MetaLine: Arbitrum The last SLG game with a medieval nautical theme

Recently, The popularity of game projects on Arbitrum continues to rise, first of all, TreasureDAO, The beacon, and then  TridentEach of these projects has attracted a lot of attention from players in the community.

On the other hand, Arbitrum is currently the fastest growing Layer2, with more than 51% of the TVL market share, nearly 7.5 billion US dollars at its peak. The huge amount of capital provides a guarantee for breeding more high-quality projects. At Arbitrum, meanwhile, player transaction costs are much lower and almost instantaneous, which in turn attracts more players and game developers.

And recently, there is a choice Arbitrum as its first official deployment network MetaLine games, the same harvest a lot of player attention and discussion. This is a web3 nautical management and strategy game that has been tested in two rounds of open beta on OKC Chain and Polygon with over a thousand players. Here's a look at the project and the gameplay.

Game introduction

MetaLine is a large-scale business, adventure, strategy game based on web3 set in medieval navigation, with six system modules: production and trading system, leveling system, port system, combat system, NFT system and an ecosystem.

Through cooperation and connections between different mission systems, players gain rich gameplay and build their maritime empires. Players need to set up trade in the port, own the port's land assets and NFT, and carry out production, trade and other commercial activities on the land. As the mission is released, the built-in port system will also open the portal into the metaverse for more users.

MetaLine port

MetaLine uses a real-world world map, where ports are based on real ports around the globe, where you can see your ship's location, starting point, remaining voyage, and more. The first 10 ports consist of the home ports of Pisa, Marseille, Barcelona, Algiers, Lisbon, London, Stockholm, Alexandria, Bombay and Quanzhou.

每个港口可以生产 7 种专属贸易商品，商品分为经济型、普通型和贵重型三类，每种商品都有不同的价值。此外，商品的价格还会根据贸易量、港口繁荣程度、港口环境等情况进行调整，每 24 小时会评估一次货物在港口的价值。

Therefore, users can predict the price trend of goods through the K-graph, and carry out the optimal transaction and transportation to maximize the potential profit. Simply put, a good player should know which goods to produce and which ports to ship at which specific times. This will also make MetaLine games more challenging, as well as more engaging and fun.

In addition, individual players or guilds can own their own ports by participating in the game's auction system. Once you become the owner of a port, you can set your own rules, such as tax percentages. This means that once the port has a lot of business running, players can get a continuous passive income. Players are also free to trade their ports, which can be potentially lucrative if the ports are sought-after land.

Ports, on the other hand, as an important piece of infrastructure in MetaLine, will have great potential to be a bridge across the complex boundary multiverse. Later, MetaLine would work with other GameFi projects to set up separate ports for them. Thus users accessing MetaLine will be able to access other GameFi or web3 projects at the same time.

At that point, all in-game assets will be interoperable and players will be able to use their MetaLine heroes in other cooperative projects. And this plasticity will provide it with more connection and joint construction, to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

The gameplay is roughly as follows:

1) Set up a company

First players need to set up a company to set up shop, otherwise it will not be able to carry out any production and trade activities.

In the game, trade at each port is independent, but business activities, including production and trade, can only be carried out at the port after a firm is established. In addition, a certain number of in-game tokens must be pledged to form a company.

2) Start production

Grain, wood, and iron are common production materials in any port. Lumber and iron are needed to build ships, and grain is consumed to start shipping operations.

The remaining 70 traded goods in MetaLine are distributed in ten ports, where players can pick them up and ship them to their destination port for a profit. The production of goods requires a certain number of game tokens to be pledged, and different goods require different numbers of tokens and for different amounts of time, thus their value will vary. The higher the amount pledged, the faster the production speed and the higher the expected income.

However, NFT Heroes can speed up production of all 73 items. When the player gets a production speed-up hero or an amphibious hero, 1-5 of the 73 items above are randomly generated, with the type and efficiency of the acceleration depending on the hero's quality level.

3) Make a trade

The player selects the ship, sails to the destination port, arrives at the port and starts unloading and selling the goods to the players who need them.

Game economy

NFT

1) Hero/Blind Box

NFT heroes are stat specific game characters in MetaLine, with 10 different classes and 5 quality types. These attributes will play an important role in the course of the game, because different classes and qualities of heroes have different combat abilities, which will result in a somewhat different P2E income.

These 10 classes are further divided into 8 regular classes and 2 special classes, which are: merchant, hook pirate, Viking, martial artist, navigator, retired special forces soldier, barista, priest, robot (special class) and noble (special class). Heroic qualities include N, R, SR, SSR and UR.

In the game, players can use the hero to find the right goods to produce, and then transport to a specific port to sell for profit. Or fight against other players in a battle system where the winner also gets a Token for that game.

In addition, these hero NFT are unlocked by three different levels of blind boxes, and the probability of each level of blind box producing a hero of the corresponding quality is fixed.

- The blind box with an official cost of $49 (0.029ETH) can only offer heroes of N, R and SR quality with 56.2%, 28.1% and 15.7% chances respectively;
- The blind box costing US $99 (0.06ETH) can produce heroes of N, R, SR and SSR quality with 31.7%, 40.3%, 16.0% and 12.0%, respectively;
- A blind box costing $199 (0.121ETH) can produce R, SR, SSR and UR heroes 36.4%, 42.6%, 13.7% and 7.3%, respectively.

At present, the total of 3,500 MetaLine blind boxes have been sold out, and players who want to purchase them can go to Metaline againOpenSeaTrade on the Internet.

2) Pet eggs

The pet Egg NFT, just like the hero NFT, plays an important role in providing the player with the experience and progress of the game.

As a token of appreciation to MetaLine's early backers, there will be some rewards and privileges for MetaLine blind box holders in the near future:

- Holders of the original $199 blind box get free mint Pet Egg NFT;

- Holders of the original $99 and $49 blind boxes can go straight to the white list and get 10% and 95% off, respectively.

3) Land

Holding a land NFT is a must if the player wants to start a business or do some trading in a particular port.

4) Ship

The ship NFT is essential for navigating the different ports. It is built using different goods and special materials produced by the land, and can also be acquired through special missions and operations in the game.

Similarly, the ship's quality is also divided into five levels: N, R, SR, SSR, UR, and its attributes can be superimposed with the attributes of hero NFT. Ships can also reach a total of ten levels, with each level gaining additional stats.

In addition, there are three types of ships:

- Merchant shipping: used for trade and transportation;

- Warships: used for combat and special missions;

- Pirate Ship: Used for combat and special missions.

Game Token

1) MLT

MLTS are the only MetaLine native tokens, with a total supply of 300 million, of which 170 million will be used in the MetaLine economy.

To mark the official deployment and launch on Arbitrum,MetaLine will airdrop 0.5% of the total MLT to blind box holders after the game goes live in March of this year, and the amount each user airdrops will be determined based on the number of blind boxes they hold and their level/quality. However, the MLT has not been officially released yet, and the exact timing of the airdrop has yet to be determined.

2) MetaLine Gold

MetaLine Gold is a medium used in the game for exchange and trading, representing the value of time and activity, and performing various tasks in MetaLine consumes a certain amount of MetaLine Gold.

There is no limit to the total number of MetaLine Gold releases, but in order to keep the game's economy balanced, the number of Metaline Gold releases is related to the total GDP in the game.

In MetaLine, MetaLine Gold can be earned by participating in game scenarios and missions. For example, players participate in shipping missions, when the goods arrive at the destination port, by selling goods to earn; Or the final winner in the battle will receive MetaLine Gold directly.

Project background

MetaLine got Infinity Labs, Paka Fund and GEMSfinancingThe exact amount has not been released.

Also, MetaLine is inTrust EVM Hackathon Round2Won the second place in China.

The Trust EVM Hackathon is a long-cycle hackathon consisting of three rounds of competition and events specifically targeted at the GameFi track. After two months of competition, the final seven projects were recognized by the judges and the community. In the community round, MetaLine, one of the third round finalists, received the most votes, 457.

Project progress

In 2022, MetaLine has already gone through two rounds of open beta in OKC Chain and Polygon, with upgrades to its website and core product, such as a more pixelated overall style and more autonomy in game design.

Currently, MetaLine has Arbitrum as the game's first official deployment network. The official game will be available in March 2023, with the release of the project's unique native Token MLT.

summarize

As a large-scale business, adventure, and strategy game, Mealine will make up for the lack of playability of many web3 games, and the setting of the game is set in medieval navigation and trade, which will increase the fun of the game.

In specific games, Mealine gives the player more autonomy. Players will be able to participate in port auctions and set their own rules, such as tax percentages, borrowing rates, etc., which will allow them to partially determine how much money they earn in the game.

MetaLine, on the other hand, is more than just a single, isolated blockchain game. The port system in the game will also serve as a bridge to many other web3 projects, and in the future, assets or tokens from its partner projects will be available directly within MetaLine for interoperability, which will also open up access to the metaverse for more users.

In addition, the current Arbitrum game project heat does not reduce, and MetaLine also chose to be deployed on the Layer2, which will naturally attract part of the attention to Arbitrum ecological players approach. But the MetaLine game won't officially launch until March, so it remains to be seen how it will play out.

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