THE BEGINNING OF MY JOURNEY AGAINTS SILVER XBOT PLAYERS
PART 1
My Guild brawl battle result: 10/06/2023 - 13/06/2023
I had a perfect record in my brawl battle again after many losses in the past brawl battles and one reason of that is because of the number of players using "XBOT BATTLE HELPER"
My playing strategy was no longer effective due to the fact that the XBOT is different and it got me confused because before I knew what strategy my opponent would use(against Manual Players), but now I have a hard time countering the opponent's usable cards because of the unique strategy used by XBOTS. The fact that it is really hard to play against them because they can always counter your composition.
I have been struggling to compete for the leaderboard until now and I'm still figuring out the best tactic to beat XBOTS, thankfully I'm learning more because of them. But for me, it is still not good for the game because it is boring and frustrating and I will call the using of XBOT laziness (Not willing to learn by itself) or cheating (XBOT Battle helper).
Another issue is that they are too strong and there should be a limit on what rank of the leaderboard they can reach because the leaderboard is only for MANUAL PLAYERS who working hard and not for any BOT!
If there would be a proposal against BOTS not receiving any leaderboard reward I would surely upvote it even though I have only a spare amount of SPS staked.
The game is becoming less fun and it's becoming a place for BOTS and not for HUMANS, and it's sad because there are still a lot of players who prefer manual play rather than BOTTING and I'm one of these players.
Should we still call the Splinterlands Rank game a "game" when all players are using BOT? I think I will call it a "Passive income generator" and not what I currently called a "Fun competitive game"
Here's the result of the Silver Leaderboard from the previous season where I belong, and I was only at #25
WILD
MODERN
@Ueyuey is one of the best Silver Players and consistently keeps the position of being #1 is what inspires me the most to keep being honest and train more.
I see no Manual Players like him anymore that consistently keep on the top 10 positions, the rest is at the bottom now😢
At this stage, XBOT is still early and I don't know what will happen next, the frustration is becoming more and more usual rather than having fun playing against Manual Players.
But leaving the game is not a choice and will never be a choice for me and I'll still keep on playing even if I'm just a renter from the start, I wrote this to spread to Manual Players out there that they should not lose hope and still keep on self-learning and have fun.
The frustrations I got from the past season gave me the motivation to consistently practice and learn strategies, so I wrote this as the beginning of my article against BOT/XBOTS, and I will retain the leaderboard position to myself as long as I can do it.
Thank you for reading!
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I do think things have taken a much more significant slant to BOT over the last year in the summer of 2022 when archmage first became a prevalent option to 'retail' manual players. I still enjoy making time to do some of my battles manually, but I'll be the first to admit that at times I don't have the time and the bot is so convenient to get my 24 daily battles in.
What I haven't been so willing to admit is how much harder it has become to win as a manual player. Maybe part of it is that I am battling at high champion without owning/renting some key meta cards, but my strategy is also not nearly as nuanced to compete with the consistency of BOT. I am quite curious to see how the new modern format will feel like once anti-bot rules in place, so maybe it will give me the incentive to switch back to playing modern manually. I've been collecting key wild cards and battling wild for the last 5 seasons.
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