THE SPLINTERLANDS DIARIES 1: BLOODIED BUT NOT BROKEN

Today's game was rough. I have been avoiding two splinters for some time now. I am referring to the fire and light splinters. I can't seem to use them well and i lose often than not when i battle a quest with them. Today, just to bust my balls, i found a quest involving the fire splinter. I thought to myself hell no! and quickly changed the quest and i found myself in a death splinter quest. Awesome! i thought.


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My winnings for today's quest


The death splinter is one of my favourite and one of the earliest splinters i got lucky with. I'd rather play with death splinter, water splinter or earth splinter than with any other. My favourite splinter is the water splinter though but that is a topic for another day. So i was excited that i had gotten the splinter i wanted and i was sure that this quest was going to be a piece of chocolate cake but boy, was i wrong.

Now i ended last season well so i started this season on Bronze II. Not long after i started playing i found myself in Bronze III. I fell and i fell hard. I, who had dealt carnage last season with unbeaten after unbeaten runs could not win a single battle. I felt like weeping. I hate losing. It is a curse and a blessing. I would be tenacious, determined to win and break the game but the moment the game refuses to bow, i become overwhelmed and i start making rash decisions and the mistakes start piling. That was exactly what happened.

On the occasions that i have found myself in such situations where the game is beyond me, i leave it alone for long periods. I go do other things, play other games, write, get drunk, see a movie then i come back and everything would have a different perspective. It occurred to me to do this, to walk away from the game but i could not. I have a target, you see. I am accumulating as much cards as i can before Beta cards disappears from stock. I do not have the cash or Steem to buy so the only way is to win some. Battling is the only way i have to stake my cards and create a passive income that would boost my writing earnings. It would be nice to be able to rent some real estate in this Steemmonsters thingy, yes?


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There go I but for persistence.


If you notice, the picture of my winnings for today's quest at the top of this post has two cards instead of the normal one card. Yes, i invested some Steem on a quest portion. I paid 500 DEC for five charges of an extra card at the end of every quest. So far i have received a common monster and an epic monster in this little investment of mine. If it is worth the DEC invested, i think so as the price of each card far outstrips the price of DEC and some of these cards i have combined, increasing their price as well as their stats. So it is a good investment. I think Steemmonsters as an investment is a good one especially for avid gamers. I am not an avid gamer but i am hungry and angry. You know the saying, don't you? Well enough of the shilling.

As i studied my game so far, i realised something. I was reading too much. I had taken in too much information and they were just there simmering on the surface without actually evolving into tangible systems of game play. When i first started playing Steemmonsters, i knew next to nothing about it. I just selected the strongest cards on the deck and that was it. I didn't even know about the rules. Now i know about the rules and i am losing. I am paying too much attention to the rules and it is affecting how i pick the monsters i use. So what i did after several losses was to forget the rules and all i know about the game and just pick cards that felt good to me. Yes, it worked.


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You can see the win streak at the top. yes? That's how we roll. winks


I know this is not a satisfactory way to play this game. I know that the rules play a vital role in the selection of what cards to play with. I also know that sometimes, working by feel is right. I have to be able to combine my instincts with a better understanding of the rules in every battle for it to become a win each time i battle. At the end, it is not how big the card's stats are but how one combines them that determines a win or a loss.


warpedpoetic, 2019.



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