3 Chaos legion packs out of 20 reward chests last season blew my mind, somehow, somewhere, I knew the next season's rewards weren't going to be great and I was right.
The splinterlands' reward system comes with balance. This means creating or establishing an element of surprise while managing to keep players/investors satiated according to the level of their investment.
While a person can get extremely lucky on splinterlands, it's important to realize that, luck comes with a degree.
While the luck to win when you invest is not 100% there's a certain level of expectation that you'll be lucky to some extent, especially when you put in the time after investing
Last Season's Rewards
My last Season's reward didn't come as a surprise, I knew it'll be that way, the SPS haul was quite disappointing and there was no legendary. Although I did get 3 copies of gold Permbrook (water summoner), that alone added to making me have my first-ever level-4 summoner.
Howbeit, that summoner is soulbound and hopefully, someday, I could have enough money to upgrade my other summoners. One interesting thing is that last season was one of my poorest seasons on SL. This is reward-wise and also haul-wise.
I explained in this post how the removal of bots last season crowded the space with players from the wild.
Last season, I decided to head into the gold league with 6 days left to go in the season. The reason why I did this was because I wanted to finish in maybe gold one.
This tactic isn't feasible anymore.
......The reason is that the gold league is a monstrous place to be. You're literally competing against people with some great resources at their disposal, people who are intentional about every detail regarding investing to win.
Gold League Is Monstrous
It's an intense place, but I've played in gold before and won tremendously. Choosing to head into gold cost me a lot. I lost games and incurred losing streaks like I'd never done before.
One thing I've realized is that, while we all think the bots are smarter when it comes to gameplay, the truth is that humans can be smarter with time, the right investment, and adequate resources at their disposal.
Human Players Can Be More Dangerous
Removing the bots on modern showed how resilient human players can be, so irrespective of how we fear the bots' ingenuity on splinterlands, apart from the fact that they're expert farmers, there's nothing the bot is capable of, that human players cannot do.
So, I finished with 19 chests by choosing to migrate too early into gold.
Things have changed, you don't need to move to gold to have better chances of owning more chests, once you have enough SPS requirements for gold league, you can as well stay in the silver league and have a better chance of winning.
Every season is a lesson.
This time around, the recent adjustment requires one to find the right league for them. Splinterlands is about adjusting to the innumerable changes that are happening, or else you'll be left behind.
It's good to have the second tier of gaming.
Gladius Cards: Inevitable
The guild games have been coming in steadily, and I'm happy to be accumulating some SPS to my holding. It's been a great avenue to also build my Gladius card.
One thing is that gladius cards are becoming more relevant to gameplay and this is the right time to be building a deck of gladius, especially in all departments.
It's the best time to build on splinterlands, and it's important to keep doing so before the market takes off.
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