Bids for Rentals: Overview of PeakMonsters Auto Rentals feature

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With the continued growth of Splinterlands, the number of renters and the competition in the rental market has also increased. At the moment, it is often difficult to get good rental deals without "getting lucky" or waiting and spamming that reload button for far too long.

In this post, we will take a look at the upcoming PeakMonsters feature called Auto Rentals. With this feature, we now have a good chance to get good deals in the rental market, without wasting so much time in the process.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This feature is not yet available in the PeakMonsters website. This post is made to give an overview of what to expect and to share how useful this awesome feature is. I'll update this post once this feature is available in beta and in the main PeakMonsters website.


What is Auto Rentals?

Auto Rentals is essentially a bidding feature for renting. Instead of manually waiting for cheaper cards to be listed for rent, you now just have to set the parameters (price, foil, and level) of the card that you want to rent, then the auto rentals feature will do the rest for you.

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Auto Rental for Card bids interface

For example, you want to rent a Level 1 Selenia Sky for less than 30 DEC/day. However, upon checking the listed cards for rent, the cheapest one is priced at 48.9 DEC/day. With auto rentals, you just have to place a bid for Selenia Sky at your desired price, and wait for someone to list at a price that will match your bid.

Note: A cheaper listing compared to your bid price is also considered as a match. Continue reading to see this in action!

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Auto Rental for CP bids interface

Aside from renting specific cards, you can also utilize the Auto Rentals feature to bid for collection power (CP). This feature will help you boost your CP easily by renting cards for you, based on the parameters that you have specified.


Why should you use Auto Rentals?

To SAVE TIME AND MONEY. As an avid renter, I can't stress enough how time-consuming it is to wait for a good deal that you are not sure will ever come. With the auto rentals feature, you don't have to spam the reload button anymore. You can simply place your bids, go back after a while, then check which bids are completed and adjust accordingly.

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Aren't you tired of not having a fair chance to get that cheapest chicken?

Pretty sure that most of us are familiar with the frustration that comes with trying to rent the cheapest chicken available. Even with the countless reloads that we do, it is just too difficult to grab that zero mana monster with ease. Now with Auto Rentals, we don't have to feel that frustration anymore. We just have to place our bids with a realistic price, and wait patiently.

The example shown in the image above took me less than a minute to setup the bid of 2.5 DEC, then it got a match after 12 minutes.

Overall, Auto Rentals is a perfect tool for those who want to get good deals while saving time.


Examples of Auto Rentals in action

Let us now take a look at how awesome this feature is in action!

Card Bidding

For this example, I want to rent a Level 4 Gold Foil Haunted Spider for 10.2 DEC/day. This card is less common compared to chicken, so I am expecting to wait a lot longer compared to my chicken success.

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Inputted parameters for Haunted Spider

As you can see, filling out the auto rental parameters is quite straightforward. We just have to make sure that we have inputted the proper details.

After 3 hours, I finally got a match!

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Saw the rental match using PeakMonsters My Explorer

So I checked how much I was able to rent Haunted Spider using Auto Rentals. To my surprise, I was able to rent it at 5.9 DEC/day -- much cheaper than my planned 10.2 DEC/day!

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Current Haunted Spider rental c/o Auto Rental feature

As you can see, I got a better deal for Haunted Spider, even without closely monitoring the Renter's board. That's a huge win on my book!


Collection Power Bid

For this part, I have tried out the other feature within Auto Rentals called CP Bid. This feature is mainly for those who are renting for the sole purpose of increasing their Collection Power.

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CP Bid interface

As you can see in the above image, our bid parameters for this one is quite lenient:

  • 100 CP per DEC spent
    • I made it this way to get cards quickly.
  • Minimum of 10 CP per card rented.
  • Minimum CP that I want to get: 500
  • Maximum CP that I want to get: 1,000

After confirming the transaction, I was able to rent a total of 595 CP in just 6 minutes.

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Cards rented with the CP Bid feature

Upon reviewing all the cards that I have rented, everything is within our parameter of at least 100 CP per DEC for the rental. Just by simply using the CP Bid feature, I was able to rent cheap cards to increase my CP, and it also took me less than a minute to set-up my CP bid.


There you have it! I hope you enjoyed the overview for this game changer feature by PeakMonsters. Let me know in the comments section how are you planning to use Auto Rentals once it is released.


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CREDITS

  • All the cool-looking dividers used are made by @flauwy
  • @Peakmonsters for this awesome feature; screenshots in this post are taken from the PeakMonsters website
  • Cover photo made in Canva

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Wow! Awesome tool! When is it going to be fully released, do you know?

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Hi, I don't know the final release date yet. I'll update you when I get more details about it!

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We will expand the testing pretty soon to everyone. But it may not hit the main website until next week

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@dagger212 New update: Jarvie said on PeakMonsters discord that the launch of Auto Rental Bids will likely be on Monday or Tuesday. This will be exciting!

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Yeah this looks like a good feature. Can relate so much to this:
As an avid renter, I can't stress enough how time-consuming it is to wait for a good deal that you are not sure will ever come. With the auto rentals feature, you don't have to spam the reload button anymore.
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It is! I'm so excited for the full release of the feature.

Haha yes, especially towards end of season. What a nightmare 😅

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Yipppeee Mozzie!!! Thank you, Mozzie! I was trying to figure out how the rental worked yesterday but it was a bit overwhelming for such a novice like me. I'll be testing it today, and this article has helped me very much so thank you!! :) You're a very good teacher/explainer! WONDERFUL job with the article!! :)

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Hi Rosieeee!!! Yay! I'm glad that you found this post helpful =). It always feels good to know that my post has helped someone!

How did your testing go? How much fun did you have with it? :P

Wow! That compliment means a lot to me. THANK YOU!:)

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Well, I got the rental I wanted for an amazing price so that's good, but I want to figure out the CP rental and I'm still overwhelmed by it. I'll get there. :) Thanks for asking and thanks for making a GREAT post! ;)

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Tools like this one is what makes the NFT market so attractive: the Blockchain, due its public nature, allows everyone to create tools and appliances that makes life's easier.

This could never exist in a traditional game in which only the Game Devs have access to the information about the players and the in-game market.

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I agree with everything that you said, @luizeba. I love that there are a lot of tools available for players to utilize, without the creators of those tools having to pay a hefty sum just to gain access to their needed data.

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Usually, not even by paying one would be able to access those informations. Games barely have some broken APIs that allow some data harvesting, but that's it. Blizzard or EA Games isn't selling the information from their players to anyone, as they're monetizing this data.

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I agree to this but I hope you make like a first come first serve basis and a auto rental renewal procedure. For example, you can only use the autorental for maximum of 48 hours. After 48 hours without a hit, you need to redo/reset it and if there are someone who made a bid of 10 dec for mylor, let's say, then later someone bid of 8 dec for mylor. Then later a renter set mylor to be rented at 5 dec, then the one who bid the 10 dec, the one who bid first should get it.

The reset for the auto rental is just so that it would be somewhat fair for new players. As we know, this game gives rewards to old players A LOT. An example is the recent pre-sale which, as a new player, I will never ever get an airdrop for that voucher even after 30 days.

So, without the reset system, old players who are familiar with renting in peakmonsters get major advantage and new players are just stuck with renting on the in game and will probably rent higher prices and eventually leaves the game because they cannot get a decent low rent and as we know, again, in bronze, the DEC gain is atrocious. So, it's just one plus one.

As a new player, you get atrocious gain per win in bronze, probably around 5 dec at most, then the rent of mylor, let's say, is 30 dec min per day because all older players are auto renting.

Do you think people would still stay playing this game? I mean, yes, but most of them probably would just leave and this auto renting would deal a significant blow to the player base.

I just hope you consider this situation However I am excited in the upcoming auto rental as well. Just hope there's limits on it or something.

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Tagging @peakmonsters for them to see your suggestion.


Thanks for dropping by. I'm glad that you are excited with this new awesome feature!

Here is my own opinion regarding what you said (I'm not part of the PeakMonsters team btw):

I am honestly having a hard time grasping the connection with it becoming a major issue for new players. Wouldn't the solution be is for the new players to learn how to use better alternatives than the in-game market? I personally think that it will actually help new players move from bronze to silver on a cheaper way with the CP Bid feature. The essential part is that they take the time to learn the game and the tools that are readily available.

Regarding the Mylor example, I'm quite sure that you can win in Bronze without renting Mylor. You can even go to Silver III by renting cheap cards. What I am saying is, those cards (e.g. Mylor, etc.) are expensive because they are the famous ones. You can beat that by renting cheaper set of cards as long as you learn new strategies that don't rely on expensive cards.

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@mozzie5 what I'm saying is that new players who only knows how to rent in game would have problems because they would be renting only the higher costing cards because that is what is available on the market in game.

However, I had also realized that, in it's core, it's not our problem. If you're going to invest, you ought to do research. That means checking articles, related sites, etc. So, if newbies who don't check or learn about the sites LITERALLY posted in game on the market saying "PEAKMONSTER", then it's out of hand.

It's not our job to spoonfeed the newbies with information and if they really wanted to know more about the game itself, it's one click away.

I honestly am excited to that auto rental and will make an article when it comes out, to help everyone, of course. Again, if newbies won't read my article to know about it, it's not my problem lol.

Also, before I forgot, is it possible to request a feature on that auto rental. I am not sure if it's included or I might have just missed it. An auto rent for any card meaning, no name will be put. For example. If I want to get a cheap gold epic untamed card for 10k power, I can just input that filter and maybe put "any" on the name or something so I could auto rent any card that is epic, gold, untamed.

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If you're going to invest, you ought to do research. That means checking articles, related sites, etc. So, if newbies who don't check or learn about the sites LITERALLY posted in game on the market saying "PEAKMONSTER", then it's out of hand.

I definitely agree on this one! It's better that we attract new players who are willing to put in the work, since most of the time they are the ones that will stay and invest for the long run. With all the games that I've played, Splinterlands has the most welcoming and helpful community. So there is really no reason to learn for those who are willing :)

is it possible to request a feature on that auto rental. I am not sure if it's included or I might have just missed it. An auto rent for any card meaning, no name will be put. For example. If I want to get a cheap gold epic untamed card for 10k power, I can just input that filter and maybe put "any" on the name or something so I could auto rent any card that is epic, gold, untamed.

Yes! Asgarth and Jarvie are very receptive to new ideas and requests. You can communicate it directly to them in PeakMonsters discord under the PeakMonsters channel. I believe that the bidding based on specific criteria feature that you mentioned is already on their list :)

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It's a BID. Doesn't matter when you put in the Bid it just matters who's highest. Also owners will adjust also DOWN their prices to meet the demands of the bidders. The biggest issue is that owners for all this time didn't really know what their cards should be listed at. We have done lots of things to try to help but there is zero info provided by splinterlands about what they're getting rented for ... all we can see is what they were listed for then that goes away as soon as it's rented.

So now with bids we will have data to know what the value of a card should actually be.

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this is amazing. i would like to do this to save time

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You can use it soon ;) The launch will likely be on Monday or Tuesday!

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Great new feature! Will you able to see other's rental bids as well?

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I hope you can add auto renewal feature on the cards that was already rented. Like, renewing rented cards 1h before expiring.

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Hi! I'm not part of the PeakMonsters team btw, just to clarify haha

There is already an auto renewal feature system in place for auto rentals :) if you have additional suggestions for auto rentals or PeakMonsters in general, you can suggest it to them directly in their discord. They are very receptive of new ideas and suggestions :)

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Was waiting for something like this to be introduced, I spent an hr the other day just refreshing the market to try and get 5k cp at a reasonable price. Can't wait to get it up and running.

Well done Peakmonsters

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