🎃Halloween sneaked up on us!🎃

We got so caught up in game improvements that, suddenly, we looked at the calendar and… surprise! October 31st is upon us! While our developers are hard at work with updates, we couldn’t help but wonder: what’s the scariest nightmare for any developer? Bugs, of course! 👾

And MetaTrace is no exception — bugs happen! So, in the Halloween spirit, let’s give each other a little scare: share the strangest, funniest, or creepiest bugs you’ve encountered, whether in MetaTrace or other games! 💀

🏳️What about the game?

In recent weeks, we have been closely monitoring the state of our game and the reaction of our community.

🫡We acknowledge that we have made quite a few mistakes in the process of creating a crypto game. Combining cryptocurrency and game mechanics is not an easy task, and we're still learning how to integrate them. That's why changes aren't happening as quickly as we'd all like.

🔥But over these more than 2.5 years, we've overcome many difficulties together, outlasted most crypto games, built a reliable infrastructure, and we're not planning to stop.

We see your messages in every chat and every ticket, even if sometimes you have to wait more than a day for a response. We appreciate your patience and support, your recommendations and ideas (which our game designer secretly gets inspired by). Your feedback has helped us eliminate dozens of critical bugs, improve performance, and enrich the game's content.

Right now, the development team is actively planning upcoming changes to refine some aspects and drastically improve your gaming experience in others. And I (the person writing this) will be keeping an eye on them and sharing everything I can find out.

Thank you for staying with us. We're continuing to build MetaTrace together! 🫶

And if you want to dive deeper into the inner workings of our project's development, our CEO has released another vlog.

🔔We recommend watching it and subscribing to his YouTube channel so you don't miss new episodes.

👀Interesting discussion

We run this and other channels so that you can find all the information you're interested in about the game and get to know other players.

But this is a flexible system, and there's always room for improvement.

💬Below, I'm attaching a survey—please take a moment to complete it; it will only take about 15 seconds. This will greatly help us make the content better for you 👇

So where does the crypto in the game actually come from? In other words, what backs it?

🧐Let's figure it out. This might get a bit complicated, but I hope you'll understand.

🤠Usually, a crypto game has its own token—the heart of the game. It's either limited in quantity or not. In MetaTrace, we have both: TRC (finite) and ACE (infinite). And like any token, it must be backed by something (real assets).

But if you produce something infinitely, or even just too much, it loses its value. Makes sense, right? So what do we do then?

We periodically burn tokens, thereby reducing their quantity. Okay.🤝

But if we keep distributing tokens in the game, their value will start to drop again. And this will turn into that scary term—a Ponzi scheme. Tokens can't just appear out of thin air (just like regular money).

So, we need a balance that allows players to win a lot of tokens without breaking the game's economy. How do we achieve this?

50 👎 (since you love to give them), and we'll release a continuation where we tell you about the solution we came up with.

Great 🙌 thank you all for the engagement!

So, here’s the challenge: to build a stable economy in the crypto game (to keep the gameplay exciting and make sure prizes don’t just come out of thin air). Here’s what we’ve managed to come up with 🪙⬇️

How to earn in MetaTrace? 🤟

This is one of the most popular questions we get. To clarify, since it’s a game, we’re not talking about straightforward "earnings" but rather the chance to win cryptocurrency. In this post, I’ll explain how the reward system works and where the funds come from.

Main Gameplay:

🔸 Collecting Pins: Your avatar moves around the game world, gathering pins.
🔸 Resources and Tasks: Each pin contains various resources and tasks.
🔸 Getting Tickets: A Gold Ticket can drop from a Pin if you have a subscription or it can be purchased in the store. Silver Tickets can be bought with GEMs in the store.
🔸 Using Tickets: Tickets give you a chance to win a reward in the AirDrop.
🔸 Frequency: On average, a player can get 4 Gold Tickets per day.
🔸 Opportunities: The more you play and the higher your avatar and office level, the more tickets you can get.

How are rewards distributed in the AirDrop?

Rewards come from a common pool that is formed every two weeks. The pool consists of:
🔹 In-game purchase revenue: All funds from purchases in the app store, Telegram bot, and web platform go into the pool.
🔹 Marketing budget: We also contribute a portion of our marketing budget to increase the prize pool and attract new players.
🔹 Virtual resources: The pool also includes pet shards, gems, and tickets.

The marketing budget is our investment in project growth, allocated as a percentage to create larger prizes.

How does the prize system work?

Each ticket has a certain value, from pet shards to a major cryptocurrency prize. The more actively and frequently you play, the higher your chance to win the GRAND PRIZE 🥇

Growth Strategy

We plan to increase the prize pool every two weeks and continue attracting new players. The more players and the more purchases they make, the bigger the Super Prizes will be. Our goal is to reach a Super Prize of ONE BITCOIN within 3-4 months 🤑

⚙️By the way, recently there were some issues with the blockchain and token withdrawals.

We’ve identified the source and have already fixed everything. Thanks to everyone who reported the issues. 🤝

P.S. If you’re still experiencing any errors for any reason, please reach out to ➡️support 🏳️

🤬 Our last post received many comments with different opinions, including some criticism of our rewards system. To some extent, this is understandable.

👀 But why is the Airdrop set up this way?

After studying the market and various economic models in crypto games, we noticed that many either turn into bubbles with declining interest or don’t involve cryptocurrency in the game balance at all 👎

🫡 Our goal is to create a crypto game with a secure and stable economy. That’s why we chose a reward distribution through Airdrops, allowing us to maintain a balanced system protected from manipulation and bubbles.

📌 And yes, the Airdrop is not the main mechanic in the game. I just wanted to explain how we’re currently balancing crypto rewards and why we chose this approach.

👨‍💻The developers are currently working on refining the other mechanics. Next week, I’ll try to snag more details about the upcoming update.

But we need your reactions (and not just thumbs down) 🔒

New week, Tracers! Checking in! 🪧