Virtual world on the blockbuster can push the cryptokittens

The game industry in the person of the CryptoKitties project continues to use up to 13 percent of all resources of the Ethereum network, and the cost of a normal transaction has grown to $ 0.45, while a little more than a week ago the same operation costed a share of a cent. It seems that everything will never be the same as before, given that soon on the blockade of Ether will launch another game - Decentraland. But, if the game about seals was limited to collecting different prices for cards with cats, then everything is a bit more complicated. Decentraland is a real virtual world that will start on December 15 and at the initial stage will offer participants to buy LAND in it, the same virtual pieces of land.

As a basis for Decentraland developers took the idea of ​​the game Second Life, which appeared on the PC as much in 2003. Decentraland is a whole virtual world consisting of 10x10 meters, each of which is a unique LAND token, which contains information about the owner, the coordinates of the site itself and the hash of the content file. The second token will serve for internal calculations between players, and will be called MANA.

The first auction for the sale of LAND will be called "terraforming" and will be launched on December 15. To take part in it, you need to put the Metamask extension or the Mist browser. The competition will last exactly a week - during this time, participants will be able to purchase LAND and invest MANA in different areas.

The initial location of the game Decentraland is called Genesis City and consists of three rings, united by a single center. In the inner ring there will be events and exhibitions. In the second ring will be available for sale plots of land that can be bought for construction. It is interesting that the number of storeys of buildings is not limited. The outer ring will be given to different regions, among which there is already the "City of Hackers", "World of Pokemon", "Little India", "Forest" and much more. The list takes three pages.

For construction, owners will be able to contact designers and experts in the field of 3D modeling from the freelance platform Ethlance, with which the developers have entered into an agreement. The first 20 designers will be able to receive a reward of 1000 MANA or their equivalent of $ 50. After terraforming, the Iron Age will come, in which there will be multiplayer, chat and a lot of interesting things. The prototype of the virtual world can be seen on the link in a normal browser. ( https://decentraland.org/app/ )

Those who are going to play, for sure can have fun, but network congestion caused by the introduction of new gaming platforms, is unlikely to please other users who urban planning simulators on the blockbuster prefer more serious activities.