Splinterlands - Season 135 - Quix & Jacek Max Level
Hello Splinterfans!
Season 135 has come to an end with a lot of commotion within the community due to some proposals currently running. I don't usually pay much attention to the DAO proposals, but these latest ones have even got me taking a look to see what they are all about.
It seems the removal of collection power as an important metric in favor of SPS staked was a mistake and this is now being back-tracked. When it was initially done, it caused quite a spike in SPS as people scrambled to get the required SPS. This seems to have worn off now though as the token has crashed the last months. The bad side-effect to this is also creating a huge barrier to entry for new players, which compared to collection power, is totally arbitrary.
The initial proposal to re-introduce it was passed but it seems that it can no longer be re-introduced easily by the team, but instead they have put forward a better solution which involves paying to play in wild and hike SPS requirements to remove bot farms.
It has caused quite some reaction from the community with mostly people looking against it, but so far it looks that it will pass.
On top of that, after banning bots in modern, they want to re-introduce them and add something called ghost cards into the game. I am not sure what that would then mean to modern as it would no longer be a bot free league.
We are used to things changing fast in Splinterlands, but things seem to be all over the place right now. How did we get here?
I've seen battle passes in other card games and think they can be a good addition to Splinterlands, but I am not sure you can have the current glint shop and a battle pass rewards system. I presume you need to have one or the other, but we now have just a new glint shop, so I am abit confused what direction we are going in and the game needs some stability right now.
Anyhow, the show must go on and the ultimate chests were the only chests not increased in cost at the end of the season, so I opened these first and was happy to bag some legendaries. I am still missing a few key soulbound legendaries, so these are key for me right now.
After opening 20 Glad packs last season, this season I managed 24 even! I was happy to bag a legendary in my pull too which is always good. I am still keen to level up Quora Towershead but still didn't get any new copies yet.
Card prices seem to still be falling and I decided to add a few key cards to my deck plus upgrade more of my deck to max level.
Quix is pretty essential and I finally upgraded him to max level. I actually in the end bought another level 3 Quix and merged him with my existing level 3 to give a level 4. This is 1 BCX higher than needed, but is a sign that the market is full of level 3 with the gold league now not being a good place to play and it is cheaper to buy these cards than the required amount of BCX for some cards. Do we only have 2 levels in the game now? Level 1 cards and max level? no more in between.
How was your season?
That's all for this update, thanks for reading.
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The changes in Splinterlands are really shaking things up indeed wow. I agree that stability is needed, especially with these new proposals and the bot issue. Quix at max level must be awesome though 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩😁
Yeah, we need some stability right now I think. Hopefully it will come. Quix is pretty awesome maxed out! I love him!
!LUV
Congratulations on your Quix the devious.
I don't want to be really sentimental, I think splinterlands is playing the egg and chicken game. Removing farming bots and replacing them with non earning bots seems really ironical. At the end of the day, players who think they're playing with real players are actually playing with bots.
I think collection power needs to be reintroduced for card prices to go up without having to wait for the bull market.
Overall modern would get the adequate human player if some requirements are reduced, then they wouldn't have to need non-earning bots
Congratulations on the season's reward too, plus that Ava the Undaunted
I think I read somewhere that the destruction of value in older cards has scared off buyers of the new cards. Hopefully the team can turn it around some how with CP reintroduced. Although I see it in other cars games that new sets nerf the older sets, maybe it is just the way of Nft gaming?
I am happy to have Quix upgraded, it is amazing to think how we can may out cards that before were so expensive.
Oh goodness Steve, to me it sounds like they have no clue what works and are just scrambling around trying things out to see what happens!
I have been playing a little bit in the silver league, not joined a guild or anything. I wonder why a new player would join as it ain't a play to earn, more a pay to play!
Have a great season.
It does seem as though the incentives are all over the place right now. I didn't run the numbers, but you could rent a few good cards and earn ok in the modern league. I'm am.not sure about the time investment needed though. Good to hear you have been dabbling again.
Removing the league caps is having the desired effect of getting players to level up their cards, but it is also making a lot leave the game and dump their cards. It’s all very fluid at the moment.
It is very fluid and i wonder where we are heading. With no caps, there are not many players in the middle leagues now.
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I'm actually playing more again lately and really enjoy the process of upgrading cards again to Max level now. Just bought the Astral Entity you put for sale by the way.
On one hand it feels like card prices will go lower as the tax to play wild will result in another capitulation, while at the same time comparing to what players paid for their cards they are dirt cheap now and I don't want to wake up to see that everything went up and I missed out on the sales. So a double edged sword.
Thanks for buying my Astral Entity! I am wanting to upgrade him. I think if the cards were not cheap, we wouldnt be upgrading so much, so it is fun to have max level cards and use the abilities, but at the cost of value of cards. I guess we cannot have both and this isnt just unique to Splinterlands. I think only the genesis cards have some sort of protection in Gods Unchained, but still they face power creep in other ways.