A few weeks ago, Splinterlands announced changes to the market listing for rentals. This meant that there were going to be a lot of changes to the rental market and I decided a few days ago to remove all my rental cards. I am unsure how to approach the rental market while this is going on so I plan on waiting to see what exactly happens first.
SplinterRents going offline
Due to these changes, splinterrents is also going offline. I thought I didn't have any outstanding balance but it looks like I did and I did pay that off earlier today. The pricing of cards is going to be tough but I don't think the low level cards that I have a lot of will rent out for much and I respect them for taking the bot offline while they adapt to the changes. It looks like things are going off temporarily so I think it's possible for it to come back up eventually. Unfortunately, this means that the only rental bot option that doesn't require your private posting key will be going offline.
Revoking Posting Authority
While this account is offline, I have decided to remove the posting authority that I have given SplinterRents to be safe. While I don't think they will do anything, it's better to be safe and I can always delegate out authority later when they do go online and I want to use the rental bot.
To do so, I went to PeakD and pressed account actions. Under that tab, I pressed the
Keys & Permissions.
Afterwards, I click on the Authorities tab and pressed the X next to splinterrents.
Next click the confirm button and approve the transaction. Once you do so, the authority has been revoked and you can see my updated authorities page.
Changes to my ranked battles
One thing that I noticed over the past few days was the increased options to my fights. One bad thing that I didn't do when the rental bot was active was to make sure to update the spreadsheet. I was always just playing with the same general deck because all of those cards ended up getting put up on the rental market and I was never good in fixing this. I like having way more options to my battles and I have been experimenting with a few things using some of the cards that I generally do not have access to. It's a good thing and I will be able to figure out what exactly I want before I list these cards up for rentals (if I decide to down the road).
Conclusion
The rental changes have kind of changed the landscape of the rental market and even SplinterRents decided to shutdown (temporarily). I don't plan on using a rental bot for now and I plan on watching how things go first before I even list any cards up. There is a cost associated with putting up cards and I want to be careful now because of it. Getting back my cards has also given me more options in my ranked battles and I plan on seeing how things go before deciding which cards (if any) that I want to list on the market.
Are you in the Splinterlands rental market and have you made any changes due to the recent update?
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