RE: How can we balance the long term economy of Splinterlands and encourage card combination?

"I think there is a structural issue with P2E gaming in general. That is that what a player calls the ability to advance, the farmer calls profit. The farmer is simply taking the gains that a sincere player would use to advance, and monetizing them without advancing. Do you disagree that this is also the root of the problem for Splinterlands?"

Exactly 100%

"Differentiating accounts I am all for and is in my view one of the few things that can work. My suggestions are just ways of trying to differentiate between players and farmers based on if their activity is in the pattern of playing or farming. For Splinterlands, the point is probably mute because I get the impression that they are firmly against any kind of account differentiating approach."

By differentiating accounts I didnt mean Splinterlands the company analyzing and watching players. I mean differentiation along the lines of RPGs, lets say this month costs this amount of dec, but I cant get enough by end of month, I will never be able to acquire that permanent buff to my account again, In this way, you get token consumption quickly, more uniqueness to accounts because not all will have currency, or maybe not all want that upgrade. Maybe a bot owner can only upgrade 2 or 3 main accounts not all 1000. Over time these mains that get upgrades should end up with significantly higher yields leading bot owner to want to invest to make more big accounts, thats my theory.

"Have you been keeping up with Exode? I think I joined the game with your referral link, so our planets should be close to each other. Are you in a faction or alliance? I minted the planet and then didn't check back in for a while. So I missed some of the testing stages. But looking forward to the game using its new UI.

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I was actually in their discord today asking when the colony management update is coming, and looks like its coming in the next 2 days! I dont think I joined a faction or alliance yet ill check tom. off to bed

!PGM

!PIZZA