Desalinization Process
Each Region on the continent of Praetoria contains critical infrastructure that aids with the production, storage, and movement of resources within that Region. The taxes and fees that are collected from resource production and other activities that take place within each Region go towards maintaining that infrastructure; however, maintaining the infrastructure is particularly difficult due to the extremely high Salt content present in the soil and waters of the continent.
Luckily, scholars have recently discovered a way to harness Dark Energy into a new type of crystal with a unique chemical structure that can extract Salt from whatever is around it. Players will be able to create or otherwise acquire these new Desalinization Crystals and contribute them to their Region to remove the excess Salt content from the soil and water. This makes the infrastructure less costly to maintain which allows players with land plots within the Region to pay lower taxes and fees as well as to enjoy increased production from their land.
Desalinization Crystals
Desalinization Crystals (DC) are a special resource that will be able to be purchased using a fixed amount of DEC or VOUCHER tokens and they will also be available to be earned through various activities within the broader Splinterlands universe, such as in loot chests from ranked battles or from Guild participation, for example. They will be transferrable and available within the Internal Market just like most other land resources. The exact details around the cost of DC and the methods for earning them in the game are still TBD.
Desalinization Crystals can be used to reduce the Salinization Rate (SR) in a particular Region. Each Region will start at a 100% SR and, each day, a fixed amount of DC will be deducted from the pool of DC contributed by players to that Region in order to reduce the SR by up to 2%. If there is no more DC in the pool then the SR will increase at a rate of 5% per day until it reaches 100% or until players contribute more DC to the Region. Once the SR in a Region hits 0%, it cannot drop any lower, however the same amount of DC will need to be expended from the pool each day in order to maintain the 0% SR.
Benefits
In order to contribute DC to a Region's infrastructure projects, a player must own or be renting at least one plot in that Region. All players owning or renting land in a particular Region will receive the following benefits which will be inversely proportional to the Salinization Rate (SR) in the Region:
Reduced Tax Rate (from 15% down to 7.5% at 0% SR - 50% reduction)
Reduced Market Swap Fees (from 10% down to 5% at 0% SR - 50% reduction)
Reduced Storage Rental Costs (up to 50% reduction at 0% SR)
Production Boost (up to 50% boost at 0% SR)
The boost or reduction percentages are linear based on the SR in the Region, so, for example, a Region that is at 50% SR will have a tax rate of 11.25% (50% of the way between 15% and 7.5%), a market swap fee of 7.5% (50% of the way between 10% and 5%), a 25% reduction in storage rental costs, and a 25% production boost to all plots. Note that the production boost benefit will work similarly to other production boosts such as those from Titles, Totems, and Runi.
Salt
The desalinization process produces Salt as a byproduct, which will be represented in-game as Salt tokens. There will be a maximum, fixed amount of Salt tokens available to be extracted from each Region every day, and the amount that is actually extracted will be determined by whether or not there are enough Desalinization Crystals available in that Region. If the maximum daily amount of DC are available in the Region for a day (allowing the SR to drop by 2% or be maintained at 0%) then the maximum amount of Salt will be extracted from that Region that day. Otherwise, proportionally less Salt will be extracted, or none if there is no DC available for the Region.
The Salt tokens will be distributed to all players who have contributed DC to the Region over the past 30 days, in proportion to the amount they have contributed compared to the total amount contributed by all players in that Region over that time period.
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