New rewards, but uhhh..what do they do?

I just got back from a couple of days R&R which means I haven't been paying attention to my gaming stuff in Splinterlands at all (as you should, vacay is vacay). This also means that all of a sudden stuff and strategies have changed, and also that I forgot to play my my brawl I think (sorry Immortal Dragons 2, I take the blame!).

But it also means I got thrown back into bronze 2 because of not playing enough and living in bronze means the rewards quite suck. In other words time to get going again and level up asap to at least gold to be back in the game. Also in bronze the skills of my cards come to full play, which means they have so much less to offer in terms of fun, damn I really need to level up asap.

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But then I saw that something has changed in the reward system. Probably this has been announced multiple times already before, but I have just seen it just now for the first time.

I have seen Reward points passing by, Season points and Focus Points. And from what I have understood, brawl results also do something in this one (correct me if I am wrong please?)

My observations so far

• You receive no reward points when you loose a battle.
• Your reward points increase when your rank is higher (I have noticed my increase from 500 per game to now already 1000 per winning game)
• Currenly every time you level up in focus points you receive 1 more chest every time. This is cool actually because this means that the incentive to play more is higher.
• Also in season points this increase per chest and not in big chunks

I except levelling up to go faster when you are higher than bronze but I need to work through this a bit before I can answer this with certainty.

The conclusion up to now is that these changes are probably for the good. I guess every now and then the rule set has to change a bit to kick out the bots. People are smart and quite quickly they know how to program again to get maximum results out of this. But changing a bit is probably also a good starting point to get the land strategy integrated later on, so I am curious how that will unfold later on.

Also I am curious to see if playing brawls also have impact on the rewards, and we will know in a couple of days.

First glimpse without focussing too much on optimalising rewards, a good one. I am still renting out some cards which give decent DEC rewards, at least more than I will ever get from playing the game itself. Currently no selling DEC for me, with rewards so low it is better so save it for when this gets better.

Splinterlands is still doing the work for now!