SPS Governance Proposal - Require DEC Burn for Soulbound Cards to be Used on Land

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I support this, but I think 2X CP is a bit much.1:1 DEC per CP seems plenty. Also if we are getting rid of CP for staked SPS why do we need max level bonuses now?

why do i have to burn dec for soul bound cards that you can only earn with an investment. while for example beta reward cards get a 5x bonus even though you could farm the cards with huge bot farms that have nothing invested because those with starter cards got 100% rewards oO

Definitely makes unlocking sound pretty expensive. I've bought equivalent rarity/foil CL cards for cheaper than some of those suggested costs.

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Thanks for the proposal, Matt.

I support the primary idea behind it.

But, I think the price is too high. 25k DEC, at peg 25$, would put a GFL at around 70% cost of the cheapest non-soulbound CL GFL (35$). With the latter already being non-soulbound, thus transferable, burnable, etc.

So my obvious question in that regards would be: what are the costs to make soulbound cards actually non-soulbound. My guess would be that this would be similar to 25k DEC on top, or maybe even more, putting the baseline to 50k DEC (50$ at peg). I'd like to have this defined now, rather than later.

My other concern with this approach, is that it disincentivizes buying energy (burning of DEC/DEC-B for it) for battle rewards.

Due to the low SPS price and asset prices in general, the rewards are already lacking in value vs. the money spent for energy. With SB reward cards now also being possibly more expensive than other reward cards, I think people will stop buying energy after the first days of the season (after pool has been drained again) and/or after they've reached the full set, which could be much earlier than the end of print.

While I don't have a direct path to action, I would like to see more focus on primary account holder benefits, players who focus on a single or max 2-3 accounts and regardless whether they're a minnow, dolphin or whale.

I believe the biggest reason we're having this issue right now, is because people are abusing low rental costs/SB rewards with multi-account bot setups to farm the SB reward cards. While primary account holders, usually just try to min-max with a single account, which is far less invasive to the card inflation and market in general.

I am voting for it because I believe you are 100% right here.

I urge you to consider the effect on the overall, long term game economy - which will ultimately be what provides value to all Splinterlands assets over time - ahead of your own short-term benefits.

I have a lot of soulbound cards, but I think they should be funded (manifested) to be used for more than just ranked play, tourneys, and brawls. Those 3 uses are already a big value for the cards, there's no reason to hurt the value of land by letting me or anyone put soulbound cards without a reasonable investment in the card for that game too.

I wanted the cost to be at least the DEC value, and 2x definitely accomplished that. I will vote for this or any proposal that is in-between 1x and 2x DEC cost to "manifest the cards".

Thanks Matt!

Voted against with multiple accounts. Can we start delivering before thinking of things to get funds from the user pockets? The real user count drops daily, and I would rather see focus on that, than on DEC leeching.

If the intention was to absorb older rewards cards, why are we allowing soulbound cards to work land at all? Seems like a make work project and more “technical debt”… If the soulbound cards are a problem, maybe they should just be excluded until they are unlockable. I just don’t see the need for a half-measure?

Thanks for the proposal Matt!

I support the idea of a fee to unlock / "manifest" soulbound cards, whether it be for use on land or to trade / rent / sell.

Seems the proposal needs to nail down a cost. @yabapmatt.sps what is your thinking for not including vouchers?

I think a good middle ground cost would be:
Burn DEC equal to 100% Card CP
Plus
1 voucher for each CARD "manifested"

By adding a voucher to the cost:

1. Players are encouraged to manifest higher level cards because it is most efficient
2. Vouchers have another utility

Some details about the mechanics working with manifested (and future unlocked cards) should be thought about now, and at least laid out as part of this initial "Manifesting" process:

1. Combining cards - can the manifest cost be tracked and applied to combining manifest and non-manifest cards? If so, and if that is the option the team wants, I'd like to see a voucher required for the combining action -- otherwise it creates a workaround for the "one voucher per card" offered above
2. Will manifested card be available to rent / delegate for land use only? Last I understood, the team commented on a future rental market which designates cards available for battle vs. land since the cooldown / unstake for land will be longer than cards used in battle.

I'll be voting for this pre-proposal and hope the finer details are discussed and resolved before a formal proposal goes up for vote.

My problem with this proposal is that i would hurt the ranked rewards.
After a player acquired a maxed soulbound card, any more copies of that card wouldnt have any usage without paying to manifest that card.
This especially would hurt players in high elo and those who buy a lot of energy, since they will be the first ones to have maxed reward cards.
Furthermore i think it would lead to a lot of frustration, since at some point (champ) player would earn reward cards, which would have zero usage without paying additional DEC.

What i would suggest in addition to the proposal, would be to make maxed soulbound cards usable on land without having to manifest them.

This would give player an incentive to earn more reward cards (after already owning a maxed copy), while also preventing players with multiple accounts from gaining an advantage.

It wouldnt be easily exploitable by one player with many different accounts, since each account would need to play in high elo to earn enough bcx to combine them in a maxed card.
In addition to that with the introduction of sps staking requirements botting with many different accounts will take another hit, particularly bots that would play in champ, since they would need a high amount of sps to earn enough chests to obtain maxed soulbound cards.

Any non maxed soulbound card would still be needed to be manifested to be usable on land.

Hi Matt, can you clear this up? If you burn the DEC to unbind a soul bound reward card for land are they given a burn rate if you burn the card? For instance, if I burn 4,000 DEC for a Common max card to be useable on Land does it get a burn value of 2,000 DEC?

I have a hard time supporting anything related to soul bound unlocking until my question from todays community meetings is answered.

Here's the scenario. To keep it simple, we’ll use a level 5 RF common card.

Let’s say I want a level 8 card, so I buy the required remaining 160 BCX. Will I be able to combine unlocked cards with my locked cards, and if so, how will that affect my card if I later decide to transfer it, rent it out, or sell it?

Will combining 60 BCX worth of locked cards with 160 BCX of unlocked cards leave me with an unlocked card or will I still need to pay to unlock it later on if I decide to transfer it, rent it out, or sell it?

If I still have to pay the fee, would it be based on my original locked 60 BCX or the new 220 BCX that already has 160 unlocked BCX built in?

@yabapmatt.sps

I have 192k CP in soulbound rewards, you want me to pay almost 400$ to use something I already earned... just on land... How many kidneys do yall want so I can sell/trade them? I thought web 3 was supposed to be different and I thought projects rewarded folks for sticking with them through the bear market but yall just want to turn us up by our ankles and shake us for loose change. Just exclude them from land if this is how you are going to do it

This is a partial solution to a Greater Issue? If Alpha get a 10X and Beta get 5X the Untamed get a 2X on production on Land this Proposal continues the Mistakes of the Past, This only make sense If Alpha gains 5X, Beta gains 3X, Untamed 2X, Chaos 1X and all move up as new releases are introduced. The Compounding effect of the higher numbers will break Land, I will support the Proposal If you can look at the production Multipliers for the Card Sets and set my Mind at Rest! not going to tag you Yaba just seeing if you are aware.

I'm supporting this but I do think it would have been better to just say, soulbound cards aren't allowed on land. The prices just give people more to be angry about.

I can't support this at all the cost is too high. I earned those cards and while I don't plan to use many of them this is a crazy ask of us. Not only don't we earn cards that have value now we have to pay to use them.

Obviously you know I'm for this idea. Personally I don't think this needs to be a vote, but since it does, my suggestion:
Eliminate the complexity of this proposal by making it Manifest or don't use. Easier dev time since you don't have to make a "limbo state" sort of paid for unlock mode. Easier for you, easier for us, and just less to argue about imo. People are complaining about the price as well, I don't see the price as much of a problem, but I think it would go over better by just allowing Manifesting cards now instead of some future point. Just my thoughts.

Oh yes, this is what new players need. Newbies can't transfer their earned cards, sell them, and now they'll be forced to pay for them in lands?

Old cards and old players get huge bonuses. Although it would be great for the game to focus its efforts on attracting new players. But the largest number of the SPS is in the hands of old players, so it is clear what decisions will be made.

What about burning soulbound reward cards for "soulbound power" and this is account bound. The soulbound power would be equivalent to the card power of the card. They can use this soulbound power to unlock their cards in replace of the manifestation in DEC. So to unlock 1 gold foil legendary soulbound they can burn 2 gold foil legendary soulbound to get the necessary soulbound power to unlock their soulbound card. This way we can reduce the amount of soulbound reward card supply as well~.

Things are getting too complicated. Just don't allow them on land. If ever, at least until they can really be unbound.

I would have much preferred soulbound cards not being usable on land at all, even though I personally have a GFL itching to be used there. IMHO this serie should only be unbound in a year or so when the next reward cards are there, and the price for unbounding should be DEC = CP + vouchers, with vouchers thus retaining their original function of rewarding those who stake in SPS.

Having said all this, I still haven’t made my mind up how to vote for this proposal. Convince me…

Sorry but this proposal is BS. Too bad my 50K SPS won't get the "No" vote anywhere. Gotta keep on buying SPS... :-)

At the moment, I'm inclined to vote no due to the price. It's important to make land accessible to players who DO have plots to work, and the price wall is already quite high to populate and maintain a plot. Asking 2x the CP is just going to generate more salt and potentially push away more players who are currently on the fence.
I'm all for using DEC to unlock SB cards, but think it should be at a fair cost, ie the CP of that card. I also like the idea or requiring one voucher per card.
I would vote for this if it were = CP + 1 voucher per card.

I will vote yes :)

Here are my thoughts:
One of the main purposes of land is to give older sets a place to retire, generating a deflationary effect on card supply and helping old assets hold value.

So, why allow the current editions to work land at all?

My suggestion would be to have it so any card/set that can still be bought in-store (Riftwatchers, Gladius) or earned from battling (current soulbound reward set) is excluded from land work completely. Or alternatively have a hefty efficiency penalty until it is out of print. This is a much simpler, straight forward system that fits better with the goals land is meant to achieve.

Hi @yabapmatt.sps , thanks for the proposal. I think there is a need to address the Soulbound reward card usage on land and discuss how eventually the unbinding process would work, however, I have some ideas on how it could be better.

I echo a lot of the feelings that @milomex shared in his comment. After a player acquires a max soulbound card any more wouldn't have any usage without paying to manifest that card...Furthermore I think it would lead to a lot of frustration since at some point (champ) players would earn reward cards which would have zero usage without paying additional DEC.
My solution would be to allow SB reward cards on land only if they are combined at their max level AND released at 1X their burn value. This would have a variety of beneficial effects on the economy.

• It would make it so that bot farms have to have a maxed combined card, which 99% of bot farms will not be able to and prevent the very problem this proposal was trying to achieve.
• It would still make it so that you need 1X DEC burn value to unbind - therefore still burning DEC and not cause havoc on the economy with free cards.
• It would incentivize players down the line to max out their other non SB cards so that they can use their cards at their maximum potential.
• It would give current top players actually something to play for instead of a 20% discount on the right to buy a GFL compared to market price.

This seems like double work for a start. This is where the current DAO voting system lacks. There's a few things that could be up for debate.

Have the full plan ready and put it up for a vote and save time on implementation.
Present the full cost to unbind the card. Not just the cost to unbind for land then find out the extra cost to unbind for sale/transfer later. Phase the rollout if needed but get all the fundamentals completed first.

Gladiator cards too?, brawlers must cringe just at the thought. Adding merits to rewards coming back to haunt us. At the proposed dec/dec-b price for both rewards, rewards seem to get nerfed after the fact too now, that's my take on it but not everyone will agree. Price just seems double the amount anticipated.

Gladiator cards already have burn value, will the soulbound reward cards get this too? Either for land or full unlock?

Vouchers not used at all but @yabapmatt.sps did mention in Mav chat earlier that the proposal might be edited to include them.

What I find surprising is the amount of bcx in PACKS vs what we give up in rewards.

You used the example of 47M in Chaos Legion.
Current Reward Cards are 32M --> going to 64M in 5 months.

Packs are revenue-earning, go to the bottom line of your business.
Rewards cards are not.

I think you need to address several things as a business:

• CORE set cards or mini-set should be highly desirable. This is why people need cards
• Rewards cards should always be "weaker" than or less desirable than a CORE set card. Otherwise, once I have enough "rewards" cards, I never need FULL CORE SET cards. Reward cards should be more situational ones or used to counter other cards. But CORE cards are better and more well-rounded.
• Inflation of the reward cards are impact all card values. This can be fixed if reward cards are not as good as CORE set cards or any cards that we buy.
• Promo Cards should be special. But if someone can use 6 reward cards to beat others' cards, this is what causes less value of CORE cards.
• Summoners should not be part of reward cards in the future. Summoners are the one card you must play in each deck. They should only be in CORE Set or Mini-set, which is purchased, not earned.

As a bronze-level player, I have been able to "reap" more benefits from this SB-reward card release because of the FREE SUMMONERS. Summoners should never be part of the reward card set. Most of my CL summoners are at Bronze LEVEL. I have silver league SB summoners already.

I will vote with my 1800 SPS, but I hope people can see that wisdom is not often related to how many SPS one has.

What I find surprising is the amount of bcx in PACKS vs what we give up in rewards.

You used the example of 47M in Chaos Legion.
Current Reward Cards are 32M --> going to 64M in 5 months.

Packs are revenue-earning, go to the bottom line of your business.
Rewards cards are not.

I think you to address several things:

• CORE set cards or mini-set should be highly desirable.
• Rewards cards should always be "weaker" than or less desirable than a CORE set card.
• Inflation of the reward cards are impact all card values. This can be fixed if reward cards are not as good as CORE set cards or any cards that we buy.
• Promo Cards should be special. But if someone can use 6 reward cards to beat others' cards, this is what causes less value of CORE cards.
• Summoners should not be part of reward cards in the future. Summoners are the one card you must play in each deck. They should only be in CORE Set or Mini-set, which is purchased, not earned.

As a bronze-level player, I have been able to "reap" more benefits from this SB-reward card release because of the SUMMONERS. Summoners should never be part of the reward card set. Most of my summoners are at Bronze LEVEL. I have silver league SB summoners already.

I will vote with my 1800 SPS, but I hope people can see that wisdom is not often related to how many SPS one has.

My main issue is this is quite complicated.

People with soulbound still have to pay for the actual land and the actual DEC they stake on it. If they have 100 accounts with 43/86 soulbound cards on they have to buy 200/400 land plots to actually use them, which is already a huge investment, ignoring the DEC. They also probably wont have max level soulbound so they pay again from the inefficient cards (although in time they will of course max them)

Why not just make staking requirement higher just for soulbound if it really would be such an issue? I think this is easier to understand and doesn't introduce a new system.

I prefer simplicity and beauty overall. So I would prefer making the cost of manifestation of cards just their CP + voucher(s). If it is considered too low to be sustainable long term (because we are truly earning a lot of soulbound rewards) then I would prefer to reconsider print rates. What's the point of farming plenty of GFL in champions if then I have to pay an arbitrary amount of DEC to unbound?

I understand the manifest costs proposed are halfway between CP and current market value of land workers, so everyone should be happy (but no one extremely happy) but what happens if market prices change?

I think with last proposals we are changing from "market gonna market" to "DAO gonna market". I have mixed feelings about this.

Still uncertain about what to vote on this proposal.

Here's a novel game idea, that might also increase land liquidity. In order for a Soulbound card to become manifest, it must spend a certain period of time staked to land (without an unstake) - meaning it essentially has to do a period of "servitude" under the original owner before it can manifest and be traded.

We could then also track a variable like (days_Staked) for each card and award those who have the longest service histories without movement in the future. (perhaps a logarithmic bonus the longer it has been staked, up to a limit?)

It has since been brought to my attention that users with large numbers of accounts, all separately earning soulbound reward cards, would simply be able to split up their land plots among their many accounts and thereby eliminate the need to get any other cards to work their land.

And yet, the price would be paid even if you only earn soulbound reward cards with one account... Expensive too.

I disagree with this on several levels. I'll start by saying that I have no land so it's irrelevant for me. I still disagree and want to give my opinion.

1. It is mostly irrelevant. Even without an extra cost, I'm very confident less than 1% of the cards working on land will be soulbound. This is coming from someone who plays in diamond/champion. Most of my commons are at level 7 or 8. Most GF commons are a bit lower than the regular foil. The exception is GF Wily Coyotian which is at level 9 with 6 extra copies. My rares are at level 5 or 6. One is still at 4. Some GF are higher level than regular foil and vice versa. Epics are at 2, 3, or 4. Most of them, the regular foil is the higher level. Most of them are at level 2, some are at level 3 and two are still at level 1. I have a few GFs here. So, if I earn at the same pace (this will be important for later), I will surely max most of these cards, in 5 months.

2. So, assuming a player who's playing at the top leagues should be able to max most of their soulbound cards, is that really a problem? Are they really going to stop playing with some of these cards to use on land when they can buy multiple max copies of cards with similar effects on the market without hurting their gameplay? Unless they have a max regular and max GF copy, this won't come into play. And, if they do have both maxed, they should be rewarded for it!

3. It doesn't matter if someone has 1000 or 10k accounts farming rewards. They can't put all those copies together. Are they gonna work their lands with silver level monsters? You're saying that someone invested money creating all those accounts, bought all those lands and they are gonna save a fraction of that cost, when cards are so cheap, to use silver level monsters on their land? And if there's anyone with many bot accounts in champion, congratulations, you deserve to use those cards on land.

4. We're assuming rewards will stay the same for the next months. They won't. Thanks to the brilliant (that's sarcasm) numbers of the SPS requirements, most players will earn a fraction of what they were earning and/or will drop leagues, which also decreases their earnings. Cards will be earned at a much slower pace. And, when it comes to bot farms, the SPS requirements apply to every single account. Are they gonna invest/rent enough SPS for all of them to keep earning at the same pace? If they do, again, they deserve to use their soulbound cards at no extra cost.

5. The cost is absurd! What worries me the most is that the same logic is already being applied to unlocking the cards to be tradable in the future. The cost should be exactly the burn value, no more, no less. Making the cost equal to the burn value makes sure no new DEC is minted with those cards. That's enough, you don't need to put a huge paywall on unlocking those cards. If you do go with this manifest cost, make it equal to the burn value and, when it's time to make them unlockable, that's already paid.

Since a lot of the angst is due to the uncertainty of the final cost. Why not have people stake the stated amount of DEC rather tham burn it? This still effectively removes the DEC from circulation and disincentivizes the use of SB reward cards (as upfront capital is required). Then when the full cost to make them transferrable is determined, players can choose to pay to fully unlock them ..

Absolutely ridiculous.

vouchers plz, and when soulbound cards are unlockable there should be a window of time to unlock for each set and then it is completely in print.

The update to vouchers seems like a great deal for whales and node holders, but it's still a pretty bad deal for new, low, and mid level players. Even with a voucher discount, the cost to unlock an already earned card for the average player is still absurd. Sure would be nice if we could get past all these money grabs and manipulative tokenomics.

1. i was against the proposal from the beginning, because i don't think it's fair that i have to pay again for my cards, which i can only earn with my investment, and certainly not at this exorbitant price, which even exceeds the market price of cards from packs.

2. I have at least the sense, the theory behind it can understand. dec burn = flywheel start = we all benefit.

3. but now it became clear again what kind of selfish people take influence here. now people want to earn with vouchers on my earned reward cards. there is no point that you pay for your own cards vouchers. it does not help the flywheel, just nothing except that a few people want to enrich themselves again......

this is corruption before all our eyes, you make concessions to certain people so you can get their votes at the expense of all of us.....

I understand the DEC/voucher sink you are putting in place here but let's be honest, why would I spend so much on soulbound card that have super low PP instead of just buying legendary gold foil that will provide way more PP for my buck? (I do understand that scarcity will make them unavailable after a while but as much as I love many of the current soulbound card, if they are good, I will play with them, not pay to then have to pay even more to just stake them away)

Again, I'm not against the idea since I don't see a world where I plan to pay that much to unbound any of my souldbound cards(unless it's value is at least double or more of the original unlocking cost on the market).

Thing is, it's good to add more DEC sink in the game but we need to stop having paywalls everywhere vs the rewards that keep going lower and lower and the ways to earn money in the game are gradually reducing as price of all token keep tanking. When I earn a new card, I want it to be = more value and not = I need to pay 2x the value upfront to maybe later be able to sell it with a small profit since that don't make it a reward card but it become a card I simply bought.

I mean, if I work for a living but when I get my paycheck, I need to spend X% upfront of my paycheck value to have the right to get my paycheck, all I see here is my income losing value.

I do agree with the idea of unlocking soulbound card but it feel super sketchy that I get "Free card" as reward for all the money I already invested in the game but to have access to this new value, I need to buy the card to use it? Something is not right about it even if logically it feel like a good idea to get rid of DEC on the paper, the reality is that us, the players, get more paywalls and less real value for playing the game.

What happens if a voucher is used to manifest a 1 BCX common regular foil?

Does 195 DEC worth of the voucher remain in your account to use later?
Or do you lose all of the value left over from that voucher?

Does this mean that you apply 1 voucher per manifest, or can you apply 1 voucher across several manifests in a "bulk manifest" event?

Lets see what happens :)

I see the purpose of this proposal, but why is it just being addressed now and not when the concept was being formed? all this looks like is yet another cash grab in the almighty "get dec to peg at any cost, but that cost must be from the user" war. When you decided to take sellable reward cards away from people and give them soul bound cards, how did you not see this as being a potential problem. its things like this that keeps new players away from this ecosystem because it feels like we have been getting nothing delivered lately except for ways to get yet even more money from people. You pushed this whole land idea for the last like 2 years yet in that time period have added additional costs to the structure more than the things you have delivered on. It is not a good look to log on everyday to a new restriction being put in place on top of people that requires new money to be injected after users have dished out 10s of thousands or more and now have to keep injecting. eventually people will just get tired and decide the cost does not justify the usage. And yet again this penalizes new or newer players hard....really hard. Old players got to get packs at 2$ a pop and their cards reflect that in the PP that card allows, Lower the pp value on soulbound if need be but stop trying to make new rules after the fact that straight up robs people in hopes you can prop dec up.

Thank you for further de-valueing previous collections.

I would appreciate disallowing SB cards on Land until they can really be unbound. Things are getting too complicated with all those additions and exceptions. Even if it is a minor thing to implement, it is an additional thing - and those add up.

Price seems too high and this should work also as a pre unlock for when the cards become transferrable, so that player doesn't need to pay twice. Voting against it as it is.

Horrible proposal in every way - Stake,Burn,Stake,Burn is all we are asked to do lately.
The proposal does not address what happens when cards do finally unlock for sale/trade - Do we have to pay again?
Any long term players will have plenty of pre souldbound reward cards to use on land and the current soulbound cards are having no effect on the economy whatsoever.
Any new or recently joined players thinking of participating in land are thrown a new cost barrier by being unable to use the 'reward' cards they have been earning.

I'm not going to repeat the points. I will point out though, that if i had any idea about the shady things Aggy and Matt are willing to pull in order to fill their pockets and the pockets of their buddies from Alpha days, i would have taken my 15k and invested elsewhere. But as it stands, my original 15k and the additional investment i've made since 2021 is now worth a fraction of what it was, and cashing out without a massive loss is not really something i'm considering...but i am definitely regretting the trust i put in the team. We can replay nearly every choice since someone decide that 15M packs was the perfect number for CL...Waka (Ole Waka Flakka Flame was at a music festival here in Alaska...ALASKA...and he got mid billing on the 3rd day)...
The cost seems to always go up and the value seems to go down. Im beginning to think that Aggy and Matt really just got lucky with a decent idea that got caught up in a Bull market, but do they really know how to run a business? a good one? do they really? EVERY bad decision can be laid right at their feet. Every misstep, every cash grab, every 'exaggeration' of a timeline. Every broken promise and every fence-straddle belongs solely to those two.
Now the good thing is that if they can manage to avoid driving their company into the ground before the next bull market, we should be good despite the many broken promises and lies.
now before all you dev champions go on the defense, know this. I have 50k sps staked, i have a million power, i've purchased 1000+ CL packs from the store, I own 2 plots and i participate in brawls every single week as i've done for the last two years or so. I'm not some snowflake looking for something to whine about, I'm an invested player with a real stake in this process...And i'm voting no.
This is just another example of 'let them eat cake' And the modern version of decapitation is called Bankruptcy

ok next don't release any more card sets at all until an obvious huge growth in players, and until you have prevented anonymous multi accounters from raiding the game's economy, with all your band aids over the problem just costing the average player value.

UPDATE: Up to 50% of the cost of "manifesting" a card will be able to be paid using VOUCHER tokens at a value of 200 DEC per VOUCHER spent.

This is a TERRIBLE idea. DEC-B created needless DEC inflation due to the fact that vouchers could be burned for DEC. This is a repeat, which would see large stakeholders use vouchers to unlock their cards, resulting in far fewer DEC being burned to achieve this.

I cannot support this proposal as a result of this update.

The proposal to expand this unlocking idea to land is fine with me but I don't have a strong opinion on that matter.

The one big thing I don't like about this proposal is the section about combining manifested and non-manifested bcx as this would likely carry over to transferable cards later on:

Not being able to combine cards being made transferable and those that haven't. If, say, after the current soulbouds go out of print and I happen to be one bcx short (say 399/400) for some common card, I do have to bail out all 399 to be able to add one transferable bcx that I acquired on the market? This level-up then costs not only the market price for 1 bcx, but also 3990 DEC on top - for a card that I only want to use for myself anyways.
Is it not possible or not feasible to keep track of the fractions and any card that contains any number of souldbound bcx is considered soulbound until the difference is paid? Say Common Lvl 10, 400/400bcx, 1/400 unlocked. If I want to make the combined card transferable I have to burn DEC to unlock the remaining 399bcx.

Otherwise this will be a huge turn-off for people who just want to complete their collection by adding a few missing bcx from the market here and there.

So I would rather see effort being made to implement a tracker/counter for unlocked/locked bcx in a combined multi-bcx card then to figure out some confusing weird way to make them available for land now and then unlock them a second time for the market later. Especially since that complicates keeping track of locked/unlocked bcx by adding another level of "unlocked", which is probably why you specifically mention it in this proposal post.

Just voted 👍 !PGM

I'm sorry, I cannot support this. Many people have echoed the sentiments I have. If the playerbase (Dao) votes for this and then complains of endless money sinks, then the jokes on us but it's more likely no one will bother wasting the DEC on a soulbound to farm and just purchase regular cards to stake...RIP rewards cards if we have to pay to for them.

I get the our DEV's are hurting finacially until flywheel (hopefully wen land) due to a current oversaturation of DEC (We were all warned of this by many wise heads yet we all rushed headlong into DEC-B) and Cards and we need a way to get this flywheel happening.

Here is my counter sugestion: Why not create another avenue for DEC sinks E.G Create Physical Set's to sell to the Gen pop but the only way they can purchase is with DEC or SPS? Get this game out into the physical realm. It's high time we showed the RL the wonderful world of Splinterlands and the true potential of NFT's and Blockchain gaming. Get physical sets made, sell them only in game currency and we all win when this game goes mainstream. Better yet, we allow physical buyers the chance to soul-bound their owned cards with unique identifiers and then PAY to unlock them to unlock earning of rewards if they wish to contribute to the ecosystem. I think a proposal in this area is a must. Heck, I'd even be willing to vote some of the DAO funds to get this show on the road.

Well written and well reasoned. I will support this proposition. Thank you for adding the 50% voucher discount!

So, what this is practically saying is that soulbound cards have no value. Burning DEC gives them value. Sounds like Splinterlands wants players to print the money instead. Defeats the purpose of "rewards". Seems like a whatever moment or early access to soulbound cards in another way.