I’m not supporting the TS, but my general point has always been that Berry Club should evolve the rules.
The current rules are very simplistic and lead to bots dominating the map by definition.
I suggest at least few ways to address this:
- A DAO that would allow to blacklist accounts from participating. Making it less permissionless, and depending on who leads the DAO would lead to either domination of art or oligopoly.
- Require Proof of Work to commit pixel. The more pixel committing per minute - the more complexity puzzle would be required. This would make bots more complicated and slow. Normal users in the browser will be just solving the puzzle in the background and not noticing it.
- Remove farming for pixels staying, instead allow to sell the art and receive reward via that. This will value having interesting and unique art on the board.
- Creating more boards, making boards more permissioned (a DAO per board?) and allowing boards to compete for attention and farming.
For expanding beyond simplistic Berry Club to something that can scale to 100,000s of players, see this suggestion is going beyond simple farming and really focusing on cooperation and competition while creating value via art sales: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18SHlXCrOa8faaSM4TRQzoaLSxW7t56-IHCjNlYpmstI/