Century Train — Diamond Review 02/03/22
Train of the Century (ToC) allows you to become “one of the mysterious, time-traveling entrepreneurs active at the turn of several centuries, in fact — driving the explosive growth of industry, trade, and commerce throughout history. Whether you’re playing in 1801, 2001, or 3401, the CenturyVerse is ripe with opportunity”.
The core concept of ToC as a Play2Earn game, is to invest in the various components to form a complete train, each represented as unique NFTs. Whilst having one of each component is not necessary to complete the game, the more you have of higher rarities, the better performing your train is likely to be in the game. Components include a driver, a Locomotive and freight/passenger cars which are used to transport commerce through the game’s world, the ‘CenturyVerse’. Whilst this may seem like a simple train commerce game at first glance, you are actually required to deliver commerce through difference centuries by time travelling.
Travelling through the centuries and delivering commerce provides you with earnings in the form of the in-game token ‘TOCIUM’. Structured around a real-world payment theme, desired commodities result in Tocium payments upon being delivered to a desired location. The Different types of commodities, passengers, cars, locomotives and drivers create a diverse gameplay style, where maximizing your token output and managing your fuel costs becomes more of a strategy than a simple click.
Find out more about Century Train, here: https://trains.cards/
Utilising the Wax Diamond Metric 1.1, Century Train scores 87/100 making it a DIAMOND rated game! Whilst improvements could always be made and we should never stop striving for greatness, even though many of the game’s NFTs have been around several months, the game itself is feels fresh, with updates being pumped out regularly, often ahead of schedule or with added extras. The game’s developers, ‘Conductors’ Jake and Ryan, along with the rest of the team who are building the Century Verse are not only involved as Developers for this project but can appreciate the background of the project having ties to train watching as well as locomotive hobbies and have high hopes for it changing how we feel about the trains hobby and P2E gaming.
Whilst the team are currently on track to developing a great game, improvements could be made by being a little more active across communication platforms other than discord (we love hearing those stories and seeing you on twitch!). We’d also love to see articles produced by the team, detailing how the game can be played to allow new players to learn how to ride the rails.
Future sales are planned for additional NFT’s but are not currently scheduled for any time soon as they just completed their passenger drop which changed the dynamic of the game and added a more strategic way to play, allowing players to change from just doing localized loops to spreading out across the map. Century train is always bringing in their new features and this could alter the overall score of any future update to the game’s Diamond Review, but for now all the updates have been completely positive!!!
The game allows you to structure your train in your own way as mentioned before. Creating the best combination of commodities or passengers along with the build of the train itself, to generate the best payout you can from making the trip. Starting the game your first decision (after naming your train the hardest decision of all) will be of deciding the locomotive and conductor you will use, whether it’s a common or a mythic you are setting up they will both have qualities that will alter your game play, from the fuel the locomotive uses (coal or diesel) to max hauling weight or max distance, as well as any bonuses your conductor may have such as luck or bonus weight, depending how you build your train will decide which trips you are able to take or how long it takes you to get there. There has recently been implemented the upgrading of some trains (to be rolled out to all trains) through an in-game blending mechanic using an upgrade token to generate a better quality of composition for the train increasing the trains base stats and giving the NFT a cool shiny new look. After this is the hardest decision, you will probably make… what you are going to carry?!
The commodities and the railcars range from carrying frozen goods to luxury cars and even some top-secret items or passengers, depending on what you carry and how long your trip took, along with if you met the requirements of making your passengers happy (location, distance travelled, time the trip took or weight of train) if you have any as well as in an upcoming update to which station to travel to will all make a difference to your payout. After creating your train and filling it full of commodities and possibly passengers, the trip from one station to another will have a time the trip will take to complete and an amount of fuel that it costs to make that trip. The two fuel sources in the game currently are Diesel and Coal. You can buy this resource using the native token TOCIUM, ranging in amounts from 10–10000 fuel at a time at 1–2000 TOCIUM, it’s quite easy to grab some TOCIUM off of Alcor and get your trips started! After running your train you will be able to tell which combinations are working for you and where you may need to upgrade to improve your TOCIUM output from your trips. All of these mechanics along with some in built competitions and the recent pack drops being mainly in TOCIUM it allows for TOCIUM burning helping keep the coin at a steady price and dropping the max supply slowly to a minimum allowing the token to passively increase in value over time.
POSITIVES
· A very active community who always like to help new train addicts which is centred across their Discord https://discord.trains.cards/ and Century Train’s Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/trainofthecentury
· High level of detail in the whitepaper and a high level of transparency
· There are few projects updating their game as frequently as Train of the Century with the quality-of-life and balance changes done as required alongside the version updates of the game in an almost weekly fashion.
· The developers have a deep personal attachment to the project, with a clear long-term vision for the game, hoping to ensure it stands tests of time.
POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS
· More communication options, although discord is great the personality of Jake and Ryan really help sell the project when streaming through Twitch.
· Some information for new players on what is required to start playing or just a simple step by step guide to setting up a first train will help newer players figure out what is required to play as there are a few different combinations of NFT’s.
· The market seems to mainly revolve around pack drops, the project easily builds hype around the time of launches or pack drops but the market tends to quieten down in the time between, continuous community engagement may help keep that hype rolling through the development stages.
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