Maxed Out My Gladiator Cards and Minor Update to Splinterlands Lead...

I have reached a major milestone in my Splinterlands journey, I have practically maxed out my Gladiator cards! Well, technically I have not fully maxed out every single card. They are all at a maximum level with the exception of Quora Towershead that is at level five:

Other than Quora every single gladiator card that I have is at a maximum level. I plan to stop buying gladius cases until the new Gladiator cards are released, this just doesn't make sense as I am missing eight cards for the maximum level and it may take a long time to collect those eight cards.

I have decided instead to accumulate Merits for the new Gladiator cards. As you can see I am over 222K Merits already and since I am far from the top player in Splinterlands I suspect that many are in the same boat right now. So hopefully the new Gladiator cards are not too far away.

But it is not just that the new Gladiator cards are needed, we also need an update to the Guilds. Right now one of the guilds I am in has maxed out every single building!

Yes this guild Plan B is almost a top ten guild by raking but still this shows that we really need an update that would let us do more with guilds. Brawls have become less interesting as there is no need for merits anymore and no need to upgrade the buildings:

Guilds are a key element of the Splinterlands eco-system which helps player retention especially if there are things to improve and upgrade. Other games Web2 games rely on concept of guild or alliance to drive increased player retention and sales of in-game items.

For example the game my son is playing is called Whiteout Survival and this is a regular Web 2 game where players frequently spend upwards of tree hundred dollars on average per day! Here is an example of one of those players writing about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/whiteoutsurvival/comments/1hki2e9/i_spent_over_31900_on_whiteout_survivalheres_why/

I am not saying Splinterlands should become as predatory as the Whiteout Survival, but the concept of guilds in Splinterlands could be further improved based on the alliance concept in Whiteout Survival.

Splinterlands Leaderboard Analyzer

I have recently released a minor update to my Splinterlands Leaderboard Analyzer

This update adds a new chart for Leaderboard Rank vs Collection Power and added a sort of player cards by Collection Power in descending order. As well as added Collection Power to each of the player cards.

Here is the new Collection Power vs Leaderboard Rank chart:

Above is the chart for the Modern Champion leaderboard for the last Splinterlands season. What you can see from the chart is that top five on the leaderboard have very high collection power as in twenty plus million, but as we go lower we see people like gamer08 with only 1.6 million collection power starting to appear at rank #28 and megakyodaibanrai at rank #36 with 1.5 million collection power with asdfghjkiraaa at leaderboard position of forty five with only 744,805 collection power!

These are some of the lowest collection power players on the modern Champion leaderboard:

Wild Champion leaderboard chart is a bit harder to read due to vugtis and his 277,802,112 (two hundred seventy seven million) collection power:

What I found interesting about Wild Champion leaderboard is that even here we have some players with under a million of collection power in the top 100! I have always thought that you have to have at least four or five million collection power to compete for the Champion leaderboard in Wild, but this is clearly not the case:

Someone like ks-tradingco definitely warrants a look at their card collection to see what cards you really need to be on the Wild Champion leaderboard. He is making a delegation to Splinterbank, which is the XBot service in Wild. This means that replicating his collection is what you need for XBot!

So go ahead and take a look at my updated Splinterlands Leaderboard Viewer