A bit of disruption in the rental market incoming today (announced)

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During today's (Tuesday) maintenance window for Splinterlands, small fees will be added for listing cards on the card and rental markets. The fee is minuscule (1 DEC or 1 credit per listing), but for someone with lots of cards rented out and who is used to updating prices regularly, they add up.

Rental services won't be working for a while after this change is implemented until they made the necessary adjustments and tests, so make sure you act accordingly.

There is also a 30-day expiration time added to listings on both the rental market and the card market.

I've linked this post before, but for reminders, here's where all the details are explained:
https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/market-listing-fees-and-expiration

In most cases, these changes should not have a big impact on us, while I understand the benefit of reducing the load on Splinterlands servers.

If you are using a rental service to rent out cards, it is a good idea to make sure all of the cards you want to be rented out are on the market before the maintenance window starts.

Splex, the service I use to manage rentals, already announced how will they handle it, and the rent golem will likely be unavailable for a few days, while they update and test things out.

This is an extract from their discord message:
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If you use Splex for renting out cards, that is for you. If not, you should check how things will work out with the service you use.

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It is interesting times in the rental market!

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They are going to be even more interesting going forward!

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Thanks for the heads up, @gadrian! I am actually divesting from Splinterlands.
I just don't have the time to put into it.
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I took all the cards off the market a few days ago and SplinterRents is going offline temporarily. It looks like there will need to be some changes and I also need some time to see how things work out for a while first before I start renting out cards again.

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You already took cards out, but as long as you don't re-rent cards already rented out when the change was made, no fee is taken.

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When can I rent out my cards? 😅 The renters I think are happy with the DEC I pay every time I play. I observe that playing Splinterlands recently is costing me too much SWAP.HIVE, which is supposed to go either to #LEO or #CTP.

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Do you want to rent out your cards or rent cards to play with them?

If you want to rent out cards, maybe you should wait for a few days, unless you rent them out manually and haven't authorized any service to rent out your cards for you. If you use a service, it's best that you wait until they are stable after the fee was introduced.

If you want to rent the cards to play with them, I don't have experience with that, but maybe you should consider season rentals because you won't have to check every day if you still have the cards to play with.

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Just kidding. 😅 My card holdings are still small to be rented out. Though I am paying SWAP.HIVE every time I play, somehow both the Brawl and the EOS rewards compensate for the rental cost. Perhaps, once I reach 500k CP, that's the time I will start renting out the cards I will not use in playing the game.

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You should stake SPS. That will likely replace CP as league limitations in the future.

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Is that so? I now have 4k plus. My goal is to reach 10k.

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Is that so?

CP will definitely be replaced with something else.

Staked SPS was hinted as a possible alternative. If that will not be the chosen alternative it will still be very useful for staking on players, whenever that option will come out.

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