Splinterlands - My Struggles To Balance Winning and Earning..
Front cover image of post is an image worth a thousand words for how I play Splinterlands. I hope not to have to write a thousand words in this post. My goal of this post is to bring to light how although I have been playing this game for years I am still performing poorly in the game, but for good reason.
Rate of Returns on Investments
When I first started playing Splinterlands I was investing Steem in the game. I purchased cards and increasingly adding to my collection multiple rare cards. Along the way I started collecting max cards to be competitive in battles. On top of all that I started a rewards gold foil collection, excluding the gold foil legends rewards lol. I have zero gold foil legends for that matter.
Over time I was heavily invested in Splitnerlands relative to what other crypto investments I had including my hive account. In fact for most of 2020 I was barely over 1k of hive power. Only until the later half of 2020 did I start investing more toward hive rather than all in Splinterlands. This was mainly due to the higher prices of Splinterlands cards.
As cards' prices appreciated I began to find ways to leverage my Splinterlands assets to earn more crypto. One of those ways is through renting out my cards. By renting out my cards I could earn a daily passive income. Over the course of a couple of seasons I learn that renting out cards much more lucrative than simply playing.
Greed got the best of me and multiple cards that allowed to rent was basically limiting my choices of summoners/monsters to use due mainly because I rent out most of the cards. This leads me open when it comes to battles since I may not have the monster to play even though I own it and rent it out. For me it was a no brainier.
While I have majority of my card collection rented out. I am early over 4k DEC which I do not often get just by winning battles on a daily basis. So instead of holding a majority of my cards with little to never played before I went and decided to simply play battles to the best of my abilities. While in the same time play battles with the limited resource I had.
The end goal was to leverage Splinterlands to let me earn more assets. I made the sacrifice of having a strong deck only to rent out majority of them for DEC. In turn I can spend the DEC for all kinds of assets and recently I have converted my DEC earns to hive power. I have gradually grew my hive account and connected with many other hivers. All in all I basically now have slightly over 20k Hives.
Concluions
I am losing more than winning is mainly because I rent too many cards that it sabotages my chance to win battles for the sake of earning a little more DEC.
Some people prefer to earn more passive incomes while others want to play to stay competitive. I chose the former as I want to continue to benefit with the earned DEC. The end result for me is lower rewards and DEC/battle win. On the flip side I am earning likely 4x the amount if I had simply left the cards for use in battles.
Splinterlands' White Paper on Promo Cards
Until next time thanks for reading!!!
If you are interested to learn more about Splinterlands please go through some of my other posts. Order is from newest to oldest posts:
All You Want To Know About Reward Chests
Helpful Links for New and Veteran Players
Splinterlands Good Cards To Own
Splinterlands Rentals from a Lender Perspective
I have plenty of other cards for rent! Just go on peakmonsters and check out the market place and if you are curious what I offer here is a link:
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Wow sir that really great. the amount looks cool 😍🎉🍻.
I hope will add up some zeros soon.
Wow 20k hive power you have done that really very quicker that i have though. I am still stuck at 7k hive power.
I hope i will reach 10k by the end of the year 🙏✌️
Splinterlands has changed so much for how I invest in hives now. For most of 2020 my Splinterlands collection was barely over $4k. In a matter of months since it has more than 10x. Got to say this is my best crypto investment ever and I hope to ride it out as long as I can. I have bigger dreams now of getting to 100k hp. Thanks for the support. !LUV !PIZZA
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I think you are in a good position no matter what you do. I've heard of many of the old players being overinvested in the game so it's nice that you have the opportunities to make the right choices for yourself. I play at a low level and while I have a nice collection from my steemmonster packs that most newbies in actual gameplay have, I find my choices limited. I just started playing on the first day of the airdrop. It's my best crypto reward but still not enough to take income or give up by selling all my assets. If I were you I would play to play and not win lol. Ride out the income.
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Great summary you have there "play to play and not to win." At the end of the day either way I go I should still see profits. I tend to lean more towards rental as I am limited to how many battles I can play a day due to ECR bar drop effecting my DEC earning. Also more wins means harder opponents I would face leading to less wins. All in all I feel happy where I am. Hope you can continue and one day thrive in the game in both earning and winning. !LUV !PIZZA
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It's about #play2earn. So no matter how you play the game, the final outcome is earning :)
As soon as you're OK with the earning, then it should be fine.
I think a lot of people (including me) are making way worse than 28% win :')
Where did you get the stats ? I'd like to se it for myself !PIZZA
https://peakmonsters.com/@ykretz/cards
Thanks a lot ! !PIZZA
I agree cards price are increasing gradually, renting is a bit expensive right now.