There is a lot of things being said about the promo, and TBH most of the above is TLDR, but I skimmed some of it.
I have a history of buying the promos cheaper on the secondary markets. I have no interest in the promo cards at these prices, but only because the ROI on them is worse than buying a BTC mining ASIC.
With the game at the levels it is now, the cost is not worth it to me, but it is to many. Eventually, they find themselves selling cards and the price drops based on many factors like power creep or other new mechanics.
I will likely find it cheaper in the future and eventually own a copy. I might change my mind and buy one, but at this point, I do not find myself with FOMO.
I think that there needs to be a burning event and inflation of the burning titles a bit, I would like to see that there be some prizes that are not SPL related, such as HBD, HIVE. I would also like to see the top 3 users to get to design a card that would go in the voucher shop. The idea of the HIVE and HBD rewards is to provide a way to have incentive rewards that will not be also sold on the SPL markets for exit liquidity.
(Edit: The idea of the non-SPL assets is to give users a chance to decide to purchase more SPL assets or interact with the HIVE assets and ecosystem by staking or HBD Savings for interest or to provide a reward that does not require additional sell pressure, but more of potential buy pressure on SPL assets and trading HBD for credits to supply the Splinterlands company with operating assets.
The below promo card ideas are just things I randomly thought of and I am not saying it is fully designed, but a loose potential framework for the idea)
Each card would be a common (as to need more BCX) with the incendiary, weary, and immunity on all of them
Also lookout, reflection shield, return fire, magic reflect, retaliate, void armor, dodge, camo, shield, and phasing (each card gets ~2-3 of these over levels)
Also heal, tank heal, repair, protect, corrupted healing, swiftness, blind, and cleanse (1-3 of these over levels).
Price the BCX as a legendary or epic level pricing, but it has 10 levels since it is a common.
During the event, any CP that is burned will also produce 10-25% of the CP in Glint. Energy will be priced at a 25-50% discount time crystals and any other items that accept DEC-B would be at a discount for DEC purchases. DEC-B would be purchasable at the same rate as the above discounts, but buying things with DEC-B would not offer the discounts. If you want to get even fancier, burning SPS for DEC could provide some glint, but ideally DEC gets to peg, so that burning makes sense.
CL cards might have some bonus glint or bonus leaderboard points, as to target the supply of these cards.
Pair all this with the unlocking of the new SB cards based on the recent proposal and change the SB unlocking that is already in place to stay at the introductory rate over the duration of the unlock, since the unlocking of them is already low at this price.
The introduction of the new support cards above will be implemented directly after the end of the event and will encourage the burning of a massive number of vouchers. I would suggest also that these three cards be named as fiends with some low mana cost and the ability to activate the new card in the promo sale.
@Nate @Yabapmatt @ROYALEAGLE @Vugtis @azircon and others.
I hope that the above is a good idea, but I am not sure I will be around too much to discuss and debate the random specifics I outlined, as I am shooting from the hip and have a ton of other stuff on my plate.
^^ rewards to be paid by the DAO, I would think.
basically the idea is to give incentive to get rid of a ton of CP in CL sets and possibly whatever people want to burn as far as other sets, while giving a way to reward those burns with non-SPL assets, titles, and other things that are less risky for inflation. It would also allow things that typically cause DEC burn to be incentivized during the period and really try to drive the burning of liquid DEC supply to get to the idea of the flywheel, with cards hovering around the burn prices now, it would provide a way to get us a better floor on these assets and generate new voucher store items to reward the SPS stakers and burn many more vouchers. By essentially designing a common card as a legendary fiend, the BCX needed to max will be large.
All of these mechanics are designed to help drive burning harder than normal and may have other things that could be added to enhance this effect.
The cards could also be dual color to cover the splinters or be neutral.
Hive and HBD rewards would be a great way to accomplish 2 things - 1) further integrate ourselves with Hive and show that we are pushing players to check out the blockchain, and 2) not create inflation among Splinterlands assets.
My thoughts around it are that it will provide users with the ability to either use it to re-invest in Splinterlands, stake for the HIVE ecosystem, and prevent those that would be using it outside of these areas to not dump their rewards on the market orders.
Thanks for sharing! - @azircon
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Yeah I really like the idea to make prizes to further embrace the connection with the Hive blockchain even more, good work 😀
The promo cards at these prices are only for the top players, I don't even doubt about buying them 😅