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https://www.upland.me/events
Detroit Collection Reveal
https://www.upland.me/events/detroit-collection-reveal
P2P UPX Transfers Tuesday, February 8th
https://www.upland.me/events/p2p-upx-transfers-update
We are excited to announce to the Upland community that our next city hub to launch in the metaverse will be none other than Los Angeles, California!
https://www.upland.me/events/welcome-to-the-city-of-angels
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City Expansion: The Bronx >>>>>
https://www.upland.me/events/city-expansion-the-bronx
https://www.upland.me/events/city-expansion-the-bronx
New Orleans Has Arrived!
https://www.upland.me/events/new-orleans-has-arrived
Coming soon after Kansas City and Rutherford, we will be also adding New Orleans, Louisiana, and Nashville, Tennessee! As we introduce Football Players into Upland, each team will need a hub for players to mint their essentials and mementos. To ensure economic stability and carefully monitor supply and demand, we are only adding 3 new cities for a total of 7 football cities. Each city will be serving one division until all 30 football cities are released (New York will host 2 divisions simultaneously). Make sure to tune in for full information over the next few weeks!
ntous occasion, we will be releasing both Kansas City, Missouri, and Rutherford, New Jersey, simultaneously!
Kansas City Release Details
This Friday, September 10th, at 8:00 AM PT, we will begin the release of Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas City will serve as a mid-tier city, which means that roughly ~50% of properties will be priced under the “Fair Start Act” (FSA). As with Santa Clara, Kansas City will be released in standard mode, and collections will be revealed at release.
Kansas City Fun Facts
Kansas City has more barbeque restaurants per capita than any other US city!
Kansas City was home to Walt Disney’s first animation studio, Laugh-O-Gram Studios. It was here that he got the inspiration for Mickey Mouse, drawing from a real-life mouse in the building.
During prohibition in the 1920s, Kansas City largely ignored the amendment, which led to a surge of boozy jazz clubs, brothels and gambling joints.
Getting to Kansas City
Players can travel to Kansas City via the airports in New York and Chicago, or they can hop on the train from Chicago. Flying via plane is a shorter ride but will cost a premium, players who wish to save will be better off traveling via the train. These new routes will have boosted capacity for a few days prior to and during the release.
Rutherford Release Details
Also this Friday, September 10th, at 8:00 AM PT, we will begin the release of Rutherford, New Jersey.
As Upland continues to grow, there will inevitably be new types of cities that do not fit our current definition of starter, mid-tier, and high-tier cities. As such, Rutherford will be among the first small cities that find their way into the metaverse, due to the low volume of available properties.
Roughly ~30% of properties in Rutherford will be priced under the “Fair Start Act.” Like Kansas City, Rutherford will be a standard release, which means that collections will be revealed at launch.
Getting to Rutherford
Players can travel to Rutherford via the Metro station in Manhattan. Just head to the train terminal in Manhattan and select “Rutherford” as the destination.
Terminal Store Sale
As with all city releases, travel terminals for both Kansas City and Rutherford will be available in the Upland store on Thursday prior to launch. This means that registration will open up Wednesday morning and will close Thursday morning prior to the sale.
Terminal Sale Registration Details:
Registration Start: Wednesday, September 8th, at 8:00 AM PT
Registration Close: Thursday, September 9th, at 8:00 AM PT
Batch 1 Sale Start: Thursday, September 9th, at 9:00 AM PT
Batch 2 Sale Start: Thursday, September 9th, at 7:00 PM PT
KC/Rutherford Release Schedule
We will begin the release of Kansas City and Rutherford by opening up 2 neighborhoods as a stress test to ensure optimal performance. Pending a successful test, we will proceed with opening the remainder of all properties in Kansas City.
Thursday, September 9th
Train/Airport routes open to Kansas City & Rutherford following the terminal sale.
Friday, September 10th, starting at 8:00 AM PT
Stage 1: The “Gladstone” Neighborhood will be released in Kansas City. This is to ensure the stability of the platform before proceeding.
Stage 2: Rutherford will be released in its entirety.
Stage 3: The “Blue Hills” and “Meadowbrook Heights” Neighborhoods will be released in Kansas City.
Stage 4: Assuming stability and optimal performance, all remaining properties will be released in Kansas City.
We will give regular updates and reminders throughout this release in the #upland-updates channel in Discord.
Note: Planned releases are subject to change depending on the status of our systems. If there are any concerning issues, the release may be postponed or paused.
Cities to Look Forward to
Coming soon after Kansas City and Rutherford, we will be also adding New Orleans, Louisiana, and Nashville, Tennessee! As we introduce Football Players into Upland, each team will need a hub for players to mint their essentials and mementos. To ensure economic stability and carefully monitor supply and demand, we are only adding 3 new cities for a total of 7 football cities. Each city will be serving one division until all 30 football cities are released (New York will host 2 divisions simultaneously). Make sure to tune in for full information over the next few weeks!
Upland is still in beta and adding new features all the time
here is the upland home page https://www.upland.me/
it will help
Hello,
I want to get in touch with another player why is there no messaging app besides making offers. I want to purchase a property being sold for 200 usd but Since its being sold with USD I cant make an offer I screenshotted to players profile and wanted to shoot him a question about a possible purchase and trade. Is there a way to message other player in the game with ought sending offers?
Q2 Roadmap Update
https://medium.com/upland/q2-roadmap-update-6a709832b710
There Will be a CNN Money Interview on May,23 I don't have the time yet Listen to the YouTube video around 19:57
The sec. round to purchase more property in OAKLAND will happen very soon $$$$$$
Making Money In The Metaverse
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cathyhackl/2021/03/15/making-money-in-the-metaverse/?sh=5288b9833b43
NFTs are starting to get very HOT $$$$$$
round 2 of the beta-program USD OUT has just started $$$$$$
Also round 2 of the beta-program USD OUT has started $$$$$$
A new beta-program for upland
https://medium.com/upland/businesses-beta-program-51483866858f
Owning Digital real-estate A new way to invest >>>>>$$$$$$>>>>>
https://medium.com/upland/trading-properties-for-fiat-currency-6ef64dcdd543
Hi! Check out Upland, a virtual property trading game. If you use this link, Upland will award you with a bonus for your first purchase https://r.upland.me/46xz
This is in beta as of now when you buy property with real USD you should understand that you can not sell your property for real USD and leave the game with your investment you will own the property forever for now... make sure you do your own Due diligence
N.Y.C. is now open to purchase property
Jun 7 and it's arrived WOW $$$$$ · A Roadmap for Property Development and Upland-Run Businesses
Also keep in mind we still have Buying and Selling Digital Real-estate for FIAt hit the stick for more info:
https://medium.com/upland/a-roadmap-for-property-development-and-upland-run-businesses-1902789a3a12
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Introduction
Welcome to Genesis Week! The next few days are all about celebrating our beginnings. What better way to do that than unveiling the beginnings of land development and business operations in Upland? What follows below is a roadmap for making this a reality, as we build an incredible open market economy together. A merging of the real and digital worlds where participants can create and extract real value. A metaverse like no other.
Let’s dive in.
Developing Your Property
Building Characteristics
Visual Instance
All buildings (and other add-ons) in Upland will be implemented in 3D. The 3D structures in Upland will become visible on the map starting at a certain zoom level. Structures that serve special purposes (see below: e.g. businesses, etc.) will be represented by pins on the map when zoomed out.
Class
When developing a property, you will initially have several classes of buildings to choose from, depending on the region of the city.
Size
Each building class will have several possible sizes, determining the parcels it can potentially fit with as well as the functionality that it can serve. The size of the building will also determine its cost of construction and the time required to complete it.
Positioning With the Property Editor
A structure can only be built within the confines of a single property (future functionality may allow merging properties, however, this will not be available immediately). The position of the building within the property will be determined by the owner, provided that the 3D structure fits in the property with the required margins, through an editing interface that will be integrated into Upland. Once a tethered structure has been positioned and built, it can not be moved (though it can be demolished).
To hasten feature delivery, buildings may at first be tethered to the center of the property and allowed to be edited once by the owner when the Properties Editor is rolled out.
Required Resources
Building a structure on a property will require both UPX and time. While costs of construction will remain constant within parts of the same city, they may vary between different countries, counties, and cities.
Property Decor
Additions to your property may include supplemental items such as gardens, courts, trees, or sculptures.
Buildings and the Property NFT
Buildings in Upland are tethered to the property on which they are built. This means that buildings can not be traded on their own, and trading of properties will include any buildings that have been built on it. The buildings and their association with the properties will still be fully notarized on the blockchain, and the owner will have the option to demolish them (and burn from the blockchain) if they choose to do so.
Developing Neighborhoods
Each neighborhood in the city will have a development rating: a score given to a neighborhood that is based on a combination of the number of developed properties and their quality (elements that affect the quality of development include size, residents associated, supplemental items, number of businesses, and so on). Once a neighborhood has reached a certain development rating, it will automatically spawn a collection for that neighborhood (if one does not yet exist) and further advancement in the development rating will lead to an increase in the collection boost. For newly spawned neighborhood collections, elements such as level, one-time reward, and earnings boost will be automatically determined by a combination of market value and total availability of properties in the neighborhood.
Residential Designation
Once construction of a building is complete it can be used by default for residential purposes. Players can either use it for their own residence, or lease out to other Uplanders.
Primary Home Address
Each Uplander will be able to designate a single residential address as their primary home address at any given point. Designating a home address will carry numerous benefits such as supporting neighborhood development rating, participating in upcoming votable resolutions in the city, and more. While the primary home address will be unique per Uplander, more than one residential structure may be utilized by a single Uplander for future functional purposes.
Business Designation
A fully constructed residential building can be designated for business use when a business license is applied to it (a business license can be either owned or leased). The type of business license, together with the available facade modifications, will determine the final appearance of the building.
City Hall and Business Licences
City hall will be the first constructed building in Upland (owned by the community) and will be designated as a marketplace for the city’s business licenses.
Each type of Business License will be implemented as an SFT (Semi Fungible Token) with limited occurrences per locale (city or county), which Pro-Level Uplanders (i.e. Uplanders that have achieved a net worth of 100,000 UPX or higher) can own for their personal use or lease out to other Uplanders.
Business Types
While the potential for businesses in Upland is unlimited, especially when envisioning the introduction of third party development, Upland will start out with a limited number of business types that can be operated, with the initial focus on an even narrower set (comprising Block Explorer Shops, Cafés, Realty Agencies and Arcades).
Each new business type that will be launched will start with the minimal functionality that will justify its operations and will continue being developed as traction and usage by Uplanders grows.
In the case of all business types — the size of the building to which the business license has been applied will determine different restrictions of business operations.
Block Explorer Shop
Set up a Block Explorer gallery (each Block Explorer issued as an SFT on the blockchain) that players can purchase for UPX, or resell for an UPX fee. Explorers can be either purchased directly from Upland by the business owner or uploaded after having been approved by the Upland team.
Café
Cafés are going to offer means for players to connect inside Upland in small and manageable groups with a live chat room in the center of the experience. Owners of the cafe will be able to moderate and appoint other moderators, manage rules for allowing participation and offer virtual gift-items to be purchased and exchanged among patrons.
Realty Agency
Realty agencies will offer Uplanders advertising services such as advanced listings for property sales and residential properties for rent. Realty agencies will also offer advanced trading options such as creating property bundles for sale in a single transaction and selling complete collections.
Arcade
Arcades will offer players the opportunity to play casual games for a score, and compete in tournaments for UPX. At the first phase, the pinata practice game (including some further game mechanic improvements) will be available only in arcades, as a larger variety of arcade game types are introduced.
Nursery
Nursery owners will be able to grow and sell plants, trees, and gardens to other players in Upland. Plants and trees in Upland will have an evolution cycle that spans time. Once planted outside of a nursery, these items will not be able to be moved to a different location.
Upland Merchandise Store
Owners of Upland merchandise stores will be able to maintain an inventory and sell Upland merchandise to other players. Legit Upland merchandise will not be available for purchase anywhere else but inside of Upland, and the physical merchandise will be delivered in the real world. Some of the merchandise will be made available in limited runs and tokenized, offering the customer the option to stow the physical merchandise in Upland escrow while still being able to trade the token of ownership.
Bank
Bank owners in Upland will be able to give out interest-carrying mortgages to other players based on property escrow services provided by Upland. Other types of financial services will follow suit.
Pinata Treasure Store
Using Pinata Treasure Stores, Uplanders will be able to buy a pinata, load it with UPX and hide it in any Upland property, waiting for discovery (live-event style). This will enable Uplanders to run their self-sponsored treasure hunt event. (Restrictions may apply to conform with Upland ToS)
Car Dealership
While traveling via plane or train between cities is available in Upland, some Uplanders may choose to do so in style, via their own vehicles. Cars will be implemented as NFTs in Upland and available for purchase in car dealerships. Cars will also require operational fees for travel and have a finite amount of distance that they can travel.
Once real-world car brands are integrated into Upland, the Car Dealership will also be able to offer limited-run branded cars and perhaps even tokenized old-timers with their replicas in-game.
NFT Gallery
One of Upland’s special super-powers is the way it makes blockchain and NFT technology effortlessly accessible to mass markets. That means that NFT owners can potentially use Upland to gain access to a customer audience that’s beyond their reach elsewhere. While there are numerous reasons for why Upland is built on the EOS blockchain, a big part of the NFT market is found on other blockchains such as Ethereum. This is why Upland will offer an innovative service that would allow Uplanders to bring NFTs from other blockchains into Upland via an escrow service, and offer them for sale to other Uplanders. At any point in time, the owner of that NFT in Upland will be able to pull the NFT back to the blockchain of origin. (This service will be introduced after compliance with US regulation has been cleared).
Summary
We have already done significant work conceiving, designing, and executing on the building blocks of Property Development and Upland-Based Businesses and this roadmap marks our official launch of these efforts. Uplanders can expect to see some initial results implemented already in 2020.
Like all features in Upland, this roadmap will be delivered in small bursts. And similar to other features that tie to the core of the Upland economy — initial releases will be measured, carefully monitored, and tweaked as required.
While the initial focus of land development is largely scripted, with rich functionality in mind, later stages will include features that enable creativity and self-expression, and when combined with the prospect of opening to 3rd party developers, the sky’s the limit.
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Join Upland for free and just look around and decide if you what to start investing in Iconic real-estate of San Francisco..also New York will be opening soon ..
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Buying and Selling Digital Real-estate for FIAt This will be HUUUUGE
https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/21/uplandme-
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Updates: Martini and more
This is just one of the up-dates.... click the link below and see all the up-dates coming
Fiat Out
You have heard in our AMA session some exciting news about our coming partnership that would enable Uplanders to trade their digital assets for fiat. The partner agreement is signed and will be officially announced in the next few days. Our dev team will start working on the necessary integrations and marketplace options as they appear in Upland.
https://medium.com/upland/updates-martini-and-more-70222e0f405d
First call for boarding! Announcing: San Francisco Airport (SFO) ??
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Can you believe how fast Upland is moving? We were in closed beta just a few months ago. Now we’ve got block explorers and community dApps, with treasure hunts and other features right around the corner.
Now we can add to that list that we are pre-launching San Francisco Airport (SFO) — TODAY! And we’re doing so through a fun contest! ??
Much news, such wow ??.
Preparing to expand
Those of you playing already know this, but for those just joining us: Upland is not intended to take place only in San Francisco. We’ll be expanding to new cities before you know it and we won’t stop until Miles the Llama can reach any part of the world.
When we do expand to other cities, following the existing game dynamic, you’ll need to send your block explorer there to discover what that city has to offer. Sending via properties will still do the job… very slowly. If you want to really beat the competition and speed things up, your block explorer will have to take one of several means of transportation. Airports/flights will be the first of such means to be available.
How it will work
Airports are divided into terminals, and within those terminals, parcels. We’re planning a whole game dynamic down the road involving flights and transportation for block explorers, but that comes later. What’s important for you to know now is that before a player can use those, they’ll need to actually get to the airport. This will be made possible by sending your explorer to a terminal parcel just like you would any other property.
Here’s the catch: there are a limited number of parcels per airport terminal, and for each, the number of times that an explorer can be sent to it per day varies (depending on the parcel’s size). This means that in the future if someone wants to send their explorer on a flight leaving one of the terminals, the explorer will need to first be sent to one of those terminal parcels. And those terminals’ parcels will be owned by a lucky few.
Bird’s-eye view of Upland’s San Francisco Airport (SFO), in-game. Terminal 3 is the northern group.
Will you be among them? ??
Contest: FlySFO drawing!
SFO is just outside the bounds of San Francisco… a place your explorer cannot yet reach (you didn’t think it would be that easy, did you?). To get there, we’re launching this special drawing — and it starts NOW! Here’s how you can get your hands on SFO terminal parcels.
Every day over the next week, a few unminted properties will be tagged with a special plane icon and the text “FlySFO”, representing this contest.
Eligible properties for contest are tagged ‘FlySFO’ and have this icon ??
All you have to do is find one of those properties, then enter its address along with your Upland username on this form:
https://discover.upland.me/flysfo
A total of 35 properties in San Francisco will be tagged ?? for this contest leading up to February 20th, with final entries being accepted until 12:00 PM EST. We’ll be waiting for your final entries at NFT.nyc — the leading annual conference for NFTs and digital/crypto collectibles — where we’ll hold a live stream with Joel and Travis of Bad Crypto Podcast and together select one lucky winner who will receive the first SFO Terminal Parcel. Not only is this an exceedingly unique and valuable asset in Upland that you will receive for FREE ?? ?? ??— everyone who wants an SFO terminal parcel after you will have to first send their explorers to yours (cha-ching! ??).
The prize parcel will be one of 4 located at Terminal 3:
9/9 Domestic Terminal 3 (1–10 properties discovered)
8/9 Domestic Terminal 3 (11–25 properties discovered)
7/9 Domestic Terminal 3 (26–34 properties discovered)
6/9 Domestic Terminal 3 (35 properties discovered)
There are 35 total addresses tagged FlySFO. The more addresses that are submitted, the bigger the parcel that will be given away. If we find all 35 addresses among the total entries, we’ll give away the biggest parcel — 185 UP2 in size!
Get in on the action today! For full Terms and Conditions, please read below or see the complete entry form.
Good luck, llama herders.
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Join the action, chat with players and ask questions in the Upland Community Telegram Group, or find us on: ?? Twitter | Reddit | Facebook | Discord — — “FlySFO Contest”: Terms and Conditions — -
(1) No purchase is necessary to participate in the FlySFO contest.
(2) The contest is open only to players with Uplander status.
(3) Full details of the contest and the prize are available in this Medium article.
(4) Your entry is only eligible if it includes your Upland username and at least one Upland property address tagged FlySFO.
(5) Players must be 18 years or older to participate.
(6) Only one [1] entry per player/username. Multiple submissions from the same account will still be considered one entry, however the addresses from multiple submissions may be considered for the community goal of finding all 35 addresses.
(7) Multiple accounts per player (different usernames) are forbidden as per Upland Terms of Service.
(8) Uplandme, Inc. contractors, employees, investors and their family members are not eligible to participate.
(9) Entries must be submitted by the final date and time: 20 February 2020, 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Odds are defined by the numbers of participating players.
(10) The winner will be notified via email by the Upland team. If the prize is not claimed within one week, additional draws will be held in place until the prize has been distributed.
(11) By participating in this contest you grant consent that your username can be used for marketing purposes and media channels of Uplandme, Inc.
(12) Questions regarding this contest or the game may be directed to support@upland.me
By proceeding, you acknowledge that you have read the terms above and have complied with these rules as detailed. https://t.co/RZYVW59td1?amp=1
Upland releases their 2020 “Roadmap For Mass Adoption” and it’s ??????
https://www.eoswriter.io/166418_upland-releases-their-2020-roadmap-for-mass-adoption-and-its-%F0%9F%94%A5%F0%9F%94%A5%F0%9F%94%A5.eos
Feature Focus: Upland’s Roaming Explorers, Free-to-Play Model & More
https://medium.com/upland/feature-focus-uplands-roaming-explorers-free-to-play-model-more-b4a7e392c03
BestDapp Review: *Upland* Beta (EOS-based Blockchain Game)
By cryptokib | Blockchain Dominion | 11/30/19 $0.01 tipped
Upland is a blockchain-based property game that has been compared to digital monopoly. I have selected it as my entry for the publish0x Best Dapp Contest and before going into the finer details of the game itself, here are the reasons that it made my pick:
Promotes blockchain: a quick glance at the whitepaper will show you that the company behind the game, Uplandme Inc., is all about promoting blockchain for public adoption. One of the ways they do this is by keeping the use of blockchain behind the scenes, as it should be. The fact that the game runs on a blockchain shouldn't matter at the moment to the common user in the same way that it shouldn't matter what type of servers Amazon uses when they place an order there. Blockchain just happened to be the best technology and methodology for a game like this, and while the benefits are explained in detail for those who are interested, it's not in the spotlight - a smart decision. Get people to use blockchain, bring it to their attention later.
Therefore, as you'll soon see in the current beta, there is no mention of opening a wallet or managing one. It is all done automatically behind the scenes - and purchase of the in-game token, UPX, is made through FIAT with your credit card, directly in the game interface.
Promotes EOSIO: EOSIO is a blockchain that for some reason not many people support or utilize. This is despite the ability to stake EOS, the blockchain's native coin, in exchange for resources on the chain and therefore avoiding the need for paying transaction fees. It's also a very durable and scalable chain, which means you can use it to grow fast. That's how the game keeps the transactions free and relatively speaking - quick. Two fewer things to explain to a lay player, which further enables adoption.
Promotes digital assets as valuables: more people playing the game and collecting means more mass-adoption of digital assets as legitimate collectibles with legitimate value, meaning that they aren't less worthy of enjoying just because you can't physically touch them. Similar to a website, game skins and other digital IP.
Promotes curiosity and potentially personal financial management: the point of the game, explained below, is to buy properties. Certain properties complete collections, for example in a particular neighborhood, so you find yourself researching the neighborhood and its borders outside of the game. Future features of the game, not currently available, will include a "block explorer" (an avatar that walks around the map) and market fluctations and forces derived from the real world. All of these and more encourage an individual to learn about his or her surroundings and I think that has massive potential for greatness. At the same time, depending on how you choose to play the game, it can teach you something about financial management and negotiations, in your personal life and in business. It's true that most will choose to view the game as an asset portfolio and will therefore buy-buy-buy, but I will go into a different way to play below.
Intro
First things first, it's important to mention that the game is currently in beta and is therefore in its simplest form. The only features available are: the ability to buy the in-game coin (UPX) with your credit card, the ability to buy/sell/trade properties and the ability to complete collections with those properties. That's it. Most of the players are early adopters or digital asset investors looking to hodl in hopes of big returns in the future. That hasn't stopped the game from developing a very active Telegram channel and community.
San Francisco is currently the only available city and that's where the game is presently focused. The properties are based on real world bounderies. In the game, real-world 3 meter X 3 meter blocks are represented as one game pixel, called a UP Square (UP^2). When you click on properties to view them, it will tell you how many UP^2 the property covers as well as the base monthly UPX it will produce. The relative amount of UPX on your properties can be collected every 3 hours (derivative of the monthly amount). There are a variety of "Collections" in the game, which are kind of like albums/portfolios to which you add specific properties you own, and which give you certain rewards. For example, a collection called "Sunset" requires owning three properties in the Sunset Neighborhood of San Francisco.
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Above: Collections Menu
These borders exist in the game and adhere to real-world borders, but they are not displayed for you. If you want to know where Sunset begins and ends you have to research that for yourself, which goes back to part of the reasons I chose this game above. Completing the collection will earn you a one-time reward of 900 UPX and will boost the monthly earning rate of the properties you added to that collection by 1.3X. All transactions and properties, which are themselves non-fungible tokens (NFTs), are performed on the EOS blockchain, and clicking on a property you own will allow you to view its property deed, a neat little graphic that also offers you a link to view your asset on bloks.io.
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The UPX token is the in-game coin and here is where this dapp differs, for example, from CryptoKitties (CK) and many others. With CK, all of your purchases and transaction fees are paid in ETH, which is essentially digital cash. The reason ETH is considered digital cash is because it is liquid - you can use it to buy other things, including other currencies (such as FIAT on an exchange if you want to "cash out" into the real world). However UPX, at least for now, is strictly a utility token, meaning its only use is in the game itself. You can view the difference between CryptoKitties and Upland as the difference between going to two different old-school arcades: the first one allows you to use your actual quarters for the machines/games while the second's machines/games only operate on that specific arcade's tokens.
Gameplay
I made a small initial investment in the game because I personally enjoy collecting digital assets and collectibles of all sorts, plus I want to see where this game goes. You can therefore categorize me as the "Play-to-Own" type of player. My initial investment was $100 USD, which at the rate of $1USD / 1000UPX (at present time unchangeable), garnered me with 100,000 UPX. Instead of dumping money endlessly, or buying and forgetting, I decided to see how far I can stretch my investment and how it might be possible to turn money into more money (which goes back to what I initially said about financial management).
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Therefore my first step was to view and study all of the collections. After that, I browsed the map a bit. For me personally it helped that I have been to San Francisco in the past, but that of course only helps you with areas you are familiar with. These are the first four collections of the game:
Newbie: own any 1 property in Upland
San Franciscan: own 3 properties in San Francisco
Sunset: own 3 properties in the Sunset Neighborhood of San Francisco
King of the Street: own 3 properites on the same street
You can't have a property in more than one collection at a time, but you CAN switch them between collections to collect the one-time rewards. So essentially, when you start the game, if you can find 3 properties on the same street in the same neighborhood, you can collect on all four initial collections right at the start. When I started, I couldn't find 3 properties that answered all those criteria in one neighborhood (not in my price range at least), but I did find 3 on the same street. And I could tell it could be attractive for the future dynamics of the game, because they were all adjacent to one another. Cost? Just under 100,000 UPX.
I bought the 3 and using the difference plus the rewards from the three collections I completed added a 4th tiny property. Immediately put them up for sale on the internal market. Listing for sale doesn't cost anything and I laughed that maybe with all the FOMO someone will buy these 3 properties under the same auspices that I did. I listed them each at a humble markup, because I didn't really believe that someone would buy them for outrageous prices yet, especially with other properties still available for first-time purchase in the beta... but lo and behold, after a few days, someone bought all three.
Using the profits, I decided to aim for the Mission District collection. I bought one very nicely sized property there with a huge monthly return compared to other properties in the game for the price I paid. Then I bought another medium sized property. After connecting with a few players in the community, I negotiated trading my final property for another player's property in the game, and insodoing completed the Mission District collection, got the reward and also a nice 1.4X boost for those three properties. After about a week, I had enough UPX to purchase a 4th unrelated property which I returned to the Newbie collection and is alone receiving a 1.1X boost.
Final results after 35 days of "play":
Initial Investment: $100 USD = 100,000 UPX
# of Properties: 4
Total Portfolio Value: 113,313 UPX
Monthly Earnings (w/o rewards): 2,229 UPX/month
Total ROI after 35 days: 13.3%
Pretty good considering the ANNUAL rate of return on a property is 17.3%. That means my gameplay made my portfolio a little less in a month than it would have otherwise made in an entire year!
Future of the Game
The whitepaper is chock-full-of details RE features that are yet to come. I feel that it is pointless to speculate over them until they are here, but I look forward to their arrival. In the meantime, one thing that is important to consider is why people do anything: Why do they play games? Why do they invest in properites, digital or real? The answer is that it brings them some sort of value.
For games, sometimes the enjoyment itself is the value. I enjoyed the gameplay strategy I utilized above, but I doubt many people in the crypto world are like me. Instead, they will look at it as a means of real value, meaning that eventually they must be able to liquidate their assets (convert it to digital or FIAT cash). It will be interesting to see how the gamemakers will answer this need. Will Upland properties be available on third party markets like OpenSea? Will it be possibly to sell UPX back to the game pool for FIAT? Anything can happen.
For the time being, after just over 12 months of development, I think the game is looking sharp, doing well, and has potential for massive adoption by both crypto investors and lay players alike. That's why it's my BestDApp selection.
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At Upland, we see a future where blockchain technology creates real-world economies for games and opens up a completely new way for ownership of assets to be treated and assigned. It will provide a new kind of value proposition which better aligns players and game operator incentives.
So what is today’s problem with traditional games?
Traditional games usually provide simulated economies controlled by game operators. In the vast majority of cases, these simulated economies do not offer a marketplace to trade or liquidate their assets.
The business models of traditional games which are “Free-to-Play” or “Pay-to-Play” fall short by not offering true ownership of digital assets to players. Creating a real-world economy in games that would include true ownership is seen as disadvantageous by game operators because they are competing against their customers/players when the latter are allowed to resell their assets.
“If you can’t sell, you don’t own it”
When players buy an asset in the traditional Free-to-Play model, they are only getting entertainment value out of it and consider their investment as a sunk cost. This is because traditional games are based on centralized database entries. These can be changed at any time by a game operator with the consequence that assets can be taken away from a player. In the worst-case scenario, if a gaming provider went out of business, players would lose all of their assets before getting the complete entertainment value out of it.
To sum it up: Players of traditional games are not in control — the game operators are. This leads to frustration by players who spend a lot of time in a game and think of their creations, enhancements, and assets as their own. Additionally, traditional games don’t allow people to prove and verify the provenance of specific virtual items, which can lead to fraud, reducing further incentives for players to spend and create in a game.
So the question is, whether there is a better approach to cope with the problem stated above. We think yes. Upland’s solution comes with the use of blockchain technology that allows the introduction of a new business model category called:
Play to Own
We believe there’s a new revolution coming that will have a strong impact on society, as blockchain technology brings to fruition the transfer of value in a decentralized, peer-to-peer manner. Said differently, after the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, the information revolution, the approaching “Ownership Revolution” — powered by blockchain technology — is the core foundational block for our property trading game.
However, blockchain today is still seen as a complicated technology, both difficult to understand and to use for non-techies, which is why Upland created its mission:
“To bring the benefits of blockchain technology to mass markets through gamified experiences.”
Just like in the business model “Free-to-Play”, players in Upland can start playing for free on an “Upland Visa” (see also the article Understanding Digital Assets and User Identity in Upland). Once graduated to “Uplander” i.e. citizen status, a player can be sure that any digital item they acquire will carry a tangible value that can be liquidated in a secondary market. We believe that this fact will create trust which is fundamental for an economic system to thrive.
In general, ownership and its enforcement is a crucial element of a functioning economy. It gives people a sense of security and status and they can feel a sense of ownership pride. When people take ownership of something, they are inspired to care for it in numerous ways, including creative embellishments, as well as ongoing maintenance.
Just as in the real world, a house owner will always invest more time, money, and effort to keep his house in good condition, while a tenant normally doesn’t do so to the same extent.
Upland’s core assumption is that the perceived value of truly owned digital assets is substantially higher compared to the one in traditional business models. Play-to-Own has the potential to be applied in any game, increasing customer lifetime value, engagement, and retention. It opens up new revenue opportunities that have not been possible before.
Our hypothesis is that Play-to-Own creates a superior value proposition for both the players and the game operators. Players will choose to play these types of games over traditional ones because they get ownership security and benefit from long-term value creation. Operators will observe happier and more loyal customers, therefore the Play-to-Own business model will be the future of gaming and beyond.
By Dirk Lueth, Upland Co-founder
Uplanders… Just FOUR days left to use our special code in VentureBeat
You can use a custom code “venturebeat” to get into the beta. The first 1,000 people to use the code
can get in, immediately but the code expires on November 30. Rivals include Decentraland and Landlord.
login https://upland.me/?r=RJpBw# only on MOBILE DEVICES Look for enter access code
This is what i'v been waiting on the Ability to Trade UPX for Fiat/USD Currency it will become a new game and a true investment and the future way to invest $$$$$$[ ......
on 2020 COMING SOON MORE TO COME...iOS & Android Release
Ability to Trade for Fiat Currency Develop your Land, Explorer, & more & New Locations! make sure to do your own Due-diligence
from upland.me Scroll down to 20/20
https://upland.me/about-us.html
If you like crypto plays your gonna love this. unlike any other crypto investments make sure to do your own Due diligence
[b It sounds like This could become a new and exciting way to invest $$$$$$
Uplander’s Digest: November Update November 12, 2019
https://www.eoswriter.io/163256_uplanders-digest-november-update.eos
https://upland.me/Upland_White_Llama_Paper_2019-10-29.pdf To simulate a more realistic economy, UPX tokens are pre-inflated where $1 equals 1,000 UPX.
Initially, 100 billion UPX have been minted and allocated to two pools, which are called the
“Upland Pool” and the “Community Pool”:
Upland Pool (above): 50 billion UPX have been allocated for selling UPX for fiat (and later for
crypto) to players. The fiat proceeds are used to fund the operations of Uplandme, Inc. the
company behind Upland. To ensure funding of the continuous development and growth of the
platform, the Upland pool receives a variable amount of UPX per active player (newly created by
the Upland minting system
This is in beta as of now when you buy property with real USD you should understand that you can not sell your property for real USD and leave the game with your investment you will own the property forever for now... make sure you do your own Due diligence
Want first dibs on a ‘Monopoly’-Style Blockchain Property Trading Game on the EOS Blockchain. They offering a small group of Uplanders early early access to a closed BETA, giving you first choice of Upland’s properties before anyone
UPLAND. Is the property trading game that’s smashing the boundaries of the real and virtual worlds. BUY. SELL. TRADE. Keep properties FOREVER. They are truly yours because UPLAND is powered by the EOS BLOCKCHAIN https://upland.me/?r=RJpBw
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What is Upland?
Built at the intersection of the real and virtual world, Upland is a Monopoly style property trading game that gives you the power to buy, sell and trade virtual properties based on real-world addresses, just like the one you live at today… but in the virtual world. The digital properties you collect in Upland don’t have any association or rights to the correlating properties in the real world, however, the addresses do mirror real-life locations. Upland’s economy is powered by an in-game currency called UPX (pronounced “UP-EX”). All property you purchase in Upland is secured on the EOS Blockchain and is yours forever.
FinLab EOS VC Fund and several angel investors have invested a combined $2 million in Uplandme, maker of a digital property-trading game running on top of the EOS blockchain.
The funds will be used to support the development and launch of Upland, which is currently available in beta, and will become widely available later this year.
Billed as “‘Monopoly’ meets blockchain,” as in the classic Parker Brothers board game, the game enables players to buy, sell, and trade imaginary properties based on real-world addresses. The twist is that instead of paper cards, it uses non-fungible tokens (NFTs), or digital collectibles similar to CryptoKitties, to confer ownership of an asset.
Unlike most digital games, however, properties that are recorded on the blockchain throughout the gameplay will be truly owned by the players, not the gaming company, Uplandme says. And just like in real life, land in this virtual realm has a fixed supply. “We expect that the game momentum will be driven by the simple fact that there is a natural scarcity of available properties because they are based on real-world addresses,” said Uplandme co-founder Dirk Lueth. Lueth and his partners, Mani Honigstein and Idan Zuckerman, aim to disrupt the $50 billion market for casual (mass market) games.
“One game night, while playing Monopoly and watching the Netflix series ‘Stranger Things’ we got thinking about a property game in a parallel universe and realized how properties that are based on real-world addresses can be the perfect collectible NFT,” Lueth told CoinDesk.
Angel investors in the seed round include Kai Bolik, co-founder and CEO of Gameduell, a gaming community with more than 70 games and 130 million players worldwide; Jan Sprengnetter, CEO of Sprengnetter Group, a property valuation provider; and Markus Ogurek, a former vice president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
The lead investor, FinLab EOS VC Fund, is backed by Block.one, the company that built the EOS blockchain, and FinLab AG, which focuses on investing in German financial technology companies.
“We invested into Uplandme, Inc. because we like the genuine idea of a virtual property market powered by the EOS Blockchain and the very experienced and passionate team behind it,” said Stefan Schuetze, managing director of FinLab EOS VC Fund.
To be sure, Upland is one among many blockchain-based games in various stages of development.
Upland players will be able to trade their properties on a marketplace for an in-game currency called UPX. Beta testers are currently able to trade properties in a virtual San Francisco.
So you’ve decided to enter the exciting world of Upland! We applaud you, and welcome you to a new platform that will change the face of digital ownership. Upland is built on blockchain technology so everything you collect in the game is yours to keep in real life. But how do you get started?
Well nobody’s got time for long set-up processes, especially in Upland where time roaming the virtual streets = time well spent!??That’s why we’ve made our sign-up process super simple and lightning quick.
To start collecting digital properties, all you need is an email address. That’s it! There’s no need to set up a crypto wallet, as Upland’s innovative on-boarding system automatically creates an EOS account for you once you’ve acquired enough assets in the game and become a full-fledged Uplander.(Note: In the closed beta phase, all testers who purchase a property automatically become Uplanders.)
The private keys generated for an Upland EOS account are created on the player’s device by the Upland game client where they will be ciphered, secure, and not visible to anybody. Crypto aficionados will also have the option to generate and use their own private keys for the account if they wish to in the future.
We believe our unique sign-up method and easy payment options will truly bridge the gap between crypto holders and mainstream gamers, by offering a simple gateway into the blockchain space for people with limited crypto experience. You can read more about our technical account creation process
follow our simple guide below on how to get started in the beta phase:
Enter your email address at https://upland.me/ to start your journey. You will be added to the waitlist for beta testing. To move up the waitlist, invite your mates and spread the word about Upland.
New beta testers are invited regularly to play, so keep an eye on your inbox for an invitation email. Don’t worry if you haven’t received an invite code, there will also be other opportunities to obtain a beta test invite, so stay tuned!
Once you receive an invite email, you will have access to a unique code to create your Upland account. Either click the link in the email or visi https://upland.me/ to enter your email address and your access code.
You will then be prompted to create a username and password. Once you’ve created your username and password you will receive a verification email to confirm your account.
In just a few easy steps you’ve ventured into the virtual world of Upland, where you can experience true ownership, build an awesome property portfolio and earn UPX in the process. Sign up to become an Uplander today at
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More Company Info:
https://www.coinwire.com/monopoly-like-blockchain-property-game-secures-2m
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/upland
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/6960033
Eosio Article 9/6/19 https://eos.io/news/upland-blurring-boundaries-and-virtual-worlds/
https://medium.com/@upland
https://twitter.com/uplandme
WHITE LLAMA PAPER https://upland.me/Upland_White_Llama_Paper_2019-10-29.pdf simulate a more realistic economy, UPX tokens are pre-inflated where $1 equals 1,000 UPX. Initially, 100 billion UPX have been minted and allocated to two pools, which are called the “Upland Pool” and the “Community Pool”: Upland Pool (above): 50 billion UPX have been allocated for selling UPX for fiat (and later for crypto) to players. The fiat proceeds are used to fund the operations of Uplandme, Inc. the company behind Upland. To ensure funding of the continuous development and growth of the platform, the Upland pool receives a variable amount of UPX per active player created by the Upland minting system):
Uplander’s Digest: November Update November 12, 2019
https://www.eoswriter.io/163256_uplanders-digest-novem
quick video on how it works https://youtu.be/hcfjEvihjc0
Updates: Martini and more 4/15/20
https://medium.com/upland/updates-martini-and-more-70222e0f405d
https://medium.com/upland/q2-roadmap-update-6a709832b710
Q3 UPDATE 2022
http://www.upland.me/events/uplands-q3-2022-roadmap-update
http://www.upland.me/events/uplands-q3-2022-roadmap-update
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