Game mechanics

DeRace is a complete NFT horse racing metaverse where you can participate in horse races, breed NFT horses with unique characteristics, build your own NFT hippodrome and get rewarded via our P2E mechanism while doing all of that.

The upgraded DeRace gameplay immerse players into the metaverse **through sustainable player earning concept via combination of 3 actions: creating, engaging and governing.**

* **Create2Earn**: mint NFTs
* **Engage2Earn**: player activity
* **Govern2Earn**: host races

By racing their NFT horses **players collect the experience points** which helps their horses to level up. With every level, NFT horses unlock new NFT wearables and gameplay features!

**Active players** are rewarded with **Sugar Cubes** and other in-game items for completing missions and unlocking the achievements.

Players can **use the Sugar Cubes to acquire Chests and Keys to draw NFT horse equipment which can make their NFT horses more competitive** on the racetrack by boosting their performance. Players have full control of their in-game NFTs and can also choose to trade them with others or burn them and receive the Sugar Cubes to buy new Chests and Keys to unlock a new item.

**Dive into the detailed DeRace game mechanics below** 👇

## 🐎 **Experience points (XP)**

Experience points have a major role in DeRace gameplay through NFT horse levels.

**XP can be collected by participating in the races. Winning the races (1st, 2nd and 3rd place) will additionally multiply your earned experience points from that race.**

In order for a horse to level up, he needs to reach a specific amount of XP. The amount of XP required to level up is increasing with each level: more points are needed to level up from level 30 to 31 than for level 3 to 4.

## 🆙 **Horse levels**

DeRace NFT horses can level up by collecting the experience points for their in-game activity. There are 80 horse levels in total.

**Higher level horses have more choices of wearable items (saddles, horse shoes, bridle, etc. with different buffs/debuffs) to be equipped with**.

NFT horse equipment will remain in the inventory until the horse reaches the required level to use it. **Owners can choose to keep the items for their horses and use it in the future once required level is reached, sell it to other players or burn it to receive the Sugar Cubes.**

## 🔥 **NFT burning mechanism**

**NFT deflationary mechanism** will be integrated into the game mechanics which will allow the players to manage the supply of the NFTs in the game.

**Players will get to choose to burn the unwanted in-game NFTs (horses, NFT equipment, Liquid Love and others) and receive the Sugar Cubes for it**. Each NFT has a specific amount of Sugar Cubes that player can receive after its burn. Since *common* NFT horse equipment items will be drawn more frequently than other tier assets, players can burn them to receive Sugar Cubes. They can use the collected Sugar Cubes to buy new Chest and Key NFTs, in order to draw a better and rarer rewards such as horse equipment of Legendary tier.

## 🏆 **Missions and achievements**

**Players can immerse themselves into the gameplay by completing missions (daily, weekly and monthly) and unlocking player or NFT horse achievements for which they get rewarded.** For smaller tasks, players will get additional boost to their XP while for bigger tasks they will get BIG rewards.

Daily missions include such tasks as run 3 races, reach 30 furlongs or race in Paradise Hills hippodrome once. Daily missions is easily achievable and all the players get rewarded with Sugar Cubes and XP by accomplishing them. Weekly and monthly missions require to engage more into the game than daily ones, however it also gives better rewards too! Players who complete all daily and weekly missions also get additional **Sugar Cubes which can be exchanged into Chests and Keys of various tiers in the upcoming DeRace marketplace!**

**Horse achievements will mainly target the NFT horse activity**: for example, *Oui Marengo!* trophy will be given to the horses who have ran in total 1,5 k furlongs. **Player achievements will be player related**: *for example*, winning a specific number of $DERC from the races. Rewards for unlocking achievements will also be sweeter: they include Chests, Keys, Boxes of Sugar Cubes, continuous Spin-The-Wheel opportunities and more! 😋

## 🎖 **DeRace P2E: activity rewards**

There exists 2 types of in-game activity rewards: one-time-only and continuous (for example: getting to spin the wheel every few races). Activity rewards include Chest NFTs, Key NFTs, various amounts of Sugar Cubes, XP boosts, additional opportunities at Spin-The-Wheel with crazy good rewards and more!

### **NFT Chests and NFT Keys**

Chests house various NFT horse equipment inside. The rarer the chest, the higher the chance of a rare item hiding inside! To open a chest players will need to acquire a fitting Key NFT. Both Chests and Keys have different tier levels according to their rarity: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary.

*Note: higher rarity Keys can unlock lower tier Chests!*

Players can choose to open the Chest and keep the item which is hidden inside or to sell it to the other players. They can also trade the Chest and Key NFTs directly without opening them, allowing for a chance of surprise!

### **Sugar Cubes**

**Sugar Cube is the fundamental in-game rewards’ unit which is easily exchangeable into the utility NFTs (such as NFT Chests and NFT Keys of various tiers).**

The main way to collect Sugar Cubes is by **accomplishing daily, weekly and monthly missions and by unlocking the achievements**: the more difficult the task is — the sweeter the reward!

For example, by completing daily tasks, players will be rewarded with a few pieces of Sugar Cubes. For reaching an important milestone in the horse’s achievements, such as running 15k furlongs, players can get rewarded with as much as a bag full of Sugar Cubes!

Basically, **Sugar Cubes provide an additional way for players to be rewarded within the DeRace metaverse which does not necessarily focus on the performance of their NFT horses**: as long as players remain active and involved in the game they can receive rewards.

Including Sugar Cubes into the upgraded player earning model allows all active players to be rewarded for their engagement and forms a closed loop economy which does not put additional strain on the $DERC token.

It also opens the doors for the well-established guilds to enter our metaverse which helps us to exponentially grow the playerbase!