Whitepaper ​

Moon District is an NFT game built on the WAX blockchain about competing for resources in a futuristic city on the Moon called "Moon District"

Story ​

In the not-so-distant future, Earth's resources had been depleted, and mankind's dreams of quick riches and prosperity had led to countless failed projects. Everyone was left with heavy bags of debts and owning useless tools that served as painful reminders of their dashed hopes. The situation was dire, and a sense of boredom and despair loomed over society.

While everyone was on Earth fighting for scraps, The wealthy were on the Moon living in Moon District, the shiny city was inhabited only by the most wealthy as their were the only ones able to afford such luxury, but they had an issue, the city needed laborers and miners to obtain the precious resources it needs for the welfare of its residents.

From this an unexpected source, hope emerged, The city announced a revolutionary mission to the moon for the earthlings, promising them a last chance at finding prosperity in their newly constructed city Moon District.

Everyone rushed to signup hoping to secure thier place on the moon, among the people selected to go, there was a group of resourceful and resilient individuals who had lost everything in the past, their old tools lying dormant in dusty garages. As the chosen few boarded the spacecraft, they decided to bring their old tools with them, hoping that they might find a way to repurpose them for lunar mining.

Motivation ​

The game idea was formed out of frustration from the sheer number of scam projects and failed/abandoned games on the WAX blockchain, leaving collectors holding heavy bags with useless NFTs.

With that idea in mind my goal was to combine all (or at least as much as I could) of WAX's greatest hits into a single game.

• 🥩 Staking
• ⛏️ Mining
• ⏫ Tool Upgrading
• ♻️ Multi-token economy
• 🔄 Token-swap
• ⛰️ Lands
• 🧾 Taxes
• 🛡️ Clans (Soon™️)
• 🔪 Robbery (Soon™️)
• 🤼 PvP (Soon™️)

Gameplay ​

3rd Party Assets ​

The collectors and players get left with 2 types of assets when a team pulls the rug or abandons their project: Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Fungible Tokens (FTs) or simply tokens.

Powerups ​

Powerups are old unused NFTs from abandoned 3rd party projects, they can be staked in the game to generate MP

Powerups Boosting ​

Each powerup has its own base mp_rate mining power that can be boosted by staking tokens to it, each collection's token(s) can be staked to increase the mp_rate of its NFTs

Tools ​

Mining tools are the main NFTs of Moon District, they can be staked in-game to allow the players to mine MDUST

Rarities ​

Tools come in 5 different rarities:

• Free ⚫
• Common 🔴
• Rare 🟢
• Epic 🔵
• Legendary 🟡

The base rarity is Free, which each player will get 1 Tool of that rarity upon signing up. Other rarities can be obtained from the in-game shop.

Upgrading ​

All tools start at level 0 and can be upgraded all the way up to level 100 by spending MDUST to increase their mdust_rate mining power.

The cost of upgrading will go up as the level of the tool goes up.

Efficiency Loss ​

All tools start at 100% efficiency and slowly lose their efficiency over time until they reach 0% at which point they can no longer mine and need to be repaired.

You need to be strategic about when you repair your tools to maximize their yield.

Tokens ​

There are 4 types of tokens in Moon District:

MOON Tokenomics ​

The main token of the game, can be obtained in-game by swapping MDUST -> MOON or MP -> MOON

• Minting Rate: 10,000 MOON every day, reduced by 5% every 7 days
• Distribution:
  • 100% Towards mining rewards

Power ​

Mining on the Moon takes lots of energy which is provided by Moon District City at fair user-governed market price.

The power price for each player is determined by the following formula:

Longevity ​

One aspect that most game on WAX ecosystem failed to do properly is managing early adopters, some projects made their early birds too OP and thus wrecking their own game's economy, while some others treat their earliest adopters like 2nd class citizens

To prevent doing the same mistake, a longevity boost is implemented, that increases gradually over time, the earlier the player is the more bonus tokens they get, this allows everyone a fair start, while also not forgetting about the early birds and rewarding them for their support.