Souldbound Reward Cards Are Coming To Splinterlands! Is This A Step Forwards or Backwards?
Last month Matt announced during the Town Hall that soulbound reward cards are planned for Splinterlands. This has been a hot topic ever since, so I had to weigh in!
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You make a good point that for Champion Accounts, cards are really the worst rewards which is a problem.
The way I see it, this Soulbound Reward Card idea is an excellent opportunity to give SPS/Vouchers/DEC more use case. I would not mind a system where by default the cards are Soulbound and based on the amount of Staked SPS they have a certain chance to turn into real tradable reward cards. That crushes the bots that just extract value, gives the bigger players all reward cards just as they used to be and gives smaller players incentives not to dump the SPS they earn. It would be nice if this also came with the option the delegate SPS so investors that don't play get an extra return this way.
I also wonder what will happen to the rental market as it could collapse since reward cards have been a good incentive for players to rent more cards.
What I do wonder if this change to Soulbound reward cards will be a proposal or if the team just brute forces it into the game which pretty much would make the entire proposal system useless.
Regardless of what happens, I'm sure it will be done in a way that is reasonable similar to pretty much everything the devs have done in the past.
Personally, I like the soul-bound card system, because that's how I use the game. The problem is with the rentals. I want to be able to rent them out while accumulating from one level to another. Plus, for those who want to rent them from the market, there needs to be that option. For rentals, staking cards could be a better solution.
The good thing is that you would earn them much quicker, so there wouldn't be as much of a gap from one level to the other. Although speaking of that, I still wish we simply had an earnings bonus/modifier that was based on card BCX. So you would still want to combine those cards together even if you don't hit the next level, because it still increases earnings. But that's a completely separate discussion.
So would I. This is especially good for new players but should be almost needed for reward cards if they will be soul-bounded until they are maxed or until they go out of print.