I have the Land gameplay itch... I don't know if that's a thing already, but I have it.
And the fact that I see the gameplay on the Mavs test server and can't currently go through a good part of it amplifies it.
The way the Land gameplay will start and the expected rush at the beginning makes it comparable to the kind of presales Splinterlands did I think last year that ended very quickly.
Screenshot from Land 1.5 on the Mavs test server
The rollout of Land 1.5 will probably generate a huge spike in user activity, but that won't last for minutes, like those successful presales, it will last for hours, maybe more in some cases.
Then things may cool down for a bit, but I expect they will pick back up as players will try to optimize their plots or activate new ones they didn't have enough DEC or cards for.
I don't have enough DEC for my plots. I am looking better when it comes to cards, even when only considering high PP ones (over 800 was the limit I considered so far). I won't need any cards below 1000 PP on my first batch of plots I'll stake on, but when I'll get to natural commons, and maybe even some natural rares, I probably will.
Since I couldn't try out the game in all its components, I did and will do everything else but that (for now) to prepare for the full launch of the game.
All the cards I'll need for the first batch of plots I'll fill in - my limitation is DEC - are in the main Splinterlands account along with the title and totem claims. One of the last things I'll need to do is to move DEC in that account and in-game, close to the launch to the game, which I expect to be either next Tuesday, or, maybe, the following one (October 3).
Although I said I won't use soulbound cards on land (and as far as I know it's currently not possible either), they are on the same account, just in case.
After going through most of the potential cards to use on land (except additional ones from my main account), I have enough to complete my Card Staking Goal for Splinterlands, stage 2, meaning at least 220. They aren't all at least 1k PP though, my lower limit so far was 800 PP. I won't move most of them to my main account until I increase my DEC to afford more card staking, which means after the game starts. But I'll consider this goal completed.
Something else I'll probably start doing today is to make a new spreadsheet with easier to read in a hurry card names associated with each of my plots to be filled in the order in which I intend to fill them. Just adding the highest PP cards (checking for bonuses or penalties) in the order of plot priorities and moving down the list may not be the best idea if you run out of suitable cards for the next priority plot. But if you have 1000 plots to fill, it's likely you won't optimize anything but a couple and the rest are just in the order of the highest PP.
Since I will fill some two dozens plots, maybe a few more depending on how much more DEC remains unused, it works for me to make pre-associations of cards on each slot.
Hey, it feels good to finally go through the last 100m preparations for the Land gameplay! Maybe I'll be able to play it in the Mavs server too, but the experience isn't like on the production servers, so even those who were able to play without major issues will experience a whole new game after launch.