The new rewards system sucks, and here's why...
The new rewards system for players that have been playing only a month or two or less are left out in the cold. The reason why is starter cards. Most noobs will not have the necessary cards in order to gain rewards. I'm not entirely sure what the minimum is but somewhere around $50 is my guess. For someone coming into the game and checking out the game, will not see any rewards and therefore will move along to another game.
This format really sucks for the new player. And I predict that this game in this state will NOT entice or draw new player base. This game needs new players. No ifs ands or buts. It can't survive without them. Buying a spellbook is not enough. My noob guufbawl is barely getting 5 rshares per win. that's abysmally horrible. Instead of completely eliminating any rshares for ghost cards they need to implement a reduced rshare. Not 0%. But rather cut the reward down to 30% perhaps so that they can at least earn something. Because remember you don't get rshares (focus points) unless you win. at bronze level you're scrapping with everyone just to get your head above water.
Another way to fix this is to not reset someone by points. Just simply reset someone at end of season to beginning of the same league. Assuming they're able to make the rank during the season that is.
And lastly. This new format will not work for people who have a life. Sure if you're single and you work a normal 8 hour job it'll be easy to spend couple of hours every day. But for someone like me; family, job, extra job, extra extra job? I was able to complete daily quests and not much more. fight for points to rank up. But I can't commit couple of hours every day. This has to be fixed.
They may have fixed or slowed the bot problem, but now they have a people problem, and if it doesn't get fixed fast the player base is going to shrink much faster.
I could be wrong, but it doesn't take a genius to look at these issues and see it. What do you think? some major tweaking in the coming days?
Posted using Splintertalk
This is concerning but The price of rentals has dropped significantly and one could easily rent say 50 cents worth of bronze cards per day and mix it with the best of them but that is easier said than done. You need to know what to rent. As a Gold level player, I do emphathise with new players such as yourself as I was there once. The notion of playing for free and earning your way up is a tough thing to reconcile for new players, as it is simply a bridge many new players can't cross without investment, but it is new players that are needed to give demand and eventually commit more investment to the game which benefits everyone.
I wish it wasn't the case, but it is the price we all must pay in order to enter into an ecosystem that will someday generate returns 10 fold. I think the best way for new players to get into the game is before creating an account look around and get to know the community. There a scholar type programs out there and you can win plenty of free card prizes on peakD and Twitch Streams. For example for every player that joins me as an affiliate I will delgate some max level bronze level delegations for 2 seasons full seasons for free for 2 splinters and give 200 DEC starting bonus to help you rent and get you started! I also offer channel point rewards in the form of cards for those who just hang out in my twitch stream. There are other programs like this out there. Edit: But I think renting is a good way to earn chests and grow atm with very little investment.
I ecourage you not to give up without exploring the various ways you can maximize your growth for as little investment as possible as this community is amazing and there are plenty of amazing people who are doing whatever they can to help new players grow!
Sadly this was the measure that needed to be put in place to stop the 300k bot accounts farming away value from the game and was costing investors big $ in value return on cards and rewards in the DEC Pool. So it comes down to a matter of reduce bots or face losing more big $ investors and this sadly comes at the expense of new players too. But in order to retain and grow value, you need big $ players over players who cannot commit as much in finances. Since the new rewards system, I am hearing soo many of these returning to the game again.
If you see me live drop into my Twtich stream, we love discussing this topic and I'm always willing to try and help new players overcome some of these issues.
Additinally check out the post direcly below yours! https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@thoth433/my-first-week-in-splinterlands-3-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-i-started
Congratulations @udyeasy! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s):
Your next target is to reach 30 posts.
Your next target is to reach 200 upvotes.
You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOPTo support your work, I also upvoted your post!
Check out the last post from @hivebuzz:
Support the HiveBuzz project. Vote for our proposal!