I checked.
They are renting about 35K DEC worth of cards.
Trouble is they can do this because there are still lot of "lazy renters". Aggy is one. He hasn't changed his prices in ages until last week. He was giving away CL max summoners for 10DEC :)
There are more like that. Cheap rental are not universal. They also require automation. Publicly available rent bots disappeared. So many common people can't use them to snipe cheap rentals.
Ahh ok, that makes sense. It's important to understand the underlying issues and address those rather than the symptoms of those issues. Perhaps we could put a time limit on rentals where they have to be re-listed or something like that. I'm open to ideas!
Here's another idea: punish losses.
I.e. consider if rewards were only given at the end of the season. Stack increases with each win, and decreases with each loss. The more wins >50%, the higher the rewards. So it rewards a combination of win rate, as well as quantity of wins. However a player who's <50% with a massive number of battles wouldn't necessarily reap the highest rewards.
It discourages fleeing and discourages de-ranking for liquidity and exploiting weaker opponents.
This idea has my stamp of approval.
I like this idea. @yabapmatt what do you think? Any idea how long it will take to code?