Hello everyone! Pozdrav svima!
First of all, I'm so sorry I didn't get this post out sooner, like a week ago. But I've been super busy at work and my HIVE blogging suffered because of it.
After finishing the last season (107) just shy of Diamond 2 and forgetting to advance to Diamond 3, I fought for Gold season chests again.
I managed to do well this season and everything went according to plan.
But, before we get into that, lets see what happened in the world of Splinterlands during this Season 108 which took part in the first part of April 2023.
First update of the month was a HUGE one! Land (1.0) Ho!
Surveying of land has finally been added to the game. We may now survey our land deeds to find out the details on the plots that we own!
For more information on surveying, you can find it in land documentation here.
When surveying your land you must select any survey boosts beforehand. Once plots are surveyed, you can no longer add a boost.
After you confirm the survey you reveal the plots in a screen that looks like this:
Exciting stuff!
Second update introduced the Guild Invite Mailbox under Guilds menu and it's used to track your applications and invitations to join a guild.
There were some Land SPS Distribution Changes so that SPS rewards for holding land will now only be given out to Surveyed lands, per the recently passed proposal. Land Tokens (plots, tracts, regions) and unsurveyed deeds will no longer give SPS.
There were also some General Updates:
- Land Survey Boosts can now be paid for with a split of DEC Batteries and DEC. If you do not have sufficient DEC Batteries, it will fulfill the remaining payment using DEC.
- They have added the same purchase block delay to Non-Card Market items that already exists on the card market, now that land is also being sold through that interface.
- Time Crystals are now transferrable inside the game.
- On the Currency Activity Page, Staked SPS has been moved to be a sub-menu of SPS and DEC Batteries has been moved to be a sub-menu of DEC.
- PayPal checkout has been updated, as some of the functionality they were offering has been removed on their end.
- Fixed an issue where using the multi-token transfer block chain operation would accept illegal entries for the recipient.
Land surveying was very interesting, at least to watch, since I don't have any land at the moment. But I've been eyeing some plots waiting for them to drop in price a bit so I can afford them.
During this season I managed to stake another 600 SPS bringing the total just above 6,1k staked SPS. USD value of my SPS portfolio dropped down a bit (about $7) mostly because the market price went down (its at $0.026 compared to $0.030 last season).
My goal is to keep staking as much SPS I can get my hands on and hopefully won't have to unstake anymore if renting market goes back to normal.
This season I played in Gold league for Gold season chests. My plan was to play for Diamond chests, but that end of last season was so hectic for me that I forgot to advance to Diamond 3.
That's why I started the season in Gold 3 and had to climb to Gold 1. Fortunately, I managed to do that in first two days of the season and it was smooth sailing since that.
End of season was pretty successful as I ended up at 3108 rating, that was enough to advance to Diamond 2 league and start the next season straight from Gold 1 without having to fight my way through.
I finished the season with decent 56% win rate and earned 77 Gold season chests, together with 147 daily focus chests (that makes an average of 9.8 chests per day).
As you can see in the chart below, my SPS earnings were pretty constant during the whole season, with a spike in the middle of the season from a sweet daily focus chest and a huge jump in the end from EOS chest. Battle SPS is still most often 4 to 5 times higher then SPS rewards from chests.
As you can see from the rating chart below I had to fight my way through Gold 3 and Gold 2 to reach the Gold 1 at the first couple of days of the season. That is why the rating curve is a bit steeper at the start and after that it was a pretty much constant climb to 3100 rating, my final goal.
I ended the season at 3108 rating, just enough for Diamond 2, so my rating will reset at 2500 - Gold 1 league - for a nice start of the next season.
I hoped that 77 Gold chests will ease the pain of not fighting for Diamond chests. But I didn't get anything spectacular, as you can see:
I can't really complain on the number of cards I got, especially with that one RF legendary, and those 2 CL packs will come in handy, but the SPS reward could be better, since I'm spending on rentals more then I earn.
For the ones that like numbers, I made a recap of the whole season.
| Income | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEC earned from rentals | 6,086.600 |
| SPS earned from battles | 100.141 |
| SPS earned from chests | 81.633 |
| Outcome | Amount |
| DEC spent on rentals and fees | 9,290.716 |
| PROFIT (DEC) | -3,204.116 |
| PROFIT (SPS) | 181,774 |
Total DEC income from rentals is much lower then it used to be, mostly due to recently implemented market fees, but 
On the bright side SPS earnings were better then last season so I'll take comfort in that.
It is so much easier to track your earning now with the new Currency Activity feature in-game, kudos to Splinterlands developer team for making this happen.
I explained how to use this feature, export it to Excel and do the calculations with the data in one of my previous posts. If you missed it, you can find it in the link below:
And finally, for the ones that like to look at the pretty card pictures (like me) I will show you my whole season recap of chest winnings - record breaking 230 gold chests. 😍
In the end this was a decent month, more SPS then the month before. Here is the recap in numbers:
| CARDS | |
|---|---|
| Common Regular | Common Gold Foil |
| 250 | 1 |
| Rare Regular | Rare Gold Foil |
| 46 | - |
| Epic Regular | Epic Gold Foil |
| 5 | - |
| Legendary Regular | Legendary Gold Foil |
| 3 | - |
| POTIONS | |
| Legendary Potions | Alchemy Potions |
| 147 | 196 |
| CURRENCY | |
| SPS | Merits |
| 182.376 | 4,342 |
| Chaos Legion Packs | |
| 8 |
This is a month of Ape-In April event on Splinterlands.tv where streamers are handing out cards in their streams. There were quite a few GFL Summoners, some Dice legendaries including an Epona, 100 gold foil Vruz, and 2000 regular foil Vruz up for grabs.
I was lucky enough to win a couple of Vruzes, but nothing fancier then that. There were, although, some lucky players that snatched a few Gold Foil Legendary cards.
But the month is not over yet, I'm not losing hope. Big thank you to Splinterlands and Splinterlands TV crew for making this happen.
Big shout out to 
Also, I have to mention guys from
And this last screenshot, the season summary, was made on splex.gg site.
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