Dislike.
This is just another method to keep the big accounts big and the small accounts small.
If my skill level and cards can beat the higher power players, who only have higher power because they have paid more money or spent more time playing (.. this second one is an unlikely scenario), then I have earned the right to collect just as many cards as the person who has more cards in their collection.
You're intentionally restricting lower power players who may have higher skills from rightfully earning higher cards simply because they don't have as many cards in their deck.
This is a Terrible update.
That'd be true if it were just one player; the real problem is that the there are thousands of very low value bots who play each other constantly, day and night, and push each other, and the rest of us, up into Champion league.
Probably 1 in 10 of my battles in Champion 1 (at the end of the season) is against a 1 bcx team.
Consider there is people (like me) who makes good teams but not with all splinters, if I am at Champion level but i can only play with fire splinter, my cards will be lvl 1 in that battle. Unless you have check the rest of the deck of that account and all were lvl 1.
In the other hand, bots are easy to spot, just check username-bot ... Also, they play 24/7, always have ECR so low, etc. Bots will continue playing.
That's true. My Death splinter was all very low level for a long time. If Death was the only available team, then my opponent might think all my cards were low.
If there's only one weak splinter, a player/bot should still be able to meet the threshold.
"That'd be true if it were just one player; the real problem is that the there are thousands of very low value bots who play each other constantly, day and night, and push each other, and the rest of us, up into Champion league."
And you couldn't possibly get rid of bots farming rewards? Who can, btw still farm more rewards for the same investment than an actual player just by having multiple accounts.
Nooo we wouldn't want a game with real people rewarded fairly when we can bolster numbers with bot accounts. better to keep the bots, punish the players and then somehow expect the game to expand?
Yea, maybe if the ENMINERS make some more accounts, that's about the only way you'll be onboarding "new users" anymore.
Best of luck with that though.
My experiences are basically the same. I was afraid the limit would too high. Gladly they chose the levels very thoughtfully. I'm fully in favor of the current system.
https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@dexy50/re-evolved08gsr-qg0w65
It is not about what Brains are saying to us, but what we are seeing here. "Bots problem" is placed far from Brains and into lower rewarding regions where for 10 USD paid a player is getting literally zero in return. Also, Leaderboard rewards are meant for bots too, as no human skill can erase rating pts difference coming from playing 24/7 of time.
@mattclarke @bigdizzle91 @fabiyamada
Because bots are played by bigwigs- so of course they won't stop allowing bots. #ijustspeakthetruth
Not all of us with bots are "bigwigs." But you are correct that some of the developers use them.
even if they lie about it