Greetings @joshmansters a very good post.

Since 2018 I started playing "Splinterlands" by that time Steemmonsters, the game immediately charmed me, it reminded me of my old days playing YuGiOh, of which I am a big fan, I remember spending hours and hours playing splinterlands, and playing the manual tournaments, the truth, I still play because I still like the game, but, there is a truth that you said and that can not be denied, the game really since then has not seen big changes in the gameplay as such, so if I find many times tedious to play it, certainly everything nowadays revolves around the chips and although the economy is important, focus on the game and its evolution, is the real way to go to retain new players, if the game is fun and draws attention, eventually the economy will grow.

Particularly I would like a game more fun to play and easier to access, for example, something that keeps active are the guild fights, I like to compete in that sense and it encourages me to play, but, those battles I can only send them through the website of the game, but not through the mobile application, if I could send those battles through the mobile application would be great it is super easy to send battles through there and it is less cumbersome.

In short you have to improve the game, make it more fun and that players and / or investors are encouraged to play, the expansion of the land may be the way to that, in that I think, also, I have always liked the idea of including a story mode, where we have to fight with our cards for all praetoria somehow, maybe it seems crazy, but being a player of games of this type, the story mode encourages me to spend a whole game, and play it until the end.

I still enjoy it in a way, I love the idea of collecting cards, more than the other assets, the design and how great they look, I love them, I am very visual, but, these are things that I hope they can be fixed, I trust the team and it is an exceptional game, but, it can improve a lot in that aspect, this can be even more fun.