Splinterlands Update 4-29-2022 | Go For The Gold, Bots, Chaos Gold Foils, SPS

My First Gold Placement

So my first gold season is in the books. I had a nice run up into the teens, but I just couldn't sustain the momentum. Part of the reason is I either didn't have all the cards I needed, or the ones I was using were too low in level. I will need to continue to rebalance my player/rental deck in order to get more competitive here. That being said, I'm pretty satisfied with my ranking as a first attempt.

Bots Revisited

I posted a bit of a rant about bots under thet last AMA post. Of course I was late to the party, but I wanted to reiterate my thoughts here. Here is what I posted:

Hive account@azircon was kind enough to share his thoughts on the matter as well. Another overlooked aspect is that these bot operators are either buying assets in the game, or are paying for the right to use those assets. When they made the decision to deploy that capital, they evaluated the game as it was and how they could profitably interact with it. Blocking their access to the game in a centralized way would essentially be rugpulling them, which I feel is morally worse than running bots in the first place. I feel as though the game naturally evolving over time to be more unfriendly to bots is a different issue, and should have been part of the calculus involved with the bot operator's decision to participate. Despite having a champion level deck, I hung out in Bronze and Silver for weeks, so I am well aware of how annoying it is to play bots. It really helped when I attempted to surprise them with different lineups and more rare cards. Though this advantage will largely dissappear in a Modern format, which is why I suspect Wild format will always be more popular, and the past edition cards will continue to go up in value.

Chaos Gold Foil Deck

I finally got the full suite of maxed out Chaos Legion common gold cards. I am now focusing on the rare ones. It may take me around the same amount of time because there are less cards needed, even though they are lot more expensive individually. I've also managed to get a few of the reward cards as well.

SPS

I continue to march up towards my SPS target of 200k, which at 20% APY would yield me just over 100 SPS per day. I have about 8k SPS earmarked for a validator node reservation. I can't believe it's already been 9 months! Only 88 days left! I've just started registering for some tournaments, so my goal is to keep paying my SPS-related expenses without touching my principle.

See you in a couple weeks!

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