Flying by the seat of my pants in Splinterlands :-)
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Gaming is something I have always enjoyed, but my style and gaming ability has been restricted in the past to online gaming on Playstation and PC ...so the likes of Fifa, Madden NFL and then some ventures into VR gaming like Farpoint etcetera. For the past year during lockdown, I have also been roped into Fortnite by my two boys so that they always had somebody to play with if the other one of them wasn't available lol. I know I know... this is not Hive gaming... I'm getting to that ha ha. Let's call this intro paragraph...setting the scene so you know where I'm coming from...and how green I am when it comes to all of this!
I wanted to play something different and had heard of Splinterlands but you know... blockchain shmokchain...what the hell is that anyway??? ugh...Diarise for another day to investigate!!!
... One year... later... !!! (as my kids would say)... (and now I kick myself for not being more curious at the time of course as that was a year that I could have out to great use in Splinterlands!!!)
Anyway, so before I signed up to play Splinterlands, I decided to sign up to Hive blogging after trying out a couple of other platforms to get into the swing of writing regularly and seeing somebody share some links to Hive. I took a gander and thought ...now this looks interesting! So I signed up and spent the best part of a month just getting to grips with navigating the blogging platform. Then I found Splintertalk ... and was reminded about the game ...so I thought...what the heck...let's give it a go too! This blockchain thing ain't so complex after all ;-)
I signed up, bought the spellbook, and dived in. I lost game after game after game. What on earth is this all about? ... I have to race a little clock to select a bunch of cards that add up to a random number value and then hit play and watch the cards beat each other up??? Hilarious! There are worse things I could do with my spare time and I found it quite amusing so I played some more...and then read a bit about the cards and characteristics...and things slowly started to make a bit more sense.
So I thought, ok this is alright. How do I get better? Mmmm... buy some cards, rent some cards, get gifted some cards, play a lot! So having 2 boys aged 8 and 10 who are quite demanding of my time and whom I actually do want to spend IRL time with lol, being able to play a lot was out of the question. I also didn't want to start investing any significant money into a game I was pretty rubbish at, and wouldn't get to play much (the monetisation of the game as an investment hadn't quite hit home as yet) so I did a bit more research on Hive and found some recommendations of cards to buy as a newbie.
I saw the advice to rent instead but figured that in order to make the rental cost pay off, I'd need to play a fair bit; a time commitment I couldn't make. So I ended up buying Charlok Minotaur, Lava Launcher, and Goblin Mech, and a few others that looked reasonable for a newb. I also entered a few contests and was gifted Flamesmith, Pelacor Mercenary, and Temple Priest.
I started to win a few more games as I started to get a bit of an understanding of strategy and card placement. Then it became a lot more fun!
I saw that I was getting some SPS airdrop and that it was based on my cardpower, DEC and SPT pots so I started doing some curation in Splintertalk to earn SPT, bought some DEC with Hive and bought a few more cards. I now have a grand total of 16 cards lols. Pityful, right...I hear the laughter and mocking on the sidelines ... but ... I only play a few times a week and when I do I try to push through until I win the 5 daily games challenge in order to gain the chest rewards. I wish I'd open the reward chest and get a card each time but it seems I mostly get potions.
I am stuck at the moment in bronze 3 as I don't have enough card power to move to bronze two so as to increase my reward options. So up til now I have been saving HBD and buying the odd card here and there to increase my power.
Now though, I am thinking of just biting the bullet and buying enough to get me over the line into bronze 2 ( I know that I have to win games to get there and the card power just allows me to move up if I win enough games but if I don't have the ability to move up, then no amount of winning will get me anywhere anyway). I kind of figure that if I can increase my card power now and invest in some more DEC that I will be able to avail of the higher SPS airdrop for longer, which has to be the right decision, right??? I mean we're already 100 days down ...but there are still another 265 to go!
So where I am at now is that my current daily airdrop is 0.63 SPS and my staking reward is 0.025 SPS daily. I claim each day and stake so that my staking reward increases ever so slightly all the time. My SPS holding is valued at a meager $17.01 lol. Now I'd much prefer to see a couple of SPS being dropped each day and staked or even 10 fold what I'm getting now...some basic calculations tell me I need to invest about $500 + in DEC to get my airdrop to 10X. So maybe a slightly smaller investment and some compounding may still get me a decent return on investment over the year without having to haul out 500 bucks? maybe something along the lines of $250 will do me just fine :-)
So do I sell enough Hive and buy DEC to increase my SPS airdrop to a couple of SPS per day? I know some are getting hundreds of $$$ a day in SPS airdrop but hey...I'm late to the party and I accept that ;-) OR do I invest in card power, which seems more expensive upfront, and increase my upper limit potential to bronze 2 so as to increase my chest rewards? or will it be worth it to do both???
I have also considered buying a voucher on the marketplace to enable me to preorder a Chaos pack ... but is this going to be worth it to me? Is there real value in spending $16 for a voucher and another $4 for a pack?
Any advice in the comments is appreciated. Help a girl out lol. Any and all comments will not be treated as Financial advice...promise lols!
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I would recommend looking for cards that have a good $ invested to rental income that way you are able to rent the card out to build a steady gain. On top of that its good when you are buying when you feel dec is high in price lets say the current price of .012 per dec and you buy a 10$ card if dec drops to .01 and the card is still 10$ you just made 20% practically on top of all the rental income.
Hopefully this gives you another tool you can use in order to help you succeed.
Another tip is if you feel sps has gained a lot in price and is about to dip instead of trading it and swapping on other platforms (due to small amount wont be as worthwhile) your better off converting it to credits. Those credits you can use to rent cards to play or use to purchase cards that you can either sell for dec or rent out.
(P.s. when purchasing cards for credits you can utilize peakd to see the cards that have a really close bid and ask price and pick that up)
Who knows maybe one day you can be enjoying this game with your kids and that can be quality time, a time to earn, and many precious memories can be built with !PIZZA party and games if any questions feel free to message me I do not like giving financial advice, but if you have a A or B selection I can tell you what I would do in scenerio. Like if you were like there is card A or B i've been thinking of renting. That way you can sort of see why I chose what I chose and build theories up for yourself.
What a wonderful reply, thank you @infinitytcg. This is very useful info and much appreciated🙏I hadn't really considered buying cards to then rent them out. I guess that's a longer game? Surely I would need to use any cards myself at first until I get at least into bronze 2 territory? I had no idea one could swap SPS for credits. That's useful info thanks as I'm not so keen on these alt exchanges when you have to work with pancake swap etc. I have successfully traded using pancake swap but it terrifies me that I'm gonna put the wrong details in ha ha. I will definitely tag you if I' stuck on a choice to get you input, thank you for the kind offer of your experience. And Yes, I have savvy kids who want to be YouTubers (don't they all???😂🤣) but I said to my eldest, maybe think of being a 3speaker instead...his reply...yeah that's an option, mom! I was like...what ...you've heard of 3speak?...of course Mom! Can't teach them anything these days about tech... they are so on the ball. It's their language. So, I do look forward to the day that they will get onto the blockchain themselves.🙂 I am looking to start up accounts for them and get them earning passively via curation trail and then uploading some creative stuff for them from time to time. They both love to write...so we'll see how that goes. Then when they are older, I can give them the keys to the accounts. I know of someone else who has done this as an investment option for their child and I think it's a fantastic idea.
LOL yeah kids these days are pretty smart... just pray they don't find and enjoy tiktok...
thats only in 1 card wavesmith (not saying to get the card as when i bought them they were under 3$ each and still renting at todays rental prices)
oh yeah i own over 100 wavesmiths and on both my accounts I STILL rent them lol. If you can rent it out at 3-4 dec and you can rent it back at 1 dec-1.5dec thats a free net dec everyday another strategy most overlook
so imagine that as $70 and 35dec/day as numbers are beautiful in that %'s is the name of the game.
but with rentals you risk cards going down in price, but some cards are going to be more stable than others thats the hard part. Yeah you can also just go click credits and in payment option select sps but only do that if you feel sps is at a higher price or just had a run up or you feel it is about to take a dip. Just a good tool to have in your pocket.
(Also if your goal is to get them to constructively explore their writing and social media presence consider rewarding them with things or activities they like outside tied to metrics here. So that they can find themselves in the process) I.e. since hivebuzz tracks achievements you can be like at 50 upvotes we get to go to the park at 500 we go six flags or something lol
!PIZZA this is brilliant and invaluable @infinitytcg.... from Splinterlands to kids lol. Yeah on the kid front I'd love to get them writing to prompts as challenges but it must be fun for them too so a real world incentive sounds like a wonderful idea. As for Splinterland cards, I will take another look this weekend and see if I can roll a bit more cash into both cards and DEC. Any particular splinter you would recommend investing in and playing with as a main choice? And then any particular cards you would recommend I seek out either to buy or rent? I saw someone mention a strategy of renting like 20 of the same card to increase their card power to facilitate moving into the next tier. Would you say that a good strategy could be to rent a bunch of cards when you are really close to the next tier right at the end of a season so that you have the card power to take you into it the next tier say bronze 2 and earn the improved season rewards and then stop renting until near the end of the next season, then rent again to get into the higher tier and gain the rewards again...until I am brave enough to invest fully myself?
Yeah these other questions are going to be a pretty big answer... I'll probably try to write up a basic guide and make it far more advance as time progresses sorry =X I want to give the most adequate answers and I really have no idea how to do that without going into a tonnnn of details.
Well if you plan on putting in more cash i'd wait for chaos legions release to get cards so you get more bang for your buck just wait a week or two before buying cards though as prices will settle and probably even drop due to supplies and people meeting their quanties
I dont recommend renting a bunch of the same cards that was strategy I started with earlier but opening up the cards you can use is a better one imo. I'd have to study the lower levels and pricings a lot more to better give you that answer as i play in gold-diamond a bit
No seriously, that is brilliant advice for now. More than enough to keep me going and get me set on a more structured path, so thank you, your candid responses are very helpful and very much appreciated. thank you for taking the time to engage with me 🙏
Also save your likes and upvotes I appreciate it but I don't care for them it can better help you network and market your content. once is farrrr more than enough and appreciated for me. Make the most of all your resources. Or if there is some positive metric that comes for it you can do like 1% instead lol I'm not after the $
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I'm not qualified to answer your questions about Hive, DEC, and SPS but... have you seen my Splinterlands guide: A Fun Guide To Playing (& Winning) Splinterlands (Even Though I Haven’t Played It)
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Yes, I did ... and now ... I need to reread it ... clearly! 😂🙏😍Thanks for the reminder, Jay. !PIZZA
Sounds good, lol, & thanks for the pizza! 🤣🙌🙏