Sloths Mining War! - Updates!

Good morning buzzers! Happy New Week!

The Sloths Mining War has entered a brief stage of 24-hour rounds (approx 2) for some fast-paced testing! As we're still in the testing phase, we need these quick rounds to test some mechanics without waiting a full week in between. With that said, we move back to a 7-day round starting Wednesday morning around 8 AM UTC!

So, jump in and Play now! to learn about the game before the next 'full' round, or hang off until Wednesday morning, then join the madness in its full week frenzy!

We do not have a 'dedicated' game account posting updates; however, we do have the daily 'in-game' (and on Hive) posts from the @shw-game account. This gives a quick overview of what's happening in game and what happened over the last 24 hours! Also, @slothlydoesit and @slothburn have posted some 'walkthrough' / guide-type posts.

Round 6 was explosive, with sponsor buys galore! However, even in this 24-hour test round, the price has already exceeded last week's for sponsor! We're considering advertising the Sponsor slot to other communities/users on Hive as an opportunity to market their brand or community. Simply buy the sponsor slot to be visible to every user who plays the game and in the daily posts! It's almost 'Free' marketing, for the small cost of supporting another Hive project ;)

The majority of each transaction is returned to players or sent to the game funds. For example, booster buys return 55% of the purchase price to the previous owner. As does the sponsor buy. So these 'hot potatoes' fill your wallet quicker than the game pool. Other in-game purchases, such as Sloth miners or individual booster supplies, supply the prize pools.

So although the game is about levelling up your Bee miners to gain a leaderboard position. There is also the 'boss' pool and 'Honey burn' pool which you can earn from, on top of trying to time your 'flips' correctly to maximise the return from the boosters!

There is a new mechanic introduced this round, burning sloths for 'leaves'. These 'leaves' can be used to purchase the 10% individual booster, skip perk production times or pay for entry into the game! Sloths burnt at the end of a round give 1.25x their value in 'leaves'.

We plan to do one more 24-hour round, then reset all data (except leaves) for the next 24-hour round on Wednesday morning!

This means all players start the new 7-day round on a mostly even playing field. Still under 'test' consideration, although all Hive in-game is real Hive. You can win or lose funds by playing, so don't spend more than you're willing to lose! As with most games, this is mostly '0-sum'. We have some very small trickle-ins from the daily post and from our burn/sale of $Slothbuzz tokens.

I think that about covers it for now. Join the game, have a look around, and prepare for the next full-week round on Wednesday 26th at around 8 UTC.