Hm, I wonder where to start! Oh boy!
Let me go back to the beginning. I've joined hive. Started writing about the things I care for and got myself acquainted with a few communities that are likely to agree with me. Joined their discord servers. One of them was BDcommunity, consisted of my fellow countrymen who speak the same language, share the same culture and its nuances. However, among the chitter chatters, I saw a lot of commentary about Splinterlands. There are some really passionate players there who talk and theorize about the game every day. But the game itself didn't feel like much to me. I'm more of a single-player, action-adventure, open-world game kinda guy. But since everyone was talking about the game, I got curious and started playing. And after a day or two, I thought, hey this is not bad ! The game actually pushes me to think for each and every single match and that is wonderful!
I went searching on the web for explanations of game mechanics and found Costanza's posts. He seemed to me like a welcoming and helpful guy and I signed up (for real this time) with his referral link. It was on August 8, 2020—exactly 22 days ago. Upon buying the spellbook, he delegated some cards a new player does not usually have. Also one of the prominent players of the game and a frequent face of bdcommunity @Hossainbd sent some cards over (I actually didn’t realize how much that helped) and I started playing the game with a newfound enthusiasm.
I had six days till the season was supposed to bring down the curtain and I reached Diamond III. Thinking back, I had about 7000 collection power worth of cards then.
Seeing me playing a lot, another player and probably the face of the entire bdcommunity @azircon sent me more cards and he’s been doing it ever since. I often feel like I don’t thank him enough!
However, you can’t go on playing the game on the gifts alone and that is not viable (or practical) in many different ways.
I was reluctant to invest just then—seeing the collection power update was imminent. I wanted to see how things go first. With the cards I had, I couldn’t even play in the Silver league following the new rule.
But I wanted to keep playing. So what I can do? At this point, I was made aware that I can lease cards and use them in battles. I will admit I’m not that crypto-savvy so I sought help from another marvelous player of bdcommunity @simplifylife and he directed me towards peakmonsters, a market place for SL cards.
Now that I was on peakmonsters and seeing how easy and convenient it was to lease cards — I lost myself in the game! I started leasing cards and playing some more. I lost a lot of battles and studied what cards the opponents were using and how. Every now and then I hit walls as you cannot always win with Zaku even when the game allows.
Yes, the first card I rented was indeed Yodin Zaku, and seeing the subsequent matches I laughed like a maniac! How Zaku was butchering the opponents! But my excitement didn’t last very long as I moved to higher tiers and had to focus on other splinters, monsters and summoners alike.
On 28th August, the day before yesterday, I climbed to Champ II with 60K collection power. This felt really really good! My friends in bdcommunity were praising me and I thought then, hey, why stop there!
I’ve leased more cards for the new tier and Prince Rennyn surprised me a lot! Playing with him is a delight all by itself!
I want to share one of my favorite matches.
https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=fc89bb5ce6f0e738377c4a4f0ffb9dbd8a6700a8
It was a match of 48 mana and I took cards that required only 29. Suspected that the opponent might use magic attack and voila! How magnanimously my cards dominated the battlefield!
But then I hit the final wall. Reaching Champ I started feeling like an ordeal. With more leased cards, now my collection power is at 103K.
Not quite what the new rule advocates, but I need 200 more points to reach the tier. I don’t know whether I will be able to attain it before the season ends, but this journey has been an enjoyable one!
I like the game, I like the excitement it invigorates in me. But I don’t think I’m ready to play those mundane games in the silver league anymore. Let’s see what the new update brings about and if I can adapt myself with it.
Thanks for stopping by and reading all of this.
Have a great day!
Send you even more cards ;)
Trouble is from posting from a different account, is the lack of auto-votes that you have accumilated over the last month or so. However, since you are a new user, the difference is not going to me much, as if you continue to post splinterland related content, this account will improve in reputation as well. Many people do it this way. While others use the same account to post all contents (like I do). Regardless, its your personal choice and doesn't matter that much in the end.
Right now, being a member of BDC and writing content about splinterlands are two most lucrative things you can do. We (the royal we) have substatial voting power and there isn't enough worthy content to vote for.
I didn't get the notification and then was wondering how come I have cards I do not recognize at all! Now I know and also dice cards it seems (they are getting increasingly hard to pronounce!). Thank you once again! :)
Yeah, I understood that initial barrier to cross all over again and I do remember my first few days on the other account. But I think I will pursue these separately, as I'm trying to stay on a niche, that is cinema and literature, on notacinephile.
Bdcommunity has been very good to me and I'm also enjoying writing for the turni. :)
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