Recent Changes:
There have been some changes to both Alien Worlds and R-Planet recently which will affect you if you play both games. Lets start with Alien Worlds...
As most people will have realised, it's now practically impossible for new players to enter the game. A new player gets two very basic NFTs to mine with and a couple of wax staked to their account for CPU/Net/Ram. The wax blockchain now has more transactions than ever as people come to try out the games so that basic staked wax isn't going to let you play for any length of time. Also there has been a change to the way drops are received. Any NFTs you find from mining will no longer automatically be transferred into your wax cloud wallet. Instead you have to manually claim them.
Luckily, the community have responded by launching another tool which fixes two of the issues with the game right now. This tool by Nick Kusters will let you check and claim any NFTs which have dropped for you and it will also let you set-up any combination of mining tools you have. So if you want to use three shovels, just log-in, go to set-bag and then click the tools you want to use (click the tools you don't want to use until they turn black) then just click set tools and you're good to go.
It's kind of weird that Alien Worlds doesn't have this built into their user interface as standard. I also find it strange that news about these changes doesn't appear on their login screens. I found out about the changes from the R-Planet discord channel. Which brings me on to the next point. If you have any Alien Worlds abundant cards staked on R-Planet, they have asked for people to remove them. These cards currently earn nothing on R-Planet since recent changes where other projects were allocated pools of aether rather than fixed rates per card. This means if a project has 100,000 cards staked to a 1m aether pool, then each staked card will earn 10 aeth per hour. If the project release a load more NFTs and that results in 200,000 cards being staked then each card would now earn 5 aeth per hour (the formula is always aeth pool divided by number of staked cards, but cards with higher rarity or value can also be the equivalent of multiple standard cards). This suggests that the best way to earn aether is to buy rarer cards but if you don't want their earning power to drop, you should probably stick to staking R-Planet rigs and elements NFTs.
Finally and more importantly back to Alien Worlds. If you're feeling that the rewards in Alien Worlds are now too low and it's taking too much wax staked to cpu to be able to play, you might be able to increase your earnings a little by mining lands owned by UltraRare. Throughout June they are rewarding players who mine on their land with the potential to earn free Crypto-Horrors NFTs. I now have a few of these and they add a nice little bonus. They seem to drop a bit more frequently than Alien Worlds cards and they appear in your wallet automatically. The base cards are usually worth around 5-15 wax on the AtomicHub market and some of the rarer versions are dropping too. The best part is that they appear to be pre-minted so it's not impossible to get a number one mint (frequently worth 10+ times as much as the same card with a higher mint number as some people like to own low mint number cards). Rumour has it 20 cards are issued every hour to random wallets who have mined their lands. See the link above to find out more.
