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If you haven’t listened to episode 5 all about combat in Star Atlas, I recommend you do that first as it gives a solid background to today’s episode.
In the combat episode, we touched on what happens when you die in battle, or lose to another player. Your assets or NFTs are destroyed and random salvageable parts in the form of other, less valuable NFTs are left to the victor.
So to recap, there are three tiers or zones you can traverse. The first is a faction safe zone where you can’t be touched. The second is full of NPC mercenary groups, or bots that if you lose to in battle, some form of your NFT is returned to your inventory. Then in the third tier, your ships, or assets, are destroyed.
An additional way assets are destroyed is through the use of certain farmed materials like those used in construction, fuel, temporary boosts, etc.
But there is more to it than just boom you lose your ship, and it’s called deflationary mechanics. Now, deflation isn’t great in the traditional finance, but it’s huge for crypto. Consider this, hypothetically if Star Atlas only makes 1,000,000 ATLAS tokens. But to play the game, you need those tokens, so you buy them for a price. Then you learn that every time you lose in battle or use fuel, it burns or destroys those tokens, making them unavailable for future use. This lowers the supply of available tokens from that original million and therefore, raises the price. So basically, the more you play, the more tokens your burn, the more tokens you burn, the more valuable your tokens are.
So this episode was more of a brief lesson of what deflationary mechanics are, how they help Star Atlas, how they help you, and how they are at work in the game itself.