RE: Time to Sharpen and Consolidate The Splinterlands Season
Hey Crypt... I agree with your premise that the gold's have a lot more potential than they are showing right now... I think the value of the gold's are important as they do drive many things, including not trivially pack sales. But I also think that we need more players for the gold's to take off. Without more players buying a lot more packs, they will not be able to afford the type of prize pools that will attract super limited high prestige "gold only" games.
I do think your suggestion is interesting, and I also like how Matt modified it to maybe making a ruleset that preferences golds a bit and see how that goes.
I personally am willing to wait for the game to get bigger, so I'm in no rush, but I do see that many aren't so patient and thus discard their golds like they are hot potatoes! :D
ps... its ok with me, I remember when there was a time in the "old days" when we both made out pretty well by scooping up some golds when the same thing was happening. (hint hint: 7c gold rustys???)
Right on as virtually always @davemccoy. I don't mind picking up dirt cheap discarded golds either in fact, lol, I would not at all mind being just about the only person in this game buying golds leveling them up and leasing them out. Luckily the game developers are sharp enough and do eventually make adjustments as we have seen several times when the resources or dynamics of the game are being improperly valued by the public-lol-yes dumpers of virtually anything in this game have visited the "House of Pain", myself included a few times. So I have learned the lesson...finally.... haha.