At the end of last season, I decided to enable a bot on my main Splinterlands playing account. We are now 6 days into the new season and I wanted to make an update about this.
First things first, I decided to let the bot play all the Wild matches this season, to not interfere with its performance in Wild, and see how it's doing. I must say I miss playing myself already, which means next season I need to change this a bit, so I'll play too, from time to time.
I finished last season in Diamond 1, so the bot started from Gold 1. After a visit to Gold 2, the bot struggled to bring my account to the Diamond leagues.
I allowed the bot to play once an hour for most of the period, until yesterday when I wanted it to push harder to get into Diamond 3.
For one game every hour (which means my ECR grew every day), it was remarkable it got close to Diamond leagues, but then hit a certain plateau.
After I gave it the liberty to play more often, it broke into the Diamond leagues and not only that, reached Diamond 2 too. Within a day.
The increased number of battles was probably the only push it needed to break into Diamond 3. After that, it was simply the fact it used my collection optimized for Diamond better than it could do in Gold.
The number of loot chests brought every day was satisfying. While playing for Gold chests in focus, it brought 6, 9, 9, and 14 chests. When it moved to Diamond focus chests, it brought 7 chests on the first day.
For the season, 28 Diamond chests so far, with almost 8 days left from the season. And with fewer season chests won while in Gold, which means the number of season chests should increase while I am in Diamond. The rewards themselves were rather bad (not all of them), but the bot did its job and earned the chests. The rest is luck.
There are some things to improve on my strategy for next season but overall seems like the bot stays. I will play too, from time to time, starting next season. In part for fun and because I miss it, in part because without playing I'll lose my expertise and I wouldn't want that. It's not all about the gameplay, this expertise also gives you an understanding of the value of each card you use, besides its collection or rental value.
Since I haven't played at all this season in Wild, I don't know how often Riftwatchers cards started to be used in battles. If some metas were formed around them and since I don't have any, for now, the bot had to deal with that too, and so far did that very well, I'd say.
