Ok I have a couple of comments that might polarize, be seen as fucked up, but here goes nothing:
- POAPs will work for current community members, I have the idea that a POAP would turn into a journal NFT after you claim X number of POAPS. At the same time, if you contribute lore to a specific arc or sidestory you gain a quill NFT. Using both the quill and journal u are able to claim a physical wagdie journal to write your lore of various characters, but u can also use the quill and journal to access a part of the website where u write a story arc, and maybe similar to proposals, this story arc gets evaluated. There are no restrictions on using anyones character or NFT as long as you get consent from them (benefits of CC0). Once a story arc gets approved, it then turns into an audio recording of the story (or if people are good enough, they can larp it). The audio recording is played in a space 3 times a week from the community spaces account, so any wandering twitter folks can run into the space and listen to the story.
In this similar fashion, we make a recording of the whole story and play it once a week for 24 hrs on loop, so anyone can come in and listen to the story at various points. We would need various community members moderating the space all 24hrs, but I have seen tons of traction with other projects for hosting 24hr spaces. I could see the recording be played in about 2-3 hrs including excerpts from the official spaces.
I dont think Poaps will work for non community members, so my suggestion for these spaces, is to have a puzzle related to the lore, and that puzzle, when solved, will gift the solver a token or a floor wagdie. We currently have these kinds of puzzles for our community, but not for people who might be interested in solving a puzzle based on our lore, and gaining something from it. Those are the types of people we want to attract to our project and could be done through collabs as well.
This is going to be my most polarizing and controversial point so READER BEWARE:
We know we can implement metadata changes that will completely change a characters appearance (think Chen). There are A LOT of wagdie in hands of holders who invested a lot at a high price point and now will probably hold just in spite of the floor price being 0.07 or whatever. These people, donโt understand that they might be holding a character that could be important to our lore (or maybe they do)โฆI know we could run an analysis on wallets that contain wagdie that are inactive members and that is not fair for the people that want to get in, but canโt because of this issue. Here is what I propose:
If a wallet has wagdie and is not active in our community (which could be gauged by the Poap or by recording wallets that connect to the characters sheet and have them fill out their own characters. If a wallet neither earns a poap, or fails to connect to the website in some form or fashion (including the conclave), then we introduce a metadata change to the wagdie they own, yielding them useless (Im thinking the wagdie gets changed into a scroll that says you are not an active participant, so unless you interact, your character will stay a scroll of the character traits). If that person interacts, then the metadata changes again to reflect the original character owned. I think that the people who would choose not to interact would then be much more willing to sell at a loss. The scroll would still keep the token identity of the wagdie, and therefore, a person really interested in buying one, could look at the character sheets to see what that character really looks like. @TheTwins I think this would lower the overall barrier but again at the same time, I think their needs to be multiple entry price points. Some who are just starting out can get a more basic character. Advanced players can then buy more expensive ones. I donโt know how to reconcile both of these ideas however, as I have bought everywhere from 0.06-1.4. The Monarch I killed was 1.2 and I dont have money to spare like that, but I did it with the overall plan that his death would add a value of richness to the lore that I am still developing.
I second the poles and betting aspect but, again, people need to participate or engage. There are a lot of tweets that I post in the public square that get no engagement. Perhaps this is my own failure for not being able to really clarify the plotline, but sometimes these things go on the fly because of how the main account tells the narrative which we donโt know. Trying to build sidestories and have them get retweeted is hard. For instance today, I gifted a friend of mine a wagdie as a way to include her in the lore and show her how the process works in real-time. this coincided with her decision to kill the zealot. She did not feel comfortable doing that, so I then took it to a community decision where either Yuriaโs Fury, Yuriaโs Madness, or wagdie.eth would kill the character. I posted it all over discord, but again, very little engagement. Only @knightofdespair commented something that I could then build off of. Iโm all down for larping, but I do need to get a better accent or have time to record audio, which Im figuring out how to because I have all the equipment. Then again, we do need people to at least be able to make quick lil videos (not to the extent of merlins, but more along the lines of the characters that got killed during the cavern of Mt. Turlo. This either needs to be outsourced, or there needs to be community members who will be provided a monthly fee for x amount of videos or voice acting or whatever.
I think the storytelling aspect would allow us to tell these stories in a space where we donโt necessarily have to larp, but just kind of explain whats going on in a thread such as the one I described above.
Last idea: We can essentially โcreate more characters that arenโt part of the main collectionโ if you receive a poap, and multiple of them, then u can eventually turn that poap into an NPC or a blank character (which wouldnโt be a part of the initial 6,666, but a separate collection called WAGDIE NPCs). This would give people two options:
- Once u have enough POAPs and create a blank character, u can use that character on a sidequest (not main storyline) to acquire โtraitsโ. These traits would then build you a wagdie that is not part of the original collection which I think of as the genesis and potentially the most valuable. Once you acquire enough traits through sidequests in order to build what would be considered a normal wagdie, you could then participate in the main storyline, with the caveat being that you will not gain a token of concord if that is the price. You can be a part of the story as a free character, but u dont get to reap the rewards as well. This would only change if you obtain a certain type of token (idk what it would be called), and that token actually makes u part of a second official collection of wagdies.
- The other option is that these become randomized trait NPCs that you can use in the main storyline, but will burn immediately after that arc, but in this case, you would be able to gain a token of concord
I know these ideas are bit scattered cuz its currently 12:35 am and ive been up like 24 hrs, so please forgive typos etc, or if you dont get something just ask me to clarify; however, I think the main fundamental problem that is the source of community expansion is that probably about 40-60% of the circulating supply of wagdie are in hands of holders who are salty about their investment, and that we cannot blame ourselves for. I listened to a guy the other day shit on our project because he minted for free, was a straight up flipper, flipped em all for like 1.5-2ETh and then the project dumped. His comment about how we haventโt done anything at all to raise the floor price and that he got out just in time makes me think we donโt want people like that around or holding onto our project anymore. If we want to transcend the pettiness and toxicity of the investment side of NFTs, we have to come up with innovative ways of how to solve for the problems the market dynamics put us in. I have suggested 2-4 in this thread, and I wholeheartedly believe that ppl outside the project and outside the NFT space would join if they got to make a free character that wasnโt part of the OG collection, or if they people just holding and not accepting offers nor selling because they want to recoup their investment are forced to sell because of inactivity. Again, this second part is very controversial, but we have always been controversial.