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Ranked Battle Changes

General

  • Reduce the amount of rating points lost at EoS (https://hackmd.io/@pxIGWOZcSnWaUILhCM8AHg/SkR2oywVi)
  • Allow Gold+ league battles to have 3 rulesets
  • Increase the max mana cap at lower leagues
    • Set max_cap and mana_cap_step_level to 40 (current is 30)
    • Set max_cap_2 to 55 (current is 45)
  • Add many more rulesets (ideally ones that limit cards that can be used)
    • Limit by attack type (only melee / only ranged / only magic)
    • Each card must have a different mana cost
    • All Monsters start with 1 Health
    • Summoners apply buffs/debuffs/abilities to the opposite team
    • Cannot use cards with list of abilities (copy from focuses?)

New Players

  • Give a flat +10 rating point increase for Novice league wins (so it takes 10 wins to finish)
    • Players still do not lose rating for losses in Novice
    • Do not increase Novice league to more than 100 rating, it will mess up RP calculations for everything else!
  • Don't allow players to drop below Bronze either from losses or end of season
  • Create bots that play poorly in Novice league, don't allow them to gain or lose rating
  • Show messaging to players after they first move into Bronze league explaining about buying/renting cards to move up and earn more rewards

Ideas (Not Fleshed Out)

  • Remove Collection Power requirements to move up in leagues
  • Remove league leaderboards (except for Champion league)
    • Don't give players an option to remain in a lower league
  • Remove ELO system, have fixed rating increase/decrease (except for Champion league)
    • Adjust rating increase/decrease based on ECR?
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Season Rentals Spec

When listing a card for rent, players can choose whether it should be a season or daily rental If season rental is chosen, they specify a price per day (like normal) The market UI should be updated to allow renters to toggle between seeing season or daily rentals When renting a season rental card, the rental will be for the number of days to take it past the current season end, so for example if a player rents a card at 12:00 PM ET on Jan 1st and the season ends at 9:00 AM ET on Jan 15th, then the rental will end at 12:00 PM ET on Jan 15thAlternatively, all season rentals can be completed together right at the end of the season. We can go with whatever is easier to implement. If rentals end right at the end of the season then we need to take into account the partial payment for the last day when the card is first rented Season rentals can only be done for a single season (i.e. you can't specify that you want to rent a card for multiple seasons at one time) and cannot be cancelled If a season rental is started within 7 days from the end of the current season, then the rental will go until the end of the following season. This means that all season rentals will last a minimum of 7 days The full payment for a season rental should be sent to the card owner at the time the rental starts. There is no reason to hold funds in escrow and make daily payments since the rental cannot be cancelled

Jan 28, 2023
Fifth Chaos Legion Legendary Summoner Airdrop Revealed!

There are now about 120k packs left until the next 1M Chaos Legion booster packs are sold so it's time to reveal the next airdrop! This next airdrop will be the fifth Legendary Summoner card designed by players who purchased the most Chaos Legion booster packs in the pre-sale last year. The fifth Chaos Legion Legendary Summoner airdrop card will be the Death element Summoner - Astral Entity! The character was designed by @cryptoreaper and will be the 13th Chaos Legion card to be airdropped to early pack purchasers! Please keep in mind that 25k Chaos Legion packs are burned every day as a result of the recent SPS governance proposal, so packs eligible for this airdrop are guaranteed to sell out within the next week! Astral Entity will be the 28th Legendary card to be available in Chaos Legion edition booster packs, and each pack purchased up until the 13M mark will have a 0.154% chance of receiving the card, which means that 1 in every 650 packs will receive the card on average. Additionally, players will be GUARANTEED to receive one Astral Entity card for every 650 Chaos Legion packs purchased. Finally, each airdropped card received will have a 4% (or 1 out of 25) chance of being a Gold Foil version of the card.

Jan 27, 2023
SPS DAO Treasury Report

Publishing a DAO treasury report has been on the to-do list for some time now, but kept getting pushed back as other priorities came up. Now that a first version of community proposals is live and the SPS validators are getting closer to testnet release, it is of increasing importance that all of you - the community of staked SPS token holders - have clear information on the DAO treasury which is ultimately yours to use as you collectively wish.

Jan 26, 2023
Battle Ruleset Updates

The Splinterlands team is planning to roll out some significant changes to the rulesets in battles in the upcoming release this Tuesday, January 24th, 2023. The primary change is that up to three rulesets may be active at the same time in Gold league and higher ranked battles, as well as all Tournament and Guild Brawl battles. Previously, only two rulesets could be active for a battle. By increasing that to three it opens up exponentially more new and interesting combinations that players will need to navigate in order to crush their opponent. The chances of getting 1, 2, or 3 rulesets, as well as chances of getting the "Standard" ruleset in each league is shown below: Bronze - 75% chance of 1 ruleset / 25% chance of “Standard” ruleset Silver - 75% chance of 2 rulesets / 20% chance of 1 ruleset / 5% chance of “Standard” ruleset Gold+ / Tournament / Brawl - 75% chance of 3 rulesets / 15% chance of 2 rulesets / 8% chance of 1 ruleset / 2% chance of “Standard” ruleset

Jan 23, 2023
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