Calculating investments in Axie Infinity

The portal continues the experiment on earning in the game project. In the previous article, readers learned how to create an account in Axie Infinity, prepare a cryptocurrency wallet and make a deposit. Now it’s time to calculate the necessary investments and estimate the approximate payback period.

Changes in the gameplay of Axie Infinity

Developers are gradually updating the user conditions and tokenomics of the project. In February 2022, the administration published an important announcement. From the new season there will be changes:

• The reward for passing ruins and daily quests will disappear.
• The size of payments for victories in the arena will be reduced.

Thus, players will lose the opportunity to receive a guaranteed 75 SLP per day for PvE duels and regular quests. The reduction in PvP rewards will affect high ranked users more. But the update of the game economy also reduces the earnings of newcomers.

How much money should be invested

To start, a user needs to buy three game characters (axi) for one account. The transaction is processed through the platform’s internal marketplace. Each build has a unique set of characteristics and cards. The creation of the team and the existing types of axi we dealt with in the previous material. Next we will consider in detail the amount of necessary investments for the purchase of a build. To begin with, it is necessary to calculate the minimum costs, taking into account the prices on the marketplace.

Minimum build

To determine the smallest amount of starting investments should:

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1. Go to the marketplace.
2. Sort the available aksi in order of decreasing price.
3. Select the desired character class and its characteristics (in this case, you can neglect the set of cards, since we are not talking about creating an optimal team).

As of February 4, 2022, the minimum price of an axi was about $28. Thus, you need to spend at least $84 to buy the simplest team. Since PvE rewards will no longer be awarded, buying random playable characters makes no sense. The number of daily battles in the arena is limited by the energy reserve, which means that for stable earnings you need to assemble a team with an optimal set of cards and skills. This raises the minimum investment threshold.

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Optimal build

Axie Infinity has a fairly complex gameplay:

• There are 9 classes of creatures belonging to different elements.
• Each character can have a unique set of characteristics (health, speed, morale) and cards.
• As part of the game balance, one class has an advantage over another (dealing more damage and better defense against attacks).

All of this makes the task of team building more difficult. There are different recommendations on the net for choosing the best build. As an example of how to calculate the amount of investment, we can focus on the following variant of team building and equipment scheme.

Axie Infinity had a starting investment of $175 in February 2022. Top players usually buy more expensive characters. In this case, age, generation, and the presence of special artifacts (Mystic) are taken into account.

For SLP farming, it makes no sense to spend money on creating one powerful team. It is better to own as many accounts as possible and outsource their management.

Paying for scholarship program fees

When calculating costs, you need to consider the pay of the manager (scholarship). In 2021, the most common form of cooperation was a 50/50 profit split. After the zeroing out of PvE payouts and the fall of the SLP rate, the situation started to change. On forums and in game discussions, many potential scholarship players write that they are not interested in getting a few dollars for a day of account management. In this regard, there are 2 approaches to calculating scholarship costs:

• Keep a 50/50 split. In this case, you will have to make efforts to find experienced and motivated scholarship writers.
• Reduce your own share to 10-20% or come up with another cooperation option. For example, in discussions, some players say that they agree to take only 50% until the investor’s investment is recouped. After that, the share of the scholarship holder should be increased to 70-80%.

There are many forums and sites online where players offer their services. Often candidates indicate that they are not looking for high income, but just want to gain experience.

In this case, the investor runs the risk of hiring a

who will be inferior in most fights. There are no rewards for losses in PvP. Even worse, if the player ceases to fulfill his obligations at all. When calculating the payback period of the investment, you should lay down the payment of 50% of the profit to the scholarship holder. In addition, you should take into account changes on the market and consider the risk of losing players’ interest in the scholarship.

Payback period

The approximate formula for calculating the time for which the investor will reach zero is T = E x 2/D x P, where:

• T is the payback period of the investment.
• E – the price of acquiring characters.
• D – expected daily income.
• P – the market rate of the SLP token.

Until February 2022, investors could expect income from the daily quest and PvE. Now the only source of profit will be arena battles against other players. Therefore, the expected amount should be reduced to 50-60 SLP. The only way to speed up the payback is to recruit experienced, skillful, motivated fellows and carefully selecting axi for the best results in the arena.

SLP token rate

The beginning of 2022 was unfavorable for the cryptocurrency market as a whole. In addition, the SLP token rate was negatively affected by domestic inflation. The volume of cryptoassets generated exceeded the rate of burning. As a result, in December 2021 alone, the price of SLP collapsed by almost 54% – from $0.05874 to $0.02749. To bring the service token out of its downtrend, developers had to make changes to the in-game economy. But by February 2022, the value of SLP continued to decline and reached $0.00968.