I was able to join the hunt, collect balls and capture 2 mons, however I didn't have any nwc set up on the hunter. It said sats were collected, but nothing was deducted from the nwc wallet I used to ...
To receive sats as a player the nostr npub you use to log in must be set up to receive zaps with a Lightning address (via the lud16 field) in your profile metadata.
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