So I think Land 1.5 is finally upon us. It is told that it could be released as early as Tuesday the 4th of April. In this version of the land update you get to know what kinds of Plot, Track, or Regional you have. It will basically be the details of your land type. Earlier it was told, all lands will have very similar utility in terms of type. However, after the publication of the Secrets of Pretoria whitepaper that seems not to be the case. I will try and explain some of that later on this post.
First things first though; I have 1 region, 1 track, and 15 plots. I have claimed the first two fairly early on, and my Region and Track are both in the Pristine Northwest of Pretoria. I own 1000 plots, the whole regional of number 010 Highmoor and 100 plots of 009 at Quegmoor. Follwing pictures are for the test server. Full Disclosure: They are not officialy realeased yet, so these are still subject to change.
Land Region 010 Highmoor of Printine Northwest
One of the first heartburn people have as was over Land Geography. Following are the possible geography of land.
All these terrain geographies are supposed to give production bonuses or penalties based on type of cards staked on them. From the table above it is obvious that you will probably like to stake water or death splinter cards on swamp land, and they will give 10% production bonus. Similarly desert seems to be good for your Fire and Dragon cards. And yeah, we have arrived at the sticking point, Tundra seems not very desirable :) Here is the problem, Regions 003 - 006 seems to be dominated by Tundra. Well, dodged a bullet! My region 010 seems fairly diversified with fairly even distribution of Forest, Badlands, Mountain, and Plain with only 2.2% Tundra! Phew!
Map of Pretoria, showing distribution of my land positions 009,010, and 047
My tract holding is right next door in Pristine Northwest. My Tract is in 009 Quegmoor of the Pristine Northwest. This seems very different from 010, and seems like desert dominated. I have track 06 withing this region, which is plains, mountains and swamp dominated.
Land Region 009 Quegmoor track 06 of Pristine Northwest
My last 15 plots were claimed later. Fairly recently to be more precise, which, I am now told, is a better idea! Who knew! Track 10 is located with Rason Detiir area towards the deep south, and seems to be lake dominated. I do not know which exact 15 plots I will get.
Land Region 047 Tract 10 Rason Detiir of Land of Prosperity
At this point, I do not know what to make out of all this. Not even sure if this will be the final distribution. However, it seems like I have a fairly even distribution of land, based on the test server. This looks good, but I am still quite unclear on how to monetize this. There is substantial cost associated with this, and I am unsure of the return. The main problems are currently starter packs. Whether to invest 10,000 DEC each into Building in Box, Time Vault, and Unstable Totem. I think I will definitely buy all the Building in box, but not sure about the other two. Feel free to enlighten me in the comments if you guys wish.
The Splinterlands
