It’s not often I write about Splinterlands, and if I am honest with you I have thought about completely selling out and taking a massive hit.
Have things hit rock bottom? I still don’t know but once I removed the 'loss' idea out of my head, I started doing my usual trick which is going against the grain.
...'Alphas; there's not many low BCX ones on sale, 'cause I have been buying 'em!'...
Alphas, Betas, they are cheap right now and I still needed monsters to stake on my lands that are doing nothing.
If it's one thing I can't abide, it's assets doing nothing and if you have a minute, take a look at how many of those old cards are for sale on the marketplace. There's not a lot left, and many are levelled-up monsters.
Well, that’s me buying up the 1-12 BCX range as they are cheap, boast a 5x or 10x production modifier and don't cost 50,000 DEC to stake. It's more like 9000-1000 per land for the same production rate.
...'The Beta Water Elemental yields more Production than any of these reward cards and is only 25% of the Energy costs. It's little wonder the old cards are being snapped up'...
It's all very well thinking about staking your extra cheap 400BCX Pelicor Bandit until you have that... 'Oh shit'... moment when you realise it's 50,000 DEC to do it.
Land is incredibly unpopular right now, as @farpetrad, the main developer left Splinterlands some time ago and since then fuck all has happened. It's little wonder I have been picking up cheap plots for $15 each.
You can get them for as low as $10, but not in the Broken Lands, the territory where most of my land is. Unfortunately for me, it's a trendy area of Pretoria, but I wasn’t to know that when I got my initial 58 lands when released.
Since then, the total has crept up to 98 as of today's gamble buy. You can tell me if the gamble paid off?
The region of Kinpath sits on the southeast border of the Broken Lands and happened to have a bunch of unsurveyed plots for sale at $23 each.
Considering ALL of the plots were sold long ago, the only way to buy them is either from HIVE.Engine or directly from the 'used' marketplace on the Splinterlands site.
The cheapest plot appears to be $23.50 and that will net you a PLOT in the Shimmering Coasts. Not a lot of good to me as it’s simply the wrong territory.
I needed to weigh the odds in my favour. Had the Keep been taken in Kinpath, Tract 9?, had the Legendary plot been claimed, how many Epics, Occupied, Magical?
The info is at your fingertips but it's not very easy to navigate and involves clicking on this and that, while toggling filters.
The Keep was gone, but it was a Castle tract; makes no difference to me.
I know per tract there’s only a single legendary, which was also snagged up.
Epics, six has been claimed and I figure that’s a lot. There are generally around four per tract. I was not going to get a cool land with a purple halo around it.
Occupied are super rare and four had already been snagged. Like Epic, that’s a little more than usual which I figure to be three per tract.
It wasn’t looking good for far, were all these unsurveyed plots, of the boring natural common type?
Lastly, I looked at Magic plots and could only find seven. Was I on to something? There can be up to twelve or more and looking at the surrounding tracts I could count up to fifteen in some.
Were these five unsurveyed tracts, all of the magical variety? I wasn't looking for a quick win, or to turn these over for a profit. I am all in, and want to see Lands flower and become something.
Fuck it, let's waste £100 and see. Fortunately, it's very easy for me to buy HIVE directly being in the UK via Transak, and my sterling fiat turned into 696 HIVE very quickly.
Within minutes the HIVE arrived in my wallet and was transferred into SWAP.HIVE, and then DEC, finally to be transferred into the Splinterlands game. This is all so easy if you know how. Less than five minutes to do everything.
The time for surveying was upon me, and after the first three reveals I visibly felt my dick shrivel up. Natural Common Tundra; what the fuck was going on?
What happened to the unmistakable theory of all five being Magical lands?
Tundra and Canyon for a long time were the poor relatives on land, but not so any more after a nice patch. These were my first Tundra and the type was very welcome, but not the lousy quality.
Number four was much better, a Natural Epic Tundra and the last one a Magic-Life Common Tundra, whoopee-do. I got one!
It had worked out to be decent, but my theory was out of the window; a gamble that paid off?
I am not unhappy with the results, and now I have a third Epic card to join my other two brethren who live in Briarwood just across the border.
The cheapest combined Magic (any rarity) plus Epic in the Broken Lands will set you back $234. I did say it was an expensive territory. This is NOT Los Angeles South Central.
If you don't care about the territory and are OK slumming it then the same cards would set you back $96. That's cheaper than my deal, but factor on the THREE 'shit' lands at $10 each and you are talking $126.
I broke even on the deal at worst?
...and I DID get a cool land with a purple halo around it'...
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