This is the region where I have my tract. Notice anything?
If you said there are two tracts and a few other plots unsurveyed, you are right.
Last week I wrote a post reminding people to (claim and) survey their land, being in their own interest to do that.
Yesterday the maintainance window for Splinterlands came with the expected update that puts into practice the approved SPS proposal to only distribute land SPS rewards to holders of surveyed land.
That's where the title comes from.
That's the difference in rewards, before and after the release of the changes in accordance with the proposal.
Before yesterday, I received around 133 SPS daily for my tract.
After the update, this is what I receive:
187 SPS compared to 133 SPS daily. That's roughly 40% more. Of course, the difference will come down as more land gets surveyed.
I won't hold my breath to seeing much more land claimed, and we are now at region 122 from 150, so 28 regions unclaimed.
That means three things:
- for active land owners, after the changes introduced during the last update to Splinterlands, SPS rewards increase even if everyone who has already claimed surveys their land today; that is because rewards are split among a little fewer than 122k pieces, instead of 150k (if all claimed plots are surveyed, otherwise fewer).
- the Great Lowlands territory (orange) may end up weaker in the pursuit for the Secret of Praetoria, if not all regions are claimed; on the other hand, players in this territory have less competition for the leaderboard and for the benefits of the Secret of Praetoria, if they discover/build it
- the Shimmering Coast territory (purple) may remain unocuppied (no claims there) - if that happens, how does that impact the game?
Something else I wanted to touch upon.
Jarvie's proposal, the one that is in effect right now and gives land SPS rewards only to people who surveyed their land, is by design a temporary measure:
This proposal would last from when surveying starts until a new more advanced proposal takes over.
- This is estimated to be approx. 4months
- Surveying is estimated to begin the end of this month (march)
- A new SPS distribution system is estimated to begin June/July
The proposal from Splinterlands (for now a pre-proposal) is what would decide what takes place after Land 1.5 is released. The two proposals are not contradictory, they work at different moments in time.
And they both have one common goal - to move land rewards toward players who are actively involved/interested in the land expansion.