Of these 3 I went with Change Nothing. I've been playing it since launch and I play 1 account currently in League 5.
First off Soul Boxes just went live. Nobody can possibly know yet if that is going to be enough of a sink coupled with ticket sales. Some of the people complaining don't know how much ticket costs ramp up as you progress. In league 5 it costs 59 tickets(236 DEC) for your first replay.
Stake requirements will not change some of the complaints I'm seeing like multi-accounting in 1 league, especially lower level leagues since they'll have lower SPS stake requirements. Maybe KYC options could be considered but I know people have issues with that.
The CEO already told everyone complaining how if the pay out is to much SPS to to few people what is needed to change it...more people need to play the game. The more people on the leaderboards the less the payouts will be for any single player. More players also equals more ticket/box sales which is more DEC burning. I just added up the last tournament's total account count... 248 accounts made attempts with 132 receiving a payout. Less than 150 people shared the reward pool for all 10 Leagues. When the reward pool is meant to be payed out across thousands of players not a hundred of course the rewards are going to be higher.
Edit: I'd be interested in seeing how many people having some of these issues or suggesting how the game needs to be changed are actually playing it.
It's a mix... the ones that are just like "kill rewards entirely" I'd say mostly don't play or care at all about it. A lot of the ones that are asking for staking do play and see the abuse and the people calling for shutting off rewards entirely and are suggesting adding staking to fix the situation before things go the other way.
clayboyn could you take a look at the following suggestions I just posted and give your thoughts?
https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@ocoma/soulkeep-pay-more-not-less-a-counter-suggestion-to-staking
I can take a look at it. Worth understanding that this whole situation is a bit beyond me at this point and I'm just mostly looking for how the DAO wants to proceed as it seems like there are two camps at the moment: kill all rewards and force staking requirements.
Originally I pitched the idea to burn DEC to David to get ahead of this issue, but it seems SPS stakeholders are still not happy, so I'm gathering feedback to share with him and help illustrate the current situation. At this point I don't know what to expect, they could just decide to go their own way and leave Splinterlands behind entirely I guess.