RE: SPS Governance Proposal - Price Blood & Power Stones in DEC
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To provide some data and context, there have been approximately 17,000 Gladius Cases purchased from the Guild Store over a recent 15 day period. If players bought Blood and Power Stones with Dark Energy Crystals to cover the cards in all of these packs, that would result in roughly 17 million Dark Energy Crystals being burned.
This is deceiving, so here is some proper context.
Only 39 guilds currently have a level 6+ store and are able to purchase blood stones and from that only 5 of them have a level 8 store to purchase power stones.
They've earned a combined 503,704 merits over the last 3 brawls (15ish days). At 2,000 merits per Gladius pack, that's only enough to buy 251 packs.
They all have Guild Hall/Lodge level 7+ (except 1 who is level 6) so get minimum 5% shop discount.
In a best case scenario with all players buying enough blood stones to cover all packs that would only burn 178,837 DEC.
The 5 guilds able to purchase power stones earned a combined 105,808 merits, enough for 53 packs.
In a best case scenario with all players buying enough power stones to cover all packs that would only burn 37,762 DEC.
In total that is a max of 216,599 DEC that could be burnt purchasing stones, not even close to the 17 million claimed.
So all in all, this change would mean almost nothing for the vast majority of players and and will be burning a negligible amount for DEC (at least for the foreseeable future).
A proper change would have been to also adjusting the store levels needed for guilds to purchase stones.
Removing the spy glass and moving blood stones to store level 4 and power stones to level 6 would have had more impact.
If only the team could understand how to math like this lol
!BEER
Good idea! 👍 Please proropose this when anyone can!
'Removing the spy glass and moving blood stones to store level 4 and power stones to level 6 '
I appreciate the further and more appropriate analysis.
I think @sps.dao should amend the post to include this.
Easily the most insightful comment on this proposal.
Honestly I would support the 'option' to pay in DEC because I ultimately feel DEC should be an option to purchase EVERYTHING in the game outside of G packs themselves. That said, I feel like the Splinterlands team could absolutely use someone that is good with data analytics and visualization. From their math comments alone it is clear they don't really know what they are talking about.
I have been beating the drum on this as well... we need to ELIMINATE the spy glass at lvl 4, move stones down to lvl 4 and lvl 6, and find a new item to sell at lvl 8.
I follow and agree with your analysis here. Thanks for sharing and making it easier to understand!
!PIZZA
I was thinking the exact same thing! Thanks for putting together the data.
I proposed the lowering of the levels as well. Before I found your comment. Maybe should scroll the comments first haha
!PIZZA and !invest_vote
This and exactly this. Negligible amount overall. Make them more accessible if you propose it as a measure of burning DEC.
Hey good job. Seen they changed the wording to reflect more of what you said :)
Thanks for letting me know, I wouldn't have notice otherwise.
Looks like the post was edited about an hour ago, around the same time the proposal went live.