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I thought of trying to be a degen farmer, but I feel the effort required vs the rewards was not worth it. Felt super high risk as some of the tokens can drop in an instance and then you are just left with lots of worthless tokens.

Also tried getting back into Splinterlands with the new reward system, but the competition is super tough. Struggling to even make it out of Bronze 3...

I thought of trying to be a degen farmer, but I feel the effort required vs the rewards was not worth it. Felt super high risk as some of the tokens can drop in an instance and then you are just left with lots of worthless tokens.

Yeah it's that defi curve. First it goes way up, then the presale guys start taking profit(exit!) and it begins to to climb down and rarely goes up again.

Splinterland sure is getting tougher. I'm in Silver II and feels like there's a huge gap to Gold.

The gameplay is very different in Gold and then Diamond as more abilities get unlocked due to the higher level cards. I always like playing in Diamond in the past as the strategies in play are so vast, but renting to stay in it was way too expensive.

Slowly work your way up and keep renting I guess, I am a strong believer in renting if you can get a good deal on the cards!

I'm actually renting out now. Just the cards I never use, getting pretty good revenue. I was thinking that maybe I should use the DEC I'm getting from that to rent in order to advance to the next league...
Right now the rent prices of some Legendaries are pretty low.

Rental is decent again, so I kinda stopped playing. You can consider Rentvesting. It's based on a home-owning strategy whereby you rent where you want to stay and own an investment property within your budget.

After playing a while, you know what kind of strategies you like to play, so you rent out everything you aren't keen on and rent those that you like. This way you can rent higher level cards and not feel the impact to your DEC balance. Maybe the rewards from playing in the higher league can offset a little of the difference :)

This is exactly the strategy I was thinking about! You just put it into words better!
I have to bookmark that comment of yours, cheers man!
!PIZZA

Cheers mate!

!LOLZ