Plus or Minus Zero
It is the end of the Splinterlands season for me already, even though I have only played five days of the total. I was travelling for the first week, so my first day playing was on Saturday.
Not bad.
If you remember this from a couple days ago:
Then, in just 6 more rounds, I was able to move over halfway to Champions 2!
It has been downhill from there however, as I am falling back after winning only 2 of the last 14 rounds.
I was halfway to Champions 2 with only 67 games under my belt, but slipped back a bit several times to end up almost back in Diamond. But to finally get there, it took almost two hundred more games!
But there I got - albeit with very much a "just" as I scraped in with 4200 points on the nose to claim (at this point) 99th position on Splinterlands for the season. Sure, this will change soon and I will drop further, but I consider being top 100 in the world at anything a pretty decent accomplishment.
Now, it is time to get ready for the EOS renting period, which I hope will raise enough to cover my rentals for next season. This is my aim for rent, as while I would like it to return extra, I currently at least, also like playing, so the DEC rent income is like a bucket with a hole in it, leaving almost as fast as it enters.
Play to Earn : Earn to Play
This is a bit of a funny model in this regard, as "normally" it is work to earn, earn to play and back to work to start the cycle again. I definitely don't consider this work, but that doesn't mean it isn't difficult at times. I do think that while I enjoy the skin in the game aspect and the potential for earnings, I do recognize that for some people, this could get in the way of actually enjoying the game, because they need something out of it.
At least for me at this point, I don't need anything out of playing the game directly, especially since most of the rent is covered by what I hold. What I do "need" (definitely in quotes) is eventually the value of my own asset holdings to increase substantially. After all, this is still an investment for me and I am well invested.
In-Game SPS staked is slowly climbing, but I have some more in the Liquidity Pools paired with DEC to earn more. All up with all things remaining equal, I have around 200K SPS with 105 days left in the airdrop.
Funnily, the liquid and staked SPS are currently at a 50:50 split, but the "liquid" doesn't really tell the whole story I believe, since there are several SPS liquidity pools out there, which means that it is more "near liquid" and if those pools weren't available, I suspect much of it would be staked. This means that the return on the pool is currently larger than it will be later, because I think that people will stake in-game once the drop ends, diluting the return for everyone.
In about two weeks at the end of April, the SP drop to VC investors ends also, which should/ could mean that there will be a little less downward pressure on price. Over the last months though, the price of SPS ha bottomed out at just under 10c and hovered around 11c for most of the time. I like many, feel this is a collection period opportunity and at some point, people will look back on what they have missed or, wish that had gathered a little more. This is always far easier in hindsight though.
The last few weeks have been so busy and disjointed however, that I have barely been able to keep track of the basics of my life and keep myself fed, let alone look at all of the crypto intricacies and complications. There are constantly changes to the tokenomics of Splinterlands through direct token changes or, indirect gameplay changes that affect the dynamics, making it quite a volatile ecosystem to maximize on. Those who try to maximize will often find themselves in a momentary sweet spot, but a little change to the dynamics and they are tasting a little more bitterness.
Luckily, I am terribly bad at maximization and just take a middle of the road approach, investing where I can, when I can, with what I can. I am never sure what the future holds, but at least being involved and invested means that if things do swing hard upward, I have a couple irons in the fire to take advantage. What I like about these kinds of opportunities is that in order for me to do well, other people need to be heavily involved, but if I do well, many, many people will do well also.
That is how a community should work, isn't it?
Taraz
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This is the best motto I've ever seen! :)
I thought it was kinda clever - but didn't want to say so myself ;D
Haha :) It certainly is.
Congratulations on your achievement, HIVE's price is currently low, I believe making 100% HP is the best choice
100% on what?
About earnings on posts of Ecency it's better to put it on 100% or 50/50
This is definitely a nice achievement and a work well done in achieving success
Thanks :)
One of those articles you read and whisper to yourself, one day. I love it when people that have skin in the game come out cool and come about it. As for now am back to do what humans do work and pump more into the game waiting for a surname to appear after my In game name
A surname?
Legionnaire after the hive name
oh, that isn't a wait thing - it is a "title" token that came from buying over 1000 chaos legion packs in the preorder.
Nice job and hitting that level. I am horrible at the strategy so I pretty much never make it past about Diamond II. I wish I were better, but I just can't seem to get the hang of it. I might have to try and rent out some of my cards at the end of season here. I will likely fall into Diamond III before the season is over.
Is it your card range or is it that you don't choose well? I feel that if I play too much, I lose focus and make bad choices too often.
EOS is a good time to rent - it pretty much covers most of my season's rent needs
Probably a little bit of the first and a whole lot of the second. I just seem to not put together good teams. Even when I think I have the perfect cards setup. Those are usually the matches where I get absolutely destroyed. I've been focusing more of my attention on Brawls lately. It's nice to be able to help the guild.
I have never played a brawl - but I am not really in a guild :D
They are fun. The cards are pretty awesome. Too bad they are all account bound.
i always find it more easier to play and try to go up 2-3 days after the season starts, you get more consecutive wins.
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definitely. There are more people above that might not be above because of skill at that point. This is why I was able to move so fast in the first couple days.
I think that many people consider it Play to Earn, which might make the game boring some time later.
If it is based on need, everything becomes harder.
Crikey, the playing seasons whip by now that they are shorter. It will be interesting to see how it plays out when the airdrop is finished
Is it shorter? :D
If it all goes to hell, well - I guess I will be Russian by then anyway.
Lol. I am sure it got shortened! Two weeks instead of three? I could be talking out of my chuff. I only noticed the rentals need jinking a bit more often!
You will have to get a Putin painting for above the fireplace. That will keep you safe :0)
I think it won't be believable if I have two.
4200?!? What have you become? I haven't seen a ranking like that in years... You seem to have become, ah, how can I put this, um, incredible.
It is funny that I bought "almost maxed" cards for Diamond level - that are almost useless in Champion.
It is funny that I bought "almost maxed" cards for Diamond level - that are almost useless in Champion.
What do you mean? There are cards that work well in Diamond that don't work in Champs? Is this why I struggle so much when I get thrown down to Gold and Diamond each season?
nah, it is like I had a cube that was not maxed, but in Champions, all are maxed - so it matters. Same with some cards where the difference is an attack or hit point - I have lost so many because of it.
I think the problem in gold is the reduction in buffs. you play mostly diamond, same as me - so when having to go up against people who are set up for gold and play it often and well, it is very hard. Gold sucks!! ;D
Ah, I see. Yeah, I totally know what you mean.... I have so many cards that are not maxed, and it really doesn't cut it... but because so many of my cards are from the Beta edition, I have the super great choice of say, spending $600 to get that one extra hit point, or buying a maxed out newer card instead.
Splinterlands is a funny game, isn't it? It certainly feels like if you were around at the start paying a few bucks for a Llama, then that has led to a really solid outcome. I always struggle between the idea of needing to invest a lot more or not - and which outcome is best. I'm sitting at 40k owned power - really on the fence, whether it's worth pushing to 70k to hit the next tier - and then onwards and upwards I suppose.
Always balancing it against investing in my hive power.
What do you prioritise, continued investment into the game, or continued investment into hive power?
I think if you like playing, then it isn't such a bad idea, especially since currently the cards are down in price (relatively).
Hmm. Currently, I do both, but at the moment I still have a fair bit of HP :)
Big day for me; I just hit 1000 HIVE POWER.
I hear what you're saying though: I need to start setting records for post upvotes. I'll get on it ;)
Congrats!!
:)
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Looks like you are in a great position. I quite enjoy playing as well even though I sold all my betas in 2019 but I'm back in the game now and building up my deck again from my rewards on Hive. I never really played for the earning. The game is actually a great game and well designed as well. If you think about the all the little intricacies the game is genius.
Nice job making it to champion. Do you rent cards a lot? I tend to just delegate out my cards if I have some extra CP laying around and I try to stay in Gold II just for the chests. It didn't make too much sense for me to fight for the rest and I like the last few days of the season because the rental prices are great.
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I’ve been renting my entire deck out the past several seasons as I’ve just had too much work going on. I’ll probably continue to do so until the new rewards system is in place as life is still sounding similar to yours…Busy as hell.
Hey just curious @tarazkp don't mind me asking, how much did you invest in this game? I really cannot believe it, Champion 1. And here I am struggling to even hit Silver 1! How on earth did you even manage to amass this much in the first place???
As my power wont be enough for me to hit the next tier, I think the wisest thing that I can do right now is to rent it out! By chance, any tips on what kind of cards has the highest ROI?