Hello there.The Splinterlands team are still hard work at churning out new content, while also trying to improve the player experience. One of their priorities is to get more players while also improving the New Player Experience [NPE]. There was an update recently, and they pushed out one of the improvements they have planned; 1 click rentals. The rental market has been tweaked a few times in the past. When I started, there was no minimum limit to how long a card was rented. Some would let their energy get high, rent for a day, and go through all their energy. This saved them a day or two's worth of rentals, and some considered it an exploit so the minimum duration of rent was changed. There was also the addition of season rentals, where the cards are delegated to a player for the whole season. The minimum rental price was also changed to 0.1DEC, and there is a passed proposal waiting implementation of increasing it to 1DEC per day.This was the eyecandy used in the Townhall update.But going back to the 1 click rentals, this is mostly aimed at new/beginner players. Renting individual cards can be hard to understand for those just starting the game, and knowing what cards to rent even more so. This 1 click rental system aims to solve both of those things. Initially, I misunderstood the term Set as just a set of cards that the owner wants to rent out; similar to what NFTY decks were. But when I checked, it was actually a complete collection of a specific Splinterlands Set release [Chaos Legion, Riftwatchers, etc.]. Since they will be renting a complete Set, players don't need to look for the best deals on cards that they want to rent. Another good thing with renting a set is being able to try all the cards. This can help them determine which cards work well with their playstyle, which in turn will help them once they decide to rent individual cards.![image.png](ht

Hello there.Today I'll share my battle under the Odd Ones Out ruleset. But first, I will share some of my thoughts regarding it. With this ruleset, only monsters with odd mana can be used. Summoners are not affected by this ruleset. With this ruleset, the unavailability of monsters pretty much shape my strategy, and what I expect from my opponent. I consider what strong meta teams are still available, and try to counter the most popular ones.I believe that being flexible in battle is the ideal strategy. Check the opponent's history, check what they are most likely to use, and counter it. But always pick teams that can also counter different strategies. Without further ado, let's get into the battle.The RulesetThis was a Wild tournament battle, so it was a Bronze battle with Armored Up, Ferocity, and Odd Ones Out Rulesets. A 23 mana battle is on the low amount and only Fire is not available. I can think of a lot of different strategies for each summoner so I will try to counter as much as I can.My go to team for Water is a Possibilus team with Noa and Kulu Mastermind. But because of the Armored Up, this isn't that strong since if they used Kelya, they will still have armor even with the Noa Rust.For Earth, I usually go with Immortalis during Odd Ones Out. The Shatter is also good against the extra armor. Regal Peryton with Void can be good against all attack types because of its high speed and Flying. I can use a martyr monster to further make it stronger and faster. The Hill Giant at 3 mana and 2 attack is a really cheap and efficient monster with the low mana available.In Life, I usually go with Katie, especially because of the extra armor. Franz and Katie eat up a lot of the small mana available, so I'll just add a few low cost monsters to fill out the team.For Death, Thaddius can counter a lot of the magic damage that we e

Hello there.If you've only been playing your battles and haven't looked at the discord, Hive blogs, or proposals, you might have missed a lot of news and development around the game. It feels like the future of the game is dependent on how these proposals do. So if you're one of those that don't vote, you might want to do so for a lot of these proposals.The first, and currently ongoing proposals, is about what to do with vouchers. There are two proposals active with one proposing the removal of vouchers altogether, and replacing the current tokens with DEC-B. The second is to repurpose vouchers. Vouchers will no longer be available for use in promos, or as a replacement to DEC. Vouchers can only be used on "Vouchers only" items in the glint shop.I didn't include my vote so as not to affect yours. The first one seems to be the more straightforward since it will just be a straight removal and conversion. There will be a discussion on how to compensate validators if this pass, since they will be losing out on the Voucher rewards. The second one felt a bit more complex since they need to add items in the glint shop, and would probably keep on changing it from time to time. If either one passes, vouchers as we know it will change.There are currently three proposals in the draft proposal stage, and they are more complex than the previous two. One of the proposals is to hire SMC [Splinterlands team] to develop 5 promo card sales. It will cost the DAO 600M DEC up front, and there will be 5 promo sales for the next 6 months. The cards can only be purchased with DEC, and the proceeds will go to the DAO. The SPL team thinks the profit from the sales will easily exceed the 600M DEC cost, so it should be profitable for the DAO to do so. If the proposal doesn't pass, then the SPL team will do the sale themselves anyway.There are a lot of argum

Hello there.Today I'll share my battle under the Noxious Fumes ruleset. But first, I will share some of my thoughts regarding it. With this ruleset, all monsters are poisoned at the start of the battle. Of course, monsters with the Immunity ability are not affected by this ruleset. Since the ruleset only applies the poison debuff at the start of the battle, abilities that remove poison still work; like Cleanse, Rebirth, and Resurrect.In this ruleset, I expect to use and face teams that have martyr cards. The poison makes it so that the martyr monsters die early and give their martyr buff to the team quicker. Of course, the usual monsters that have cleanse, and tank heal are very useful to keep the tank monsters healthy. Adding immunity monsters at the back can also serve as the backup win condition. Since a lot of monsters are going to die after a while, adding monsters with Scavenger can be good since they can survive for a long time.I believe that being flexible in battle is the ideal strategy. Check the opponent's history, check what they are most likely to use, and counter it. But always pick teams that can also counter different strategies. Without further ado, let's get into the battle.The RulesetThis was a tournament battle, so it was a Bronze battle with Born Again, Noxious Fumes, and Fire and Regret Rulesets. A 54 mana battle is on the high amount and only Earth is not available. I can think of a lot of different strategies for each element so I will try to counter as much as I can.The ideal team for fire can be a Grum and Forgotten One with martyr monsters beside them. A problem with the team is that it can lack damage. Maybe adding some Protect monsters like Arkemis can provide some additional survivability. For Water, I am thinking a Possibilus team with a glass cannon setup. Monsters like Coastal Sentry in the second

Hello there.I found a lot of free games to share. They might not be AAA games, but they have a wide variety, and hopefully one of them meets your fancy. If not, at least it's free.Pizza HeroDo you love Pizza? Who doesn't right? In a weird twist of fate, the safety of the world now rests on a pizza slice defending us from an invasion. Released just 2 weeks ago [June 28, 2024] Pizza Hero is a roguelike, swarm survivor game. In this game, you try to kill swarms of enemies that are approaching you from all directions. To help you in your battles, you can get different toppings to fit your playstyle. Pepperoni acts like grenade that deals splash damage, blue cheese to emit a damage dealing aura, and many others.Screenshot taken from On top of the pizza, you can also get companions to help you collect item drops in the game. I believe you start with the dog, but if you follow some trails you can find other animals to help you. I have seen this game be compared to Vampire Survivor, which is a more popular version with similar gameplay. The big difference is, this one's free. If you want to try the gameplay, you can try this and see if you like it. Last July 9, they said that the game will be changing from free to paid, but they didn't specify when. So you might want to get the game on Steam before that happens. You can search for it on the steam client or use this link: I personally like these types of gameplay. I remember playing a lot of gun bros on mobile a long time ago. From my experience, swarm survivor games are very addictive and they can take up one's time without them realizing it. The different items and weapons can make each run different.All Walls Must Fall - A Tech-Noir Tactics GameDo you like tactics games? How about time manipulation? All Walls Must Fall mixes both in a very interesting game set in the future, where the Cold War never ended. If the futuristic yet old school plot of the game got you curious, the techno night club music is sure to keep you coming back for more.

Hello there.Welcome to my Tournament post. It's been a while since I last talked about tournaments. A big part of that is because I haven't been getting top finishes in SPL created tournaments for a while now. After the tournaments were revamped, they now have higher SPS rewards for the top finishers compared to before. This meant that stronger players were also playing even the Novice tournaments. Just for comparison Novice tournaments before had a first place reward of 20 SPS. Bronze Tournaments had 40. But in the current tournament setups, the top four players can get 112 SPS. So tournament rewards are so much better now.The rewards aren't top heavy as well. For this novice tournament, just getting within top 32 is already close to the top 4 rewards in the old Bronze tournament rewards. And getting top 64 gives close to the top 4 rewards in the old Novice tournaments. This change has been in effect for a while now, but I noticed that I haven't really given it much emphasis.Of course, when rewards are this good, it will attract more players. The old Novice tournaments only reached around 150 players. While the old Bronze tournaments reached around 200. But for this Novice tournament there were 300 players that entered. With only the top 128 players getting a reward, one needs to be better than half of the players.In the old tournaments the competition was easier. Since the rewards were lower, only weaker players entered, with a few tournament pros mixed in. These tournament pros as I like to call them are usually the ones that place in the top ranks of the Novice and Bronze tournaments. A lot of them were silver tanked players with a few gold and diamond players. But after the tournament revamp, a lot of diamond and champ players are also playing in the Novice and Bronze tournaments.I have a diamond border because I reached diam