Hole of The Week with Gnomeski talking about Occult Practices. Then sets up another one for this week 👇
Onwards! 🐙
AS PER POPULAR REQUEST, ALL CALLS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO AN HOUR EARLIER.
This Friday special:
Brainstorming on the MetaFest
Penguin on Bioinformatics
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