What Survival Mode?

Unless you tried really hard to ignore it, you've probably heard a lot about "Survival Mode" lately. It's this new, upcoming mode of gameplay for #splinterlands. People seem to have different opinions about whether it's a good thing or bad thing for the game. Will it be an economic stimulus? Or will it be another problematic exploit? Personally, I could see it going both ways. I think we'll have to wait and see.

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Do You Have a Side?

How about you, which side are you on? Team Survive? Team Anti-Survive? Team Idgaf? Feel free to discuss in the comments.

In general, if Survival Mode gives the overall game a better chance to "Survive" in the long-term, then I am going to be on Team Survive. For me, it's not really an ethical question, but more of an economic one. What's good for the game...

LAND integration with Survival Mode?

In the meantime, hold on, hot off the presses:

This was recently re-posted on Splinterlands LAND-BARONS discord channel.

What?! Okay. Now I am loving Survival Mode 😍

I mean, it's probably not exactly what most people were picturing when they thought about minting magical "items" but yeah, at this point, allowing LAND owners to mint "Revival Potions" as the first magical item actually seems like a pretty amazing idea! If you're a LAND owner, you probably have that same feeling like "wen are we going to get to do some awesome things?" Well here you go.

This is literally the first time I've seen something plausible proposed by someone who actually has the power to make it happen. That makes me excited 😁 and it makes sense. I mean why are we doing all this RESEARCH in Praetoria if we can't brew up a little "Revival Potion" right?

What have your workers been researching? Hopefully they've been doing a good amount of potion work in those RESEARCH huts!

Assuming that Survival Mode does well and becomes popular, then LAND owners would be like the triage team healers. Future slogan: We bring cards back to life!

Need a quick recovery from that Survival battle? We got you covered 💪

Will I Play Survival Mode?

No. But I'll probably bot it. Assuming that's allowed by terms of service and the legitimate, non-shady services support it.

I put @star-shroud back on auto-pilot (botting wild) for 2025 after handplaying modern last year. Jmo "time" is the only resource we can never get back, and based on what I see happening in Modern, spending the time and mental energy necessary to play modern fairly is not a good use of anyone's time right now 😭 Others will disagree but it ultimately comes down to how a game makes YOU feel when YOU play it. For me, it doesnt feel like Modern is being fought on a fair playing field right now, and it ruins the experience. That's just my story, my opinion. Others vehemently, aggressively disagree and that's fine 🙏 Either way, I'm done playing the game for now, until things change, which I doubt they ever will--at least not anytime soon.

Back to Botting

So... back to botting! From talking to folks behind the scenes, I believe Xbot plans to support Survival mode, and Archmage has yet to make an announcement. Whether it's "Survival Mode" or something else, I would like to see some additional utility for my cards--other than making endless alts.

I recently passed 25 million card power! I need something to do with these cards though 🤷‍♂

Conclusion

I wasn't all that excited about Survival Mode but I wasn't against it either. On balance though, if it gives the overall game a better chance to "Survive" in the long-term, and it paves the way for LAND owners to starting minting magical items, then I'm sold 👏