@tipu curate

Great video again!

We have yet to see the changes to rewards. I don't really expect renting prices to rise much. It'll all depends on how the botters split the market between themselves. I'm pretty sure they are more organized than players. For instance, most players can't really evaluate the renting price of a card, or CP. They use peakmonster and match the last rented price, or undercutting. Renting is better than not renting right ? Bots owner do it on a larger scale so it's easier for them to manipulate the CP/DEC. If a large botter suspends it's activities for a couple hours, the drop in demand would drop the renting prices to the floor too.

On a sidenote, I was checking on peakmonster explorer bot accounts who transfered packs. I was wondering where the pack came from in the secondary market (hive engine) but couldnt find any. Maybe it's not as bad there as I thought it would be.

Excellent video! You make some fine points about the reward changes.
For me, there are still some additional unknowns that the new reward system may have on the bots. 1.) Some bots don't rent everyday. Particularly in silver, there are a lot of them that rent every 4-5 days, play many, many matches [presumably to pay for rented cards], and take advantage of the two daily chests they can earn [presumably this is the bot's profit]. It's been stated that the new reward system will emphasize daily play thus making this bot strategy less, if not un-, profitable. 2.) There is a question about just how "smart" the bots are. You noted that not all bots would be able to rent a set of CL cards. Will they be smart enough to rent cards outside the starter set and use them? Renting different, potentially a "random" set everyday, of cards & combinations may be problematic for their algorithms at least initially. 3.) Tying reward chest to ECR may change the way in which bots play. It might not be beneficial to play 200+ games a day anymore. The best return might only be 30 games a day. This is probably the biggest question I have for new rewards. Will it affect the volume bot game play?

Great vid. If the bots are mitigated, everyone wins. Bots can still use programming to make profit but more of the earning/investment ratio will go back to actual players. This is needed and a must for the survival of this game. Right now there 75% bots who play 100s battles a day compared to a player who likely has the time for 10-20. Nerfing the bots ability to monopolise against actual players who put the real money into Splinterlands to begin with is the best way forward. Look at it this way, my card collection is currently less than Edit:1/2-1/3 of my total investment. It's easy to say bots are great for the game but remember bots are bleeding the people who put the actual money in and this is why we need the Devs to get this right. It's great to say yeah but a bot spent 10000 on spellbooks but I've put in more than double that and my asset value is less than 1/2-1/3 of my investment. I'm the one who put in more money than a bot farmer who bought 1000 accounts and I'm the one losing out. This is why people are leaving the game sadly. The bots only put money in because at the moment they are guaranteed to bleed money from actual investors with an ROI that makes it easy for them against their expenses verses a player who puts in fiat and actually spends time on the game. And bot farmers are only here for one reason, to drain profit from the ecosystem as opposed to building it up. Let's hope these changes bridge that gap. it's definitely a step in the right direction.

Good points. As others have already said, let's hope the new ranked rewards have a positive impact for the overall game/economy health. Sharing this on https://twitter.com/PraetoriaDigest.