Splinterland Rewards: The Error Of Conventional Attachment To "Profit & Loss"

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Thrilling But Aggrandizing....

For the first time I broke into bronze I and had x9 season rewards, not that this is special, but it's a step towards progress. I got two epic cards, one common and one rare. Three Alchemy potion charge, then 9 credits. This is as far as my season rewards have gotten, and it's thrilling. I agree that I FOMO'ED into Splinterlands in September of last year, but then who isn't really subconsciously driven by "FOMO*?

A lot of people fear to spend on ventures they might consider to be futile, in factI've seen people who say that the effort, time and money put into Splinterlands isn't worth the trouble. While I wouldn't say they're wrong, I'll say they're more scared of the output not matching the input. This is logical business wise, but crypto in itself isn't logical, life isn't logical and making money might seem symmetrical, but it isn't exactly proportional, especially when you're measuring your prospective output before your input comes in.


Losing Differently

While I've lost more with Splinterland, some of its strategies have thought me that, you don't eventually lose for nothing. You lose to learn and then learn to advance. Take for example, the Goblin Psyche is one powerful earth master, with +3 magic attack when paired with obsidian for a summoner, the whole point is to get it shielded from powerful sneak melee attack and one way to do this is to play it in the front line, rather than the back line where it seems to be protected, heals itself and heals the monster taking the heat in the front.

But what if the opponent fails to field sneak monsters, but powerful range attack and melee? Then its actually game over. However, this isn't always the case. I love magic Monsters generally, they penetrate beyond shield and are not vulnerable to thorn attacks but in most cases zintar mortalistakes away that extra attack and makes them vulnerable.


A Chance To Opt Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Now, I've famously heard that these competitions aren't that tough in the silver or subsequent leagues, and what does this actually mean? It's tougher when survival is the focal point, but it gets easier when balance is attained, and you begin to chase goals beyond survival. However, this isn't the point. At one point in time, one eventually accepts that their comfort zone might just be putting all their eggs in one basket.

One of the things that propels me is the fear of getting back to ground zero, but it's better when it involves risks that I can actually control. In real-time, I try not to make too many financial mistakes, because the lessons learned wouldn't outweigh the effect of those mistakes. The world out there often feel that people who put all their money in crypto are living dangerously, while this can be somewhat true, it's also proportional to people who are also involved in real-time ventures.


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Coming back to the season rewards, it wasn't easy to keep that constant grinding. This is because there are seasoned player at the bottom who are probably there because they stopped playing and got dropped into lower leagues and combination of people as well who are trying to get into higher league. I mean the competition is high, and I admit that not a lot of people are built for competition.

This isn't just splinterlands but the whole blockchain space. The best ways I've come to beat competition is to constantly grind and to be unique. You have to probably know that there are height that might be insurmountable. One of the reasons why people don't try is because getting to the top is impossible. To me, getting to the top is good, but the goal is to grow, gently, not reckoning with the top or have it decide whether I have failed or succeed.


Profit & Loss: Crypto-Esque?

Splinterlands mirrors some real life issues. Subconsciously survival is imbued when you have limited resources. However, I've discovered that best way to build an NFT or Crypto portfolio isn't about having that mega billions. Having little amount of money when you want to achieve a lot can be frustrating but, if diversification is your aim then you need to firstly understand that blockchain play2earn is becoming the real deal and of because it's promising a lot of money and excitement, it would definitely be competitive.

Bear seasons come with FUD
and sometimes you begin to doubt if all the FOMO and hype was actually worth it. I try not to measure worth with the dollar valuation. In fact, you cannot measure the efforts you put in crypto with the conventional profit and loss real-time situations. While I can't assure you that you'll make a lot of money gaming, it's evident you'll learn, you're diversifying, and you're aiming towards solidity rather than survival.




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Great piece as usual, thank you for sharing this. Happy new month, I pray you won’t lack any good things in this new month

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I think my most frustrating moment in Splinterlands was buying a card to build my first time not realizing that the new set was about to release. I was new, so I dropped a very small investment just to try the game. That card is now worth 5% of what I purchased it for, and I never use it; the starter summoners/monsters from Chaos Legion completely invalidated it.

I suppose the lesson is, sadly, that I'm unlikely to buy cards for quite some time until I've observed enough to understand when the market is bottoming out as part of the normal cycles of each new set. It's just unfortunate that I had such poor timing as a new player :S

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I also started playing just before the latest price drop, back when a ureaus was $4 and creeping ooze was at $10 ,while i will have lost in the short term on these cards, once CL starts running low the prices will recover and most likely increase beyond their previous highs plus the decent CL cards will reach their true potential. Just ride it out for now and stack CL cards imo.

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In the short term, one's currently losing, no doubt, but this should change in the long-term. I'm not dependent on splinterlands for anything at the moment. I just want to grow my deck and my account.

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Im looking at it a similar way, im actually enjoying the game and building up my decks. If the prices fly up in a year or two thats a bonus, if not its just another game ive spent some money on to play(same as any other game with DLC) ,however at the very least with this game the items are resellable.
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The market is currently down, I don't know if it's totally bottomed but then when the general sale is over, I think some of these cards will become valuable again. Not that I'm saying this with certainty. Anything is possible with splinterlands at this moment. I'm sorry for the money you've spent, but don't sell yet.

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Oh, I have no intention of selling. Just wish I had better timing, as always ;P

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Well the season rewards I got this season was bad and I had like 26 chest to open. So you shouldn't feel bad and you will get lucky eventually if you keep trying. The good thing is that there are packs out there so you have like a 1% chance or so of grabbing them.

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Thank you, I think I could have more opportunities, by playing, flipping cards and being patient. It'll eventually come good for me I guess. But I'm not frustrated, I'm rather happy to be earning +9 season reward.

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This is a nice pool from a season reward, gather all the experience now in the lower leagues and you will definitely enjoy in higher leagues. The rewards are now been distributed by the amount of matches you played.

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The rewards are now been distributed by the amount of matches you played.

This is awesome. Which means people are actually playing gets chances of good rewards.

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Am proud of you 😃, You sure have been growing in the game and kicking butts. Nice end of season rewards you had. Keep at it bro.

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Loool I wouldn't call it kicking butts I think it's probably the best I've gotten. I opened like 28 out of 117 packs and so far it isn't too bad, though no GFL

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The rewards system needs to start being divided out more to all active players. I feel like so much goes into tournaments and only a few people even play them and the same people keep winning or the buy ins are too high and not worth it. HOpefully some adjustments are made there to keep more players around as there needs to be a good balance there.

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HOpefully some adjustments are made there to keep more players around as there needs to be a good balance there.

Yeah, active players deserves more, because they keep the game going. I cannot speak for splinterlands, but I eventually have to agree that as some point in time, there can be a balance in every aspects especially entry point and rewarding of active players more.

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