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This episode is a fun one. You think Star Atlas is cool now? Or even when the game launches? Wait til you hear what they see years down the line.
Eventually, the Star ATlas team want to build Additional Universe Zones with Additional Blockchains. Now, While the team fully embraces the potential of Solana and Serum to deliver a seamless, enjoyable gaming experience, their vision for the future includes the ability to expand the metaverse both geographically, and cross protocol. Or rather, later versions will permit players to explore newly emerging regions of space, and store assets on various chains, all while connected in a unified game experience. This is extremely important for a couple of reasons. Imagine a day where you can buy a token on Solana without having to buy first on a centralized exchange, then send it to a wallet, then swap for ATLAS, and so on. Now I know, acquiring Solana is easier then say, playing games on the Matic network, but for new people, especially new players who are millennials with trust in the current fiat financial system, crypto is unsafe and untrustable. The easier we make it for new players to not only play the game, but thrive by lowering the barrier to entry, the better.
Next, the team wants to feature Player Generated Content. And I don’t mean what you are listening to now, I mean- well actually, if this show was an in-game news channel that would way bad-ass, Atlas team, sponsor@staratlasdaocast.com okay? I’m all ears.
ANYWAYS, what I mean is by using Modkit or Steam Workshop integrations with Unreal Engine, players can author their own content to be compatible with Star Atlas’ content format. Then, assigning this content to NFT values that the author owns transfers their content to physically represented asset data on the blockchain. A perhaps more unique version of content creation includes the ability to sell efficiency algorithms on the marketplace, providing buyers with an advantage in terms of mining yields, trading yields, and even automation of equipment. In time, the ability will exist to permit access to entire adjunct universes created by external teams, and alternative blockchain protocols. And you have to remember, this team eventually wants to give control to the people via the POLIS token in 2-3 years, so any development or expansion will be up to us, the players.
Then, one of the more fun use cases of this game which is my favorite, is prompting actual discovery our very real universe. The team thinks that a forward-looking use-case of the mining power of Star Atlas’ blockchain would be to provide a gamer’s computer processing power for initiatives similar to SkyHub.org in the search for UFOs. This can be turned towards the distant universe where exploration in the game can be converted to real-world exploration of the universe by powering the processing of data leading to actual discoveries. If it were me, use the computing power to identify asteroids on a collision course for Earth or something that more directly benefits the the safety and wellbeing of our planet.