Slowly starting the plots

Hi,

a couple of days ago, we received the final part of the Splinterlands white paper for Praetoria. You can read it in here. Now we have the final piece of the puzzle, with the reveal of the Ancient Ruins.

As a summary, the Ancient Ruins, are the announced unlimited card sink of the game. They are better than any burn event, as it keeps the value of the cards and having as many as possible, will be beneficial in the long run.

There have been some players that have bought loads of cheap rare reward cards in the past month. Now it makes more sense to buy them.

For my land plots, I was focusing on gold cards, if possible legendary ones, which are not cheap, and are expensive to start with. On the long run, they make sense, but for a quick start up of the plots, the rare cards are the most cost-effective ones. If staked DEC is taken in account, then the gold foil rare ones from the chaos legion edition are the best ones, if DEC is not taken in account, the regular foil rare cards have a very good production point rate per cost. As said, for the start-up of the plots the normal regular rare make the most sense. Replace this in time with gold foils of higher production plot value.

I'm in Dorthan Dell, which is in Central Fire. Here we have the biggest whale in the game, vugtis, who is running up his plots at insane speed. My first approach was to get the occupied plots up, and then focus on the others, as this plots give now SPS at a higher rate. In the future, SPS will come only from the Ancient Ruins. I have a decent rate of 15+SPS/hour. Not high, but also not low.

Till the moment, from the 104 plots owned, 26 are running and 78 are still waiting. Bottleneck is both DEC and cards. I try to buy every week 1 BCX gold foil legendary and at least 3 rare normal foils with max BCX with the corresponding DEC staked. I need 5,2 million DEC to cover all the land plots with full BCX cards. As now the maximum regular output on a plot is 100k production points, there are cards that can cover this on their own, so probably the needed DEC will be a little lower, and the investment higher, to get to the full capacity of each plot.

2024 will be a building land year, where I don't want to forget to stake up on Rebellion. On Rebellion, I'm reaching the gold level deck and will grow to Champion soon enough. I'm starting maximizing the legendary cards, and then move to the most needed ones, to be able to remain competitive in modern. In modern, I play in the last 3-5 days, as the higher player tier is much higher in ranking and when I encounter one from the top, I don't lose too many points, but on the win, I get a massive push. Of course, the wins in terms of SPS are much lower, but in terms of position, I can climb faster in ranking.

So, how did you adapt your strategy for the recent changes? Do you change it often, or stick to one?

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