I like that we've been getting prompts for things to write about in these recent Social Media challenges. It's a good chance for reflection. Sometimes all it takes is a good prompt to get the words flowing and come up with something awesome.
The prompt for this week is the same one we had several weeks ago. My journey has progressed since that post, but not as much as it did in the 2 years before that post. I've tried to focus on some of the more recent aspects of my Splinterlands journey.
Discovery of Splinterlands
I frequently read finance related articles. I've done some investing in the stock market off and on for the past 20 years and eventually I started to invest in cryptocurrency. I read a lot of articles on finance.yahoo.com they bring lots of articles to the table from various other websites like the motleyfool.com and I stumbled onto this gem written by Taylor Carmichael https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/10/29/ive-spent-10-so-far-on-this-blockchain-game-assets/ . He's posted an updated article about his Splinterlands Journey here https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/05/21/this-game-could-make-your-kids-rich-one-day/ . I wish that I knew his username in the game.
Duration of Participation
I've been playing Splinterlands for a little over 2 years. I jumped into what felt like the deep end for me and I haven't looked back.
Time spent in Splinterlands
If you ask my wife, it's too much. I probably spend about 2 hours per day playing Splinterlands with some additional time spent here on peakd.com reading about the game and making posts when I have access to my laptop. It's easy enough to play a battle or 2 on my cellphone from anywhere, but I haven't figured out how to get set up for peakd posting from my cellphone yet. If any of you know of a good tutorial for doing that on an iphone, I would be interested.
Accomplishments
I mostly stay in my lane keep stacking resources. Splinterlands is fun and it's competitive. I haven't managed to place in the top 10 for any leagues or won any tournaments. I spend most of the season with rewards maxed our in silver league before I jump into gold league at the end of the season.
I've been working to get all of the legendary cards from Caos Legion and I'm tantalizingly close
When plans were in motion to base earnings on staked SPS in addition to the games won and how sufficiently leveled up your cards are, I set a goal to stake 10,000 SPS (that was before I even knew where the cutoffs would be). I did reach that goal
Now that the cutoffs have been published and I can see that my winnings are throttled more for low level cards than SPS, I'm back to acquiring and leveling up cards. One of my recent goals for cards to level up was to get a level 4 gold Kelya.
I've also managed to collect 2 copies of each common from the new Rebellion set.
Upcoming goals
I want to stay competitive in the game.
The broad plan is to get my collection to where I feel pretty well maxed out for silver league. I think it's important to have short term goals along the way. Now that I have a level 4 gold Kelya, I'm working to get a level 4 gold Diemonshark and a level 4 gold Angelic Mandarin. I just got my Diemonshark up to level 3 today!
I'm also working to get 2 copies of each rare card from Rebellion and 1 of each epic. So far I've only got a handful of rare cards from Rebellion and 1 epic.
I'll probably get the rest of the Chaos Legion legends before I can focus on getting all of them from Rebellion. 1 thing at a time because there are so many great cards to pick up.
Advice for beginners
I would say to not get bogged down thinking that you have to play in Championship league right away. A great early goal could be to get comfortable with multiple aspects of the game and start consistently winning chests in bronze league. I made an introduction last week that I wish I would have had when I started.
@jingo-submo/introduction-to-splinterlands
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