XP, Seeds & Quests
How do you actually play MetaGame?
After many weeks of deliberation, bug fixing, and data wrangling, we finally have a working Quest system to give XP for all the work that was done on MetaGame prior to integrating SourceCred, as well as all the work done that wasn’t tracked properly.
This also makes it helluva lot easier for community members to earn XP by contributing to MetaGame in more meaningful way than just Discord, forum & GitHub interactions.
Now that we have all of that sorted, it’s time to shed some light on how the system works & dispell all the confusion around it.
📊 How do I earn XP?
XP (experience points) are earned by engaging on Discord, writing on Discourse, laying down code on GitHub, or completing Quests. You get some XP when you create, you get more XP when people reference or react to your creation and then we have Initiatives for awarding XP for things that happen outside those three platforms or aren’t appreciated enough there.
Due to the way SourceCred works (PageRank) the more XP you have the more weight your engagement has. This creates a soft sybil-resistance where random accounts or profiles can’t easily embed themselves into the contribution graph without actually contributing.
You can check your XP here, but don’t get attached to the number. Because XP is earned via contributions and engagement, which are always fluctuating; XP scores are always fluctuating. They are not fixed.
🌱 What are Seeds and how do I get them?
As opposed to XP, which is non-transferable and used only for measuring your contribution to MetaGame; Seeds have a value on the market and can be bought & sold. You can think of them as your skin-in-the-game.
If you are earning XP, you will also be earning Seeds. Seeds are awarded based on your XP earned per week through direct actions as well as the XP that flows to you for past contributions as people engage with them over time.
As a result MetaGamers are playing with long-term incentives for collaboration. You receive points for making it easy for others to use and contribute to your contributions.
📈 WTF is the Seed Market?
The Seed market exists to support value creation. By giving people a way to buy and sell Seeds, we create a community currency. This allows passive MetaGamers to pay for membership, MetaGame’ products & services and gives them the ability to support the valuable work of others in a positive-sum way (“boosting”, more later).
MetaGame will create a market on a bonding curve and buy up the initial supply. This will create a price floor. A small fee will be charged to people buying into or out of the Seed market, however all Seed transactions within the Metaverse will have full value. This incentivizes local engagement and spending within the MetaGame universe.
The goal is to have more Seeds coming in through membership dues, and in-game features than there are going out via Seeds earned through XP. In this way MetaGame has a runway of Seeds to support the community until Seed demand eclipses supply. Then the number go up.
⚔️ What can I use Seeds for?
Right now the uses for Seeds are fairly limited, but you’ll be able to use them for anything you can use other crypto for + the things that will only be payable in Seeds. Here’s some of those:
Paying for membership
Paying for any MetaGame Goods/Services
Paying for Goods/Services from other players
Buying digi-physical items / wearables
Staking on Direction / Priorities (Futarchy-ish)
Tipping / Boosting other players
Creating Guilds
Creating Quests
Collateralizing your Identity (personal tokens “Web of Trust”)
Source of Income
Resources
If you want to learn more about the XP system, check out the SourceCred documentation on Cred. (Cred and XP are the same thing, we just call it XP)
If you’d like to learn more about how the Quest/Initiatives system works, please checkout the Initiatives section in the SourceCred Docs .
Keep in mind 😬
These XP distributions aren’t fully accurate nor finalized so are subject to change as we fix some bugs in the XP system and add more missing data. Please bear with us while we iron out the kinks.
The biggest issue is with the people who have a GitHub but not a forum account. Most evident from the GitCoin Round 4 donations where people like Ven are supposed to have a lot of XP for their large contributions, but it isn’t showing up on the graph.
The Quest 1 completions aren’t on the graph either, since most players dont have associated forum / GitHub accounts we can link to.
What’s Next?
Now that the XP & Questing systems work, where do we go?
Here’s a rundown of what’s on the horizon:
New DAO & the Seed Market (early June)
We will be migrating the existing Aragon DAO into a new DAO using 1Hive Gardens as the basis. We will deprecate the old Seed token and issue new ones alongside the launch of the Seed Market which will allow anyone to buy and sell Seeds on a bonding curve. A portion of the GitCoin funds will be used to initialize the curve and buy up the initial pool of Seeds to be distributed to the active players of MetaGame.
MetaGame Profiles (mid June)
Profiles/backbone of MetaGame are in active development. We estimate that the first version of the profile pages will be ready by mid-June. This will make it much easier to become a player, discover other players, and keep track of your rank & XP. If you want a deep dive on how we are implementing it, check out this post by @pacobacpac.
Evolution of Interspace (devs & artists needed!)
Here’s a thread detailing what we need to build for the actual game interface for MetaGame. @jadbox is championing this but we need more firepower; if you have experience with game design, development or artwork - reach out! Lots of XP and Seeds awaits 😱
The Future: A Web of Trust
Once the profiles and the Seed market are working and stable, the next major priority will likely be building out the web of trust with personal tokens; where your identity, trustfulness & alignment with the MetaFam is defined by your personal tokens held by other members.
/fin
Hope this helps bring some clarity into how things work, what’s going on and where we’re headed!
If you have any questions, thoughts, concerns or frustrations, please reach out to any of us and we’ll be glad to listen and help.
If you’re ready to stop lurking and start helping; go here, write “I’m ready!” & tag @peth.eth; or just start through here.
Much love <3