Developer Planetarium Labs has announced the 2nd PBFT Playertest for Nine Chronicles, an open-source fantasy blockchain idle game. 

This second Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance test started on February 13th and will end on February 27th at 1 AM UTC. The game's developers are inviting players to participate and provide feedback to improve the game by playing on testnet, with game data taken from block 5,962,691 (v100360), which is from around January 30th. Any game progress on the testnet will of course not have any effect on the mainnet.

Players who participate may have a chance of winning rewards, as there will be a survey to complete near the end of the test that will give 50 players a chance to earn 200 NCG. The winners will be chosen based on survey response and play history, with the team suggesting that players should make at least 10 transactions per day, but in a natural way and not in the course of a rapid, short timespan.

Regarding the first PBFT network test, the Nine Chronicles team has stated that they have read through all the feedback from everyone who participated, acknowledging that the testnet is “somewhat boring” due to a lack of content. The developers have reassured the community that this is because these are currently the “first several test trials” in which they want to make sure that there aren’t any problems before they end up introducing additional features, revealing that they soon plan to get another playtest running that will have various other features to enjoy and test. 

The Nine Chronicles team hopes that the second PBFT playtest will help them in their goal of successfully transitioning to a PoS (Proof-of-Stake) system this year, using PBFT as the foundation to PoS in order for transactions to be verified in a simpler way in comparison to PoW (Proof-of-Work).

“The process of transitioning to PoS is quite complex. Numerous trials and support from our players are crucial in providing an optimum service. Therefore, we would like to invite you all to the second PBFT Playertest on Testnet.”

For the full details, as well as the link to download the test client, you can head on over to the official Medium post found in the tweet down below.