Disambiguation: This article is about a blockchain card trading game Splinterlands. If you are interested in the double barrel question fallacy, please refer to the Wikipedia link instead.
Party Time
Let me take you to a party. We obviously start by visiting the wine barrels. Splinterlands parties tend to be busy these days so you only get a second or two at the tap. You do not need a degree in physics to know you should prefer to visit a full barrel over a near-empty one. Full barrel means more pressure and the wine pours faster in your limitied timeframe. If you ask anyone around, they tell you the same.
When they find out your new here, they are also going to tell you to keep your DEC Capture Rate as high as possible. They are wrong but it has been repeated thousand times and has become a truth by now.
Thinking time
You guessed right, your Splinterlands account is the barrel that holds DEC. Unfortunately, your practical experience may not translate well if the conditions are tweaked slightly.
For starters, it is your private barrel. You do not have to compete with anyone to get your turn. You can still waste a full afternoon if you mismanage the tap but I am going to show you there are no hidden leaks.
The only existing leak is a common knowledge. Your barrel is filled through a slow and steady influx of value wine from an external source (the game). As long there is a space in the barrel, it stays in. If the barrel is full, the value is wasted in overflowing. Do not allow your DEC Capture rate hit 100 % - just don`t.
Loved the wine barrel metaphore :-). Obviously if you want to optimize the time you spend while playing, it's good to keep the capture rate close to 100%... with emphasis on the close to LOL. I need to rephrase that in my article ;-)
That is something I've been realising for quite some time. Especially since the number of players have gone up. For me but probably for most people as well, it's almost impossible to keep the A game up for a very long time. After a certain amount of time my game gets worse and I need to take a break.
Is cheese included with my 25 glasses of wine per day?
I prefer my cheese free of glass shards. I will wait for you to sober up.
If I don't get my 25 glasses of wine every day then it's delirium tremens for sure.
Didn't know that about blitz chess, cool.
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Very good article about a common misconception, I have heard it most with Vote Mana, 'we must keep it high', but its a myth, I keep mine as low as possible, in case any technical difficulties keep me from voting for a day or two.
'We want each vote to be worth the most', well thats a different story.