#1 – Neon Echoes | Avatars | The Ascended
Meet The Ascended. Humans who have chosen to permanently upload their consciousness into one of 16k Human bodies in the Metaverse, now they hope for a better life than the one spent in the real world. The Neon Echoes | Avatar | Ascended Collection will contain a total of 16k unique NFTs over eight Series of 2000 NFTs each. The series are split between Female and Male of different ethnic backgrounds (Note: Gender Neutral / Binary characters are also available on a limited basis within these series). These Avatars become upgraded as they become more valuable (see levels below).
Initial Utility:
Can be used as an in-game 2D PFP + Early access to the Neon Echoes Metaverse MMORPG + Grant one loot box redeemable in-game (matches Avatar’s rarity).
Guild Leader Title + New Guild
Requirements: A minimum initial purchase threshold of 0.1 ETH, only one VIP Title can be granted per Avatar.
Utility: Guilder Leader Title claim, which when exercised, grants the Avatar the ability to create their own in-game guild and invite up to 10 Guild Officers and 2000 members. Guild officers and members don’t require any NFTs to join.
Note: Optionally, a Separate Real Estate, Outpost or Metaverse Space Craft NFT ownership required to set as the Guild HQ.
3D Avatar Upgrade:
Requirements: A minimum initial purchase threshold of 0.3 ETH, or minimum of 6 ETH in subsequent sales if initial sale was under 0.3 ETH.
Utility: 3D Avatar. This PFP Avatar is eligible to be upgraded to a high-poly 3D Avatar for the owner’s use in the Neon Echoes Metaverse MMORPG (instead of the generic free 3D Avatar skins), along with any clothing, mods or devices per the metadata in the PFP.
CEO Title + New Corporation
Requirements: A minimum initial purchase threshold of 1 ETH in the initial sale, or minimum of 20 ETH in subsequent sales if initial sale was under 1 ETH. In addition to the 3D Avatar privilege, only one VIP Title can be granted at a time.
Utility:
Optional add-ons:
Additional Corporate Manufacturing Blueprint NFTs can be purchased separately if desired.
A Separate Real Estate NFT ownership required for the Corporate HQ, Manufacturing and Distribution facilities.
Mayor + New City
Requirements: Minimum initial purchase threshold of 5 ETH, or subsequent purchase of at least 100 ETH. In addition to the 3D Avatar privilege, only one VIP Title can be granted at a time.
Utility:
1- Mayor Title claim. Once exercised, you will become the Mayor of a new city on a random public habitable planet in the Neon Echoes Metaverse.
2- Any player who chooses your city as their home city (where they respawn after death) will be identified as your citizen and will pay you a daily Citizen tax (that you can set from 0 to 8%).
3- Your ownership of your initial city cannot be usurped, but any expansion beyond that can be revoked with enemy conquest, uprisings or population decline)
4- The city grants you ownership of 9 interconnected settlement Hex Areas, each Hex Area can have up to 9 City Blocks (also known as Settlement blocks), each block has 7 building or other settlement structure construction space, you can keep the blocks to yourself or grant, lease or sell your blocks to any other player. The other player who will need their own Architectural blueprints to build).
5- NPCs will automatically start visiting once your city is open to the public, those who really like it and can find residential vacancies and jobs will stay and start paying you a tax.
6- If CEOs or Guild Leaders choose your city as their Headquarters, that gives you a reputational boost that will attract more NPCs and real players. CEOs and Guild Leaders that have secondary offices and facilities also give you a rep boost, but not as much as an HQ.
7- Building blueprints: As Mayor, you will have free access to a growing library of blueprints for Mayors to design their city, including roads, trees, signs and Neon or Holographic ad banners, etc..
8- As Mayor you also get Five free random architectural blueprint designs: One of each:
Note: Construction Materials, personnel and construction time required to convert the blueprints to actual in-game usable buildings. Optionally, additional architectural blueprint NFTs sold separately if more of a variety for your city is desired.
Requirements: Minimum initial purchase threshold of 50 ETH or subsequent purchase of 1k ETH minimum required to be an Emperor. In addition to the 3D Avatar privilege, only one VIP Title can be granted at a time.
Utility:
1- At this level you are eligible for an Imperial upgrade, which when exercised grants you your own Empire in-game (with an imperial crest and icon indicating the territories that you own, this crest can also be added as a layer on top of Clothing, Armor or Tattooed on your NPCs if needed, players can also choose to add the emblem if they wish).
2- You are granted perpetual ownership rights of one Metaverse Star System in a random location in the Metaverse Galaxy, any ships that you pilot that have warp capability will be able to warp into your star system at no fuel cost.
3- Procedural Star System generation: A new star system under your ownership will be generated procedurally. This will include, a random Star Type
4- Territory is expandable with in-game conquest, any expanded territory can be lost during conquest)
5- In addition to the star, there will be Nine distinct interconnected star destination nodes activated in your star’s map. Each destination can be made public, private (to you only), or denizen-only (to tax-paying denizens of your empire only)
6- Each of the 9 nodes can randomly spawn one of 6 instances of different rarities. Note that you are guaranteed at least one rare and one epic or legendary spawn.
A maximum of 40 of these titles will be ever issued in the lifetime of this project. Can only be obtained by purchasing Neon Echoes Avatars pre-designated with the “Overlord” title.
Gives the holder “Founder” status, granting VIP Access to real world events hosted by the Neon Echoes team, clearance to enter Neon Echoes development office space (NDA required) to see firsthand the progress of the development work on the project and be the first to try out new features.
Access to special Founder-only IRL and in-game events.
A secret feature in-game accessible only to the player using the Overlord Avatar (each Overlord NFT has this feature that is unique to others), the nature of this feature will be communicated confidentially and personally by the founder to the owner of the NFT.
Utility:
The Neon Echoes | Avatars | The Ascended NFT Collection are upgradable 2D PFP NFTs that represent a Player Character in the Neon Echoes Metaverse. The NFT’s utility increases as they become more valuable. They get upgraded with access to additional utility if they cross certain value thresholds. This way, not only do you win rewards in-game by playing and winning events, but it also means that there is incentive for others to purchase a veteran Avatar rather than starting frmo scratch, so when you want to try a new Avatar or move on to other things, there will be an increased demand for others to buy your high value Avatar, which will now grant the new owner additional abilities and rewards.
Upgraded Utility:
When the value of this NFT increases (for example due to high reputation in the game, high experience level, high number of missions completed, etc..) then the new owner will be eligible to claim unique in-game titles and capabilities not available in the Free to Play version. In game titles include Guild Leader, CEO, Mayor and Imperial. These titles come with special VIP privileges in-game, opening new opportunities, allowing for user generated content, even entire player-created worlds.
Note that only one title can be held by a single Avatar at a time (multiple Avatars in the same crypto wallet can each have their own titles).
Avatar Distribution in the Ascended Collection:
Series 1: Human – Female – Skin Tone: White/Tanned (Caucasian and others with light skin tones) (2000 NFTs)
Series 2: Human – Male – Skin Tone: White/Tanned (Caucasian and others with light skin tones) (2000 NFTs)
Series 3: Human – Female – Skin Tone: Black (2000 NFTs)
Series 4: Human – Male – Skin Tone: Black (2000 NFTs)
Series 5: Human – Female – Skin Tone: Fair (East Asian) (2000 NFTs)
Series 6: Human – Male – Skin Tone: Fair (East Asian) (2000 NFTs)
Series 7: Human – Female – Skin Tone: Brown (Middle-Eastern, Latin with dark skin tones, Asian Subcontinent and Indigenous) (2000 NFTs)
Series 8: Human – Male – Skin Tone: Brown (Middle-Eastern, Latin with dark skin tones, Asian Subcontinent and Indigenous) (2000 NFTs)
Upon completion of this collection, there will be no more human Avatar PFP NFTs created for Neon Echoes.
Future Avatar PFPs will be for other races, such as Cyborg, and Alien.
Avatar Attributes (Traits):
Note: Weapons are not included and some will be sold as standalone NFTs. We want to make the Human characters look generic enough that they can work as PFP on any Media or Platform or Game that is modern, cyberpunk or sci-fi themed.
Note: In the coming weeks we will be rolling out a “claims” checker that can check your wallet for Neon Echoes NFTs that are eligible for any in-game claims (titles, 3D Avatar upgrade, etc..). This way you know exactly what upgrade level your NFT is currently on and what to expect when the corresponding feature is activated in-game.
See the Roadmap for more details on when you can expect a certain feature to be implemented within the Development Project Plan.