Twenty Twenty Six is officially here, and while I still hold fast to my feeling that New Year's resolutions are basically pointless, I have hope that I can do things a little differently in the new year. If nothing else, 2025 gave me a lot of time to look at my crypto holdings and lament the fact that pretty much all of them were not doing what I had hoped or expected them to do.
I think we all felt a bit of that as we waited for an alt season that effectively never came. I'm choosing to look at the bright side, and as I said, it gave me time to look at my holdings and try to make some decisions moving forward.
The sad thing is, I had already made some soft targets for this next cycle, but "shocker", we never even came close to those soft targets. With those hopes and dreams squarely in the past, I'm not looking at how I can start to consolidate my holdings to just a handful of tokens.
This introspection includes my HIVE based investments as well. I took some advice from @azircon the other day and I pulled the 171 Rift Watchers packs off the market that I had for sale. I opened all of them, and ended up with just a fraction of the Rift Watchers collection that you see above.
According to Peak Monsters, that equals just about $270 worth of value using list prices, $200 of value using market prices. 68,435 CP, and 21,166 PP when all is said and done. I don't even want to think about how much I spent to get those 171 packs originally. I have a feeling it was probably nowhere close to the current value.
With my new found cards added to my collection and combined, I set about trying to figure out if there was a way I could maximize my land production. Sadly, I feel like I made things worse than they were previously. I wish there was a simple tool where you could just click a single button and it would apply your cards accordingly. Of course, that probably would take a lot of the fun out of it, but with my seven plots relegated to only producing wood and grain, I don't think I am getting the full Splinterlands land experience anyway.
I tried playing around with the https://land.spl-stats.com/ site, which is where I pulled the opening image from, but I don't really understand what I am looking at or how to read any of the metrics on there.
I'll be the first to admit, part of it has to do with my brain still being in a fog from being sick over Christmas. Post Viral Fatigue I think they call it, but the other half is probably just my ADHD making it difficult for me to focus on concepts that I am not overly excited about.
It would appear according to this image from the dashboard I am going to eventually run out of Grain. I actually don't understand how that is possible because I have some of my highest value PP cards on my grain plots to keep their production at a level where I can continuously pull in wood.
I also realized I have about 5000 research sitting out there doing nothing since I can no longer produce research after the launch of 1.5 or whichever "Lands" update it was that killed research on any plot.
Part of me feels like I should just pull all of my cards off land and start over from the begging, but that seems like a lot of work and I have a feeling I might not end up any better off than I am right now. Even scarier, what happens if I end up worse off?
I pull everything off and start over again?
I think the thing that bugs me the most is it shouldn't be this stressful. I thought land was going to be fun, but it honestly feels like a second job at this point. I kind of wish I had sold off some of my other plots to at least get me to the point where I can be making a little of each resource. That way I would at least be able to do some of the new things that the game has to offer like land cards and things like that.
At this point, I am fully able to admit that I have no clue what I am doing. I'm not ready to let go of my assets, but I am ready to let go of the idea that I can do this without some guidance from the community.
Please give me some thoughts and ideas about what I should do next. Am I totally screwing the pooch on this the way I currently have it set up?
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I loved Splinterlands for sure but the prices of the damn packs just rubbed me the wrong way. I wanted to get a bunch of them like RW but it was obscenely priced so I said fuck it and only got a couple. It does annoy me to see the values the way they are because of crazy market dilution.
It’s hard to say what the best bet for your land would be, I only have a tiny plot and haven’t touched it, for all I know it’s dead lol.
I wonder if Taraz has any tips on the land stuff?
I was talking to Azirc and I think I am just going to pull everything and start over. It shouldn't be too big of a deal. I better pull my numbers first to make sure I actually improve on things!
Yeah him and Taraz are the ones I usually look at for SL stuff lol
It’s going to get much worse. But still people hang on and hope instead of taking at least some value out. 2021 was peak bubble for my thing crypto related stuff. These games don’t need to be blockchain related and they will continue to fall another 99%.
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Yeah at one point my SL stack was worth like 20k which was so cool. Now I would be surprised if it was worth 1 lol it's sad!
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Naaa, just a quick glance at those images and I dipped out quickly 😂😭
I do hope you find help though, most times for me it's to sit down and calmly go through them against step by step.
If there's something like a guidebook or YouTube videos about the land.
Yeah, I am starting to think I need to just pull everything and then start again from scratch.
It’s a tough realization when the 2025 cycle doesn't hit those targets
Just so disappointing!
For me land was a big fat disappointment, that is why you don't see me posting about land. I just can't get excited about it...
Ah okay, that makes sense. I absolutely understand. I am just trying to make the best of it at this point.
It's tough as prices have dropped significantly from the highs of years ago. I fortunately never bought any land and I'm grateful for that decision. You could sell some of the Riftwatcher cards you opened to make back some of your investment, albeit much less than you invested. When things cease to be fun I tend to lose interest, and that's what happened in Splinterlands for me until recently. Frontier is kind of fun and so much less complicated, otherwise I might still just still be playing brawls.
I hope the post viral fatigue and brain fog clear up soon. I know exactly what you mean, been there! Take care of yourself, and good luck which ever direction you decide to go. Crypto has been rough this past year, that much is certain!
I'll just keep them in my deck and see who they do. I think I am getting some good stuff from them by putting a handful of them on my land.
lol! This is the exact thing I was planning to do this week. I was going to ask the crowd how to fix my mess of land. I still might do it.
I'm starting to think that the scorched earth method is the way to go. You lose three days of production, but then I can be sure I am using the best cards possible on each plot.
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