Important Updates for Splinterlands Went Live
Today was a big update day for Splinterlands. I was actually postponing my post wanting to write about it. But since I've gone through most of them when they were announced (without the ECR formula change presented later on), I decided to write a follow-up post after a while.
But, since I started this way... A few words about the ECR formula change.
ECR Formula Change
What it says is simple. If you don't usually drain your ECR on your account, you're all good. Nothing has changed for you.
If you dip below 50% ECR from time to time, things aren't as pretty, because you burn 5x more ECR per game below 50%.
I like this change. Even though I sometimes dipped below 50% (even as low as 30%!), that's usually out of frustration because I couldn't reach a certain target I had.
And I made the mistake to keep trying and trying, even though the more frustrated I got the more I lost. I even made a post some time ago listing frustration as a reason to stop playing.
Now that I look at my own tips from two months ago, I realize frustration is what makes me dip below 75% ECR, in most cases, so it's responsible for two bad outcomes: burning through ECR and losing more matches.
Well, maybe with this new rule, at least I have a floor at 50%. Not that I was reaching those levels often. Maybe once every two seasons or something like that.
5 More Airdrop Days and New LP Rewards
I can't believe there are 5 more days till the SPS airdrop is over!
One year ago we were all excited it was coming, and now many are looking at its end as a halving event. This makes some sense since the SPS inflation will drop significantly after the airdrop ends.
Many are waiting for that to make their next moves. New liquidity pool providers rewards have been announced, which will add new incentives for holding DEC, SPS or even VOUCHERs in LPs, post-airdrop.
The DEC rewards were kind of a surprise since the team mentioned the plans to drop DEC as a reward token and transform it into a transactional token only. As presented, the DEC inflation for LP rewards will be about one-fifth of the one generated through ranked battles rewards right now.
We will see if this reduction is enough to push DEC close to its store value and keep it there from the downside. If not, there will soon be a simple SPS Governance Voting mechanism, so that SPS stakeholders can have their say.
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There's another change, which I have not seen announced. Might be a feature or a bug, but the color of the daily focus is no longer guarantee in the allowed decks. I have my daily focus in Death, but there are battles where I can not fight Death :)
Oops! I forgot to go over that one. I thought it was in my initial post but looks like they squeezed it in afterward.
Yes, that's one of the changes they added, you are no longer guaranteed to have the focus mission active if it's a splinter.
I think it's an ok change, it will make fights more interesting without a streak of the same splinter played over and over again (of which I'm guilty of doing too).
I also haven't talked about the new focus missions, but I wanted to play some games with them first. The 10% bonus per card with the focus seems interesting.
I noticed renting is only possible for minimum of 2 days from today too.
Yes, I talked about it in the post I linked at the beginning.
yes i remember it in your article. was surprised it kicked in so quick
I think I am getting daily focus points when the daily focus splinter is greyed out
I like it, makes the game more fun than mindlessly spamming the same deck over and over
Yep you are. Every battle won contributes to both the SP and FP. The difference is that if you use focus cards you get a 10% bonus for each of them.
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I think this is a good change and I only drain my ECR too low when it comes to the end of the season. I just have to be a little bit more careful with how much I drain it. After all, I prefer to just do my fights with higher ECR.
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Yes, for regular players this ECR formula change shouldn't affect them.
It looks like if I want to be in 100% with the LN crowd, I would have to start playing the game again. So many of you people are posting about and playing the game.
Voted on ListNerds!
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Ha ha, I feel sorry for you!
This sounds like some interesting stuff, although I don't play anymore. It was never really my kind of game but I tried. I'm more so there just for the token so once the airdrops are done so am I. I will sell off my assets, hold the tokens on HE and move on.
This game frustrates me and is too time consuming for me.
!CTP
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You could rent out your assets. There are automatic options out there.
Well, I have considered that as I have a few good cards I could rent, but I'm definitely selling the rest off. I have a few GFL's & legendary & a few GF's so I'm sure I could make good with rents from them but I wouldn't do anymore than that.
!CTP