RE: SPS Governance Proposal - Adjust Rewards Based on Card Level
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A lot of those "unique" accounts are playing both formats though. If you check the dashboard on Peakmonsters you can track the Daily Active Users. We're really only around 170-180k average DAU for the past week and who knows how many of those are bots. My guess is at least half
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Well Splex made a post they control 40% of the Rental market assuming the other half is Peakmonsters we get the data
GenepoolChlrn8r — 10/13/2022
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Believe it or not it has been 6 months since we started our journey together. The very first transactions made by what would become affectionately known as the Rent Golem were made on April 13, 2022.
The Rent Golem and this Discord were both publicly launched on April 16th and we’re now up to 2,216 members on Discord and over twice that many rental accounts. I have often said my favorite part of this project is the community of users and the quality of discussions we have on this Discord. Thank you for that!
Now, 6 months later, the Rent Golem is managing over 40% of the rental market in terms of both USD and card volume. This is INCREDIBLE growth far beyond what we hoped for in such a short time. The pace of change has been phenomenal and I wanted to take a moment to outline what all Yixn has been able to accomplish.
Once the Rent Golem was stabilized renting both Modern and Wild Cards (May 19th), Yixn turned his attention to creating tools geared to help those of us managing many accounts. In late May, Fast Sweep and the ability to autoclaim quests and the SPS airdrop brought in lots of new users including many who came for the tools but eventually became Rent Golem users as well.
In Early June, Yixn turned out a couple of tools a week including Reward Lookups (Daily and Seasonal), a Pack Calculator to help us all determine when it was profitable to buy, a ratings graph for our battle history, currency calculators and overall account values all on one overview screen.
During this time we had also been working with the Splinterlands team to get the SPLEX market allowlisted and on June 27th, Yixn published the market with advanced analytics around rental values at different levels and time periods and a cashback program that has proven to be much more rewarding than the leading competitor’s private token.
It was also around this time that we recognized that we had grown beyond just rentals and rebranded as Splinterlands Exchange (SPLEX) to better reflect the breadth of our tools and start to create a hub to support other third party projects.
Our first partnership was with Archmage in early July, where we agreed to provide a market for their tokens and a front end to help streamline their onboarding process. This partnership was highly successful in large part because there are tremendous synergies between our respective user bases. Each project attempts to help players derive yield from their assets in a more hands off way.
After managing some life changes in August, Yixn was able to adjust priorities to make it so that he has been able to focus on SPLEX full time starting in September. This has been extremely apparent by the increased pace of development.
Aside from numerous improvements to the market and other existing tools, we introduced a Referral system in early September and a Riftwatcher pack calculator within a couple of days of the ability to open Riftwatcher packs.
The last few weeks have seen SPLEX add a Missing BCX Buyer to help people complete their desired sets, a Delegation tool to take advantage of a new API introduced by Splinterlands for scholars and bot owners to send staked SPS to other accounts, and Reward Pool Stats to help people determine which league and format are currently the most profitable.
After all of that, we’re ready to announce the biggest new feature SPLEX has seen since the market. I’ll do a separate post to highlight the features, but SPLEX is proud to announce our new Collection Page that solves many of the pain points we continually encountered when trying to use existing solutions.
Thank you so much for those of you who have stuck with us this long (both the service and the length of this post).
Be on the lookout for both the detailed announcement of the Collection Page and an announcement of a Contest and Giveaway to honor our 6 month anniversary.
Only 40% of the rental market? Not to make that seem like any small feat.. I just would've guessed a bit higher than that judging from the number of people always talking about it and recommending it.
I like and use Splex but a part of me can't help but think... if the rental market is constantly being botted and the bots are constantly undercutting other bots for the lowest rental listing... did card prices organically drop or did Splex inadvertently drive them down?
Would not say they did though looking at peakmonsters you can see the last six months of data
https://peakmonsters.com/dashboard
What was more interesting is why daily users dropped May 31st to June 1st
(Its a dramatic fall of half the users/bots?)
That said 176,000 seems to be the real average players over the last month
With card volume and rent pretty consistent overall given the bear market with a big spike 2 weeks ago
That timeframe was the big bot nerf, but that definitely didn't kill all of them. Yeah we've fluctuated a bit since then but from talking to people I know personally, people in my guild, and people on Discord, my guess is the overall decrease in human players is being significantly offset by another increase in bots.
I'll admit rental volume is consistent, but rental prices overall have dipped significantly. Even in my scenario of Bot A undercutting Bot B, who then undercuts Bot C, who undercuts Bot A, who restarts the cycle... the volume still stays the same... it's the overall value taking the hit.
176k can't account for the real average of players when there's at least 2 dozen people I know running 10+ bots each. That's 24 people responsible for 240 accounts and I highly doubt this situation is an outlier.
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The ECR gameplay change made me move to use the bot services myself so the gameplay change is more of redelegation of ECR vs rent for me.
If they can earn and play and I can throw more games than the 50% ecr cap I'm happy my cards are doing something vs rent, heck if they made a cap of 200 games a day that would do more to quell bots vs humans players, the problem are the self coded bots that don't have 10 to 15 min cooldowns and can do whatever.
On the other hand, I know some players who play all on one account and run below 50% ECR and get penalized for playing a few games without noticing so it led me to keep a few accounts myself at a reasonable level and alternating if I want if I don't feel like it bots run down ECR and getting enough games in :)
Really was getting annoyed as a player when it only recharges 24% a day and with only a few mins a game I can easily finish those in an hour. It's fine if you leave it alone for a few days but it's not that many battles when you're just going at it.
On the other hand, it does make me play more tourneys and brawls, since those can fill in the gaps :) Always like to play a few rounds of regular as a warm-up though before a tourney.
Overall though I agree rent volume may be consistent however, there is a general decrease in players makes sense in crypto winters, it is still higher than it was pre Bullrun I think but it's nowhere near what it was during the bull run.
My group is targeting 1500 accounts but for new players only or middle level there will be a section for some experianced max players but like 2-5% will be that and those are the owners and profit share partners.
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