The Hog Coin

As a small side project, I've decided to launch an experiment by introducing the Hog coin: an Ymir community token that can be interacted with through a Discord Bot i created called "The Hogbank".

Every Discord user will be able to own and transfer Hogs through the Hogbank, but not only. For those who know what Ethereum is, the Hog coin is actually an ERC20 token that can be withdrawn or deposited to the Hogbank at any time.
This means Hogs actually exist on an independent and decentralized network outside the Ymir Discord and that players can also store the coins and exchange them at their own discretion independently of the Hogbank and benefit from all the existing tools of the Ethereum ecosystem. Yes, it is gloriously useless and nerdy!
If you don't know what Ethereum is you you'll be able to simply use the Hogbank without having to worry about any of this.

[h2]So what is the point of all of this? [/h2]
Absolutely nothing, at least for now.
Hogs will just be an item to measure your game achievements and your participation in the Ymir community.
However the introduction of Hogs is an experimental first step for a long term plan i have in mind that will aim toward multiple important goals:
- incentivizing players to stay active until the endgame and to win the servers.
- incentivizing players to be more committed to their spawns to reduce server hopping and players giving up as soon as they don't get optimal starting conditions.
- further incentivizing players to join ongoing servers in need of new players.
- giving players meta-game objectives and progression by unlocking new cosmetic content.

[h2]How will you earn Hogs?[/h2]
For now Hogs will only be distributed manually by myself.
The principal way to earn Hogs will be to win Official Server games.
- From now on, the Nation leader of the winning nation of any Official Server will be manually awarded 50 hogs upon claiming his prize on this Discord and confirming his ingame identity.
The redistribution of this loot will be left at his entire discretion, so you better join a Nation with a Leader you can trust! Polish your daggers and get ready for some fun backstabbing :)...
- Hogs will also be given to reward general participation in the Ymir Discord community.
- Hogs can be earned as a bounty for reporting any new game-breaking exploit or cheats in multiplayer games.
- Hogs being an Ethereum token, they may also be stored, traded, and exchanged outside the Hogbank at the own discretion of its owners.

[h2]What is the Hogbank?[/h2]
So the way to interact with Hogs will be through the Hogbank, a bot i made that will be introduced in the Ymir Discord.
By talking to this bot, you can do 4 operations: get your current Hog balance, transfer it to other Discord users, withdraw it outside of the discord to an Ethereum wallet, and deposit it back from an Ethereum wallet.

[h2]To conclude...[/h2]
Like everything in this game, this is highly experimental and motivated mostly by curiosity to see what happens.
Because i had to learn a lot of new things for this small side project, its potentially (probably) going to be buggy and the Hog rewards will start low until the system is more tested.
If this is successful then it can later on be integrated more with the game itself, and developed with more features. As of now its just the bare minimum and manually managed for simplicity.
Also, in case it needs saying: don't take Hogs too seriously! Remember these are totally useless vanity tokens, and that in the end its all just a game.