Spirit of the Game

This is a short and unusual post from my end. This evening I was triggered by an event at the Splinterlands Maverick Discord. I visit there often but mostly observe and try to learn. As compared to many, I still consider myself relatively new to the game. This evening a well known player mentioned that there are a lot of battles happening in the Ranked battle, where a all gold account is battling against a singleton, and winning. Please see the example below:

I first didn't understand, as I never looked into Splinterlands related abuse. This is a shame as I like to deal with abuse at the hive blockchain level a lot. So the whole experience was quite edicational for me:

Me: pardon my ignorance, but what is the benefit of losing like that?

Maverick: You win extra DEC from the gold foil bonus - so instead of winning 100-200 dec, the earning is 300-350 dec

Me: so it is an understanding between two players, or worse two guilds?

Maverick: "understanding" is a nice way of putting it, but yes

Did you see! Someone actually called me 'nice'!! Made my day! So I did some research and put the 'list' of fixed matches together as above from a player from the Goat-Gang guild.

They said not to 'single out' a player, as many are involved. I said, we start from somewhere. Also 'singling out' doesn't bother me at all personally. This is such a low lying DEC farming scheme, and also not a game problem, but a 'social problem'. Mutiple guild leaders put together a basic list real quick! It is below:

I am no guild leader. I am just a player. But whoever, doing this, please don't do this. This is a social problem, and I am very good in dealing with social problems.

This is bad for the spirit of this game that we like; don't do it!

Actions

Disciplinary actions are now swift and not subtle. As far as I know some of the players responsible are already sacked from their respective guilds within minutes. Thanks for the swift response from the Splinterland discord support team and the Guild Leaders. I will keep a personal watch out for these accounts now :)