State of spillover for harvester release

Author: Mark#4094, HARDKOR#6268 Gotchi ID: 19172, 21107

Hello frens,

The DAO recently voted to disable spillover with a 71% majority due to the game being heavily botted. Bots were taking up considerable developer bandwidth which was delaying the upcoming game features and causing a lot of sell pressure on alchemica prices. Dan recently proposed the Cartridge invite system which, while not a direct solution to botting, does introduce some incentives in attempt to reduce the amount of botters and extractors collecting spillover. Currently we don't know how effective the cartridge proposal would be but the DAO is in agreement that if we were to enable spillover again then then we would need to implement the cartridge proposal in an attempt to reduce the botting issue. If we do decide to implement cartridges then Coderdan would lead the project with a team of solidity and realm developers.

The choice we have to make with the harvester release coming up mid July is either:

a) Keep spillover turned off

OR

b) Turn spillover back on and implement the cartridge system

The participents of the DAO meeting were fairly split on which choice to make so here's the TLDR to both sides of the argument.

In favor of keeping spillover turned off:

• No incentive to bot means no bots
• No implementation or smart contracts risks from new cartridge system
• No unintended side effects of a new system (cartridges)
• No risks to further delays for harvesters
• Less sell pressure on alchemica from botters/extractors
• Dev time spent on cartridges can be used for PVP/Traits/SDK instead
• Doesn't require a community team focused on manually banning bots
• Allows more time to develop ideas for cartridges/invites and anti botting measures

In favor of turning spillover back on and implementing the cartridge system:

• Spillage and management of P2E players is a core game mechanic
• Activity in game and in Discord has been greatly reduced, since we stopped spillage
• Allows us to test an anti botting solution early
• Caartridges incentivise owning multiple Gotchis
• Spillover is an integral part of rewarding player engagement
• Rental markets are largely funded by spillover