The Atlas Star ✧ Issue #6

Attention, Deep Space Explorers!

We are back for another epic Atlas Star ✧, the official Star Atlas newsletter wherein you find all the crucial information you so anxiously seek about Star Atlas and related project developments!

For this issue, we’ll focus on the economy of our expansive metaverse. We’ll take a deep space dive into the guidelines that our play-to-earn model works with, and especially, how players will integrate themselves into the elegant Star Atlas economic system.

Without further ado, let’s get started!

The economy of careers in Star Atlas — a new model of generating value for a new age of gaming.

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We want to start by saying that Star Atlas is creating an entirely new economic system to accommodate its gaming and metaverse experience.

If you pay attention to our phrasing, you’ll learn something crucial for the Star Atlas Team: Our economy is not an end in and of itself. It’s a means to an end, or more accurately, to two different ends that are entwined in our project, the gaming experience and the metaverse experience.

We believe that any project that focuses on the formal structure of an economic model while losing sight of the product it should support is bound to fail. Here at Star Atlas, we are building to last a millennia beyond 2620.

With these considerations in mind, we built our economic paper, constantly refining it with the help of the many talented individuals that we’ve onboarded to our team.

Although we can’t disclose the results just yet, it’s time we start talking about the concepts and logic that we’re utilizing in our model.

Today we’re focusing on one pillar of that model: the careers that our community will pursue in their quest for fulfillment and fortune in our play-to-earn economic model.

The two different careers logic in Star Atlas: ingame careers and metaverse careers

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Whenever we talk about economic activities in the metaverse or the natural world, we must speak first of value, also known as wealth.

In a free market environment like the one we strive to build in Star Atlas, every good and service has value. The determination of the value of each is linked to how the community of consumers perceives its utility, desirability, and scarcity.

This is the foundation of everything we’re building here in Star Atlas and is especially important for our conversation about ingame careers.

The logic behind the ingame careers is that we will onboard millions, if not billions, of players to this universe. Each of them will have different desires, needs, agendas, backgrounds, and ideas about what is entertaining, necessary, exciting, frivolous, right, wrong, etc.

To give such a wide range of players exciting gameplay opportunities to fit their unique hopes and desires, we’re developing two different macro career paths in our project.

The first are in-game careers, and the second, for the lack of a better name, are metaverse careers.

The In-game Careers Logic: Skill Progression, Specialization, and Communitary gameplay

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In the last issue of Atlas Star, we spoke about the importance of communitary gameplay in Star Atlas.

As discussed, our game’s many different endgame objectives demand a level of coordination and range of skills from different players. That’s why it’s highly suggested that you find a dedicated group of friends — or even strangers — to form a DAC (guild) to help you face the many dangers of the galaxy.

But as we focused on the guilds and groups in the past edition, today we are discussing individuals and their lives in Star Atlas, starting by addressing how the ingame careers will work in Star Atlas.

We will tackle the main logic underlying the different ingame careers, each developed following these principles:

a) It must be a fulfilling game experience in itself

b) It enables the construction of a skill progression system

c) It must be integrated with the whole economy of Star Atlas and balanced

Let’s briefly discuss each of these points.

The first references the idea of careers in Star Atlas being enjoyable gaming experiences. As we did our research regarding careers in Star Atlas, we saw that most of the games in the industry didn’t focus on making playing different careers enjoyable.

We think this logic is bad for the game. If careers are not cool enough to play, people will take them on only for the financial rewards. While some people will think this is enough value, others won’t, and this may drive them to stay out of the economy of our game.

Although we can’t go into specifics right now, we’re looking forward to making playing each of our careers entertaining! All of them will have an underlying logic and mechanics that will resonate with different gameplay styles, from mining in deep space to racing leagues on low gravity moons. Hopefully, you will quickly find the one that best fits your taste.

The second principle emphasizes the idea of progression. We want you to get better and feel your character getting better while you devote yourself to your career in Star Atlas.

As you practice and work in your career, you will receive a range of perks that come from experience and hard work in any area of knowledge. For example, you will be more efficient, meaning that you’ll take less time to complete tasks, and you will receive increased yield for your efforts.

This dynamic, of course, changes from career to career, but we want our community to feel the effects of career progression in their gameplay as they rise through the ranks of mastery within their crafts.

Finally, every single career is made to be part of an economic loop or game activity with meaningful value for the whole Star Atlas game system. This means, just like in real life, no ingame career is an end in and of itself.

It serves a higher purpose on a political and economic level for Star Atlas, and each one of those careers is balanced in a way that is relevant to the game structure.

As you can see, we made “the box” of gameplay broad here, trying to fit many different playing styles. We will continue to develop these careers and their boxes in ways that refine them into more entertaining gameplay loops, and will probably expand careers and roles in the process

But, as we said, the box logic can only take Star Atlas so far, even if they are cool and big boxes. Now, we will start addressing our solution for the bigger picture, the idea that humanity is more complex than game structures can represent. Please follow us to the metaverse careers path.

The Metaverse Careers Logic: Freedom, out of the box, and gamified metaverse experience gameplay

The whole metaverse will be watching you, no pressure. /// Triple-A Metaverse Work in Progress /// Immersive Unreal Engine 5 Experience

The metaverse careers logic is significantly different from the one we used to develop the ingame careers program.

It actually begins with the notion that we are not the ones developing the metaverse careers in Star Atlas. Instead, this will be the work of community members finding ways to bring value to their fellow players through activities they find meaningful.

Here are some examples.

Imagine you and your guild friends are hanging out in one of the many Star Atlas bars after a life and death mission across the high-risk zone. You’ve seized awesome loot, escaped the pirates, and are now safe and sound back home.

Time to celebrate!

You place a brew delivery order for the team inside Star Atlas that will arrive at everyone’s Earth-based homes in 15 minutes, and then you ask the owner to get the music going. That’s when a real-life band starts playing and your crew gets to enjoy this live-action show together in one place as one team, no matter your location in the physical world.

As you can see, the act of ordering goods and services inside Star Atlas entails different metaverse careers actions. They add value to the community and will be rewarded in our ingame currency Atlas.

This is the first idea underlying the metaverse careers. They will organically appear from the new and exciting relationships that the metaverse and natural-life integration makes possible.

To help the growth of so many exciting possibilities related to metaverse careers, Star Atlas focuses on creating a variety of tools and mechanics that will enable the community to let their imaginations run wild.

From financial products, like insurance, to tourism in deep space, Star Atlas will focus on providing the infrastructure necessary to make this relationship possible between players and even third parties, whom we think will be very interested in providing different and exciting possibilities for our players.

The second characteristic of metaverse careers is that they are not bound to game mechanics like the progression in the skill tree system. You will be as good in Star Atlas as you are in the natural world. You can be an extraordinary lawyer, and you can also use your skills directly in SA.

This will enable even non-gamers to bring value to our economy while having fun with the actual game. Thus, this will make them gamers as well, right? Although we don’t know the answer to that, we know that this will enable anyone from any background to find a place in Star Atlas and build their path alongside our community in creating a new and exciting galaxy.

The third aspect of metaverse careers is that they are a great way of bringing a new influx of economic valueto Star Atlas, leveraging the game economy to new heights of sophistication.

At the beginning of this newsletter, we discussed how important the notion of value was to building an economy. Now imagine how much value this integration with the natural world could bring to Star Atlas?

Finally, the third aspect of the metaverse careers is that it works as a sandbox feature. Everyone, from players and third parties, can set aside the wars, politics, and significant concerns of the game and just have fun outside the core game loop.

This will bring a dimension of natural-life inside the metaverse life for our community. You will be able to experience lots of the different, cool stuff that you do in your free time in natural-life inside Star Atlas. This will enable a deeper connection with our world and stronger bonds between community fellows.

“Power to the People” means an economy that balances individuality, freedom, entertainment, and tough choices.