Finally land 1.5 in Splinterlands has come out and that means like a new level in the game is unlocked and we don't know what the end game of it will be.
I was late to the party of getting land in general. With just getting one rare plot with a builder-in-a-box in there and a rare totem I still felt like I was also entering the game. Even though that is all compared to nothing to what other land owners are having and doing.
I did read the userguide in the FAQ section how on how to get the land working. But still it took me a little effort, and since I was on the road this all was done on my phone, and that doesn't make it easier at all.
But.....the grain production has started!!
Starting from the bottom
I had no idea where to begin bu I knew there was DEC involved to actually get started. Dark energy is what you need to get the workers going and I had already purchased some DEC from the time when it was cheaper so that was already good. At that time I had no idea how much DEC I actually needed, so I had just bought some and had some left over for when the price would rise. It turned out I needed all the DEC and even a bit more.
Luckily that is doable from the phone and I was ready to get going. I had already cancelled all of my rentals because I was looking on what cards I wanted to assign to the land. Luckily the dragon cards give me a +10% production and I had a lot of those that were set for putting them on the land.
This is how the line up turned out.
What I didn't know.....
So when you have the DEC and the workers it is time to get the worksite built...That takes about a week unless you use time chrystals to speed up the process. I lready had found the whole process of the land and the workers and the DEC expensive enough so I decided just to wait.
But once the worksite is finished you need the grain to get the workers going to actually harvest the grain. So you need grain to harvest the grain. With my amount of production point I needed like 16.5K grain to get going.
You can buy that 16.5K grain for 16.5K DEC but that felt like it was really expensive. Grain is not on Hive engine as yet, so I needed to just go over to the splinterlands discord channel and ask their for a bargain. Luckily buddy 
Now I am making grain...but I want SPS
If you look at the chart of SPS you can see why I would want to make SPS> The price has risen like crazy over the last couple of weeks and it really pays off to have some or sell some. Also really nice to see that having the license node validator that produces SPS is finally paying off since it was so expensive. I mean...1000 SPS for 92 Hive, holy crap! That makes sense!
Now afer some reading and asking around I see that I can also turn my grain work site into an SPS harvesting spot. Even better to have would be if I had 2 plots of land, one that would harvest grain for all workers and one for harvesting SPS and sending grain from the one plot over.
So my tactic now is harvesting grain for a bit more and then taking the effort (and the week again) to make a SPS harvest in there for a while, before turning it back into a grain harvesting again.
The real question is..... How would I know how much SPS I would produce with my plot? How can I calculate this? Because then I would know when it pays off to shift over for a little bit. I know that creating a worksite costs me 16.5K grain and that x2 because going back and forth.
I have around 10.5K production points at work. How much SPS would this give me or where can I find how to calculate this?
A total new economy has been unlocked and I am liking the process!