SUPERIOR free on Epic but NFT / BLOCKCHAIN / CRYTO

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I can give specific examples... I can't speak for Superior as I haven't played it and refuse to touch it at this point, but I have played Town Star which was produced by the same people. Town Star is a game where you have a set size grid, and you build up a production of some sort (there's several end-items to choose from, as well as several different ways to get there). As an example, grow wheat and sugarcane, raise cows (needs wheet for feed) for milk, get eggs from chickens (also needs wheat for feed), and collect brine to convert to salt (works better if you're next to an ocean but can be done anywhere)... plus you need wood (half the types of starting location would have trees already placed, and you could build trees as production tiles... they would grow back after a short amount of time, influenced by what was around them). Sell those items to make the money to build the "conversion" buildings you will need for the next step. Use the wheat to make flour, use the salt and milk to make butter (and some buildings would also require wood, presumably as fuel). Stop selling the original ingredients (unless you're producing them faster than you can convert them) and sell the new ingredients until you're ready for the next step. Then combine all those ingredients to make cake, which originally was the end step but just before I stopped logging in they added chocolate and candy canes to make "decorated cake", each step requiring even more ingredients (but you didn't get a bigger grid, so you had to prioritize and over time sell existing buildings to create new "improved" buildings, like the one that takes the already created cake and decorates it with the chocolate and candy canes). Each building or production unit (plot of wheat, for example) will take a single square of the grid to make a specific item (each with its own timer), but you'll want multiples of the lower level items to make a single next-level item, for example to make flour it would take 2 wheat plus 1 wood, to make butter it would take 2 milk, 2 salt, and 1 sugar, to make batter it would take 5 flour, 3 eggs, and 2 butter, and to make cake it would take 3 batter, 6 sugar, and 3 energy (which you're already producing to create fuel anyway). Do the math real quick, and a single cake took 10 wheat, 5 wood, 3 eggs, 4 milk, 4 salt, and 8 sugar. Each of those would take 1 tile to create 1, plus a minimum combined 1 tile for a worker building, and 1 tile for each of the buildings... so not even getting into things like having 6 wheat plots, you're looking at a minimum of 12 tiles (that's not even getting into "decorated cake" which needs everything the cake does, plus you need to make candy cane AND chocolate then have the building that does nothing but decorate the cake).

Each of the "convert one ingredient into another ingredient" steps was a different building. For example, a Windmill would be needed to convert wheat into flour (or sugarcane into sugar, or brine into salt, each building could only do one of those choices at a time). There was a lot of one thing affecting another that you had to keep in mind ... Windmills were tall, and would create shade (in a gradient) up to 3 tiles away, slowing down any production items nearby. Other buildings would block the wind and slow down the Windmill.

So, each item that had the ability to produce something (there were also buildings for the workers, you needed workers to collect the production items like wheat when their timer ended, but the buildings themselves took up space without providing any extra benefit beyond the worker wandering the map) had a specific speed. A "perfectly" positioned Windmill would take 30 seconds to create one item. A "badly" positioned Windmill would take 4 minutes to produce the same item. And there were a couple of stages in between. You only have a 16x16 grid (256 total tiles), regardless of what you're building. So there was a lot of strategy involved, what do you build, how many of them, how do you place them, etc for maximum return... It's so complicated they (a couple individual players, but endorsed and encouraged by the game producers) made a sort of interactive planning guide where you can test out placing different buildings in different locations and see how they effect each other and ultimately production.

But then the NFTs change things... Almost all NFTs have 5 "rarity" levels (some only have 1 or 4), and of course the rarer an item is simultaneously the better it is and the harder it is to get, so they get more expensive very quickly. You could earn them (I eventually got a "Common Gusty Wind" just for doing the right thing at the right time during one of the competitions) or you could buy them (from other players who acquired them from regular game play, or get lucky and buy one of the very limited supply available when they're first released... but then again thousands of other players are trying to do the same thing and there might only be 5 of the ancient rarity, for example), but they're only sold for GALA so you either had to buy Etherium (ETH) with cash in an exchange and convert it, or use the GALA you would get from competing in contests (assuming you could place high enough without the NFTs). The "Gusty Wind" NFT would reduce the time of all Windmills on your entire plot between 2.5% (for the "common" rarity, according to my notes selling for the equivalent of $10.55 each) and 16% (for the "ancient" rarity, about $278.26 each). This is a single NFT, but it's affecting your entire build. As you can imagine in a competitive game based on how quickly you can produce items to sell, a 16% increase across the board (well, only on all your Windmills, which on average was about 15%-20% of my entire build area when I played) is potentially a HUGE advantage.

Another example, the "Express Depot" (no "rarity" levels on this one), aka the "free" NFT I got, would deliver the same amount of goods as the standard Truck Depot (which you start with), but it would simultaneously use 15% less fuel and do a delivery-and-return run 15% faster (time was based on location chosen in the world map). Did I mention that it takes a minimum of 5 different buildings (later you could upgrade to much more expensive buildings and in the process eliminate two of them), not counting duplicates (I typically ended up with 8-10 Oil Rigs in the end, for example) to increase the amount produced, to create fuel? So it was potentially fast enough you could get away with one or two less of the base crude oil producing building, because you're using less fuel with each trip ... although the trips themselves were faster so if you had enough items needing to be sold at the same time it could instead mean you're selling items faster than anybody else around you for the same fuel "cost". There's also NFTs that effectively count as production items. Place a Wheat Stand (according to my notes, about $105 for the low end, and about $445 for the high end), and every building touching it would act as if it was supplied with 2-6 (depending on rarity) wheat at all times, without having to actually produce said wheat. That would of course mean less tiles dedicated to wheat production (in essence, you're getting AT LEAST 4 for the price of one tile) and you could then use those tiles for other things... 256 seems like a lot but it goes away very fast.

Also, each NFT counts as a different amount of "Town Points". I don't know the details, but there's some sort of algorithm involved. You could place X buildings based on your GALA level (exponential tiers of course, where the 3rd building requires more than buildings 1 and 2 combined AND doubled), and each building would be worth a different number of points when your "reward for having active NFTs" was calculated for the day. The Express Depot was worth 1 because it was what everything else was compared to... it tended to earn me about 0.53 TOWN coin per day (and as I mentioned before, they weren't strictly tied to GALA but I estimated it would take around 100 or so to make a single GALA, and a single GALA was worth less than 3 cents). According to my notes the Wheat Stand (I REALLY wanted one of those) was worth 14 points. However, I could only place 1 building (more accurately, I could use ALL my NFTs at one time but only the highest point value was used for the calculation) so I would not have a total of 15 points. And, as I mentioned, there's some sort of algorithm involved with diminishing returns, so 14 points wouldn't get me 7 TOWN per day, it would have been more like around 3.