Ideas for Better Splinterlands Gaming Experience

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Hello there! @saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!

Once again, @thepeoplesguild has come up with another interesting topic for this week's #tpgChallenge, asking the community for ideas to provide new and existing players with a better and immersive gaming experience so that they will stay to play the game. So for those that want to share their thoughts, you can check this post for instructions. Anyways, here are some of my ideas that I think could make for a new player experience.

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Easier Options for Account Creation

Before any people that gets onboarded to Splinterlands could start to play the game, the first thing they need to do was to make an account and login to the game and while the process of registration and login to Splinterlands is easy to follow, it will not hurt to make it easier by having a means of linking it with their X or google account specially if we want to onboard web2 people to the game.

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Move the Spellbook to Silver League

The purchase of Spellbook early to the game can makes a paywall for any new players that will come the game that might sour their experience but at the same time, it was also a means of revenue for Splinterlands and this were also linked in the creation of their Hive account so I do not want to remove them. My suggestion here is to separate Hive account creation from spellbook. Instead, we move spellbook requirement to Silver league as a sort of League lock which requires the return of partial league cap up to Bronze League.

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In order to advance to Silver League, you need to purchase the Summoner's Spellbook.



Link Hive account on Avatar Creation

On the other hand, we should have a avatar creation page where we can customize our battle mage and to finish it of is to when we add the username which also serves as our Hive wallet address. Having to create and customize an avatar makes for a more immersive player experience as well as can make them emotionally attached since they created the avatar.

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As it was not tied to the spellbook purchase, it can be done as early as the player login to the game. I know it will require Splinterlands to burn Hive in the process but this will make it possible for any new players to interact with the various aspects of the game without the initial paywall to make it more like a traditional free to play experience.


Introduce Campaign Mode

Splinterlands has a very reached lore and is just going to further expand in the future so it will be nice if we can utilize it by introducing players to a PvE type experience with a bit of storytelling where new players can also learn the fundamentals. Unlike ranked battles, players can see not only the ruleset and mana cap but also the opponent's lineup and they will just need a make a proper counter and winning the battle could allow them to win glint or merits rather than SPS to avoid SPS inflation. This also means that they can use ghost cards to match the level of their opponent so that new players can get a taste of different level of cards and their abilities.

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Missions/Quest

Missions/Quest are a staple feature on many games so I think I do not need to explain why it's necessary to NPE. What I will tell is how I do implement it. My idea is divided into leagues where the higher the league makes for a higher difficulty but with better rewards. That said, to reduce exploit, players can only do missions based on their league and once they advanced, they can no longer complete that quest even if they try to de-rank league, much similar to the league advancement chest.

LeagueMissionRequirementReward
BronzePlay at least 5 battle.Novice-Bronce
Cannot be completed when player reached Silver
50 Glint
SilverUse Flying units 10x.Silver
Cannot be completed when player reached Gold
500 Glint
GoldWin a battle without losing a unit on Noxious Fumes ruleset.Gold
Cannot be completed when player reached Diamond
2000 Glint


In the example, I only included Glint as a reward for convenience sake but rewards for this mission can be more flexible like giving soulbound skins and cards to dec and SPS.


Guild Prefix Title

Having a guild builds for a mini community in Splinterlands where players can engage with other players through in game chat without going to discord or any social platforms. At the same time, this can be a place where old players can give advice to new players while pursuing a common goal. Among the current play modes, Guild brawls currently has better player retention as even players that have stopped playing either due to the removal of leagues or the need for a wild pass to play in wild, still plays in brawls. Now to make it more competitive, we can introduce prefix titles which can only be obtained by being the top 5 guilds (Can be more) with the most win on each tier which would reset after every time brawl ends. This may even result for old players that stopped playing ranked to play again due to the added bonus.

TierPrefix TitleRanked Bonus
1Warwick2%
2Strongsword5%
3Towershed8%
4Crusher10%
5Gladiator12%
Note:
I only based the titles on Gladiator Card Names

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Closing

The following were just suggestions that I came off to have a better player experience which can hopefully help to make new players to stay. I have no clue whether it was feasible or what amount of dev work would it require to implement this changes.

Thanks for reading and see you at the next post.

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Saydie is back with another one! Your first couple of ideas are innovative - kudos! I like 'em - and the Hive linking could be a meaningful one! Thanks again for always participating, Saydie!

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Many players do not give much attention to their username as they do not know that it was permanent and also serves as thier hive address so maybe some of it can be fixed by having an avatar creation associated with it as well as to make players emotionally attached to their account. was always fun joining the challenges and was also a great way for the community to share ideas with more freedom.

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Oooh I like so many of these ideas, like the guild rank bonus and moving the spell book to silver. Without a supportive and knowledgeable guild, I never would have stuck around in Splinterlands and swapped my MtG collection Hive NFTs.

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yeahh.. I was also very greatful to my guild and my leader who delegates max level bear and runi to me that helps me win matches not only in brawls but also in ranked. That's why its quite sad that there has no progress in guilds fo a while so having an guild bonus that is only exclusive to top guilds each brawl cycle in the form of prefix titles can push more guilds to be more competitive.

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Even I benefitted from delegations when I was getting started!

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your post are always really good saydie, you have my vote for this week
really good ideas like the moving the spellbook to silver

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While spellbook was a source of revenue to SPL, having that paywall early in game can also scared new players that want to try the game so at least, if it cannot be removed, at lest move it to silver for them to have more time and freedom to explore the game. Anyways, thanks for the vote.Still waiting for the next challenge.

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