RE: Time to Sharpen and Consolidate The Splinterlands Season
Thanks for your kind words and support @cryptkeeper17! You can also feel free to message me on Discord when you have ideas like this for the game since I definitely don't see everything that players post about the game.
I'm on board with your overall goal of giving more value to the gold foil cards, but I think your proposal is a bit too extreme. It has got me thinking though, and maybe we could do something like add a ruleset where gold foil cards get some type of advantage over regular foil cards. This way you don't have to have gold foil cards to play, but you'll be at a distinct disadvantage if you don't and your opponent does.
Also I would like to note that in all other similar games i've played, gold/foil/shine cards all have zero benefit and are purely cosmetic. Hearthstone and Gods Unchained are examples that come to mind. So I think we've done a decent job of giving added value to gold foil cards without giving them a direct advantage in battles.
I also agree that the gold foil only tournaments aren't very exciting. It has always been our goal to get more tournament sponsors and have some tournaments with really large prize pools but that hasn't happened yet. We're doing a lot of work behind the scenes with things like our mobile app to try to significantly increase our player base, which will then really help us attract some bigger tournament sponsors, but it's going to take some time.
Thanks very much for the read, that means a lot. You guys never cease to amaze the level of interaction you have with your user base and how well you keep your 'ear to the ground' when it comes to thoughts of the users, I cannot praise you enough for the savvy and upside potential of not only being boxed in to what your own thoughts are but being open-minded to the possibility of something positive coming out of it. Again, I don't write these to blast the game, certainly not the purpose, these suggestions are details that I think the game could use a boost either now, or at some point in the future. I hear you on the other games seeing these parallel inserts as a more of a collectible novelty. But I think there is a chance to capitalize on it at some point as a competitive advantage at some point as well-should the correct format arise for you to have reason to make any changes in that direction. The tournaments are fine, you do have plenty of participation and will of course grow over time, especially as DEC becomes more and more the force as an internal crypto that it already is. I don't think, but I have a very strong feeling and know that this game is going to have success, at a surprising level in fact, it's a matter of time. It has already surpassed my expectations (and I had some pretty decent expectations from the start) that is wildly surpassed my expectations and continues to chug along growing at a very nice pace. The base foundation I think is finishing its first stage and I eagerly await what will be coming down the road, keep up the excellent work you and the whole team.
Hey Matt, I like the idea of adding a ruleset where the gold foil gets a slight advantage.... It might be worth a try since we are still in beta and you can state it is for 1 season only to see how it goes.... Just my 2 cents.
What do you think of the league structure I posed less then two weeks back? Its been discussed numerous times in discord in the past.
https://steemit.com/palnet/@rentmoney/steem-monsters-it-s-time-for-a-change-suggestion
I think the Steem-Monsters game would benefit greatly from my below suggestion. I would like to see different league standings for each level as structured below.
League 1: Novice/Bronze
League 2: Silver
League 3: Gold
League 4: Diamond/Champion
Each league would have its own top 10 and rewards awarded accordingly (Novice league with small rewards / Champion league with the highest rewards). Each player has to pick what league they want to join prior to the start of the league so no one account can win multiple top 10 spots. We would still have the problem of multi-accounting but at least it keeps everyone's main account in one specific league thus helping to fight reward farming abuse.
One of the benefits of the above system is more winners and winners tell their friend about this awesome game we are playing. They also spend more on the game because they're " good at it ".
Being the best Novice/Bronze/Silver/Gold player would be a nice bragging right and will give incentive to lower level players to Buy/Level up cards so they can be the best in the league they choose to play in.