Splinterlands Strategies: Never Sell Grain Lands!
Whoops, that was a big fuckup. Only 4 weeks ago I was intent on dumping anything Splinterlands. The cards, the nodes, the SPS, the Land, the DEC, the XBOT tokens… it was all going and HIVE would be the benefactor.
For the most part, my mindset is unchanged and today I have zero nodes, less than 400 SPS, zero XBOT tokens, all my DEC, many of my cards and most of the land.
So why the whoops?
…don’t ever sell Grain generating lands…
The monsters need to eat, and even Grain generators don’t yield that much as those famished critters tending the fields eat most of their own harvest.
1.75 Land was released and it all got interesting again. My digital property portfolio is.., or was more aligned to Rivers, Lakes, and Bogs so I was doing fine, but as I was selling up it was a moot point.
I did have 18 lands in the region Rason Detiir, many of them Bogs, and Rivers. This would be the first step in dumping all the land, and what do I get as a side benefit?
...'Rason Detiir used to yield me a lot more than these couple of Grain lands, I regret selling them now'...
Lots of DEC being released; well great, the HIVE account was expanding and 270,00 HIVE was in my sights. One day, I would break that HIVE Whale barrier and make no mistake, that will happen.
Some of the Rason Detiir were Hills, Forests and Jungles but they went quickly at my knockdown prices of $15 per common and $19 for the Grain lands.
Then I had a change of heart. With just two lands left to sell. I pulled them and lucky for me these were Grain generators.
Prices were moving up, and I had sold near the bottom. The same could be said for the 750,000 SPS I used to own, but that's a different story.
...'SPS, still over 1c, which is pitiful but I sold at the bottom. It's best to forget and move on'...
You can't dwell on your mistimed fuck-ups and it's all in the past now.
This Land 'game', because this is how I see it, has gotten very interesting.
With the advent of the new 'Aura' land type even more so. I have plenty of Magical and several Occupied lands but don't need the new potions as I no longer play Splinterlands.
I have no intention of creating these potions, and I don't intend to follow the herd and joining the 'race to the bottom' to dump them, but I am quite happy to sell the raw materials at an inflated rate so the rest of you can do it.
...'@beaker007's tools are great and this means I don't have to write my own to do a similar task'...
I have recently bought some Iron and Stone generating lands in regions that I previously never set foot in. Everyone wants to be self-supporting and thanks to @beaker007's tools we can easily see if this is the case.
Grain lands are now over $30 each and I managed to do a deal today with @steevc for a barren River, with no modifiers. Expensive you might think, but it happens to be in Briarwood where I have 14 other plots to support.
...'thank you @steevc, more auxillary food in Briarwood for the upcoming famine...'...
I would prefer the 'no tax' thank you.
Last week, I summarily purchased two Lakes, again both barren and without modifiers for the ridiculous price of $37 each. At the time there were many other lands, cheaper, cleared and with modifiers.
@lordfrost, the long-term holder and seller must have thought me quite mad.
These happened to be in Celestine, Tract 6 where I hold the Keep and 60% of the plots. Lakes are Grain generators, and I gain the tax from the harvest as well as providing extra support to the other types of lands.
Method to the madness, perhaps?
...'land is hideously expensive. You need the plots, decent monsters to clear them and a large stash of DEC to stake on each land. Reckon on $100 per land and you are getting close'...
I now have 4 Deserts to clear and 2 more Grain lands once @steevc sends me his Briarwood one. A part of me is still telling me to 'get the fuck out', but for the moment I am enjoying this 'rich mans' strategy game as that is what it is.
Except, I am far from being a Rich Man.
So long as Splinterlands commissions @cryptomancer to continue with his excellent work, I feel Land has hope and a future. For me, it's the land portion of Splinterlands that holds any interest for me.
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The plot was doing nothing for me, so good luck with it. I'll just power up more tomorrow.
Thanks for the deal. There were other Grain lands slightly more expensive, but cleared and with the pre-bought bonuses attached. I had my reasons for wanting yours as explained above.
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[-]gogreenbuddy (67) 3 months ago
Yeah thought that was funny too
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Looks like I better hold onto my handful of grain lands then. I still have some wood producing too, but they aren't in the same region and I think I am going to eventually run out of grain to support them.
If the wood regions already have grain then you will be able to harvest but in time you will run dry. Then, it's either trade wood for grain using the trade hub or sending some over from your grain region (subject to tax).
Yeah, I was good, but then they made my other grain land a wood land and now I am going to be at a deficit.
Assuming you did not sell any grain before, you should have a stockpile. It will likely last for some time.
Yes, that is my hope!
good advice
I would say so.
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Land definitely got way more interesting now. My mistake was scattering my few plots for more than 1 region, so I got stuck with all the grain ones in a separate region. Will try to trade stone plots for wood ones in one of them, but I'm keeping all my grain ones... and aura lab is on the way too, let's see how feasible potion production is!
Mine are in 6 different regions, but most are clustered in 2. You are not the only one. Nobody ever sells at reasonable prices in my main regions
I barely understand monsters... I haven't touched on lands yet!
(Novice player, at best, anyway)
Land is for the affluent, if you are not already in it, I would not advise going there.
Nice tool, damn, I am so close ot it.
Not enough food? I don't know how many plots you have but some regions are full of wood and little else. I was lucky and got bombarded with Lakes.
75 lands. Actually I got like 23 lands with magic, with only one card staked on it. They are expensive to pay, I may just plainly ignore them and sell the resources for dec.
You have a disproportionate number of great lands for 75. Did you sell a load or buy a load?
Had 200 sold a few of them, mostly common, kept rare epic and legendary.
ATM the race to the bottom is yielding more than Stone, it's just that DEFI thing again!
I was very lucky with the tract, mainly grain and stone and a few wood, and a decent haul of magic. I figure with magic you may as well have something on research or aura, make the most of the double bonus even if it's small PP cards.
I have a feeling selling those base resources and skimming is the way forward.
3K DEC a day I was on, currently around 10K with the potions, that'll last another day, then probably level. Then I may just switch the high PP cards back to stone or even just grain.
If you sold SPS at 1 cent that's probably as high as it's going to go without an external bull impetus, clearly Arcana or whatever it is isn't going to do that well.
You've got enough variety of plots to make it interesting at least!
I have been monitoring the prices of raw materials, there has been a slight increase but nothing drastic. I was hoping for a doubling. Wood is so out of fashion. It's probably a steal now, for what's going to happen later.
Oh I wish.., more like 0.06. Water under the bride now. I get more HIVE curation rewards as compensation and that is far more stable and predictable.
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The land game alone could become truly interesting — once Land 2.0 and beyond are fully developed, it’ll be a complete game in its own right.
It's fascinating, but also extremely expensive, even to get one plot up and running (as I mentioned). I'm being drawn into it again, against my better judgement.
yeah, i guess the easiest thing would be to farm only grain and sell all the excess. But Im determined to muck about, doing research, now aura labs as well and trying to be self sufficient. I dont play the leagues anymore although I still fight for my guild battles as its nice to be part of a squad. Land is my favourite.
I didn't know you were doing land Basil, that's cool! I did Brawls for a while after stopping the league play, but eventually got bored. Now it's just Land.
yeh man! Im a landy for sure. my guild bought a region in the presale and I got a tract out of it. Ive patiently nursed my aspirations ever since. The brawls I do out of sheer loyalty to my pressure-free casual guild that has never made me feel in the slightest bit like I should be anything more than a lazy, half-assed player with barely a competitive bone in his body. I love them for that
A tract,.. I am quite jealous.. as a 62% tract owner. The $1700 was a little much for me at the time (when was that... a few decades ago?..).. 😃
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Yeah thought that was funny too
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Totally agree with you on this one. Even as a small land player, it has changed and somewhere I am intruiged. This land deal interests a lot more people as that the card gme does at the moment it feels.
Another confession: I have been putting down a card again in playing here and there. I has been months! (so something is going right, and card collection prices are also going up again)
I am harvesting just enough grain on my land to cover the production of other materials
You are right about the grain importance in the land game
I will boost my production some point with better workers.
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