Watching Progress More Closely For My Hive Main Goals (Week 32, 2023)

This is a short sum-up table with the state of my goals in easier TLDR form. The table has only some information, so if you want details, they can be found in the post.

Current State/Other Selection Criterion	Goals Matching the Criterion
Ongoing	5 (HP + HBD Savings, LEO Staked, Comments Made, DEC Saved 2 - Stage 2, Cards for Staking on Land - Stage 2)
Completed Main Goals	0
Completed Goals	3 (DEC-B Saved, DEC Saving 2 - Stage 1, Cards for Staking on Land - Stage 1)
Main goals	3 (HP + HBD Savings, LEO Staked, Comments Made)
Goals	2 (Cards for Staking on Land, DEC Saved 2)
New Goals	2 (Cards for Staking on Land, DEC Saved 2)
Increased Goals	3 (HBD target for HP+HBD Main Goal - twice, DEC-B Saved)
Decreased Goals	2 (Comments Made, Cards for Staking on Land - Stage 1)

I include a link to the initial goal-setting post for 2023, for reference, if needed.

Looks like the Splinterlands team jumped the gun announcing they'll have Land 1.5 available on the Mavericks' test server this weekend. It's... not ready. They keep finding and fixing bugs on a daily basis and seems like the decision was made not to open the game to the mavericks yet, to not start with a bad impression.

We're slowly approaching the end of the year and from now on I'll need to pay close attention to my goals and their progress level, especially for the main goals which are very important to me, or they wouldn't be "main".

Both LEO and HP+HBD goals are on edge. LEO because I still have 4500 LEO to stake in 4 and a half months, which means around 1000 LEO per month. That was my pace at the beginning of the year when the price of LEO was much lower.

HP+HBD because, frankly, the bull market is taking its time to show up and the floor for HIVE remained quite high, which is great for the ecosystem, but not so much if you are accumulating. I was prepared for both situations (bull market or lower floor), but we are now somewhere in the middle which isn't fantastic for my goal.

Let's see what has changed since last week regarding my Hive goals.

HIVE Power (HP) + HBD in Savings Main Goal

My staked HIVE reached 33,266 HP this week. I am on course with my daily powerups for the PUM badge this month. My HBD savings are now at 215 HBD, after a little rounding up.

Here's what the evolution of the HP+HBD goal looks like:

I can't influence this 100% through accumulation, but it may be useful info. I need 162 HBD-worth progress weekly until the year-end to hit the HBD target or 556 HIVE-worth progress weekly until the year-end to hit the HIVE target. Progress can be realized through accumulation or price change (this can produce regress too). One target is enough to complete this goal.

LEO Staked Main Goal

I staked 250 LEO this week - around 67 of them purchased - and reached exactly 18,000 LP. Tomorrow is LPUD so I'll stake more LEO.

I currently need to stake 225 LEO weekly (down from 227 last week) to reach the target by the year-end.

Splinterlands Land Expansion Main Focus

Land expansion's main focus extends throughout 2023. Unless I change the strategy, it will be the only main focus / main goal for Splinterlands in 2023. But there will be several 1-3 months goals.

First Land-Related Goal: DEC/DEC-B Saved - Completed

This goal is COMPLETED.

Deadline (passed): When DEC-B offer runs out, either because all were sold out or because the time limit was reached (April 9th).

Target to consider the goal completed: 1.5 mil. DEC-B saved. Done!

DEC Saved 2 Goal - Stage 1 Completed

[COMPLETED] Deadline stage 1: June
Deadline stage 2: August
Deadline stage 3: End of 2023?

Target to consider the goal completed:

• stage 1: 1.2m DEC (COMPLETED)
• stage 2: 2.2 DEC (1m additional DEC)
• stage 3: 5 DEC (2.8m additional DEC)

Current situation: 1.2m DEC (liquid) and 90k DEC x 2 = 180k DEC in SPS:DEC diesel pool.

New Land-Related Goal: Cards for Staking on Land Stage 1 Completed

^{The purpose of this goal is to build the amount of high PP cards I need for staking on my tract.}

^{We will need to fill 5 slots per plot with staked cards, without requiring summoners (that doesn't mean they can't be used as regular cards).}

So, what are the details of this goal?

Deadline:

• [COMPLETED] Stage 1: June 2023
• stage 1.5: August
• stage 2: End of 2023 (this will be a new goal)

The total number of maxed-level* cards needed for staking on land: 500 (5 x 100).

• stage 1: need 120 cards for land by the deadline (decreased from 220) COMPLETED
  • stretch goal: have optimized cards for 24 plots COMPLETED
• stage 1.5: need 220 cards for land by the deadline
• stage 2: have 500 cards for land
  • stretch goal: have optimized cards for 44 plots

(*) any card with at least 1000 PP suitable for the terrain types I own will do (better for better plots); doesn't have to be maxed

Current situation total: 139 / 500 (27.8%)

Current situation stage 2: 21 / 100

Time remaining until Stage 2 deadline: max 2 weeks?

Note: Taking my time. Practically, if I'm a little bit behind my DEC saving goal, I'm ok with this goal. For max-level cards, my DEC could currently support 136 cards at full production capacity, so I'm quite ok with this goal progress, even if it doesn't respect the original deadlines.

Note 2: I still need to take my land cards that are not from my playing deck off the rental market, but that's the last thing I'll do, a few days before Land drops publicly.

Comments Made

Original goal: 18k, REDUCED to 17k, by the end of 2023.

I started this week with a total of 14999 comments made.

Ended the week with 15096 comments made, which brings the number of my comments during this week to 97, which is in line with my needed weekly average.

I now need an average of 96 comments weekly to reach the goal of 17k.

Weekly Buy - LEO

I continued with my weekly 10 HIVE worth of LEO purchases. I'll keep doing that until I believe I am out of the woods with my LEO Power yearly main goal or until the price of LEO pumps and it doesn't make sense to buy anymore.