Holo everyone!
We're happy to announce that we have released the Alpha Vials' sale today!
Here's what you need to know about them!
Scarcity
The Alpha Edition Vials will be time-limited but not amount-limited. This is done to prevent a few large buyers from cornering the market and adding a premium price for re-sale value. Everyone has enough time to purchase a Alpha Edition Vial for the Alpha duration of our game.
The scarcity of Vials will thus be in the hands of the community!
Alpha Design
Starter items in the Alpha Vial will have a limited design that will only exist in these vials. While there will be similar items in the game for players to craft or purchase from Beta Vials, the looks won't be the same.
Better odds
While the 4 starter creatures won't be fully limited to our Alpha Vials, you are guaranteed to get one when opening them. Their stat rarity odds will be slightly higher in the Alpha Vials compared to Beta vials where they will also have much smaller odds of being pulled from as we'll introduce Beta Starter Creatures by then. The same thing applies to item rarity found in Alpha Vials.
Open or Hodlo
As a collector of the Alpha Vials, you can choose if you want to open the vial up in a future release or hold to trade later. As they will be time-limited some of you may value to open them up at a later date or save some for friends and family for special occasions! Zing Collection rewards will vary over time for unopened Vials.
Provably Fair
When opening up the Vial, you can rest assured that the odds are in your hands. Provably fair technology makes it possible for you to verify that no one messed with your odds while ensuring no insiders were able to cherry-pick when to open Vials up for increased rarity results.
Achievement Discount
Those of you who have collected the Holozing Advent Calendar achievement in 2023 will enjoy a discounted first Alpha Vial based on the amount of days you claimed zing rewards. If you claimed on only 1 day you'll receive a 1% discount up to a 31% discount for those who claimed daily! This discount will only apply to one pack and will also be valid for a healer mint!
Price
The Holozing Alpha packs will be priced at $20. We have spent a lot of time ensuring the contents of the vials and the access it will give healers will be worth the price point while at the same time making it costly for potential abusers to risk being bad healers!
Contents
Starter Creatures
The Alpha Vial will guarantee one of the 4 Holozing starter creatures, these will not be capturable in-game but may drop at significant lower odds in Beta Vials to prevent a very limited future supply. They can evolve as showcased in this blogpost.
The starter creatures have increased rarity odds when being pulled from the Alpha Vial compared to future Vials as well as increased odds of Radiant variations as explained in this blogpost.
They will also come inside an Alpha designed Capture Card of different rarities.
Starter Items
Guaranteed 1x Alpha Healing Gloves - Healer Class restricted with different rarities based on stats, equippable at level 1. Healing Gloves will be required to use your healing abilities in-game!
Guaranteed 1-6x Alpha Designed Capture Cards - This is where Holo creatures reside upon successful capture with a limited design that can't be crafted by player professions. These will come in different class type restrictions with their own looks (Water, Grass, Fire and Electric) as well as some rarer variations with no class restrictions!
Guaranteed 1-3x Alpha Designed Capture Ammo - these energy magazines will power your capture device for wild Holo creature capture attempts! They come in different rarities with the Luck stat.
Guaranteed Starter Potions or Elixirs - these will be used to replenish healer mana instantly or boost your mana regeneration and healing powers temporarily to make battles more efficient.
Guaranteed Alpha-themed Creature or Healer food & water - these will help replenish Creature moves and healer ability points along with Healer mana over time off-battle
Alpha Designed Capture Device - comes in different rarities with varying Luck stat compatible with Alpha Designed Capture Ammo.
Alpha Healer Mount - to make traveling in our future game faster, this comes in two variants; an alpha-themed bike or hoverboard in two different rarities and class-restricted.
Alpha Healer Backpack - to fit in all your items during your travels, comes in different rarities which determine size and is class restricted as well.
Since we have previews to past blog posts in all the items above except for Alpha Designed Capture Cards, we wanted to give you a sneak peek of how they will look while keeping the rest a secret until the opening of Vials is released.
This is our Water Type Alpha Designed Capture Card with no creature captured yet:
The buttons on the cards will represent the 4 main stats for each creature, HP, ATTACK, DEFENSE and AGILITY. They will showcase the exact value of the creature upon capture while also determining the rarity in its respective color. The level button will highlight the average rarity of all 4 stats combined as well as show the current level of the creature.
Zing Collection Rewards
For Alpha Vial and achievement holders, they will be able to earn our in-game token Zing based on collection rewards. While the soulbound achievement holders have already been claiming 1k staked zing per day, we will be assigning a weight to Alpha Vials and increasing the zing distribution to 100k zing per day with majority going to Alpha Vial holders. This feature isn't live yet to give collectors a fair chance of reading the announcement and getting their Alpha Vials, we expect this to go live in a few days and will announce it by then.
Over time we will adjust the Zing distribution based on Alpha Vial purchases and Hive Power delegations, we will be holding a zing-staked poll to get feedback from the community on these adjustments. While it may sound like a lot of Zing going towards Vial holders, with the upcoming opening we will further adjust the weight of collection rewards to favor those opening their Vials and it being based on amount and rarity of creatures and items they hold.
This will then be further diluted when the game enters Beta as collectors will be able to craft items and capture creatures all with their own weight on the Zing distributed to Collection rewards while having rewarded early supporters of Vials and achievements along the way.
Referral rewards
With the removal of "setting a referrer" option the only way to get more referrers now is by inviting new players over using your referral link. Players purchasing Vials will give referrers a lifetime 5% in the token they've been purchased in (Hive/HBD). Future methods of acquiring Vials through other crypto and fiat will give referrers the option to pick if they want the 5% in Hive/HBD or Zing.
Things to know
The official symbol for our Alpha Vials on hive-engine is ZINGALPHA. Be aware that we haven't enabled a market for them yet but players can trade them peer2peer. We'll enable the market along with Zing collection reward adjustment in a few days.
Referral rewards should be granted to referrers instantly.
Shop page: https://holozing.com/shop
Inventory page: https://holozing.com/inventory
Upon purchase of Vials, they should show up in the inventory page after a few seconds.
After a year and two days since our announcementIf you stumble upon any issues, jump in our Discord server's #support channel and let us know. of @holozing this is officially the second method to help crowdfund development and the team behind the project. While Hive Power delegations have been great for a bootstrap, we're hoping this will enable us to up the pace of development, hire more devs and users to assist us in different ways and to bring a polished beta game to you as soon as possible.
Thank you all for your support throughout this volatile year and your continued activity and amazing contributions to our community. We look forward to the future of the Zing ecosystem in excitement and are grateful to have you along for the ride!
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We can say that this is perhaps the best project to compete with Splinterlands. When I talk about competition, I'm referring to the quality of “representing” the HIVE ecosystem.
I will pay more attention to this project.
Thanks! We hope to keep the quality high and consistent and of course continue to represent and connect Hive to it in different ways!
What did you think of the backside of the Alpha Capture card? ^^
I'm not a design expert, but I will speak as a consumer of games web3.
I think there are too many details on the back, I think all the attention should only be on the front of the card, just a Z logo in RGB on the back would be good.
Appreciate the feedback! The back will be limited to the alpha cards showing our "beginnings" with the Hive logo and the 4 starter creature types. In the future it'll have different designs with a focus towards 2d.
I'd love to see a healer with all the elements in his outstretched hand in this back. With the icon logo on the back it would be cool.
But every detail is still wonderful. Just take it as a personal opinion Haha. Good Friday to you
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So I totally missed this.. what's the timeframe for these? I read that it's time limited but hopefully not within the next few days :)
Still got a 29% discount waiting woohoo..
It'll definitely be a few months at least until beta vials!
Oh great, so it's fine I wasn't on top of that. Thanks!
Woohoo!!! Finally.
It's good to know that I'll have a 31% discount on my first purchase 😅
By the way, the Holozing card design is dope 😎
Cheers! I like how it came out, wait til you see what it looks like with a creature inside and in different rarities and in-game! :)
Some time ago, you mentioned having a 3D artist working for Holozing. I think that was a great decision because the results look top-notch.
I'm looking forward to using it in the game! 😅
Yeah, we have 2, one for the creatures, healers and environment in-game with models, animations, etc, and one for the card designs and the vial opening that's coming up after a few weeks!
How many Alpha Vials are here for sale? ?? If there is a counting of how many are sold here, the buyer will also be in a hurry to buy Alpha Vials. At the same time, the project gets some hype.
As it says in the post, there's an unlimited supply but the sale period is time limited.
We'll add a sale amount to the website soon, it's too early for hype, better when the game is finished and released :)
This is wonderful news. I think the 3d card design is pretty cool. I just bought one for now to take advantage of the discount. I have a few liquid Hive and I'll see how it goes if I will buy more. Is it possible to put a counter of how many vials have been bought in total?
I did notice that in this post Capture Devices are not guaranteed, and that was mentioned in your comment below as well. But in the store page, that isn't explicitly stated. If I didn't check this post out and just saw the store, I would assume all vials contain the Capture Device, Mount, and Backpack. Might want to add a "not guaranteed" on those items:
This has been updated now!
Great idea, we'll set that up!
Yes, the list on the shop page is a bit outdated, I wanted to get it updated but one of our devs wasn't around, we'll get it fixed soon, good eye!
We didn't wanna delay the sale much longer so decided to push it before updating there. :D
Yeah, that's perfectly understandable. People are very excited as well, so I for one am happy that you already released it. We can smooth the details as we go along.
I know it might be too late now, but in the future you can do something like what SPL does with their sales. You can offer maybe naming rewards, or being able to suggest a new monster design, titles, or rare skins for the top buyers/supporters. Maybe make it account bound. Early on it can be just a cosmetic change like a different name color, eventually it can get achievements/collection rewards, and later on can be an untradeable equipment/mount/etc.
We've had some ideas regarding that, yeah. We think some people will like it although not sure if we want to just sell those decisions directly in that way but rather have people earn them in different ways. There's definitely a lot of cool things like that we want to dive into later though!
Cool. Looking forward to it. There are definitely a lot of low hanging fruit with little coding needed you can do. I hope the alpha sale is a success.
Thanks, yeah, it's off to a great start!
Beautiful! Getting some HBD ready now should have it within the next 72 hours to pick one up. Pretty much a no brainer to pick this thing up and getting ready for the game
I know where my liquids are gonna go in the foreseeable future! 🤣
Time to jump in the Holozing bandwagon. How many of these to start the game?
One vial is enough to play the game, however you'll also need to mint a healer later on to go with it! Capture devices are not guaranteed however so you may need more than 1 vial to be able to capture wild creatures (or buy a capture device from the market once the items can be opened from the vials).
Finaly!
I have 27% discount available from the last year event but i am only able to use it on one VIAL. you forget to add the game TOKEN ZING to buy VIALS what was the point of Launching the TOKEN if you cannot provide utility for the token. I think limit that DISCOUNT to 3 so early holder have some benefit if we cannot buy with ZING
You are going to airdrop ZING to vials holder this will increased the inflation of the zing TOKEN and token price will dump another 5X who know when the game will go live in 2025
We purposefully didn't accept Zing at this time for Vials since we want the team to be funded without affecting the zing market. Users are however able to cheaply swap/trade zing for hive if they wish to use Zing to purchase Vials.
Yes, zing distribution will increase once more for collection rewards and we will adjust the distribution to collectors and delegators as we move forward.
Thanks for your thoughts!
PS. We'll discuss with the team to add SWAP.HIVE as a method of purchasing vials to prevent users from withdrawal fees from hive-engine. For instance if they'd want to trade their Zing to purchase vials with the swap.hive.
Wow! Finally, the alpha vials are here. How long does the sale last? Did not see any specific duration on the site. Anyways, Happy 1 year anniversary to Holozing. Just realized that it was already been a year since the announcement post.
It'll last for the duration of Alpha version of the game, when we enter Beta which will wipe progression and inventory of captured creatures from alpha testing, we'll move towards Beta Vials then. Timewise I'd say 3-6 months!
Oh I see. Still plenty of time to gather resources. Thanks!
Gorgeous news! Purchased one, looking forward to playing the game!
Awesome to see the progress—I just bought a few of them! Although, I’m a bit bummed that I missed out on some discounts. 😕
Yeah, the users have had to wait a long time for those discounts. :D
More soulbound achievements coming up soon so stay tuned! :)
Great, looking forward it it. :)
Lol I would have bought sooner but I had a BTC transaction unconfirmed since Sunday, longest wait ever lol... thought I was going to have to a replace by fee sometime today to rebroadcast it, but it finally came through early this morning.
I have sent hundreds of BTC transactions, first time I ever waited that long. Used the recommended fee amount and everything.. weirdness.
Anyways just bought ten vials.. Probably going to open half and keep the other half unopened.
good luck :D
Awesomeee, 20$ is not too bad.
Got a 31% discount on my first one too, which is awesome.
Bought my vial :)
Awesome! Bought my discounted Vial (thanks a lot for that!) straightaway!
Keep up the good work !LUV
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Hey hi, can we see on holozing site Ui the still available supply of alpha vials? Nice to have the 31% discount! I don't want to have to trade on engine instead and 'll gather some yield for it...
Still not much sure how many you need or can be playable at the same time and how that impacts battles/gameplay... 'll also try to search more about sb achievements. Thanks, artwork is doing awsome!!
There is no supply-limit, it's time-limited sale instead, when we are getting closer to releasing the game in its beta form the alpha vials will stop being sold by then!
To play you may need only one, it will depend if you receive a capture device in your first vial if you then can also capture creatures but you get the essential items to heal and your starter creature guaranteed.
just WOOT!!!!!
Definitely pleased about the 31% discount too 😊
What a thrill! I really had been waiting for this step for a long time!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I‘ll buy 10 :)
Waiting so long
Weeeee finally! The card design looks really cool! Will we have any gameplay sneakpeak soon? 😉 Cheers!
I'm sure when alpha testing begins testers will be happy to share!
My starter vial is ready! :)
amaZing! i just bought!
i bought vial for now.
What does it mean by valid for healer mint ? I think, we should have the discount for more packs, may be 5 or 10 at least.
The discount will apply both to your first pack and also your first healer when you generate/mint it.
Looks awesome! 🤩🙌🏻
very nice. congrats
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This is great news! Now I'm just waiting for my payday to buy one 😂😂
9% discount is still good 👍
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@acidyo btw... not sure if I claimed this already and that's why I'm getting this error or just I didn't claimed on time!
might be the same issue as someone else had, cc @rishi556
That one would have been resolved already. Claiming it is still possible. Do you have a discord account to make debugging a bit easier and real time?
Yes I have Discord
Thanks, are you in the Zing chat? If not can you join and tag me(@rishi556) in the support channel? https://discord.gg/d49sWA7Q
Joined now!
Thanka for the quick answer
Got me a little treat 🥰
We've been waiting for pack sales for a while. :) Good to see them here! Do we have an ETA on when healers will be sold?
not yet no, there's a lot of work there still and we've had to focus funding towards game dev
20$ feels a bit much for me so, i bought only one. for now...
Woohoo nice milestone! Congrats! Time to buy!
i get the message that i don't have enough hive. although i have over 800 in my wallet.
there is an error?
We're not using SWAP.HIVE currently, only layer 1 hive.
my fault. now it works :)
@acidyo we cannot use paypal, binance , credit card or other method to buy Alpha Vials ??
Not yet, we plan on accepting outside crypto when opening of vials is live!
For fiat it may be further down the line!
ohhh ok...
How long will the sale last?
until beta launch of the game!
And is there already a release date? eheh
I ask this because I wanted to see if I could buy more packs, and I don't know if there is much time for that or not.
A few months before Alpha ends he said somewhere else
ohh you know how much time?
maybe 1 month ? 2 month ? 😶
The discount is nice on the first one
These holozing monster always look serious all the time. What a great realease
They're angry at how long it's taking to release them!
Lolzzz indeed its far too long
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As always, the #Holozing game is ahead in terms of innovations to develop it further and obtain better conditions
more and better updates for the incredible #Holozing game and let's hope that these Alpha Vial are well distributed among all players and that most of them can take some of these
Finally the long awaiting developments we have been waiting for
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This project is my favorite project and the way they have given discount to their people is so much fun, we hope it will be famous all over the world soon.
With a simple logo element should be enought, make it simple and easy to see. Just saying.