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So, sorry for the slight technical delay!
***THE SATURDAY SPLINTERLANDS/PLAY-TO-EARN DISCUSSION IS NOW OPEN.
I will share prize information as we proceed.
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As a reminder boys and girls, this week's prize is:
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Is anyone pissed that they no longer accept payments in credits for Quest Potions?
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Kind of! I was loading up on credits for that... but I guess I can still use them to rent cards so it's not all lost
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Renting cards is a great option.
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I still haven't bothered since I bought packs for myself....so I tend to use my own cards.
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I too bought a bunch of untamed and dice packs on the secondary market (Wax). And like you I have not felt the need to rent - yet. That time though may be coming soon as I'm going to be needing a higher level summoner so I can play my upgraded cards.
It is nice the option to rent cards like that is available as buying them becomes an expensive proposition.
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Buying cards is definitely not cheap. I HAVE discovered that it's not quite so bad when you pay in DEC for some reason. But we're back to the same problem I have with potions. You lose airdrop points using DEC. That said, at least you're gaining card value so it somewhat makes up for it.
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Renting card isn't that bad but you should try to find good combinations of cards.
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Yes. It seems like something they have no choice but to do because of how far DEC is from the peg though.
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Yes, but...instead of eliminating credits for payment they could have adjusted the DEC price correspondingly. Then as DEC price moves around do a daily readjustment. Not hard to accomplish.
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I think they addressed that at some point. Something like too many accounts were getting opened and taking advantage of the quest potions. It was being exploited somehow so they left it as is.
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I only have 6 credits. I can not buy much with that and do not want to spend my LEO tokens! You can buy credits with all sorts of crypto and tokens.
I have never used Quest Potions.
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Truthfully, once the reward cards come back, it is 100% worth it to use the Quest Potions. Getting 6 chests to open instead of 1 increases your odds of getting a card exponentially obviously. And one good card could pay for a LOT of potions...
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No doubt - I can't wait.
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A lot of people say they aren't worth it. But I use it everyday and have not done bad with it. 4 times I've gotten 2000 DEC. I got a Gold Common (my first and still only gold card). And then there's this beauty:
So the extra chests from quest potions has treated me well.
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blow up like it did, at least not this early in the game!Oh that is a nice one. Sold mine a while back to invest in LEO projects. I did not know that @splinterlands was going to
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From time to time I'll rent it out (44.45/day lowest rental), but I'm definitely not ready to sell it - well yet (even though lowest sales price is $115.00)
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I bought like 130 Sandworm cards when I first started playing at the end of July and created a level 6. It was actually before I realized I needed higher ranked summoners to even use it. lol They were still well under $1.00 at the time. Turned out to be a good investment and it's a great card to have. I still can't actually play it but I rent it out daily for 80-100 DEC/day. 80 at the beginning of the season and 100 towards the end. I combined the other 30 to make a level 4 I can actually use....
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Card rentals are done one a 1-for-1 basis, right? Or can you rent your 1 card to several people at the same time?
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YES! That is really annoying. Especially considering they cost $.75 fiat but now cost over $5 each in DEC. Considering the fact that spending DEC not only costs $5 but it loses you airdrop points, it really is a double kick in the nuts. That might sound funny, @kevinnag58, but it hurts!
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It's absolutely a double hit/ But I think the loss of A.D. points hurts the worse.
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As this is the test week for this 'thing' here's the deal:
I will stay around for the first hour, but feel free to continue talking about play-to-earn gaming on this thread.
At 18:00 New York Time (UTC minus 4) I will review the comments on this thread and pick a winner. Prize will be remitted forthwith.
Remember, the funniest comment about gaming is the winner - any format, comment, photo, meme, be creative. Just make me laugh and you're in the running.
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What Splinter types do you use the most?
For me, I tend to use fire, earth and dragon.
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Earth and Life are my favorites, although I use death, water, and dragon some as well. I very rarely use fire since the damn summoners are too expensive.
I've got level 4's in life and dragon, a level 3 in death, but only level 2's in earth, fire, and water. Although my level 2 in earth is Mylor which can still compete against higher levels.
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Win or lose. Share your next battle.
I lost mine but you can see it here. It was for fun but man I got demolished since my opponent had higher level cards then me.
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Will do, but it won't be until much later. Maybe I'll even try the Life Splinter again. I have to win with it sooner or later (don't I?).
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So, I snuck away for a minute or two and played a Life Splinter battle - and won. you can check it here.
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Nice. I am glad it worked out for you. I played a Life battle as well and made use of the enrage ruleset here. It looks like Shield Bearer and Luminous eagle worked for you.
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It seems so. Definitely have to remember that combination. Thanks.
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You had a very great lineup!
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My most recent battle which was the No Melee Monsters and slow poke ruleset. I won with the Life Splinter! I used this gal as a summoner:
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See? Somehow this post is before my Lorna Shine comment to you but...she's a winner.
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I use her quite a bit as she is my best and highest level Life Splinter Summoner.
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Not liking Life Splinter too much I stupidily sold one of the two Lorna's I had. The other as I don't really use it I rent for12.50 DEC/day.
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Ah I don't have a Lorna but yea she can be annoying to fight against. I find that yodin gives me an edge though.
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Cool!
How many Chaos packs are you guys planning to get?
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Whatever I can get based on my SPS staked. Honestly I don't expect anything more than a few packs a day at most. I got some untamed that I can sell to fund this adventure.
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Personally, I already have enough plus stashed for 100. I'm trying to save up for a land plot (expensive)
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Yea I should of bought land when it was less expensive but I didn't think it was worth it. I am regretting after the fact.
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Unfortunately I wasn't playing the game then. Its my understanding they were originally dirt cheap (pun intended)
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$20 I think. I bought 4 of them at the end of July just as things were starting to blow up for $500 total. Now they're each worth that. Personally, I think they will go well into the $1000s of dollars. Right now they're adding over 10,000 users a day. A DAY! By year's end they're talking about having over 1 Million users. There's only 150,000 PLOTS. While not everyone will want one, I think enough people will that the prices will continue to climb, especially if it turns out you can rent them out or build them into resource machines. It will be interesting. Either way, I highly doubt they'll go down much from here. I would think they should retain their value at a minimum so your biggest risk might be the opportunity cost of what else you could be doing with that money. But again, personally I think they're going much higher....
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Geez guys - should I have offered up a prize of 500 DEC to entice you to participate instead of the neat card??????
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Its my understanding the Chaos Packs will be Pre-saled in 4 to 6 weeks. $2/pack but you'll need a voucher obtained from staking SPS. Is anyone excited for this?
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Hmm I wasnt aware of that
I guess I should look into it because I'm not sure if I have any staked SPS as of now
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You should be checking the SPS you earn daily - earnings are out just after 12:00 New York time daily.
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Maybe I will buy, Maybe am not but I am surely going to get at least one PLOT.
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Well I think there will be value to the Chaos cards, if not immediately in the near future so I'm going to buy the 100 packs like I said earlier. As for the land plot, well...I want one, but $500 is a bit steep! Spending that much on one make me question as to how much of a value run up there's left in them
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Geez they are going for 500?!
Yea, that might have to wait
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Don't forget to post your meme!
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Is mine the first meme/gif? My reaction when people mention the new iteration of @splinterlands cards.
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At worst, you can always lease out plots. I think they plan on having that ability. So passive income.
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I have heard that was their intention.
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Me! I didn't get to buy any of the other packs so I need to build my cards.
As far as the vouchers go....pretty sure that's only the pre-sale. So while you won't be able to get that many reserved unless you have loads of SPS staked, you should still be able to buy the packs when they release them to the public. Not sure how long they'll last though. Or how many they are selling....?
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Hmm that makes sense...
I hope they will take into consideration that their userbase is a zillion times bigger now than it was on their last sale
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You think PLOT is expensive now...wait until they start leaking intel on how they're going to be implemented.
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I'm planning to get as many as they'll let me buy. I mean not in the 1000s or anything but definitely in the hundreds if possible. When you consider one gold foil card, or a legendary summoner can be sold for potentially over $1000, it just makes sense to get as many swings at it as possible.
I came late to the party and didn't get any of the last packs. I did buy like 3 Amare Dice packs but other than that, I've had to buy all of my cards on the market. Not cheap.
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What Splinter types do you hate using the most?
For me, I tend to hate death splinter the most. At least my leveled cards are untamed and the combinations I make never seem to work that well.
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Personally, I don't like the Life Splinter - I just can't seem to figure out how to get a win out of it.
But its funny, my favorite to play is the death splinter. I tend to do well with it.
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I generally use Shieldbearer as my tank with Luminous eagle as my reach monster then follow up with whatever I feel like using at the time for Life Splinter. Some of my follow up monsters I like are cave slug and light elemental.
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I've tried to use Shieldbearer as my tank with no success. But I'll try again using your other suggestions with it.
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The key to Life is you have to load your back row with cards that can take our the opponents back row while they're forced to fire on your Shieldbearer. I can't tell you how many battles I've won because I take out their back row while losing my Shieldbearer and then they end up with a ranged or non-shooter in the front position and I've got a couple little guys left that can't get hit. I can almost hear my opponent cussing through the screen. lol
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Same strategy I use. Works most times unless I come up against a damn Llama or Kitty!
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That's funny. Life is probably my favorite Splinter. I've got Lorna Shine 4 for my summoner though so that helps. She gives the Divine Shield ability to the whole team so I can put Shieldbearer in first position and then load the back row with sneak, opportunity, and magic where they'll usually get at least 2 rounds in before dying. It's usually enough. Unless I run into people with some expensive cards....
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How do you level a card? You just play with it a lot or there is a specific action you gotta do?
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You combine cards. Basically cards are burnt in order to increase the level of the card.
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Ooh cool
So if you have multiples of the same card you can combine them to make them stronger?
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Yup, easy peasy. Just go to the card section, click on the card and hit the combine icon.
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Yup. As the level goes up, either their stats go up or they get new abilities.
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You combine them. Each level requires a certain amount of cards. Each card is a BCX.
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Go to Cards and then click on any card. Once there click on Stats. That shows you how many cards you need of that particular card in order to level them up. For commons it's usually 5 for level 2, 14 for level 3, 30 for level 4, 60 for level 5, and 100 for level 6. You need to acquire that many cards and then combine them to reach those levels. There's a little "combine cards" button in the row of icons which include renting them out, selling them, etc.
The BCX number is how many cards have already been combined to make the card you're looking at. BCX stands for "Base Card Experience" or something like that. Each BCX stands for one card. So if you look at the market and see a level 2 with a 5 BCX, that means someone has already combined 5 of those cards to create the level 2 card. You could then add 9 more cards to that one if you want and turn it into a level 3.
I'd recommend doing it once with the cheapest card you can find just so you know what you're doing. That Spinner that's being given away here is a pretty good candidate. It's pretty cheap IIRC. It is also a card that has it's uses. Especially in certain rulesets or in low mana battles.
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I really do not have one I hate. I have a good variety of summoners in different splinters on the @splinterlands game. I guess it would depend on what the ruleset is. My least favorite would have to be the Life Splinter.
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Get Lorna Shine levelled up some and you'll change your tune on that....
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They all have their uses depending on who you're fighting. For me, the key is to look at the last 5 battles your opponent fought and try to predict the cards they're going to use against you based on the rule set and total mana.
For example, I almost always use the Earth Splinter and Mylor when the mana is 12-15. My opponent almost always uses Fire with Malric and his +1 melee or Death with the healing Haunted Spirit in the first position. These are melee. I stick my shield golem in first position and the tree elemental in the last with an opportunity/sneak in between and watch him impale himself to death on my thorns. Very satisfying. :-)
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I don't have a Mylor so I tend to rely on Wizard of Eastwood. Removing shield does help a little bit.
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Is it possible to specialize in one type of splinter? Or eventually you'll need all of them to progress?
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It is best to have a good mix. Sometimes you are limited to certain Splinters in the battles.
Best to focus on leveling-up summoners first if you can afford it.
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It's better to focus on a few...but sometimes your quest might not agree and you will have a tough time.
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Getting ready to share this right now... and it is done!
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You 'da man Sarge!
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OK folks. I've been here an hour more than I planned, so I'm out.
I'll be back at 18:00 NY Time to check out the comments made while I'm gone. HOPEFULLY SOMEONE WILL POST SOMETHING FUNNY! I really prefer to give the prize out.
Remember, the prize is dependent on who makes me laugh the hardest. (So far, I ain't laughing!!!!! - Come on guys)
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Nipple. :-) (It worked for trumpman's contest)
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Nice try, but the rule says comment must be gaming related (and funny). You still have two hours though.
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Kron the Undying is a bitch! I think I've only beaten that mfer a couple times. His mana should be about 15, at least when used in bronze and silver leagues.
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I don't believe I've had the pleasure of battling that one yet.
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With last stand, I think it can heal like 5 or 6 HP per turn and it does 5 magic damage per turn. It's literally a tank
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Kron when its leveled up enough or with Llama is definitely a danger. Honestly I think byzantine kitty and kron is a dangerous combo too.
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This turned out to be even better than I expected. ALready learned a lot of new things in only a couple of hours
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I am glad you are learning more about the game.
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I didn't bother trying to be funny so I look forward to who wins.
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