This draft has been approved by all members of the SPS Foundation board unanimously.

Purpose

Hello again Splinterlanders. Recently I had Hive account@bulldog1205 reach out to discuss an issue which some may view as an exploit, so I ran this poll to gather community sentiment and feedback. After discussing possible solutions with the team as well as in Discord and on the post, It seems that the most functional way to approach solving this issue would be to see if the DAO would like to move to all rentals being on a seasonal basis.

Matt has shared his thoughts as well on Discord when asked and he also agrees that this would be the best way to move forward. This change mitigates the issue with 2 day rental cycling, lowers infrastructure cost for the team and would make rentals overall much simpler for new users. It's also worth noting that both land and the upcoming Survival Mode will only work with season rentals, so having parity with rentals across all game modes could remove potential confusion there as well.

Ultimately the decision is up the DAO. Thanks for your time and consideration.

Proposal

If this proposal passes, the Splinterlands card rental service will change in the following ways:

• The daily rental options for cards will be removed from Splinterlands.
• The only official option for card rentals going forward will be via the seasonal rental system.

Update 2/10/25

If this vote passes, then the season rental option will be the only available option going forward. How this proposal affects the previous proposal regarding changing the Rental price floor to 1 DEC is somewhat ambiguous. We want to give the team the freedom and flexibility to manage the rental price floor how they feel best represents the spirit of the previous proposal, taking into account their DEV requirements as well. If the DEV requirements can't be fulfilled, then the team may have to reach back out to the community.