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Upland属于新一代的游戏，它也利用区块链代表玩家的所有权。这是一款虚拟房产交易的游戏，其中的房产反映真实世界，游戏在EOS主网上以NFT代币存在。Upland可以类比为一款大富翁游戏。
游戏环境中有自己的代币，UPX代币，该代币和现实的美元挂钩。1000UPX价值1美元：开始游戏的时候，你会获得3000UPX的福利金，你就可以马上开始寻找有趣的财产和建筑。如果你用本链接注册，你会额外获得3000UPX。现在，游戏还仅限于旧金山使用，但是慢慢地我们会增加其它一些城市。
CryptoTicker团队测试了该游戏，并因为游戏简单好上手感到开心。我们特别喜欢的一点是你不用考虑游戏中区块链技术的技术特点，这不是说我们就不喜欢区块链，但是我们觉得，这个特点能让圈外人更好地进入Upland的世界。
EOS账户的一个功能是你可以改变密钥。未来，熟悉区块链的玩家如果想自己管理账户，他们可以从Upland管理账户中利用自己的公钥对账户进行控制。
让我们仔细看看
现在，游戏只能再手机端的网页浏览器或者app上进行。我们比较推荐使用app，因为现在你可以收到游戏动态的推送。
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我们注册、确认邮箱地址。一开始，我们选择设计自己的玩家形象，然后就可以开始游戏了。
我们选了绿色背景的消防栓做形象。CryptoTicker送的奖励（3000UPX）显示在地图上方。玩家右边越来越明显的路线图是自己的活动路线和可见区域。玩家自己的形象和其他玩家的也很容易区别开。底部的“U”表示的什么我们稍后再解释。
带着数字的图钉显示了别的玩家要出售的房产。我们点击图钉，图片会放大，我们就会进入这些房产的范围。
从左到右第一个图标显示我们自己的房产，第二个是我们的收藏（稍后解释），第三个让我们进入地图。第四个是信息框，例如，它会告诉我们别的玩家要进入我们的房产，第五个是玩家账户管理。
购买第一个房产
在玩家可见的区域里获得待售的房产，我们可以放大然后点击我们选择的浅绿色区域，或者我们就点击玩家图像，然后再点击中间的房屋标志（会显示菜单）。
因为我们只有6000UPX，我们只能找便宜的房子，所以这时候用菜单会比较好。
通览之后，我们选择了18街4566号房子。其售价3700UPX，完全符合预算。见上面的菜单截图。除了价格以外，菜单还显示了月租金收入。这个房子约有1.4%的效益（一年17%），且用UPX支付。
我们点击一栋房产，会出现上述窗口。我们点击房屋名称往下浏览，就可以在EOS区块链上检查交易了。这是我们购买的一栋房产的例子。
因为Upland显示的是真实世界，我们可以用google maps卫星图来看看我们的房子。很快我们可以直接在游戏中直接使用这个功能。
我们又进入新房子，想去看看附近还有没有其它有趣的房产。没错，你可以把玩家送到地图上的任何选定的区域，也可以送到其它玩家或者我们自己的房产中。如果是送到我们自己的房产里，我们就不用付钱，但是如果我们拜访其他玩家的房子，我们就需要向他们支付40UPX。
要支付参观费，我们点击地图上的想去的地点然后点击“发送”。
如果我们把地图缩小，进入选择模式，就会出现上图的效果。我们可以看到，自己的房产是绿色的，缩小模式下，它们的图钉也是绿色。从玩家的角度，待售的房产是浅绿色的。左上角，我们看到一个深绿色的区域，它右边有两个灰蓝色区域。深绿色表示这是其他玩家的待售房产。灰蓝色也表示它是其他玩家的房产，只不过不是待售的。灰色区域表示还没有解锁的区域。
右上角的钟告诉我们从房产中获得收益还需要多长时间。我们获得的UPX不会马上就进入我们的账户，我们需要自己手动点击收集。
左下角我们看到一个指南针图标。我们可以利用指南针帮自己快速导航，显示或隐藏图钉图标或显示有趣的地方。新的地点会不断加进来。这些有趣的地方会被标记为带星星的图钉图标。左上方，我们看到带着玩家进度条的玩家静态图标。我们马上就向大家解释这是什么。
Upland通行证
开始游戏后，我们是以Upland访客的身份参与游戏的，至少每7天我们要更新一次通行证。这是免费的。如果我们不能遵守该规则，我们就会失去整个Upland账户余额。如果我们获得10,000个UPX代币，我们就会成为Upland公民，即Uplander。我们的房产也包含在这10,000代币里。本文一开始我们提到的右下角的“U”图标就代表这Upland公民。当我们成为公民之后，我们就不用再更新通行证了，我们就能使用游戏的其他很多功能。
我们可以慢慢等自己的房产积累足够的租金收入，或者我们可以直接用法币购买UPX，这样都可以达到10,000UPX的要求。当然了，如果能直接购买肯定是更快了。因为游戏现在还在初始阶段，价格都很高，但是买的早的人之后肯定也有更多的好处。但我们必须说，相比现在，未来要赚够这10,000UPX成为Upland公民可能要简单得多。
物资收藏
有了收藏的物资，我们就可以提高自己的利润率。点击上方资产条的左起第二个图标。要收藏物资，首先我们得有自己的房产。点击“编辑（edit）”再点击想要的房产。现在我们只拥有上面提到的一处房产，所以我们只能选择这个。在“加速(boost)”栏我们可以看到利率倍数。
第一个收藏中，房产的利率倍数是1.1。所以我们第一个房产的年利率是18.7%。此外，我们会获得800UPX的直接付款。后续增加的收藏收益会更高。当然了，适合放在收藏的房产比普通房产难找。
出售房产
想要出售房产，我们首先得是Upland的公民（Uplander）。我们点击房产，然后点击“出售(sell)”并选择价格。这样，其他玩家就可以购买这处房产了。
出价
想向其他玩家出价，我们也需要先成为Uplander。要出价，点击房产然后点击“出价(offer)”。房屋所有人会收到信息，他可以接受也可以拒绝你的价格。
货币化
现在Upland还在和监管部门谈判如何利用法币。等他们同意之后，我们会根据市场情况提供房产的法币价值。可能几周内我们就可以实现该功能。
其他
除了不断解锁新房产，我们还会不断提供新的价格和延伸，让游戏更有趣。二月中我们设定了游戏的第一个飞机场，旧金山国际机场，现在它已经被买走了。如果玩家想换城市，他们就要去机场，飞机场的所有人就能获得40UPX的费用。
三月初，我们对游戏进行重大升级，加入Mojito功能，这个功能在游戏中加入宝藏，就让游戏更好玩了。
策略
因为游戏中有无数种行动和可能性，你可能会问一开始要怎么做出正确的一步。一开始，关注收藏会比较好。先获得一个个的收藏增加收入。最明显的是购买的房产最好处于未来可能的景点地段，因为如果其他玩家到访这些建筑，他们就要给你支付费用。
当然了，游戏的目标就是越来越富。你获得的UPX越多越好。你现在可能会想“但是我难道不能就用法币买一大堆代币吗？”那也没错，但是游戏不单单是你活的UPX而已，它也是关于你怎么投资代币的游戏。投资回报（ROI）才是成功的关键。
Upland故事和发展
这个项目的创始人Dirk Lueth, Mani Honigstein 和 Idan Zuckerman是朋友。某天晚上他们边玩大富翁边在网飞看《怪奇物语》的时候有了这个想法。法兰克福的Dirk是区块链爱好者，有了这三个因素，Upland就此诞生。
Upland是EOS VC Fund投资的其中一个项目而已。EOS VC Fund由Block.one和上市公司FinLab共同成立。这个基金会是Block.one在EOS ICO获得40亿美元的资金之后成立的，基金会总值1,000,000,000美元.
重要链接
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原文/Original：
Upland is one of the new generation games that uses blockchain for the representation of the ownerships from the players. The game is about trading virtual real estate. The properties are a depiction of the real world and exist as NFT tokens on the EOS mainnet. Upland can be compared with Monopoly.
The game environment has its own currency, the UPX token, which is pegged to the real world US-dollar. 1000 UPX are worth 1 USD: When starting the game, you get 3000 UPX as a bonus and can immediately start looking for interesting properties or buildings. If you use our link for hi signing up, you’ll get an extra 3000 UPX. At the moment, San Francisco is the only playable town, but over time there will be added a few other cities.
The CryptoTicker team has tested the game and is fascinated by the easy handling. What we particularly like is that you don’t have to deal with the technical characteristics of blockchain technology. That doesn’t mean we aren’t blockchain lovers, but we’re confident that this will make it easier for non-crypto people to enter the upland world.
A feature of EOS accounts is that you can change the key. In the future, players who are familiar with the blockchain and want to manage their accounts by themselves can take over the from Upland administered account with their own public key.
Let’s have a closer look on Upland
At the moment, the game is only playable on mobile devices in the web browser or in the app. We recommend the app, because of the available push notifications that you can receive, when something happens in your game world.
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We sign up and confirm our e-mail address. Right at the beginning, we choose the design of our explorer and then start the game.
We’ve chosen the hydrant with a green background. The CryptoTicker extra bonus (3000 UPX) is shown above the map. The increasingly transparent tail to the right of the explorer is its path of movement and its visibility area. The explorer is randomly moving over the virtual city. The number 191 on the top left at the explorer icon shows the buyable properties in its visibility area. The explorers from the other players are also easy to recognize. What the “U” right at the bottom means, will be explained later.
The pins with the numbers show the properties from the other players, that are offered for sale. When we click on the pin, the picture gets bigger and we’re getting to the areas of those properties.
The first icon (from left to right) shows our properties, the second one our collections (will be explained later) and the third one gets us to our map. The fourth one shows us our messages, for example offers that other players are making for our properties, and the fifth one is for managing the player account.
We buy our first property
To get the buyable properties in the visibility area of our explorer shown, we can either zoom in and then click on the light green areas that we can select, or we click on our explorer and then on the house symbol in the middle (a list will be displayed).
Because of us having only 6000 UPX, we are looking for a good deal, so we prefer to use the list.
After scrolling down for some time, we’ve chosen the building 4566 18th ST. With a price of 3700 UPX, it totally fits our budgets. The list can be seen in the screenshot above. Additionally to the price, the monthly yield is also shown. It amounts ~1,4 % ( 17 % p.a.) and is paid in UPX.
When we click on a property, the window shown on the screenshot above appears. By clicking on title and scrolling down, the transaction can be examined on the EOS-blockchain. Here is an example of the property we’ve bought.
Because Upland displays the real world, we’ve taken a look at our house on the google maps satellite image. Soon such a feature will be available directly in the game.
We’ve just again navigated the explorer to our new house to find out if there are maybe some other interesting properties in the surrounding area. Yes, the explorer can be sent to any chosen location on the map and also to the properties of other players or our own ones. When sending it to our own property, we don’t pay anything, but if we navigate it to other players houses, we need to pay them 40 UPX.
For sending it, we click at the object on the map, where we want to go and then press “send”.
This is what the game map looks like if we zoom out to the selection mode. It can be seen that our properties are colored green as well as the pin for them when zooming out. The from the explorer recognized properties that are for sale are colored light green. In the upper left corner, we see a dark green and on the right side 2 grey-blue fields. Dark green means owned by another player and for sale. Grey-blue also means owned by another player but not for sale. The grey fields are standing for properties that aren’t unlocked yet.
The clock in the upper right corner tells us how long it takes until we get our profit payouts from our properties. Those UPX aren’t credited to our account immediately, we need to collect them with a click.
At the bottom left we can see a compass icon. We can use it for navigating quickly to our explorer, showing or hiding the pin icon or displaying interesting places. New places will be added continuously. These interesting places are marked with a pin icon with a star on it. On the top, left we see another static explorer icon with a progress bar. We’ll now explain what this means.
The Upland visa
As soon as we start the game, we are playing as an Upland visitor and we have to renew our visa at least every 7 days. This is free. When we don’t follow this rule, we’ll lose our entire Upland account balance. If we make it to a UPX amount of 10.000 tokens, we are considered as a citizen of Upland or an Uplander. Our properties are also included in these 10.000 tokens. As we mentioned at the beginning of this article, the “U” icon at the bottom right is for citizens of Upland. Once we are an Uplander, we never need to renew our visa again and get a lot of other features in the game.
The 10.000 UPX mark can be reached by waiting until our properties generate enough rental income or we can buy UPX with fiat money. Of course, it’s way faster when we buy the tokens with fiat. Because the game is at the moment at its beginning, the offers are quite high. The trading volume isn’t that big. But who buys at the beginning, has advantages later. It needs to be said that it will be probably more easy in the future to reach 10.000 UPX to be an Uplander as it is now.
Collections
With collections, we are able to increase our interest rate. Click on the second icon left at the upper bar. For the first collection we need to own one property. Click “edit” and then on the desired property. At the moment we only own the one mentioned above, so we can only choose this one. At “boost” we can see the interest rate multiplier.
The first collection, multiplies the interest rate on properties with 1.1. So we get 18,7 % a year for the property in our first collection. Additionally, we get an 800 UPX direct payment. The bonus for further collections will be even bigger. Of course, the properties fitting in a collection are harder to find than the normal ones.
We sell a property
For selling a property, we need to be a citizen of Upland (Uplander). We click on the property, then press “sell” and choose a price. Now it is available for other players to buy.
Making an offer
To make other players an offer we also need to be an Uplander. To make an offer, just click on a property and then press “offer”. The owner now gets a message and can accept or deny your price.
Monetization
At the moment Upland is still negotiating with regulators to implement fiat money. When they give green light, we can soon offer our properties against fiat money on a marketplace. This is expected to happen within the next few weeks.
Also important
Additionally to the frequent unlock of properties, there are over and over again offers and extensions making the game even more interesting. Mid-February plots for the first airport in the game, the San Francisco International Airport, were given away. To switch between the cities, the explorers need to head to the airport. The owner of the airport plot then gets a 40 UPX fee.
At the beginning of march, an extensive update named Mojito rolled out in the game. It added treasures to it, which makes it even more fun.
Strategy
Because there are nearly endless moves and possibilities, you may ask how you can start the game right. It is a good idea to focus on the collections in the beginning. Try to get one after another to increase your income. The most obvious thing is to buy the properties that are in areas of interest in the future. Because if other players then send their explorer to those buildings, they need to pay you a fee.
Of course, the game is about becoming as rich as possible. The more UPX you got, the better it is. You may now think: “but couldn’t I just buy a huge amount of tokens with fiat?”. That’s correct, but it’s not just about the amount of UPX you own, it is also about how much you’ve invested for them. The return of investment (ROI) is defining success.
The story and development of Upland
The founders of the project are the friends Dirk Lueth, Mani Honigstein and Idan Zuckerman. They had the idea on an evening while playing Monopoly and watching “Stranger Things” on Netflix simultaneously. Dirk, who comes from Frankfurt, was also a big blockchain-enthusiast. They combined those 3 elements and Upland was born.
Upland is one of the projects, which are funded by the EOS VC fund. The EOS VC fund is managed by Block.one and the FinLab plc. It was created after the EOS ICO when Block.one raised 4 Billion US-Dollars. An amount of 1.000.000.000 $ ran in the fund.
Summarizing links
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