Since the trick the Splinterlands team pulled on us with Land 1.5 on the Mavs server last weekend, I started to check the land discord channel quite often... just in case.
To my surprise, new last minute changes are introduced to the game, the kind many investors (Keep owners) would dislike and few, but rich, investors (Castle owners) would like.
What will be the changes that seem to have upset Keep owners:
Basically, Keep owners are taxed multiple times:
As a Keep owner, I am not happy. I am not outraged either. I understand the critiques being brought in discord that SPS-relevant changes should be done through SPS proposals, but I think it only applies to products already launched (I may be wrong). And Land gameplay is so late already...
Something else came up:
This further stirred the discussion that if rewards aren't harvested on working plots at least once every 7 days, taxes are lost for what is overflowing (there are no "back taxes"). Harvesting is done through the active key, so this is unlikely to be automated by a public service (and be ok from the security standpoint).
Inactive players/investors could negatively influence the income of the Keep and Region owners and they could affect everyone in the respective tract or region by not contributing to the upgrade of the Keep and Castle, when that will be a thing in Land 2.0.
Thinking of this reason ahead of time, like a true visionary that I am (lol), I made sure I had a full tract and haven't sold any plots from that tract. At least this way I control how active all plots are and the production on every plot. I may not be able to put (good) workers to my lower value plots at first, but at least I know I'll slowly activate them. Otherwise I may have risked having inactive owners in my tract, which is something nobody wants.
Maybe there will be a solution in these cases later on. But it almost certainly won't be any until Land 2.0, and that's many months away.
