Land... that's sucking a lot of my energy, even during this preparation stage. Or maybe especially during this time.
I avoided any deep analysis of my land last week, waiting for some clarification on the situation with Canyon and Tundra terrain types, particularly their production bonuses and penalties.
That clarification came after I asked in Discord:
The answer is longer and didn't fit in a screenshot. This is a link to the answer if you are interested in reading it.
The decision, at least until Land 2.0, according to Byzantinist's answer, is that the terrain preferences should remain unchanged.
While I preferred a different outcome initially, I believe this is ok too, at least for my situation. I already have the plan to populate my land plots in stages because I won't have enough high PP cards (or DEC) early enough. If tighter restrictions would come in the form of preferred splinters to stake on my plots, that will make it harder to fill the spots.
The downside is, of course, on the high-value plots where I expect to stake the best cards. Having only a 5% bonus at the base PP per slot instead of 10% can be quite detrimental to the total PP.
Anyway, after things became clear, I started to work on my spreadsheet to see what cards I'd stake where, and on what are my strong and weak points so I can work to improve my situation in the remaining time.
While analyzing things, some thoughts came to my mind.
My initial plan was to set up a separate account from where I would play the Land expansion game. Much like I have separate accounts for renting out cards.
This prevents some management issues we would have when all cards are on one account.
That isn't relevant if all cards are staked on land because they can't be used anywhere else then. But if you unstake cards to move them to other plots, then they move among the rest of your playing deck and it becomes messy.
But then I realized that making a separate account for land can create even bigger problems: you won't be able to use soulbound cards on land if they become a better alternative than other cards you hold.
So, it looks like I'll play the land game from the same account as I play ranked.
As I said, I started matching my cards slated for land with the plots I intend to populate in the first stage.
I filled 12 plots already in the optimal way possible at this time, and have high PP cards (minimum 1000 PP) slated for land for at least 11 more plots which I'll associate with more plots soon. Obviously, it's still a long way to 100 plots filled. But also many months until I expect I will do that.
The interesting part is that Matt intends to create a proposal to put a base PP cap per plot at 100k. I know his target is a few accounts with a stash of alpha GFLs and Runi, and it makes sense to reduce the huge discrepancy this would create without a cap, in my opinion. The base PP of all the 12 plots I "filled" so far is about 125k PP at this time, compared to potentially millions of PP per plot Matt was talking about. :)
