[Recap]Wanaka Farm (Team) AMA With The Community.
Wanaka farm community event (AMA) with the community attending the AMA will include CEO Truong Tran, CTO Thuan Nguyen, CPO Sang Nguyen and CMO CaKoin (Host).
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Hi we will start the AMA in few seconds, Let me introduce to you guys our CEO Truong Tran, our CTO Thuan Nguyen, our CPO Sang Nguyen.
Sang Nguyen-CPO: Hi there.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Me Cakoin, the CMO of Wanaka Farm, I will host the AMA today.
Truong Tran-CEO: Hey guys, Nice to talk with you!
Thuan Nguyen-CTO: Hi there! I’m Thuan Nguyen CTO of Wanaka Farm nice to e-meeting.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): We have received many questions from you guys and will start to answer all the questions one by one now.
Questions From The Community.
Q1.Please ask the team if they intend to migrate the servers to Amazon AWS. The server is so laggy during specific time periods. Do they have a report or hosting team checking it during the lagging times? what are you going to do with the servers instability?
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Our CEO Truong Tran will answer for us this question.
Truong Tran-CEO: We are Aware of this problem in the first place, Wanaka team built the infrastructure on AWS. But the number of default-land players increased too quickly, requiring the game to be scaled up, while the architecture and infrastructure can not meet it yet. Wanaka is making every effort to reform software architecture and infrastructure with the support from Amazon AWS experts. We believe this problem will be solved soon.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Thank you, we will move to the next one
Q2. If I can leave a question here… I really want to know if you have been thinking about change the time you need to watering and feeding, because there will always be a moment when we obviously sleep and can’t play. Using an item to help us its very expensive, we have to use one of our harvested animal/plant to get one item, I think it’s to much.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): We’ve received a few suggestions about this. But now, to skip 1 watering or feeding, you can
create items in the production house, using it to help you skip 1 turn. Watering or feeding does not need to be exactly on time, and you can also log in at 2 transfer time frames.
However, it is also suggested that if an action takes too much time, the players will get bored, as well as it can affect their health. So we are considering changing or adding functions to perform actions faster.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Next one
Q3. What is your position about transaction failures? Is there a really certain date for normalization of withdrawals and deposits?
Thuan Nguyen-CTO: Sure, the team is working with our partners to provide endpoints, as well as solutions with large transaction volumes, we aim to minimize errors in the transaction process.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Next question.
Q4. Where is WANATRADE? This should have been released with the game to incentivize people to grow items/ trade/sell within the game.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): can you answer this question pls Sang Nguyen-CPO
Sang Nguyen-CPO: In fact, WanaTrade function had been completed before Beta version was released. But our development team recognized a few problems: data sorting, data loading, pagination, etc. Moreover, determining which items can be bought and sold on WanaTrade will also troubled the game economy. So in order not to make things too complicated in the early stages, the team had to temporarily disable the WanaTrade function. The good news is that WanaTrade is being re-implemented and open ASAP
CaKoin-CMO (Host): thank you, next one
Q5. How will you combat the fall of the token (burning mechanics) ?
Sang Nguyen-CPO: All functions in the current version are only the basic ones. According to new added functions, the WAI-burning mechanism will also change.
For example:
— WanaTrade function will need Wai, just like you pay taxes when selling. Also, Wai will also be the currency used in WanaTrade, as well as Wana.
— Events, mini games will also require Wai
— Upgrading the land level at major milestones (10,20…) will require a lot of Wai
In addition, we received a lot of comments about the Wai burn mechanism. There are some very good ideas such as renting more slots in land Default with Wai or paying a monthly fee depending on the number of plots owned…
CaKoin-CMO (Host): many have asked this question.
Q6. What is your biggest priority after fixing the servers? can you pls tell us about it Sang Nguyen-CPO:
Sang Nguyen-CPO: We prioritize modifying the software architecture to increase scalability as well as load capacity.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Next one.
Q7. Did you expect this amount of users in the first week of the game? How many players were planned in the stress test and what is the real capacity of the servers?
Sang Nguyen-CPO: Initially, we only expected about 100k players to perform stress testing for 2 server clusters in Asia and America (50k players for each cluster) . But when opening the default land for people without land to join, it has led to overcrowding because the number of players doubles during peak hours.
(we hit a peak of 200k concurrent players)
CaKoin-CMO (Host):thank you, next one.
Q8. Is there an ETA for servers being stable?
Sang Nguyen-CPO: As announced, we expect it to take about 6 weeks, it can take less, or more depending on the problems encountered, but we are still trying to solve it as fast as possible because we know you guys are waiting.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Ok, one more question that mentioned many times
Q9. Will you apply oracle to the WAI rewards, not just to the WANA price when purchasing things?
Sang Nguyen-CPO: Many people have suggested using Oracle. We will do research on its compatibility with the current system, maybe not in the near future, but the research is already in the plan.
CaKoin-CMO (Host) Next one.
Q10. How does “Increased mutant rate” apply to the base chance? Is it an addition or a multiplication? Could we have the maths?
Sang Nguyen-CPO:
— Base Mutant Rate : 0.25% (Land common, land default)
— If Immortal has the increased mutant rate at 10%, then Mutant Rate will be 0.275%
— Every time you harvest 50 growing items of the same type, the mutation rate will double. That means, from the 51st growing item, the mutation rate of Land common for that growing item is 0.505%, and that rate of land Immortal is 0.55% (with Increased mutant rate is 10%). And from the 101st growing item the rate will be 1.01% and 1.1%
- Rate will be reset to Base Mutant Rate if mutant spawns
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Next one.
You mentioned changing the daily quests, what are your ideas?
Sang Nguyen-CPO: In the near future the daily request will be updated to make it more diverse. For example, instead of submitting only cabbage, fish, or beef every day, each day may be different items such as: salad, Sludge, Fertilizer, Fodder, Earthworms, The Baner, The Huk… or a combination of them.
Later, after the weekly task system, mini games, in-game functions are diverse enough, your revenue will not be a daily request anymore, you will have to participate in more activities to get a reward.
CaKoin-CMO (Host)As far as renting land is concerned
Q11. Will many people be able to rent the same land? How would their plots be organized? What would be the method?
Sang Nguyen-CPO: At the moment, we expect that a land can only be rented by 1 person, but the person who owns or is renting the land can hire other people to do operations such as: farming, watering , feeding, harvesting… in case they don’t have enough energy.
CaKoin-CMO (Host) Next one.
Have you thought of any new ways to attract investing players?
Sang Nguyen-CPO: I think having a game play and a diversified economic model will be the attraction of Wanaka in the future. But for now we will need to handle the issues step by step carefully
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Next one.
Will you add ways to reinvest for the default land owners?
Sang Nguyen-CPO: We are considering opening planting slot rent with Wai, and charging a monthly or weekly fee.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Next one.
Q12. When will scholarships be available?
CaKoin-CMO (Host) I will answer to this question
At the moment, Scholarships are very possible, we’re working with some guilds for partnership after our big updates. We will discuss in detail, taking suggestions from guilds to expand the Wanaka ecosystem.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Next one
Q13. Have you considered introducing a small WAI burn every week for those who hold NFT lands?
Sang Nguyen-CPO: This is an option that has been taken into account, the amount of Wai burn may depend on the number of plots of land the user owns (like a land tax), but putting it into practice will need a real careful consideration.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): What will happen to in game items? Will everything get paused, or will it be deleted?
Sang Nguyen-CPO: Those growing items won’t be deleted as they will continue to grow. When reopening the game, you just need to collect them. Don’t worry we will take care of them when the server shut down 🤗
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Next one
Q14. The halloween event. How will this server shutdown affect it, and the rewards from it?
Sang Nguyen-CPO: Soul Chest would still exist in Treasure and be able to be opened normally
You still could craft Soul Chest if having enough Ingredient amount
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Last question about the gameplay.
Q15. What is meant by “limited features” after 1 week of server being closed ?
Sang Nguyen-CPO:
Basic functions include:
— Planting trees and vegetables, raising cows, adopting fishes
— Daily Quest System
— Breeding, Factory, WanaShop…
— Events (such as Halloween, Checkin) will not be added
CaKoin-CMO (Host) Thank you, next question.
Q16. What will happen to our item if we withdraw land when there are things planted. What will happen to assets while game is closed ?
CaKoin-CMO (Host): I will reply to this one
The growing items on land are required to be removed or collected before withdrawing the land.
The assets will all be preserved.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Next question
Q17. When will transactions be returned? When will land deposits and token deposits be reenabled ?
Thuan Nguyen-CTO: Almost all of the error transactions have been returned to the wallet or into the game. Only the error transactions (which were withdrawn 5 days ago) are still being paid. After the token is returned we will continue to improve and reopen the deposit withdrawal function.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Next question.
Q18. Will marketplace be closed during this server shutdown ?
Thuan Nguyen-CTO: No, it will still be working normally
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Next question.
Q19. Will we continue receiving updates regarding the game while it is down?
Thuan Nguyen-CTO: Absolutely, we will continuously update the status of error fixing as well as the progress of system updates to users.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): Yes we will absolutely update to you guys and if need we will keep doing ama, next question
Q20. Will there be any compensation for those who were unplayable while game closed?
CaKoin-CMO (Host): We are considering compensation for those affected when the game is closed and will have a specific announcement later.
CaKoin-CMO (Host): We have done all the collected questions frequently asked. now we will unmute the chat for 5 minutes to answer live some more question before go back to work.
We will try to do this more often to keep our community up to date with all the progress work. Thank you !
Wanaka team
