Splinterlands is an online web3 game built on the hive Blockchain, it allows you to own, buy, and trade NFT assets that are used in-game to play and win. It gives various opportunities to would-be investors and Blockchain game enthusiasts the opportunity to access gamification chances for both pleasure and exciting earning experiences that include asset compounding and passive income opportunities.
One thing about Splinterlands is that you can play for free, provided you buy a $10 spell book, and have access to multiple free cards that allow you the opportunity to garner gaming experiences. You can also game for free as a form of demo, to enable you to decide whether you want to go ahead to invest or not. However, there's no gaming incentive for playing for free, as you'll have to throw in some money to have the opportunity to earn.
Now the first thing to mostly do is to understand the game and spend time to understand the elements of play, before diving into the tokenomics. This is because the gaming experiences help to create a rich vein of understanding that guarantees the adequate exposure you might need to understand the economic aspects as well as the gamification.
How To Play
So understanding how to play is very important. Some people want others to pass this knowledge directly to them, but this is largely limiting. Buying a spell book means you can hit the "battle" button and learn by trial and error, provided you've not begun to invest, or you can hit the "how to play button" check the tutorial sessions, go over the elements, abilities, card basics, stats, and even learn how to arrange a team.
Understanding the cards, how abilities and rulesets can counter or change the abilities of the cards, their positions of play, and how altering these positions can render these cards impotent, or how special abilities can give specific cards the abilities to perform attacks that aren't related to their attack type. Learn the various attack types, and know their names. Understand the strengths and weakness of each element and their cards, and form a certain favoritism towards some elements as this will aid you in knowing where to exactly throw your money when you finally decide to stop playing the demo and throw skin in the game. This will help you to spend your money with purpose, as buying only expensive cards might not be so useful.
Investing
Irrespective of whether Splinterlands is free to play or not, everyone who gets to know there's an earning opportunity wants to earn too. So the best thing is to understand how to play, and then proceed to tailor your investment correctly. The first thing to know is to understand your budget, your budget defines the kind of cards you'll buy. Playing with free cards or mixing them with your own cards, limits your earning opportunities. Also understand the relationship between epic cards, rare cards, and legendary, irrespective of their elements, and understand the need for summoners and what level allows you to move higher.
The Need For SPS
Most importantly you have to understand that owning and staking SPS is now relevant to how much you can earn for playing or winning chest, so you'll also have to allocate some money to budget for SPS, else, your earning capacity will still be limited no matter how much you throw into cards.
Understand The Card Generation
Card Generations are important as they're determinants of the format of the game you'll play in. There's the alpha, beta, Chaos Legion, rebellion, etc. Although newer players are often advised to play in modern, I mostly advise new players to opt for Wild as they can basically own the cheaper generation of Chaos legion cards and still have the opportunity to learn, earn, and grow at a quicker pace, other than modern where the stiff competition can make a newbie give up on the game.
Joining A Guild
Joining a Guild is the most lucrative aspect of Splinterlands, especially because you can earn more SPS by having a cheaper deck for free for a long time, provided you're active in participation. It takes just a week or two to understand how the Guild works, it's self-explanatory, but since it's a collective thing, you'll need to find a Guild, meet the participation requirements, learn the ropes, know your Guild members, and study the pattern Guild Play to help you know when and how to participate and join the fray to enable you earn SPS and merit (merit also helps you build a different tier of cards called gladius cards)
Be Active.
Splinterlands can be lucrative, but it's not a mean feat. First, you need time and money as well as intuition and creativity, whether it's during gaming or matters of economics. There are several aspects to participate in (if you have the money) you can dive into the liquidity pool, explore lands, explore the staking returns of SPS, and even invest in the latest generation of cards to either resell or flip cards with the hope that you'll be lucky.
Miscellaneous
There's DEC and knowing about it helps you even understand how to buy assets for gaming and all that. You also need to learn how to use the Splinterlands market to buy your assets for gaming. Have an active hive account for transaction and transferring funds, especially understanding hive-engine, and other means to transact money and asset transfer. However for a beginner, you need to learn the ropes, it takes a while, but it is a pleasurable experience. Selah.
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