Property parcels and colors When zoomed in close enough on the map, you’ll see the outlines
of property parcels. These parcels are based on real world
addresses, coordinates and proportions. Their color codes will
tell you something about them:
Gray: unminted (never
minted on the blockchain). These properties have never been
owned, you would essentially be creating them for the first
time on the grey outlined “area”. Minting will give you the
mint price from the system.
Light blue: owned by
someone else, not listed for sale (but you can still make an
offer).
Dark green: owned by
someone else, listed for sale with price (you can buy at price
or make a different offer).
Dark blue: your
properties (owned by you).
Light green: properties
in “discovery range” of your explorer.
Process Buying someone
else’s property is easy. You can do so at any point by clicking on
a minted property. In the menu that pops up you will see certain
essential data about that property. Click Buy to
buy at the seller’s price, if listed, or click
Make Offer if no price is listed or you have a
different one in mind. Buying a previously unowned
property, what we call minting, is only slightly
more complicated. Remember, unminted properties on the map are
grey. To buy one, use the same method as above, only your explorer
must be in its vicinity first. Once a property is
in “discovery range” of your explorer, it will turn bright green,
at which point you can click on it to buy. The number of
properties discovered by your explorer appears in bright green
attached to the top left of the avatar. You can click on your
avatar at any point to see a full list of discovered
properties.
UPX yield Properties in
Upland carry an annual yield of approximately
17% of its mint price. So if a property’s mint
price was 10,000 UPX, it will yield its owner
approximately 1,700 UPX per year. Those are real
years, by the way, not “video game years”. You can collect a
portion of that yield every few hours in the top right corner of
your screen.
"If you’re wondering how to get by in Upland when you’re
starting out earning only a few mere UPX every few hours, or
if you’re wondering why it works that way in the first place,
see the
Real Economy section."
Certain properties fit certain collections and will receive
Boosted Earnings when complete. If you click on the property, you
can see the earnings range and clicking on Boosted Earnings will
also show you what collections it can fit into.
Shilling Much like in
real life, what’s more important in real estate than “the sell”?
Some of our community members have dubbed this “shilling”: it’s
essentially pitching your property to potential buyers. That
usually happens in our community chat groups,
Discord
or Telegram. You
can go there to see what it looks like when players do it.
Negotiating, trading, and selling properties with other Uplanders
is one of the most fun parts of our game, so don't miss
out!