Splinterlands just got way more fun - especially for smaller accounts 🎮🏆

Long time no see here on my blog. Of course there are reasons for this. Reasons i might go into more detail with in a separate post - maybe.

But while I have been away from "blogging" on the HIVE and/or STEEM blockchain for months, one thing on the blockchain has always kept me nearby almost all the time - The best blockchain based trading card game, Splinterlands!

Even as a big fan of this game, I was not in favor of a few decisions made by @aggroed and @yabapmatt in the last months, as they seemed to only improve the money wandering in their wallets rather than improving the gaming experience. Especially the low amount of good tournaments for people with regular foil alpha/beta/promo collections decks is still sad.

A great change however was introduced in the last weeks - Seperate League Leaderboards with seperate League Prizepools! Now way more players, even the ones with small decks in the two digit dollar value range have real chances of picking up some nice booster packs every season.

In my eyes, this is a great change for every real player. Of course, multi-account users and bot networks aiming at maximum daily "profit" from quest rewards got hit hard by this new system, as the collection power (= the amount of dec burn value your collection is worth) limits them from collecting high rewards with low level decks. But I am quite sure that almost every real player prefers a nice competition, with suiting opponents of a similar deck level, to the daily struggle of killing some weak bots in order to complete the daily quest.

At least speaking for our guild, the Legendary Dragons around @twinner, @uwelang, @louis88 and so on, I am quite sure @jeanpi1908 with @j-p-bs and @sco with @doctor-cog-diss enjoy a realistic fight for the top spots in their league over the daily quest struggle.

And being able to compete for the top spot in the Diamond league with my deck lacking many Untamed cards is also way more fun than to compete for place 50 to 10 in the Champions league - However I see myself up there in the near future again :)

A nice side benefit of those changes also is the fact, that the amount of Dark Energy Crystals (DEC) per win has gone way up again - three digit DEC gains for a single victory are no rarity anymore!

All in all, the game is developing in quite a good direction What do you guys think?