This is sad because I know some of the IGNs here who make a living out of learning the meta, getting good, spend hours to rent and battling whales with just rented cards just so they can sell the earnings p2p and provide for the family.
I understand that Splinterlands is just a fun game for some people and this is my first and top NFT but I know people who make this a secondary if not a primary source of income that they do their best to win to take advantage of the opportunity and earn.
I guess, what I'm saying is that, just because some people don't own their CP doesn't mean they don't deserve to win and earn. Card renting is a legit way of using cards that most people can't afford. Making a proposal to remove the opportunity for others to earn even tho they are good enough, skillwise, just because they can't afford the cards that only a handful can buy is quite weird.
When it comes to win-traders and cheaters, tho. I agree with you. They should be banned
-Chev/Furious Chicken
@quickdrawchev
At what cost?
If everyone sell everything that they earn from the game, then in just a few days the in-game currency will be worth zero. The economy of the game relies heavily on a balance between buy and sell, without that there is no game.
Think about it!
That is where other players who can actually afford to own their cards come in. Some people play differently. We can't make the extremes as a premise for an argument.
Tho, I agree with you that win-traders should be banned, the proposal to exclude non-CP owning players from rewards only favors those who are either OG to the game or who can spend thousands of $$$ to actually own their deck.
The real solution is here is to GIT GUD. Just because someone can shell out money to buy cards doesn't mean they are only ones who deserve to win and compete.
Therefore the concept of CP. CP doesn't require card ownership, it does howevers requires cards to be in the account for the entire season, especially at the end of season when rewards are calculated. Which is the fact I am talking about. Again, Rental cards must be there at the end-of-season to qualify for the rewards.
With the price of the rental at EOS and how much DEC peeps that don't own cards to compete spend, requiring them to rent for power is a sentence that says they shouldn't compete anymore.
I think NOT getting the EOS chest rewards should be penalty enough.
CP = Hundreds of Chests
Skill = Leaderboard DEC
In my book, not a bad trade for a healthy game.
We are not reading the same book :)
Changes WILL BE implemented whether you like it or not. Otherwise it’s a drain on the game economy which we will prevent at any cost.
I hope so too. Changes presented like not revealing the name before the matches will certainly help against win trading. Investigating suspicious behaviors like multiple surrenders and accounts fielding 1 monster instead of a full team should certainly be done in an official capacity.
Now, preventing people who makes the effort to learn the necessarily skill to win from earning rewards just because they can't shell out tons of money is elitist and tyrannical.
The assets that these people win are also sold back to the market, which means they aren't lost and are still revolving around the economy.
Grinders make the effort to gain assets by investing their time so they can earn food money while whales buy it from them so they get to stack up on assets without needing to do manual labor is fair and square in my book.
You might as well remove the rental system if you don't want people to rent cards to compete.