How are you liking the new Survival mode fellow Splinterlands players? Have you been brave enough to risk your cards knowing that if they fall in battle, even if you win, those cards will be unplayable until their cooldown period is over? Well, I ran out of energy, and wanted to give it a go, but was still afraid to lose my best cards so I've played only a handful of games. Even though I'm still in the Wood league, I've been able to climb up the leaderboard easily so there must not be that many people who have the will to play. The cooldown period will add value to the game in my opinion because it will encourage players to have multiple copies of the same card, driving up card demand and encouraging card combining. I used to burn or sell off any Gold Foil or weaker copies of a card once I'd already had one at MAX level, but knowing they will likely die(cooldown) at one point in Survival battle, I'm keeping new reward cards doubled up with another gold foil on the ready from now on. When I was a new player to Splinterlands, I kinda thought this is how the game would work, but a bit more dramatically as I thought dead or fallen cards would then be transferred to the victor's account. Let's be glad that wasn't the case or the whales would've ruined the game a long time ago. Knowing your cards will "really die" does add some excitement to the game for sure.
I didn't think it would be strategically interesting or fair to show one of my Wood league battles where I had all my MAX level cards go up against weak level one cards only to earn a point zero nothing amount of SPSSPS which makes these top level games exciting and rewarding compared to the three or four SPS I'm earning for each Modern win. It's a shame they are not also earning GLINT for each battle victory, but that is something I think they plan to add in a following season. so I thought I'd check out the leaderboards and top battles to see what the whales are doing and earning at the top. Even though @vugtis defeated @lorkus in this battle, he lost his earth fiend and giant for some time. He did earn over a hundred
Leaderboards
Have you seen the change in how the leaderboards are done? They will now only reward the top one hundred players in each league you start the season at, but they have also replaced DEC with GLINT for the reward amounts. I'm fine with that as I love opening new reward cards and handing out tons of DEC every season, probably wasn't the best thing for keeping DEC inflation under control anyway. These recent game changes may take some getting used to, but they also bring new opportunities and challenges that can enhance the new player gaming experience. Let's see how the community will adapt and what new strategies will emerge in Survival Mode!
Check out the top battle:
https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_fe1fd887ed464c76bb91c08f88363c6b?ref=jeremiahcustis
This week's Splinterlands Community Engagement Challenge:
https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/splinterlands-community-engagement-challenge-survival-mode-launch-and-leaderboard-updates
Original artwork at NFTShowroom:
https://nftshowroom.com/jeremiahcustis/gallery
Amazing art by the Splinterlands community:
https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/splinterlands-art-contest-week-334
