The purpose of this post is to introduce and answer some basic questions about a new project called Monster Burner.
What is Monster Burner?
- Monster Burner is a project created to increase the value of your investment in Splinterlands by decreasing the supply of (burning) certain cards. Maintaining the balance between supply and demand will help protect against large price drops and has the potential to increase the value of your Splinterlands cards and stimulate the market.
Who are we?
- We are Chris (@threejay) and Mike (@citrus-soap), two Splinterland Mavericks who enjoy the game and all things decentralized.
How does it work?
- Each day, a post will be created on both Hive and Steem with Splinterlands news and Monster Burner stats. All liquid payouts from each post will be used to buy and burn copies of a specific Splinterland card, to be chosen by the community on each post. All of the DEC received from the burns will go right back into the community and never dumped on the market.
How do we return 100% of the DEC back into the community?
- Host Splinterlands Tournaments, hopefully at least one every week.
- Create a free guild for new players with no donation requirements.
- Promotions, events, and giveaways.
Why burn these beautiful cards?
- Decreasing the total supply of a card will bring up the value in the long term. If supply is decreased and demand stays constant the value of the card should increase. Some of the older reward cards especially were over-printed and are currently under-valuded.
How do we decide which cards to burn?
- We don't choose the cards, you do. In each post, we will be asking for you to choose one common card from that day's featured splinter, plus one rare card at the end of the week. Each day of the week will feature one splinter on a fixed schedule. Follow the instructions on the daily post to cast your vote.
Monday = Fire
Tuesday = Water
Wednesday = Earth
Thursday = Life
Friday = Death
Saturday = Neutral
Sunday = Rare
What will the Steem/Hive power from these posts be used for?
- For now, nothing. We have plans for another project that will make use of the voting power in a fun way that will benefit the Splinterlands community, so stay tuned.
How can I support the project?
- The best way is to add @monster-burner to your auto-vote list on https://steemauto.com/ and https://hive.vote/, especially if you have a curation trail.
- Vote for the cards that you want to be burned in each post.
- Manual votes, re-blogs, and any other forms of spreading the word are also much appreciated.
Is there any way to earn from supporting this project?
- The main goal of this project is to protect and grow your Splinterlands investment, not to be a direct earning platform. You can of course earn via curation, and possibly delegation further down the line.
Is this an official Splinterlands project?
- No, but we will certainly value any input from the Splinterlands team and would love to collaborate if the opportunity arises.
We hope with enough love and support, this project will grow into something special and allow us to help the newest of players all the way up to the OG players. Any further questions, concerns, feedback, or project ideas please jump into our discord and don't be shy.
https://discord.gg/eXuVTwk
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I still am glad you are trying this.
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Feels like an amazing project.
Imagine if they would burn booster packs too - they would become even more rare!
Thanks for the support and we have actually thought about bunring packs, that option is not off the table but as for now it might be better to give away packs.
Thanks buddy you are always supportive, you are the best.
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Dumping all the dec into guild buildings is going to be awesome. I would like to be a member of the guild. Most guilds need huge Dec donations which small players can't afford. They have summoners to level up to be in the league.
Sure we plan on launching the guild soon after we sponsor our first tournament. Our guidelines of who is eligible have not been set it stone but as you are a smaller player you should be fine. Ill reserve you a seat. Thanks for your support.
Did you thought about any price goal that a card should meet?
A card having 10 DEC but trading for 50 DEC in market should be burnt or not?
One aspect we will look at are cards with high circulation and a low market price. Over printed cards like some of the reward cards before the implemaentation of the new quest rewards. From tomorrow on you will choose from one of three cards in the comment section.
Good job on this project. Will actively follow on it. ;)
It's a bad idea to stimulate the market.
Better involve more people to play the Splinterlands, so they will high the offer for the cards they needed. The perspective (idealistic): if each person of the world will want to play the Splinterlands - so they will make the fantastic offer of the cards.
As in your idea perspective (idealistic) is to left only 1 card non-burned. So nobody will have it, but nobody will play the game - 'cos nobody will be interested to play against the monopoly TOP users.
So, calm your greed, guys.
Yeah if there were a way do bring in a bunch of new players every day that would be great and if you think of a good way let me know and I will give you 100% support. That is not happening and there are consistently adding cards to the game. If your DEC becomes too big it will be hard to manage as it was when untamed was released. We have taken in the fact of not over burning any cards or falsely inflating cards. We will not burn low circulated cards. Please keep an eye on this project as it will have many support features for new/low level players as it grows.
Ok, thank you for the answering.
But what about HODLing and invent the marketing share-to-involve program
(in which the newbie would get the card and while he becomes the real player, he will keep this card to play and we will not see it on the market - because he have to play by it. In te alt account to play for the experience (to check the lowest leagies and the criterias for the newbies there) I use all my 1 lvl cards Reward edition (exept Undead Minotaur, but even it I still HODL).
Are cards like Daria not priced highly enough yet? Doing this will only benefit new users. I don't feel too strongly about this project I will have to say.
Cards like Daria have low circulation, high price, and it's an epic card. Each one of these factors individual would not allow this card to be chosen for burn. If you check out our cards to vote on today you might get a better idea of the type of cards we will chooses from. This project might not make everyone happy but its set up not to cater to any one group of players but instead help with balance. All your points so far are more that far to bring up and even if you cant support this please keep an eye on it as we have much more planned to help and reward all players.
I love the idea behind this project. You can count on my support for it!