Concept Design: Land Stadiums

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I was grooming myself after a hard morning of sunbeam-napping, window-bird surveillance, and dignified tail flicks, and this idea popped into my head that I think would be a fun way to connect Land & Battles in Splinterlands, so I wanted to quickly document it here.

The concept is to allow players a new "Stadium" building which could be built on certain land plots and which would have the following characteristics (note that all numbers are theoretical):

  1. Whenever a battle is played in Modern or Wild, there is a 10% chance that it's in a player-owned Stadium
  2. When a player's Stadium is selected, the owner earns Glint equivalent to a percentage of of the winner's Glint
  3. Production points placed on the Stadium would determine the % earnings the stadium owner receives
  4. The rarity of the plot that the Stadium is played on affects the chance of the Stadium being selected and perhaps the modes available (e.g. Modern or Wild, or both) or the max rating of players joining the battle (since higher ratings typically means higher Glint)

Each region's Stadium could have a different look, and could perhaps even be customized by the player to some degree.

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When a battle takes place in a player-owned stadium, it would be indicated in the battle screen. In the example above I show it next to the "Modern Ranked" text, though there may be other better placements. This would also show in the pre-battle screen.

In the post-battle screen we'd show where the battle took place, as well as the Glint earnings that the stadium-owner earned.

Currently land players have no access to Glint; that's only for battle mages. This would serve as a way to give access to landowners, while not introducing new resources or causing large economic harm. It would also be a way for even a single plot owner to be able to meaningfully gain from their plot, particularly if there aren't many other stadiums in circulation.

A few other bonus (and more complicated) ideas:

  • Allow stadium owners to select their stadium's style / appearance, and to customize it
  • Stadiums from different regions could have specific attributes that affect ruleset probabilities
  • Stadiums of certain rarities could have special rulesets applied, or these could even perhaps be the choice of the stadium owner

For fun, and also to illustrate the fact that generating hundreds or even thousands of these stadium illustrations is quite feasible, here are several more AI-generated images in the Splinterlands style that could resemble stadiums from different parts of Praetoria:

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Although these are by no means perfect, I think they illustrate that with the use of AI and with some care, it would be possible to create thousands of fairly distinct permutations rather easily. These were created using Midjourney, using one of the original Splinterlands arena illustrations as reference, and providing guidelines for different types of themes, colors, and tones.

Would love to hear what people think of this idea. Would you consider building a stadium on one of your plots of land? What other benefits or fun elements could be added to make this idea even better?



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That's a cool linkages between Land & Game.
Like how the Guilds have a Battle "Hosted By" sort of connection.

You could possibly craft in Land specific Battle Conditions available in your Arena.

Or Arena specific Match Potions that could be purchased during the Tactics Phase.

Arenas could also be Element Specific etc.. Like a River Arena is a Water Element Battle.

Excellent grooming idea 💡

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I think it's a good idea, but land should be active in order to host a battle.

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Yes, good point. But having a building tied to it demonstrates good infrastructure.

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Oh absolutely. It would only work on active plots.

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This is such a good idea! It's a good suggestion to allow land owners a way to access glint. Perhaps it could work both ways and players without land could earn land resources depending on which stadium(s) a battle is held in.

I could also see this setup where only Castle or Keep owners can build a stadium. That would not be my preference since I don't own either, but it could make sense.

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I love this idea! Maybe also show the plot ID? Or maybe the Region where the plot is!

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Definitely! Link it back to the uniqueness of the plot.

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Think this should definitely be part of the guilds upgrade too, guild brawls should be held at arenas on land with a greater chance of a land from the home guild being selected.

Gives an easy link between land/guilds/battles

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Agree. One very easy upgrade would be to just allow guilds to pick a mat that displays when battles are played on their turf. Could be purely cosmetic to begin with.

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This reminds me of the original idea that ranked battles were going to be played in Stadiums and that was how land owners were going to get SPS. Love the idea and would love to see some unique backgrounds

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