Updating the whitepaper and roadmap is something that's hard to do currently, once we've managed to test the game properly and release it to the public we believe things will become more open and better to time/predict along with what more funding and new team members would allow to make possible. Clearly our first guesstimates of a roadmap, as one can see from the current outdated whitepaper were very, very wrong since the game became more complex than anticipated and the value of hive made it impossible to stay on course. Thus we'll be leaving that for a bit later so we can assure a more realistic update.
In terms of marketing, there's referrals and word of mouth. Other than that it will again depend on funding and how popular we are off the gate, currently we have close to 3000 registered hive accounts. We want the game to work for both web2 accounts and web3 as to be able to be promoted in many different places without all the web3 stigma surrounding this space. With the option to turn your web2 accounts into web3 if players want.
Expected investments from players is not our focus nor is the zing token value. That'll be a byproduct of a working and hopefully fun game many will enjoy while we keep growing the team and the ecosystem surrounding the game assets to offer them different games and a reason to come back to playing it on a daily basis.
I see that. On the other hand, DHF is an investment fund of a company in a way. And the shareholders of the company are asked to support a project. We shall approach it differently than just based on sympathy, resentment, or emotions, as the Value plan discussions demonstrate. I guess getting enough support would be quite hard without elaborating on this part of the proposal. Just my two cents, good luck, though! On the other hand, persuading just half of the registered Hiveans to purchase an extra vial will secure the same amount of money this proposal asks for. I am quite willing to do that myself.