Weekly Splinterlands Info

I know I'm late to this party work has been busy and with the holiday last weekend I wanted to take some relax time, I ended up not having anything posted in almost two weeks now. I do want to try and get on a schedule of Wednesday mornings to come out with this after the town hall and the social media challenge gets posted.

I may also try and get more than two posts out a week but I'm almost done with my PeakMonsters tutorial posts so we'll see what I can come up with for content for the week. I know there is always something to post about but I try to only post about information the community needs.

What a town hall

Lets start by saying when Matt is on it's always new packed town hall but I think this has been one of the most new packed town halls yet. Matt also wasted no time randomly dropping Riftwatchers eye candy / stat candy. Though the one stat candy he did drop was an older version so he removed it.

SPS

Lets start with proposal 34 passed splitting the SPS for rank battles into percentages for each league. I know a lot of people are upset and see this as the rich get richer but even as I play in silver league after ever season reset and anywhere from 1 - 4 days in silver depending on how long it takes me to get back into gold, I voted for this proposal. Why you may ask?

The overall rewards are far too weighted into bronze and silver right now for SPS while people who haven't spent a lot in the game like this, the amount of money to get to diamond and champion far out weighs the rewards. When the ROI for bronze and silver is so much better than the ROI for the higher league you get what we have now which is bots flooding bronze and silver. The staked SPS may change this a bit and if it does we can put up a new proposal to re-adjust the rewards. But this overall is good for the game and the health of the economy. With the rewards at the top now having a better ROI people and even bots are incentivized to rent or buy higher level cards verse just buying and renting 1 BCX card.

Aggy has said plenty of times this isn't a free to play game it will require some investment to play. The $3 of credits you get when you buy the spellbook can easily last 1 - 4 season depending on what you rent. If you only rent 1 BCX cards you can stretch the $3 in credits for multiple seasons. If you rent multiple BCX cards it will possibly last only 1 season. This should let you get a weeks worth of staked SPS and unstake it at the end of the first week. Take that and swap it to DEC to rent otherwise you are looking at $3 ever 2 week to 2 month to play.

Even with all that if you thought the game was worth play and rewarding before the rank rewards it even better now while people are upset the % of bronze and silver is being lowered the thing not to lose sight of is you are getting 15 - 20 time the chest you were getting previously. Take the rewards you are getting and rent them out, do not sell them but try and rent the cards out to get DEC to rent the cards you need. Save the cards you get so you can combine them when you are ready to move up in leagues. Keep playing every day you will eventually start to make head way, the rewards for bronze and silver are still better by multiple than it was 3 - 4 months ago even with this change.

Lastly the SPS rewards for licenses will go live next week which I am happy about as I have once license right now and I am looking at my second license buy very soon.

Riftwatchers

Lets start with the pack information the big news here is Riftwatchers will require 1 voucher for every packs while I was hoping for more for the pre-sale so vouchers would move a bit more than they have I did sell 100 vouchers at $1 and those I either got for free or at the end of the SPS airdrop when I was buying them for 0.35 to 0.45 cents so a 2 - 3 X on value which isn't bad. I did put that $100 in vouchers I sold into SPS.

You can see the count down until the Riftwatchers packs go on sale in splinterlands already.

The pre-sale announcement was posted on PeakD before the townhall.

Couple of key take aways:
Pack information:

• Pack Name: Rift Gems (see the "Gems" tab in the Splinterlands shop)
• Pack Presale Launch Date: Sept. 15th, 2022 2:00 PM ET / 18:00 UTC
• ESTIMATED Riftwatchers Set Release: Sept. 27th, 2022
• Total Packs: 3,000,000
• Cards: 43 cards in total, 13 common, 12 rare, 6 epic (Summoners), and 12 legendary (including 5 airdrops, not including the limited edition promo card)
  Pricing: $5.00 USD worth of SPS (at current external market pricing) + 1 VOUCHER
• Bonus Packs: Bulk purchases of Riftwatchers packs in a single transaction will be eligible for bonus packs at the rates below for a cost of 1 VOUCHER token per bonus pack:
  • 100+ packs = 10% bonus packs
  • 500+ packs = 15% bonus packs
  • 2000+ packs = 20% bonus packs

The first 500 packs will be the considered the pre-sale and be eligible for the promo card. You need to buy 50 for a guarantee card and 1000 for a guarantee gold foil verse one the card. The promo care will only be available from buying packs during the pre-sale and will not be included in packs bought after the pre-sale like the remaining 5 legendary cards one for each splinter.

The promo card looks pretty sweet and is for dragon which means if dragon is available it can be played with any splinter. Depending on the price of SPS I am looking at 50 - 150 packs for the pre-sale this will give me 1 BCX up to a max silver level copy which is what my summoners currently support.

The epic summoner for riftwatchers was also show during the townhall and they look amazing.

There are plenty of video already out there ranking the summoners saying who is good and who is bad the thing is we haven't seen the riftwatchers cards yet and the cards could very well change those ranking. Overall all of these summoners will be good especially because epic summoners allow you to play rare cards 1 level higher in each league then their counter parts. This means you could end up with abilities you wouldn't normally have playing the other summoners. Make sure to keep this in mind as it is a very power perk for these summoners.

Tower Defense

I am very excited about the tower defense game and will be playing it with my partner Lazella so I can't wait for this.

The PeakD post for the tower defense is here.

Currently proposal 67 is up for voting to reallocate 1 million SPS a month allocated to the team to the tower defense game. Aggro has talked about this the tower defense game will allow staking of monster in the towers at some point (Q1 2023 on the roadmap) which is how the SPS will be awards and power up your towers. This when it goes live along with staking on land in splinterlands will start to use up a lot cards currently in circulation as cards that as staked will be playable in splinterlands.

The tower defense will be part of the splinterlands arcade which is where your battlemage goes to relax and play some games. What I assume this will mean is there will be a link to the game inside splinterlands but overall the tower defense game will be it own web page and site.

Here is what we found out about the tower defense:

• 2 million packs will be sold at $8 in DEC with a $3 discount with the use of a voucher
• There will be a pre-sale and promo card associated with it which will require 500 packs to get the promo card
• Soul bound items will be use to gate progress so you will have to play to get these items and can't just buy in and play. A small amount of these items will be purchasable from the game but not enough to progress you without playing.
• There will be Heros (the promo cards), towers, and spells.
• We have the roadmap the team is working from and more will be added depending on how successful the game becomes.

Closing

Overall there has been a lot of new and all of it very promising. I am waiting to see the price of SPS and if it moves enough I will have a second license and 150 riftwatchers packs. While I plan to buy some packs for the tower defense I don't have enough to buy them now and they will have to wait so no promo card for me. Hopefully the heros are not too expensive on the market.

Signing off

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