Earth 2 Mentar Staking Perk

Earth 2 Discount Spin

So, there’s a new feature just dropped where you can pay Essence to spin a wheel and get a discount on new Tier 3 and Tier 2 land purchases in certain areas.

 

To find it you want to click into the main menu and where we often see a countdown for territory releases or skins, you should see the “Mentar Staking Perk” count down. Now the perk will already be available for that territory if the timer is showing. It’s actually counting down to the perk closing for that area. But next click the visit territory button which should take you to the relevant territory. Now finding the spin can be a little tricky. It’s oddly placed in my opinion. Hopefully they will change it in the future. But for now you want to select your tiles, scroll down and hit the buy button on whichever tier you’re going for. This will open the next screen of pay now and upon clicking the pay now that’s when the perk appears. Just be super cautious incase they do change how or when we see the wheel as clicking that button would usually take the amount from your balance.

So what exactly is it? Essentially it’s a staking reward. You can’t use the feature unless you have the required minimum Essence staked in your properties Mentars. If you don’t know what that means, I do have a video covering Mentar Staking on my profile.

Now this territory discount requires you personally to have 10,000 Essence staked and this going forward this will be the required stake for random daily releases. Now that’s across all of your stakes, it’s not specific to the region.
However it does go on to say an occasional manual release may require a higher stake, we even saw the first territory release of New York previously requiring 25,000 Essence staked.

So how exactly will territories be selected? The message does very much imply that they will be randomly selected by the system, changing to a new territory daily. This will be from all of the areas which have Tier 3 tiles open in them already. Unlike T3 territory releases there’s no voting system or being able to see which ones are coming up. We’re just going to have to check on it to see where it heads next.

They do also go on to say there will be the occasional manual release for a higher amount of Essence. I suspect these will be the more sought after locations like New York, London, Dubai and so on.

So what exactly can we get for doing it and what are the costs?
Along with the staking requirement you do also have to pay a spin fee in Essence. Currently set to 0.05 Essence per tile selected. So 1 tile would be 0.05 Essence, 10 tiles would be 0.5 Essence, 100 tiles 5 and the maximum 750 tiles would be 37.5 Essence to spin.
The discounts range from a minimum of 20% all the way up to 50% and here you can see the chances of spinning each one. All these figures are correct at the time of writing, although with it being a new release feature. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised to see some adjustment along the way.

I guess this kinda of creates some exclusivity for those who are locking up their Essence, gives them some perks and benefits for doing so. I have no doubt some users will now aim to get to that 10 or 25k staked requirement.

Now I don’t partially want land here but ofc course I’m going to have to do a little test spin for you guys to see and this is my first time spinning so get those fingers crossed.

What do you guys think then? Will you use the new feature?