Today's post is from a new author! I'm DryZ, a game designer and tokenomics advisor with Studio Decent, the team behind Undra. This is overview of how we've designed our token allocations and long-term plans for the Founders Rooms.

As a foreword: if you haven't read our first news post - check it out now for the backstory. You should also read our art preview for information on the NFTs themselves. A collection of 8,000 locked doors buried deep in the earth, being auctioned off by the fictional Dauntless Excavations Company.

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What secrets might you uncover at the Founders Sale?

In our last post, we discussed the principles behind our fair launch strategy for November's Founders Sale - getting NFT's into a wide variety of players' hands, preventing gas wars, and ensuring fairness throughout the sale. We have managed to come up with some creative solutions to help us achieve these three pillars, and we're excited for the launch on December 1st!

As the Founders Sale approaches, we'd like to share some insights into our launch planning, the tokenomics of Undra, and what this all means for you trying to get your hands on some sweet, sweet Dauntless Excavations Company real estate.

Founders Sale

Undra's very first NFT sale launches December 1st, offering the deeds to 8,000 rooms previously owned by Dauntless Excavations Company. These deeds will come with varying types of room, each with different security features brandishing the door. Markings on the door and other attributes help provide their owners hints as to what mysteries or riches lie beyond the keyhole.

These rooms play a critical part in the Undra world, allowing players to partake in the living world as a part of the game's economy and storyline as it developers before the MMO itself is released. While these rooms will play an important role in the eventual Undra game, they will not be a requirement to play the game itself. We consider this room sale the first chance for players to solidify an early footing - with an opportunity that will not be available down the road as the game evolves. Rooms will come in four tiers of rarity, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary - all of which are available to players in our Founders Sale.

We came up with the idea for the Founders Sale to give players a chance to show their early support for the project and provide their commitment to helping the game grow and progress, all while cementing themselves into the earliest chapter of Undra’s saga. When the Founders Sale began to move from concept to planning phases, we started off with a couple simple guiding questions:

With our guides in place, the next step was to begin mapping out what a Founder Sale should look like. We discussed a LOT of ideas - discarding, revising, and building upon concepts rapidly until we found one we loved.

To pack or not to pack

When discussing a launch strategy, there were two main concepts that the team worked back and forth between:

Each strategy posed its own unique challenges and benefits, which left us with some challenging brainstorming to arrive at a conclusion. We wanted to find a sweet spot for players of all kinds to get Undra rooms into their hands, and to have a shot at high-tier rooms whether they purchase our entry level Miners's Pack, or our highest end Overseer's Pack.

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