New Ranked Rewards - Thoughts and Numbers

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I would like to show what impact the changes to the Ranked reward system will really do.
The announcement can be found here:
https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/upcoming-changes-to-the-new-ranked-reward-system

1st change : Daily Focus Chests Based on Current League

I won't go into detail here, I think this is a marvelous changes as this means I can earn a lot of chests already on the first day of a season, it might be of lower level, but I love opening chests :)
I'm absolutely for this change and I believe this will bring a positive attitude towards the game.

This will be also a great fallback mechanism, when the rents would get very high and I can't continue playing in the gold league. In this situation I can be a whole season in a lower league, and still earn a lot of daily chest, so the lower number of season end chest won't hurt to much.

2nd change : Starter Card RShares Reduction Formula Change

When looking at the example in the article it might be not clear right away, but these changes will impact the RShare earnings of teams with starter cards a lot. I think visual aides are the best way to go, so:

This table demonstrates the current earnings:
COLUMN : how many cards where played in the fight including the summoner || ROW : how many cards were starter cards || CELL : Reward

This table demonstrates the earnings after the update:
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Just by comparing these two tables we can see the decline in rewards if started cards are being used. Now I have created also a table to show the decrease in rewards in percental points.

Here is the percental difference between the two calculations

We can see right away a big decline in fights with 2 cards, where one is a started card :
Old system : 500 RShare points
New system : 125 RShare points.
So only 25% of the RShare from before.

An even bigger percental difference is present when we win a match with 8 cards from which 7 were starter cards :
Old System : 125 RShare points
New system : 2 RShare points
So only 2% of the RShare from before.

As RShare points determine the amount of earned daily chests as well as end of season chests this new setup will impact players who are using starter cards a lot and is aimed to incentives renting and buying cards. This is one of the long time goals of the game - as they mentioned on multiple Town Halls

  • they want to support the card owners.

What to do now?

Well that is what I would love to know as well :D
But what I can see is that currently we are seeing an all time low on Chaos legion summoners (in term of $ value), as well as for other cards as well. A set of Chaos legion fire splinter cards without legendary cards costs only 6.80$ on the market.
If someone would like to receive the highest returns from the game, then this is a great time to invest since November last year.
But a fair warning, we saw till now a downward trend in prices, and I don't know if this dip will be The Dip.

I do believe that with these changes the rental market will also get another boom. Though the rental market did not settle down since the last changes (the same cards can be borrowed for 1000CP/DEC, but also for 100CP/DEC), so we will need to see what will be the new normal. It will take a few more seasons to get to that point. I believe the additionally announced changes will calm down the markets (check out New Daily Focuses and Daily Focus Mechanic Update, both will improve the retention of already borrowed cards, and support players with using only 2-3 maxed splinter in higher leagues as well.)

This will be all for today. Thanks for reading. :)

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Really useful analysis, my friend! Everyone's analyzing the new reward system to find out how to optimize the earnings!

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One thing about diamond/champion level chests that is really upsetting is getting potions or common cards in chests. It would make sense to do something like a set of common and rare cards in each Diamond / Champion chest something like 10 commons in a Diamond chest or 20 commons in Champion. And for rare something like 5 rares in Diamond chest and 10 rares in Champion. Same with potions multiple potions in a chest would be great.

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I don't think I will play in those leagues now or in the near future, but multiple potions makes sense for me. With cards I don't want to be the judge of that, but if the amount of chest you can ear is that much lower, then there needs to be some incentive for sure...
Though aren't the DEC rewards in higher leagues the real deal - basically you can buy multiple cards from the current winnings. When I think about it, even in lower league DEC can be more valuable then the cards you get from chests. Unless of course DEC price will drop even more...

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Diamond and Champion DEC rewards are hit an miss. For example I saw 12 chests of Diamond daily rewards: 5 potions, 4 common cards, 1 rare one old epic card and 112 DEC now that is a very dissapointing set of 12 Diamond chests...

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Sorry for that. If I understand it correctly, in this situation it is much better for you to Rent :(

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