I agree with all of this. I've talked about land in the same way. It will be expensive to run and when these regions are able to be separated its going to create downward pricing pressure. I play upland also and they recently released factories. There's a currency called spark that you have to stake to build buildings like factories and its very expensive. I have $2000 in spark staked right now for 145 days in order to build a small factory. And once its done, manufacturing anything in it at full capacity would take closer to $5000 in spark staked. Splinterlands on the other hand doesn't really understand what scarcity is but I still think we can expect running and upgrading land to be pricey. People will need to sell some plots in order to have the resources to manage others.

They have said this is to give old cards more utility and not to create scarcity in all cards. That's disappointing to me but it does make these dirt cheap alphas seem like a buy.

I didn't buy a runi either. I think the whole thing is a cash grab that won't move the needle in splinterlands until the bull market comes back. Then it will just be amongst those in the community. The fact that most of them have yet to be released and the floor price is lower than mint is a problem. Especially when they have been bought by people who are supposed to care about this game.

There are 40k vouchers a day being printed now. 20k for sps holders and 20k for nodes. I know why they did that but it did work and needs to be rolled back. They also need to find a better way to distribute them so the top 100 investors aren't getting 75% of them. When tranche 1 sold out, people were selling vouchers to get SPS to buy nodes because some of these investors are getting thousands of vouchers per day. It's supposed to be that if you're buying a node you're incentivized to buy vouchers for a discount. But everything is so unbalanced it was happening the opposite way. Node buying was crushing voucher prices instead of lifting them.

This whole economy has been mismanaged by putting way too much out and encouraging a few people to buy up everything. They need to go back to the drawing board with how they put products out there.