I recently decided to start playing Splinterlands. I was busy promoting my two projects on Hive, and always meant to start playing this game, but after reading several articles on Leofinance and doing a fair amount of promotion of Hive and Splinterlands on Twitter I realized I was promoting a game I had never played. So that came to a dead stop and I have been playing the game and I am happy with my progress so far.
I am now Silver 3 level after advancing through all three Bronze levels in my first week. I recruited two friends of course, to join me in our virgin foray into Splinterlands, and to give each other some friendly competition. I must admit it's always more fun to do stuff like this with a group of friends, and we will be forming our own guild soon. The two are younger than me and they are pretty competitive, so it has been fun to motivate each other, and learn from each other.
The game has splinters or magic schools, the one I want to talk about today is the earth splinter. I am using about twelve earth cards and three earth summoners. My favorite is Mylor Crawling.
The summoner summons your team from one school of magic, this one earth. The summoners can have special abilities, and this one has thorn. An ability that it ives to each of the monsters on your team. It gives the attacker a penalty of 2 points for hitting anyone on the earth team with a melee attack. It's very effective at killing the attacker in a few hits. This card is only 3 MANA, which is very low for a summoner.
The other card I use is Kron the Undying.
The card represents a Tank in the game, whose job is to kill as many members of the opposing team as possible before dying. This card has a very high life of 9, self healing to replenish life lost after an attack and a magic attack of 3 points, plus attack speed of 3. This card is very overpowered to be honest, and very expensive to buy, so I rent it. I have a few other cards, Wood Pixies, a healer with 2 magic attack and 4 life. A few range attackers with 7-9 life and either self healing or double hit on single turn. This team has about a 90% win rate.
You earn Dec a cryptocurrency token also called Dark Energy Crystals for winning the battles. 10,000 DEC is about $750 at todays exchange rate about 7.5 cents. So it's far from being worth as much as Hive or Leo, but valuable none the less.
You can buy good cards, to win more games or rent cards. Right now I am renting, as the cost per day is low 7-50 DEC per day, per card, and the return on investment is better with rented cards.
So a team which costs about 100 DEC per day can win 9 of 10 battles netting you 9-10 Dec every ten battles. or about 10 % ROI per day. This is pretty good I think.
Buying cards has a much higher cost and much lower return on investment, if you just calculate earnings from games won. The same team would cost easily 7500 DEC to buy. Yeah I know thats expensive.
Now that 10 DEC per day 0.01 % return on your investment per day.
But buying gives you appreciation. And potentially as you get better your earnings will go up. I am just quoting my daily earnings from ten games per day. You could play much more and earn much more. Owning cards gives you the option to rent cards for income instead of playing the game.
You can also earn DEC by buying good cards and renting them out.
For example the same team above costs 7500 DEC to buy, but now you can rent it out for close to 100 DEC per day, if you choose wisely. Now we have a 1.33% daily return, which doesn't sound great at first, but means every 75 days you get all your capitol back. For perspective compare it to real estate where it takes twenty years to get your capitol back. Its all perspective and the cost of entry here is obviously lower. Cryptocurrency is an incredible new economy because the barrier to entry can be much lower and the return on investment much higher. You just have to contend with the risk of loss of all your capitol by making mistakes in an economy with little or no government oversight.
That's my report on my first week in Splinterlands. I am uncomfortable writing about something I don't play or invest in, so I decided to play the game. It has an interesting game which is pretty easy to play, easy to start, and many interesting stories going on behind the game. It also has a multi-faceted economy involving earning by winning matches, renting cards and holding cards for appreciation and selling them for a profit.
The niche of blockchain games, earning to play is about to low up world-wide. The majority of every population is young, and the world-wide shutdown caused by Coronavirus has many people home and looking for ways to make money. Enter these play to earn games and the result is 12,00 to 18,000 signups on Splinterlands a day. I congratulate the team behind this for keeping up with such explosive growth. The game has some server downtime and it's dependent on other cloud servers like Amazon I think , so there are occaisional issues, but obviously Amazon Cloud Server has a good uptime record. I recommend the game.
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