Just want to say to start by saying I have no idea whether this idea will work or not. So in no way do I want to rubbish it before it has had a chance to succeed.

Here is what i do know.

Dave has said Splinterlands will run this itself, without DAO funding, if this proposal fails. For me then, it makes it a very easy choice for the DAO. Let Dave run it for a year. Come back to the DAO with evidence of how well its running. At this point, yes let us get involved as a DAO. Waiting a year has zero risk for the DAO.

Infact Splinterlands could put the extra funds in for year 1 and after proof of concept we retrospectivley cover our year 1 bill.

In this proposal they want the DAO to give away 30,000,000 SPS approx $270,000 and 100,000 rebellion packs $400,000 without any evidence it is going to work. This is on top of what Splinterlands the company will be giving away.

To put it into context the DAO currently has

1. No plans on how to extended gaming rewards for existing players

2. No plans to convert a single dollar of DEC or SPS into other crypto to pay for its future bills. This is largely due to players being concerned about its effect on DEC peg and SPS price. Yet we are not concerned about the effect on SPS price, of giving away $670,000 worth of FREE assets !

3. The DAO has no money for exchange listings.

I am sure there is other stuff the DAO should be doing before this.

Another of my main issues with the proposal is 'I FEEL' it is being used to mask Splinterlands doing a U turn on using an external marketing company to do some real traditional marketing. Only a few days ago Dave said they weren't scaling back marketing. Yesterday he admitted they've scrapped plans to used the external company. Obviously this depends on what you feel is reducing or rolling back marketing. For me this should have been announced BEFORE presale.

I'm going to be posting this in discord Dave, let me know if you think anything here breaks your discord rules. As thanks to Azircon my comments here are hidden. I have avoided using the word 'conned' as it seemed to upset you yesterday.

@davemccoy @clayboyn