New Season: Thug Life
Introduction
I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.
Welcome to the FIFTH season of Gangster Arena - an idle strategy game on Blast. We're extremely excited to have you onboard this journey. Our team believes that blockchain enables net new experiences for players, and Gangster Arena is an attempt to turn the game of crypto into an actual high-stakes game of risk, reward, game theory, and strategy.
If this is your first season, we highly recommend you read the wiki and come up with a strategy for the game. If you are returning, we thank you for your support and look forward to what you cook up!
Rewards
Welcome to the most rewarding game on Blast.
We have committed 12.5m $GREED, 2 ETH, 0.2% $xU and 43k Blast Gold to rewards (valued at $50k+)
In addition, the prize pool will grow whenever plays spend:
100% of ETH spent in Gangster presale
90% of $GREED spend to player rewards (remaining 10% burned)
2% of $GREED trading goes to reputation and raid rewards as ETH
Blast Gold
We have reworked our Blast Gold distribution approach following feedback from the community and discussions with Blast foundationn.
Allocation
Prize Pool
Explanation
Early starter bonus
4,000
First 200 players to claim thugs will receive 20 gold each
Thugs Auction House
15,000
Players can spend POOR to bid for Gold Rewards in the auction house
Following rewards available for 5 days (25 - 30 Sep)
250 pouches of 5 gold
50 pouches of 20 gold
15 pouches of 50 gold
This is a fair and free way for players to compete for gold, since each player starts with the same max # thugs.
Midseason leaderboard
22,799
Players receive Gold proportional to their U points in the leaderboard as at 30th September noon UTC.
Only available for midseason due to the need to distribute Blast gold before October.
Content
1000
200 gold will be distributed to 5 best X threads or content (voted on by community on 29th Sep)
Introducing Thugs
We believe Gangster Arena is a novel game that is the perfect showcase of what a crypto game can look like. However, a major issue holding back our growth has been that its hard for new players to try the game.
We are introducing thugs as a way to let people get a taste of the strategic, idle fun of Gangster Arena, without significantly affecting the core game mode.
How it works:
Players can get 5 free Thugs for free upon login
Players can link wallets that are part of partnered communities to claim additional Thugs (max 50)
Receive 2x Thugs for sharing on X
Thugs generate $POOR - used to buy more Thugs or bid for rewards
Thug Rewards per Day
5x Blast Gold
250
20x Blast Gold
50
50x Blast Gold
15
1K xGREED
200
5K xGREED
50
25K xGREED
10
10K GREED
50
1x Goon
200
1x Gangster
50
We are also introducing a "Beginners Bundle" so new players can spend 2.5K POOR and ETH to get Gangsters and Goons at a 20% discount (one-time only).
Raid Improvements
Last season we saw a lot of potential in raids but also a few issues, including:
Lack of strategic flexibility (being locked into a "build")
Smaller players don't have any counterplay vs bigger players
"Stagnant" strategies (players attacking the same players)
Negative points being a bad experience
We are making a number of changes so raids should be more strategic:
Pistols & shields are now one-time use, so players can change strategies
Players can "opt out" of raids by not deploying, which adds to strategy
Players get 50% less points for attacking much smaller targets, to make attacks closer & more interesting
Players will have defence streaks: lose 2+ wars and your gangsters get more alert and your defence will increase, win 2+ wars and your defence will go decrease
Players will earn an increasing amount of "bonus" points each war, which should result in less players having negative points and escalating stakees during the season
Midseason Leaderboards
We want to give players more opportunities to win and more strategic options.
35% of rewards will go towards a midseason leaderboard which ends after 5 days. After this the leaderboards will reset and remaining rewards paid out at the end of the season.
No units or earning will reset.
Will you go hard for this or save for the end of season rewards?
Referrals
We have a new referral system where players can give a 1% $GREED discount to friends and get 1% of what they spend.
Partner creators and communities can get a custom code that gives a 2.5% discount. DM us if you have an audience you think would be interested in Gangster Arena.
Other Key Changes
Changed daily spin to be unlimited spins for $GREED only
Rebalanced Gangsters so they get more idle earning and less from gang wars
Rebalanced rank rewards curve to be more "flat" in the top 15 ranks
Reduced % xGREED stolen from attacks to make full earning more viable
Removed ability to "steal" reputation
Changed U points to only count raid score if it is positive
Increased bag size of auction house $GREED rewards
Changed referral program to be give 1%, get 1% of $GREED spent
Added Discord, X and Wiki links
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