Splinterlands Land - Them Monsters are HUNGRY!!!
So I've been dicking about on the Mav's server on and off for the past few days simulating my land-strategy....
It was a total pain the ass opening so many card packs to get the equivalent PP to my own cards... I actually got sick of opening Chaos Packs and switched to Alpha's and proxied my PP on Chaos cards with Alphas, saving myself about 30 minutes in the process! It'll do!
So as a lucky plot holder I've got the following significant plots:
- A castle
- One legendary natural and three epic naturals
- Four occupied plots - all commons
- Twelve magic plots - one epic, three rares and eight commons.
- The rest are all rare and common naturals...
(Thinking about it, were tract owners guaranteed a certain spread of magic, occupied and natural - I LITERALLY have the exact proportions you should get!)
Obvs I'm taking the WIN with the castle...
Mavs Sim: 53K PP and 3* the grain to harvest! HUNGRY MONSTERS! NB I can't imagine this plot would be earning anything near 53 SPS an hour in the real land version!
Cards and Totems...
Unfortunately I don't have 500 maxed Gold Legendary cards to populate my LAND, I do have...
- Around 12 Maxed chaos GFLS
- Around 10 similar PP weighted BETA legs and gols.
- Around 15 Maxed GLF EPICS a few more beta equivalents
- A couple of dozen maxed gold rares and a couple of dozen beta equivalents.
- Then enough gold commons and maxed regular legs/ epics and old Untamed and Betas for everything else.
In short, I've got REASONABLE cards for the first 30 plots!
I've also got 6 rare and 19 common totems, I bought a bunch very recently, realising that a 25% boost on a 50K PP plot is worth 12.5K PP, and that's forever, and the totems were cheaper than the equivalent cards!
And around 2.5M DEC, which should be enough to get me started!
Oh, and a 1500 Time Crystals and 1.5M grain to kick start me from the booster land survey Time Packages, I opted to not bother with the unstable totems, well I got 20.
Priorities, priorities...
Hmmm decisions, decisions....
I am going to prioritise....
- A castle, OBVIOUSLY the BIG WIN - that gets my maxed BETA legs and one GFL Chaos maxed to bring the PP up to around 40K, the optimum for tax.
- Then a legendary natural plot - all max GFLs on SPS
- Epic natural - Shard mine
- Then an epic magic plot - Research
- EIGHT Rare magic - Research
- FOUR common occupied - SPS
- THREE epic naturals - Grain - For the above three I'm going to alternate, so I've got at least some higher powered cards on GRAIN.
- Then it's RARE naturals - all grain until I've got the above costs covered.
- Then I'll probably just do a mix of SPS/ Research and enough grain to feed the monsters with a 10% surplus from there on in... probably MOST of the rest will have to be grain!
Or I MIGHT go harder on grain lower down the order.... thinking about how much fun the early dayz of that GRAIN-DEC LP may be.... selling Grain into, naturally! Always sell the new token!
The first couple of dozen plots in order of setting up - highest PP monsters first!
THEM MONSTERS ARE HUNGRY!!!
The limiting factor is that you need to put around 50% of your base PP onto grain because the feeding rate is 0.01 grain per hour, production rate 0.02 per hour...
So while I'm putting my highest base PP into SPS and Research, I'm going to have to be farming grain on my lower plots at a ratio of 5:1 plots in the extreme cases of my top two plots with 50K PP staked to them.
It gets better from there on, with a not so insane ratio.
I used @flauwy's excellent calculator to help me determine that I can JUST about get my best 30 plots up and running on SPS and RESEARCH but I would need MOST of my other lower plots farming grain to feed these other higher PP monsters!
Net HOURLY grain deficit after loading up 2 dozen plots on SPS and research.
LAND Final Thoughts...
One thought: I might go about 25% HARDER on grain than I first anticipated!
I used CL, as I don't have all those virtual cards and 25k is about a large as I can realistically get for any one land. That will be of course be going to the Keep, but I have a wodge of others ready.
It's been a hassle moving stuff around in preparation, but I'm almost there. I dumped a couple of CL Fire GF's as I have only 4 Fire lands, and they share with Dragon for the 10% bonus.
When this goes live, expect a lot of complaints about 'money-pit'. It's gonna happen!
I bought buildings in a box and time crystals for every plot one of those gave me 1.5M Grain too, so I'm set. However I still did buy these things, although at least for DEC-B and probably half the price what it would cost now, so that's not too bad!
But yeah it's awful if you weren't ahead of the curve! Probably some money to be made dumping Grain into that LP for the first week or so!
If I can skim a few hundred squid before the end of 2024, I'll be happy with that!
Then I guess most of the rest will have to be ploughed back in.
Even then I imagine this situation of 'diminishing productive plots' where you have to pile more and more resources in to keep fewer and fewer plots going!
I don't know, we will see. SPL want this to last 'forever'. Can you imagine the cost of a Level 10 building? 3 Billion Grain, 10 Million Rocks, 2000 Slaves to build it. All for the the future.
I hear you.
And hear this...
This is when I start skimming to TAKE OUT!
I MIGHT, and that's a big MIGHT play with 20 plots, as in look to level those, but 80% basically going at some point!
It's been a while since I looked at the prices for Alien Worlds. If Pretoria can get close to even the cheapest lands, then it's time to jettison some. These were $8000 each once (the cheapest).
Sweet Bejeesus, I'd take $100!
A castle damnnnnn son let's gooooo I just have a little keep out here :( lol castle ownership I'm sure is freakin epic though but lots of mantance costs for sure. Eager to get these lands pumping.
For myself for land 1.5 I'm focusing on SPS so occupied and also grain. I might do one or two plots research at fist as well but outside of that it will mainly be clearing of some of the higher end land plots to get them ready for the next phase of buildings which from the sounds of it wont be far behind.
Lets gooo! I'm really just focusing on what the land specialties direct me to!
A castle is awesome! I can't complain on my luck, in 15 plots I have one legendary and 2 epics; as usual, only now I'm considering what cards to place and where! I'll fill the legendary and 2 epics first, I have a few more rare ones, and the rest will go little by little. Now, I have to think about a DEC heist... :P
It's not too much DEC at least for 15 plots! I've been stacking for literally months!
That's what I should have done! :))
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This update which is going to be very special for this project because people have been waiting for it for a long time and now the time has come. Land is going to bring the gameplay after a few days. We will see after that. It will also see an increase in its prices and an increase in its daily players.
I only have 11 plots. It will be fun i hope