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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you might want to know about Taurion — the game, the chain, and how to get into the fight.
The Basics
About Taurion
Taurion is a fully decentralised, highly complex, true blockchain game. As a genre it can be considered an MMORTS / MMORPG. It has a fully player driven economy where players can: mine, refine, research, build, upgrade, craft, strategise, ally, kill, steal, drive vehicles, explore, plan, earn, trade, transport, and much more.
Taurion takes inspiration from Eve Online, Dune 2, Huntercoin and Civilisation.
Yes. In fact, this is probably one of the biggest elements of the game. In order to succeed, you will need to work with other people in groups and alliances. Taurion has built-in chat to help people come together and have fun playing together.
There are 36 different types of vehicles and 25 different types of buildings.
The Houses are 3 different factions in the game. When you play Taurion with a new account, you must choose 1 of 3 Houses. They have different properties, strengths, and weaknesses.
On-Chain
Blockchain & Ownership
Blockchain is a decentralised database or ledger. It is secured by strong public key cryptography.
Decentralisation is a form of democratisation. It is the distribution of power to all participants so that no central authority has all or most of the power. Decentralised systems preempt any abuse of power by a central authority. There are many more advantages to decentralisation and other reasons why it is important.
Taurion runs on Polygon, an Ethereum Layer 2, built with the Xaya SDK — the autonomous-worlds technology that powers the game. Earlier prototypes ran on the standalone Xaya Core blockchain; the current build uses the Xaya SDK on Polygon instead, so you play with standard EVM wallets.
Taurion is fully decentralised and autonomous so it can never be shut down. Consequently, you will always be able to use your Taurion assets and they will always have at least that nominal value for being able to be used.
Yes. You can get the source code for it in its GitHub repository here: https://github.com/xaya/taurion_gsp
Because Taurion is a true blockchain game and satisfies the same requirements as other cryptocurrencies, Taurion and its in-game assets can be viewed as cryptocurrencies in themselves. You get the same kind of security and guarantees with a Taurion in-game asset as you do with other cryptocurrencies.
No. Taurion, just like Polygon and Bitcoin, is permissionless. You do not need permission from anyone to play the game or to create utilities for it.
Earning
Human Mining & Economy
There is no hardware mining in Taurion. You must use your human skill and intelligence to play the game in order to "mine" (gather or create) cryptographically secure assets. This is also called "Human Mining".
It depends. The chances of you being able to make money while playing Taurion are proportional to how well Taurion does and how many people play it. Or, in other words, the larger the Taurion economy, the more potential for earning there is. So, make sure to invite all your friends!
This is perfectly possible. However, we've designed Taurion so that botters have incentives to NOT ruin the game as they did in Huntercoin. It is to their financial advantage to ensure that the game is fun and attractive to many other players.
You can get a Taurion account with a few starter vehicles for free. In this case, you only need to pay Polygon network gas fees, which are very low. You can also purchase vehicles. How much you wish to spend depends on you. Further, when the markets are implemented in Taurion, you will be able to buy and sell everything in the game.
Yes. Where most games serve up advertisements to make money, Taurion will allow YOU to serve up ads over top of your buildings so that you can make money. However, you must first build or buy a building so that you have that ad inventory to sell.
Access
Getting Started
Taurion uses standard EVM wallets on Polygon (e.g. MetaMask). Account and wallet details for the current Polygon build will be published on the website ahead of launch.
You can download Taurion from the Taurion website when it is available.
No. Taurion is not yet available in those marketplaces. We plan to have Taurion available in them after launch.
Still curious?
Ask the community or dig into the docs
The Discord is where commanders trade intel, form alliances and get answers fast. For the deep mechanics, the full documentation has you covered.