The main issue with the entire burn or stake to get more rewards is that it only makes sense when you expect to get more back compared to what you put in. In that regard, the only real factor to 'save the economy' is for more new players to come in which isn't happening at the moment. All this focus on getting DEC to peg kind of crushed the SPS price which isn't helping that.

In a perfect world, Splinterlands would be a game that players just love and want to sink money into knowing they can potentially get some back the day they want to move on. In reality though, they are just falling short on that also because the new player experience is still just bad and most mainly care about earning. The tricky part of it all is that price going up (higher earnings) drives adoption and not the other way around where adoption pushes the price up. In that regard I fear it all just comes down to having a real new crypto bull run across the board. It's nice that they keep building and are surviving the bear market but all these measures don't really seem to do that much right now. Looks like 1000 DEC is back down to 0.76$