First, I'm very glad that you took the time to write your thoughts Mavis, interaction is great to understand other people's point of view. So thank you for the 2 messages :)
Re: your point #1, I think it might be how you are suggesting, but I'm not sure. My understanding is that you will rent for the remaining days of each season. So if that is 14 days or 3 days left, then you rent only for the days left. If I read your solution wrong, then please let me know.
Re: your point #2, I do believe (and hope) that the end of the season is the end of each rental cycle. So people can re-renew, wait, etc. I will personally just rent out everything on the first day and then not think about it til the following season. I'm not sure I understand about your point about the adjustment of the price to be favorable, but like I said IMO the goal should be for both sides to have a easy experience by just renting out/for one time per season.
On the tourney issue, I'm not sure that would work but I haven't really thought of that issue.
On your personal story, I realize this will be a big change to not only you, but to everyone that primarily rents. However this will all change a lot anyways with the new upcoming set, so figuring out how to make it work is important. I'm personally glad we can see how this works now, so that we can make adjustments if the results are negative and it needs to be tweaked.
Also if you want, I'm happy to help you earn some extra SPS that you can cover some of that extra costs you are incurring. I have some accounts that are going unplayed right now, and I am letting people play them and keep all the SPS they earn by doing so. These accounts are not top level accounts, but if you are an experienced player then you should be able to earn roughly 2 SPS per win. If you are interested, then message me on Discord and I'll get you set up.
Again thank you for the nice message and for taking the time to give some thoughts and suggestions, I appreciate it Mavis!
@davemccoy Your thoughts are in line with my suggestions but a little different.
The players should be free to rent whenever and how long. For example, the current season is on day 3 of 14. That means the season has 11 days left. If the player rent for 6 days, he would be renting the card from day 3 to day 9. Since this is on the current season, this cannot be cancelled by both sides. The player and owner cannot cancel the rental giving security for both of them.
If the player wanted to rent the card for more than the season left the owner can cancel the rent at the end of the season. For example, The current season is on day 7 of 14, which means the season has 7 days left. The player rented out the card for 30 days. Now, that card can be cancelled by the owner or player because it exceeded the days left for the current season BUT it would only be cancelled on day 8, which is after the current season. The card will still be rented by the player until the end of the current season, which in this example, for 7 more days. This compromise is so that the owners can adjust the price if needed to but will not give a bad experience to the one renting the card.
My suggestion is just combining the daily and season rental. This compromise doesn't force the players to rent for whole 14 days or the whole season. They can still rent 2, 3 or 5 or whatever but if the rent falls within the current season, it cannot be cancelled. That's the only difference.
If the player rents for the whole season, it still cannot be cancelled since it's still within the current season. In other words, it also acts as a season rental at the same time.
For the tourney issue, @clayboyn point on another reply is correct. I think my solution can be bypassed and they can just rent another card on another player. While that solution solves the part of "renting my own card to another one of my own accounts", which recycles the money back to the same owner, the solution still bypasses the problem which the player having 2 accounts can earn 2x rewards on tournaments. It just throws the rental money on another person instead of himself.
Lastly, for the unplayed accounts, I will be glad if you lend me one of those accounts if you don't play it. We can talk it more over on discord. I have discord link at the end of my posts here in hive. My discord name is @mavisthemuggle ID: 1293083397408686171
On your suggested compromise, that will be fine for the issue that I have. I do think there is another group of people that are upset about the double use of cards that Bulldog pointed out. But we are in agreement on at least solving the issues I have.
And I did get your message on discord, so as soon as you connect, I will get you one of my accounts to play and auto-send you the SPS you earn on it! Its nice to meet you Mavis and thank you for the nice discussions!