Splinterlands: Earning without investing USD - Week #2

Last week we started this adventure of trying to play a Splinterlands account while investing absolutely no money on it apart from the $10 one needs to buy the Summoner book. So, what happened in between then and now?

In all honesty, not much. As described previously, we are using the little DEC we've managed to obtain by selling a rare card to rent cards in the market so we are able to gain DEC per match won, and therefore start increasing our DEC stack, little by little. We started by renting a couple of Legendaries. And therefore we did manage to access Bronze II quite quickly, all things considered.

The problem with this is that renting to Bronze II hardly pays enough DEC per win to be a viable source of actually gaining more DEC. As an example, on the first day of rentals I spent 5 DEC, but over the next 24 hour period that rentals lasted I managed only to obtain 8.5 DEC from battling. Which means that at this rate, it could take months to obtain enough DEC to purchase 1000 Collection Power.

So I've started wondering what can I do to try and increase the DEC output a little more, so that I can viably start purchasing cards from the market in order to eliminate the need for rentals completely?

I've decided to start renting up to Bronze I hoping this allows me to collect DEC at a faster rate, since I had managed to obtain enough Rating. One needs to obtain 5000 Collection Power to enter Bronze I, and so I've rented 1x Epic Gold Foil from the Chaos Legion set, and 1x Rare Gold Foil from the Untamed set.

Unfortunately, after making these rentals and having played around 10 battles yesterday, as of the time of this writing today #splinterlands is undergoing maintenance. This means I did not have a chance to keep on battling to regain the investment I made, and I will likely not get the DEC I've spent in rentals refunded by the game. It totally sucks.

I'm not going to let me bring me down, though. But unfortunately it does cause me not to have much more to report, as the season ends tomorrow and I've lost my rentals. In case you don't know, there's a cool down period when you get demoted which prevents you for some time before you can advance again, which means I won't be able to access Bronze II before the season ends even if I process a couple more rentals. I will only be able to advance after 24 hours have passed since being demoted.

So I guess we'll see where we are at when the new season starts and hopefully we won't be facing any more of these issues of the last couple of days.

Thanks for reading, and stay safe :)

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