Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos.
— The fortune in the cookie that came with my orange chicken.
I’m mad at you.
Not at all of you, and not at anyone specific.
But Woolly texted me today, saying he felt stressed and rushed making something cool for you guys, and said he’s (and I quote),
“hoping with this sneak peak, the community notice that we are still here with them and won’t stop crafting new assets to expand our harmony world, ( even on this shitty bear market :P:P )”
I’m always stressed, so me being stressed today is fine. But Woolly is the sweetest, most passionate artist I’ve met (Marx is sweet but he’s sour too<3), and I’m pissed that you’ve gone and worried him with all your panicking.
But, also, I get it.
I couldn’t be mad. This is a stressful time. Especially if it’s your first bear market, or first time theoretically losing so much (you haven’t actually lost until you sell), it’s going to be scary. I can’t imagine how Minty hasn’t been crushed by the weight of his/her first bear market, so I want to commend their resilience here in this update.
But you know why I preach at you in every weekly update?
Exactly for this reason.
If you believe in the mission we’re all gathered around here, you’ve got to cling to it.
People tweet at me about how “we don’t need stories, we need features”.
Bullshit.
Absolute bullshit.
In his Narrative Paradigm, Walter Fisher (PhD communication theorist, and absolute legend) contended that humans aren’t in fact homo sapiens (“creature of wisdom”), but in fact homo narrans (“creature of story”).
What he meant is that everything is narrative, and you live in your own world guided by its own foundational mythos, a la Joseph Campbell.
If you live your life completely unaware of what story you’re living, then you aren’t the one guiding that story, and you’re missing the entire point of what it is to be human.
Your life as a human is a chance to tell a story, to create a world.
When you join with a few others, get close, and begin to share a story, your world grows.
Why do I bring all this up?
Because it’s the ONLY thing that will get us through this bear market.
What story are we telling here?
We’re building a new society together. I say it every damn day because it’s the foundation and the pinnacle of this entire project. We’re demonstrating to the world that web3 can be human. It can be fun. It can be useful.
It isn’t just a tool to farm useless yield or shuffle money around in the hopes that you’re one of the few that get rich.
Now, we’re delivering on the features, too.
While some of you were busy panicking about the Polygon launch (which changes literally zero about our development focus), Woolly was sweating about his designs of the new NFT loot boxes we’re about to add to missions as a reward:
And this is just one of three crate designs.
Both explorers who complete missions, and the architects whose plots those missions were completed on will have a small chance of receiving these crates soon, which can be opened later with with 10 CLNY once the in-game marketplace is up and running.
On top of that, we were designing the new avatar stats and skills flow, which you can see here:
These are drafts subject to change, but I figured I could show you, hopefully so you’re a little more encouraged in these bummer-ass times.
And, of course, we’ve got a bunch of other things coming soon (both during and after the Polygon launch), like purchasing XP, renaming avatars, moving plot buildings, etc, all of which are small burn mechanisms. Then the DEX (which has been live in testnet for a while) and Marketplace are the next big priorities.
Even with these things coming, it won’t be enough. It will never be enough. We’ll always have more to build, and it will always take time (though hopefully we can speed that up with a successful Polygon launch).
So, it’s important to hold fast to our shared mission.
Decide what you’re here for, and if you believe in making a better world, cling fast to those ideals.
I’ve had eight colonists DM me in the last three days, encouraging me and saying they’re here and they get it. I’ve had four more DM me with the text equivalent of wide-eyed awe, saying, “Holy shit, this is massive, it all just clicked.” People are starting to get it.
I appreciate you all. I hope you know that its you keeping this Colony alive, and I hope you feel good about that.
If you’re here, reading this, then you’re a part of this movement. It’s up to you to make it what you want it to be.
So trust the process, and take part in it. When it gets hard, when you meet resistance, that’s how you know what you’re up to is worth something.
When people come at you, asking you to resign, you know you’ve struck a nerve.
I know I have lots of progress to make. And I’m grateful to those of you keeping me accountable with constructive criticism, and to those of you offering encouragement. That’s exactly what we should be for each other here.
If you’re worried, say it. Don’t freak out, but explore it. If someone else is worried, don’t do what I did today and let it stress you out, so you lash out.
We’re all walking [forward] in this project together.
If that sounds like fluffy bullshit, think about it for a while.
It’s like my weirdly-prescient fortune cookie said, before the beginning of brilliance, there must be chaos.
This universe is a continuous cycle of order, disorder, and reorder, on every level, from the Big Bang to the latest bear market.
Don’t fight it.
When you try to fight it, you’re trying to fight the universe.
Good luck.
Instead, let it be what it is. It’s a shitty time, the best time to start gathering those pieces to prepare for the great Reordering.
This Colony framework is cyclical, too.
Are you getting off here,
or are you joining us for the next round?
TL;DR
(Sorry Bobbie, maybe I’ll put this part at the top like you asked next time.)
Development/Design
— We’re building and designing NFT loot crates as the next stage of mission rewards, and both avis and landowners will have a chance to receive them with each mission (though be warned, they’re rare).
— We’ve also started planning how resources and crafting will work, which will allow us to spec out development requirements soon.
— We’re nearly finished with the UI flow for avatar skills and stats, which will then be ready for backend development.
— We’re launching the Polygon allowlist Martian-only plot mint in like a day and a half (May 12 at 10am ET, at a starting price of 210 MATIC). Details here.
— We’re building multiple small burn mechanisms, like buying XP, renaming avatars, and reorganizing plots. Bigger burns are also in development, but TBA.
— We launched missions in beta and squashed a bunch of bugs that got inside somehow.
— We’re finishing up the new and improved UI for liquidity mining in the DEX.
— We’re researching and planning what it will take to build the in-game marketplace, which is the gateway for multiple planned features.
— We are continuing all development throughout the Polygon process as normal.
Community
— We had an AMA, and are having another one in the morning at 11am ET, and one at 9am ET on the 12th! It’s AMAs out the wazoo.
— You fought your own fear, and helped assuage that of others and combat disingenuous trouble-making (though it’s hard to know what was genuine because we were all just stressed and so a bit more touchy than usual). I commend you.
— UST depegged, y’all see that shit? Rip in piece Do Kwon, you were a real one.
— Pixi is setting Fridays as a weekly or bi-weekly hangout, where we’ll all stream a movie or documentary together and chill/chat! The first one is proposed for 7pm UTC Friday, but we can have rotating times for people to make alternating ones.
— We gave away 3 cadets on Twitter.
— I made this Colony at a glance post linking to the main informational resources for MC and finished with a description of the core team, funding, and partnerships, which you can link newcomers to.
— Marx showed you the evolution of the SeX with a rad soundtrack that’s probably a violation of copyright law.
And probably more, but it’s 3am ET and I’m ready to sleep, and you were all here for it anyway. I’ll see you all for the next one <3
Forward 
— brother
Oh, and, don’t forget to vote:
(I even made it anonymous so I can’t get mad at you if you say yes)
- Yes
- lol wtf no
0 voters
The bear market is very much acceptable compared to it.
