📚📝Diary of My Splinterlands Journey Week 31📝📚 (🎁🧧Giveaway inside🧧🎁) - New upcoming changes to Ranked Rewards again.

Good Day to all Splinterlands players! (and people of HIVE! 😜) I've made it a point to blog about my weekly progress and experiences in Splinterlands/HIVE in my "weekly diary". Splinterlands & HIVE are what I'd consider to be my entry point into the World of Crypto, and I intend to use this as a means to look back on the path I've taken in the years ahead.⏳⏳⏳

This is now the 31st consecutive week writing in my Diary (of sorts) detailing my Splinterlands Journey ever since I started this game. Of course, this also marks my 31st weekly giveaway! 🎉🥳🎊

In a matter of about another 4 days, the 2nd End of Season for the "new revamped Reward changes" will commence upon us. I have actually been trying to find the best strategy of playing (of sorts) for my own time/limits available. Season 1 saw me playing my Main account in Silver 1, but grinding Gold Daily Focus Chests, and my Alt account (also) in Silver 1, but grinding out Silver Daily Focus Chests. In both of these accounts last season, I rented only once every 2 days and burned up to 50% ECR each time.

This would result in me "saving" on half the rental throughout the season, yet I would take a hit in the number of daily chests gained each day. The same would go for the RShares points for the End of Season Chests.

I decided to tweak things again this season and have (so far) been renting everyday and draining my ECR at a rate of 25% daily. The league and chests parameters have remained the same, and I'm getting slightly more chests, but not significantly so. I'm still not too sure if the current route I'm following is more worth it than the previous one though. I get slightly more chests, but spend significantly more in rentals everyday.🤔🤔🤔

Regardless, I am eager to see the final results when I tally them come the end of season. 🎁🎁🎁

My quest for that elusive Gold Foil Legendary from my rewards chests continues on though 🤞🏻🍀🤞🏻🍀🤞🏻🍀 (It's a 0.008% chance, at base level, to pull a legendary gold foil, in case you were wondering 😉). I'll get there some day (i hope).

No week goes by in Splinterlands without some news event happening though. And here's my pick of some of the most interesting ones in my opinion. 📰📰📰

🏆💰🎁Upcoming Changes to the new Ranked Reward System🏆💰🎁

Just as I thought I was getting used to the new Rewards system, Splinterlands has once again announced yet ANOTHER tweak to the system 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️.

Let's just cover the 2 CHANGES that will be implemented come the next maintenance window on Tuesday, June 28th. (More changes are planned further down the road, but we'll cross that bridge when it arrives 😜)

Daily Focus Chests Based on Current League
- The daily focuses will be changed to award chests based on the player's league at the time that the focus begins rather than the highest league achieved during the previous season.
- This is interesting, and will mean that I will no longer be able to grind out the gold chests whilst playing in Silver 1. However, I'm already feeling that this isn't the most efficient way of farming at all and that I would be better served in the Gold League. At the high ratings in Silver 1 League (about 2.8-2.9k - which is actually a Gold 1 rating), I'm meeting really strong opponents who're aiming for the leaderboards.
- This change is ostensibly to prevent people from getting a newbie alt account who finished in Bronze the previous season, and then delegating/renting a bunch of strong cards to play in Silver and above. This results in an inordinate number of daily chests from just a single win. I've heard of people getting hundreds of chests each day this way. 😱🤯🤑
- I think this is a positive change overall, but I'll wait to see the changes live before I fully make up my mind. 🤔
Starter Card RShares Reduction Formula Change
- Currently, the starter card reduction is applied to the overall Rshares earned. For example, a player with a rating of 1,000 and using 1 starter card out of 4 would earn 750 Rshares as shown below:

The Splinterlands team however, feels that this formula is still overly generous and not incentivizing card ownership and renting as much as they want it to. 😨 The starter card reduction will instead be now applied to a player's rating in the equation. With this change, the same example above will now result in approximately 421 Rshares instead of the previous 750:

Personally I doubt this affects most players who're actually playing as they intended. Almost everyone I know has rented a full deck of cards and reaped the rewards from doing so. Once again, I would agree with this change as it would mainly penalize bots/players trying to leech whatever amount they can.
More card ownership should be encouraged and it will push the prices up in the long term. 👍🏻💰

Weekly Chaos Legion Sales Tracker

And now, for an update on the number of Chaos Legion packs sold thus far. About 45k sold since last week. Still not too bad. That is still quite an amazing sales figure! 😄

Here's the current count (as of the moment I'm writing this post) of the number of packs sold, and we're 228k away from the 9 million mark! 😄 Which also means everyone has a chance to get in now and grab more packs for the remaining airdrops! 😜

My fingers are crossed! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 Hopefully I'll get some amazing luck for the next round! 🍀🍀🍀

✨🎁✨Weekly GIVEAWAY✨🎁✨

The next card for GIVEAWAY #31 is...

✨🎁✨Choose One of these Reward Cards✨🎁✨

Instead of continually going through my list of common reward cards I can afford to give away each week, I've decided to let YOU CHOOSE WHICH YOU PREFER! 😜

This is probably more helpful, especially for new players who join my giveaways, as they can then finetune their decks with what they need (if they're lucky enough to win 😉🍀).

Of course, all these options are while stocks last, if I'm unable to offer you the card you've chosen should you win it, I will send you one of these cards in the list instead. They are all very useful for new players, and even veterans who level these cards up to high levels will find them pretty strong too! 👍💪

📖✨🎁Rules for Giveaway🎁✨📖

This Giveaway will last until the next week's post, with 1 random lucky winner being picked. All winners in my Giveaways will also receive a slice of 🍕PIZZA🍕 token.

All you need to do to participate is to COMMENT and leave your Splinterlands name if it is different from what you use to post.
Winners will have to acknowledge their win within 48 hours by leaving a comment in the winner announcement post. This is so I don't send cards to non human accounts. (I'd strongly recommend you to FOLLOW me so that you can keep yourself updated should you be one of the winners 😉)
In cases of non responses, prizes will be forfeited at my discretion.

I will also be VERY grateful for any UPVOTES, FOLLOWS & REBLOGS. 😍

🤑💰🍕Added Bonus of PIZZA Token🤑💰🍕

I will use my staked 🍕PIZZA🍕 to share a slice of 🍕PIZZA🍕 with anyone in the comments who also FOLLOWS & REBLOGS my post in the interests of spreading the Word of Pizza 🤣🤣🤣
Just let me know if you've done that so I can double check and ensure I set aside some !PIZZA Commands to reply back on your comments 👍
Any fellow 🍕PIZZA🍕 connoisseurs who !PIZZA me will also receive 🍕PIZZA🍕 back from me. 😊

🥇🏆🎁WINNER of Previous Giveaway #30🥇🏆🎁

🎉🎉🎉@hoosie CONGRATULATIONS!🎉🎉🎉

Please send me a message on the comments section to acknowledge (and auto enroll you for the next giveaway 😂 unless you wish to opt out) before I send the card to you.

(P.S, I might take some time to reply and send out the cards sometimes 😅. So all winners, please be patient, as long as you reply and acknowledge, I WILL definitely get it done 😜.)

📣🍕SHOUTOUT to HivePizza📣🍕

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Here's to wishing everyone all the best for the upcoming week 🎉🍀.

To any new players who wish to explore the world of Splinterlands, do feel free to sign up with my REFERRAL LINK 😊.