Splinterlands Social Media Challenge - Splinterlands Six Years Anniversary

Hello everybody in the hive community and to all gamers of hive. This is my entry to the splinterlands social media challenge for this week. Splinterlands is 6 years old and this week I am joining in the celebration by sharing some of my thoughts, my progress and my upcoming goals. Happy 6th anniversary to the splinterlands team and all players 😀.

I would first start with how I found splinterlands. I finally joined hive after the insistence of my friend (@yahuzah). He was very persuasive and I am thankful I listened. I joined, made a few posts, joined some contests and when I saw him writing about games I asked what it was all about. At first, he said I was new to the blockchain and should get familiar with hive before he introduces me to the games.

After some months, he helped me to stake my sps which I earned from InLeo's zealy. He also guided me to buy my spell book, navigate the splinterlands gameplay and still helps me with problems I face.

I really started playing this year. I have been playing for about 5 months now which makes me a new player. There are times I think I understand the gameplay a lot better only to end up losing about 5 battles in a row 😂. Whenever that happens I stop playing since it discourages me and does a lot of harm to my ratings. Speaking of ratings, my current rating is 3240 (Wild).

In the beginning when I did not have a lot of cards, I spent less time on the game. I sometimes did not play for days. I relayed this concern to my friend and he delegated some of his cards to me which has helped me since then. I used some of my earning from the blog posts to buy chaos packs which have given me more cards.

I also rent a lot of cards to aid my gameplay especially because I cannot afford to buy these cards at the moment. Before the reward shop was added to the game, the highest season chests I earned in a season was maybe about 20. It was difficult at first for reasons such as few cards, lack of knowledge on the gameplay and not enough staked SPS.

I have managed to stake only 528 SPS which I am not proud of. I am of the hope that I can stake at up 1500 SPS before December. I am still trying the find the best way to achieve this goal. 1500 would still not enough to earn a lot of SPS and Glint tokens but it is better than 528 staked SPS.

I am also of the hope that I can give more attention to the modern rank. I tried to play some modern ranked battles but the players were stronger than me. I have managed to reach as high as diamond 1 in the wild league but just bronze 2 or 3 in modern since I started playing.

If I could advice new players on what to do, it would be to spend some reading what the rulesets mean and what the cards do. It is also important to have a "mentor" you can ask direct your questions toward. The game can be hard to understand when you start at first but with my friend yahuzah and other friends, I have found it easier.

All images used except the cover image are taken from splinterlands