Splinterlands | Reason I Voted NO on The Anti-Bot Proposal!
The Number of Bots in the Game
Years ago, the bot farms that leeched rewards were a big problem while now the number went up like crazy as there are many services that allow real players to automate their play with a bot service. If is fairly easy to see how many bots are playing the game compared to regular players just by looking at your opponents their history. If there is a steady play of games between a fixed time interval, you can be sure it's a bot that plays the games.
I would say that by far the majority of the games in Splinterlands right now are played by bots and it's arguably growing as the time required each day to get the most out of it simply isn't realistic.
The Problem With Bots...
I would say that the reward farming right now is far less of a problem with all the measures that have been taken and the main issue is that many of these bots just know how to play quite optimal giving them an unfair advantage over most human players. From what I hear this is mainly the case at the lower levels making the new user experience really bad as it's hard for beginners who are learning to win playing against bots that play optimally all the time. Personally, I tend to play manually still even though I have splintermate (which actually isn't that good of a bot I would argue) to play for me at times when I just don't want to put in the daily grind. However, I would prefer to always play against real human players
The Good Thing About Bots...
While there clearly is a lot of downside about bots, they realistically are also a big part of the player base, and if all regular players that used a bot as a way to fully automate their play or use it to help them save time left, the entire economy would crash pretty much. All accounts need to hold card that were bought or rented to play and they help the economy in a way.
Why I voted NO on the Proposal...
While I'm all for having a part of the game where using bots is not allowed and human players get to actually play against other real human players, this current idea of having Modern as this format to do this while bots are allowed in Wild is just horrible. The main reason for this I see is that the devs need to sell packs so they get $$$ and the best way to do this is to screw over players that already have a large collection with less incentive to buy even more cards.
If bots were only allowed in Wild, 80% of the battles would have to move there making both the rewards, the value of the older card assets and the player experience a lot less attractive while the Modern format would be a lot more attractive.
So for that reason I voted NO. I like the idea of in-game assets having a limited supply which somewhat makes their value go up over time as long as more players come in but in reality this simply hasn't been the case since way too many cards are printed compared to how many players come in.
Other Solutions
I don't have a clear-cut solution for the issue and I like the fact that they are thinking of implementing something to make it so that human players can actually get to play against other human players even though this likely will result in players using solvers that help them make the most optimal line-ups. I would say that bots for sure have their place in the game but the current proposal solutions just isn't a good one which also shows in the votes right now as it likely will fail to pass.
Conclusion
My main fear for the current bot solution is that the main reasons it's designed like that is to make Modern League far more attractive in order to help driving pack sales of the upcoming Rebellion Set. Wild format will be completely destroyed in rewards and fun since roughly 80%+ of all battles played right now are bots. I'm hoping this proposal fails and a better one is come up with!Play2Earn Games I'm Playing...
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I disagree with you and think this is a good method to allow new players into the game. If new players see a place where they can play and learn against real people there could be a revival of the game. This could bring in the new players that everyone would love to see. I think new players would help card prices more than the current system.
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I'm all for giving new players a better experience but this proposal will really come at the cost of everyone in Wild League. It should be a win-win where bots don't really mind or feel the difference while real players have a better experience.
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Interesting perspective as to why change bot access to wild only. If all players move to modern that just goes to show (IMO) that there are that many people who do not want to play against bots.
In the end, it's mostly about where you can earn the most with the cards you have available. With each new expansion, more players should naturally move toward Wild League.
This is interesting reasoning, I voted on Yes as I assume there would be more rewards for the real players if bots have their life harder. But I get your point either way, I've used 2 of my alt accounts with bots and they were doing pretty decent.
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I'm all for measures so real players get to play real players and hope they come up with a new improved proposal to make that happen.
Even if this proposal fails my guess is that it will make people hesitant to buy extra cards going forward. By extra cards, I mean more cards than they actually need to play with.
I would say it's mostly the crazy card printing that makes it quite hard to justify putting a ton of more money into them. I guess it's one of the difficulties of Play2earn games, the moment there is adoption everyone pretty much comes in at once which makes it hard to make prices stable.
Since the SPS pre-proposal, card prices have very noticeably gone down. What's even more interesting to me is that I'm not in the least tempted to buy any and I bought some cards at far higher prices prior to the SPS proposal. To me this is just like the Riftwatchers for DEC proposal. It doesn't matter if this proposal fails as the market won't just revert back to the way it was before the proposal. The market is forward looking and will likely price in any future possible anti-bot proposals.
Prior to this proposal I would have likely bought 3 to 6 of the new upcoming multi-splinter promo card. Now my desire to buy any card is basically zero and I'm trying to reduce my risk exposure to Splinterlands.
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