Splinterlands: The Economics Of Getting Into A New League

about 2 years ago

Aiming for silver III in splinterlands was particularly tasking, it would mean opening new packs and getting to 15k collection power. Originally buying 117 packs cost a little over $500, but what was the aim of buying this pack? Building a deck that is worthy of competition and keeping some in order to take advantage of the impending scarcity, especially when all the packs sells out.

$500 in an inflated Nigerian economy is a lot of money

it'll surely not make a lot of sense to tell an outsider, that I invested an overall $900 in a game, they'd either think I'm stupid or ignorant for doing so, but wait. The kind of mental accounting done by me, would be different from a person whose ways of measuring growth is by calculating profit and loss on a daily or monthly basis.

This is because the whole concept of crypto and blockchain gaming is sophisticated, the economical methodology to investing in such a game would be quite bizarre, but then money itself is bizarre, and following the conventional principles of real-time investing can never be equated with the one we do, online on a daily basis.

Spending Beyond The Budget

While I have left myself get carried away by FOMO, a lot of splinterlands players are way above the initial amount of money they intended to spend or invest, and why is this? The prospects of more gains is the main reason why people spend a little over what they initially planned to. But who isn't carried away by this? Splinterlands on its own is 100% addictive if the fun doesn't make you spend over your budget, the money would definitely make you do so.

For many, it's the latter, but for me, my drive is basically to build a different stream of income that I could look to dip into in 1 or 2 years from now. The time frame for building that particular stream would be now and while the gains would be particularly low at the moment. The best way to grow it would be accumulating those little wins consistently for a long period of time. I am a patient man, one thing people in this line of work do is to underestimate the strength of a patience and how it basically rewards people who diligently holds the line

Without continuously rambling about this, I got into Silver III for the first since October

when I started playing and I did so by meticulously utilizing what I had at my disposal. I mean, this would mean nothing to some users or players who only comes in to check their rentals, calculating the DEC or dollar value. I mean, there are people who own over 5k CHAOS LEGION packs but looking at or measuring the skin that some people have in the game would deter you from building what you prospectively want to enjoy and this is why it's important to build independently without measuring your influence with other people.

Money can never replace doggedness and consistency. Some people talk or declare their intent using the myriad of resources they have at their disposal while others with limited resources have the chance to accumulate little gains be being calculative and consistent at all time.

Staying Afloat Or Counting Your Blessings?

It was a delight yesterday evening to finally get into silver III, being that we only have less than two days to the end of the season. I was always skeptical of moving beyond Bronze I and this is because of the fear of falling back into the lower tiers and losing my x9 reward. With splinterlands even people in the big leagues can fall back to being novices when they compete and lose or when they even fail to compete at.

So it's the game of competition and one eventually has to play to keep their numbers when it comes to things like seasons reward. However, it's all about having a choice. Personally the ultimate goal is to continuously compete in silver III because I don't have the means at the moment to compete in silver II, leaving aside that the fact game is difficult to compete in, having the means to even compete is a different part of the game's economy that you cannot fail to reckon with.

Milestones: Step By Step

If I can constantly compete in silver III without having to always drop back deeper than I expected, then I'll consider this as a huge accomplishment. I still have to merge some of my summoners and monsters to level two and so many other intricate aspects, but the joy here is that I got the job done this season and the funny thing is, I had to depend mostly on opening my packs to get to this stage.

So, I'll be expecting x12 rewards and a possibility of even getting a CL pack. The possibility makes it even better. With the right potions, I could even get a legendary card within the pack that was given to me in the season's reward. But this is all speculations. Being speculative is being outrightly calculative and this is everything that comes with the game.

With my tactics and the right resources, I could easily gallop into Gold and even farther. Some of my tactics has been brutal and lethal. The way I totally murdered some opponents in the bronze leagues is nothing short of creative. But will I have the resources to repeat this feat in the higher leagues? Only time will tell.