By the sound of it, some are having more fun than others in Splinterlands lately. Me, well I have just been observing for the most part.

The new Stuff

I was never going to have the funds to get the packs required for any future benefit in the Riftwatchers or Tower Defense launch. So I just set that shit aside.

Looking at the Nightmare (Tower Defense) packs on the secondary market and deciding where I might want to aggregate some of my liquid to I would probably bang my buck on buying Nightmare packs over Riftwatchers.

The intent is that I should be able to build up card for card once the Riftwatchers hit the market. I am not so sure about the Tower Defense thing and possibly if I have those packs already there is the minor possibility of being able to sell at quite the FOMO price.

Although I think most Splinterlands players know by now to just let things be as it hardly matters. If you can't get enough to get the bonuses then there is no point.

From there just buy whatever feels right.

My botties

Another reason some are maybe having less fun is the usual increase in difficulty of just playing Ranked. I guess Brawls too but then again they were never fun so get your head checked.

I am now going on to my second season using a bot service , just too chillax and not be arsed mainly. Still on the fence about getting an Archmage account but that is something I will pull the trigger on probably as I take a dump and feel bored.

@Anyn99's botty

Now as for a disclaimer, my cards are not the best and maybe should not be in Gold?

I am only renting two of the modern summoners at Level 6, and then I have my own Level 5 Zintar, and my Level 4 Epic Daria which I prefer to use because I then get to obviously play more Gold level abilities and slightly better level cards.

For the most part I have a Level 4 of the Betas each except for my entire water squad and Alric being delegated out almost indefinitely.

a Pretty ramshackle squad of rejects which might do ok in Silver.

I don't like silver though so fuck that.

Anyway all that to say that bots can't do miracles. Comparitively Anyns bot is doing very similar to how I might do personally and it is doing quite a bit better in Gold than I had the experience with Splintermate.

They operate far different though, and I think that does give Anyns bot the upperhand if they were to go head to head.

Anyn takes only 15% of my seasons earnings and that incentivices him to improve the bot to earn more chests. Personally I think he has a lot of potential and the more accounts he can have it run on the better it is for optimization.

Will it do beyond expectation? Well I guess that depends. Now I am quite wary of any sort of sales pitching so when told it could play my deck in Diamond... I have played my deck. Unless the bot can simulate every possible permutation in the 2 or so minutes allotted I doubt it can play diamond.

Can it play Gold well enough for me to kinda not want to jump in and do it myself? Yeah, it is playing well enough, if I equate the time I am being saved not having to play then I don't mind it possibly not excelling. Yet.

It would be up to me to evaluate possibly a manual season in Gold and then still without renting or buying exorberent amounts of cards deciding if I am better off in Silver. I would really need to lose pretty hard though as I don't see a reason to play Silver unless the increased winrate amounts to significantly more SPS.

Not that the 4-6 Gold chests have been that great but I think the RNG is showing me the middle finger.

If I rent, which is not off the table but really I don't tend to see the point. If I don't have the cards then I do trend towards just suffering with what I have.

All in all I am happy with using @Anyn99's bot for Gold and think it is still better than the $30+ price tag of Archmage.

Splintermate

For me, Splintermate kinda rocks Bronze, I had it play Silver last season by accident but that was definitely not the best thing. The thing here is the RNG.

With Splintermate making my Bronze account about 14 chests a day it actually earns slightly more than the Gold account in chest earnings or equal.

Which again makes me think to move my Gold account down to Silver to milk chests there and even split it into 2 Silver accounts one wild one Modern. Oneday though.

There is definitely more incentive to play a bajillion Bronze accounts than there is trying to play Tier 3 of either Silver or Gold.

If you cannot play in Tier 2 or above of a league by the looks of it you should just drop down.

The Bronze account is running at about 60%+ on average which for splinterlands I think is good enough.

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All in all I am happy with both these services and the fact is with data and experience they can both only improve.

I can jump in anytime and play manually which I will soon enough. I tend to cycle around to things as the mood strikes me so in the meanwhile it is good to know I don't have to just let the accounts sit idle or have the hassle of renting out.