Looking forward to playing Moon Karts, a racing game!
Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing very well.
My first impression of this 3D racing game, Moon Karts, is that it really looks great and has potential if things are done right. I will make a little comparison to Splinterlands, where you build your team based on the units you have available as best you can and then the battle is automatic, it's fun and I really like Splinterlands, but you can't control your units and there's no surprise factor in the middle of the game, like a meteor damaging your units or something like that.
In Moon Karts, from what I've seen, you need to control a car in real time, which makes it very exciting to be able to win against other players, where you also have powers like missiles that chase your opponent and lightning bolts that hits the target car, I think it's pretty cool.
And there are many things that can be added to the game to make it more exciting, like fog for the target driver for a short time, and also why not use abilities from the Splinterlands universe, maybe powers like Poison and Silence for the driver, can be great.
This game made me remember that I used to play Need for Speed in my childhood, I don't remember which version but I really liked it, I also played Blur, this was great since I could play it with a friend on the same PC.
So, I wanted to try Moon Karts, but unfortunately I couldn't play it yet because when I bought some SCRIPT on Hive Engine to buy some NFTs, and then wanted to transfer them to the game, my Total Balance still showed that I had 0 SCRIPT. So, I explained my issue to the support to see what the problem could be, and the good thing was that they responded quickly. The problem is that due to Hive Engine nodes being down, there is a delay in processing bridge transactions, so I need to wait between 24-48 hours for the SCRIPT to appear in my wallet.
In the meantime, I took a look at some of the game and marketplace features. As in Splinterlands, cards have four rarities: commons, rares, epics and legendary. They can also be leveled up, and there are regular and gold cards.
You can buy CENTAURI packs directly from the store. Each pack contains 5 random cards, guaranteed to have at least one of Rare rarity or higher. You can buy them with 5000 Credits ($5) or 5 SCRIPT tokens, I recommend buying them with SCRIPT, as it is much cheaper right now. Currently 5 SCRIPT, costs around 7.5 HIVE = $3.75.
You can also buy Legendary Flux and Gold Flux to increase your chances of getting Legendary and Gold cards from packs. Each Legendary Flux costs 80 credits or 0.08 SCRIPT, and the Gold Flux costs 100 credits or 0.1 SCRIPT.
You can also buy NFTs on the Marketplace. To play you need at least 1 Driver and 1 Kart. Currently the cheapest Driver is Luna, costing just $0.12, and the cheapest kart is the Astrokart, which costs $0.14. These are common cards, the most basic ones, ideal for learning to play.
As for rare cards, the cheapest Driver is Surge, Price: $0.45. And currently the only rare Kart available is the LunocityX, Price $1.49.
In epic cards, the cheapest Driver is Spark, Price: $2.40. And there are only 9 Quasar Sport available, Price: $3.98.
And finally, in the legendary cards, Luna, Price: $14.00. And there are only two Karts available, Nebula Guard and Arachno Eclipse, the price is too much, I don't know if it's worth it, maybe not since there is only one copy of each.
One more thing is that to play you need Energy, in Moon Karts it is known as Fuel. In order to get Fuel, you need to stake your cards, if they are of high rarity it is much better since they increase the generation rate.
To earn rewards, you must be at least in the top 50% of participants. Each race has between 4 and 6 players. You can collect COLONY tokens and Orbitals with your Kart on the race. I don't understand much about this yet, but I know I will.
When I get my SCRIPT tokens, I will first buy the cheaper Driver and Kart, to learn how to drive and the basics. After that, I will probably buy higher rarity cards, to have a better chance of winning.
This is not financial advice.
That's all for now. See you, take care!
Sources:
https://moonkarts.gitbook.io/moonkarts-tm
https://moonkarts.arcadecolony.com/play
https://arcadecolony.com/market
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