Introduction

NFT Battleminers consists of three game elements: Shadowdepths, Arcadian Mining, and Apertian Region. This part covers ShadowDepths.

NFT Battleminers: Shadowdepths is a WAX Blockchain game that focuses on both strategy, progress, markets and turn-based activity to develop (https://game.nftbattleminers.com/shadow_depths). The player starts off in a space that acts as home base. From here, he or she explores various cave systems on a home planet and then moons. As the player moves deeper, the challenges and the monsters encountered become harder and harder. Fortunately, the player can also gain armor, weapons and loot to become stronger as well. Various decisions produce different loot and results. Completing tasks provided by the ship computer also helps realize level development, gain more resources and achieve skill points. With skill points the player also can develop better abilities to use too.

The Goal

In a nutshell, the primary goal is to go deeper and deeper. Doing so produces more rewards. A player has various options to do this. As the player plans missions, he has three choices: stealth, normal and hunter mode. Stealth provides the easiest passage but the least amount of loot. Normal is a middle mode, more risk and damage, but more contacts and better loot. Hunter is maximum contact, maximum loot, but also maximum damage to armor and possible loss. How you choose levels determines how fast and how much a player gains.

Resources

Loot comes in three forms: in-game tokens (Fusium, Actium, Constructium and Minium), raw materials, and resources. Resources can be found or crafted by a player. More skills provide more abilities. Raw materials are needed to upgrade the spaceship. Doing so creates more abilities and advantages. Since multiple upgrades exist, a player has to make choices which ones to pursue and how to spend tokens and resources. This too affects progress in the game as well as access to the game market.

Market Tools

Players can buy and sell from each other. As more players sell, more becomes available at competitive prices, including resources, armor and weapons. This can be a source of supply as a well as arbitrage profit. The market operates in four token currencies as well as WAX. Differences develop and, in theory, one can make gains between value differences between markets and dismantling (a player can dismantle weapons and armor for resources and tokens). Many players make gains by both missions and market leveraging each cycle.

PVP & Season Passes

The latest third season includes the option of player versus player. If selected in the mission details, a player's clone will attempt to attack other player clones it makes contact with. If it does and wins, the clone steals anything not locked down on the losing player. If the clone loses, he loses his own goods and weapons. Season progress is greatly enhanced by having a Season Pass. While a player can participate without one, the loot gains in selling are practically one-tenth of value. Additionally, as tasks are completed, Season Pass holders gain far more benefits per task level than non-Pass players. Although the Pass is approximately $40 USD, it is possible to recover the full amount by the end of the game by recovering loot and converting it to WAX progressively. And, some players make sizable profits from the NFT rewards gained and then sold on the secondary market as well.

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