Splinterlands - Season 144 - Is it Halloween?

Season 144 is over and I managed to reach only Diamond III this time. I wonder if there are more people playing modern and it is getting more competititive in the top tiers.

This season my ranking was just 2900 vs 3060 last month, but I earned 65k glint compared to nearly 64k last season. I am thinking if it would be worth to get more SPS staked to increase my glint earnings as they seem quite low.

However, I think the multiplier doesn't have too much effect over 100k SPS and whether that is worth it or not?

At the start of the season I continued my strategy of stacking common and rare cards, but then I changed strategy and now go for the major chests first as I have managed to get some epics and legendaries which seem to be the best value glint for your money. I did buy some ultimate chests, but they were a disappointment as usual.

I continue to buy merits too so that I can try and speed up the gathering of my Glad cards.

I was lucky to pull another Quora Towershead and could level her up to level 3 finally!!

I have been waiting a long time to get to level 3 with the very useful immunity ability which really helps in many matches with her. I was lucky that after leveling her up, I could play a match with her straight away and smash win too.

The next milestone is to get Quora to level 5 where she gains the dispel ability next and that would make her even more powerful.

My soulbound progress is going well with 34%(+2%) of common cards and 21%(+5%) of rare cards completed. My legenaries are now at 4%(+2%). I got a few epics, but nothing to move the dial yet. I hope through major chests that I should start to build this area up. My common cards are leveling up pretty fast, so I am not so worried about them now tbh.

As I was playing the game, I noticed some cards have been changed for Halloween. Have you seen any?

I had one really great match against the mighty Kralus who is a great life legendary. I managed to overpower with Quora, Oaken and Kron combination. I really hope the team introduce some new game modes outside of ranked so that older cards keep use cases and can be used for fun games like this.

These older cards have dropped so much in value its insane. I was looking at some of the prices I paid for my top cards and the value has totally plummeted. For example, a key card in the fire deck, Forgotten One, I paid $33, you can pick up on the market for just $6...

Who would be incentivised to buy cards at the higher prices when they are overprinted and then rotated out of modern. I cannot imagine to buy any rebellion cards at the current elevated prices. A level one legendary cheapest is just over $9..

Now players are used to playing with max level cards as standard, so I expect the prices of these legendaries also to fall if they are to get purchased. The reality is that the NFT hype is gone and they are falling to their real utility value.

My glad cards progress is still very slow. I gained just 1% on my rare cards this time.. they are pretty hard to level them up and complete the collection.

The price of DEC, SPS and Hive has remained pretty flat during the last 2 weeks during Uptober. Notably the company DEC supply has been falling to 149m DEC right now. Maybe we will start to see DEC price drift toward the peg again as this runs out.

There still seems to be a massive oversupply of SPS in the market and it doesn't seem appealing to buy any more as I cannot see it going up in value. The SPS to rent in the market is snapped up straight away at 0.002 DEC, so there also seems to be an abundant supply.

Attracting new players would not be easy with the overinflated cost of new cards and the complexity of the game making it difficult to learn. Any investment looks like it would rapidly lose value, so like Hive, there is no buying Splinterlands assets for any NGU action. The strategy of the team seems to be just hope that the remaining year in the bull market will lift all boats and cause some euphoria.

Considering the small size of the game, it wouldn't take much to move the prices of things. As I consider myself as someone who thinks a little more medium to long term, I can only think of the carnage we might see in 2026/27. Fingers crossed it won't be so bad for the alts this time as we didn't see much of a pump so far and the trend of Bitcoin dominance doesn't seem to be changing - are alt seasons a thing of the past?