Are the brawls rewards even worth the struggle?
A while ago brawls really felt required to earn merits, to get gladiator cards and of course to earn SPS. Nowadays with all the new modes, you will not earn more merits or sps, than if you would simply run a bot to take care of survival and wild. Merits are earned in mass with random boxes and there is no really need to play brawls.
This is just my today's Survival SPS (and i am NOT one of the big guys)
This should no be a rant, it is just my personal opinion. I like a lot of the changes. But i think active guild playing should get much more love. Most guild have to fight with frays in higher tiers. And a lot of players do not really care any anymore about brawls. But in my opinion the guild system and esp. features like Brawls should be a core mechanic, which should get a higher focus.
Please let me know your opinion, i am really interested, what you think
Well, I think it's certainly worth playing brawls if you're already in a guild and helped with the years of struggle and work to get to the top tiers. Once there, it's not a lot of effort to enter your brawl teams and earn some small rewards.
On the other hand, are guild brawls getting boring and need care and attention? Absolutely. Fortunately, Dave has said on The People's Guild podcast that guild updates are on the radar and will be getting attention. Nice to know the team hasn't forgotten about guilds at least.
Don't get me wrong i like the guild system and especially brawls. I just noticed that a lot people seem to get bored.
Btw. you gave me quite a beating this brawl :D If the chain golem had the luck to hit Almo i might have been a different result :p !LOLZ
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Definitely agree with that, the brawling system is stagnant and boring. Especially with more and more players having max gladiator cards.
That was a tough brawl battle, I like your lineup other than the tank choice feels a bit slow! It's so hard to hit an enraged almo with astral entity giving dodge also. Even with your dispel. I see that play all the time in wild.
I think it really depends on the deck/player. For new players survival and wild are not really viable options. With a bot playing for me I won 14 rounds out of 75 last season and got less then 1 sps.
In the last brawl I got 27 sps, which with my average win of sps in modern is the same I would get from around 40-50 wins. Pretty good for lining up a few matches.
That said, there does seem to be a bit of an issues with brawls as it's often the case that less than half the people don't show up. In the last brawl I was in I had 3 of 7 show up. In one brawl I had only one opponent show up.
I think Splinterlands does have an issue with retention like many games do. People get bored, or frustrated because they hit a plateau that they can't beat without spending significant amounts on improving their deck or life changes and it just loses priority.
It'd be cool if they added some kind of PvE elements to guilds similar to the fight against the troll in the campaign. I also think we need some new gladiators.
What do you think would make Guilds more interesting?
Thank you for your elaborated reply. Yes for smaller accounts brawl are a good way to earn SPS, this is still true. I play this game quite a while and had a lot of struggles but now i am on the highest tier and this is what the post is mostly about.
So for you question what could be done to make guild more interesting, i like your PvE idea. But it should be something which enforces people to join forces of course not in real time, but with a time span.
And finally we need a new gladiator set a some point. And when i arrives old gladiator cards should be unbounded (just my humble opinion).
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I agree with unbinding the old gladiators but still keeping em behind the gladiator ruleset(or the right summoner in wild). Maybe then I'd finnally get my hands on Quora.
Keeping folks at the top happy is a struggle for any game. Splinterlands has Wild and Survival for those who want something beyond what Modern offers(and frontier if they really want it)
But yeah Brawls are not keeping folks interested as seen by the poor attendance.