You do great things mate.
Clearly The issue here is Auto renting bots cancelling rentals
and re-listing when the market changes causing alot of strain and frustration to renters on the network. The same goes for those renting.
The solutions we seem to find is raise the $ or bar rather than addressing the problem.
If we want want to stop them doing that, make longer cooldowns on rental cancelations and introduce some form of re-listing/listing/cancelation cooldowns. Auto bots rental providers wont want to set up an auto renter so it cancels a rental to get a better market price if the rental is being rented for 10 days and they have to wait say 5 days to get the card back.
And selling rental spam will reduce if they have to wait 2 days to cancel undercut and re-list. Suddenly those people trying to rent out 50 of the same card or sell 200 cards might decide a more efficient approach is to stagger knowing they have a cooldown to consider.
Even better if they cancel a rented card, it goes into limbo and no rewards can be earnt from the renter or rental provider if they are the one who cancelled.
Likewise auto renters wont cancel their rentals for the same reason if it's a longer cooldown and they stand to lose out while waiting for the card to return.
You could even introduce a clause that the canceller forfeits their any remaining paid DEC in escrow on a cancelled rental and if they are happy to still do that, the DEC goes to Splinterlands.
E.G 1)Auto bot cancels a 5 DEC a day rental to get 10.
- Player gets card for 3 remaining days they had it rented for due to 5 day cooldown but the DEC is forfeit for the auto bot renter and goes to Spliterlands.
- Auto bot has to wait another 2 days on cooldown before can be rented again. Not earning for that 5 days...
In the above scenario:
No DEC price increases to listings. Players win
Splinterlands gets paid for those wanting to continue such practices as a downpayment for excessive spam.
Network Spam decrease at least on the rental front.
Genuien renters/sellers etc unaffected by anyone continuing such practice by not having to pay more fees as Sellers are already losing 6% on a sale.
We want to discourage this practice and still reward genuine renters/providers/sellers, I think the solution lay in extending the cooldown rather than punish them along with the those causing the spam...The idea is to discourage the practice while not affecting those who plan to rent out or provide a rental.
That's where I see a solution. Not sure how it would go among the masses so I wont be pushing for it. I'll leave that for others to marinate on who have better influence and writing ability if they think there is a viable angle here.
At this point I think the issue is just kind of dead, but yea there's plenty of things the team could do to make the system more sustainable. I guess for now we just leave it alone and them handle it themselves. Ultimately, I think this is one of those times where the community wanted to get involved somewhere it probably shouldn't have I suppose.