Splinterlands: A Narrative Of Luck & Misfortune
Splinterlands has been buggy for the past 7 to 8 hours. I submitted about 3 games and lost 3 ECRs in the process. Not lose because I lost the battle, but automatically lost because the system was severely glitchy, and all attempts at submitting more battles without knowing the problem meant incurring more losses in the process.
I had to check the Discord channel, and it seems a lot of people did lose ECR trying to play.
Now since the system is not quite good, I was thinking these ECRs are going to be returned, because some of them cost time to replenish and even money when you're trying to buy instantly.
3 ECR for me could mean, winning 3 daily focus that could potentially get me 2 silver chests, which could actually give me 5 SPS (if I was extremely lucky) and if I wasn't lucky, I'm certain there might be some form of rewards, because replenishing 3 ECR takes approximately 3 hours, and for some people, 3 hours is a lot of time.
Some people might actually think the problem is from their internet or the device, but that is the element of the game; luck. Sometimes you lose and sometimes you win. Sometimes it can feel deserved to win or lose and sometimes it feels undeserved and vice versa.
Talking about luck, it's been a very terrible outing in my Guild on Splinterlands. I think 95% of guild members lost heavily. I don't know the reason for this, but I think I lost a lot because of battling players with some of the most sophisticated cards I've ever seen.
I'm not sure I've faced these guys from this particular guild, but they had these legendary cards from back in the day on Splinterlands, and these cards had these crazy abilities. I'm not sure why my Guild members played badly, but I'm sure they have their different unique reasons as to why they individually lost heavily.
However, we've been lucky in the past as well and every Guild member won massively, so it just gets to show how luck can collectively influence the outcome on splinterlands. Winning two games and losing 5 was bad in my opinion and I had situations where I could I could have easily won 3 other games, but narrowly lost.
Sometimes, it's because of the fly ability of the opponent, or I didn't have a shield and they did, sometimes, the system just decides who wins, especially when all odds seem equal.
Talking about luck
I opened a 7 silver chest two days ago and got one Legendary card and two Epics they were just one BCX each, but they were decent cards and for a long time, I've been seeking to have the legendary *Musa Saline.
Being a 3mana card, it's impact on low mana games cannot be underestimated and there are so many battles I've lost because of that beautiful ability of that card. Having it in my collection levels the playing field, sometimes we tend to underestimate the impact of having the right cards for extremely difficult rulesets, they can save you ECR, win you more chests, and become the reason why your opponent might lose.
Generally, I think the soulbound cards have brought a solid impact, the ability of some of these cards are very rare and sometimes you'd have to spend a lot of money to buy cards with some of their abilities. So, I'm extremely lucky to have these cards, as I continue build, I reckon it'll be a sort of comic relief, for the porous and terrible week I've had so far playing the game.
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Sorry for your loss in the battles. Maybe you need to get some cards with special abilities. Since you have won in the past, the reason for the loss might be that your opponents were more equipped. About luck, it's not something we can cone by every day. Tomorrow might be different If it doesn't have anything to do with technicalities of Splinterlands.
Cards ranges from 10s and 20s of dollars to acquire so they're very expensive to purchase especially when you want to go far or do well.
Hahaha, is there no other way around it.
Sorry about those losses and those glitches. I guess at every game, Splinterlands, brings you deep lessons around the elements that contribute to our wins and losses in life.... Luck, circumstances, & risks.
The glitches are part of the game and sometimes any resulting glitch, directly affects the end-player.
I am glad to see that your team effort leads to the effective progression of your Brawl.
Peace
I actually lost a lot, and like I talked about, my Guild members lost heavily too.
The battles in the arena are presenting us with a challenge worth equating with a creative solution.
Peace
Sorry bro, but in every game, there is always a winner and a loser, you might be lucky to win or lose. Life is all about risk, and to get to the top, you have to take risks.
Yes, it's either win or lose
I didn't realize Musa Saline was a legendary card. Can be pretty useful in those resurrect rulesets as she gets to scavenge 2x lol.
I didn't know either lol, I don't know the criteria for making a card a legend though. The scavenging ability comes very handy tbh. The 2x is even Sweeter
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Splinterlands was a bit glitchy yesterday. I had to refresh a few times when the error message happened. I didn't do that well yesterday either but I did get a legendary yesterday so I felt that it made up for it a bit.
A legendary is well worth it. To be very honest, my daily focus reward has been terrible for some days now. Yesterday's glitch made me lose a lot of ECR