Splinterlands: Dynamic CP Requirements To Fix Supply Issues

This is basically just going to end up being a series I think. Things Splinterlands can do to absorb some of this supply since they insist on continuing to print beyond what is needed.

Quick Recap:

1. The game hasn't grown its active player count in 7 months.
   

2. We already have way too much supply

3. There's only about 1/3 of CL packs opened which means 50 million more cards coming.

4. We're less than halfway through the current rewards cards run and cards are already going for $.01 cent.

5. They are about to release a whole other rewards card run with an equal number of cards as the last one.

6. Rift Watchers is coming soon which is a 10x size mint compared to Dice

7. Rebellion which will be at least the size of CL is set to release late this year or early next even if CL doesn't sell out

Meanwhile the total card market cap has gone down almost every single day straight since November even though we've probably added 50% more cards to the game since then. That means for every card that comes out, other cards are losing more value than that card adds.

Devs see no reason not to continue doing the same thing they've been doing. @aggroed says things like you can't look at the market day to day, you have to look quarter by quarter. Well, here's a chart of 2 quarters showing you what's happening and its being ignored.

So I'm coming up with ideas to help absorb some of these. If you read this and you like any of them, feel free to write your own posts or ask for it in the town hall or suggest it in the discord or suggest your own ideas or just generally let it be known that what is going on is unacceptable to you as a stakeholder.

Yesterday I wrote about land and how it would be most effective at absorbing cards.

Land is at least a year away it seems and there's really no reason for the game to flounder until then. Plus with as much as they are printing, we're going to need more than land to absorb it all so I present an idea that could be implimented when the new rewards system comes out.

Change the CP requirements for ranked play to a dynamic model.

Right now it takes 500,000 CP to play in Champion league. And if you're sitting in bronze, that might sound like a lot. It's not really. You can buy that right now for about $1200. Or you can rent. Of course that's not an optimized deck for that price but in terms of CP, its not hard to get to the highest level of this game.

Probably more importantly than that though, if you look at players with the most CP, you can see that they are many multiples past this.

I took this list of players with the most CP from peakmonsters.

As you can see, none of these people are struggling to hit the 500k figure.

The thing is, the available CP in this game goes up daily. Meanwhile, the amount of players buying CP does not.

So, if CP is getting more saturated in the game, why should league play requirements be static?

My proposal is to make league play CP requirements dynamic. Every 30 days a calculation is done that determines the amount of CP in the game divided by the number of active accounts.

If that number goes up, we increase the CP requirements for all ranked play leagues. If more players join than CP was created, the price to enter a league goes down.

The players CP eligibility for the league is based on a 30 day average of their playable CP.

This would even out the end of season vs the beginning of season rental pricing as a bonus because if you're renting for league placement its now an average over multiple seasons instead of needing any single day. Since the first day of a season and the last are both just another day in the average, players can rent more on cheap days and less on expensive days until the whole thing just evens out eventually.

Hey, look, season pricing is fixable. :shrug

In the beginning I think it's all reworked with higher requirements since there has been so much CP added to the game recently and no new players. It needs to go up.

I think we also make the biggest changes in the top leagues to not further demoralize the beginning players. The whales can handle it. They own all the cards. We just saw that on the list I posted.

In the end, if we're going to have more and more CP and no new players, let's make the CP necessary for the game.

Of course if they took my land suggestion and a ton of CP goes to land, that would be considered taken out of the game while it was staked on land which would lower the requirement for various leagues in the same way it would adjust if new players came in faster than CP was bring printed.

That's the idea. What do you think?

Did I miss something glaringly obvious? Do you have further suggestions for this idea? Do you have your own ideas? I'd love to hear them.

I have a couple more of these posts about fixing supply in other ways coming up. Probably next week. Might get one done over the weekend. We'll see.

Again, if you want to see the team stop putting out insane amounts of supply, please speak up. So many people have told me they agree that supply is way too much but people aren't speaking up and the devs don't seem to be listening. If you have a stake in this game, stand up and tell them what you think.

They have some great ideas. They just need to balance their supply demand problem for the rest to flourish.

This was once $200k and I've added a bunch of cards since then. I know I'm not alone in this. It's time they listen.

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