Lucid lands ($llg)

Blockchain technology has opened up numerous possibilities and application scenarios for users to explore. This has made it possible for talented developers to build blockchain-based products that capture user’s passion, most especially in the area of sports, entertainments and gaming.

The game business has come a long way since the early days of its humble beginning and blockchain-based games, that are designed to blend the fun and captivating atmosphere of traditional games, with a rewarding financial opportunity using crypto technology, have been on the rise, recently. One of such blockchain game, which is aimed at providing a platform for game enthusiasts to combine their passion and interest together, while earning rewards, is Lucid Lands.

Lucid Lands is a real-time strategy based game that set itself apart from other games in the blockchain industry, which are mostly turn-based in nature. In today project highlight, I will be looking at this quintessential project, which is poised to change the perceived boring narratives, associated with some blockchain games.

1.What is Lucid Lands?

Lucid Lands prides itself as the first decentralized NFT play-to-earn game on BSC network that integrates both 3D-animation gaming NFT and a unique 2D computer generated collective NFT market place.

It is a play-to-earn universe where anyone can earn token, through skillfully applied game tactics, as well as contribution to the ecosystem.

The project was built as a fun and educational way to present and introduce blockchain technology to various categories of players, using a simplified approach. Apart from the fun dimension in game deployment, Lucid lands aim to serve a social network characteristics function as well as a job platform through the focus on strong community building and play-to earn opportunities.

2. Lucid Lands Components

Lucid Lands as a decentralized finance and game protocol, combines 3 blockchain primary elements which are:

NFT Marketplace: The game feature an open and decentralized NFT marketplace, where users are able to buy and sell their 3-D Heroes and 2-D Pets collective NFT.

NFT staking: Apart from the fact that Lucid Lands NFTs can be sold for gains in the marketplace, users will also be able to stake their Lucid Land Hero NFT on the platform to gain additional reward, similarly to what is obtainable when fungible assets are staked. This will provide an extra earning layer from NFTs, in addition to the earning possibilities from sale on the marketplace

Play to Earn: This is my favorite part of the project and one of the project essential layer. Players can engage Lucid Lands for in-game assets and real reward. Yes! You can obtain actual tokens in Lucid Lands and not just virtual game points that lack tangible monetary values. I am sure that you are interested to learn how the play and reward mechanisms of Lucid Land works, but before I dive deeper into this, let me quickly highlight some Lucid Lands structures and game assets that are essential to having a successful battle.

3.Game assets and structures

Players will need to put some home basic structures in place in order not to lose out easily when they enter a battle. Some of these structures are:

Main Hall: It is the lifeline of a base. Once your main hall is destroyed, you can easily loose the battle.

Builder House: It is used to upgrade other structures.

Barrack: Are you interested in developing a unique army that is battle ready at all times? You will need a barrack for the training, as well as to unlock new army champions

Army Camp: This is for those who desire to recruit new units and increase their army size. Upgrading Army Camp will enable players to increase the size of their Army

Gold Mine: Where are the Gold diggers? The Gold Mine is designed for you to extract gold from underground reserve. You may already be wondering why you will need to dig the mine for gold. Well, keep reading on as you will surely find the answer by the time you get to the in-game currency section.

Gold storage: This shouldn’t be hard for you to guess its function. The gold storage is the structure that stores your gold. Upgrading your gold storage means you will be able to store more gold.

Spirit Mine: No! It is not what you think. The that are being referred to are not immortals. They are in-game currencies. The Spirit Mine allows you to extract more spirits from the surrounding area of lands.

Spirit Storage: This storage allows you to store collected spirit as you navigate the land. You may need to upgrade it in order to store additional spirits.

Ice Turret: Are you thinking of how to slow down the movement and attack of enemies attacking Units? Think no more. Having Ice Turret will slow down the movement of your attackers, reduce damage and improve your health points.

Air Defense: This game structure will help you to deal with damage and attack flying enemies. I can boldly say that with this structure as part of your assets, you won’t need to worry yourself with your enemies area bombardment.

Rock shooter: In case there is a need to wreck an Area Of Effect damage on your enemies, the Rock shooters can be unleashed for this purpose.

Skeleton Tower: This asset can help you when attacking ranged enemies by increasing attacking range.

Defense wall: You will need this protective wall to create a barrier that will hinder enemies from entering your base.

4. Lucid Lands NFT Collection

As said initially, there are two sets of NFTs that you will come across as interact with this game. There is the 3-D animated Hero NFT and a 2-D non-animated Pet Shroomies. The Hero NFTs are essential component of the game and they can be bought from the decentralized open NFT marketplace. Shroomies Pets are a unique set of 5000 collectible friends of the Heroes of the Lucid Lands.

Game Heroes: Lucid Lands has 9 different Heroes NFT and they exist in 4 levels of rarities which are Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary. When NFTs are summoned, the probability of getting a Legendary NFT is the rarest, whereas the possibility of summoning a common Heroes is highest.

Similarly, Heroes NFT APY Rates are highest for Epic and Legendary NFTs. The primary utilities of Games Heroes are for staking to earn $LLG, trading on marketplace and in-game boost.

The 9 Heroes NFTs are:

Bahamut?—?Common

Wu Kong?—?Common

Medusa?—?Common

Talmut?—?Common

KE502?—?Rare

Cyberus?—?Rare

Lucifer?—?Epic

Nyami?—?Epic Sakura?—?Legendary

Each Hero NFT has 3 attributes which are Attack, Defense and Farming. The Farming attribute of a hero allow the Hero to boost in-game farming/upgrading/building. The Defense attributes of Hero can be used to increase the defense of structure and defense walls. Lastly, the attacking function help to improve the attacking power of hero troop when they embark on an adventure to strike other player home-bases.

Pets NFTs: The Pets NFT collectible in Lucid Lands are referred to as Shroomies. Lucid Lands describe them as mysterious creatures that spawned out of nowhere in every part of the universe. Each drop of Pets NFT Collections are limited to only 5,000 pieces. This means that you will need to be smart and fast in order to be able to mint your own Shroomies as soon as they are dropped.

You might be wondering how to go about the minting your own set of shroomies. The process is quite easy. You only have to connect to https://app.lucidlands.io, pay the price (in BNB) for the shroomy and mint. Easy peasy! The price you pay depends on how many shroomies are left. Shroomies prices increases with decreasing quantity of shroomies in each drop. This progressive price increase was deliberately put in place to ensure that the value of Shroomie will grow over time as more and more Shroomies are minted. You will need to be among the early birds, if you intend to mint your Shroomie at a cheap price, because opportunities are only for the people who seize it. Yea… Let’s seize it!

Although these good looking pets are too attractive to be sent to the battlefield, they also have their own utilities. Firstly, they serve the purpose of in-game cosmetic. Additionally, they are appealing as digital collectible and you can as well trade them in Lucid Lands’ marketplace. In addition, owing a pet sets your profile apart because these pets will serve as your profile picture and will differentiate you from other users that have basic anonymous profile picture displayed in game, because they do not have a pet.

5. Real Time Game Strategy

Lucid lands gameplay model is based on a revolutionary approach that involve a real-time strategy gaming technique, rather than the usual turn-based game approach seen in other games.

The Real-Time strategy, as utilized in the game, puts players in control and allows them to dictate the pattern of gameplay as they desire. This will mean that players can build their base using their own strategies and can always apply any strategy that can bring the most success to them during battles.

6. Lucid Land Gems and In-Game Currencies

?—?The main ecosystem token in Lucid Lands is Lucid Land Gems ($LLG). Just like every precious gem, $LLG is an important token in Lucid Land and you won’t want to miss out on this gem. Some of the utilities of $LLG are:

• Reducing leveling up and upgrading duration of Army champions and home bases
• Buying of additional building house and building game assets
• Buying additional battles
• Buying of in-game currencies such as Gold, Spirit and Mana
• Buying of additional heroes NFT.

$LLG is available for purchase on pancakeswap. In addition, players can earn LLG through $LLG Mines and winning battles against another player. I will reveal further details on how this can be done by the time I get to the play-to-earn revolution section. In the meantime, I want to highlight some other in-game currencies that are available in Lucid Lands.

?—?Gold is the in-game currency that is specifically used to build and upgrade structures. Gold can be bought using LLG and can also be obtained through Gold Mines, PvE and PvP combat against other players.

?—?It is an in-game currency that is used for recruiting and training Army Champions as well as Heroes. It can be bought using LLG and can also be obtained from Spirit Mines, PvE and PvP combat ahinst other players

?—?It is used to go to an LLG Mine. The further and bigger an LLG Mine is, the More Mana you will need. Mana can be bought using LLG and they can automatically recover daily.

In addition to these game currencies and platform tokens, Lucid Lands has designed a tokenomics model that charges 8% on every transaction. 3% of this charge will be used for continuous game development that can guarantee long-term sustainability. 2% of the sell tax is added to liquidity availability, in order to ensure an ever-increasing price floor. The remaining 3% will be used for aggressive marketing and expansion of the Lucid Lands ecosystem.

7. Play to Earn Revolution

At the initial start of the game, you can interact with Lucid Lands PvE game mode in order to acclimatize and familiarize with the game design and environment. During these sessions, players will earn some in game currencies such as Gold, Spirit and Mana.

After series of play in the PvE mode, you would have gotten used to the game environment and you can now summon a hero. Hero NFTs are summoned by opening portal using your LLG tokens.

Each hero rarity has its own summon rate and you will get a random Hero NFT that has 2 out of the 3 attributes.

After obtaining your first set of heroes, you will need to improve your combativeness in the play-to-earn battle front, by building your home basic using game assets basic infrastructure. You can also recruit, build and train your unique army champions.

Hero building requires the use of in-game resources to level up the abilities of heroes. Lucid Lands has 3 hero-levels which are 1-star, 2-star, and 3-star. To level up a hero to a higher tier, you need to combine similar together.

8. $LLG Mines and Mining Station

$LLG mines are one of the key components of the play-to-earn system in Lucid Lands. After fortifying your base and your Army, and you feel that they are now strong enough, you can now take on a battle challenge in the $LLG Mine.

LLG Mines exists in various sizes. The bigger a mine, the bigger the possible reward you can earn from that mine. The amount of Mana required to enter a mine increase with the size of the mine. LLG Mines are also limited by capacity. Only a maximum of 150 players can mine at a particular mining station at a time. The limited mining station adds intrigues and excitements to the whole game, because it is at this point that the battle line is drawn.

Once the available $LLG mine is fully occupied, you will need to challenge the players occupying the spots to a battle because no player will want to give up his or her $LLG mine spot easily to others. If you win, you’ll take his/her mining spot. If you lose, you will need to go back to the map’s border and use Mana to move to any chosen mine and challenge again.

9. Conclusion

Lucid Lands has created a unique opportunity for users to build, defend and explore an immersive 3D and 2D gaming world. For users who are desirous to have a challenging and strategic blockchain game that incorporate passion with interest, the Real-Time Strategy utilized in Lucid Lands offers them the possibility to build a game reputation, dominate their enemies and defend their honour, while earning real rewards at the same time.

10. Social Channels

Lucid Lands’ website

https://lucidlands.io

Lucid Lands’ Telegram

https://t.me/LucidLandsOffical

Lucid Lands Discord

https://discord.gg/caXEYZb5Dw

Lucid Lands Twitter

Tweets by ?@LucidLands

Lucid Lands Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/gaming/LucidLandsOfficial

Lucid Lands Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/official_lucidlands