RE: SPS Governance Proposal - Adjust Rewards Based on Card Level
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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.