Hello Splinterfans!
Season 135 has come to an end with a lot of commotion within the community due to some proposals currently running. I don't usually pay much attention to the DAO proposals, but these latest ones have even got me taking a look to see what they are all about.
It seems the removal of collection power as an important metric in favor of SPS staked was a mistake and this is now being back-tracked. When it was initially done, it caused quite a spike in SPS as people scrambled to get the required SPS. This seems to have worn off now though as the token has crashed the last months. The bad side-effect to this is also creating a huge barrier to entry for new players, which compared to collection power, is totally arbitrary.
The initial proposal to re-introduce it was passed but it seems that it can no longer be re-introduced easily by the team, but instead they have put forward a better solution which involves paying to play in wild and hike SPS requirements to remove bot farms.
It has caused quite some reaction from the community with mostly people looking against it, but so far it looks that it will pass.
On top of that, after banning bots in modern, they want to re-introduce them and add something called ghost cards into the game. I am not sure what that would then mean to modern as it would no longer be a bot free league.
We are used to things changing fast in Splinterlands, but things seem to be all over the place right now. How did we get here?
I've seen battle passes in other card games and think they can be a good addition to Splinterlands, but I am not sure you can have the current glint shop and a battle pass rewards system. I presume you need to have one or the other, but we now have just a new glint shop, so I am abit confused what direction we are going in and the game needs some stability right now.
Anyhow, the show must go on and the ultimate chests were the only chests not increased in cost at the end of the season, so I opened these first and was happy to bag some legendaries. I am still missing a few key soulbound legendaries, so these are key for me right now.
After opening 20 Glad packs last season, this season I managed 24 even! I was happy to bag a legendary in my pull too which is always good. I am still keen to level up Quora Towershead but still didn't get any new copies yet.
Card prices seem to still be falling and I decided to add a few key cards to my deck plus upgrade more of my deck to max level.
Quix is pretty essential and I finally upgraded him to max level. I actually in the end bought another level 3 Quix and merged him with my existing level 3 to give a level 4. This is 1 BCX higher than needed, but is a sign that the market is full of level 3 with the gold league now not being a good place to play and it is cheaper to buy these cards than the required amount of BCX for some cards. Do we only have 2 levels in the game now? Level 1 cards and max level? no more in between.
How was your season?
That's all for this update, thanks for reading.
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