So far in this series of articles, I have covered getting paid in crypto while you browse the web using Brave browser and yesterday I covered getting started with Alien Worlds; a free-to-play digital card-game which occasionally pays out random NFT prizes. Yesterday I went over getting started and the process of trading in your mined TLM virtual ore for other crypto or actual cash.
There's one more aspect which needs to be covered. If you continue to play Alien Worlds (in the hope of a free valuable NFT), what happens if you get duplicate NFT cards? Luckily there's already an online marketplace where you can trade in your duplicates and maybe swap them for other more useful cards. Today it's time to have a look at AtomicHub.
To get started, you need to give AtomicHub access to your wax wallet. You do this by clicking the wax symbol on the right of the magnifying glass at the top of the screen. Once you've allowed the site to access your wallet, you will see your wallet id (top right corner). Click the down arrow here and you can select inventory which will show all the NFT's you have collected. If you just want to offload duplicates, you can tick the box to only show duplicates.
Clicking on the individual card will bring up details about it and if you scroll down on this screen you will see a recommendation for how much you should sell it for. There's also a trading graph so you can see how much these items have been worth over time.
It's probably right to assume that most things will go down in value over time as the market place becomes flooded with them. As rewards are random though, it's not impossible to get something worth more as you continue to play. Should this happen, you might consider trading the valuable item for wax tokens and maybe consider using some of this to buy better mining tools.
You may have noticed your basic shovel card has a pick-axe in the top-left corner with a value below it (usually 1). This value affects how much trillium you will gather from each mining session. You might also have noticed the snowflake in the cards bottom-right corner. The value here is how much luck the tool has (higher luck = better chance to find NFT's). The best tools have higher mining-power (the pick-axe value) and/or higher luck (the snowflake). They might also have higher recharge times so there is also a strategic element. If you want to focus on mining trillium, you might want long recharge times but higher yields which means fewer clicks with longer delays between them. If you want to find more NFT's, maybe shorter delays and higher luck will be your focus.
If you decide to invest in more tools, it's worth remembering you can only use three and your recharge time is based on the combined value of the two highest. The charge time multiplier of the plot of land you mine on will also affect your results. If you choose to hunt NFT's, try to get tools with the highest luck (snowflake) level possible. If you want to focus on earning trillium, choose cards with the highest mining power (pick-axe stat) and shortest recharge time. In this case it's also worth changing where you mine. Look for a planet with a spot where you pay less commission to mine there (while the default is 20%, there are plots which only charge 1%).
